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came the parents of eight children,-Mary, George, Frederick, William, John, Christian and Henry. Gertrude died when young and George died of camp fever while serving his country in the war of 1812, but the other children lived to a good old age and were married. Adam Goul died on the 12th of October, 1845, aged eighty-four years, and his wife was called to her final rest on the 13th of November, 1846. in her eighty-third year. They were members of the Presbyterian church, and were numbered among the prominent old pioneers of Champaign county.
Christian Goul, the father of him whose name introduces this re- view, received his education in the county of his nativity. After his marriage he located on government land in Union township, Champaign county, where he remained for about three years, and during that time our subjeet was born. Mr. Goul thence returned to Goshen township, later made his home in Marysville. Union county, for about one year. for three years was a resident of Richwood, Ohio, and in 1854 again returned to Goshen township. His death occurred in Mutual, Union township, September 6, 1879, passing away in the faith of the Meth- odist Episcopal church, of which he was long a worthy member. In the early days his residence was always the home of the ministers, and he did all in his power to promote the cause of Christianity among his fellow men. He also assisted materially in the erection of the house of worship at Mutual. Nearly his entire life was spent within the boundaries of Champaign county, and all who knew him entertained for him the highest respect and esteem, for his enire life was above reproach. In his early manhood he voted with the Whig party, and after the organization of the new Republican party he joined its ranks.
Mr. Goul was married in Goshen township. Miss Ruth Lawson be- coming his wife. She was born in Brown county, Ohio. December 8. 1806, but at three years of age was brought to Goshen township. Champaign county, and here she lived to the age of ninety-two years.
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Her father, Thomas Lawson, was a native of Pennsylvania, but sub- sequently removed to Brown county, Ohio, and in 1809 took up his abode in Goshen township. He was of German descent, and his wife was of English origin. Mrs. Goul was the second of their eight chil- dren, and the eldest daughter. Eight children were born unto the union of Mr. and Mrs. Goul, namely : Luellyn, a farmer of Madison county, Indiana: Adam, a resident of Union township. Champaign county, Ohio; John, of this review; Newton W., also a farmer of Union town- ship: Jane, the wife of John Strock, a farmer of Johnson township, Champaign county ; Saralı, deceased; Rachel, also deceased ; and Anna, the widow of Thomas Thompson, a resident of Union township.
John Goul, the subject of this sketch, attended the subscription schools of his neighborhood during his early youth, and was afterward a student in the district schools. He remained at home and assisted his father in the work of the home farm until after his marriage, which occurred on the 28th of September, 1854. Miss Susan F. Coffenberger becoming his wife. She was born near Williamsport, Maryland, on the 23d of December, 1835, a daughter of George and Elizabeth (Turner) Coffenberger, both natives of Virginia. The father died in Maryland, and afterward, in 1845, the mother came with her family to Champaign county, locating in Union township. Mrs. Goul was then about ten years of age, and she has spent the remainder of her life in this locality. She is the sixth in order of birth of her parents' seven children.
Mr. and Mrs. Goul began their domestic life in a little log cabin on the farm on which they now reside, which continued as their place of abode for six years, and then, in 1860, they removed to Union town- ship, where they built a small log cabin and cleared a farm. Selling their possessions there in 1864, he purchased another farm in the same township, and on the 2d of May. of the same year, enlisted for service
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in the Civil war, joining Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a private. He enlisted for one hundred days' service, and on the expiration of that period received an hon- orable discharge and returned to his home and family in Union town- ship. In 1869 he traded his place there for the old homestead, which has been in the possession of the Lawson and Goul families since 1815, and here he has one hundred and fifty-five acres of excellent land, all under a fine state of cultivation, thirty-seven and a half acres in Union township, which farm is also well improved. He is also one of the stockholders in the Farmers' Elevator at Mechanicsburg.
Five children have been born unto the union of our subject and wife, two sons and three daughters, namely: Ella, who was born September 3. 1855, and died on the 9th of October, of the same year ; George, who was born April 25, 1857, and married Ollie Wyant, of Madison county, Indiana; Isabel R., who was born July 3, 1859, and died on the 28th of July, 1880; Parthenia F., who was born Novem- ber 7, 1861, and died October 16, 1870; and Walter S., who was born February 18, 1868, and married Louisa Pullens. They reside in Colum- bus, Ohio, where he is employed in a steel plant. Mr. Goul has been a life-long Republican, his first presidential vote having been cast for Fremont, and he twice voted for Lincoln. He has been the choice of his party for many township offices, but he would never allow his name to be used as a candidate for county offices. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Mechanicsburg, in which they are active and prominent workers.
CALVIN R. HUNTER.
The business stability of Mechanicsburg has been augmented by the successful career of Calvin R. Hunter, senior member of the firm of C. R. Hunter & Company, grain merchants, and president of the
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Central Bank. A native son of Mechanicsburg. Mr. Hunter was born September 15. 1857. a son of Vincent and Sabina ( Weaber ) Hunter. the former born in Clark county, Ohio, in 1819, and the latter in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, in 1829. The maternal grandfather, William Hunter, was a native of Virginia, and upon starting out to fashion his own career located in Clark county, Ohio, of which he was one of the earliest settlers. An equally worthy and successful pioneer of Clark county was the maternal grandfather, Philip Weaber, a native of Penn- sylvania, and who in later life removed from Clark to Champaign county, Ohio.
Following the marriage of the parents of Mr. Hunter they took up their residence in Goshen township, Champaign county, Ohio, where the elder Hunter attained to considerable prominence in general affairs, and by reason of well applied industry accumulated a competence. He was chiefly interested in farming and milling, occupations in which he was well versed and progressive, and for many years he was a large dealer in grain in Mechanicsburg. His death. in 1884. at the age of sixty-five years, removed one of the substantial men of the community and a stanch supporter of the Republican party. The wife, who sur- vives him, is still a resident of Mechanicsburg, where also live her two surviving children, one of whom is Mrs. Laura Burnham.
The earliest business inclinations of Calvin R. Hunter were nat- urally along the lines adopted by his father, and while still a youth attending the public schools he gained a fair knowledge of grain and general elevator trade. Eventually he embarked upon an independent venture, which was none other than the beginning of the present busi- ness of C. R. Hunter & Company, established in 1890, and which has since known uninterrupted prosperity. So long and extensive an ex- perience has qualified Mr. Hunter to speak with authority upon the grain possibilities of Ohio, a state resource in which he has unbounded
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faith when accompanied by expert management. Mr. Hunter is also interested in general farming and stock-raising, and he has been presi- dent of the Central Bank since January 2, 1893. Although a stanch upholder of Republican principles and issues, he has never entered the arena of political preferment, his time having been devoted principally to the discharge of business obligations. Fraternally he is associated with the Knights Templar. He married Lizzie Burnham, daughter of D. D. Burnham, in 1890, and of this union there are two children, Eldon and Norvell. Mr. Hunter is a business man of unquestioned1 integrity, and his reputation 'in the community is in keeping with his public spirit and devotion to the general well being.
CLAUDE C. CRAIG, M. D.
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As one of the representative young members of the medical pro- fession of Champaign county, of which he is a native son. Dr. Craig assuredly merits a place in this compilation. He is successfully engaged in the practice of his chosen profession in the city of Urbana, where he is associated with Dr. Harry Cook, under the firm name of Drs. Cook & Craig, and to them is also due much credit for the maintenance of a high-grade sanitarium and hospital in this city, the same proving of great value to the community and being conducted with marked ability, while its equipments are of the most modern and approved order, facili- tating the treatment of varied classes of disease and effective surgical work.
Dr. Craig is a representative of one of the pioneer families of the county, having been born on the parental homestead, in Concord town- ship, on the 18th of September, 1873, the son of Harrison Craig, an
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honored citizen of Urbana, to whom individual reference is made on other pages of this work. To the article in question we refer the reader for further data concerning the genealogy of our present subject. The Doctor was reared under the sturdy discipline of the farm and received his early educational training in the district schools, after which he entered the Urbana high school, where he completed the course and properly fitted himself for the technical study and reading which pre- pared him for his chosen life work. For a period of three years he was employed in the egg-case factory of his father, and then began reading medicine under the direction of Dr. H. C. Houston, of Urbana. In 1894 he was matriculated in the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, where he was graduated, with the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine, in March, 1897, after which, in order to more fully fortify him- self for the practical work of his profession, he passed one year as in- terne in the Huron Street Hospital in Cleveland. where he gained ex- ceptionally valuable clinical experience. He then returned to Urbana, where he has since been actively engaged in the practice of his pro- fession and where he has gained prestige as a finely qualified and discriminating physician and surgeon. while his genial personality has been a distinct factor in promoting his popularity in both professional and social circles. As has already been stated, Dr. Craig is associated in practice with Dr. Harry Cook, and they are proprietors of the Ur- bana Sanitarium, whose headquarters are the old Hotel Sowles, a commodious and conveniently arranged building. which has been fitted up with special reference to the use to which it is now applied. The sanitarium has the equipment of a first-class hospital, having appliances for hot air and other baths, the best of electrical devices, static, galvanic and faradic, for the treatment of nervous disorders and other diseases, and a specially efficacious apparatus utilized for the treatment of catarrhal conditions. The sanitarium has comfortable and cheerful
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rooms for the accommodation of patients, who may here receive the best of attention in every respect, the institution being a valuable acqui- sition to the city and being admirably conducted.
In his political allegiance Dr. Craig gives his support to the Re- publican party. but he has never sought public office, the only official incumbency he has retained being that of health officer of Urbana, in which capacity he served for a period of two years. He is an able exponent of the theories and methods of Hahnemann, keeps thoroughly in touch with the advances made in the sciences of medicine and surgery and is one of the representative members of his school of practice in this section of the state.
On the 14th of June, 1899. Dr. Craig was united in marriage to Miss Stella Talbott, daughter of George A. Talbott, of Urbana. Ohio. Fraternally the Doctor is identified with the time-honored order of Free and Accepted Masons, holding membership in Champaign Lodge.
DAVID CLEM.
There is no element which has entered into our composite na- tional fabric which has been of more practical strength, value and utility than that furnished by the sturdy, persevering and honorable sons of Germany, and from that nationality our subject is descended. His pa- ternal great-grandfather was born in the fatherland. but when a young man left his home across the sea and came to America, taking up his abode in the Old Dominion, and in that commonwealth his son David was born. The latter became the grandfather of our subject, and his son Isaac was also a native of Virginia, born in Shenandoah county, where he was reared and married. In 1820 he came to Champaign county, Ohio, locating on a farm in Johnson township, but in 1853 he
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sold that tract and bought a farm west of Saint Paris, where he died at the age of seventy-five years. His political support was given to the Democracy. For his wife he chose Rebecca Crabill. also a native of Virginia, as was her father, John Crabill. She reached the age of seventy-nine years, and by her marriage to Mr. Clem became the mother of nine children, six sons and three daughters, all of whom, with the exception of one, who died at the age of four years, grew to maturity. and five sons and two daughters are still living, our subject being the third child and second son in order of birth.
David Clem, of this review, was born on the home farm in John- son township. Champaign county, on the 30th of September. 1836. During his youth he attended the primitive school of the neighbor- hood during the winter months, while the summer seasons were spent in assisting his father in the work of the farm, thus continuing until he reached his majority. He then started out to make his own way in the world, and for a time thereafter worked for neighboring farmers by the day or month. For about six years he was also employed at the shoemaker's trade in Saint Paris, after which he purchased a farm in Johnson township, near Millerstown, on which he made his home for about one year, on the expiration of which period he sold that tract and purchased one hundred acres in Adams and Johnson townships. Four years later he again sold his farm. after which he removed to Caldwell county, Missouri, and in Davis county, that state, purchased a farm. Returning after a time to Champaign county, he became the owner of one hundred and thirty-five acres in Urbana township, but after a residence there of five years he sold that tract and purchased his present homestead, consisting of three hundred acres, in Salem township, and in addition he also owns one hundred and sixty-seven acres in the same township, two hundred and seven acres southeast of of West Liberty and one hundred acres in Johnson township, thus mak-
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ing his landed possessions consist of seven hundred and seventy-four acres. Starting out in life a poor boy, he has steadily worked his way upward. gaining success and winning public confidence.
Mr. Clem was married in 1876, when Miss Romelia Perry became his wife. She was born in Virginia, but when ten years of age ac- companied her parents to the Buckeye state, the family locating in Clark county. Her grandfather, Abram Perry, was a native of Penn- sylvania and was of Dutch descent, while her maternal grandfather, Henry F. Hensley, was a native of Virginia and was a member of a prominent old southern family. Mrs. Clem's parents. George and Mar- garet (Hensley ) Perry, were also natives of the Old Dominion, but in 1865 they came to Clark county, Ohio, where the father died in 1868, and he is still survived by his widow. They were the parents of nine children, five daughters and four sons and seven of the number grew to years of maturity. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Clem has been blessed with six children .- five of whom are living: Joseph, born October 20, 1877: Samuel, born January 24, 1879: Pearl. October 16, 1881 ; Ivan, October 17, 1883; and Blanch, born March 15. 1891. One daugh- ter, Grace, died in infancy. Since attaining to mature years Mr. Clem has given his political support to the Democracy. He stands on the side of progress, advancement and civilization, favoring education, re- ligion, law and order, and whatever makes for the good of the people as individuals and as communities.
JAMES W. ANDERSON.
Mr. Anderson was born in Augusta county, Virginia, on the 6th of November, 1827, being the second in order of birth of the eight children of John and Fannie (Clark) Anderson, the former of whom
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was born in the same county of the Old Dominion state, on the 12th of December. 1788, while the latter was born in Clarke county, Virginia, on the 4th of August, 1804. John Anderson was a son of James and Isabella (King) Anderson, the former of whom was born in the pic- turesque Shenandoah valley of Virginia, in 1749, while his wife was a native of Pennsylvania, where she was born in 1758. James Anderson was a son of James. Sr., who married a Miss McLanehan. He was born in Ireland, being of Scotch-Irish lineage, and came to America in his youth, his parents having removed from Scotland to the north of Ireland in 1665. Upon coming to America he located in Pennsylvania, where his marriage occurred. and thence he went on an exploring ex- pedition through the Shenandoah valley, having organized a company for this purpose and having started from Philadelphia about the year 1725. After making due investigation he returned to his home in Pennsylvania, whence he later removed with his family to the Shen- andoah valley, being one of the first settlers in that beautiful section of the Old Dominion. During the early days there he was an active participant in many sanguinary conflicts with the Indians and there he passed the remainder of his honorable and useful life. His son James, grandfather of our subject, served with marked distinction as a soldier in the Continental line during the war of the Revolution. His wife, Isabella (King) Anderson, was a daughter of John and Isabella (Christian) King. of Scotch-Irish stock. Fannie (Clark) Anderson, mother of the subject of this review, was a daughter of Joseph and Mary ( Reynolds) Clark, both natives of Maryland and the latter being a daughter of John Reynolds. Her maternal grandfather. John Reynolds, was captain of the first company organized in Washington county, Maryland, at the inception of the war of the Revolution and held this office in the Sixth Regiment of Maryland Volunteers. He was killed by Indians on the Ohio river in 1799. His father, John
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Reynolds, a son of a Scotchman, emigrated to America in 1714, and was the original progenitor of the family in the New World. He was a Presbyterian of the stern and unbending Scotch type and his wife was a member of the established church of England, she having been born in Ireland, of Welsh ancestry. They were married in Ireland in the year 1681, and came to the United States in 1714, locating in Penn- sylvania.
John and Fannie ( Clark) Anderson became the parents of eight children, namely: Mary H., deceased: James W., the subject of this sketch ; George D., a resident of Augusta county, Virginia : Jane C., the widow of Henry Coyner- and now residing in Augusta county, Vir- ginia : Isabella A., deceased ; John J., of whom specific mention is made elsewhere in this work; Norval W., who was a valiant soldier in the war of the Rebellion, in which he sacrificed his life in defense of the Union, having been killed in the battle of Stone River in 1863; and Sarah M .. the widow of Captain George H. Killian, who served on the staff of Stonewall Jackson. The parents of this family passed their entire lives in Virginia, where the father devoted his life to farming.
James W. Anderson was reared and educated in Virginia, where he secured such advantages as were afforded in the common schools, so fortifying himself as to become eligible for pedagogic work, having been a successful teacher for some time in his youthful days. He de- voted his attention to agricultural pursuits in his native state until he had attained the age of twenty-nine years, when, in 1856, he came to Champaign county, Ohio, and took up his permanent abode in Urbana, where he established himself in the drug business, in which he con- tinued for the long period of forty years, being one of the pioneer busi- ness men of the city at the time of his retirement, in 1896, and having attained a competency through his able and discriminating efforts. A man of marked intellectuality and unswerving integrity in all the re-
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lations of life, he has commanded the unbounded confidence and esteem of the community in which he has passed so many years of his life, and here, in well earned retirement from active business, he rests secure in the regard of old and tried friends. Though he has never sought the honors of political office he has not been unmindful of his civic duties and has given his support to the Republican party since 1861, and prior to that time was a Whig. He and his wife are zealous adherents of the Methodist Episcopal church and are members of the First M. E. church of Urbana, with whose work they have been identified for many years.
On the 19th of December, 1872, Mr. Anderson was united in mar- riage to Miss Caroline Baldwin, the daughter of Judge Samuel Vance and Catherine (VanMeter ) Baldwin. Our subject and his wife have no children.
Samuel V. Baldwin. father of Mrs. Anderson. was born in Hamp- shire county, Virginia. being a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Wilson) Baldwin. the latter of whom was a granddaughter of Captain Wilson, who distinguished himself in connection with the Indian wars both prior and subsequent to the war of the Revolution. Samuel V. Baldwin was a lad of ten years at the time when his parents removed from the Old Dominion to Clark county, Ohio, where they were numbered among the early pioneers. Here he was reared to maturity, having such edu- cational advantages as were afforded in the primitive schools of the locality and period and effectively supplementing this by a most devoted and careful self-application and study. He studied law and ably fitted himself for the practice of his profession. He came to Urbana about the year 1835, becoming one of the distinguished members of the early bar of the county, where he was held in the highest esteem. He held preferment as prosecuting attorney of Champaign county and for eleven years was incumbent of the office of probate judge of the county, being the first probate judge of the county after the office was created. His
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administration was one of signal ability and honor, and his death oc- curred just after his re-election. His political support was originally given to the Whig party, but he became a loyal adherent of the Repub- lican party at the time of its organization and was thereafter an uncom- promising supporter of its principles and policies. Judge Baldwin en- tered into eternal rest in 1861, at the age of fifty-five years, his widow surviving until 1881, when she passed away, at the age of seventy-one years. Of their eight children seven attained maturity and four are living at the present time.
MRS. MARIA PATRICK.
The venerable lady whose name initiates this sketch is certainly worthy of representation in a volume which has to do with those who have lived and wrought to goodly ends within the borders of Cham- paign county, for not only is she one of the pioneers of this county but is a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of the state. She has now reached the age of nearly four score years and ten, and is a veritable "mother in Israel," revered by all who know her and having within her mental ken a purview of the marvelous changes which have been wrought in this section of the Union during the flight of many years. She retains her home in the city of Urbana and is undoubtedly the oldest living pioneer of the county, a noble type of those true-hearted and courageous women who contributed in so large a measure to the development and material prosperity of this locality.
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