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GEORGE DEAN, one of Harmony Township's best-known citizens, residing on his well-cultivated farm of twenty-one
and a half aeres, was born in New Jersey, April 11, 1847, and is a son of Alexander and Ellen ( Robbins) Dean, and a grand- son of Alexander and Lydia Dean.
The Dean family came to Clark County in 1859. There were nine children born to the parents of George Dean, as fol- lows: Clorinda, Lydia, William, Mary, Charlotta, Rachel, George, Alice and Emeline. Clorinda married Edward Shreeves and they had five children. Lydia married Thomas Way and they had three children. William married Sarah Hahnley, who at death left a family of children. Charlotta is the widow of John Smith and the mother of seven chil- dren. Rachel, deceased, is survived by her husband, Bruce Reese, and several children. Mary married Harry Walker and they have twelve children. Alice married James Todd. Emeline married John Thompson and they have five chil- dren.
George Dean was twelve years old when his parents came to Clark County and here he obtained his education. In 1906 he purchased his present property. In 1874 he was married in Clark County to Phebe Hatfield and they have two chil- dren, namely: John H., who was born October 12. 1876, resides in Oregon; and E. Lnella, who was born in 1880. In 1904 she was married to Thomas N. Jones.
Mrs. Dean was born in Clark County, Ohio, Angust 11, 1843, and is a daughter of John and Eva (Garlough) Hatfield. John Hatfield was born April 3, 1798. and died June 16. 1883. His wife was born January 24, 1801, and died June 25, 18$1. They were married in 1821 and had the following children: John G., Samnel C ..
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James T., Margaret, Nathaniel, William, ship, Clark Connty, Ohio, is a well known Nancy, Mary E., Martin, Augustus, resident of Dialton, where he has lived for the past thirteen years. He comes of an old established family in America, both paternal and maternal ancestors having come to this country during Colo- nial days. He was born on the home farm in Warren County, Ohio, July 4, 1856, and is a son of William and Julia Ann (Ford) Penquite, and a grandson of James and Elizabeth ( Urton) Penquite. Michael and Phebe. John G. Hatfield was born in 1821 and died February 15, 1908. He married Anna Strong and they had the following children: William, George, Martin, Jefferson, Malissa and Sarah E. Samuel, deceased, married Elizabeth Hause and they had children as follows: John. Frank, Scott, James, Sarah, Ida and Ella. Angustus Hatfield enlisted as a sharpshooter, in 1861, in the Sixty-sixth James Penquite was born October 7, 1782, in Virginia, to which place his father had come from England at a very early day. In the fall of 1816 he moved with his wife and two children to Warren County, Ohio, where he settled in the woods. He died there December 15, 1835. He was married to Elizabeth Urton, who was born in Virginia, January 9, 1787, and died in Warren County, Ohio, July 2, 1871. They had the following children: William. an unnamed infant, Nancy, John, Thomas, Andrew Jackson, Eliza- beth, James and Alexander, all now de- ceased. Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and remained in the service until he was innstered out at Springfield, Illinois, in 1865. He participated in many important battles, including Fort Donelson, Chatta- nooga, Shiloh, Lovejoy Station, and was with General Sherman's forces in the March on Atlanta and participated in the grand review at Washington City. Mar- tin Hatfield married Delilah Webb and they have two children, Frank and Charles. Michael Hatfield was also a soldier in the Civil War. He married Mary E. Carroll and they have two chil- dren, Naney Eva and Minnie. The other members of the family, with the exception of Mrs. Dean, died when young.
In 1864 Mr. Dean enlisted for service in the Civil War as a member of the Seven- ty-first Regiment, Ohio Volimteer In- fantry, and before he was discharged. in 1865. at San Antonio, Texas, he saw some very hard fighting, taking part in the bat- tles of Nashville and Franklin. He and his wife are members of the M. P. Church in Pitchin.
SAMUEL H. PENQUITE, proprietor of the Hill Top Stock Farm in Pike Town-
William Penquite was born in Shenan- doah County. Virginia, October 12, 1811, and was about five years of age when brought to Ohio by his parents, who lo- cated in Warren County at a time when the country was still wild. Deer and other wild game abounded, and were often seen from their cabin, which was erected in the woods. Being the eldest of the children, and left fatherless while still young, the burdens of the head of the house fell on his shoulders. He worked hard to clear up the farm, which he de- veloped into a good property, and resided in Warren County the remainder of his life. except the last two years, which were
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spent in Clarksville, Clinton County. He who was born in Virginia and was a was married April 18, 1839, to Julia Ann daughter of Elisha F. and Margaret (Me- Ford, who was born February 24, 1817, and was a daughter of Elijah and Jerusha (Kibby) Ford. Her mother was a dangh- ter of Captain Ephriam Kibby, the noted Indian fighter about Cincinnati, who was located at Ft. Washington during the war with the British. Mrs. Penquite died December 20, 1888, and was survived a few years by her husband, who died No- vember 4, 1891. Eleven children blessed their union : Frank, Jerusha, Nancy E., one who died in infancy, Jolin W., Nathaniel P. and Mary M., twins, Elijah F., Alexander M., Samuel H. and Anna M. The survivors are: Jerusha. John W., Samuel II. and Anna M. Elwee) Orndorff, both of Virginia. She died July 5, 1892, leaving a son. Pearl, who is a graduate of the Lawrenceville High School. Mr. Penquite was married (second) December 1, 1895, to Mrs. Emma Frances (Michael) Callison. She was born in Dialton and is a daughter of William and Catherine (Friermood) Michael, both natives of Clark County. William Michael was born October 2. 1828, and spent all but four and one-half years here, that time being passed in In- diana, and died in Clark County in 1885. He was married June 22, 1851, to Cathe- rine Friermood, who was born near Tre- mont City, Clark County, Ohio, and died at Dialton in 1900. They had but one child, Emma Frances. The latter was first married October 4, 1881, to George Callison, who died January 1, 1889, leav. ing two children: William C., who died at eighteen months, and Glenna C., wife of Earl D. Covell, a civil engineer in the service of the United States Government. who is stationed at Ft. Thomas, Ken- tueky.
Samuel H. Penquite was born on the home farm in Warren County and re- ceived a liberal education in the district school and through night study at home. He afterward tanght school for nine years in his home county. He then turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, at which he has made a success. In 1895 he moved to Dialton, Pike Township, where he and wife have twenty-five acres, which place is known as the Hill Top Stock Farm. Together they own 225 acres sit- nated in Pike Township, Clark County, and in Jackson Township, Champaign County. Mr. Penquite has raised stock extensively in the past, making a special- ty of Poland China hogs, He is a man with numerous other interests, being a notary public, a representative of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, and agent for monuments for D. M. Bunnell & Company, of Urbana.
On November 24. 1883, Mr. Penquite was married (first) to Matilda Orndorff, Prohibitionist.
Mr. and Mrs. Penquite are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which her father was a local preacher for many years, and of which Mr. Penquite is see- retary, treasurer and trustee. She is an active worker in the W. C. T. U. Fra- ternally, Mr. Penquite is a member of the Urbana Lodge No. 764, I. O. O. F .; Mad River Council No. 56, Junior Order United American Mechanics; Logan Castle No. 1, K. of G. E., at Springfield.
In his views on public matters, he is a
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HEZEKIAH R. GEIGER, PH. D., D. D.
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HEZEKIAH R. GEIGER, Ph. D., these being Rev. Andrew Geiger, who died D. D., was one of the founders of Wit- on Palm Sunday, 1905, at Kansas City, Missouri. tenberg College, at Springfield, a member of its first faculty, and for many years he was recognized not only as a power in the Lutheran Church, but as one of the leading men of literary and scientific at- tainment in Ohio.
Dr. Geiger was born January 10, 1820, at Greencastle, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and was a son of Henry and Julia (Rheubush) Geiger. Charles Geiger, the paternal grandfather of Dr. Geiger, was born in Germany and became a resident of Montgomery County, Penn- sylvania, in 1772. He served, from Phila- delphia, in the Revolutionary War.
Henry Geiger, father of Dr. Geiger, was born in 1789, in Montgomery County, where he resided until the War of 1812, when he joined General Scott's division, and participated in the battles of Chip- pewa Plains and Lundy's Lane. He was with Commodore Perry on Lake Erie, being aboard one of the ships which an- chored at Put-in-Bay, and assisted in burying the dead whose dust lies there. After an honorable discharge, Henry Gei- ger settled in Franklin County, Pennsyl- vania, where he remained until 1833, when he removed with his family to Columbiana County, Ohio. In 1834 he migrated to Holmes County, and in 1851 to Cham- paign County. He died at the home of his son in Springfield, in 1861.
In 1815 Henry Geiger married Julia Rhenbush, who was born and reared at Hagerstown, Maryland, and died in Cham- paign County, August 31, 1854. They had twelve children, eleven of whom were sons. Seven of the latter became eminent in professional life, the last survivor of
Dr. Hezekiah R. Geiger accompanied his parents to Ohio but completed his col- legiate course in the Pennsylvania Col- lege, in 1846. After coming to Spring- field, he became associated with Rev. Ezra Keller, D. D., and Michael Diehl, and they founded that institution of learning, Wit- tenberg College, which has since been an important adjunct of the Lutheran Church. He filled the chairs of Latin, natural science and mathematics in the new college during its earlier years, but subsequently confined his instruction to natural science alone, and from 1873 until his death, which occurred July 18, 1899, he remained interested in scientific inves- tigations. In 1882 he resigned his posi- tion as a member of the faculty at Witten- berg College, so as to have more time in which to pursue his favorite work. In 1874 he had visited the Pacific coast and the Sandwich Islands, as a scientist, and after accepting a position on the United States Geological Survey, in charge of the Blue Ridge Division, in 1883, he pursued his investigations through Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia, and through his careful, painstaking, thorough work, prepared data which have been the basis for subsequent geological work in these regions. He made many important liter- ary contributions to the secular, as well as religious press and ably edited the Lutheran Evangelist for a protracted period.
Dr. Geiger was married December 14. 1854, to Nancy Melvina Hartford, who was born in West Virginia, and who died September 30, 1900. She was a lady of
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high mental attainments and was well south of Lawrenceville, and is a son of qualified to be the companion of her William and Susanna (Baker) Xanders. learned husband. They had seven chil- William Xanders was born in German Township, Clark County, Ohio, May 7, 1824, and was a son of John and Magda- lena (Baker) Xanders, his father having come to Clark County at a very early period. Amid the hardships and trials of pioneer life, he grew to maturity, re- ceiving but a meager educational train- ing in the primitive schools of that period. After his marriage he rented a farm for a few years, and then, with the capital which had been acquired throngh the labors of himself and wife, 130 acres of land, upon which he thereafter made his home until his death, on January 4, 1878. A man of ability and good judgment, he acquired other properties, some of which he afterward sold, and at the time of his death owned 320 acres in Carter County. Missouri, which still remains in the fam- ily name. dren, namely : Alice M., who was the first woman graduated at Wittenberg College, completing the course in 1879; Charles A., who is manager of the Troy Wagon Works, at Troy, Ohio; Lizzie G., whose husband, A. D. Hosterman, is president and general manager of the Poultry Suc- cess Company and also conducts an in- surance business at Room 39, on the northi- west corner of Main and Limestone Streets, residing at No. 312 Woodlawn Avenue; Anna L., who is the wife of J. N. Garver, who is engaged in a real estate business at Springfield, residing at No. 206 Ferncliff avenue; Harry M., residing at Canton, Ohio; Ella L., who occupies the old family home, with her sister Alice, which was built in 1853 by their father, at No. 3 Ferncliff Avenue; and Hon. Frank W., who is serving in his sec- ond term as probate judge of Clark County.
While Dr. Geiger accepted no political office, he served on many civic and edu- cational boards. Education, charity, re- ligion, all found a place in his heart and life.
ENOS WILLIAM XANDERS, resid- ing in the village of Lawrenceville, Clark Connty, Ohio, has been identified with the farming interests of German Township during the greater part of his life and for twenty years has been a member of Clark County Board of Agriculture, during two years of which he was president of that body. He was born Angust 8, 1861, on his father's farm in German Township,
On August 9, 1849, William Xanders was joined in marriage with Susanna Baker, who was born in German Town- ship June 18, 1828, and was a daughter of John and Susanna (Nawman) Baker, early settlers here. They became parents of the following children: Sarah, wife of Taylor Seifert of Springfield; Isabella C., wife of Edward M. Patterson of Spring- field; Mary E., wife of Daniel F. Shafer: Enos William; Emma A., wife of Jolm H. Foreman of Springfield; and Susauna J., wife of O. W. Flick of German Township. Mr. Xanders was always a Democrat in polities, but never held nor sought office. His death was mourned as a sad loss to the community where he had always lived.
Enos W. Xanders was reared on the old homestead and attended the common
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schools of his home district. At the age of eighteen years he began teaching school in District No. 7, German Township, and continued for three years. After his mar- riage, in 1882, he engaged in farming the home place until 1887, then moved to Law- renceville, where he conducted a general store for ten years. During the adminis- tration of President Cleveland he was ap- pointed postmaster of that village, serv- ing in that capacity until the office was abandoned to make way for the rural free delivery which had been established. Finding his health was failing because of too close confinement, he sold out his store and for a period of five years traveled in the interests of a fertilizer company, after which he returned to the farm. He farmed in a most successful manner until 1907, when he again moved to Lawrence- ville, where he now lives.
Mr. Xanders was married September 21, 1882, to Anna C. Ballentine, daughter of James V. and Rosanna (Domer) Bal- lentine, and they have five children: Blanche, born August 19, 1883, married Jerome Michael and has two children: Mabel and Edith; Clyde, who gradnated from Wittenberg College in 1906, was born March 21, 1885, and is teaching Ger- man and Latin in German Township High School; Claude, born June 1, 1887, re- sides in Bay City, Texas; Ruth, born April 20, 1893; and Cleon, born March 7, 1889. Mr. Xanders is a Democrat in politics and has served eight years as a member of the Board of Education. In 1888 he was elected a member of the Clark County Board of Agriculture, and has been re- elected each succeeding year. He has done much to advance the agricultural interests of this section of the State, and to im-
prove the condition of farm life. He is a man of recognized ability and enjoys the highest respect and esteem of his fellow citizens, among whom he has lived for so long a time. Fraternally he is a member of Springfield Lodge No. 33, I. O. O. F., and Donnell's Creek Council No. 121, J. O. U. A. M.
P. P. CRABILL, president of the Cen- tral Brass and Fixture Company, one of the prominent manufacturing concerns of Springfield, has been a resident of Clark County, Ohio, all his life. He was born in Springfield Township, in 1879, and is a son of John Crabill.
John Crabill, an influential farmer and landowner of Springfield Township, was also born in Clark County, in 1848, and is a son of Thomas V. Crabill. The lat- ter was born in Virginia and in 1816, dur- ing his boyhood days, came west to Clark County, Ohio. He farmed and dealt ex- tensively in stock, becoming one of the largest landowners in the county and a man of prominence.
P. P. Crabill was reared on the old home place in Springfield Township, and after completing the prescribed course in the public schools pursued a course of study in mechancial engineering in the Ohio State University at Columbus, from which institution he was graduated in 1900. Immediately thereafter he became identified with the Foos Gas Engine Com-
pany, remaining with them for seven years. In February, 1907, he, in connec- tion with James Turner, organized the Central Brass and Fixture Works of Springfield, which in September of that year was re-organized and incorporated
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as the Central Brass and Fixture Com- at the time was the best house in Clark pany with a capital stock of $10,000. Mr. County. In early manhood he married Crabill was elected president, with Mr. Turner as treasurer and manager. They manufacture all kinds of brass castings and finished work, making a specialty of the Puritan Bath Cock, and have built a large and remunerative trade. Our sub- ject is also a stockholder in the Foos Gas Engine Company.
In October, 1906, Mr. Crabill was joined in marriage with Miss Bertha Jones, daughter of C. M. Jones, a well known citizen of Union County, Ohio. Frater- nally he is an Elk. He and his wife are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
MAJOR WILLIAM HUNT was for- merly one of the leading men of Clark County, Ohio. He was the first president of the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad, now known as the Sandusky branch of the Big Four Railroad, was the first presi- dent of the Clark County Agricultural So- ciety, and was identified with improve- ment and progress during the whole of his active life. Major Hunt was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, October 25, 1797, and died while on a visit to a daughter at Springfield, Ohio, May 17, 1867.
Lydia Eyre, who was a daughter of Man- nel Eyre, who was an officer in the War of the Revolution. He was born in Phila- delphia and was a ship builder by trade and testified to his loyalty not only by serving as a soldier but also by contribut- ing to pay war expenses. There were five sons and one daughter born to Ralph and Lydia Hunt, namely: William, Manuel Eyre, Ishi Van Cleve, Daniel and Frank- lin Eyre. The youngest son was a student at the military post at West Point when his father came to Ohio. The eldest son had preceded his father and the two next in order accompanied him. These two sons never married but remained in Ohio, where they acquired large tracts of land in Clark and Champaign Counties. The other son, Daniel, came also to Clark County, where he married but did not re- main in Ohio, his record being lost. Ralph Hunt died in 1838.
Major William Hunt probably acquired his title through service in the New Jer- sey militia and in the War of 1812. He was afforded educational opportunities and in young manhood came to Ohio in search of a business opening, which he found at Urbana, in Champaign County, where he entered into a mercantile busi- ness and was subsequently made post- master. It was during his residence at Urbana that his father and brothers came to Clark County. Several years after his marriage, when his father died, William Hunt left Urbana and came to Moorefield Township, Clark County, and took posses- sion of the home farm and he continued
The parents of Major Hunt were Ralph and Lydia (Eyre) Hunt. Prior to coming to Clark County, Ohio, Ralph Hunt op- erated Hunt's Mills in Hunterdon Coun- ty, New Jersey, and after reaching this section he bought, in association with his sons, about 600 acres of land. The Hunts soon began the building of a fine resi- dence, which was completed in 1830, and to reside in Clark County during the re-
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mainder of his life, which was one of great 8, 1818, and died July 11, 1900, rounding activity and usefulness.
At Urbana, Ohio, Major William Hunt was married to Mary MeCord, a most es- timable woman, who survived until De- cember 25, 1881, having outlived her hus- band for fourteen years. They had born to them six sons and six daughters, the sons, Ralph, Samuel, William, Robert, George and Edward, all having passed out of life. Ralph and William were soldiers in the Civil War. All the daughters of the family survive, as follows: Kate, who is the widow of E. B. Cassilly; Mary, who is the widow of William H. Tiers, resid- ing at Philadelphia; Meta, who married Chandler Robbins, residing at Spring- field; Eleanor, Rose and Virginia, resid- ing on the homestead in Moorefield Town- ship.
Major Hunt took a deep interest in pol- ities and public matters prior to the Civil War and was a zealous supporter of Stephen A. Douglas. He remained a Democrat in his convictions but never voted the ticket after the defeat of his chosen candidate.
out a useful life of eighty-two years. He was a son of General Joseph Foos, who was once prominent in the military af- fairs of this section, and later served as a statesman, for twenty-one years, being a member of the Ohio Legislature.
Gustavus S. Foos obtained his educa- tion in the Springfield schools, leaving the High School in his second year, when he went to Illinois, where he remained three years. Upon his return to Ohio he en- tered the employ of his brother, the late William Foos, as a salesman, and after some mercantile experience, in partner- ship with another brother, the late Levi Foos, he purchased the business of Will- iam Foos and it was successfully con- tinued for several years. In 1848 Gus- tavus S. Foos again became associated with his brother William, and they be- came jointly interested in mercantile, real estate and banking enterprises. In this year the brothers bought a large tract of land at Springfield, which they laid out in town lots, and these now form the best residence sections of the city. In 1858 they embarked in a brokerage business, and two years later they established a private bank, this subsequently develop- ing into the Second National Bank. Of this institution William Foos became president and Gnstavns S. Foos cashier, a position he filled until his resignation, in 1862. Prior to this Mr. Foos disposed of large farming interests which he had owned in Illinois, and after freeing him- self from the bank, entered extensively into the wool business and rapidly he- came prominent in that industry.
GUSTAVUS S. FOOS. The late Gus- tavus S. Foos was one of Springfield's representative men, one who, through publie spirit, progressive business meth- ods and exemplary personal life, deserves to have his name remembered among those who have contributed largely to this city's prosperity. He was the foun- der and for many years the able presi- dent of the Foos Manufacturing Com- pany, one of Springfield's leading in- dustries. Gustavus S. Foos was born in The panie of 1873 fell upon the country Franklin, now West Columbus, Ohio, July and many of the leading business men in
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every section saw the fortunes that they of the men who were fighting at the front. had accumulated swept away, as it were, During the Morgan Raid he was a mem- ber of the famous "Squirrel Hunters' Brigade. In times of peace he also was large-hearted in his charities and was ex- ceedingly liberal-minded on many sub- jects. in a night. Among these was Gustavus S. Foos, who found himself, at the age of fifty-five years, forced to begin life anew. He turned his attention at first to the manufacture of that humble but useful household article, a kitchen clothes- Mr. Foos was married June 28, 1849, to Elizabeth Houston, who was a daughter of Dr. Robert Houston, of South Charles- ton, Clark County, Ohio, and they had two sons, Robert H. and William F. William F. Foos is president of the Springfield National Bank and is receiver for the Springfield Malleable Iron Com- pany. For the past five years the Foos brothers have not been connected with the Foos Manufacturing Company. Their handsome residence is located at No. 560 East High Street, Springfield. wringer, associating with him his two sons. From the very bottom they built up a business which became one of impor- tance. In 1884 Mr. Foos saw that it would be the part of wisdom to dispose of the enterprise in which he was then en- gaged and to widen his field of operations. When he again entered the manufactur- ing field with his sons, the business was the making of special grinding and pul- verizing oil-mill machinery and forges. He then organized the Foos Manufactur- ing Company, taking the duties of presi- dent upon his experienced shoulders, and making his son, Robert H. Foos, vice JOSEPH MILTON YEAZELL, who is well known throughont Clark County as a prosperous retired citizen, and formerly as an extensive breeder of and dealer in fine sheep and other stock, was born in this county October 5, 1847, son of George and Nancy Ann (Wilkinson) Yeazell. president, and his other son, William F. Foos, treasurer. The business prospered and the time came when the name of Foos was held in esteem in every trade center. Near the close of his life it contributed great satisfaction to the venerable foun- der, that the same old standards of business integrity which he had estab- lished were continued by those who fol- lowed him.
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