Clark County Ohio Biographies

MERRITT H. TATMAN, farmer. This gentleman is the youngest of thirteen children, born to Joseph and Rebecca Tatman; the former being a native of Virginia, and the latter a native of North Carolina. The father was born July 16, 1770; the mother in 1772. They came to Ohio in 1798, and settled in what is now Brown County, where they remained three years, or until 1801, when they came to Bethel Township. At that time, this beautiful and highly improved country was but a wilderness. Mr. T. was in early days in the affairs of the State—being a member of the Legislature for a number of years. After the organization of Clark County, he was appointed Associate Judge of the new county, holding that office until about the time of his death, which occurred Jan. 27, 1827. His wife survived him many years, but on the 6th of December, 1864, she peacefully left this life to join him in that brighter and better land, where they would be parted no more forever. During life they were blessed with the following children, viz.: Mary, born March 15, 1793, died Sept. 19, 1878; Sarah, born Oct. 13, 1794; and Nancy, June 29, 1796, both deceased; Rebecca, born March 26, 1798; Joseph, Feb. 14, 1800; Morgan B., March 29, 1802; John, Oct. 26, 1804; Cyrus, Dec. 23, 1806. These four latter are now with their parents in the land to which they made their last long pilgrimage. Milton was born Dec. 13, 1808; William M. K., July 21, 1811; Fletcher P., Sept. 18, 1813, supposed now to be dead; Mandana, born Feb. 11, 1816; and Merritt H., the subject of this sketch, born May 28, 1818. He now resides on a farm adjoining the old homestead, which is still in the hands of the heirs—being one sister and a brother all living together. Merritt H. married Miss Emma C. Newcomer, April 7, 1878; they now have two children—John M., born Feb. 15, 1879, and James G., July 9, 1880.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1034

A. E. TAYLOR. Springfield; was born in Clark Co., Ohio, close to the city of Springfield, May 28, 1850, and is the son of Samuel and Nancy Taylor, natives of Maryland, who settled in this county in 1849, where his mother died in 1867, his father being now a resident of Enon. Mr. Taylor was reared in Clark County, and received his education in its public schools. In 1867, he began the profession of teaching, which he has since continued, being now Principal of the Western School of Springfield. He was married, Sept. 10, 1870, to Ada M. Gibbs, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, to whom has been born five children. Mr. Taylor and wife are members of the Christian Church, and he belongs to the I. O. O. F.; also the O. D. I. F. He is a quiet, unassuming gentleman, who attends strictly to his professional duties, being considered a thorough and efficient teacher, who is trusted and respected by all who know him.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 926

C. C. TAYLOR, coal dealer, Springfield; was born in Trumbull County in 1833. His father was a carpenter and builder, and owned a farm near Brookfield. The subject of this sketch learned the carpenter’s trade, and worked with his father a number of years. Studied architecture and drawing with J. C. Johnson, now State Architect. During the war, was engaged as photographic artist, and carried on an extensive business at Warren, Trumbull Co. In 1865, he came to Springfield and has since been engaged in the coal trade. He was the first to make an exclusive business of this trade in Springfield, and his success has been followed by the establishment of similar dealers. This firm, now Taylor, Hayden & Co., is situated on Limestone street, near the railroad depot. An idea of the extent of their trade may be known by the fact of their having paid as high as $60,000 freight on coal in one year. Mr. Taylor married, Jan. 2, 1856, Miss Mary J. Watkins. She was a resident of New York. From this union two sons were born, one of whom survives—Benton C., who is now book-keeper for the firm of Taylor, Hayden & Co. Mrs. Taylor died in 1866. In November, 1868, Mr. Taylor united in marriage with Miss Ella V. Clark, niece and ward of M. W. Fisher. Mr. Taylor is a member of the Council from the Sixth Ward; belongs to the Masonic fraternity; is a member of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and a member of its Board of Trustees; also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Springfield Female Seminary. A stanch and reliable temperance man, and thoroughly identified with the growth and progress of the city. His father was a pioneer of Trumbull County, and his grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. The latter lived to see his 98th year. His mother’s people were Quakers.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 926

DANIEL R. TAYLOR, minister; North Hampton; was born in Prince William Co., Va., near Hay Market, Dec. 31, 1835. A few months after his birth, his father came to Muskingum Co., Ohio, and after securing a location and employment, sent for his wife, Mary E., and infant son, Daniel. About eight months after the family had been gathered together in their new home, a cloud of sadness came over the family circle, occasioned by the sudden death of the husband and father, by accident. The mother, thus suddenly made a widow and her child fatherless, commenced the struggles of life with no means of assistance save womanly courage and strength of willing hands. For eight long and wearisome years she labored, with her son, D. R., ever by her side, to keep the “wolf from the door,” when she was again united in marriage with David Southwick, and soon after settled in Alexander, Licking Co., Ohio. At about the age of 12 years, D. R. united with the M. E. Church, under the preachings of the revivalist, S. A. Shaffer. In the month of September, 1848, Daniel R. left home to try the struggles of life alone, first entering the cooper-shop, to learn the use of tools and a trade. He worked at this business at different places, until Jan. 4, 1854, when he married Harriet A. Mercer, the second daughter of Dr. N. Z. Mercer, then of Licking Co., Ohio. He then located in Urbana, Champaign Co., Ohio; remained about two years, when he moved to St. Paris, of the same county, living there some nineteen years, during which time, owing to force of circumstances, he learned the trade of harness and carriage trimming, and the art of photographing. When the war broke out, the first call for three years’ volunteers, he enlisted in the 44th O. V. I., at Springfield, Clark Co. Re-enlisted in the 113th O. V. I., and remained until the close of the war. On returning home, he was elected Mayor of St. Paris, and served in that office some six years. In the year 1874, he entered the ministry in the Reformed Church, and in 1875 was licensed to preach, and ordained by the Miami Classis of the Ohio Synod. He labored in the Bradford charge for three years, and then removed to his present place of residence. He is the father of four children, viz., Harry N., Lena L., Allan L. and Ellie; all of whom are living, death having never entered their home. During his labors in the ministry, he has delivered, up to the present date, 1,250 sermons, fifty-seven funerals, held forty-five communions, baptized forty-two infants and 150 adults, and received 335 into the church, and married twenty-five couples.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1024

JOHN TAYLOR, farmer; P. O. Springfield; son of Casper Taylor, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in Franklin Co., Penn., April 9, 1808. His education was that of the subscription schools. At the age of 18 he was apprenticed to a millwright; but his master quitting the trade after two years, his apprenticeship was released and he thereafter worked at the trade for a period of about nine years. In 1839 he removed to Ohio, arriving at Springfield on May 4, where he went into partnership with Lucius Muzzy, millwright. After two years, this co-partnership was, by mutual consent, dissolved, and Mr. Taylor carried on the business himself until 1851, when he quit the trade. In 1855 he purchased his present farm of 85¼ acres from one William Huntington, where he has since resided and intends to reside until his years are closed on earth. He was married May 2, 1841, to Miss Catharine Kirkpatrick, daughter of Hugh Kirkpatrick, late of Springfield. She is a native of Kentucky, and still journeys through life with him. Of this marriage three children out of six survive, as follows: Nathan K., Martin B. and Rachel C., all of whom have arrived at maturity, and but one of whom, the first, resides with his parents. He and his wife, Elizabeth, live with and care for the subject of this sketch and his wife.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1056

WILLIAM TEACH, farmer; P. O. Springfield; was born in this county and township May 25, 1840. Is a son of Peter and Sarah (Angle) Teach, natives of Pennsylvania, but became residents of this county and township about 1837 or 1838, where they followed farming as an occupation, and resided here until his death; he died June 5, 1878. His wife is still living, now about 70 years of age. They were parents of seven children; five now survive—Daniel, Catharine, William, Martin and Franklin; two deceased—David and Josiah. The latter died while in the army in the late war of the rebellion, he having enlisted in the 17th Ohio Battery, serving about nine months, when he was stricken down by sickness and death. Mr. Peter Teach, when he came to this county, was possessed of no means, but, by industry and economy, be became owner of a good farm and home and raised a large family of children, and gave them such advantages in education as those days afforded. He was also an active worker in the M. E. Church, having been a member for many years. Our subject remained at home with his father until his majority. Was married May 20, 1860, to Susanna, daughter of Charles and Catharine Leatherman, natives of Virginia, becoming residents of Ohio in 1855. They were parents of nine children; seven now survive—Elizabeth, Susanna, David, Catharine, Barbara, John W. and Nicholas M. Mr. Leatherman always followed farming till the death of his wife, which occurred March 25, 1878, when, about a year later, he broke up housekeeping, since which he has resided with our subject, his son-in-law. He is now about 70 years of age; has been a hardworking, industrious man all his life. He and wife were members of the German Baptist Church. Mrs. Susanna Teach was born April 6, 1840. They have four children—David M., Peter L., Sarah C. and Jennie May.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 994

AARON TEEGARDEN, deceased. Dr. Aaron Teegarden was one of those men we do not soon forget—one whose strong points of character projected themselves, as it were, into the notice and memory of the public, without any apparent effort of his own. He is as fresh in the recollection of the Springfield of to-day as in the year of his death, which occurred Aug. 17, 1874. He was born in Columbia Co., Ohio, the 16th of July, 1808; came to Springfield in 1840, in the prime of vigorous manhood, where he met his wife, Thurza Watson, of this city, who was born here on May 6, 1820, and whom he married in 1843. The Doctor was raised on a farm; studied medicine in Mansfield, Ohio, graduating at a college at Worthington; he practiced awhile with his brother at Mansfield before coming to Springfield. Of six children, they were fortunate in raising all but one daughter; of these surviving five children, William Teegarden is a practicing physician, residing on his farm, two and a half miles from the city, on the Charleston Pike; the younger son, Watson, is in San Francisco, in business with his brother-in-law; is 16 years old, and has been to college and military schools; their oldest daughter is Mrs. Sallie Cummins, a minister’s wife; the second is Mrs. George Arthur, and the third Mrs. Thurza Campbell, living in San Francisco; her husband is proprietor of the “Golden Age Flouring-Mills,” and is a large exporter of wheat to China and other Eastern ports. Dr. Teegarden’s family were originally from Pennsylvania, and his father was a minister. The Doctor’s practice here was oppressively large, and his prosperity great; he was a man of gigantic proportions, being six feet four in height, and proportionate size, a commanding presence, and possessed of an iron constitution; his death resulted from a severe febrile attack of the typhoid nature. Of such extent was his practice that two horses barely sufficed him, besides his office practice; his presence in a sick room was hailed as the harbinger of speedy and sure recovery. His extensive and lucrative practice placed his family in the most comfortable circumstances, and Mrs. Teegarden, his most estimable widow, now lives in their comfortable home on West Main street, opposite her only sister, Mrs. Green, in whose society she spends much of her time; she is one of those ladies of the good old-school type—gentle, kind, refined and motherly, the true lady in every word and movement; she enjoys excellent health, and appears ten years younger than her age would indicate.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 927

EDWARD ALLEN TEHAN is secretary and treasurer of the Fahien-Tehan Company, owners of the splendid store at Springfield that is the chief headquarters for dry goods merchandise in Clark County. He and H. J. Fahien have been associated for many years. They were together as fellow employees in an old dry goods house of which their present business is in an important sense the successor. They later became small stockholders in that business, then withdrew and organized a company of their own, and by the unique combination of their special talents in different lines they have made one of the most prosperous mercantile organizations in the State. The full story of the business is contained in the regular history of the president of the company, Mr. Fahien, on other pages of this publication.

Mr. Tehan was born on a farm in Champaign County, Ohio, August 26, 1876, son of Morris and Jennie (Sullivan) Tehan. His mother was born at Springfield. Morris Tehan was four years of age when his parents came to the United States and settled in Champaign County. In 1878 the family moved from Champaign County to Springfield, and Morris Tehan and wife both died in this city.

Edward A. Tehan was two years of age when he came to Springfield, and he has spent practically all his life in this city. He was educated in the parochial schools and in the Nelson Business College. At the age of seventeen, in 1893, he entered the service of the old Kannain Brothers Dry Goods store at Springfield. Years of experience brought him steady promotion until he was a stockholder, and it was in 1907 that he and Mr. Fahien organized and incorporated the Fahien-Tehan Company.

Mr. Tehan is a member of the Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce, Knights of Columbus and St. Raphael’s Catholic Church. He married Florence Kelley, daughter of John R. and Ellen (Fitzgerald) Kelley, of Springfield. Their family consists of five daughters and one son: Marion, Edward Allen, Jr., Helen, Florence, Margaret and Eleanor.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 39

GEORGE W. TEHAN, a member of the Springfield bar and who until recently served more than six years as judge of the Probate Court of Clark County, Ohio, is a member of a family that has been identified with Springfield and Clark County for over ninety years.

His grandfather, John Tehan, was a native of County Kerry, Ireland, who came to the United States when a small boy with an elder brother, Patrick Tehan, and in 1832 settled in Springfield. John Tehan made his home in Springfield until his death in 1869. He was a worker in the stone quarries and helped to construct and operate the first lime kilns in Clark County. He was a soldier in the Mexican and Civil wars, serving in the Fifteenth United State Infantry in the Mexican war and in Company E of the Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil war. John Tehan married Ellen Spring, and they were the parents of seven sons. They were members of the first Catholic parish organized at Springfield.

Maurice F. Tehan, the father of Judge Tehan, was the youngest of these seven sons and was born in Springfield July 12, 1852, in a house that stood on the southwest corner of Fountain Avenue and Columbia Street, and spent his entire life in the City of Springfield. He was educated in the local schools and learned the iron moulder’s trade, which trade he followed until in 1896 he and some associates organized the Hennessy Foundry Company, which company for a number of years was one of the important industrial plants of Springfield. He was active in the affairs of this business until his death on December 24, 1917. In young manhood Maurice F. Tehan married Miss Catherine Sheehan, who was born at Bryan in Williams County, Ohio, but who from early childhood resided at Napoleon, Ohio, up to the time of her marriage. They were the parents of three children: George W. Tehan, Nellie C., wife of David A. Pettigrew, and Maurice F. Tehan, Jr.

George W. Tehan was born in Springfield, December 29, 1882, was educated at St. Raphael’s and the Ohio Northern University, where he graduated in 1905. He has been active in the practice of his profession since his admission to the bar excepting the time he occupied the bench of the Probate Court.

In November of 1914, on the election of Hon. F. W. Geiger as judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Judge Tehan was appointed by Governor James M. Cox to succeed Judge Geiger as Probate judge. In November, 1916, Judge Tehan was elected to that office to succeed himself, and for more than six years discharged his duties with the utmost thoroughness and fidelity. On his retirement from office he again assumed the active practice of his profession, and at the present time is associated with Hon. Harry A. Brenner, under the firm name of Tehan & Brenner.

On January 26, 1909, at Springfield, Judge Tehan married Miss Anna M. North, who was a daughter of the late James B. North. The North family have lived in Clark County for almost a century, having been among the early settlers in the village of Selma, Madison Township, Clark County, Ohio. Judge and Mrs. Tehan are the parents of five children: Catherine E., Georgiana M., James N., Martha E. and John N.

In politics Judge Tehan is a democrat. During the World war he was active in numerous enterprises to further the cause of his country, being a member of the executive committee of the War Chest, chairman of the British and Canadian Recruiting Mission, and held a commission from the War Department as a civilian aid to the Adjutant General of the United States Army. He was active in the various Liberty Loan and Red Cross campaigns, and as chairman of the Military Training Camps Association was instrumental in sending more men into the various Officers Training Camps and the various branches of the army than any other individual in Clark County outside of the members of the City and County Draft Boards.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 372

ED IRVIN TENNANT, manufacturer, Springfield. His father, William B. Tennant, is a son of David and Elizabeth (Barr) Tennant, and was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., April 9, 1820; he came to Ohio and to Clark County with his parents in 1837; they located in what was then called New Boston, and now known as the “Clark-Shawnee Battle-Ground.” David died in September, 1844, and Elizabeth in September, 1879. William taught his first school when he was 23 years old, and taught during the winter terms for twenty-two years, teaching seventeen successive years in one district, known as the Rockaway School; during the summers, he followed stone and brick laying. He was married, April 29, 1849, to Salome Shellabarger, daughter of John and Julia A. (Neimand) Shellabarger; she was born in Pennsylvania Sept. 18, 1820, and came to Ohio and to Clark County with her parents in 1834, and settled on Donnels’ Creek, in what is now Bethel Township; of William and Salome’s five children, four are now living—Isaac N., Ed Irvin, Rebecca C. and Susan A. Irvin was born Sept. 5, 1851, and, when 16 years old, began the trade of blacksmith, at which he served an apprenticeship. He is proprietor of the wagon and blacksmith shops at Sugar Grove, one mile west of Springfield, where he carries on quite extensively the manufacture of spring wagons, etc.; he is also engaged in the sale of buggies, under the firm name of Tennant & Moses, West Main street, Springfield, where they keep a full line of first-class work. He is a Knight Templar, of Palestine Commandery No. 33. Although a young man, yet he is active and energetic in business, and displays the judgment, in all his business transactions, of an old and experienced mind.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 928

WILLIAM THACKREY, farmer; P. O. Dialton. This gentleman was born in Jackson Township, Champaign Co., Jan. 30, 1852. He is the fifth son of Duncan and Susan Thackrey. His father was born in Yorkshire, England, Dec. 10, 1813, and emigrated to America with his parents in 1829, and worked with them on the farm in Jackson Township, Champaign Co., until he was 25 years of age, having in the meantime married Susan Ray, who was born in Clark Co., Ohio, Jan. 6, 1820. Our subject’s youthful days were spent on his father’s farm in Champaign Co. On Jan. 27, 1876, he married Lucretia C. Shaffer, of Mad River Township, Champaign Co., a daughter of Reuben and Sarah A. Shaffer, who were natives of Virginia, and came to this State when small children. By his union with Miss Shaffer, Mr. Thackrey became the father of two children, viz., Edward, born June 24, 1876, and Emmet, born April 3, 1878. Mr. T. and wife are pleasant people, and have the confidence of all who know them.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1024

JOHN H. THOMAS, manufacturer of agricultural implements, Springfield. John Henry Thomas, in all that relates to the moral health, business prosperity, industrial progress and general advancement of Springfield, is unquestionably one of its foremost men, having been, ever since his advent in this city, thirty years ago, one of the few to whose enterprise, energy and public spirit the almost phenomenal growth and uniform business prosperity of the city is largely due. He was born in Middletown, Frederick Co., Md., Oct. 4, 1826, the son of Jacob Thomas of that place; Marshall College, Mercersburg, Penn., was his alma mater, from which he graduated in 1849; he commenced reading law with Hon. S. W. Andrews, of Columbus, Ohio, completing his course with the Hon. William White, of this city, to which he came in 1851; after two years’ practice, he was the recipient of a flattering tribute to his popularity and hold upon the confidence and esteem of the public, by being chosen Recorder of Clark County, which was the more complimentary by reason of his then brief citizenship. At the close of his official term, he abandoned the law and politics, and engaged in what has proved his life work, commencing business under the firm name of Thomas & Mast, for the manufacture of agricultural implements, in 1857, under the disadvantages of small capital and limited resources, and in a year memorable as one of the periods of universal financial disaster and ruin, its masterly management from the outset carried it successfully through the commercial, industrial and financial chaos of that terrible year, and, in a few years, it had steadily, but rapidly and healthfully, advanced to the magnificent measure of $1,000,000 of annual sales, and the employment of several hundred hands. In the times which tried to the utmost the financial ability of the staunchest concerns, and the skill and nerve of their proprietors, when others were inert, paralyzed and dazed, by the almost universal ruin and shaking up of values, Mr. Thomas, with his able coadjutor and honored fellow-citizen, Mr. P. P. Mast, carried their establishment through with unimpaired credit, the stronger for the ordeal. Mr. Thomas remained at the head of this house until 1872, withdrawing in that year, with the purpose of retiring from active business. His energetic nature and active habits of life, however, prompted him, after a rest of two years, to resume the business of manufacturing, associating with him his two sons, William S. and Findley B. Thomas; he accordingly established the present large establishment of John H. Thomas & Sons, for the manufacture of agricultural implements, chiefly of horse hay-rakes and steam engines; an idea of the volume of the business done by this firm may be had by reference to the industrial department of this work. On behalf of his two sons, the junior partners of the concern, Mr. Thomas purposes investing the entire future profits of the business in its extension. Aside from Mr. Thomas’ private enterprise and its marked success, he has ever been a promoter of all public enterprises, improvements and advancement and the city’s welfare in every respect. He is a stockholder in three and a Director of one of the National Banks of the city, and connected generally now, as in the past, with nearly all its important corporations and industries, and as Chairman of the Finance Committee in the City Council, of which he was many years a member; he distinguished himself as an able financier, richly meriting the sobriquet, “watch-dog of the city treasury,” and to his strong influence and efforts while in that position is greatly due the present healthy condition of the city’s finances. Mr. Thomas’ high position in the community is all the more creditable when viewed in connection with his political faith, he being an uncompromising Jeffersonian Democrat, in a community that is counted a Republican strong-hold, almost all of his business associates and personal friends being “stalwart” Republicans. Although a modest and reserved man, who never projected his views or convictions in politics or religion into public notice, his political predilections have frequently caused him much personal inconvenience and annoyance, especially during the late war with the South, during which his loyalty was absurdly questioned by that thoughtless, unreasoning and arbitrary class of which every community is unfortunately largely composed. But, despite insult and the estrangement of friends and old associates, he stood firmly by his principles, his adherence to which the logic of events and subsequent experience have not shaken. His influence extended to State as well as local politics, he receiving, in 1868, the nomination to Congress from the Eighth District, and a higher tribute could not be paid him than the result of that election, in which he reduced a usual Republican majority of 3,000 to about 100. He has ever been a strong, active, able and effective advocate, in private and public life, of temperance, and it was upon the strength of his broad and practical views on this question that he was returned to the City Council in 1875. In all the relations of life, Mr. Thomas was ever deemed eminently reliable, and the exponent of the greatest firmness of purpose and integrity of motive, having an abundance of the quality vulgarly but appropriately called “backbone.” His religious faith is Presbyterian, he being a member of the First Presbyterian Church, of which he is also one of the most liberal supporters. The position of Mr. Thomas and family in social life, is of course of the best. In 1854, he married Mary, youngest daughter of the Hon. Jacob Bouser, of Chillicothe, their family consisting of two sons and two daughters. Mr. Thomas has three brothers living in Springfield, and also engaged in manufacturing agricultural implements, viz., Joseph W., Charles E. and R. P. Thomas, of the firm of Thomas, Ludlow & Rodgers, whose business is also very extensive. Although no necessity exists for further effort or devotion to business, being in excellent health and possessed, even yet, of much of his old-time ardor and energy, Mr. Thomas is to be found daily at his post, finding the greatest pleasure in the discharge of its duties.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 928

JOHN W. THOMAS, retired farmer; P. O. South Charleston. Among the pioneers of Madison Township, the gentleman whose name appears above, deserves mention on the pages of this work. His father, Samuel Thomas, was born in the State of Delaware in 1785. He came to Ohio when as a young man, and settled in Warren County, where he married Mary St. John. She was born in the State of New York May 30, 1783, and came to this State with her parents when about 12 years of age. They first settled in Hamilton County, about ten miles from Cincinnati, but afterward moved to Warren County. Samuel and Mary Thomas were the parents of nine children—John W., Anna and Prudence, born in Warren County; James, Nancy, Isaac, Sarah M., Joseph and Samuel, born in Clark County. The last named died in youth, and Nancy and Anna after reaching maturity. The rest are all living. Samuel Thomas departed this life July 4, 1867, and his wife Aug. 2, 1871. John W., the oldest child, was born March 21, 1809; was raised a farmer, which occupation he followed very actively until within a few years, and also dealt in stock. He still engages in stock-raising. For the last sixty-seven years he has resided in Clark County, within two miles of South Charleston. On the 28th of February, 1858, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Harriet Snyder, widow of Joseph Snyder, deceased, by whom she had four children—Sarah A., deceased; Mary E.; Anna Belle, deceased, and Charlotte A. Harriet was born in England Feb. 2, 1823, and came to America at the age of 6 years. Trusdale was her maiden name. John W. and Harriet Thomas are the parents of one child—Emma D., now Mrs. Samuel H. Brandenburg and resides with her parents. Mrs. Thomas is a member of the M. E. Church.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1073

THOMAS P. THOMAS, farmer; P. O. Dialton; was born in Bucks County, Penn., Feb. 19, 1807. He is the son of William and Susan (Hanway) Thomas, he a native of Pennsylvania and she of Delaware, and of Welsh extraction. Thomas emigrated to this county in 1827 and located in German Township, and took for wife Phoebe Kizer, May 20, 1830. In 1835, he moved to Pike Township and purchased the farm where he now resides. Mr. Thomas is the father of six children, of whom three sons and two daughters are now living. Mrs. Thomas was summoned from earth to heaven Feb. 3, 1872, at the advanced age of 64 years 5 months and 14 days. In 1873, Mr. Thomas married his second wife, Anna D. Pence. Mr. Thomas has at present 100 acres of land under a good state of cultivation and a nice, commodious farm-house and many material improvements to correspond, and has won a large circle of friends.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1025

RALPH S. THOMPSON, publisher and editor, Springfield. Mr. Thompson is the head of the journalistic enterprise known as the Live Patron, a Grange periodical; he was born on the 19th of December, 1847; raised in Illinois; came to Cincinnati July 29, 1873, and to Springfield March 1, 1876; on Oct. 15, 1872, he married Maggie Weed, of Greene Co., Ill. Mr. Thompson started life on a farm, but for the past dozen years has been connected with publishing enterprises. Mr. Thompson’s weekly, the Live Patron, was commenced in January, 1875, by E. L. Barrett, as a monthly, and called the Grange Visitor; in November, 1876, he transferred it to T. H. Edwards & Co., who secured our subject as its manager, and in the fall of 1877 commenced the publication of the weekly Live Patron, continuing both publications until January, 1879, when they were consolidated into one with the present name; on March 1, 1879, Mr. Thompson bought out Edwards & Co., and the present circulation of the journal is now nearly ten thousand. Mr. Thompson and his journal are widely and favorably known.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 930

WILLIAM SCOTT THOMPSON, stone masonry and stock farming; P. O. Springfield. William Scott Thompson is a representative Westerner—of the best of them; sturdy, burly, frank, square, energetic, intelligent and liberal; his neighbors say of him, as they did of his father, “Thompson’s word is as good as his bond.” Mr. Thompson is in the very prime of life, having been born Sept. 25, 1832, in German Township, this county; his ancestors on both sides are English; his mother is still living at 71; his father, well-known and loved by this community, passed away in February of this year. Christopher Thompson was President of the Lagonda National Bank (and the vacancy has not yet been filled); he was always prominent in the stone business (to which his son, William S. succeeded some years ago), and he it was who gave the first impetus to the Springfield lime business, which has grown to be so important an interest. Chris. Thompson commenced life in Springfield with four English sovereigns as his entire capital; his career was a most creditable one and his honor unimpeachable; but in paying just tribute to the father’s memory we are forgetting the son. Mr. W. S. Thompson married Miss Matilda C. Layton, of Bethel Township, on April 24, 1860, and their family consists or two sons and one daughter. Mr. Thompson has, for years, done the greatest part of the stone contracting of Springfield, two-thirds of all being a moderate estimate. Among the buildings for which he has had the stone work contracts, may be mentioned, all the Champion Works buildings, Lagonda House, and the buildings adjoining and opposite the Second Presbyterian Church. The stone work is no inconsiderable part of a building here, as the soft, yielding nature of the soil requires very deep foundations. Mr. Thompson has been very successful, and lives in a handsome home of his own, surrounded by auxiliaries of refinement and culture.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 929

ROBERT THOMSON, grocer, Springfield. Mr. Thomson is one of the old residents of Clark County; he was born in County Antrim, Ireland, near to the celebrated “Giant’s Cause Way,” in 1815; when 2 years of age his mother died, and he was raised by his maternal grandparents; came to the United States when a young man; first engaged as a clerk in Pittsburgh, but being related to John Maharg, then the principal pork operator of Cincinnati, he obtained a situation as shipping clerk with him, and came to Cincinnati early in the spring of 1837, and was at once placed at the river landing, then unpaved, and about six to eight inches deep with soft mud; this exposure was too much for his health, and the consequence a long spell of sickness; the following winter, having partially recovered his health, he came to Dayton, where he had obtained a situation as clerk with the then famous clothing man of Dayton, J. McPherson; was in Dayton in 1840, and cast his first Presidential vote for Gen. Harrison, and the same fall married his first wife, Charlotte Patton, there. She was also of Scotch-Irish descent, but a native of Warren County, this State, and belonged to a quite numerous family, of whom Mrs. Small, of this city, and Montgomery Patton, of Middletown, are the only surviving members. In the spring of 1841, Mr. Thomson removed to a farm in Pleasant Valley, Mad River Township, this county, and has since been a resident of Clark County, except about two years, during which he resided at Kenton, Ohio. About 1849, he removed to Springfield, and soon after engaged in the grocery trade, and was quite successful, until failing health compelled him to retire; subsequently he engaged in the manufacture of tallow candles. “Thomson’s Solidified Candles” are still remembered by the older people, and were then admitted to be the best tallow candles made; while engaged in this, he built the factory on West Main street, but coal oil having superseded his business, he closed out and quit the manufacture; he has been actively engaged in business here since 1850, with the exception of occasional short intervals, and has contributed a considerable amount toward public enterprises, among which we mention $2,000 toward building the Springfield, Jackson & Pomeroy Narrow Gauge Railway; he was also one of the company which built the Lagonda House; he now resides in a handsome residence on South Market street, which he purchased about thirty years ago, and since materially improved. His first wife having died, he married, in 1875, Miss Elizabeth E. Faber, of Jackson, Mich.; she is a native of Pennsylvania. Mr. Thomson has two children by his first wife—James B., a grocer of West Main street, and Annie E., now wife of H. B. Clarke, a farmer in the vicinity of Nashville, Tenn.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 930

THOMAS THORP, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. South Charleston; was born in Belmont Co., Ohio in 1829, 2d month and 23d day; a son of Thomas and Mary Thorp. She was a native of Bucks Co., Penn., born in the 3d month of the year 1790. He was born in Newcastle Co., Del., in 1781, 11th month and 11th day, of English parentage. At the age of 21, he moved to Pennsylvania, where, in 1809, he married Mary Foulk. In 1823, they emigrated to Belmont Co., Ohio, and in 1834 to Morgan County. Eleven children were born to them—Sarah Ann, Samuel, James, Eleanor, Jabez, Hannah, Elizabeth, Jesse, Mary, Thomas and Ann. The last three and James and Hannah are the survivors. Mrs. Mary Thorp departed this life on the 30th day of the 7th month in 1869. Her husband survived till 1877, the 1st month and 18th day. Both were birthright members of the Society of Friends, in which they reared their family. Thomas, the subject of this memoir, was bred a farmer. For several years he has paid considerable attention to stock-raising. He never served an apprenticeship at any trade, but is able to work at coopering and carpentering. He aspires to no office, but has been a School Director for a number of years; has been and is a member of the Board of Education. In the spring of 1865, he located on the farm of A. Packer, where he still resides, and now owns 80 acres adjoining. He was united in marriage in 1859, the 11th month and 26th day, with Maria Reeder. She was a native of Columbiana Co., Ohio, born on the 28th day of the seventh month, 1825; a daughter of William and Lydia Reeder. Thomas and Maria Thorp were the parents of one child—William R., born on the 22d day of the 8th month, 1865. Mrs. Maria Thorp departed this life on the 20th day of the 4th month, 1868, having been a member of the Society of Friends from youth.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1074

ROBERT THORPE, SR. (deceased). In the early settlement of Harmony Township, a number of English families chose it as their home in the New World, and, among those worthy English folk, Robert Thorpe was one who undertook the laborious task of making a farm in the dense forest of Ohio. Born in Yorkshire, Eng., in 1773. He was raised to farm life, and there married to Elizabeth Raley, a native of the same shire, born in 1773, and the daughter of William Raley, an English physician of much skill in his profession. Of this union were born the following children—Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Jane, Margaret, Robert, Raley, Harriet, John and Thomas H., five of whom are now living—Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Jane, Raley and Harriet. In 1819, Robert and family, accompanied by his mother and father-in-law, came to the United States, the latter dying at Philadelphia soon after landing. They came down the Ohio River on a flat-boat, and, on reaching Portsmouth, his mother died, and was buried in that town. He had started from England with the purpose of locating in Clark Co., Ohio, where he had some friends who had previously settled here, and, on reaching this county, he purchased 200 acres of land in the southwestern part of Harmony Township, paying $9 per acre for the same, which was a high figure for that early day. He was not a poor man, but brought considerable means with him from England, and being a good practical farmer, soon made his new home comfortable for those pioneer days. His wife being the daughter of a physician, learned from her father many of the secrets of medicine, and by the use of his medical books which he left her at his death, and which she had recourse to in the treatment of diseases, she practice the art of healing, and was loved and trusted by all who knew her, people coming from long distances to get her assistance and medicines in their troubles and sickness. For about thirty years Robert Thorpe lived and labored on his farm in Harmony Township, and, on the 18th of April, 1849, peacefully breathed his last, dying as he had lived, a faithful adherent of the Episcopal Church, having passed the allotted time of a man, being 76 years of age, when death claimed him as its victim. His wife was raised in the Presbyterian faith, and lived and died a firm believer in that church, passing away Oct. 22, 1852, aged 79. Robert Thorpe and wife were true representatives of “Old England,” and their lives were marked by that outward, open-handed, generous hospitality in their home and genuine good nature, which are well-known traits of English character. No member of suffering humanity was ever turned from their door hungry, and the poor or oppressed never pleaded in vain to them for relief. At the time of Robert Thorpe’s death he was the owner of about 470 acres of good land, and this John took charge of, with the exception of 100 acres, which Robert received at his father’s death, the balance of the children remaining at the old home as one family. John Thorpe was one of the leading stock men of Clark Co.; was a man of energy and ability, who, by good management and the help of his brothers and sisters at home, added to the estate year after year, until, at his death, the family owned about 700 acres of first class land. He died Sept. 7, 1877; Margaret, Aug. 31, 1878; Thomas, Sept. 6, 1878, and Robert, Feb. 1, 1881. The last mentioned is the only one of the children who married, and he raised a family of four daughters and two sons. The family have always adhered to their father’s church and those who have passed away, died faithful Christians, with a strong and abiding faith in a blissful immortality. The Thorpe family are of Republican proclivities, have always stood among the upright citizens of Clark Co., and they have ever been noted for integrity of character and honesty of purpose.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 967

WILLIAM R. THORPE. The old Thorpe homestead farm, occupied and managed by William R. Thorpe, is located in Madison Township, on Rural Route No. 1 out of Selma. William R. Thorpe has been one of the energetic and prosperous men of this community for nearly forty years and is, in fact, a native of that vicinity.

He was born on the farm where he now lives August 22, 1865, son of Thomas and Maria (Reeder) Thorpe. His father was born in Belmont County, Ohio, February 23, 1829, and in 1835 the family removed to Morgan County, where he grew to manhood and had a share in the work of making a farm. After reaching the age of twenty-one he moved to Columbiana County, where he married Maria Reeder, a native of that county. She died April 20, 1878, her only child being William R. Thorpe. The father married again, but had no children by the second union. He and his wife were birthright members of the Hixite Friends Church, and he was a republican and gave service on the School Board in Madison Township.

William R. Thorpe grew up at the old farm, attended the common schools, and on November 18, 1890, married Anna H. Hallsteine. She was born in German Township of Clark County, November 16, 1869, and was educated in the public schools, in the Springfield High School and for two years was a teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Thorpe have one son, William D., born August 14, 1899. He had a liberal education, attending the common schools, spent two and one-half years in Miami Military Institute, also two years in the Oklahoma College of Agriculture and Mechanical Art. He then returned to Ohio, but in June, 1921, went back to Oklahoma. He married Almeda Childers.

William R. Thorpe is a birthright Friend, and his wife was reared a Lutheran, but both are now members of the Presbyterian Church of South Charleston. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and is a republican. Mr. Thorpe in addition to the responsibility of handling his farm of 108 acres was for one term township assessor, and is a stockholder in the R. L. Dollings Service and in the South Charleston Lumber Company.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 215

EARL WILBUR TIFFANY, A. B., who for the last six years has been principal of the Springfield High School, was born at Springfield, July 27, 1873, a son of George and Ellen (Neal) Tiffany. George Tiffany was born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1849, a son of Nathan and Abigail (Ross) Tiffany, natives of Connecticut and Pennsylvania, respectively. The Tiffanys are of old English stock, and this branch of the family has been in America for eight generations, the original immigrant having settled in Connecticut upon arriving in this country, from which state later generations moved to Pennsylvania. The Ross family is of Pennsylvania Dutch origin. George Tiffany, the father of Professor Tiffany and a carpenter by trade, came to Springfield in 1870, and here followed his vocation until his retirement, several years prior to his death in 1908.

Earl Wilbur Tiffany was educated in the Springfield public schools and graduated from the high school in 1890, following which he enrolled as a student at Antioch College, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts as a member of the class of 1905. He began his independent career as a bookkeeper for the James Lumber Company of Springfield, with which company he remained for one and one-half years, and then turned his attention to teaching. He taught his first school in 1892, when he was in his eighteenth year, and for four years was a teacher in the schools of Mad River Township, in Clark County. Then he taught at the Northern Building School at Springfield for one year, following which he became a teacher in the high school and remained in this capacity for about twenty years, teaching mathematics. In 1916 he was made principal of the high school, a position in which he has since remained, having established a splendid record for efficiency and popularity. He is a member of the National Educational Association, mathematics section, of which he served one year as secretary and one year as president, and of the Central Ohio Teachers Association, of which he is now a member of the Executive Committee. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masons, belonging to Anthony Lodge No. 455, F. and A. M., and also holds membership in the Kiwanis Club.

In 1896 Professor Tiffany was united in marriage with Miss Anna M. Schaefer, who was born at Springfield, daughter of Charles H. and Susan (Netts) Schaefer, and to them there have been born the following children: Chester Wayne, who is teaching in the public school at Plumwood, Ohio; Don Meal, a graduate of Antioch College, Bachelor of Arts degree, and now assistant principal of the high school at Franklin, Ohio; Florence Margaret, a teacher at the Fulton School, Springfield; Lois Elizabeth, who is attending Wittenberg College; Philip Earl, a student at the Springfield High School, and Helen Louise and Normal Stanley, who are attending the graded schools. A little daughter, Dorothy, died at the age of three months.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 58

ROBERT TINDALL, farmer, stock-dealer and shipper; P. O. Selma. It is eminently proper that many of the most prominent descendants of the pioneers should be fittingly mentioned in the history of the county in which they were born and reared; representing, as they do, the names of those whose memories will live as long as time shall last, and there is, perhaps, no man in Green Township who better deserves a place in the pages of this work than Robert Tindall. He was born in Green Township, Clark Co., Ohio, June 25, 1825, and is the son of Thomas and Sarah (Waller) Tindall, natives of Yorkshire, England, who came to Clark Co. about 1819, settling in Green Township, where they resided until death. Thomas Tindall was born in 1786, and his wife in 1793, and were married in 1814, the former dying in June, 1856, and the later in August, 1872. To them were born nine children, viz.: George, Charles, Nancy, John, Margaret, Robert, Susan, Mary and Ellen, all living but George and Susan. The subject of this sketch grew up in his native township, with a very limited chance to obtain an education, having to work hard and constantly for his livelihood, with no time to devote to other pursuits, but he was possessed of a determined energy, and a restless ambition, which was bound to carry him onward to success. He was married, April 12, 1865, by the Rev. Mr. Campbell, to Miss Mary Abia Hartwell, daughter of William and Abia Hartwell; natives of Ohio. Mrs. Tindall was born in Hamilton Co., Ohio, close to Cincinnati, Sept. 21, 1839, and had born to her six children, as follows: Herbert D., Carrie A., Olive, Lucy, William and Robert A., all of whom are living. For eleven short years she watched with a fond wife’s and loving mother’s care over her household, when that dreaded monster death, chose her for a victim, and June 20, 1876, she passed away, a sincere member of the M. E. Church, leaving behind an affectionate husband and six small children to mourn an almost irreparable bereavement. Politically, Mr. Tindall has always been a Republican, and on the breaking-out of the rebellion took active sides with the Government in the vigorous prosecution of the war, sending a substitute for three years, one for the one hundred days’ service, and one to repel the “Morgan raid,” and was also one of the patriotic “Squirrel Hunters,” who went out like the “Minute Men,” of Revolutionary fame, in response to the Governor’s call to fight Kirby Smith, which demonstrates that his heart was with the old flag. Beginning in life poor, his success has been marked from the first, and he is now the possessor of 640 acres of fine land—all the legitimate result of his own indomitable pluck and energy, and is at present erecting a brick residence, modern in design and finish, which will be one of the finest farm residences in the county. He devotes his whole time to his farm and stock business, dealing extensively in that line, and, in fact, is the largest individual stock trader and shipper in Clark Co., no other single shipper doing as large a business. He is now one of the District School Directors, and is a man whose promises are inviolable, whose honesty and integrity of purpose is admitted by all good citizens, and who has won and retained the respect of all who know him.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1057

ROBERT A. TINDALL, farmer and land owner, has spent practically all his life industriously engaged on the farm where he now resides in Greene Township.

He was born there February 7, 1876, son of Robert and Mary A. (Hartwell) Tindall. The Tindalls are a pioneer family of Clark County.

His grandparents, Thomas and Sarah Tindall, were natives of England, were married and some of their children were born in that country, and about a century ago they established their home in Clark County, where they lived out their lives. Robert Tindall was born on the home farm in Greene Township, June 25, 1825, and he had a long life of industry and honorable citizenship. He died November 7, 1907. He was a republican in politics, had served as a school director, and his wife was an active member of the Methodist Church. Mary A. Hartwell was born at Xenia, Ohio, September 21, 1839, and died June 20, 1876, the mother of three sons and three daughters. Robert A. Tindall was the youngest child, and was only a few weeks old when his mother died. He has two brothers living: Herbert D., born January 5, 1865, who has never married and lives at the old homestead; and William, born November 16, 1873, a resident of Memphis, Tennessee.

Robert A. Tindall during his boyhood attended the district schools, and almost from his earliest recollections he has done some of the work on the farm where he now lives. Mr. Tindall owns a well improved place of 171 acres. He is a republican in politics.

January 20, 1916, he married Marjorie Stuckey, who was born in Xenia, Ohio, June 8, 1897, daughter of Clarence and Blanche (Weddle) Stuckey. She was reared at Xenia, and attended school there and also the Selma High School. Mr. and Mrs. Tindall have twin children, Robert H. and Wanda, born May 5, 1917.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 76

HARVEY M. TITTLE, assistant postmaster of Springfield, has been in the local postal service for over twenty years and is one of Springfield’s best known and most popular physicians.

He is a descendant of John Tittle, who emigrated from England to Northern Maryland about 1750. John Jacob Tittle, a son of the immigrant, had a local reputation as an Indian fighter. The next generation was represented by Jonathan Tittle, who removed from Northern Maryland to the vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, about 1800. Jonathan was the father of Jacob Tittle, and the grandfather of Levi Tittle, Sr. Levi Tittle, Sr., married Sarah Lerch, whose father, Daniel Lerch, served as a cavalryman during the Mexican war, while her great-grandfather Lerch was a soldier under Gen. George Washington in the Revolutionary war.

Levi H. Tittle, a son of Levi Tittle, Sr., and father of Harvey M. Tittle, married Mary E. Buck, descendant of a line of Pennsylvania farmers living in that state since Colonial times. Levi H. Tittle and wife had six children: Scott M. and Harvey M., both of whom were born at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Franklin O., Sarah E., Walter E., and Blanche E., all natives of Springfield, Ohio.

It was in 1875 that the family removed from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Springfield, Harvey M. Tittle being a child at the time. Levi H. Tittle is superintendent of the Welsbach Street Lighting Company at Springfield.

Harvey M. Tittle was reared and educated in Springfield. In 1899 he became a clerk in Springfield post office, and by experience he has a thorough knowledge of every detail of the postal service and has been an invaluable factor in the efficiency of the Springfield post office. He is an active member of the Masonic Order also belonging to the York and Scottish Rite bodies and is a member of Antioch Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is also a member of the Kiwanis and Country clubs, is of a republican family in politics, and is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

February 5, 1895, Harvey M. Tittle married Miss Harriet A. Zimmerman, who is a direct descendant of a soldier of the Revolution. Her parents are Henry M. and Mary G. (Funk) Zimmerman, whose six children are Harriet A., Grace G., Lester M., Katherine L., Marie A. and Percy S. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Tittle: R. Eugene since completing his high school education has been engaged in construction work; Mildred L., who graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with the class of 1920, is an employee of the Springfield post office; Robert H., a civil engineer, graduated from the Ohio State University with the class of 1921; Betty Ann Tittle, a member of the family, is still attending school at Springfield.

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

MORTON S. TITUS, a member of the firm of Titus Brothers, representative business men of the younger generation in Clark County, was born in Springfield Township November 26, 1893, the fourth in order of birth of the five children of Harley Titus, who likewise was born in this township, January 14, 1863, a son of James P. and Ellen (Price) Titus. James P. Titus was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and was a young man when he came to Ohio and settled in Clark County, where he became a successful farmer and substantial and honored citizen, his death having occurred March 11, 1906, and his wife having died about fifteen years prior thereto. Of their children four attained to years of maturity: Herman, Harley, James and Gustavus. Harley Titus was reared and educated in this county and here he achieved in the passing years substantial success and prestige both as a farmer and an extensive buyer and shipper of livestock. He married Mary E. Hazzard, who was born at Vicksburg, Mississippi, a daughter of William S. and Mary (Hendren) Hazzard. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Titus had lived for a number of years in the home of an aunt in the City of Columbus, Ohio. As previously stated, Morton S. Titus is the fourth in a family of five children, the others being Lamar C., Homer T., Howard P. and Malcolm.

The firm of Titus Brothers are owners of the old Redmond Mill, now known as the Junction Mill, on Beaver Creek, one-half mile north of the National Road, in Springfield Township, and four miles east of the City of Springfield. In the year 1808 John Foster here erected one of the first grist mills in the county, and he sold the property later to a man named Buckles, who added a distillery to the enterprise. Buckles eventually sold the property to John Rea who, in 1835, sold it to Robert Rodgers, the latter having added a saw mill in 1837. In 1839 the entire pioneer milling plant was destroyed by fire, but in 1840 Mr. Rodgers erected and equipped a new mill on the same site—a four-story brick building that at that period constituted one of the largest flour mills in the state. In 1847 Thomas McCormack purchased a half interest in the property and business. In 1866 Lewis Huffman owned the mill, which he sold to Judson Redmond for $8,000. In 1887 this substantial old mill was remodeled and a full roller process system was installed, with an output capacity of fifty barrels. However, the old buhr stones are still in service, being used for the grinding of feed. Judson Redmond died in 1906 and thereafter the mill was operated by his son until 1919, when the firm of Titus Brothers purchased the plant and business, the enterprise having since been successfully carried on by this progressive firm of young men.

Morton S. Titus married Miss Adeline Showell and they have one child, Darlington, born January 6, 1922.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 158

THE TODD FAMILY. Among the many old and honored families of Clark County, one whose members have always been representative of stable citizenship, reliability in handling official responsibilities, integrity in business affairs, high standards in professional lines and absolute probity in their home lives, is that bearing the name of Todd.

James Todd, the progenitor of the Clark County, Ohio, Todds, was of Irish nativity, and tradition states that when a lad he worked his passage to America as a cabin boy, prior to the outbreak of the War of the American Revolution, in which he served as a soldier of the patriotic forces. After the war he settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where was born a son, James, October 22, 1796. This James Todd I moved to Ohio and settled on a small stream, named in his honor Todd’s Fork, a branch of the Little Miami River, in Warren Covmty. He was twice married, Mary Ann (Brand) Todd being the maternal ancestor of the present Todds of Springfield and Clark Covmty. Shortly after the close of the War of 1812, in which he served for a time, James Todd II came to what is now Greene Township, Clark County, and there erected his cabin in the midst of pioneer surroundings. His wife was Elizabeth Garlough, of German origin, whose father had served the Colonies as a soldier during the Revolution. The occupation of James Todd II was that of millwright and many of the pioneer mills of Clark County were erected by him.

For over 100 years the Todds have lived in Greene Township. They were there at the beginning of its settlement, had much to do with its development from an unbroken forest, and there and elsewhere in the county their descendants and allied families have lived honorable and useful lives. Over ninety years ago James Todd II built the brick house yet standing, which was one of the very first of its kind in all that section, and, as was the custom of the pioneers, this house was one that had no keys—the latchstring was ever on the outside for the wayfarer. James Todd died December 29, 1863, and his widow, April 13, 1890. They had nine children, Margaret A. Eichelbarger, John H. Todd, Mary A. Todd, Catharine A. Tuttle, William B. Todd, Sarah M. Tuttle, Samuel A. Todd, Nancy L. Tuttle and James Todd, all of whom, except James Todd, have spent their entire lives in Clark County.

John Henry Todd was the second in order of birth and the oldest son. He was born November 25, 1821, was twice married, first to Sarah Taliaferro, who was the mother of his children, Eliza Marshall, James M. Todd and Elizabeth Elliott, and died September 27, 1888. John Henry Todd was born and reared and, except for a few years spent in Illinois, always made his home in Clark County.

James M. Todd, the only son of John Henry Todd, was born in Greene Township, Clark County, May 28, 1848. His upbringing was on the home farm until the breaking out of the Civil war and during this time he acquired a fair education in the neighboring district schools. In the fall of 1896 he was elected treasurer of Clark County, a position to which he was re-elected two years later, serving four years in all. In 1906 he again entered public life, when elected mayor of Springfield, a capacity in which he served during that and the following year. One of his important acts was helping to compel the Big Four Railroad to erect a suitable depot and throughout his administration he executed the laws found on the statute books to the best of his ability, conscientiously, without fear or favor. He was ironically termed the “Lid” mayor, because he clapped on the lid over the cesspools of crime in the city. Since leaving the mayoralty office he has been living in retirement. Mr. Todd is a Presbyterian in religion and a republican in politics. As a fraternalist he is a Knight Templar, York Rite and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of the Mystic Shrine. On September 25, 1873, Mr. Todd married Miss Lora A. Otstot, and they have two sons, Harry Duschane, M. D., a physician of Akron, Ohio, and Arthur J.

Arthur J. Todd, the younger of the two sons of James M. and Lora A. (Otstot) Todd, was born May 15, 1880, at Springfield, where he attended high school in 1898. He then entered Wittenberg College, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1902, and entered upon his legal studies at the University of Cincinnati, from the law department of which institution he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1905. He was admitted to the bar in the same year and has been engaged in the practice of his calling ever since. In religious faith Mr. Todd is a Presbyterian and his political allegiance is with the republican party. During the World war he served in the capacity of townships chairman of the Liberty Loan drives. Fraternally he is a Mason.

On June 25, 1912, Mr. Todd married Miss Ella M. Morgan, daughter of Thomas J. Morgan, and they are the parents of two children, Martha Jane and Arthur J., Jr.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 133

JAMES A. TODD, Freight Agent, C., S. & C. R. R., Springfield; is a veteran railroad man and old resident of Springfield; he is a native of New Hampshire; was born July 19, 1834; lived on a farm until of age, and came to Springfield in 1856; he became connected with the railroad first as clerk in the freight office here of the C., S. & C. in 1857; in 1861, he received promotion to local agent at Osborne; in 1865, he relinquished this position to take the agency of the A. & G. W., at Reno, Penn., then the terminus in the oil regions of the Meadville Branch. This was a very important position, and involved great responsibility and no small amount of business capacity. In 1867, Mr. Todd became the successor of J. C. Buxton, as agent of the C., S. & C. at this point, and has since continued to hold this position, having charge of all the freight business at this end of the road; as indicative of the energy and enterprise of his management, when he took charge one horse did the work of moving cars; now two switch engines are kept busy, and the freight bills collected aggregate from $15,000 to $19,000 per month. Mr. Todd is also a member of the firm of Taylor, Hayden & Co., who are doing a large business in the coal trade. He married, in 1864, Miss Laura Brake, of Osborne; this union has been blessed with three children, a son and two daughters; the family now reside in a residence which he built at the northwest corner of High street and Lincoln avenue. Mr. Todd was elected Councilman from his (Fourth) ward at the late October election, and is thoroughly identified with the local interests of Springfield and Clark County.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 931

W. BRAND TODD, farmer and stock-dealer; P. O. Clifton. The grandfather of this energetic farmer, James Todd, was a native of Ireland, who came to the American Colonies before the dawn of freedom, settling in Massachusetts, and on the breaking-out of the Revolutionary war, he gave his services to help crush the hereditary foe of his native land. When the Colonies shook off the tyrant’s grasp and breathed the air of freedom, he located close to Philadelphia, Penn., where he was married to Mary Brand, to whom were born seven children, James Todd, the father of W. Brand, being the fourth in the family. He was born near Philadelphia, Penn., Oct. 22, 1797, and in 1806 the whole family came West, settling, finally, in Warren Co., Ohio, building their cabin close to a small branch of the Miami River, which yet bears the name of “Todd’s Fork.” His mother died there, and his father was again married to a Mrs. Neely, to whom was born two children, and there his parents resided until death. James Todd grew to manhood in this portion of Ohio, and Jan. 28, 1819, was married, in Green Township, Clark Co., Ohio, to Elizabeth Garlough, daughter of John and Margaret Garlough, he a native of Germany and she of Maryland. Mrs. Todd was born in Maryland, Jan. 12, 1799, and her husband, after marriage, settled permanently in the northern part of Green Township, where he followed the peaceful avocation of a farmer until his death, Dec. 29, 1863. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, to which denomination his widow still adheres; and now, in her 83d year, in the enjoyment of good health, with a figure as straight as an arrow, she pursues the even tenor of her way, surrounded by her descendants, passing the few remaining days of her life in peace and happiness. James Todd was a soldier in the war of 1812, under Gen. Harrison, and the subject of this sketch has now the rifle, powder-horn and bullet-pouch which his father carried throughout that struggle. To James and Elizabeth Todd were born nine children, W. Brand being the fifth in the family. He was born on the old homestead, in Green Township, Aug. 20, 1829, and there grew up, following the general routine of a farmer’s son. His early education was obtained in the neighborhood subscription school, but general reading and experience has given him a knowledge and intelligence that could not be acquired in the schools of any period. Until the age of 33, he remained with his parents on the farm, with the exception of the summer seasons of eight years, during which he worked with his father at millwrighting. He was married, May 26, 1863, to Miss Rebecca Wilkinson, daughter of Joseph Wilkinson, of Madison Township, Clark Co., Ohio, to whom has been born two children, one of whom is living, viz., Charles E., a bright, intelligent boy, whose future prospects are indeed promising. In 1870, Mr. Todd purchased his present farm of 100 acres, located one mile east of Clifton, which he has since brought to a high state of cultivation. Politically, Mr. Todd is an ardent Republican; has been Township Trustee five years, Assessor ten years, and a member and Treasurer of the Clifton School Board five years, all of which offices he has filled with honesty and capability. He is a well-informed, agreeable gentleman, and is respected by the people throughout his township.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1057

EDWARD P. TORBERT, County Clerk, Springfield. The present efficient Clerk of Clark Co., Ohio is a native of the county, born May 28, 1840, and is the son of Judge James L. and Hannah C. Torbert; he received his education at Wittenberg College, and afterward, for several years, was engaged in teaching; on the 1st of April, 1869, he was appointed United States Collector for the Fourth Division of the Seventh District of Ohio, which position he held until Jan. 1, 1873, when he resigned to enter upon his duties as Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, to which office he had been elected the previous October, and which he now fills; he has recently erected a handsome residence close to the old homestead, on North street, where he, with his sisters, resides. Mr. Torbert has made a good official, and by his kind and obliging disposition, has won many friends years.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 932

JAMES L. TORBERT, deceased. The late Judge James L. Torbert was the eldest son of Lamb and Eliza Slack Torbert, of Bucks Co., Penn., where he was born in 1796, on the 22d of February (Washington’s birthday); he was the recipient of a liberal classical education, Princeton being his Alma Mater; coming to this State in 1818, he was, for several years, engaged in educational duties in an academy at Lebanon, Ohio, assisting in the intellectual training and development of a number of young men, who have since achieved distinction, among whom may be mentioned, the distinguished astronomer, Gen. O. M. Mitchell, the founder of the Cincinnati Observatory, and author of several astronomical works and text books. Judge Torbert made his advent in Springfield in 1824, and being a fine linguist, devoted himself, during the first few years of his residence here, to giving instruction in the languages; having been admitted to the bar in the meantime, he became associated with Gen. Sampson Mason in a law copartnership; he was the successor of Joseph R. Swan, as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Twelfth Judicial District, and filled most satisfactorily and ably, for several years, the office of Judge of Probate for Clark County. While Judge Torbert was a man of superior scholarly attainments and great literary tastes, he was modest, unobtrusive, and retiring; and with a remarkable gentleness and amiability of disposition, he united an immovable firmness and fidelity to his convictions, which were sincere and earnest on all subjects, whether religious, political, or domestic; he was found at an early date, battling with voice and pen, against oppression, especially as he believed it to exist in the institution of slavery, and at this period to take so advanced a position, indicated the possession of a rare order of courage. But the stern logic of events has demonstrated the correctness of his views and position on this important question. On the 31st of July, 1821, he married Hannah C., daughter of Dr. John C. Winans, of Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio, to whom were born eight children, of whom two sons and three daughters survived their father; his death occurred very suddenly, on the 15th of May, 1859, on board the steamboat Tecumseh, on the Mississippi River, near New Madrid, en route from New Orleans, whither, accompanied by his wife, he had gone to bring home their eldest son, who had been for some time ill in that city. The occasion of his funeral elicited marks of the highest esteem and sincerest affection from the whole community, and especially his late associates of the bar. That noble man, Gen. Sampson Mason, his quandam law partner, who has long since joined him on the other side, and who was well known to bestow none but sincerest praise, said of him on the occasion of the meeting of the Springfield bar, to pass resolutions of condolence and respect, that J. L. Torbert was “one whom no mode of praise could flatter.” Springfield’s past can boast no better, truer, or purer men than Judge James L. Torbert.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 931

DAVID W. TRIMMER. Agricultural methods have advanced amazingly during recent years, and machinery and equipment considered entirely adequate only a comparatively short time ago are now obsolete. That this is so is due to the progressive ideas and good judgment of such capable and farsighted agriculturists as David W. Trimmer, of Moorefield Township, who has a snug farm of thirty acres in Moorefield Township, on which he is carrying on successful operations.

Mr. Trimmer was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1859, and is a son of Gibson and Catherine (Ulrich) Trimmer.

Gibson Trimmer was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, where he grew to manhood and received only meagre educational advantages. He married Catherine Ulrich, who was born in York County, Pennsylvania, and who, like her husband, had only scant opportunities for the securing of an education. They were married in Adams County, where they made their home during the remainder of their lives, devoted themselves to the pursuit of farming and were highly esteemed members of their community. They belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Trimmer served as a private in a Pennsylvania regiment of volunteer infantry during the Civil war, and during his four years of service established an honorable war record as a participant in numerous hard-fought engagements. In politics he was a republican. Mr. and Mrs. Trimmer were the parents of thirteen children, of whom four are living in 1922: Emma, the wife of Benjamin F. Miller, of Pennsylvania; David W.; Ellen, the wife of Christ Schultz, of Pennsylvania, and Lewis, also a resident of the Keystone State.

David W. Trimmer was reared in Pennsylvania until reaching the age of sixteen years, at which time he came to Ohio. He obtained a common school education, and on coming to Clark County began working on the farm for monthly wages during the summer months, while in the winters he was employed in a factory at Springfield.

Mr. Trimmer married Miss Almeda May Buser, who was born in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio in young girlhood, receiving her education in the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Trimmer resided at various places until 1900, when they located on the farm and have since made it their home. Their thirty-acre property is highly improved and has been made greatly productive, and the buildings are substantial and attractive. Mr. Trimmer operates as a general farmer, and is thoroughly at home in all departments of his vocation.

He is likewise a man of sound integrity, who has the respect of his fellow-citizens because of his straightforward qualities and willingness to lend his aid to worthy community movements.

Of the seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Trimmer six are living in 1922: Catherine, a graduate of the Springfield High School, now the wife of James J. Cliborn, of Kentucky; Gertrude, who attended high school for two years, and is now the widow of James Carnihan; Murial, a graduate of the high school, living at home, who is a teacher in the Springfield public schools; Raymond O., an employe of the railroad, living at the home of his parents, who was married and is the father of one child; George, a graduate of the Springfield High School, and also a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, who is now a resident of Chicago; and Harold, who is single and assists his father in the work of the home farm. Mr. and Mrs. Trimmer are members of the First Baptist Church of Springfield, to the movements of which they are generous donators. Fraternally he is a popular member of the local lodges of the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of the Golden Eagle and the Loyal Order of Moose. He is a republican in his political tendencies, but has never been a seeker of public office.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 66

GEORGE W. TROSTEL has secure standing as one of the representative business men of New Carlisle, which is his native town, and in the welfare and advancement of which no citizen takes greater pride and interest. He is conducting the furniture and undertaking business of which his father was one of the founders, the enterprise having been established in 1889 by J. A. Trostel and T. J. Scarff, and this alliance having been maintained until 1895, when George W. Trostel took the place of Mr. Scarff as a member of the firm, the title of which was then changed to Trostel & Son. In 1914 the father retired from the firm and since that year the subject of this review has been sole proprietor of the large and well ordered business. The original firm in the first few years was engaged in the manufacturing of a kitchen cabinet, but this department of the business was eventually discontinued. The building that was erected for the accommodation of the business in 1891 was destroyed by fire in 1910 and on the site George W. Trostel erected the present modern building, two stories in height and 22 by 82½ feet in lateral dimensions. The entire building is used for the business as is also a large warehouse. Mr. Trostel has been associated with the business since 1893 and in his independent control of the same his progressive and well directed policies have resulted in a substantial expansion of the enterprise. The establishment is of modern equipment in all departments and in connection with the undertaking department is maintained a motor ambulance as well as a funeral car of latest improved automobile type. Mr. Trostel took a course in scientific embalming, as did his wife and their son Garrett P., both of whom are associated with the business.

Mr. Trostel has been a member of the New Carlisle Board of Education for twenty-one years, and has served as its clerk for the past twenty years. He was specially earnest and zealous in the progressive movement that has given to New Carlisle one of the finest school buildings to be found in any Ohio town of equal or even much larger population. He is a republican in political allegiance and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church in their home city, he having been president of its board of trustees for several years and having given many years of effective service as superintendent of its Sunday School.

Mr. Trostel is a leader in the local organization of the Masonic fraternity and is, in 1922, serving as high priest of his chapter of Royal Arch Masons, which he has represented also in the Grand Chapter of the state. He and his wife are actively affiliated with the Order of the Eastern Star, in which he is a past worthy patron, their son Garrett P. likewise being affiliated with the time-honored Masonic fraternity. Mr. Trostel has passed the official chairs in the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, has served as district deputy for this fraternal order and holds membership in its Encampment body, besides which he is identified also with the Junior Order United American Mechanics.

George W. Trostel was born at New Carlisle on the 18th of September, 1875, his father, J. A. Trostel, having come to Clark County from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in the late ’60s and having become one of the leading business men and honored and influential citizens of New Carlisle, where he served as a member of the village council and as chairman of its street committee. He is now living retired at New Carlisle and is seventy-seven years of age at the time of this writing, in 1922. His wife, whose maiden name was Jacob-Anna Peters, is likewise a native of the old Keystone State.

George W. Trostel married Miss Cliffie M. Saylor, who was born and reared in Clark County and who is a daughter of William and Minerva (Perrine) Saylor, the former of whom died when a young man. The Perrine family has long been one of prominence and influence in Clark County. Mr. and Mrs. Trostel have two sons. Garrett P. was afforded the advantages of Wittenberg College at Springfield and later completed a course in the Cincinnati School of Embalming, he being now associated with his father’s business. William Warner, the younger son, is, in 1922, a student in the University of Ohio.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 153

THEODORE TROUPE, druggist, Springfield; he was born in Germantown, Montgomery Co., Ohio, Feb. 2, 1853; he is a son of David and Julia Ann (Kemp) Troupe; he received his primary education in the town of his birth, and at the age of 15 years, came to the city of Springfield and entered the drug store of Ridenour & Coblentz as clerk, with whom he remained five years; during the five years, he recited regularly to Prof. Samuel Wheeler, who was conducting a private school at that time. Mr. Troupe was also a student at Wittenberg for a short time, and at the end of a two years’ clerkship with Charles Ludlow, he became the successor of Ridenour & Coblentz, and carried on the drug business under the firm name of Troupe & Co., and in December, 1876, he sold a half interest to Mr. Jacobs, and since then the firm has been Troupe & Jacobs. He was united in marriage, April 25, 1876, to Miss Mary C. Winger, daughter of Jacob and Catharine Winger, of Springfield; they have two lovely children, Harry W. and Olive. Mrs. Troupe was born Feb. 28, 1852; in the city of Springfield. Mr. Troupe’s father is a native of Canada, born in 1802; his mother a native of Maryland. They settled in Montgomery Co., Ohio, in 1840, where they still reside. Our subject has been a member of the Champion City guards, of the State Militia, since its organization in 1873, and in 1877, was appointed hospital steward, which position he still holds.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 932

PAUL E. TROXELL, member of an old Clark County family, has found an interesting and useful sphere of activity as a farmer and stock dealer. His home is in Harmony Township, in Section 15, on Rural Route No. 1 out of Plattsburg. He was born at the old Troxell homestead in Section 16 on October 8, 1887, son of William and Dora (Shyrack) Troxell. His father was born in Virginia, came to Ohio at the age of fifteen, worked for some years at month wages, and from a humble start made for himself a successful position as a trader and farmer. He was a deacon in the Christian Church and a charter member of its home church, was a republican and served on the School Board and as township trustee. By his first marriage he had no children. His second wife, Dora Shyrack, was born at Plattsburg in Clark County, January 28, 1848, and she died September 5, 1917, having survived her husband from May, 1888. They had six children: Pearl, George, Jessie, Virginia, William P., and Paul E. Paul E. Troxell grew up on the old farm, and still owns an interest in 475 acres comprising the homestead. He was educated in the public schools, in business college and spent three terms in the Agricultural School of Ohio State University. He is a practical farmer, and for a number of years has been operating as a livestock dealer. April 25, 1918, Mr. Troxell married Marie Stoll, who was born at South Vienna in Clark County and finished her education in the Springfield High School. They have one daughter, Mary M., born February 16, 1919. Mrs. Troxell is a member of the Christian Church. Fraternally he is active in Masonry, being affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., Springfield Chapter, Springfield Commandery and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton. He is a republican in politics.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 369

WILLIAM TROXELL, farmer; P. O. Plattsburg. The grandfather of this gentleman was Peter Troxell, a native of the Keystone State, of German descent, who was married to Rachel Chambers, a native of Chambersburg, Ind., to whom were born ten children, George, the father of William, being the second in the family. Peter Troxell was a Revolutionary soldier, and soon after marriage moved to Augusta Co., Va., where he and wife spent the balance of their days. And there George was born, grew to manhood and married Elizabeth Miller, of that county, and daughter of Adam Miller, a native of Germany, who had settled in Virginia. George was a soldier in the war of 1812, fighting the same old foe whom his father helped to whip in the Revolutionary struggle. To George and Elizabeth Troxell were born the following children Daniel, Andrew, John, William, Hettie, Eli and Elizabeth, all of whom are living, with the exception of the two oldest. William Troxell was born in Augusta Co., Va., Dec. 16, 1816, and was raised to farm life, his boyhood being spent among strangers, laboring on a farm at from $1.50 to $8 per month, his small earnings going to help support his father’s family. His advantages for an education were very poor, and in 1836, when but 20 years old, he came with his brother Daniel to this State. Remained about one year in Pike Township, Clark Co., Ohio, and, in 1837, removed to Harmony Township, working as a farm hand. He here had the chance to attend school about four months, during which time he learned the rudiments of reading and writing, which have helped him to manage his affairs through life. In 1846, he went to Illinois, where, with money saved previously from his own earnings, he bought 160 acres of land; then returned to Ohio, and, Feb. 17, 1847, was married to Mrs. Margaret Brooks, born in Ontario Co., N. Y., June 6, 1800, and daughter of Nathan Hammond, a pioneer of Clark County. Mr. Troxell finally settled permanently on his wife’s farm, on which he had formerly worked as a farm hand. and afterward, by buying out the heirs, became owner of the property, and has since lived upon it. His wife died July 26, 1873, a sincere member of the Christian Church of Plattsburg, and he was again married July 28, 1874, to Dora V. Shryack, daughter of John and Matilda Shryack, natives of Ohio, and residents of Harmony Township. Mrs. Troxell was born in this township Jan. 18, 1849, and has had the following children: Pearl C., George W. and Jessie M., and she and husband belong to the Christian Church of Plattsburg. The fall of their marriage they went on a visit to Virginia, there to view the scenes of his childhood and ponder over the changes that time had made, as well as interview the friend of his youth. Mr. Troxell is a Republican, has held the office of Township Trustee for about ten years; been School Director a number of times, and has taken a deep interest in the building of roads, of which he has been Supervisor about twelve years. When he came to Clark County he was not worth $25, but by constant toil and persistent industry, he has accumulated 550 acres of land, besides paying over $15,000 security debts. He has always been a friend to the poor man, and ever anxious to help his struggling neighbor. He and his step-son, A. N. Brooks, did an extensive business as stock dealers and shippers for about twelve years. Mr. Troxell is strictly temperate in his habits; is one of the energetic, enterprising farmers of Clark County, and stands as one of its most successful men in farm life. He is respected for his honest and upright character, “his word being always considered as good as his bond.”

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 968

WILLIAM P. TROXELL. One of the most influential citizens of Clark County is a man representative of the rural interests, William P. Troxell, proprietor of the Oakland Farm, a mile and a half west of Plattsburg, on the Springfield and Lincoln Road. Mr. Troxell was born on this farm March 18, 1887, son of William and Dora (Shyrack) Troxell. His father was a native of Virginia, came to Ohio at the age of nineteen, finished his education in the public schools, and married a Clark County girl. After his marriage he located on what is now the Oakland Farm, and was active in the affairs of that community until his death. He was a republican, served as township trustee, and he and his wife were devout members of the Christian Church. She died September 5, 1917. Of their six children five are living: Pearl, who graduated from high school and attended college, is the wife of E. W. Cruikshank, of San Bernardino, California; Jessie is the widow of Charles Mitsch; Virginia is the wife of C. E. Laybourne; William P. is the next in age; and Paul E., is a farmer in Harmony Township. William P. Troxell was born in the house where he and his family now reside, and as he grew to manhood at attended the common and high schools of the vicinity, and is also a graduate of Nelson’s Business College at Springfield. Mr. Troxell married Marie M. McMahan on December 24, 1918. She was born in Harmony Township of Clark County and is a graduate of the Plattsburg High School. They have one son, William, Jr. Mrs. Troxell is a member of the Christian Church, while Mr. Troxell is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., with Springfield Commandery, K. T., Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton, and takes an influential part in the work of the Farm Bureau and Grange. He is a republican, a member of the Harmony Township School Board and has served as ditch commissioner and township assessor. The Oakland Farm comprises two hundred and twenty-five acres, and in addition to the management of its crop production, Mr. Troxell does a large business in shipping and dealing in live stock. He is a breeder at his farm of registered Angus cattle and Hampshire hogs.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 362

SILAS TRUMBO, Justice of Peace and farmer; P. O. Donnelsville; is the eldest son of a family of nine children, of Levi and Mary (Henkle) Trumbo, who were both natives of Virginia, and were of German and Scotch extraction. Their marriage occurred in their native State, in 1811, where Silas was born, Nov. 2, 1812. In 1814, Levi and family, with Mrs. Trumbo’s parents, Moses and Margaret Henkle, came to Clark Co., Ohio, where the latter ones died—Moses about 1830, and Margaret ten years later. Levi and Mary Trumbo remained in the then wilds of Clark County until 1816, when they and three children returned to their maternal State, where Levi died Dec. 31, 1859, and Mary, Nov. 11, 1871, in Clark Co., Ohio. Silas is one of five survivors, and a native of Pendleton Co., Va.; his early life was devoted to farming, but at the age of 18, engaged at the stone-mason’s trade with his father, with whom he remained until 1834, when he departed for Clark Co., Ohio, where he, the following year, assisted in the stone work of the first almshouse of Clark County. The following year, he married Huldah Downs, by whom he had ten children; all grew to man and womanhood, and are a family of noble children, one of whom lost his life in aiding the suppression of the late rebellion. About the year Silas was married, he took up the trade of wagon-making in the city of Springfield; but four years later, located in Donnelsville, where he commenced business on his own account. In the village he successfully conducted the business for many years, but it is now managed by his son, Joseph B., and he lives retired. After locating in the village, he soon had accumulated some means, through industry and economy, and purchased a small farm adjoining the town, of which he yet owns fifty acres. During life he has bought and sold considerable land in Missouri, where a part of his children now reside. Mr. Trumbo has been identified in many of the public interests of the township, in which he has been chosen as Justice twenty-seven consecutive years, in which capacity he still serves; he has also been Trustee and a member of the local School Board for many years, showing an active interest in the cause of education and general welfare of his community. He and wife have been lifelong members of the M. E. Church; and politically, he is a Republican.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1035

WILLIAM C. TRUMBO, of the Taggart-Trumbo Company, wholesale and retail dealers in coal and builders’ supplies in the City of Springfield, is a popular representative in the third generation of one of the honored pioneer families of Clark County.

In 1834 Silas Trumbo set forth from what is now Pendleton County, West Virginia, and made his way on horseback, much of the distance through a virtual wilderness, to Clark County, Ohio, where kinsman and other friends of his had previously located. He was a nephew of Rev. Saul Henkle, a pioneer Methodist preacher in this section of Ohio and one of the early clerks of Clark County. Silas Trumbo was a stonemason and bricklayer by trade, and after coming to Ohio he assisted in laying the foundation for the first building of the Clark County Infirmary. Later on he worked at the carpenter trade and at carriage-making. In 1838 he married Hulda Downs, of Urbana, and they established their home in the little village of Donnelsville, Clark County, where they passed the remainder of their lives, he having died in 1900 and she in 1891. Silas Trumbo was one of the founders and became a class-leader of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Donnelsville. He served forty years as justice of the peace and held other local offices of public trust, including those of township trustee and school trustee. Of the ten children, six are now living (1922). Two of the sons served as gallant soldiers of the Union in the Civil war. Levi M. was a member of Company C, One Hundred and Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died in 1862, of pneumonia, while with his regiment at the front. William L. served in the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

Joseph B. Trumbo, son of Silas and Hulda (Downs) Trumbo, was born December 3, 1847, and died March 20, 1922, one of the venerable and honored citizens of his native county. He acquired his early education in the common schools of the day and thereafter worked with his father at wagonmaking. In 1881 he engaged in the retail grocery business at Donnelsville, where he continued his active association with the enterprise for thirty-eight years, during twenty-one of which he was postmaster of that village. In 18B1 he was elected trustee of Bethel Township, and after serving nearly ten years in this office he resigned the same to assume that of county commissioner, to which latter office he was elected in 1890 and in which he served two full terms and about ten months additional, owing to a change in the law. He served continuously as a member of the school board of Donnelsville from 1904 to 1917, and in 1918 he removed to the City of Springfield.

In 1876 was solemnized the marriage of Joseph B. Trumbo and Miss Estelle Gardner, and they have five children: Maude A. (wife of Dr. Edwin S. Todd), William C., Lodema (Mrs. W. L. Nyswander), Silas B. and Gale B. Silas B. was in the nation’s military service in the World war period, was stationed in turn at Fort Oglethorpe and Camp Gordon, and held the rank of first sergeant at the latter camp at the time when the armistice was signed. Joseph B. Trumbo was a stalwart republican in his political affiliation and he and his wife were long zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

William C. Trumbo, eldest of the three sons, was born in Bethel Township, this county, on the 1st day of March, 1879, and after having there attended the district schools he continued his studies in the Springfield High School. He then took a course in the Nelson Business College. For several years he was in the employ of the Springfield Gas Company, with which he filled various executive positions, and in 1913 he became deputy county treasurer under Frank A. Crothers. Of this position he continued the incumbent until September, 1917, when he became county treasurer, to which office he was elected in 1916 and in which he served two consecutive terms, or four years. In April, 1919, he became one of the principals of the Taggart-Trumbo Company, and since his retirement from the office of county treasurer he has given his active attention to the business in which he is thus interested. He is one of the active workers in the local ranks of the republican party, and he and his wife are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias, and in his native county his circle of friends is coincident with that of his acquaintances.

In 1905 Mr. Trumbo wedded Miss Mabel Beard, of Mad River Township, Clark County, and her death occurred November 13, 1918, no children surviving her. In 1919 Mr. Trumbo married Miss Virginia Persinger, and they have one daughter, Sara.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 111

REV. HARRY TRUST, pastor of the Congregational Church at Springfield, has been a member of this community since 1921, and has already won the love and respect of a wide circle both within his own church, as well as those who have come to know him in his other duties. He has been a faithful pastor to his flock, not only here but elsewhere, and has impressed all with his disinterested work in the cause he serves; he has been a foremost factor in all of the movements for the betterment of the moral standards of the country, and conscientious in the discharge of his manifold duties. He has been fearless in denunciation of that which he thought was wrong, and has preached a gospel of action with power and eloquence.

Doctor Trust was born of an old Devonshire family at Ivybridge, Devon, England, January 11, 1883. He was graduated from the public schools of England, and for two years was a student of the University of London, and then came to the United States, where he entered the theological seminary of Bangor, Maine, and was graduated therefrom, and from Bowdoin College, in 1916, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His first pastorate was at Winthrop, Maine, from whence he was sent to Biddeford, Maine, and in 1921, to Springfield.

He is secretary of the Clark County Ministerial Association, assistant moderator of the State Conference of Congregational Churches of Ohio, and president of the Boy Scouts of Springfield. He does not confine his work to those duties strictly pertaining to the ministry, but is always seeking to broaden the scope of his influence, and has taught the Bible in the Young Men’s Christian Association, is active in the Brotherhood of the Congregational Church, and is a member of the Exchange Club.

On January 3, 1917, Rev. Mr. Trust married Miss Lillian Effie Knowlton, who was born on Deer Isle, Maine, and is a member of a family which traces its ancestry back to the time of William the Conqueror, The Knowltons have resided in this country since its Colonial period and members of it have participated in all of its wars, beginning with the American Revolution. She is eminently fitted for the exacting duties of a minister’s wife, and shares with her husband the affectionate esteem of the people of Springfield.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 177

REV. REES EDGAR TULLOSS, Ph. D., D. D., has become a distinguished figure in connection with ministerial and educational work, and is now president of Wittenberg College, a leading institution maintained at Springfield under the auspices of the Lutheran Church.

Dr. Tulloss was born at Leipsic, Ohio, July 26, 1881, and is a son of Rees P. and Mina D. (Weaver) Tulloss. The lineage of the Tulloss family traces back to remote French origin. It is probable that representatives of the family were of the Huguenot Protestant faith in France and that they were among those who fled from their native land to escape the religious persecution incidental to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. They found refuge in Scotland, and it was thence that came the original representatives of the family in America, they having settled in Fauquier County, Virginia, in the Colonial period and members of the family having gone forth at patriot soldiers in the war of the Revolution. The paternal great-great-grandfather of Dr. Tulloss of this review was one of the first settlers at what is now Newark, Ohio, and there he established the first brick kiln in that frontier district. The family name has been closely linked with the history of that section of Ohio during the long intervening years.

In the public schools of his native city Dr. Tulloss continued his studies until his graduation from the high school in 1896. For six years thereafter he was identified with business enterprise at Leipsic, and in the autumn of 1902 he entered Wittenberg College, the institution of which he is now the president. Of his career as a student in this college the following statements have been written: “Here he at once became a striking figure, taking a prominent part in all of the college activities. He was captain of the football team in 1905, and made himself a force in the athletic work of the institution. He was a member of the Excelsior Literary Society of the college. Upon his graduation, in 1906, he received special honors in logic and philosophy—the first to gain this distinction.”

In 1909 he graduated from the Hamma Divinity School, was ordained to the ministry of the Lutheran Church and accepted the pastorate of the church of this denomination at Constantine, Michigan, where he continued his charge six years and more than doubled the membership of the church. He resigned this pastorate to take up postgraduate study. He spent one year at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and then went to Harvard University, from which in 1918 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He was tendered the position of instructor in psychology at Harvard, but refused the post in order to continue his work in the ministry. He accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Lutheran Church at Mansfield, Ohio, this being one of the largest Lutheran Churches in America, with a membership of nearly 2,000 communicants. Doctor Tulloss was eminently successful in his work at Mansfield, where within two years he increased the membership of the church by 500, besides developing a men’s Bible class of fully 500 members.

As a youth Dr. Tulloss gained experience in practical educational work. In 1901 he established at Leipsic, Ohio, the Tulloss School of Touch Typewriting, and he transferred the headquarters of his institution to Springfield when he here became a student in Wittenberg College. The Tulloss School became a prosperous institution and was incorporated in 1913. In 1915 the Doctor disposed of his interests in this institution. In 1914 he was tendered the presidency of Midland College at Atchison, Kansas, and later was offered the chair of psychology in Hartford Theological Seminary. In June, 1920, Doctor Tulloss was elected president of Wittenberg College, and his vigorous administration during the intervening period has given evidence alike of his exceptional scholarship and executive ability. The result has been a vitalized forward movement in the college, and in the financial campaign which he instituted and carried to successful issue subscriptions totaling nearly $2,000,000 were secured for the support and expansion of this splendid institution.

In the year 1908 was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Tulloss and Miss Alpha Miller, a daughter of E. N. Miller, of Springfield. Mrs. Tulloss was a student in Wittenberg College, is a talented musician, especially as a vocalist, and her gracious personality has won her many friends in the social circles of her home community. Doctor and Mrs. Tulloss have two children, Alice and Nancy.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 11

GEORGE W. TUTTLE, farmer; P. O. Springfield. His farm of 152 acres is located in the southeastern part of Springfield Township; his house and other improvements on the farm show that he is a good, industrious farmer. He was born in this county in July, 1823; his schooling consisted of about two months each year until 14 years old; after that, the longest time he attended school any one year was eighteen days. He was married, Feb. 23, 1847, to Catherine A. Todd, daughter of James and Elizabeth Todd; the Todd family were among the early settlers of this county, coming here about a year after the Tuttle family. Their home has been blessed with five living children—Elizabeth E., John P. (who died in 1868), James T., William E. and Elma K. Mr. Tuttle has held the office of School Director for twelve years, and has always been an honorable, upright citizen; he and his good wife enjoy their beautiful home, and strive to train their children to live such lives that they will not dishonor the name of Tuttle. James T., their third child, is at present engaged in teaching the home school; he is a young man of excellent character, and not only has good ideas how a school should be taught, but puts his ideas into practice; he is President of the Clark County Teachers’ Association; also a member of the F. & A. M.; he has a library of over two hundred volumes of the best authors; he has gained his education mostly from his library, by a close application to study; if he keeps on as he has started, he will no doubt some day stand at the head of his profession.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 934

REV. HARVEY H. TUTTLE, minister, Springfield. Mr. Tuttle is the son of John and Margaret Tuttle, and was born in this county, Sept. 20, 1842; he worked for his father on the farm, attending the district school during the winter until 19 years old, when he enlisted in the 44th O. V. I., in the late rebellion, and was appointed Corporal of Company F; he was honorably discharged from the service, in December, 1862, on account of a wound received at Georgetown, Ky.; he was on picket duty, and in climbing a fence, his gun was accidentally discharged, blowing the third finger from his left hand, he having lost the first and second fingers of the same hand when but 2 years old; he and one of his brothers were playing chop corn stalks, he holding them and his brother chopping them, when his brother made a miss-lick, severing the two fingers. In the spring of 1863, he entered Wittenberg College, from which he graduated in 1867, delivering the English Salutatory at the commencement exercises; in 1864, served in the army with the 100 days’ men; in the fall of 1867, he entered the Newton Theological Seminary, near Boston, Mass., where he remained one year, and on account of his health, he was obliged to seek a more healthy climate, and in the fall of 1868, entered the Crozer Theological Seminary, near Philadelphia, Penn., where he graduated in 1870, his class being the first graduating class of that school; during the summer of 1867, he received license from the First Baptist Church of Springfield, this county, to enter the ministry, and was regularly ordained in 1870, and in October of that year began his pastorate of the Baptist Church at Bradford Junction, Miami Co., Ohio, where he remained nearly two years; and owing to poor health was obliged to stop preaching; since then has spent his time on his farm, preaching occasionally; he was married, June 14, 1870, to Laura J. Luse. (She is a sister of Mrs. W. H. Tuttle.) Mrs. Tuttle is a lady well suited for a minister’s wife; she attends to her household cares with ease and grace. Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle have six children, Laura May, John Luse, Martha Bird, Adoniram Judson, Margaret Ann and Harvey Wallace. Mr. Tuttle is at present, temporarily, supplying the pastoral work of the First Baptist Church of the city of Springfield, expecting, if his health will permit, to again enter the ministry.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 934

JACOB TUTTLE, farmer; P. O. Springfield. Mr. Tuttle lives in a fine, large and convenient house four miles southeast of Springfield; his farm of 125 acres of land is under a high state of cultivation and is pleasantly located; the land is rolling; his barn and other outbuildings are of modern style, and supplied with many necessary conveniences. Mr. Tuttle is the eleventh child of John and Margaret Tuttle, and was born on the old homestead farm near where he now lives, Nov. 12, 1836; he was twin brother to David (deceased); he was married, Aug. 27, 1857, to Nancy L. Todd, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Garlough) Todd. Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle commenced housekeeping at their present home soon after their marriage; of their seven children, viz.: Lelia, Nina E., Ada V. and Etta L. (twins), Fred, Clifford and Louis D., but four, Lelia, Fred, Clifford and Louis, are now living. Lelia was married, Dec. 17, 1879, to John W. Larkins; they live in Greene County. Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle are of a quiet nature, and take great comfort with their family; they are courteous and pleasant to all. Mr. Tuttle takes great delight in the improvement of his stock, believing that it is the best stock that pays the best. Mrs. Tuttle was born, Aug. 3, 1839; her parents were among the early settlers of this county, and ranked with the first families of the county. Jacob’s father bought and settled on the farm now owned by David’s heirs, in 1824, for $7 per acre. John and Margaret had fifteen children, viz.: Nicholas P., Catharine, Caleb, Sylvanus, George W., Tabitha J., James H., Mary, William, John J., Margaret A., David, Jacob, Isaac and Harvey H. The father, mother, and six of the children, Nicholas, Catharine, Caleb, Tabitha, William and David, have entered the spirit life; James lives in Indiana; Isaac in Green Township, this county,and Margaret in Union Co., Ohio, and the rest live in Springfield Township, this county.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 933

JOHN TUTTLE, farmer; P. O. Springfield. Mr. Tuttle is the son of Nicholas P. and Mary (Nave) Tuttle, and was born in this county Aug. 19, 1853; he is the grandson of John and Margaret Tuttle; his father, Nicholas, settled on the farm now owned by David Crabill about the year 1839, where he lived until his death, July 6, 1858; his widow survived him seventeen years, her sons carrying on the farm until her death, in 1875, when the farm was sold. Of Nicholas and Mary’s family there were seven children—two boys and five girls. The subject of this sketch was married, Oct. 14, 1875, to Melissa R., daughter of Jacob and Catherine (Stecher) Fatzinger; they have two children, viz., George N. and Charles F. John lived at home, working on the farm, until his marriage, when he moved to Lagonda and worked in the shops there some two years; he then moved to the farm where he now lives. He is a member of good standing of Ephraim Lodge, No. 146, I. O. O. F.; he is also a member of the M. E. Church. Melissa, his wife, was born in this county June 4, 1853; she is a member of the U. B. Church; her parents settled in this county about the year 1840. Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle are hospitable and polite in their manners.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 935

MRS. SARAH M. TUTTLE, Springfield. Mrs. Tuttle is the widow of David Tuttle, deceased; also, sister of Mrs. George W. and Mrs. Jacob Tuttle. She was born Aug. 2, 1832; was married to David Tuttle March 20, 1862. David was killed, July 4, 1874, by falling off an excursion train on his way home from Columbus, where he had been to celebrate “Independence Day.” The circumstances were as follows: The train was crowded, and he was in the baggage car; the doors were open, and, in moving around to find a good position, he caught his foot, tripped and fell out of the car, killing him instantly. Mrs. Tuttle, with her six children—Ernest A., Clara I., Myra I., Everett D., Cora M. and William B.—carries on the farm. Mrs. Tuttle is an industrious woman, and provides well for her children; they live on the old homestead farm.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 936

SYLVANUS TUTTLE, farmer; P. O. Springfield; he lives on the National road, four and a half miles east of Springfield; he is the son of John and Margaret (Prickett) Tuttle, and was born in this county Jan. 28, 1822. Sylvanus’ father was a brother of Zebedee and Caleb Tuttle, and died in June, 1849, his wife following him in March, 1879. Sylvanus worked for his father until 20 years of age; he then began farming for himself; he was married, Dec. 16, 1841, to Jane D. Garlough, daughter of John and Anna (Patton) Garlough. Jane was born Jan. 29, 1823; when 2 years old was left an orphan by the death of her mother; she lived with her grandmother until her marriage with Mr. Tuttle; six children have been born unto them, viz: Margaret Ann, John G. (who died when nine months old), James O., Marian, Tabitha J. and George H. Margaret was married, July, 1872 to Charles Holland, and James, Nov. 6, 1870, to Catharine Todd. Sylvanus’ father served in the war of 1812, helping guard the frontier at McCarthy’s Block-House and at Fort Recovery. The Tuttle family are noted for their integrity, and for their honorable and upright dealings.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 933

WILLIAM H. TUTTLE, farmer; P. O. Springfield. Mr. Tuttle is one of the active, leading farmers of Springfield Township. He was born Aug. 2, 1838, in this county. He was married, Oct. 26, 1871, to Mary C. Luse, daughter of John and Martha A. Luse; their home is blessed with three loving children, viz., Fannie A., Carrie D. and Clarence J. Mr. Tuttle, although a young man, has been very successful; he began business with 125 acres of land, given him by his father, and, by his industry and integrity, has added to it until now he owns 600 acres of excellent land, and has expended $10,000 in improving his present home; he lives in a fine, large brick house, located two miles east of Springfield, on a beautiful eminence overlooking the village of Lagonda; his house is of the most improved plan, and is furnished with all the modern conveniences. Mr. Tuttle has been elected to several posts of honor; he is one of the Directors of the public school of his district, and looks after its interests with a watchful eye; he is one of the Directors of the Springfield & Clifton Pike, also Treasurer of the same; he has always followed farming, and has lived an honorable, upright life; although he has accumulated considerable wealth, he is liberal, and takes an active part in the public improvements of the county. Mrs. Tuttle was born in this county Sept. 11, 1850; her parents were among the pioneers of this county, coming here as early as 1804. Caleb Tuttle, the father of William H., was born in Virginia May 14, 1799, and moved from there with his parents, to Ohio and to Clark County in 1806, and settled near where he now lives; Caleb was united in bonds of wedlock, March 21, 1822, to Mary Pricket. When the Tuttles settled in this county, it was yet a wilderness, and quite a number of Indians were still here. Caleb and Zebedee, the only two surviving children of the original family that came to this county, are truly pioneers, and have experienced the trials, hardships and pleasures of early pioneer life; they have witnessed the gradual growth of the county from a wilderness to its present beautiful and prosperous condition. May their names ever be honored as noble men. Caleb has voted at sixteen Presidential elections, beginning with James Monroe’s second term, and casting his sixteenth vote for James A. Garfield.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 935

ZEBEDEE TUTTLE, retired farmer; P. O. Springfield; he is now one among the few pioneers who still remain to tell of the times and incidents of early days; he is the son of Sylvanus and Mary (Brown) Tuttle, and was born in Virginia, Dec. 15, 1800; his parents emigrated to Ohio in 1806, and rented a farm near what is now called Catawba Station, Champaign Co.; he remembers Simon Kenton well, and frequently went, in company with his brother Caleb, to Mr. Kenton’s mill, to get their grist of corn ground; he can relate to many incidents about the Indians which come under his own observation, and on one occasion attended one of their dances, which took place near his father’s farm; at the age of 21, he began the trade of carpentering and house building; after working under instructions five years, he carried on the trade for himself some twenty years, when he quit his trade, and since then devoted his attention to farming until about five years ago; he divided his property between his two remaining children, who live in sight of each other, and with whom he has his home, occupying his time by reading and doing such work as suits him, being a man who has labored hard all his life, he is not contented now to simply do nothing. He was married, April 13, 1826, to Elizabeth Wolfe, sister of Samuel Wolfe, whose biography appears in this book; he and his good wife journeyed along together forty-eight years, when death called her home, March 3, 1874; they had born unto them four children—Henry S., who died Jan. 5, 1833; George W., who died in infancy; Julia A. and Albert. Julia was born May 5, 1834, and lived with her parents until her marriage with Jenkins Windowmaker, April 26, 1871; Albert was born May 20, 1840; he has always lived at home, being employed on the farm; he received his education at the district school; he was married, April 5, 1865, to Catharine Johnson, a lady of excellent character and noble aspirations; their only child, Albert, Jr., is at present a student at Wittenberg College, not studying for any profession, but storing his mind with useful knowledge, which he hopes will be of benefit to him in the future.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 933