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John Yaple, Jr., grandfather of Luther B., was born in Danby, Tomp- kins County, New York, near Ithaca, May 24, 1801, and after coming with his parents to Ross County attended the district schools, and as soon as able to be of use assisted in clearing the land. He became an expert in the art of making shingles, all of which were rived by hand, and also shaped in the same manner. Succeeding to the ownership of the parental homestead, he added to the improvements already made by erecting substantial frame buildings, and there continued as a farmer until his death, in October, 1876. His wife, whose maiden name was
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Laura Morse, was born in Litchfield County, Connecticut, January 14, 1804, and died on the home farm, in Colerain Township, in April, 1890.
Aaron D. Yaple spent his entire life on the farm where his birth occurred, he having inherited the land from his father. Industrious and enterprising, he carried on general farming successfully, and in addition . was engaged to a considerable extent in the growing of fruit. He lived to a good old age, passing away September 15, 1914. The maiden name of his wife was Henrietta Black, who still occupies the Yaple homestead. She was born, in October, 1843, in Colerain Township, being one of the seven children of the late Caleb Black, who married Sarah Parks. Mr. Black was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish ancestors, and as a young man migrated to Colerain Township, where he bought land, and was thenceforward engaged in tilling the soil. Three children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron D. Yaple, namely : Luther B., the subject of this brief sketch; Alice, wife of Allen Cupp; and Pearl, living with her widowed mother.
Having gleaned his first knowledge of books in the rural schools, Luther B. Yaple afterwards attended the Circleville High School and the Otterbein University, in Westerville, Ohio. He was subsequently employed as a teacher in Colerain Township for three years, during which time he turned his attention to the study of law, reading at home under the instruction of Judge Alfred Yaple, of Cincinnati. On Octo- ber 6, 1887, Mr. Yaple was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court, and in July, 1888, began the practice of his profession in Chillicothe, where he has built up a large and lucrative clientage. In 1898 Mr. Yaple purchased a farm lying two miles west of the Chillicothe courthouse, and has since taken active interest in its improvements. When it came into his possession it had an orchard containing 7,000 fruit trees, including apple, pear, peach and cherry trees. The farm had been previously rented, and the fruit trees had been sadly neglected. He immediately turned his attention to the care of the orchard, and has since replaced all of the peach and pear trees with apple trees, and now has a fine orchard of 7,500 apple trees, all in a bearing condition. He raises a variety of apples, including the Rome Beauty, Jonathan, Mann, Grimes Golden, and Ben Davis, all of which find a ready sale in both the southern and western markets.
On January 27, 1897, Mr. Yaple was united in marriage with Etta F. Roach, who was born in Madison County, Ohio, October 9, 1871. Her father, Reuben W. Roach, was born on a farm in Gallia County, Ohio, where his parents, Simeon and Phebe (Koontz) Roach, natives of Vir- ginia, were pioneer settlers. In early manhood he embarked in farming in Madison County, from there removing to Scioto Township, Ross County, and later taking up his residence in Chillicothe, where his widow, whose maiden name was Mary Workman, still resides.' Her par- ents, Lewis and Narcissus (Worley) Workman, natives of Belmont County, Ohio, spent their last years in Chillicothe. Mr. and Mrs. Yaple have three children, John, Virginia, and Philip. Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Yaple are members of the Episcopal Church, in which he is serving
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as vestryman. Socially Mr. Yaple was one of the founders of the Sunset Club, of which he is a charter member.
FRANK L. GIBBS, M. D. For nearly a score of years actively engaged in the practice of medicine at Chillicothe, Frank L. Gibbs, M. D., has met with unquestioned success in his chosen work, and well deserves the reputation which he has won of being one of the most skilful and faithful physicians in the city. He was born in Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio, a son of John H. Gibbs.
Lewis Gibbs, the doctor's grandfather, a native of Norristown, Penn- sylvania, served as a lieutenant in the Union army during the Civil war. Previous to his enlistment, he had been engaged in the iron business at Niles, Trumbull County, and after the war was similarly employed at New Lisbon. Moving from Ohio to Pennsylvania, he spent the closing years of his long and useful life at Phoenixville, Chester County. He married Miss Ophelia Fields, who died at her home in Phoenixville, at the advanced age of ninety years.
John H. Gibbs was born in New Lisbon, the county seat of Columbi- ana County, Ohio, and there learned the trade of a machinist. Offering his services to his country in 1864, he enlisted in Company -, Eighty- sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he remained until receiving his honorable discharge at the expiration of his term of enlistment. Returning to his native county, he resumed work at his trade in Salem, where he is still residing. His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Heacock, was born in Salem, a daughter of Jeremiah and Dorothy Heacock, both of whom lived to be quite old, Mr. Heacock dying at the age of eighty-six years, and Mrs. Heacock at the age of eighty-nine years. Mr. Heacock was one of the old-time stage drivers of Columbiana County, and Doctor Gibbs has the horn with which he used to herald his approach to a town. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Gibbs are the parents of two children, the doctor, and Bessie, who is cashier in a dry goods establishment at Salem.
After his graduation from the Salem High School with the class of 1890, Frank L. Gibbs was for three years a bookkeeper in the office of the Mullins Architectural Sheet Metal Company. Desirous of entering the medical profession, he studied under the tutorship of Doctor Thomp- son, in Salem, and then entered the Pulte Medical College, at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1896. Immediately locating in Chilli- cothe, Doctor Gibbs opened an office on Second Street, and has since been actively and prosperously engaged in the practice of his profession in this city, having built up a large and lucrative patronage.
Doctor Gibbs married, in 1906, Mrs. Elizabeth (Harman) Ruhrah, who was born in Chillicothe, a daughter of Fletcher D. and Joanna Harman, and widow of Edward P. Ruhrah. The doctor is a member of the Ohio State Homeopathic Society, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. Fraternally he is a member of Scioto Lodge No. 6, Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons; of Chillicothe Chapter No. 4, Royal Arch Masons; of Chillicothe Council No. 6, Royal and Select Masters;
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of Chillicothe Commandery No. 8, Knights Templar; of Chillicothe Camp, No. 4111, Modern Woodmen of America, of which he was clerk for twelve years; and of Chillicothe Aerie, No. 600, of which he is phy- sician. For four years he served as county coroner.
ELMON R. TERRY. Courteous, painstaking and accommodating, Elmon R. Terry, of Chillicothe, is one of the best county clerks Ross County ever had, and its clerks have always been capable and efficient, the affairs of his office being administered so wisely, conscientiously and thoroughly as to meet with the approval of all concerned. A son of John C. Terry, he was born January 10, 1878, on a farm in Jackson County, Ohio.
His paternal grandfather, Paul Terry, a native of Ontario, Canada, migrated to Ohio in pioneer days. Locating in Jackson County, he subse- quently married Mary Collins, who was born and reared in that part of the state, and from that time until his death, in 1855, while yet in the prime of life, he was engaged in general farming.
Born in Jackson County, Ohio, near Berlin Cross Roads, May 12, 1843, John C. Terry was but a lad when his father died, and ere reaching his teens was thrown upon his own resources. Industrious and resource- ful, he worked at various occupations until the outbreak of the Civil war, when, in 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Seventy-third Ohio Volun- teer Infantry, as a private. Going with his command to Virginia, he served in the Army of the Potomac, to which his regiment was assigned, being under command of Generals Mcclellan, Hooker and Meade. He was at the front in many of the more noteworthy engagements of the war, including those at Chancellorsville, Antietam and Gettysburg. At the latter battle, on July 4, 1863, he was severely wounded, suffering the loss of a leg. Subsequently honorably discharged on account of physical disability, he returned to Jackson County. A few months later he migrated to Neosho County, Kansas, where he bought land, and was engaged in tilling the soil for six years. Trading that farm for one in his old home county, Jackson County, Ohio, he resided there until 1894, when, removing to Deer Creek Township, in Pickaway County, he bought a farm lying about a mile north of the Ross County line, and occupied it thirteen years. In 1907 he took up his residence at Williamsport, and there lived retired from active pursuits until his death, in 1911.
The maiden name of the wife of John C. Terry was Sidney A. Clark. She was born March 24, 1858, on a farm near Limerick, Jackson County, Ohio, a daughter of David and Clara (Byron) Clark, and granddaughter of Hiram and Sidney (Almira) Clark. Her great-grandfather, Thomas Clark, was born in Virginia, of early English ancestry. Coming to Ohio in the very first years of its settlement, he purchased a tract of timbered land close to the present site of Limerick, and immediately began its improvement. All of that part of the country was then in its virgin wildness, bear, deer, wild turkey, and all other kinds of game native to that section being plentiful, and roaming at will. He built a substantial log house in 1816 in the wilderness, making the nails used in its con-
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struction by hand, and riving the boards that covered the roof. Clearing the greater portion of his land, he lived there until his death, at the age of four score years. His wife, whose maiden name was Sidney Van Sky, survived him, passing away at the venerable age of eighty-eight years. Mrs. Sidney (Clark) Terry died September 3, 1895, several years before the death of her husband. She was the mother of seven children, as follows: Elmon R., Blanche, Marcus, Elva, Clyde, Minnie, and Hoyt.
Obtaining his elementary education in the rural schools, Elmon R. Terry was graduated from the Williamsport High School with the class of 1899, and then commenced a professional career, teaching for two years in Woodlyn, and subsequently being similarly employed in different places for six years. In 1906 Mr. Terry came to Chillicothe as secretary for the Charles B. Hurst Company, with which he was associated until June, 1909. In October, 1909, he was made deputy county auditor, and held the position until 1912, when he resigned to make the race for the office of county clerk. Successful in his efforts, he was elected to the position in November, 1912, and served so ably and acceptably that he was reelected in 1914, his continuance in the office as well as his being chosen as the democratic candidate for county auditor on August 8, 1916, are evident proofs of his efficiency. .
Mr. Terry married, in 1901, Bessie M. Evans, who was born in Deer- field Township, a daughter of Allen and Roxanna (Bostwick) Evans. Mr. and Mrs. Terry have one child, Clarice Pauline Terry. Politically Mr. Terry is a democrat, and fraternally he is a member of Chillicothe Aerie, No. 600, Fraternal Order of Eagles, and of Chillicothe Lodge, No. 52, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Both Mr. and Mrs. Terry are members of the Walnut Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
HENRY C. TULLEYS, of Bainbridge, Paxton Township, was an hon- ored veteran of the Civil war, having gone from Ross County in early boyhood to fight for the preservation of the Union. He represented one of the oldest families of Ross County and his own career was one of accomplishment and achievement in keeping with his honorable ancestry.
He was born in Bainbridge, Ohio, October 28, 1845, a son of Jacob and Julia A. (Middleton) Tulleys. Both parents were natives of Ohio and his father, who was born in Paxton Township of Ross County in 1800, was a bricklayer and plasterer by trade. He followed that line until his death at Bainbridge. Of the children of these parents, seven in number, five are still living: Rebecca, seventy-three years of age and a maiden lady; Mary, widow of Vincent Vore, and living in Bourneville, Ohio; Henry C., William, of South Salem; and Emma, widow of George W. Gaultney.
In the village of Bainbridge Henry C. Tulleys spent his early days. He attended school during the winter terms until he was about fourteen. At the age of nine he lost his father and thereafter he had to expend his young strength in assisting in the support of the family. Thus his youth was one of considerable privation and with little leisure.
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He continued that routine until past sixteen years of age, and then, on July 8, 1862, enlisted in Company H of the Eighty-ninth Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry. That regiment served in the Army of the Tennessee, and participated altogether in about twenty battles. Mr. Tulleys was with his command faithfully and diligently discharging his duties as a soldier until after the close of the war. He received his honorable discharge June 20, 1865, as a corporal.
With the conclusion of his military career he returned to Bain- bridge, and then began learning the trade of plasterer and brick layer. He followed the trade for many years and eventually became a con- tractor and carried out a number of important contracts, including the plaster work in the Fayette County Courthouse.
Finally his health broke down under the continued strain of his business, and in 1887 he left his trade and became clerk for E. C. Rock- hold, whom he faithfully served for twenty years, and was the principal man in the business.
In August, 1873, Mr. Tulleys married Margaret A. Miden, who was born in Paxton township of Ross County January 9, 1850. Mrs. Tulleys grew up near Bainbridge, and was of German ancestry in the paternal line. Mr. and Mrs. Tulleys have two sons. Charles E., who was born in 1874 and was educated in the Bainbridge public schools, is now book- keeper in the Sears & Nichols Canning Company of Chillicothe; by his marriage to Mary C. Cameron he has two children, Grace being a gradu- ate of the high school and a brilliant young musician, and Charles H., who was born February 19, 1909. Frank M., the second son, is a grad- uate of the local schools and is now route clerk in the postoffice at Green- field, Ohio.
For many years Mr. Tulleys was closely affiliated with his old com- rades of the war. He did much to found and maintain Sergeant McKell Post, No. 42, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was a past commander. He attended many of the state and national encampments of the Grand Army. Politically he was a republican, and his fellow citizens entrusted to him the duties of several local offices. Mr. Tulleys died September 3, 1916.
LOUIS BREHMER. For at least forty years Louis Brehmer has been a factor in local business affairs at Chillicothe, and has gone through all the grades of service from boy clerk in a retail store to executive positions in several of the city's best known commercial establishments. What he has accomplished has been through his individual initiative and ability. and he is highly esteemed in the county seat not only for his accomplish- ments but for his unquestioned integrity in all his relations.
He was born December 22, 1861, in Ross County, and is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Scholl) Brehmer. His father was born in Ger- many, and on coming to America located at Chillicothe, where he followed his trade as a cooper for about twenty years. He finally retired from business and spent his last years in the enjoyment of a well earned compe- tence. Of his seven children, five are still living.
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The fifth in order of birth, Louis Brehmer grew up in Chillicothe, obtained a public school education, but when only fifteen years of age found work as clerk in a local grocery store. He spent nine years in that employment, and then turned his competent service and experience to other lines. For two years he was bookkeeper with the Union Shoe Manufacturing Company. In 1910 Mr. Brehmer became one of the active men in charge of McKell & Co.'s large wholesale and retail queens- ware house at Chillicothe, and has since been manager of the business and also looks after the office and the books of the concern. Besides this connection he is also vice president and treasurer of the Home Telephone Company.
Mr. Brehmer is a member of the Presbyterian Church and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He has done much in a public spirited way to promote good government especially in his home city. He served four years as a member of the Chillicothe City Council and for one term was president of that body. In politics he is a republican.
Mr. Brehmer married in Chillicothe Miss Clara Phillips. They have one son, Dr. H. Brehmer, who is now a specialist of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and rising young practitioner practicing at Chillicothe. .
CLINTON C. RILEY, M. D. An able and skilful physician, the late Clinton C. Riley, M. D., of Chillicothe, devoted his time and energies to the duties of his exacting profession, during his comparatively few years of active practice making rapid strides along the pathway of success. A son of James V. Riley, he was born in 1854, in Huntington Township, Ross County, of pioneer stock.
His paternal grandfather, James Riley, a native of the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, came to the Northwest Territory with Gen. Nathaniel Massie, the original owner of a portion of the land now included within the limits of Chillicothe. Securing a tract of wild land, he improved a homestead, and there spent his remaining days. His wife, whose maiden name was Kittie Dye, was born near Maysville, Kentucky, where her parents, companions of Daniel Boone, were pioneer settlers. .
Born in Ross County, Ohio, James V. Riley was reared to agricul- tural pursuits, and during his early manhood carried on general farming in Huntington Township for two years. Subsequently purchasing land near Massieville, he made a specialty of raising small fruits, being one of the first to cultivate strawberries for the market. He succeeded in that branch of horticulture, which he continued until his death, at the age of seventy-six years. He married Elizabeth Myer, who was born near Lyndon, Buckskin Township, where her parents were early settlers. She died in 1904, aged seventy-three years.
Obtaining the rudiments of his education in the common schools, Clinton C. Riley subsequently attended Prof. J. H. Poe's School in Chil- licothe, and the Lebanon Normal School. Determining to enter the medical profession, but without the means to defray his college expenses,
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he taught school several terms, in the meantime studying medicine for a year under the preceptorship of Dr. G. S. Franklin. Going then to Columbus, he was graduated from the Starling Medical College with the class of 1880. Immediately locating at Massieville, Doctor Riley met with encouraging success from the start. Coming from there to Chilli- cothe, he built up an excellent practice, remaining in this city until his death, in 1893, while yet in manhood's prime.
Doctor Riley married October 20, 1887, Miss Josephine Griesheimer, of whom a brief personal account immediately follows. The doctor was a member of the Ross County Medical Society.
JOSEPHINE (GRIESHEIMER) RILEY, M. D. A woman of high mental attainments, talented and cultured, Josephine G. Riley, M. D., of Chilli- cothe, has met with eminent success in her professional career, and is giving the best of her life to the relief of suffering humanity. A daugh- ter of the late Esq. Adam Griesheimer, she was born in Chillicothe, on the paternal side coming from noble French ancestry.
Her paternal grandfather, Jacob Griesheimer, was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, where his immigrant ancestor settled on leaving France, his native land, just after the bloody revolution that caused so many of the French people to seek refuge in other countries, and to there lose their identity by assuming other names, the doctor's French ancestor having taken that of Griesheimer. Jacob Griesheimer, accompanied by his family, sailed for America in 1848, after an ocean voyage of sixty- five days landing in New York on the 15th day of June. Making his way to Buffalo, he there embarked on a lake boat for Cleveland, and from that city came by way of the canal to Chillicothe, being five days on the canal. Purchasing a tract of land that is now included within the city limits, he engaged in truck gardening, and continued a resident of the city until his death, at the age of seventy-six years. His wife, Annie Margaret Griesheimer, survived him, attaining the age of eighty-eight years. She reared seven children, as follows: Margaret, - -, Martin, Adam, Peter, Catherine, and Conrad.
Born and reared in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, Esq. Adam Gries- heimer attended the public schools regularly and received a liberal educa- tion. . Coming with his parents to Chillicothe in 1848, he embarked in mercantile pursuits, and conducted a profitable business for many years. After retiring from the mercantile business, he served as justice of the peace, which position he held for many years. He believed in a liberal education, and mastered law by self-study. He died in 1906, having been a resident of Chillicothe fifty-eight years.
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His wife, whose maiden name was Caroline Feik, was born in Munich, Germany, and came to this country with her parents, landing in Boston, from there going to Buffalo, thence by way of Sandusky coming to Chillicothe. Her father, Mr. Feik, was a veterinary, and remained in Chillicothe until after the death of his first wife. He subsequently mar- ried again, and moved to Marietta, Ohio, where he spent the remainder of his life. Doctor Riley was one of a family of ten children, as follows:
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Louisa, Charles, Charlotte, Adam, Jr., Catharine, Albert C., Caroline, Josephine, Helena, and Frederick.
Louisa Griesheimer married John T. Myers, and died in 1891, leaving two sons, Herbert A. and Harry E. Her son Herbert A. is serving at present as private secretary to Hon. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior.
Caroline I. Griesheimer received a liberal education when young, and after teaching in the public schools for a time, she served as deputy clerk in the Probate Court office. After successfully passing the United States Civil Service examination, she was appointed to a clerkship in the Treas- ury Department at Washington, 1891. The Civil Service Commission asked for her transfer to the commission's rolls where she is engaged in educational and legal work. She is the only woman in the employ of the Civil Service Commission having the title of examiner.
Miss Griesheimer being a woman of great force of character and a brilliant scholar took up the study of law, and graduated with honor from the Washington College of Law, receiving the degrees of Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws. She has been admitted to practice in the Supreme Courts of the District of Columbia, the Appellate Courts, and the Supreme Court of the United States. She also graduated from the Columbian College, receiving the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Master of Science.
Miss Griesheimer believes that every woman should be given a sound and practical education. She takes a deep interest in educational mat- ters, the Child Welfare Movement, Child Labor Laws, Juvenile Courts, Social Economy, and matters affecting the welfare of humanity.
Josephine Griesheimer acquired her preliminary education in the public schools of Chillicothe, and at the age of sixteen years secured a position as teacher in the public schools of Adelphi. She afterwards obtained a similar position in Chillicothe, and taught successfully in this city until her marriage with Dr. Clinton C. Riley, of whom a brief sketch may be found on another page of this volume. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Riley resumed her former profession, and for three and a half years taught school. Resolving to enter upon a medical career, she entered the medical department of the National University at Wash- ington, where she was graduated with the class of 1901. She ranked very high as a scholar while there, winning the faculty gold medal by keeping at the head of all of her classes during her entire course. In June. 1901, Dr. Josephine Riley passed the examinations of the State Medical Board of Ohio, and has since been actively engaged in the prac- tice of her profession in Chillicothe, where she has established a large and lucrative patronage.
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