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Henry Hursh was born January 17, 1824, in Wayne Township, and is the son of Martin and Susannah Hursh, who came to this eoanty about the year 1823. They were natives of Pennsylvania, and on coming here settled in the south-east quarter of Section 20, Wayne Township, about nine miles north of Hamilton, where they resided for a number of years. In addition to his occupation as a farmer he was also engaged as a distiller. Both he and his wife are now dead, the father reaching the age of eighty-seven, and the mother seventy-five. Henry Hursh was married October 13, 1847, in Madison Town- ship, to Susan C. Snyder, daughter of John and Susan- mah Snyder, who came to this county at a very early period. She was born October 3, 1826. They have four children. Eliza J. Halderman was born October 26, 1848; John A., February 6, 1852; Samuel M. S., November 19, 1853; Mary C. A. Hinkle, October 26, 1858. John Snyder was a teamster in the War of 1812. The cold was so intense at one time, that the men formed a circle in the snow, and kept up a lively walk all night to keep them from freezing to death. He narrowly escaped from drowning in crossing a floating bridge of logs, having scarcely reached the other side with his four-horse team before the bridge floated down the river. Mr. Snyder was eighty-two years and ten months old when he died.
Henry Hersh was brought up a farmer until he en- terad the tailor shop of John Grismere as an apprentice. In the Spring and Summer of 1844 Mr. Hursh was employed as a clerk in a dry-goods anl grocery store by an uncle of his in Preble County. Business did not prove very brisk, so he concluded to make a change. In the Fall he tanght a term in the Nine-Mile Jistriet in Wayne Township, receiving forty dollars for thirteen weeks. In 1845 he set up a tailor shop in Trenton, meeting with good success. In 1846 he removed to Jacksouburg, continuing in the same business until 1851. Finding that his health was becoming impaired. he aban- doned the trade and went back to farming. Mr. Harsh is passionately fond of music. He could sing almost any thing at five years of age, and at ten learned how to handle the fife and flute. Applying himself to the study of vocal music during the Winter season of the year, he
Jonas Heek was born August 20, 1805, in Maryland, and is the son of John Heck and Margaret Wolf. They came to this county in 1805. The grandfather, Frederick Wolf, was in the Revolutionary War, and was paid off in continental money, but so much had it depreciated that he gave one hundred dollars after the war for a black silk handkerchief. Jonas Heck was married on the 24th of May, 1827, to Magdalene Buck, daughter of Christopher Buck and Eve Hayse, who became residents of this county in 1815. They have had eleven children. Salome Kerr was born December 24. 1827; Elizabeth Shortle, same day, now dead; Catherine Sorber, September 11, 1830; Henry, November 23, 1832, died August 4, 1851; Phebe, February 18, 1835, died July 7, 1846: Ann, August 4, 1837, died October 7, 1838; Benjamin F., July 23, 1839 ; Francis M., December 9, 1841 ; John. May 8, 1844; Magdalene J., August 26, 1846, died August 6, 1851; Jonas, September 2, 1549, died July 20, 1851. Mr. Heck was supervisor for two years, aud was superintendent of the free pikes for two years. He is a farmer. He has been a member of the old-school Baptist Church since 1850, and his wife, since she was sixteen, has been a member of the Lutheran Church.
Henry Kramer was born in Germany August 21, 1831. His parents were Frank and Eve Kramer. The latter had previously been married. and her name was Moulter. Mr. Kramer settled in this county in 1854, and was married the day after Easter in 1855, in Ham- ilton, to Mary Ann Willem, daughter of Frederick Willem and Margaret Glass. She was born in Germany Angust 1, 1831. They have had four children. Ber- mard was born September 22, 1856; Ida, July 13, 1861; Frank, March 4, 1864; and Henry, May 80, 1871.
Amos Kemp was born on the farm on which he now lives, Range 4, Township 2, Section 17, in 1839. He is a farmer, and is the son of Daniel Kemp and Agnes Wilson, both now being dead. He was married in 18si) Julia Randall, daughter of Joseph Kandall.
John Barnet Loug was born in New York State in 1812, being the son of Barnet Long and Christina Loue. They came from Ponu-yivenia. He is a farmer. He settled in this county May 10, 1822. and was married in 1833 to Delilah Ann Meneely, daughter of George an! Delilah Mencely, who was born in Madison Township in 1814. They have had seven children. Elizabeth was
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born October 23, 1834; Mary Ann, February 1, 1836; William B., in 1837; John W., in. 1842; Eliza, in 1847; Hetty, in 1850; and Ellen, in 1854. Mr. Long was supervisor in 1877, 1880, and 1881. His father, Barnet Long, was in the Revolutionary War, when eighteen years old, as drum-major. William B. Long was in the war of 1861 three years, and John W. Long was in the hundred-days' service in 1864. William B. Long hin- self was in the Thirty-fifth Regiment.
Hampton H. Long was born in the township he now lives in on the 8th of Jannary, 1843. He is the son of John G. Long and Hannah Squier, both natives of the township. He married Maria E. S. Snively, daughter of Henry Snively and Catherine Hirsh. Mrs. Loug was born in Wayne Township, January 9, 1850, and was married to Mr. Long, October 14, 1868. They have four children: Henry D., Letha S., Fannie M., and John G. Mr. Long is a Mason, and has risen to a very high rank in that society. He has taken thirty-two degrees, and there is but one for him to attain. That can only be procured by going to Edinburgh, Scotland. Mr. Long is a large stockholler, and has on his place the most remarkable mound in the county. It is elsewhere described.
James Law, farmer, was born in Virginia, November 8, 1802, and settled in this county in 1804. He was married first to Elizabeth Shroyer, and second, to Chris- tian A. Hinds. His children are John F., born Febru- ary 12, 1833; Calvin D., April 9, 1834; Mary Ann Smith, February 9, 1837; William, November 3, 1838; Jane, April 19, 1842; Catherine J., March 29, 1848; Christiana, September 23, 1851; James, August 1, 1854; and Elizabeth, November 1, 1856. Mr. Law's father, Francis Law, was drafted in the British army, and de- serted to the Americans. Of Mr. Law's children, Calvin D., William, and Jane are dead.
John. L. Long was born in Lemon Township, Decem- ber 30, 1831, and is the son of Silas Long and Sarah Marshall. The father came here in 1809, but th. mother was born lere. He is a farmer. He was married on the 29th of December, 1853, in Madison Township, at her father's house, to Susan Shartle, daughter of Daniel Shartle and Sarah Lingle, who arrived in this neighbor- hood in 1814. She was born June 27, 1833. They have had five children. Sallie E. Marts was born Sep- tem.ber 22, 1855; Samuel M., September 18, 1857: Mary Ellen Smith, November 14. 1860; Ida May, June 6, 1864; and William B., March 12. 1869. Mr. Long has been a school director for fifteen years. His father, Silas Long, belonged to a light infantry company during the War of 1812, but was never called out. His grand- father. David Long, was sealped by the Indians, but was not killed. Silas Long came to this county from Penn- sylvania at the age of twelve, settling here on the farm where his son, John L. Long, now lives. When he eume there was not a stick cut on the place, but he sue-
ceeded in clearing the farm by hard work. At the time of Morgan's raid John L. Long went out with the militia to catch him, but did not succeed.
Samuel M. Long was born April 14, 1820, in Lemon Township, and was the son of Silas and Sarah ( Marshall) Long. The father was a native of Virginia, and came to Ohio in the fifth year of his age, living in Kentucky before coming to this State. His mother was born in the county. His father was a farmer, dying in Lemon Township, where he had taken up a section of land, on the 27th of October, 1879, aged cighty-two. Mr. Long was educated in the common seltools, and remained at home on the farm until he was twenty-two years of age. He learned the blacksmith's trade, at which he worked in Middletown for two years. He then engaged in farm- ing in 1846, leasing a farm in Madison Township, which he now occupies-one hundred and fifty acres. He deals in stock, grain, horses, etc. In 1872 he was elected county commissioner, and re-elected in 1876, serving al- together six years with credit. He is an active and ear- Dest politician, attending all conventions, county and State. He is a Democrat. During the war he took an active part in aiding the government.
He married Miss Lydia A. Walter, the daughter of John S. and Anna Walter, of New Jersey, then of Mad- ison Township. Both parents are dead. Mr. Walter was an excellent jeweler by trade, and followed that oc- cupation for many years. He was of the same family as the first mayor of New York, Robert Walter, of whom Mr. Long has an oil-painting in his house. Mr. and Mrs. Long have three living children, and two dead. The oldest. Philip S., died in 1865. The other children are John W., Charles H., and William S.
David Marts was born in Madison Township, Barler County, June 15, 1815. His parents were Abraham Marts and Mary Reed, who moved into this county in 1808. His grandfather, David Marts, was at the battle of Brandywine, and Abraham, his father, was in the War of 1812. The latter moved into the township when very little had been done towards rescuing it from the primi- tive condition in which it was first known, and the log cabins were some distance apart.
Mr. Marts has been three tintes married. The first time was to Mary Snyder, daughter of Samuel Snyder and Catherine Weaver. Her parents came into the county in 1807. The second was to Catherine Snyder, daughter of Daniel and Catherine Suyder. Her parents came here in 1815. The third wife was Elizabeth Selett. daughter of Daniel Schott and Sarah Lingle. By these unions he has become the father of eleven children. Abram was born in 1836; Sammel, in 1838; Catherine Carson, 1840; Mary Gebhart, 1842; Sarah Jobs, 1844; John W., 1846; Snyder, 1818; David J., 1850; Willard, 1852; Charles, 1854; and Ida Long, 1856. Mr. Marts has been township treasurer twenty years, county .com- missioner six years, and in 1860 and 1880 appraised the
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real estate of Madison Township. He is a farmer. All his children are dead except Mary Gebhart, David J., and Ida Long.
Mrs. Gertrude Martin was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Her parents were Garret M. White and Rebecca Lippineott. Her grandfather Lippincott and her father were both in the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Martin has had eight children. John was born August 16, 1830, and died at three years of age; Lucien, Feb- ruary 4, 1833; Rebecca, November 5, 1855; William O., March 24, 1838; Mary E., September 16, 1840; Garret M. W., February 26, 1844; Francis M. and George B., April 27, 1846, and Martha Jane, August 28, 1848. William O. Martin was a member of the Eighty-third Ohio, and lost one finger at the battle of Arkansas Post, and Garret M. W. Martin was taken sick at Paris, Kentucky, and was discharged before the close of the war. Two of Mrs. Martin's cousins, Amos and Derrick Woolley, were in the Mexican War.
John Moyer was born in Gratis Township, Preble County, Ohio, July 22, 1826, being the son of John Moyer and Catherine Shaffer. His wife, Catherine Smith, was the daughter of John Smith and Mary Judy, and was born in Montgomery County, December 14, 1828, where they were married in 1859. They have three children. Ida Eleanor was born October 21, 1860; Mary Catherine, June 9, 1863; John C. L., May 11, 1865. Mr. Moyer was supervisor for four years.
John H. Lingle was born on the farm where he now lives August 8, 1837, being the son of Thomas Lingle and Mary Barbara Haroff, who came to Butler County in 1806. He is a farmer. He was married on the 24th of December, 1863, to Elizabeth Jane Mizely, daughter of Adam Clark Mizely and Lydia, who came here in the year 1845, from Pennsylvania. Mr. Mizely, who was a Methodist minister, and three brothers-in-law were in the War of the Rebellion from 1862 to the close of the war. First Sergeant Abraham Mizely died at Camp Dennison, at the age of twenty-five years; Augustus Mizely and William H. Mizely are dead. the latter at twenty years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Lingle have five children. Cath- erine E. was born April 15, 1865; Mary Susan, Septem- ber 13, 1867; Lydia Eleanor, June 10, 1871; Ida May, January 9, 1873; and Charles Sandford, August 7, 1880. John Lingle. Mr. Lingle's grandfather, came from Penn- sylvania in the year 1806, and lived under an oak tree for six weeks, as his neighbors were too few to raise a cabin sooner. He played with the Indiaus for two years. Bears, wolves, aud paatliers were in abundance then in Madison Township. Barbara Lingle has a German book, called Nicodemus, published in 1734, and another called the Martyrs, published in 1740.
Christian Mosinrio, the son of Christian Mosiman, Sen., and Barbara Smith, was born in Milford, Town- ship, March 12, 1841, and was married on the 16th of November, 1865, to Anna Kinsinger, daughter of John
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Kinsinger and Barbara P. Smith. She was born in Fairfield Township, May 24, 1848, her parents coming here in 1831, as did those also of Mr. Kinsinger. They have eleven children. Mary E., the oldest, was born August 17, 1866; Samuel, December 17, 1867; Salvena, June 26, 1869; Levina, June 26, 1870; Bar- bara Helen, February 6, 1872; Leanna, October 13, 1873; Louisa, April 7, 1875; John Reuben, Decem- ber 21, 1876; Edison and William, October 15, 1878, and Ezra, November 28, 1880. Mr. Mosiman has been school director, being elected in 1879. He is a farmer, and has a well-cultivated place. He is a member of the Mennonite Church.
Jacob Fred. Muller, born at Hombareh, in Germany, is the son of Jacob Muller and Elizabeth Deuscher. The father died in Germany, but the mother came to this country in 1860. Her son had reached here in 1855. He was married in Dayton on the 9th of May, 1872, to Louisa Margaret Regner, daughter of Caspar Regner and Johanna Hafer. She is a native of Gail- dorf, Germany, where her parents both died. They have no children. By a previous wife he had one child, Catherine, born on the 27th of November, 1855. Mrs. Maller was also previously married. Her husband was Philip Thielmann, and she had by him three children. Philip was born September 19, 1863; Anna, October 26, 1864; and Louis, January 7, 1871. They are all living with Mr. Muller, who is a hard-working farmer. His father died after leaving Germany, when the son re- turned and brought over his mother. His wife was left an orphan at the age of fifteen, and went out to service, at which she stayed for nineteen years, when her sister- in-law sent her the money to come to this country. She is a member of the Lutheran Church, and her husband a member of the German Reformed.
Charles Miller, son of Matthias and Bashaby Miller, both old settlers of this county, was born in Wayne Township, April 2, 1813, and was married November ?), 1834, to Katy Belford Reed, daughter of John and Hannah Reed, and born October 22, 1814. They have had seven children. Samuel was born August 16, 1835; Maria Thomas, July 23, 1837; Claik, September 10, 1839; Hanna J., December 19, 1842; Charles C., April 30, 1845; Matthias, June 6, 1847, and Jamies Francis, March 9, 1850. Clark Miller enlisted in an Illinois Regiment and served three years. Charles Mil- ler, the father, is a farmer. He has been a supervisor.
Eliza Ellen MeCracken was born in Madison . Town- ship June 2. 1836. She is the daughter of George Ganker and Susan Rickard, the father now being dend. Her grandfather, Anthony Rickard, served through the War of 1812. George Gauker was born in Mercersburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1776, and set. tied about a mile north-west of Trenton, on what is out known as the Gauker form, in 1807, where he resided until the time of his death, August 31, 1955. His wife
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still lives, at the advanced age of ninety-two. Mrs. MeCracken has had four children. Mary A. was born February 7, 1855: John E., November 5, 1856; Will- iam S., November 9, 1858; and Charles S., November 6, 1860.
Homer Phillips, farmer, was born in Union, Mont- gomery County, Ohio, on the 1st of October, 1827. He. is the son of Richard and Elizabeth Phillips, the latter settling in Madison Township in 1808, coming with her parents. He settled in this county iu 1853, and was married in Franklin, Warren County, August 26, 1860. His wife was born in that place August $0, 1831, her parents being Jatues and Hannah Ely. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Phillips was blessed with four children. Elizabeth was born August 24, 1861; James, March 13, 1863; Lincoln, November 28, 1867 ; Almeda, April 10, 1875. Mr. Phillips was a private of Captain G. C. Warvel's company E, One Hundred and Sixty-seventh Regiment of Obio National Guard. He was enrolled on the second day of May, 1864, to serve one hundred days. He did guard duty in Kanawha Valley, West Virginia, Camp Loup Creek, Camp Reynolds, and Camp Gauley Bridge. At the expiration of his term of service he was discharged at Hamilton, on the eighth day of Sep- tember, 1864.
William Schenck was born in Germantown, January 3, 1825. His parents are William B. Schenck and Mary Conover. He was married December 16, 1849, in Hamilton, to Margaret Tryer, daughter of John Tryer and Mary Heck. She was born in Madison Township, May 28, 1829, and has borne him seven children. John W. Webster was born January 21, 1852; Mary E., April 1, 1853; Celadon A., July 23, 1851; Levi B., November 13, 1859; Newton E. in 1864; Cyrus G., January, 1868; and Eugene E., May 23, 1871. These are all dead but Cyrus. His grandfather, William B. Schenck, was in the Revolution, being a captain. His brothers, Norman and David P., were in the service for three years each.
John Sinkey was born at Amanda, in Lemon Town- ship, and was the son of John Sinkey, a native of Fenn- sylvania, and Mary Shields. The latter came from Ire- land. He was first a distiller, but was afterwards a farmer, and has followed this occupation for thirty-nine years. He was married in Lemon Township to Rebecca Hedding, daughter of William Hedding and Mary Black, who came from Pennsylvania in 1838. She was born in 1823. They have had nine children. Mary Jane Snyder was born April 15, 1839; Isabel Cooper, October 9, 1841; James, May 23, 1844; William H., December 25, 1845; John W., May 1, 1847; Daniel, December 27, 1849; Charlotte Kemp, 1852; Sarah E., July 12, 1857, and Charlotte, August 27, 1800. James Sinkey shouldered his musket ard served in the last war.
! His parents were William Suter and Margaret Pierce. He was married iu Crawfordsville, Indiana, March 3, 1850, to Martha A. Banker, born in Poasttowu, Mad- ison Township, December 7, 1823, whose parents were David Banker and Mary McDill. He has retired from business.
Jonathan Schenck was born in this township, July 22, 1835, being the son of William Schenck and Jane Mar- shall, who came to this county in 1822. He was mar- ried September 7, 1859, to Laura C. Brelsford, born August 13, 1839, daughter of Pierson Brelsford and Mary Hutchen, and had by her seven children. Mary Ellen Wehr was born July 8, 1860; William P., Octo- ber 30, 1862; Charles H., October 22, 1864; Frauk, October 8, 1867; Louisa Jane, September 10, 1872; Ferdinand, July 7, 1876, and Ina, February 2, 1880. Mr. Schenck has been supervisor for several terms. He has a fine farm, situated about four miles from Middle- town.
William Southard was born in Sussex County, New Jersey, November 21, 1799, and came to this county in 1802. His parents, who also came here at the same time, were Aaron Sonthard and Nancy Hankerson. He was married December 5, 1822, to Ann Van Sickle, daugliter of John Van Sickle and Rachel Van Vliet. She was born the 18th of October, 1803, the same year that her parents came to this county. Mr. and Mrs. Southard have bad six children, of whom the first four are dead. Their names are John, Nancy, Isaac, Mary J., Ruth Voris, and David. George Southard, an unele. was in the War of 1812. Mr. Southard has always been a farmer. He owns a very pleasant home of forty-five acres, part in this county and part in Montgomery County.
James M. Schenck was born in Montgomery County in 1844, and was married to Lucy S. Faust October 12, 1865. His wife was born in Westchester, in this county, May 14, 1843, and is the daughter of Peter Faust and Rebecca Cunningham. His parents were John L. Schenck and Hester Marshall, and he came to this county in 1846. His grandfather, John H. Schenck, was in the War of 1812. James M. Schenck has four children. Robert was born March 28, 1867; John L., October 11, 1868; Findlay S., December 9, 1869; and Briggs C., Docem- ber 24, 1878. Findlay S. is dead. Mr. Schenck was in the hundred-days' service in Virginia, in the One Hun. dred and Sixty-seventh Regiment, Company G, from Middletown.
John Selby, son of Middleton Selby and Rachel Selby, was born in Madison Township, March 28, 1831. He is a farmer and carpenter. He was married October 2, 1865, to Sarah D. Catrow, daughter of George E. and Mary Ann Catrow, who was born in Madison Township July 24, 1847. They have two children, -Etfie S., born October 10, 1866, and Mary Lee, July 24, 1869. Mid-
James Suter was born in Frederick County, Virginia, September 2, 1818, and settled in this county in 1830. | dleton Selby, the father of John Selby, was born Jatiu-
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ary 22, 1793, in the State of Maryland, moving to Ohio in 1802 with his parents, when about nine years of age. They settled in Madison Township, where he lived upon the homestead until his marriage. By his own industry he received a common education, which enabled him to teach school at that early day. In November, 1816, he was married to Rachel Temple, and immediately after- wards settled on a farm near a small stream known as Brown's Run, where he lived until his death, September 15, 1877, being sixty-one years on the same farm.
In 1824 he was elected a justice of the peace, an office he beld for the term of twenty-four years in suc- ecssion to the full satisfaction of the people. He was then elected to the position of trustee of the township, in which office he served for sixteen years, afterwards declining re-election on account of age. He was a very marked man, of excellent habits, and was always a great advocate for the education of the rising generation. His word was as good as his bond. By his industry, energy, and high character he acquired considerable property, owning several farms at his death. He brought up a family of thirteen children, six girls and seven boys, all of whom are living, and all married and doing well. There are seventy grandchildren and forty-five great- grandchildren. Rachel Selby, his wife, was born in the State of Kentucky, and in 1792 moved to Ohio with her parents. They located on a farm op the Great Miami River, near the State dam. After her marriage she be- came a member of the Baptist Church, and was an ex- emplary member all her life. She was highly esteemed by all who knew her. She died in 1869, at the age of seventy-seven.
Samuel Selby was born in Madison Township, Butler County, September 28, 1828, and is a farmer. His parents were Middleton Selby and Rachel Coon. He was married February 2, 1854, to Amanda Gebhart, daughter of Dariel Gebhart and Christina Lingle, who came here in 1804. She was born July 22, 1834, and has borne him six children. Alice was born March 8, 1855; George, January 11, 1857; Edgar, April 12, 1859; Rachel Flora, October 20, 1861; Charles, Sep- tember 11, 1864; and Harry W., January 22, 1873. William Dine, his brother-in-law, was a soldier in the last war.
Shem Thomas was born in the north-west part of Warren County, April 10, 1808, being the son of Gab- riel Thomas, born in Maryland, and Christina Thomas, formerly Christina Wolf. They came to this country in 1804, and settled near Franklin, Warren County, in that part of Warren which was eeded from, Butler County, and chen in Butler County. His father was born in Maryland some time in the neighborhood of the Revolutionary War. He came down the Ohio in fai-boats to Cincinnati, and then, with teams, moved his family, consisting of his wife and six children, to a farm near Franklin. He cleared his own forests.
He was an active, busy, hard-working pioneer, and being skilled as a blacksmith, did his own work and some for his neighbors. He lived on the farm he first settled, and on the one adjoining it, with his son Michael, until the time of his death, in 1857. Shem Thomas had tou brothers and three sisters, two of the brothers dying in infaney and one when ten years old. The other brothers all grew up, and all lived with their father until they at- tained to manhood, and helped clear away the forests and prepare the way for approaching civilization. Four of them are now living within a few miles of each other.
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