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Michael Mock. In 1818 he came to Ohio, first locating in Coshocton county, where he purchased land upon which he resided for a time. In 1823 he came to this county, locating in Clinton township, where he purchased one hundred and fifty acres of land in partnership with Mr. Mock, paying for the same five dollars per acre. It was a swampy tract, covered with a forest. He built a log cabin of one room, doing all the work himself, and in the construc- tion of the little home he used no nails, for they were very expensive and could hardly be obtained at any price. Into this pioneer cabin of round poles he removed with his wife and children. His financial resources were very limited, and in order to provide for his family he had to work for other peo- ple. As his sons grew older he began clearing the land and in the course of time placed it under a high state of cultivation. The parents spent their re- maining days on the homestead. They were honest, industrious people, worthy the respect of all. Mr. Kiner cared little for the honors of official position, yet in the early settlement of this township he served in the capacity of consta- ble. Both he and his wife were devoted Christian people, and he held mem- bership in the Presbyterian church, while his wife belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church. They had a family of ten children, two or three having been born before their removal to Franklin county. The record is as follows : Michael, who married Sarah Meigs and reared a family; Jacob, who wedded Lavica Smith and had a family; Martha Jane, who became the wife of Will- iam Ring, by whom she had seven children; Peggy Ann, who married Solo- mon Hays and had a family ; Lucinda, wife of Lafayette Lazelle, by whom she had several children; Amanda, wife of Nathaniel Smith; Mary, who died unmarried; Elizabeth, who became the wife of Lafayette Lazelle after her sister's death, and they had several children; Henry, of this review; and John, who died in Clinton township. The parents have also passed away.
Mr. Kiner, whose name introduces this record, was reared on the family homestead, and in the common schools of that locality was instructed in the rudiments of an English education. When old enough to be of assistance in the work of the farm he aided in clearing and improving that tract of land, and in connection with his brother John he engaged in the stock business in early life, buying and selling stock. This proved a very profitable venture, and they also raised stock of good grades and gained a good start in the financial world.
On the 3d of January, 1863, Mr. Kiner was united in marriage to Miss Catherine De Nune, daughter of William and Mary Ann ( Baker) De Nune. Her father was a native of Pennsylvania, her mother of Virginia, and they were married in Ohio, having come to this state in childhood. At an early period in the history of the Buckeye state Mr. De Nune located south of Co- lumbus, while his wife's people, the Bakers, settled on Alum creek. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. De Nune resided in Franklin county, spending their remaining days within its borders. He was a well-educated man for his day, and was one of the successful early teachers in that county. In the family were five children, four of whom reached mature years, namely : Will-
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iam R .; Eliza, who married Solomon Hays; Mrs. Kiner; and John. The deceased member of the family is Alexander, who died in youth. Their mother's death occurred about 1870, and their father is also deceased.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Kiner have been born twelve children, of whom seven are yet living. Alice is the wife of Milo Street; Ellis wedded Barbara Huy; Elmer married Lena Huy; Lambert became the husband of Bessie Bur- nett; Justin married Maud Brinklinger; and Annie and Emma are young ladies at home. The deceased children are Jennie, Clayton, Grace, Icy and Charles.
Mr. Kiner's first investment in real estate made him the owner of thirty acres of wooded land in Clinton township. This he cleared and improved and as his financial resources increased he added to his possessions until he is now the owner of very extensive tracts of valuable property. He has been associated in his business affairs with his brother John and success has attended their efforts in a high degree. The home farm is well improved and is sup- plied with every modern accessory and convenience that go to facilitate agri- cultural pursuits. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kiner hold membership in the Metho- dist Episcopal church, with which they have long been actively identified, taking part in its work and upbuilding. The subject of this sketch is widely recognized as one of the most prosperous farmers and business men of the county, and is well known as a gentleman of excellent judgment and irre- proachable character. His wife has indeed been a faithful companion and helpmeet to him, and to her he attributes his prosperity in no small degree. They are widely known and have a large circle of warm friends.
SAMUEL CASHNER.
Much has been said concerning the corruption of politics and the control of political affairs by unprincipled men. While this may be true to some ex- tent in the larger cities, such a state does not exist in the smaller towns where the man who wins office must be worthy of the trust and confrence reposed in him. Some one has said, "You can fool all of the American people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time," and in this lies the safeguard of our American political system. As mayor of Gahanna, Mr. Cashner is capably discharging his du- ties to the best of his ability, and that ability is of no circumscribed order. His administration is at once practical and businesslike and he has brought about many needed reforms and improvements.
A native of Franklin county, Mr. Cashner was born April 15, 1837, and is a representative of one of the old families of Pennsylvania. His paternal grandfather, Jacob Cashner, was a native of the Keystone state, whence he removed to Lithopolis, Fairfield county, Ohio, in an early day. By occupation he was a farmer and his death occurred in 1832. His wife, Christina Myers, was also born in Pennsylvania and accompanied her husband to Fairfield county during the days of the pioneer epoch. She was of German lineage.
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Their son, Jeremiah Cashner, the father of our subject, was born in Pennsyl- vania and became a resident of Franklin county in 1826, here following the occupation of farming throughout his active business career. He wedded Christina Riggle and she too was born in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio about the time of her husband's removal. Her father, Philip Riggle, was born in the Keystone state and took up his abode in Fairfield county in the pioneer days; his death there occurred when he was ninety years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Margaret Moyer and came with him to Ohio, was of German extraction. The father of our subject died at the age of sixty-two, while his wife, long surviving him, passed away at the age of eighty-four. They were the parents of four sons and five daughters and with but one exception all reached years of maturity, but only three are now living, the sisters being Mrs. Caroline McCisick and Mrs. Lucy Swickard.
Samuel Cashner, the fifth member of the family and the only surviving son, was reared on the old family homestead in his native township, and in the log school house near his home pursued his education. At the age of nineteen years he engaged in the wholesale notion business, traveling from store to store and from town to town, being thus employed until the inauguration of the Civil war. He had watched with interest the progress of events, and when rebellion reared its awful front he resolved to aid in the preservation of the Union by service in the field of battle. Accordingly, at President Lin- coln's first call for troops he enlisted, joining Company A, of the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on the 15th of April, when the smoke from Fort Sum- ter's guns had hardly cleared away. On the 21st of June, of the same year, he re-enlisted for three years' service and was discharged on the 13th of June, 1864, but the south had not been subjected and feeling that his duty was at the front he again offered his services, and joined Company D, of the Eleventh Ohio Infantry, on the 2d of July. He remained with that regiment until June 27, 1865, when he was honorably discharged after a long and faithful service of four years, one month and twenty-six days. He partici- pated in the battles of Richmond, Pittsburg Landing, Stephenson, Perry- ville, Murfreesboro, Round Mound and Iron Works, and Sand Mountain. He was taken prisoner at Sand Mountain and after being held a captive for fifteen days he was paroled and joined his command at Chattanooga, Tennessee, after which he was discharged. In his next enlistment he joined his com- mand at Atlanta and participated in the engagements of Milledgeville, Black River, Savannah, Bentonville and in General Sherman's campaign to Greens- borough, North Carolina, and then marched with his regiment to Washington, D. C., and participated in the Grand Review, the most celebrated military pageant ever seen in the country, and was then honorably discharged. He was wounded in the right leg in the battle of Sand Mountain and received buckshot in the breast at Bentonville, North Carolina.
Mr. Cashner, after his return to Franklin county, was married in Dixon, Illinois, in 1865, to Miss Hetty S. Hand, a native of Plain township, this county, and a daughter of Charles and Jane (Smith) Hand, the former a
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native of New York, and the later of New Jersey. The mother became a resident of Franklin county when seven years of age, and the father when eighteen years of age. He is still living at the ripe old age of ninety-two, but his wife passed away at the age of eighty-nine. They had celebrated their sixty-sixth wedding anniversary. Mrs. Cashner is the seventh in order of birth among their ten children and was reared in her native township, Unto Mr. and Mrs. Cashner have been born three children : Clara Roletta is the widow of James Ryan, who was an engineer and was accidently killed October 3, 1898. They had four children: James C., Della, Nellie M. and Charles Willis. Nellie, the second member of the family, is the wife of Will- iam Dorsey, a dairyman, and they have two children, Walter and Eva. Charles W., the youngest of the family, is a grocer of Gahanna. He married' Miss Florence Dawson by whom he had two children, Hazel L. and Gail.
After their marriage our subject and his wife took up their abode in Mifflin township and he devoted his energies to selling notions to retail dealers for seven years. He then came to Gahanna and has since been engaged in auctioneering. In 1889 he was elected mayor and has since held the office, covering a period of eleven years, a record that can scarcely be paralleled in the history of a city, which indicates in an unmistakable manner his fidelity to duty and the confidence reposed in his ability by his fellow townsmen. His administration has indeed been a creditable one and thus gained for him high regard and commendation. He holds membership in John A. Miller Post, No. 192, G. A. R., in which he served as chaplain for about eight years. He has also been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1869, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 1862, while his name is found on the membership roll of the Union Veteran Legion, Columbus Camp, No. 78. In politics he has always been a stanch Republican and no man in the community is more deserving of the high regard of his fellow townsmen than Samuel Cashner. Local and public improvement are causes dear to his heart and he withholds his support from no measure calculated to prove of general good.
GEORGE H. RADER.
The fine farm of fifty-seven acres which is now the property of Mrs. George H. Rader is a visible proof of the industry and economy of its pur- chaser, George H. Rader, now deceased, at one time one of the most respected residents of Franklin county, Ohio. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, March 8, 1854, a son of John and Elizabeth Rader, both of whom were natives of Germany, and had come to Franklin county, Ohio, when young. The father died in this county, at about sixty-five years, and the mother still survives, at the age of eighty years.
Mr. Rader was about fifteen years old when his father moved into the country and engaged in farming. He received his education in the city schools and spent three years at college. After marriage, Mr. Rader settled
GEORGE H. RADER.
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upon the farm where he spent the remainder of his life, and actively engaged in its cultivation.
Our subject was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Horgher, February 10, 1875. She was a native of Jackson township, Franklin county, born No- vember 13, 1856, a daughter of Frank Horgher, a native of Germany who came to America previous to his marriage, this taking place some time later, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, whence he moved to Franklin county, Ohio, set- tled in Jackson township, and in 1875 moved to Columbus, and died there, at the age of seventy-seven years. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Horgher : Rose; Catherine; John, who is the twin of Mrs. Rader, the widow of our subject, and an infant which died in infancy.
The death of Mr. Rader took place February 1, 1897, when passed away a good husband and indulgent father. He left six estimable children to con- sole his bereaved widow: Carrie R., who married Carl Gutnecght and has a daughter, Marie Ethel; George H., who assists on the farm; Alma F., Alice M., Lenora E. and Inez A.
Since the death of Mr. Rader, his widow has shown great ability in the management of the estate. Not only did she suffer loss when his life ended, but the community in which he had lived an honest life, filled with good deeds, felt the bereavement also. He was well known and had been called upon to serve as school director for some twelve years, his judgment making him par- ticularly fitted for the position. A Democrat in his political convictions' he upheld the principles of that party. In his death the Lutheran church lost a valued member.
ALLEN ORDERS.
The subject of this sketch has the distinction of being the oldest citizen of Jackson township, Franklin county, Ohio. He was born on the Fullerton farm, five miles south of Columbus, October 22, 1814, a son of Jonas Orders, who was reared in Virginia and fought six years on the old western frontier, in the army of "Mad Anthony" Wayne, in campaigns against Indians who opposed the settlement of Ohio and adjacent states. Allen Order's grand- father in the paternal line was born and married in England and after the death of his wife emigrated to Virginia with his sons Job and Jonas, the first mentioned of whom never married. Jonas married Sarah Ford, a native of Maryland. He came to Franklin county on foot and was soon attacked by chills and fever, which kept him "under the weather" for about a year. He lived in Jackson township, to the advanced age of one hundred years or there- about, enjoying the title of oldest man in the county, and died after the close of the Civil war, during which he was an outspoken Union man. He was a member of the Universalist church and as a citizen was prominent and pro- gressive.
Sarah Ford, who married Jonas Orders and was the mother of the sub- ject of this sketch, was a daughter of Frederick and Margaret ( Benjamin) 54
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Ford and her father was an early settler in Franklin county, Ohio, where, with his family, he located in the woods and cleared up a farm on which he lived until he died, past the age of seventy years. His wife also is deceased. They had four sons and four daughters. Jonas and Sarah (Ford) Orders had seven sons and three daughters, of whom Allen Orders was the third son and fourth child in order of nativity.
Allen attended school in old fashioned log school houses and when he was seven years old his father left the Fullerton farm, where the boy was born, and moved on another, and at that time the lad practically took up the battle of life for himself, working by the month or by the day at anything that his hands found to do. By hard economy he managed to save a little money which he invested in cattle, and when he turned the cattle over to his father to help him buy a piece of land he found himself as poor as when he had begun, but was not daunted by the prospect of beginning over again. He made such satisfactory progress that just before he came of age he deemed it safe for him to marry and he took for his wife Miss Mary Galion, a native of Virginia, whose family had settled in Ohio. After his marriage he lived for a year in the household of his father-in-law and after that rented a farm until, about 1838, he bought one hundred acres of land where he now lives, on which he built a log house which gave place to his present residence in 1848 and which has been moved to Grove City where it does service as a stable. He has lived continuously in his native township and has been identified with it during his whole life of eighty-six years and is at this time the oldest person living within its borders. Formerly a Whig, he has been a Republican since the organiza- tion of that party and has filled several township offices and has shown his public spirit by assisting many measures promising to benefit his fellow citizens and during all his active years set a good example to other farmers in the county by improving his farm of one hundred and forty-nine acres and culti- vating it in a thoroughly up-to-date manner. Though not a member of any church, he testifies to a belief in the teachings of the Bible and has always supported religious worship in his neighborhood. Of his seven children only two survive. These are George W., who has reared a family and now, aged sixty-five years, lives at Grove City ; and Clorinda, who married Silas Borror, of Jackson township, Franklin county, a biographical sketch of whom appears in this work.
ELAM DRAKE.
Elam Drake is now living a retired life in Mifflin township after long years' of active and honorable connection with the agricultural pursuits of Franklin county. His home is situated on the Johnstown and Columbus pike, about five miles from the state's capitol, and there he is surrounded by many comforts and luxuries which have come to him as the reward of earnest effort in former years. A native of Connecticut, he was born on the 16th of Novem- ber, 1812, in East Windsor, Hartford county. Tradition says that the family
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was founded in America by English ancestors who came to the new world early in the seventeenth century and located in the Charter Oak state. Elias Drake, the father of our subject, was also born in East Windsor and was a brick mason by occupation. Emigrating westward, he took up his abode upon a farm in Franklin county, Ohio, where he died at the age of sixty-four years. His wife bore the maiden name of Mary Collins, and she, too, was a native of Connecticut and was of English lineage. Her death occurred in Franklin county when she was sixty-four years of age. The marriage of this worthy couple was blessed with eight children, three sons and five daughters, of whom Elam was the third in order of birth. He has one sister, Mrs. Lucinda Lemon, who is now living in Iowa, but the others have all passed away.
Upon the Atlantic seacoast Mr. Drake of this review spent the first twenty years of his life, and in 1831 he became a resident of Franklin county, Ohio, the family taking up their abode in a log cabin in Mifflin township, Here he began work at his trade of brick laying and plastering, which he had learned in Connecticut. As a boy he became familiar with those lines of in- dustry, working under the direction of his father. He was thus identified with the building interests of Columbus for many years, aiding in its improvement at the time when it was a small village. He assisted in the erection of the first brick house in that city and for his services he received good wages, being a first-class mechanic. He helped support his mother and younger brothers and sisters. He did much work outside of the city, being called upon to con- struct the fronts of many of the buildings in the county. For some time he was in the employ of others, but eventually began contracting and building on his own account in Franklin and adjoining counties. For many years he was an active representative of that line of endeavor, and dozens of the best busi- ness houses and residences in Columbus stand as monuments to his thrift, enter- prise and skill. At length he retired from that occupation, removing to his farm five miles from the city. He erected thereon a good brick residence and barn and has made many other substantial improvements upon his land, which constitutes a tract of sixty-two acres, now under a high state of culti- vation.
In 1837 Mr. Drake was united in marriage to Miss Angeline Patterson, a native of Mifflin township, Franklin county. They have five sons and a daughter : Franklin, Charles P., Douglas C., Dwight F., Alice A. and George B. Charles married Sarah Reese, and they have four children,-Homer, Rosella, Ray and Blanche. Douglas C. married Elsie W. Moore, a native of Columbus and who was educated in that city. Her parents died during her infancy and she was reared by Mrs. Laura Moore. Unto Douglas and his wife have been born five children, Kate, Guy B., Ralph E., Clyde W. and Harold. Dwight F. married Lizzie Goodman, and they have a daughter, Florence. Alice A., is the wife of Henry Innis, and they have two daugh- ters, Mabel A. and Mildred. The eldest and youngest sons are single. There
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are also six great-grandchildren, namely : Vinnie, Verna and Russell Drake, Marguerite and Maurice Kurtzhalz and Marie Kersolty.
Mr. Drake is well known in the county and has aided much in its upbuild- ing and improvement. He cast his first presidential vote for Andrew Jackson, but became a Republican on the organization of the party. Since that time, however, he has voted for various candidates. He is a venerable gentleman of sterling worth whose life's record has been honorable and in many; re- spects well worthy of emulation. Through almost a century he has witnessed the development of the nation, and feels just pride in the wonderful accomplish- ments of his country. He has reached the eighty-eighth milestone on the journey of life and can look back over the past without regret and forward to the future without fear.
SARAH J. SWAGLER.
There are in every community women accounts of whose lives would be edifying as the biographical sketches of men are found to be, and it is to be regretted that more women are not represented in such works as this. One of the best known women of Jackson township, Franklin county, Ohio, is Mrs. Sarah J. Swagler, a brief account of whose busy life it will now be attempted to give. Mrs. Swagler was born in the township in which she now lives November 1I, 1830, a daughter of William B. Duff.
William B. Duff was born, reared and educated in Franklin township, Franklin county, Ohio, and passed his entire life there, except for six months' absence in Illinois. His earlier days were spent amid pioneer surroundings and the foundations of his education were laid in a primitive log school house. He married Nancy Orders, a native of Jackson township, Franklin county, Ohio, and located in the township just mentioned, where Mrs. Duff died aged about forty. His second marriage was to Mrs. Jane Laslear, and after her death he married Mahala Hill. He lived to the advanced age of eighty-two years, rounding out an industrious and useful life and one crowned with measurable success. By his first marriage he had eight children : Sarah J., Elizabeth (Boucher), William, Nancy (deceased), George (deceased), John, and Mary Ann ( Robinson), David, Adam, and Ella ( Haughn), the first of whom is the subject of this sketch. By his second marriage he had three children,-Michael W., Charles and Maud,-the last mentioned of whom married Mat. Hanna, of Fayette county, Ohio ; and by his last marriage there was no issue.
Mrs. Swagler, who was the first born of the children of William B. and Nancy ( Orders) Duff, was reared in Jackson township and relates that she attended school in a small log building with slab benches and holes in the walls covered with greased papers for windows and that she was taught all the work performed by pioneer women in her days and often spun woolen yarn for her own family and for neighbors. In 1851 she married Phillip Near, who was born in Ross county, Ohio, June 10, 1827, and moved to a
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