History of Greene County, Ohio: its people, industries and institutions, Volume II, Part 1

Author: Broadstone, Michael A., 1852- comp
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Indianapolis, B.F. Bowen
Number of Pages: 1440


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REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION


HISTORY


OF


GREENE COUNTY OHIO


ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS


HON. M. A. BROADSTONE Editor-in-Chief


VOLUME II


ILLUSTRATED


1918 B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana


Gc 977. 101 G83h v. 2


1324582


BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX


Abbey, Patrick H.


933


Bales, John S. 122


Adair, Robert D. 107


Ball, Lester D 63


Adams, Hurl R.


359


Ballard, William 452


Adams, John H.


256


Bankerd, Mary H 176


Adams, Joseph W


383


Barber, William H 669


Adams, Nimrod


339


Bargdill, George R. 515


Adams, Samuel N


210


Barkman, Cleveland L 279


Adsit, Leonard C. 931


Barlow, Judge Moses 29


Alexander, Charles F. 293


Barnes, Lester 290


Alexander, Hugh. A. 842


Barnett, Walter W 778


Alexander, John


589


Barnhart, Davis 761


Allen, John B ..


805


Barr, Fred C. 581


Anderson, Clyde W 938


Batdorf, Reuben G. 563


Anderson, Floyd


46


Beal, Jasper 595


Anderson, George, M. D 816


Anderson, John W. 191


Anderson, Joseph F. 114


Anderson, Hon. Samuel C. 304


250


Belt, David F. 384


Benham, William F 485


Berryhill, Thomas C.


544


Beveridge, Rev. Thomas, D. D.


529


Bickett, Clark K. 784


Bigler, Abraham L


741


Bingamon, Charles S. 355


Birch, George A. 666


Black, Rev. George D., D. D. 449


Blair, Bert


55


Blair, William H. 67


Blotner, J. C.


583


Bradfute, Oscar E


901


Brandt, George 632


Bretney, William


H


182


Brewer, William H.


765


Brickel, George F.


735


Brickle, John


292


Broadstone, Michael A 848


Brown, Cyrus 487


Brown, Hallie Q 984


Brown, Howard C. 212


Brown,


Ezra


365


Brown, Marshall


353


Brown, Michael


1


367


Brown, Samuel A


342


Bryson, Agnew E. 28


2 vols.


10-18-65


SURNAME FILE


midland


-


Armstrong, Orville B. 464


Arthurs, Thomas A. 473


Arthur, William H. 813


Ashbaugh, Levi M


773


B


Babb, Charles I 24


Bailey, Daniel M 883


Baker, Dan 412


Baker, George 288


Baker, Henry F., M. D. 430


Baker, Justus 722


Baker, Samuel T. 788


Baker, William R 782


Baldwin, Ira W., M. D.


105


Bales, Albert E. 918


635


Applegate, Howard


235


Arnold, Cyrus C.


476


Arnold, Edgar


476


Beam, Clyde C. 588


Beam, Daniel H. 348


Beatty, Charles E 419


Beatty, John A. 774


40.00


Anderson, William P


791


Andrews, Wallace


Ankeney, Albert 880


Ankeney, Charles 566


Ankeney, Hon. Horace. 68


0 Ankeney, Lewis W.


Archer, David :


696


BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.


Bryson, Hon. William B 70


Buck, Charles 943


Buckwalter, Joseph 337


Cox, Charlie K. 647


Buick, John G. 372


Cox, Samuel W. 826


Coy, Aaron 467


Coy, Benjamin F.


672


Bull, Karlh


770


Coy, Burley J.


846


Bull, William H


732


Coy, J. Newton 927


Coy, John 468


Coy, John F


895


Burr, William C.


498


Burr, William H


523


Burrell, Albert 436


Burrell, Eli 725


Burrell, Francis M.


852


Burrowes, William E. 267


Butt, Christopher J. 719


C


Camden, John W.


471


Canaday, James H. 65


Carey, Simeon, M. D. 516


Carlisle, George


935


Carlisle, Towne


446


Carlisle, William L


543


Carlos, Barney W


47


Carr, William W.


236


Carroll, Solon 907


Carson, Rev. James G., D. D., LL. D.477


Carter, George L.


340


Chalmers, William


S


187


Chandler, Walter


710


Charters, John T.


184


Cherry, Huston H.


570


Cherry, William J.


714


Chitty, Luther D.


915


Chew, J. A.


172


Clark, William B.


671


Clayton, Benjamin F


386


Clemans, William


L


858


Coe, Herman N


435


Collins, Andrew G.


506


Collins, Arthur


392


Compton, Wilson


797


Confarr, Charles E.


698


Confer, Arthur U.


780


Conklin, James G. 779


Conley, William


454


Conroy, Rev. William A.


596


Cooley, Charles E 877


D


Darlington, Charles 51


Darst, Henry


740


Davis, George, M. D. 347


Dean, Charles S.


736


Dean, Charles W. 546


Dean, Samuel S. 96


Dean, William 843


Dean, William C. 52


Dean, W. Edwin 578


Devoe, Prof. Chester A.


841


Devoe, Joseph


318


Diehl, Philip 259


Diffendal, John M. 548


Dillingham, Gilbert L


562


Dodds, George and Sons


554


Dodds, William


422


Dobbins, Charles D. 786


Donges, William H. 23


Donley, Thomas


936


Downey, Joseph


855


Drake, Carl V. 607


Drake, George H. 825


Drake, Pierre W.


921


Driskill, Joseph


874


E


Early, Daniel B.


886


573


Coy, William E.


924


Coy, William H. 608


Cramer, Charles 1. 771


Creswell, Andrew H. 64


Creswell, George H.


460


Creswell, James H.


408


Creswell, William H.


444


Creswell, William W. 664


Crow, David E. 247


Crowl, James


925


Cunningham, James C.


792


Cosler, Harry A., M. D. 645


Costenborder, William F 811


Bull, Amos S.


923


Bull, Edward O.


879


Burnett, William


406


Burr, Charles M. 812


Coy, Valentine P


Chew, James P 168


BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.


Eavey. Henry H.


692


Eavey, Joseph E. 360


Eckerle, George H. 939


Ellis, Christopher K.


549


Elton, Joseph P.


233


Espey, Paul D., M. D.


912


Esterline, James F.


717


Evans, Isaac


201


Ewing, Samuel


57


Eyman, Felix P.


942


F


Faulkner, Samuel P 904


Fawcett, Hiram H. 357


Fawcett, Joseph M., C. E. 208


Fawley, Lee R.


823


Ferguson, David W.


169


Ferguson, George F


605


Ferguson, Ralph B.


659


Ferguson, William W.


808


Fetz, Henry


766


Finley, William H., M. D 126


Finnell, Michael L.


263


Fisher, Charles E


847


Fisher, Frank


35


Fitzpatrick, William


11


326


Flack, Millard D


697


Fletcher, William E


139


Flynn, P. H.


117


Fogg, Guy H


418


Forbes, William H 268


Ford, Granville C.


390


793


Foust, Ed. S.


728


Fowler, Richard J 504


Fralick, Samuel


827


Frazer, Capt. Andrew


S.


76


Frazer, Clarence S.


111


Fudge, James


537


G


Galloway, William A., M. D. 228


Garfield, Lyman M. 192


Gerhardt, Sebastian 320


Gerlaugh, Edward O. 628


Geyer, Rev. George H


867.


Gheen, Thomas


731


Gill, Andrew F. 662


Glotfelter, Warren H


768


Graham, Prof. George J


164


Green, Prof. Bruce H 975


Greiner, George 679


Grieve, Archibald C. 260


Grieve, Rankin R.


124


Grottendick, Henry


145


H


Hackett, Charles H. 128


Hackett, Edward 371


Hackett, Harry L.


451


Hackett, Joseph A.


726


Hagler, Matthew A


334


Haines, Asaph


400


Haines, Clayton


327


Hale, Silas


88


Hamilton, Charles D. C.


853


Hamma, Elmer A


394


Hanes, Jacob


427


Hanes, Capt. John N


752


Harbein, John


356


Harbison, John A 222


Hardman, William


M


461


Hardy, Walter B.


872


Hargrave, Oscar S.


831


Harner, Charles


A


708


Harner, Jacob


298


Harner, Samuel 568


Harner, Samuel B. 196


Harper, Frank H


616


Harper, Thomas S.


739


Harshman, John F


401


Hartley, Mansel J. 26


Hartman, Daniel H


536


Hartman, Samuel W.


720


Hartsock, John W.


651


Hartsook, James F


321


332


Haverstick, Franklin M


612


Hawker, John T


428


Hawkins, B. Frank 512


Hawkins, Horace R., M. D.


426


Hayslett, Edward W.


540


Hayward, Roy C. 234


Heifner, Harry N 416


Heilman, Frederick,


D. C.


179


Hering, Albert F.


676


Hickman, John A 324


Higgins, John


799


Hilt, David


514


Hilt, William


H.


376


Fortney, Prof. James H., M. A.


Hatch, Orange S.


Henrie, Charles C.


134


BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.


Hirst, Thomas C. 457


Hoffman, Clarence W 287


Holmes, Robert E


945


Hoover, Charles


604


Hopkins, John F


630


I


Hopping, William S.


706


Hostetter, Isaac 336


Houser, William E.


657


Howland, Armstrong


R


634


Humston, Harvey


723


Hunt, Edwin H 59


Hunter, Joseph C 528


Hupman, Charles S. 871


Hupman, Frank


767


Huston, James


W


702


Huston, Rush R.


644


Huston, William F 721


Hutchison, Joseph T


541


I


Iliff, Thomas V


856


J


Jack, William T


130


Jackson, Hon. Andrew 312


Jackson, Frank A.


104


Jackson, Rev. Hugh


216


Jackson, Prof. Thomas H., D. D 965


Jacobs, Jacob T.


414


Jacobs, Julius C. 391


Jacoby, John M


686


Jacoby, Robert S. 160


James, Benjamin F


660


Jenks, Sherman


652


Jobe, Charles L


763


Jobe, George E.


500


Jobe, George F.


100


Jobe, Thomas B. 32


Johnson, Prof. Charles H 987


Johnson, Charles M.


626


Lutz, John


Johnson, Frank L. 941


Johnson, Harry


624


Johnson, Jesse F. 246


Johnson, John E.


433


Johnson, Samuel S.


819


Johnston, Kingsley


M


777


Joiner, William A. 976


Jones, Daniel O.


592


Jones, Gilbert H., M. A., Ph. D 953


Jones, Levi M., M. D 300


Jones, Lewis R.


944


Kable, Isaac N 564


Kany, Jacob 144


Kauffman, Oscar B. 271


Keiter, Engene S. 762


Keiter, George A. 296


Keiter, Joseph B. 646


Kemp, George F. 695


Kemp, Horace S. 553


Kendig, Harry R.


255


Kerr, Robert F. 280


Kester, Alford B., D. D. S. 447


King, Joseph W. 33


Kinney, Mathias 932


Kinsey, Charles 241


Kneisly, Edwin 539


Koogler, Thomas J. 937


Krepps, George


36


L


Lackey, Burt L., D. D. S. 654


Lackey, James H ..


776


Lackey, William T.


456


Lampert, Edwin J.


934


Lampert, Jacob J.


238


Lantz, Jacob L.


656


Lantz, John D.


478


Layman, Josiah


470


Laurens, Walter


M.


188


Leonard, Samuel


704


Lewis, Addison S.


715


Lewis, Hon. James E.


388


Lindsay, Clarence A., M. D 994


Little, C., Howard.


61


Littleton, Wilmot E. 438


Logsdon, Clement J.


287


Lowry, Ellsworth G.


Loy, Alfred


817


Lucas, John B.


148


40


Lynn, Prof. Dewalt S.


557


Lytle, Capt. Robt.


17


Mc


McCampbell, James S., D. D. S. 129


McClellan, David V. 621


McClellan; Robert H. 474


Mc Clelland, William


120


McConnell, David


755


McConnell, John


518


K


BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.


McCulloch, Samuel


307


MeCullough, George W. 828


McDonald, Frank H. 112


McDonald, James A.


198


McFarland, David H.


590


McKillip, John L.


681


McMichael, Rev. James S. E. 257


McPherson, Charles 862


McPherson, Clarence G., M. D


30


M


Madden, Reed, M. D. 204


Magruder, Thomas L. 44


Mann, George 928


Manor, Mont


310


Massey, Frank C.


269


Marshall, Hon. J. Carl 101


Marshall, James H.


496


Marshall, Leroy T.


186


Maxwell, Campbell L.


950


Mellinger, Charles J.


375


Mercer, James A.


917


Messenger, Asa C., M. D.


73


Miars, Allen H.


802


Middleton, B. J.


820


Middleton, James W.


480


Middleton, Lewis


248


Miller, Albert McH.


759


Miller, George G.


813


Miller, Hon. John M.


364


Mitchell, Rev. Samuel T., A. M., LL. D. 960


Mitman, Oran P. 623


Mt. St. John Normal School. 618


Munger, Hon. Edmund H.


329


Munger, John E.


520


Murdock, Hugh M.


206


Murdock, Silas M.


893


N


Nash, John R.


180


Nash, Robert H. 252


Neeld, Ralph M.


136


Nisbet, John H.


381


Nosker, Prof. Charles A., A. M.


203


O


Oglesbee, · Calvin L.


420


Oster, Martin A.


815


P


Palmer, Prof. Lutrelle F.


995


Partington, Edward D.


711


Patterson, Austin McD., Ph. D


153


Patterson, John R.


159


Paullin, David E.


913


Paullin, James E.


108


Paullin, Theodore


527


Pavey, Nobel T., D. D. S. 443


Paxson, William A.


368


Perkins, Rev. Thomas 992


Perrill, George N.


352


Peters, Henley €. 996


Peterson, Granville


O.


432


Peterson, John M.


323


Peterson, Lewis C.


503


Pidgeon, Rev. John M.


552


Pratt, Walter E. 143


Preston, Isaac B. 67


Printz, William G.


866


Puterbaugh, John F.


597


Q


Quinn, Rev. James E


116


R


Rader, Edwin C.


162


Rader, Levi


103


Rahn, L. Madison 824


Ream, Charles E., M. D.


526


Rice, Harry E.


173


Rice, Morris D. 689


655


Richman, Edward N.


Ritenour, Winfield S., M. D.


908


Robb, ""Jordan


963


Robinson, James F. 345


Ross, John W.


459


Ross, Robert A.


899


Routzong, Frank H.


242


Rowand, Thomas L.


713


Russell, Prof. Joseph D. M


989


S


Sanders, Jesse


285


Scarborough, William S., M. A., LL.


D., Ph. D. 954


Schauer, Edwin H.


558


Schauer, George K.


690


Schlesinger, Bernhard


146


Scott, Charles H.


959


BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.


Scott, Jacob A.


658


Sexton, John 404


Shank, George M. 344


Sheeley, David O.


680


Shcets, George W.


132


Shellabarger, Frederick


424


Shepard, H. Glen, D. V. S.


892


Shigley, Elmer N.


584


Shoemaker, Joseph F.


638


Shoup, Arthur A.


611


Shuey, Abraham L.


440


Simison, Frank W.


290


Simpson, Prof. George T


957


Sipe, Jacob


810


Sipe, Walter N.


448


Smith, Addison D.


916


Smith, Alfred Z.


240


Smith, Alva H.


377


Smith, Charles N.


898


Smith, Commander Charles E., U. S. N.


95


Smith, Elmer H.


587


Smith, Eugene D.


195


Smith, Florance R. 758


Smith, Harry D.


299


Smith, Judge Horace L.


19


Smith, Isaac


328


Smith, John


625


Smith, John W.


705


Smith, Milton A.


673


Smith, Oscar L.


747


Smith, Raymond W., M. D.


895


Smith, William M.


946


Snively, Aaron D.


749


Spahr, Daniel O.


889


Spahr, David E., M. D. 742


Spahr, John C.


586


Spahr, Leander


814


Spahr, Oliver M.


397


Spahr, Samuel M.


600


1


Sparrow, Richard


691


Spencer, Charles L.


92


Spencer, Elmer E.


620


St. John, Charles W.


642


St. John, John W.


490


St. John, Ulysses S. G.


350


Stake, John


511


Steel, Warren B.


560


Steinkamp, Rev. George J. 140


Sterrett, William R.


700


Stevenson, Charles T.


830


Stevenson, Thomas S.


465


Steward, Rev. Theophilus G.


968


Steward, S. Maria, M. D.


968


Stewart, Daniel McM.


80


Stewart, Perry M.


224


Stiles, George H.


663


Stiles, George M.


141


Sutton, William C.


829


Sweeney, Z. T.


860


T


Talbert, Rev. Horace, M. A., D. D ._ 980


Tarbox. William J.


214


Taylor, Charles F.


171


Taylor, Leigh A.


239


Taylor, Oakey C.


753


Taylor, William G.


683


Thomas, Benjamin F.


86


Thomas, Francis M.


373


Thompson, Charles


794


Thuma. John A.


614


Tibbs, John A.


838


Tidd, James M.


888


Tindall, Thomas H.


926


Tobias, Andrew J.


643


Tobias, Orville D.


821


Tobias, William A.


640


Torrence, Findley D. 20


Townsley, Frank


910


Townsley, Harry S.


712


Townsley, Jesse C.


481


Tranchant, Frank A.


270


Treharne, Thomas W., M. D.


751


Trollinger, James


L. G.


56


Truman, Elam L.


282


Turnbull, Frank B. 694


Turnbull, John E.


861


Turnbull, John, M. D.


574


Turnbull, William A.


873


Turner, David E.


362


Turner, John J.


973


Turner, John S.


727


V


Vandeman, Adelbert N., M. D


922


Volkenand, George H.


396


Volkenand, Herman H.


865


W


Wade, Seymour


885


Walker, Frank W.


194


BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.


Walker, Leonidas C., M. D 835


Walton, Capt. Moses 302


Warner, George W. 60


Warner, John G. 800


Watt, Robert C.


493


Wead, Ralph O.


441


Weaver, Charles A.


850


Weeks, Horace S.


864


Weiss, Paul W.


417


Welch, Lorenzo D.


510


Weller, Allen E.


580


Wenrick, Rev. Alva D 807


Whaley, John J.


603


White, Andrew H.


244


Whiteker, William W. 576


Whitmer, Charles W. 42


Whitmer, George W. 199


Wildman, Arthur E,


648


Williams, Guy M.


744


Williams, Rev. John P.


920


Williamson, D. 'Walker


745


Williamson, David S.


484


Williamson, John C.


272


Williamson, Robert D.


48


Williamson, Samuel K.


308


Wilson, Col. Joseph E. 431


Wilson, Lawrence D. 718


Wing, Edwin W. 839


Winter, Andrew, M. D. 226


Witham, John N. 137


Wolf, Benjamin 599


Wolf, Charles K. 615


Wolf, Daniel W. 774


Wolf, Jacob I.


796


Wolford, J. N. 439


Wolford, Otis T. 832


Woodard, Prof. Dudley W., Sc. M. 967


Woolsey, Ida C., M. D 84


Wright, Stephen C.


166


Y


Young, Col. Charles, U. S. A


948


Z


Zeiner, Frank


602


Zeller, Christian M., D. D. S. 424


Zimmerman, Cornelius


688


Zimmerman, John F.


264


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BIOGRAPHICAL


CAPT. ROBERT LYTLE.


The late Capt. Robert Lytle, who died at his home in Xenia in the sum- mer of 1907 and who for years was prominently identified with the business life of his home city, particularly well known in local banking circles, left many friends in Greene county who will appreciate the preservation of some- thing of a biographical character respecting their old friend in this definite record and history of the county in which he had spent the most of his life and in which he was so well and so favorably known.


Robert Lytle was a native of the old Keystone state, born in Huntington county, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1834, a son of James and Frances (Smart) Lytle, also natives of Pennsylvania, who came with their family to Ohio in the early '40s and settled on a farm in Cedarville township, this county, where they spent the remainder of their lives. James Lytle was seventy-three years of age at the time of his death. His wife lived to the age of seventy. They were the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this memorial sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being the following: John, deceased, who was engaged in the shoe-manufacturing business at Dayton; David, also now deceased, wlio for some time was engaged in the shoe busi- ness with his brother John at Dayton and later went to Cincinnati, where he became engaged in the same business in association with his younger brother Patterson, the latter of whom died in 1915, and Frances (Mrs. McKee), who is living at Beaver, Pennsylvania.


Having been but eight or nine years of age when he came with his parents from Pennsylvania to this county, Robert Lytle grew up on the home farm in Cedarville township and early turned his attention to commercial pursuits, when eighteen or nineteen years of age becoming employed as a clerk in the dry-goods store of J. C. McMillan & Company at Xenia and was thus en- gaged at the time of the breaking out of the Civil War. He enlisted his services in behalf of the Union and was elected captain of Company D, Twelfth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served until mustered out at Columbus in September, 1863, after which he returned to Xenia and resumed his place in the commercial life of that city. In 1864 Captain Lytle became employed as teller in the old Allen bank, at the south- west corner of Detroit and Main streets, and afterward was promoted to the


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position of cashier of that institution. Later he transferred his services to the Second National Bank of Xenia and was cashier of that institution when it closed its doors in 1888, after which he became engaged in the local real- estate, loan and insurance business and so continued until the time of his death, although during the later years of his life he had been living in prac- tical retirement from business cares. Captain Lytle was noted for his good- ness of heart and his generosity toward those who were in need of help and many a young man who was getting a start in life in this county during the period of the Captain's business activities had cause for gratitude for his kindly assistance and helpful advice. Besides his interest in banking affairs, Captain Lytle had other business connections; was a member of the board of directors of the cordage manufacturing concern which afterward was taken over by the Kelly concern, and was also for years the secretary of the Peoples Building and Savings Company at Xenia. He was a Republican and was an active member of Lewis Post No. 347, Grand Army of the Re- public, in the affairs of which patriotic organization he ever took a warm interest. He was a member of the Second United Presbyterian church of Xenia, as is his widow. Captain Lytle died at his home in Xenia on June 9, 1907, and there was sincere mourning in the large circle of his friends throughout this county.


On January 12, 1881, Capt. Robert Lytle was united in marriage to Elizabeth Monroe, who survives him and who is still living in the house in which she was born, at 218 East Main street, Xenia, the old home of her father. Mrs. Lytle is a member of one of the pioneer families of Greene county, the Monroes, who came from Scotland, having settled here in the year 1818. She is a daughter of George and Martha (Cunningham) Mon- roe, the former of whom was born in the village of Cooper Angus, in Scot- land, and who was but thirteen years of age when he came to this country with his parents, David and Barbara Monroe, the family settling in Greene county, which by that time had become one of the most influential centers of the old Scotch Seceder, or Associate, church in America, of which church the Monroes were ardent adherents. After the union of the Associate and Associate Reform church, which union effected the organization of the United Presbyterian church, the Monroes continued adherents of this latter church and so remain. David Monroe, the pioneer, was a wheelwright and was from the very beginning of his residence in Xenia regarded as -one of the influential residents of that city. He had a fine house on East Market street and he and his family were among the leaders in the early social life of the city. He and his wife were the parents of five children, those besides Mrs. Lytle's father having been Margaret, William, James, who became a furniture dealer in Xenia, and Mary Ann, who married John Moore, a merchant tailor of that city.


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George Monroe grew to manhood in Xenia and presently became asso- ciated with his brother James in the furniture business in that city, the firm operating a furniture factory on South Collier street and conducting a retail furniture store on East Main street, and he continued engaged in that busi- ness until his retirement. He and his wife were members of the United Presbyterian church and their children were reared in the rigid tenets of that faith. There were four of these children, of whom Mrs. Lytle was the third in order of birth, the others being as follows: Anna, deceased, who was the wife of the Rev. James Witherspoon, a minister at Allegheny City, . Pennsylvania; Mary Belle, who married James B. Watt, of Chicago, and who died leaving two children; and David, who died during the days of his young manhood. As noted above, Mrs. Lytle continues to make her home in the old brick house on East Main street in which she was born. During the year 1913 she and three other ladies from Xenia spent the year in Paris and Scot- land.


JUDGE HORACE LEE SMITH.


The Hon. Horace Lee Smith, former judge of the court of common pleas of the third subdivision of the second judicial district of Ohio and a member of the Greene county bar, with offices at Xenia since the spring of 1875, is a native son of Ohio, born at Loganville, in Logan county, August 28, 1853, son of Dr. Clinton and Mary (Davidson) Smith, the former of whom was born in Dublin, in Franklin county, this state, and the latter at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In 1855 Dr. Clinton Smith moved with his family from Loganville to Bloomingburg, in the neighboring county of Fayette, where he continued engaged in the practice of his profession the rest of his life, his death occurring there on November 9, 1879. His widow survived him for twenty-seven years, her death occurring in 1906. They were the parents of three children, the subject of this review having a brother. Dr. Homer Smith, of Westerville, and Dr. Eva Smith, of Middletown.


Having been but two years of age when his parents moved from Logan- ville to Bloomingburg, Horace L. Smith was reared in the latter village and there received his early schooling, later entering Bloomingburg Academy, where he prepared for entrance at Wooster University, from which he was graduated in June. 1872, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then en- tered the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and was graduated from that institution in March, 1875, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In April of that same year he was admitted to practice by the supreme court of the state of Ohio and straightway afterward opened an office for the practice of his profession at Xenia, where he ever since has


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made his residence. In the fall of 1888, as the nominee of the Republican party, Judge Smith was elected judge of the court of common pleas of the third subdivision of the second judicial district of the state of Ohio and in the following February ascended the bench, occupying the same, by re-elec- tion, until February 9, 1899, a period of ten years. Upon the completion of this term of service Judge Smith resumed practice at Xenia and has so con- tinued, though of late years he has sought to confine his personal practice chiefly to taking care of the needs of his old clients, the general practice of the office being looked after largely by his son, Harry Smith, who for some time has been associated with his father in the practice of his profession at Xenia, under the firm name of Smith & Smith, and who now occupies the official position of prosecuting attorney for Greene county.


Judge Smith has been twice married. In April, 1875, the month in which he was admitted to practice, he was united in marriage, at Blooming- burg, to Mary A. Jones, of that place, who died in 1885, leaving two sons, Harry, mentioned above, who was elected prosecuting attorney for Greene county in 1916, and Charles Earl, now a commander in the United States navy and further and fitting mention of whom is made elsewhere. Besides these two sons there were born to that union a son and a daughter who died in infancy. In January, 1887, Judge Smith married Mrs. May Loughry, a daughter of John Orr, who for eighteen years was clerk of the court of common pleas. During the period of raising the second Liberty Loan in the fall of 1917 Judge Smith had charge of Greene county's par- ticipation in that patriotic "drive."


FINDLEY DAVID TORRENCE.


One of the most prominent business men of a past generation in Xenia was the late Findley D. Torrence, a resident of Xenia from the time of his birth, August 1, 1842, until his death, June 24, 1916. His whole career of seventy-four years was spent in the city, and for half a century he was connected with its business, social, religious and political life in such a way as to stamp him as a man of more than ordinary ability. It is to such sub- stantial men that Xenia owes its present growth in all lines of civic activity, in all avenues of business endeavor, in the various phases of community life which go to make up the life of a city. Hence it seems fitting to present in this history of the county, the place where his whole life was spent, the main facts concerning his career. A brief summary of his ancestry is first given. He was born of parents who had been residents of the county for nearly forty years; his father, David Torrence, was born in Kentucky in


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1804 and came to Greene county with his parents the following year. His mother was born in 1816 in Clark county, Ohio.




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