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tion. He grew to manhood on the family farm in Brown township, and married Rachel Richards, daughter of William and Mary ( Williams) Rich- ards, who were born and married in Wales. After his marriage Lewis Rob- erts located on the home farm of the family and lived there until his death, November 30, 1878, except during five years, when he conducted a hotel at Rome, Ohio. He was a prominent man in the township and held several important offices. In politics he was a Democrat and in religion he was a Baptist. His wife died June 16, 1889. Following are some facts relative to their children: Their son David William married Rebecca Drake and after her death Minerva Hemrod, and lives at Columbus, Ohio. John Ellis died at the age of nine years. Mrs. Daugherty was the next in order of birth. Lewis died at the age of twenty-six years. Daniel F. married Miss Angeline Carter and lives in Brown township. Richard died at sixteen, Susan at eighteen, John at twenty-six and Margaret at twenty years of age. Sophia and Hannah, twins, died in infancy. Margaret, the second of the name, died at two years of age.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Daugherty lived for ten years on the Colwell farm in Norwich township, and for two years lived on his father- in-law's farm. After that they resided for a time on the lower part of his present farm. He was then employed for five years at corporation work in the city of Columbus. In 1896 they returned to their farm and built their present home, and since that time Mr. Daugherty has devoted himself with much success to farming and stock-raising. He is an active and influential Democrat and has been for some time a member of the school board of his township. He is a member of the Christian Union church, and Mrs. Daugh- erty is actively and helpfully identified with the Methodist Episcopal church. She is an intelligent, well educated woman, well informed upon all topics of the day, kind, motherly, hospitable and an interesting conversationalist. She has borne her husband children as follows: Francis Marion was born Sep- tember 19, 1871, and died at the age of twenty-one years. Charles Will- iam, born December 12, 1872, married Amanda Reed, and is employed as a conductor by a street-car company of Cleveland, Ohio. To them was born one child, Evelyn, a beautiful child of a sweet disposition. Cora A., born February 23, 1876, is a successful school-teacher ; and her sister, Bessie Alta, born July 11, 1879, has taught school during the last two years. Each of the latter is well educated, holding diplomas from one of the best schools in the state. John Lewis, born February 21, 1889, died September 22, 1890.
JAMES SAVAGE.
The biographical sketch which follows possesses peculiar value for the reason that it not only deals with the careers of men important in their day and generation and prominent in their calling, but with facts and interests of historical value in connection with the social, political and business history of
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Ohio's capital city. The name of Savage has long been well known at Colum- bus, where it has stood for important legitimate business enterprise and has represented the highest order of citizenship.
William Montgomery Savage, one of the pioneer jewelers of Colum- bus, located here in 1838. He was a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, and was married, at Richmond, Virginia, to Mary Richards, a native of Cornwall, England. He learned his business with his father, John Y. Savage, whc moved from North Carolina to New York city about 1830, and it was there that William Montgomery Savage finished the acquisition of a practical knowledge of the jeweler's trade. For two years after he came to Columbus he was employed by Platte, an old-time jeweler, and in 1840 he opened a store on his own account, on the east side of High street, just south of State street, in a small frame building which was mounted on wheels in order that it might be hauled out of danger in case fire should break out near by. In 1843 Mr. Savage moved into the Ambos building, opposite Capitol square, and from there he moved, about 1851, into a building just then completed by himself and his brother John Y. Savage, of New York city, afterward city clerk. Important additions were subsequently built to that structure and he occupied it until his death in 1892, when he had been fifty-two years in business in Columbus, and since 1866 the leading jeweler in the city. In 1893 the stock of his establishment was divided between his sons James and E. G. Savage, who had been connected with his business, the first from 1861 to 1884, the second from 1857 to 1892. W. J. Savage, the eldest son of William Montgomery Savage, was also identified with his father's enterprise until he disposed of his interest in it to found the Columbus Watch Com- pany, and now, relieved of business cares, he devotes much of his time to European travel. John Y. Savage, another of Mr. Savage's sons, who died in 1884, was also for a time identified with the business. William Mont- gomery Savage was regarded as one of the foremost jewelers of his time and he was given charge of the railway clocks and other timepieces of all the railroads centering at Columbus, and regulated them by observations which he took personally and independently along scientific lines.
James Savage, a son of William Montgomery and Mary (Richards) Savage, was born at Columbus, Ohio, in 1844, and was there reared and edu- cated and learned the jeweler's business in his father's store, in which, as has been stated, he acquired an interest, which continued until in the fall of 1884, when he engaged in the same line of business independently, at his well known stand on North High street, where he has met with much suc- cess and has made himself known as a merchant of enterprise and of promi- nence and as a jeweler of skill and reliability.
Following in the footsteps of his worthy father, in politics as well as in business, Mr. Savage is a Democrat. In religious affiliation he is an Epis- copalian. He married Miss Gertrude Aston, daughter of Isaac Aston, of Columbus, long a member of the prominent book house of Randall & Aston,
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one of the best known in Ohio before and after the war of the Rebellion. He has a daughter named Mary Richards in honor of his mother, and a son named James Aston Ferree in honor of Mrs. Savage's family, her mother having been a Ferree of a prominent French family of that name.
Dr. C. M. Savage, a son of William Montgomery Savage and a brother of James Savage, entered the Union army in 1862, when he was only fifteen years old, and saw three years' active service, and was wounded at Shiloh and at Kenesaw mountain. His eminence in his profession was recognized by President Cleveland, who appointed him chairman of the board of examining surgeons of the United States. He is a well known Mason and Knight of Pythias.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WILLIAMS. 1
Among the several old Muskingum county families represented in Frank- lin county, Ohio, none is represented more worthily or more creditably than the family of Williams, from which came Benjamin Franklin Williams, of Norwich township, whose grandfather, Abraham Williams, was born in Connecticut, about 1809, and married Catherine Wooley, a native of Hock- ing county, Ohio, and a daughter of Elijah and Mary Wooley. Abraham Williams passed his life as a preacher in Muskingum county, and died there in 1854. His wife married Henry Ray in Franklin county, where she became a widow about 1855, and she died in Washington township, in 1881. Abraham and Catherine ( Wooley) Williams had the following children : Abraham C., who lives at Plain City, Ohio; Minerva, who married William Carter and lived for a time in Madison county, Ohio, and removed thence to Iowa and from Iowa to Nevada, where Mr. Carter died and where she is still living; Wesley, who died in childhood; Benjamin Franklin, the imme- diate subject of this sketch ; Susan, who married Asa Davis; Mary, who mar- ried Alexander Walcott; Francis M., who lives at Columbus, Ohio; and E. J., who married Deborah Ramsey and lives at Hilliard's, Ohio.
Benjamin Franklin Williams was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, February 5, 1849, and was about six years old when his widowed mother brought him to Franklin county, Ohio, where he passed the days of his youth, chiefly in Norwich township. He first attended school in a log schoolhouse which stood just over the county line near his home in Madison county, and he went to school with more or less regularity until he was nineteen years old, while in the meantime he received every kind of practical instruction tending to make him a good farmer. Since his marriage he has lived on rented farms. He has proved himself to be a business man of ability, and as a Republican is not without a certain local influence, but he has no desire for public office. He is a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
September 28, 1871, Mr. Williams married Miss Katurah Shipman, who
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was born near Dublin, Franklin county, Ohio, a daughter of Charles and Mary Ann (Beard) Shipman, her father a native of Pennsylvania, her mother a native of Franklin county, Ohio. The children of Benjamin Franklin and Katurah (Shipman) Williams were born in the order in which they are here named: Harry, who lives in Norwich township, married Bertha Wil- cox, and has three children,-Oral, Ida May and Mary Belle. Benjamin, who lives on his own farm, married Amanda Davidson and has a son named Irwin. George E. lives in Clinton township, married Sarah Johnson and has two children,-Everett and Guy. Lena died in infancy. Charles died in childhood. Sumner and Ina Belle are members of their father's house- hold. Carrie and Ettie are both deceased.
Mr. Williams is a self-made man who richly deserves the success he has achieved, and his public spirit and generous disposition make him a help- ful citizen who may always be safely depended upon to assist every worthy public movement.
DAVID BINNS.
David Binns, whose name introduces this review, is a prominent resident of Franklin county, Franklin township, Ohio, having resided on his present well cultivated farm near Columbus since 1872. He was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1837, and was a son of William Binns, a native of England, who was born there February 18, 1807, and came to America about the year 1812, locating in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. His father, David Binns, was a native of Yorkshire, England, where he married and then came to the United States, settling in Brownsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and some years later moved to Harrison county, Ohio, where he died at a good old age. William Binns was reared in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and there married Miss Ruth Gibson, a Virginian by birth. She was a daughter of Amos Gibson, an old settler in Pennsylvania, also a native of Virginia. Mrs. Binns lived to the age of seventy-six years, dying at her home in Franklin township, where the family settled about 1872. A family of thirteen children were born to Mr. and Mrs. William Binns, and four members of this family are still living. Mr. William Binns, the father, died at the age of eighty years.
David Binns, the subject of this review, was about five years of age when he was taken to Harrison county, Ohio, and received there his educa- tion in the primitive schools of the time. According to the general usage of the locality he remained with his parents until he reached his majority, when he went to Wayne county, Indiana, and engaged in teaching penmanship, remaining in that locality for two years, upon the expiration of which time he returned to Harrison county and began to teach school in the neighborhood of his home. His grandfather had entered some land in Hardin county, and there David Binns spent eight busy years in the lumber business, conducting
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a sawmill. In 1872 Mr. Binns came to Franklin township and settled upon his present farm, where he immediately proceeded to build and make im- provements. He then entered upon a successful career as farmer and dairy- man, which occupation he still continues.
In 1867 Miss Esther Gilbert, the daughter of Hammond Gilbert, of Hardin county, Ohio, became the wife of Mr. Binns, but her death occurred a few years later, leaving two children-John, deceased, and Vienna, who mar- ried Thomas Biddle, of Columbus. In 1877 Mr. Binns married Miss Medora E. Bigelow, a native of Plain City, Madison county, Ohio, the daughter of Timothy and Hannah ( Marshall) Bigelow, who were old residents of Madi- son county. Mr. and Mrs. Binns are the parents of five children: Henry G., who is in the employ of the Norfolk & Western Railroad; Walter B., Em- mett H., Mary E. and Allen Jay, deceased, all of whom have received good educational advantages, the older ones being graduates.
Mr. Binns is a Friend in his religious belief, as was his honored father and grandfather, but takes a great interest in public affairs, although not in favor of unnecessary strife. He is a Republican in politics, and has held many positions of authority in the township. He has been justice of the peace, and for nine years belonged to the school board. He has placed his farm of sixty-eight and a half acres in a fine state of cultivation, and his surroundings show the peace and prosperity his life of honest endeavor have made possible.
JAMES W. BARBEE.
James W. Barbee is one of the most prominent and is also one of the oldest residents of Franklin township, Franklin county, Ohio, and was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, May 1, 1817. He was a son of Owen Thomas Barbee, a native of Fauquier county, Virginia, who came to Franklin county very early and remained here until his death, when he was eighty-nine years old. His father was Joseph Barbee, of English parentage. The mother of our subject was of German descent, and was in her maidenhood Miss Mary Whitley. She died at the home of James Barbee December 1, 1854.
James W. Barbee was the third in a family of nine children. He came with his father to Franklin county in 1831, being at that time thirteen years of age. He was sent to the common school of the district, then held in the log cabin so well remembered by the pioneers of every state, and gained the education possible under the circumstances. Until he was twenty-three years old he remained with his father, and then started out to meet the world for himself. He engaged in hauling stone, a large part of it being for the erec- tion of the state house in Columbus, and also a part of his work was put upon the national pike road. His wages were sometimes thirty cents a day. To modern minds this seems a very small compensation, but in forty years, from that beginning, our subject has accumulated a fortune and is now one of the
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wealthiest men of Franklin township. Ordinary hardships did not dismay Mr. Barbee, for he cleared a farm in Norwich township, where he first located. In 1868 he moved to his present home and proceeded to do the same task in Franklin township, where he now resides. This tract of one hundred and fifty-five acres he bought for seventy dollars an acre, selling forty acres not long since for four hundred dollars per acre, an increase partly explained by the state of cultivation to which Mr. Barbee had brought it in the interven- ing years.
The marriage of Mr. Barbee took place December 8, 1842, to Miss Lucinda Keller, who was born in Franklin township December 22, 1823, a daughter of Jacob Keller, a native of Pennsylvania, and one of the early set- tlers of Ohio. Her mother, formerly Mary Rossman, was a native of New York, and had been previously married to Dr. John Ball, and they had five children. Five children were also born of her second marriage, of whom only Mrs. Barbee and her brother Henry are the survivors. She was reared in Franklin county and enjoyed the best educational advantages possible at the time in that locality. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Barbee eleven children were born: Owen; Thomas; Mary; Eliza; Melville, the wife of J. S. Briton, of Columbus; Alice; Florence, deceased : Lucinda, deceased; James, who mar- ried Helen Legg; Minnie, the wife of C. M. Rogers, of Columbus; and Laura.
Mr. Barbee has been a very prominent Democrat, and has been called upon to occupy many positions of local importance. In 1850 he was elected the coroner of the county and held the position for two years; was county commissioner for six years in succession, being elected before the war of the Rebellion and held the position at the breaking out of hostilities. For eight years he was a constable, for ten years was assessor and often has been town- ship trustee, filling all of these offices to the entire satisfaction of the com- munity. Both he and his family are members of the Christian Union church, where they are appreciated and have hosts of friends. Mr. and Mrs. Barbee have spent almost fifty-nine years of happy married life, which they fittingly celebrated December 8, 1892.
LYMAN H. INNIS.
A well known and prominent member of the bar of the city of Colum- bus, Ohio, is Lyman H. Innis, who was born upon a farm in this county July 16, 1871, and is a son of Robert and Sarah (Longman) Innis, a sketch of the family appearing on another page of this volume.
When a small child Mr. Innis removed with his parents from the farm to the city of Columbus, where he attended the excellent schools and pre- pared for college, entering later the Ohio State University in that city, at which he graduated in 1893, taking the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Mr. Innis took a course of study in the law department at the University, which was completed in 1875, and was admitted to the bar before he took his de-
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gree of LL. B. He then entered into the practice of his profession with John J. Stoddard, with whom he is still associated. He has met with signal success and has become well known in the courts of the city of Columbus.
Mr. Innis was united in marriage in June, 1895. to Miss Belto Osman, of Chicago, Illinois, and their union has been blessed with one son, Alwyn O. Innis.
Politically Mr. Innis is a Democrat, taking a great interest in the affairs of his party and never sparing himself when laboring for its best interests. His many friends find in him a stanch advocate where their well-being is concerned. He is socially connected with the Knights of Pythias organiza- tion and is also a member of the Phi Delta Phi Society of the Ohio State University.
DANIEL O. ROBERTS. -
Daniel O. Roberts was a well-known farmer of Norwich township, and in his death the community lost a citizen of sterling worth. He was born in Norwich township in 1848, and was reared as a farmer boy, early becoming familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. The occupation to which he was reared he made his life work. He inherited a part of his farm from his uncle, Daniel Roberts, and he placed his land under a high state of cultivation, adding many improvements which enhanced the value and attractive appearance of the place.
On the 21st of January, 1875, Mr. Roberts was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Moore, who was born in Union county March 7, 1854, a daugh- ter of Alpheus and Cynthia Ann ( White) Moore. She was reared to woman- hood in her native township, and pursued her education in the common schools. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts began their domestic life upon a farm, and at his death our subject left to his wife and son a comfortable property. He was a member of the Universalist church, and in politics was a stalwart Re- publican, strongly adhering to the principles of his party. He was contin- ually in office, and for many years filled the position of trustee, discharging his duties promptly and faithfully. He died July 22, 1892, leaving to his family an untarnished name.
William M. Roberts, his only son, was born December 19, 1876, and his elementary education, acquired in the district schools, was supplemented by study in the Hilliard's high school and in a business college at Columbus, where he remained for two terms. He then accepted a position as book- keeper for the Eaton Machine Company, of the capital city, but later returned to the farm and has since devoted his time and attention to its improvement, the fields being under a high state of cultivation, yielding a golden return for his labor. He and his mother have a very pleasant home and enjoy the warm regard of many friends in the community. In politics Mr. Roberts is a Republican, and in the success and welfare of his party he feels a deep interest.
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JUDGE T. B. GALLOWAY.
There is no other element which comes into such close touch with Amer- ican people and which affects every individual as does the public policy of the nation. The man of mature judgment, of keen insight into public affairs and of strong mentality realizes the responsibility which rests upon the citi- zen upon whom has been conferred the right of franchise and who thus gives his support or opposition to measures which affect either the weal or woe of the entire nation. It is a matter for just pride therefore when one becomes recognized as a leader along political lines, and to such a position Judge Galloway has attained, standing foremost among those who give their efforts to the advancement of Republican principles. He is a lawyer of pronounced ability, of keen analytical mind and in his chosen profession he has won creditable prominence.
The name of Galloway has long been actively associated with the public affairs of Ohio, and the Judge has spent his entire life in Columbus, where his birth occurred on the 13th of October, 1863. His father, Samuel Gallo- way, was an eminent citizen of Franklin county, born in Gettysburg, Penn- sylvania, March 20, 1811, in a house which is still standing and which, in 1863, was occupied as a hospital. He was educated in the public schools of Gettysburg. About 1828, after his father died, the family removed to Green- field, Highland county, and he continued his studies in the Miami University, at Oxford, where he was graduated in 1883. He took up the study of law in Hillsboro, but discontinued this, spending one year as a theological student in Princeton, and in the year 1835 was a professor of Greek in the Miami University. Ill health then forced him to resign. Later he engaged in teach- ing in Springfield, Ohio, and at South Hanover College in Indiana, where for two or three years he was a professor of classical languages. Resuming the study of law, he began practice in 1842 and a year later became a partner of Nathaniel Massie, of Chillicothe.
In 1844 he was elected by the state legislature to the office of secretary of state and removed to Columbus, where he thenceforth made his home. He was a prominent factor in politics and belonged to the anti-slavery wing of the Whig party. In 1848 he was a delegate to the convention held in Philadelphia which nominated Taylor and Fillmore, and a speech which he made on that occasion was long remembered for its thrilling eloquence. In 1854 Mr. Galloway represented his district in the notable thirty-fourth con- gress, when the reaction against the encroachments of the slave power had fully set in at the north, and the Whig party, on account of its complicity with slavery, had been practically annihilated, the great majority of the members returning from the northern states pledged to resist the further extension of the evil. Congress assembled on December 3d, but the house was not organ- ized until February 3d, when Nathaniel P. Banks was chosen the speaker, on the one hundred and thirty-third ballot. At midnight on February 2d
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Mr. Galloway was aroused from his sleep and summoned to a conference which lasted until daybreak. Mr. Banks was the first anti-slavery member ever chosen as speaker of the house. Mr. Galloway took an active part in the deliberations of this congress and made at least one very trenchant speech upon the contested election case from the territory of Kansas. It was full of the keenest satire and the most vigorous argument. The political feeling in the district was strongly against Mr. Galloway during the next campaign, and upon his second candidacy for congress was defeated by Samuel S. Cox.
On July 13, 1855, a convention was held in the old Town Street Meth- odist church in Columbus, attended by delegates from all over Ohio, rep- resenting anti-Nebraska elements and presided over by John Sherman. Mr. Galloway was one of the delegates at that convention and aided in framing the resolutions which gave the name of "Republican" to the new party. And this date, the sixty-seventh anniversary of the adopting of the ordinance of 1787, containing the prohibition of slavery in the Northwest Territory, marks the birth of the Republican party. This convention nominated Salmon P. Chase for governor, and he was elected in the November following. On July 18, 1855, a meeting was held in the city hall to ratify the convention of the 13th, and the principal speakers on that occasion were Mr. Galloway, Henry C. Noble and George M. Parsons. For a few years following Mr. Galloway practiced his profession in Columbus, besides which he was actively engaged in all religious and philanthropic work, and it was less than two years after he left congress that Mr. Lincoln was engaged in his great debate with Mr. Douglas; and there is a letter from the former asking Mr. Galloway to come over to Illinois and help him in that compaign. In 1861 President Lincoln summoned him to Washington and made him offers of responsible positions, all of which he refused, contenting himself with the office of judge advocate at Camp Chase.
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