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The parents of Mr. Griest were born
and reared in York County Pennsylvania, where they were married in 1828, im- mediately coming to Clark County, Ohio, and settling in German Township, but they occupied two other farms before lo- cating on the one which Nathan Griest now owns. They were people known for their worth and they lived in peace and good fellowship with their neighbors for many years, and finally died on this farm. They had seven children, five of whom grew to maturity, the two survivors be- ing: Nathan and Isaac.
Nathan Griest obtained his education in the district schools and from boyhood has been accustomed to an agricultural life. With his two sons he is engaged in general farming and in truck gardening.
Mr. Griest is a veteran of the Civil War, enlisting in February, 1864, in Com- pany F, Eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. The larger part of his service was in West Virginia and he was made a prisoner at Beverly, in that state, and confined for a month in Libby Prison. He was fortunately then exchanged, rejoined his company and was mustered out at the close of the war, at Clarksburg, Virginia. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Mr. Griest was married (first) to Har- riet Amelia Callison, who died six months later, in the spring of 1860. He was mar- ried (secondly), in November, 1867, to Emeline Getz and they have had nine chil- dren, namely: Edward C., who is de- ceased: Mary Belle, deceased, who mar- ried David M. Haulman and left two chil- dren, Alma and Orrin W., both of whom live with their grandfather, Mr. Griest; Cora, who married Samuel E. Callison; Effie Ellen, who married Silas Horton;
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Forrest ; Clarence D., who married Pearl Ballentine and resides in German Town- ship; Minnie, who married Charles Kib- linger; Esther Blanche, who married Scott Kiblinger; and Cyrus, who is a student in the Lawrenceville High School.
WILLIAM J. GRAM, a well known general farmer and dairyman of Spring- field Township, Clark County, Ohio, re- siding on a farm of fifty acres, situated about three miles south of the city, on the Possum road, was born November 13, 1855, on the old Gram farm just sonth of Leffel Lane, and is a son of Jacob and Isabella (Dory) Gram.
who is a resident of Springfield, Ohio. Jacob Gram and wife first went to house- keeping on the old Gram farm, moving in 1857 to the farm on which William J. now resides, which then contained eighty acres. They subsequently removed to Springfield and built a home on Grand Avenue, where the mother died in Janu- ary, 1890. Jacob then came to live with his son William J. He died April 3, 1894, while on a visit at the home of his son Charles, who then resided in Green Township.
William Gram was reared on his pres- ent farm and received his schooling at the Possum school. He has always fol- lowed farming and for twelve years also operated a dairy, recently having sold his ronte to his son George. He usually keeps ahont fifteen head of cattle.
Jacob Gram was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was a son of Cornelius Gram. When about seventeen Mr. Gram was married October 28, 1880, to Mattie Otstot, who was reared in Springfield, Ohio, and is a daughter of Adam Hunter and Sarah (Parsons) Otstot. Adam Hunter Otstot, who is now deceased, was born in March, 1827, in Pennsylvania, and was a carpenter by trade. His widow and one son, L. Burt Otstot, reside in Santa Ana, California. years old, Jacob Gram came to Clark County with his father, who bought a farm of three hundred and twenty acres running a mile north and south, and a half a mile east and west. Cornelius oper- ated a distillery for some time. The fam- ity lived first in a log house, but later a brick house was erected, which has been torn down. Jacob Gram married Isabella Mr. and Mrs. Gram have had eight chil- dreu, seven of whom are still living, name- ly: Robert C., resides in Santa Ana, California, where he is employed in a drug store: Dola, married Walter Min- nich of Springfield Township, and has two children, Ralph, and Robert; George W., married Emma Deeter of Pleasant Hill, Ohio, and has one child, William; Lewis Jacob. married Mabel E. Patten and resides in Springfield; Burt, married Ethel Celeste Woosley, on November 20, Dory, who was born in Cincinnati, a daughter of James Dory, who was a na- tive of England, and a gardner by occupa- tion. When a babe her parents moved to Springfield, where her father ran a garden on Grand Avenne, that section now being known as the Dory Addition. Jacob and Isabella Gram had four children: Will- iam J .: Harriet Elizabeth, who married S. C. Rebert of Springfield; Martha C., who married Oliver HI. Leffel of Green Township. Clark County: and Charles J., 1907: Isabella, who attends High School
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at Springfield; and Marian, who attends in Green Township, Clark County, which the Possom school of this Township.
Mr. Gram and family are members of the Third Lutheran Church.
WILLIAM W. REYNOLDS, residing in Section 1, Springfield Township, where he operates a fine farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres, is a representative citizen of this neighborhood. He was born in Green Township, Clark County, Ohio, August 20, 1846, and is a son of Henry and Julia Ann (MeKinney) Reynolds.
The first member of the Reynolds fam- ily that appears to have come to Clark County, from Virginia, was James Reyn- olds, who was a brother of William Reyn- olds, the latter being the grandfather of William W. James Reynolds settled in Harmony Township, not far from Platts- hurg, probably some years prior to Christmas Day, 1826, when William Reynolds reached the same place. He lived for one year in Harmony Township and then moved to Green Township, where he bought the farm on which his grand- son, William W., was born. His family consisted of his wife and children, to- gether with his aged mother.
Henry Reynolds was born in Virginia and was almost eleven years old when the family came to Clark County, December 25, 1826, his birth having been in Jann- ary, 1816. He married Julia Am Me- Kinney, who was born and reared in Clark County, where she died September 24, 1878. Her father, John MeKinney, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylva- nia, and came to Ohio in young manhood. He was married near Dayton, where he lived for a time, and then bought a farm
he owned at the time of his death. Henry Reynolds and wife had the following chil- dren: Nancy, deceased, was the wife of John Warren; Olive is the widow of Thomas Hill and lives in Kansas; William W .; John H. resides in German Town- ship, Clark County; Elizabeth, residing with her brother, William W., owns a part of the home farm; and Rachel Jane, who married James P. Titus, resides in Springfield Township.
In October, 1850, Henry Reynolds and ยท family moved to the farm Mr. Reynolds now occupies, having purchased it in 1845, from Dr. Samuel Canada, who had entered the land. In 1865 Henry Reynolds built the large, handsome brick house, making the brick on his own farin with his own hands. He died July 6, 1884.
William W. Reynolds was four years old when his parents came to the present farm and he remained on the home place until the year 1869, when he made a trip to Illinois, where he spent one year. He then returned to Clark County, and on March 30, 1876, he was married to Mary A. Pilcher, who was reared in Green Township and is a daughter of Jonathan and Margaret Ann (Elwell) Pilcher. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds have had seven chil- dren, all of whom survive except the old- est. William, who died aged seven months. The others are: Ralph Carey, residing in Springfield, a moulder, married Grace Zimmerman, and they have two children, Mary Elizabeth and Margaret Jeanette; and John Henry, Hortense, Laura Eliza- beth, Rachel Evelyn and James Olin El- well, all residing at home.
After marriage, William W. Reynolds and wife lived for two years in Harmony
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Township and then moved for one year to Green Township, and from there to Marion County, where they remained for two years, at the end of which time they came back to Clark County. They lived in this county for the following six years and then moved to Logan County in 1888, and in the following year to Putnam County, Ohio, for a short time, but No- vember, 1889, found them in Minnesota, where they resided until April, 1894, when they returned to Clark County and spent two years in Green Township, two years in Moorefield Township and two years in Mad River Township, and settled on the present farm in 1900.
JAMES N. HAUK, residing on his fine farm which contains 500 acres, situated in Madison Township, is one of the rep- resentative men of this section. He was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, June 22, 1845, and is a son of Columbus B. and Johanna (Norton) Hauk. The maternal grand- father, Elijah Norton, was one of the earliest settlers at Cincinnati, a cotem- porary and friend of the first Nicholas Longworth. Mr. Norton was a progres- sive man. He built one of the first ice cel- lars at Cincinnati, and engaged in the ice industry.
Columbus B. Hauk, father of James N., was born at Athens, Ohio, and was reared on the farm which is now the site of the Children's Home. He spent thirty years of his life on the river and was known to river men from Pittsburg to New Orleans. In 1865 he bought a farm near South Charleston, Clark County. He married Johanna Norton, who was born at Cincinnati, and they had three sons and
one daughter, namely : James N .; Charles D., who is a university graduate, formerly was in business at Springfield, but is now residing on a farm at Bemis Point, New York; Mary Ella, who married Gomer E. Hiley, resides at Chicago; and Harry, who is in business at Jackson, Michigan.
James N. Hauk was seventeen years of age when he entered the Federal Army in which he served through the war and was honorably discharged in 1865. He was a member of the Seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and took part in many of the most important battles of the war, fighting at Nashville and Franklin and participating in the whole Atlanta cam- paign. After his return from the army, Mr. Hauk was married to Catherine Com- rie and they settled on a farm of 160 acres given Mrs. Hauk by her father, this being the nucleus of the large property they now own, having gradually added to it by hard work and good management. The father of Mrs. Hauk was William Comrie, who was born in Scotland. When Mr. and Mrs. Hauk came to this farm the only cleared part was the spot on which the old house, still standing, not far from the present commodious residence, had been erected. Mr. Hauk cleared the whole place and has made all the improvements. Mr. and Mrs. Hauk have had four chil- dren. the two survivors being, William Comrie and Elizabeth S., both residing at home. They belong to the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Hauk is a Republican.
JESSE IRVIN MAXSON, a prominent citizen of Pike Township. Clark County, Ohio, and owner of eighty-four and one- half acres of farm land, located about fif-
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teen miles northwest of Springfield, was born December 31, 1854, in Champaign County, Ohio, and is a son of Joseph and Lovitha (Carmen) Maxson and a grand- son of Cornelius and Mattie (Sills) Max- son.
Joseph Maxson, father, was born in In- diana, in October, 1830, and after the death of his father, which occurred when he was but a lad, his mother moved with her children to Champaign County, Ohio, and lived with her father on a farm sit- uated one-half mile south of Christians- burg. Joseph Maxson was reared on this farm and followed agricultural pursuits through his subsequent life. Several years after his marriage he rented a farm in Champaign County, from which he moved to Jay County, Indiana, where he purchased a farm of eighty acres and died there aged sixty-nine years. He married Lovitha Carmen, a daughter of Benjamin Carmen and wife, who came from Mary- land to Ohio and settled in the wilds of Clark County. Lovitha was the young- est of a large family of children born to her parents and died in March, 1906, aged eighty-eight years. Three children were born to Joseph and Lovitha Maxson: Jesse Irvin; and William and Benjamin, both of whom reside in Jay County, In- diana.
Jesse I. Maxson was born on his fath- er's farm in Champaign County, in a one- room log cabin, which had a stick chim- ney covered with mud. At that time but few public improvements had been made, bridges had not even been built across the creeks, and settlers were few. Ilere Mr. Maxson was reared and what schooling he received was obtained at the old Honey Creek district school, which he recalls was
taught by Carry Lynn. The greater part of his time was given to farm work. After his marriage, he moved to Jay County, Indiana, where he engaged in farming for ten years, then returned to the home farm in Champaign County for two years. He next rented the Peter Studebaker farm, in Clark County, which he operated for ten years and also owned, in partnership with Mr. Studebaker, a tract of sixty acres, known as the John Bright place, which he cultivated in connection with the Studebaker farm. On July 28, 1907, he sold his interest in this land and bought his present farm of eighty-four and one- half acres, from Susan Black. All of the large buildings on the place were here at the time of his purchase.
On October 19, 1876, Mr. Maxson was united in marriage with Ada Davis, who was born in Champaign County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Ananias and Phoebe (Sutton) Davis, both of whom died in Champaign County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Davis were the parents of nine children: Jane, who married Lewis Ray, both de- ceased; Lydia, who is the widow of A. Rust; Charity, who is the widow of David Beaty; David, deceased; Lida, deceased, who was the wife of Adam Bright; and Jasper Newton, Ada, Albert, and Jerry. Mr. and Mrs. Maxson are the parents of five children: Ernest, who lives at home; Joseph Orva, residing in Pike Township, married Daisy Etchens, and they have four children, Lewis, Glenna, Ethel, and Paul; Walter W., who lives in Pike Town- ship, married Blanche Mumphert; Harry H., residing at home, teaches school and conducts a store in partnership with Em- ery Thackery ; and William, who also lives
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at home. Mr. Maxson is a Democrat in raising poultry and has many very fine politics and has served as a school di- specimens of the Plymouth Roek variety. rector.
ELI FRANCIS McCLINTICK, car- peuter, contractor and general farmer, residing on his father's farm of fifty acres, is one of the well-known and re- spected citizens of Pleasant Township. He was born in Ohio, September 12, 1853, and is a son of William and Eliza Jane (Runyan) MeClintick, and a grandson of Alexander MeClintiek, who came to Amer- ica from Ireland.
William McClintiek, father of Eli F., was born October 11, 1827, and resides with his wife at London, Ohio. His wife, Eliza Jane Runyan, who was born Octo- ber 2, 1836, is a daughter of David Run- yan, an old resident of Clark County. They had three children, namely: Eli F., subject of this sketch; James H., who was born in 1856 and now residing in Madison County, was married, first, to Ida Mitchell, and, secondly, to Lida Bland, his two children, Lella and Carrie, being by the first union ; Isaiah C., born in 1859, who died in 1883, married Ida Miller, who survives him and resides in the West.
Eli F. MeClintick learned the carpen- ter's trade with Edward Edwards, at South Charleston, beginning his appren- ticeship in March, 1876, and serving three years. He has been engaged in contraet- ing for a number of years and has erected many of the best residences in Clark and Madison Counties. For the past seven- teen years he has resided on his father's farm, the latter having retired to London. He makes something of a specialty of Russell.
Mr. MeClintick was married, first. De- cember 28, 1876, to Alice Wilkinson, who died October 16, 1896. She was a daugh- ter of Wesley and Martha Wilkinson. They had three children, namely: Dora F., born September 19, 1878, who mar- ried M. Dye, of Champaign County and has two children-Paul and Leroy; Carl, born February 7, 1884, who resides at Springfield; and Bessie Carrie, who was born April 12. 1887. On December 1, 1897, Mr. MeClintick married, for his sec- ond wife, Alice A. Curl, who is a daugh- ter of John and Tilitha (Longbrake) Curl. The father of Mrs. McClintick was born in 1847 and died in 1896. In 1871 he was married to Tilitha Longbrake, who was born in 1847 and died in 1881. They had five children-Venilla, who died when an infant, Alice A., Charles, George and Marion.
Mr. MeClintick is a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanies and is connected with Lodge No. 167, at Catawba, of which he is a trustee. He is also a member of the Junior Post As- sociation, which is a higher branch of the former organization and has served in all of the ofices in this body.
HUGH RUSSELL, who has been a prominent business man and citizen of Springfield, Ohio, sinee 1867, former- ly head of the firm of Russell Bros., one of the oldest and most reputable contract- ing firms in the city, was born in Cree- town, Scotland, January 12, 1846, and is a son of Hugh and Elizabeth (Conning)
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Hugh Russell, Sr., moved with his fam- ily to the United States in 1866, having been preceded to this country some five years by two of his sons, Anthony C. and William. He located first at Xenia, Ohio, and later at Springfield, where he died on October 3, 1902. His wife died in 1898. They were parents of seven children. An- thony C .. who for many years was asso- ciated with his brother Hugh as a mem- ber of the firm of Russell Bros., was born in Galloway, Scotland, in 1844, and came to the United States in 1861 with his brother William. On October 3, 1862, he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Tenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infan- try, as a private, and served until May 16, 1865, participating in many of the hottest engagements of the war, among them the battle of the Wilderness, in which he was severely wounded. Febru- ary 15, 1883, he became a member of Mitchell Post, G. A. R. His death oc- curred July 7, 1901, at the age of fifty- seven years. William, the second son of Hugh and Elizabeth Russell, also enlisted in the army and, it is presumed, was killed in battle, as he never returned. Hugh was the third of this family. James and Michael live in Springfield. Mrs. William McCullongh, a danghter, resides in Springfield, and Mrs. Andrew Burnett, deceased, was a resident of Wichita Falls, Texas.
Hugh Russell, Jr., spent his boyhood in his native land, but at an early age left school to follow a sea-faring life. He continued on the water four years, then returned home and became apprenticed to a stonecutter at Creetown. He was twenty years of age when he accom- panied his parents to the United States
and with them located at Xenia, Ohio, where he followed his trade. He subse- quently went to Lima, Ohio, where he as- sisted in the construction of the jail, and in 1867 moved to Springfield, Ohio. Here he formed a partnership with William Mowett, under the firm name of Russell & Mowett, and engaged in stone contract- ing. After one year Mr. Mowett was sue- ceeded in the firm by Hugh Russell, Sr., and later Anthony C. Russell became a member of the firm, which for a period of ten years was known by the title of Rus- sell & Sons. Mr. Russell, Sr., then retired and the style and title became Russell Bros., which continued until 1903, when our subject continued under his own name, Hugh Russell. The business prospered and continued without interruption until in April, 1898, when Mr. Russell was elected to the board of public service in Springfield, necessitating his entire time to be devoted to the discharge of his pub- lic duties. However, upon the death of his brother in 1901, he resumed charge of the business of Russell Bros., as his term of four years in office had nearly expired. The firm has done an extensive business in stone work and is a pioneer one in cement work. Mr. Russell has been em- ployed in the construction of many churches, school-honses, public buildings and residences throughout this section of the State, and the character of the work has been such as to give the firm an en- viable reputation.
In 1879, Hugh Russell was joined in marriage with Miss Helen Sheets, a native of Delaware County, Ohio, and a daugh- ter of Daniel and Malinda (Lake) Sheets, who were farmers. They have five chil- dren, as follows: John Sherman, who is
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now identified with the business of Hugh Russell, his father, was for a time en- gaged as bookkeeper at Jamestown, N. Y., and also served in the Spanish-American War; Anna W., who is the wife of Byron W. Riffell of Springfield; Carrie S .; Ella S .; and Earl S., the latter of whom died at the age of eight years. Mr. Russell is a member of the Free Presbyterian Church, has served on the board of trus- tees many years and is at present a dea- con. While on a visit to Scotland in 1874 he was made a Master Mason, and at the present time is a member of Anthony Lodge No. 455, F. & A. M .; Springfield Chapter No. 48, R. A. M .; Springfield Council No. 17, R. & S. M .; Palestine Commandery No. 33, Springfield. With Mrs. Russell he has made six voyages to the old country, and in February, 1908, visited his mother lodge in Scotland, where he spent seven weeks, going over on the Muritania and returning on the Lusi- tania.
JACOB VOLLMER, one of Harmony , prisons, and, a mere shadow of himself, Township's leading citizens, the owner of forty-eight acres of excellent land near Harmony and also of town property, has been engaged in farming and wagon-mak- ing in this vicinity since the close of the Civil War, in which he earned the title of veteran soldier. Mr. Vollmer was born December 11. 1840. and is a son of John and Susanna (Eberle) Vollmer.
The grandparents of Mr. Vollmer lived ont their lives in Germany. His father. John Vollmer. was born in Germany in 1800 and died in Clark County, Ohio, in 1876. He came to America in 1828 and resided in Pennsylvania until 1835, when
he settled in Springfield, Ohio. Here he remained a few years and then moved to Zanesville, Ohio, and resided there until 1851, when he returned to Clark County, where he died. A brother, Andrew, and a sister, Maria, came also to America, but after staying a short time, returned to their native land. In 1830, John Vollmer married Susanna Eberle, who lived in the city of Reading, Pennsylvania, and they had nine children born to them, the earlier ones dying in infancy. Those who sur- vived were the following: John, born in 1833, resides in Clark County; George, born in 1837, died in 1864; JJacob, subject of this sketch; Mary, born in 1844, mar- ried Sigmond Kember, residing in Clark County, and they have four children; and Amelia, born in 1849, married Frederick Fiosel, residing in Clark County and they have six children.
Jacob Vollmer was a sturdy young man of twenty-two years when he entered the army in 1862 and was broken down in health, with a body racked with pain when he escaped the tortures of the southern
crept back to those who loved him. From these hardships he has never entirely re- covered. In 1862, at Springfield, Ohio, he enlisted in Company A, Ninety-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and took his part in all the battles and marches of his regiment. courageously performing all the duties of a soldier. In September, 1863, at the terrible battle of Chickamauga, he was captured by the Confederates and from that time until April 28, 1865, he remained a prisoner of war. He was taken first to Belle Isle. where he was confined for two weeks, he- ing transferred from there to Libby
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Prison, Richmond, where he was in- Savannah and kept in a stockade there until December, when he was removed to Camp, Lawton, farther in the interior where he was kept for a short time. When General Sherman's forces had ap- proached that point, the prisoners were hurried to Thomasville, Georgia, near the present fashionable winter resort, and were concealed in the woods for a few weeks, after which they were marched fifty-six miles to a railroad that ran to Andersonville and they arrived there on Christmas day, 1864. In that place Mr. Volhner was confined until the following April. All the prisoners who were left, were then taken to Florida, and there turned loose. During the larger part of this time of hardships, Mr. Vollmer was sick and it is no wonder that he still feels the effects of those dreadful years. After finding themselves free, the Federal sol- diers hastened as fast as their enfeebled condition would permit, to the nearest Union forces at Jacksonville. There they shipped on a steamer that con- veyed them to Annapolis, Maryland, and from there Mr. Vollmer soon reached Columbus, where he was discharged. troduced to hardships and to surround- ings that the young man had never im- agined in all his free young life before. In spite of the chill weather, the prisoners slept unprotected on the ground, with scarcely any food provided, and from there they were taken to quarters just as bad at Danville, Virginia. In the dungeon where the Federal prisoners were herded, some of the Germans had been ingenious enough to discover the possibility of mak- ing a tunnel by which they could hope to reach liberty. Only German prisoners had the confidence of the workers and Mr. Vollmer was made a guard for the work. Of its difficulties and dangers no one could have a conception unless he was permitted to hear the story from the lips of a participant, hut it may be here briefly stated that the tunnel was successfully bored and through it sixty-two imprisoned men escaped. It is sad to have to relate that very few of them succeeded in reach- ing liberty and Mr. Vollmer, with three companions, were recaptured two weeks later. They had been succored by the negroes, but in spite of this, and their own efforts, in their exhausted condition After the close of his military service Mr. Vollmer returned to his home in Clark Conty and in 1866 he located on his pres- ent property. By trade he is a wagon- maker and this industry he continues to be engaged in together with general farm- ing. He is considered one of the town- ship's substantial citizens. He has al- ways taken considerable interest in pub- lie matters since permanently locating in Harmony Township and has been elected to office on numerous occasions-on the Democratic ticket to the office of town- they were unable to escape their enemies and they were recaptured and taken back to prison to Richmond. In the latter part of February, they were introduced to the kind of treatment accorded the unfortun- ates who were sent to Andersonville, which celebrated prison was not entirely completed when Mr. Vollmer and his com- rades were placed within its stockade. When General Sherman was on his vic- torious march to the sea, in the follow- ing September, Mr. Vollmer and his un- fortunate companions were taken to ship trustee-and has a record of being
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