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ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 02395 1939
Gc 977.101 G83h v.2 1324582
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
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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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