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Cephas C. Fetherling was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, September 26, 1837, in which, and in adjoining counties, he spent his early life. His parents were poor, and Mr. Fetberling educated himself. At nineteen years of age he took charge of a district school in Twin Town- ship, Preble County, and taught in that and other places five years. On the 24th of August, 1862, he joined Com- pany H, Ninety-third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infan- try, commanded by Colonel Anderson, and left for Ken- tueky, the regiment joining Mason's and Nelson's troops as re-enforcements, but retreating to Louisville. He was disabled by sickness from doing duty, but kept with his regiment until the battle of Perryville, when he was taken prisoner by Kirby Smith, and innnediately exchanged, but on account of sickness did not join his regi uent antil 1863. He was assigned to an invalid corps, and sent back to the Northern States, where he did duty, and was hon- orably discharged Jaly 7, 1865. He enlisted as a pri- vate, and attained the rank of. commissary sergeant wheu discharged. He subsequently taught school eight years, but in March, 1873, went into the boot and shoe business, and also carried a line of groceries in Win- chester, Preble County. In December, 1880, he can:e to Middletown, where he has done a business the first year of $21,000, and this year of 835,000 in the hard- ware trade.
His father, Jacob Fetherling, was born in Washing- ton County, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1805. He lost his : parents when young, and he thereafter shifted for him. self. He married Permelia Luellen November, 1829, 1
and came to Ohio. She died October 29, 1864, and he moved to Illinois, then Missouri, and is now engaged in
farming in Arkansas, in Boone County, on a spur of the Pea Ridge Mountains. His daughter, Eliza. is with him. Mr. Cephas Fetherling married Miss Sarah C. Hollinger June 27, 1867, daughter of Mouroe and Re- beeca Hollinger, old settlers of Preble County. Her maternal grandfather, Joseph Singer, received the first marriage certificate on record in Preble County. He settled in Harrison Township, that county, in 1800. After Mr. Fetherling's marriage he taught school six years. He has one brother, George H., who was in the army with him, and who is now in Iroquois County, Illinois, farming.
His parents, Max and Jetta Goldman, were both natives of the same place. Simon Goldman was given a con- mon school education, and at the age of sixteen, unac- companied by any relatives, came to America. He located first in Cincinnati, September, 1847, among a few rela- tives and acquaintances, and set about finding employ- ment. With what little money he had he bought a few goods and started out in the country selling them. Five years, or until 1852, were spent in this occupation. The proceeds of this period of industrious labor were sufficient to enable bim to open a store in Middletown, which he did March 1, 1852, in company with Mr. Joseph Buch- man. A stock of dry goods and clothing was parcimsed, and for one and a half years a prosperons business was carried on. At the end of that time Mr. Goldmann bought out the interest of Mr. Buchman, and carried on the establishment alone until the Spring of 1856. At that time he sold out and went to Madison, Wisconsin. there engaging in the same trade. He returned to Mid- dletown in abont six months, and opened a store ou Third Street, which he conducted till 1858. In the meau- time he built the store on Main Street which he has since occupied.
Mr. Goldman was one of the organizers and eharter stockholders 'of the First National Bank of Middletown. and has been one of its directors for the past twelve years. From 1880 to 1882 he was cashier of the bank, a position lie was compelled to resign, in consequence of his other business. He is also a stockholder in the Middle. town Gas Company, which he was instrumental in organ- izing. He has been a Mason since 1852, and a Knight of Honor also.
On the 10th of September, 1857, Mr. Goldman was .
married to Miss Susan Trine, of Middletown, whose par- ents died while Susan was still a child. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Geklman, all living. Harry H., born March 1, 1859, is now engaged in the store; Joseph R. was born December 12, 1>61; Charles T. was born June 26, 1863; Jet'a was born No- vember 25, 1865; Emma was born November 8, 1867; and Bertha was born August 31, 1875.
F. C. Jacoby, of Lemon Township, is a son of Henry
Simon Goldman, dry-goods merchant of Middletown, Parkhurst, and Sarah Jane. All are dead now but i was born May 12, 1831, in the village of Zeil, Germany. Eliza. Uz.I Clark was born May 24, 1803, and died March 1, 1882. He lost his father when fourteen years of age, and thus, when a boy, was initiated into the hardships of pioneer life, and without paternal support. Ile always lived on the farm near Monroe Station, a part of which he sold to the Cincinnati and Springfield Rail- road Company, now Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railroad Company, for their depot grounds. Mr. Thomas Beach, his maternal grandfather, was one of the minute-inen of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War.
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Jacoby-one of the prominent settlers of the townslip- ! and a brother to J. B. Jacoby, the merchant and grain dealer of Amanda. He is a young, enterprising farmer, in the thirtieth year of his age, and owns a fraction over one hundred and eighty-four acres of one of the best farms in the county. His land is under a high state of cultivation, and the best of buildings are on the place. He was married to Miss Susie Zeigler in 1879.
Edward Kimball, M. D., a retired physician of Mon- roe, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, November 17, 1810. When six years of age, to the day, his father, with his family, arrived in Cincinnati, where he received his education, graduating from the medical department of the Cincinnati College of Medicine, in 1834. Iu 1838 he removed to Blue Ball, where he practiced his profession until 1848, when he retired from active life. In 1860 he erected his fine brick residence in the town of Monroe. Since this time the doctor has held the po- sition of magistrate two terms, and is at present notary public. In 1840 he married Miss Mary Jane Stewart, the only living representative of the pioneer James Stew- art, who was killed by the falling of a tree in 1835. Mr. Stewart was an elder in the United Presbyterian Church, and while going to Cincinnati in a two-horse wagon on the Dayton road, two miles south of Monroe, an old tree fell while he was passing, and killed himself, wife, and another lady who was sitting on the same seat. He died May 4, 1835, being then sixty one years old.
Adam Longstreet was born in this county December 4, 1838. He is the son of Aaron Lougstreet and Mary Gallagher. He was married on the 1st of October, 1861, to Mary J. Bailey, daughter of William Bailey and Eliza Ann Maginety, and has had by her four children. Ella was born January 16, 1863; Dora, June 25, 1864; W. B., February 9, 1872; and Mary, May 1, 1875. He is a farmer and stock-raiser.
P. P. La Tourrette was born October 3, 1817, in Somerset County, New Jersey. His parents, Peter La Tourrette and Mary Nitzer, died, the one in January, 1854, and the other in January, 1850. They came out here in April, 1839. His great-uncle, Daniel La Tour- rette, passed all through the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars, and was about one hundred years old when he died. Peter La Tourrette was a major in 1812. When in the service he had an altercation with
. a superior officer respecting the treatment of the picu. La Tourrette treated them with the utmost kindness ; the other officer, on the contrary, treated them with se- verity. The colonel, in the end, determined to arrest Major La Tourrette, and demanded his sword from him, which he refused, saying it could not be had, except point foremost. Recognizing the resolare man he had to colonel desisted. Mr. P. P. La Tourrette are owned a portable sew-mill, and was engaged in mercantile business for over eleven years. Hle also owned a drugstore in Hamilton for a time. He first
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kerame connected with the Middletown Agricultural Works as secretary, and in 1873 he and John Harrison leased the works, soon after deeming it advisable to abandon the manufacturing of agricultural implements, and gradually changing its character to what it is at present. They now manufacture paper and tobacco machinery, wooden pumps, and have a brass foundry. The death of Mr. Harrison, February, 1875, left Mr. La Tourrette the sole manager and proprietor. On the 1st of January, 1881, C. F. Gunckel, who had previously had one-fourth interest in the real estate and machinery, purchased a quarter interest in the business.
Mr. La Tourrette has been an elder in the Presbyte- rian Church for nearly thirty years, and has been a member of the Church for over forty years. His wife and two daughters are also members. He was a meut- ber of the board of education for about nine years, be- ing secretary for the whole time. He was a member when the large new school building was erected, and has always taken a warm interest in educational affairs. He has been twice married. His first wife was Magda- len Monfort, married April 19, 1842, died January 2, 1847, and his second wife, Elizabeth Monfort, wear- ried April 9, 1849, second cousin to Erst wife. Jobn Monfort, father of his first wife, was a pioneer of War- ren County, settling there in 1798. His wife's name was Mary Monfort; his second wife's parents were Peter and Elizabeth Monfort, who died in Peunsylva- nia. He had no children by his first wife. Mr. La Tourrette has had six children by his last wife: Maggie was born February 9, 1850; Mary J., February 20, 1852; Lizzie J., March 27, 1854; David M., March 26, 1856; John M., July 2, 1861, a graduate of Cincinnati Law School in 1882; and William S., May 9, 1864. Lizzie J. died March 29, 1866. Mr. La Tourrette is a Royal Arch Mason, and has been a Mason since 1848. He was deputy provost marshal during the war.
Robert Maginety, of Georgetown, was born in Fay- ette County, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1819. His father was a blacksmith, with whom Mr. Maginety remained until he learned his trade. When twenty-five years of age he came to Amanda, arriving there in June, 1841. He married Miss Lydia A. Ruch, on the 15th of March, 1846. Her father came here in 1841 from York County, Pennsylvania, and settled first in Preble Conaty, and subsequently two and a half miles cast of Amanda, aul died in a year after coming to this place. Mr. Ma- ginety performed journey work for many years in Aman- da, but soll ont there in 1864, and went to Darke County, Chio, where he remained four years, and in. 1871 came to this place, in Lemon Towaship. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1848, and has been a prominent member and leader in thai society since that thee. He is in possession of a good line of custom work, and has a good, comtortable home.
Michael C. Miller was born in Bavaria, August 17.
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1832. He is the son of Ludwig Miller and Mary Anne Miller. The father lives in Dayton, but the mother died in Germany. Michael C. Miller was married in 1861, at Dayton, to Martha Neff, who was born in Ohio in 1835, and whose parents were George Neff and Lida Sylvis. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have had ten children. Fanny J. was born October 2, 1861; Charles L., March 17, 1863; Walter, deceased, April 5, 1865; Katie May, December 22, 1867; Howard W., March 23, 1869; Ida B., De- cember 3, 1871; Daisy, December 11, 1873; Dorothea, September 2, 1875; Louis, March 5, 1877; and Michael, December 4, 187S.
Charles Lyman Prugh, of the firm of C. C. Fether- ling & Co., was born in Gratis Township, Preble County, March 1, 1857, but did not settle in this township until January 1, 1881, when he came to Middletown, since which time he has been engaged in the hardware busi- ness. He was raised on a farm, and remained at home until nineteen years of age, when he attended the Normal College of Danville, Indiana, taking from the institution a diploma, as a graduate of the scientific department, in the Spring of 1878. Following this he taught school seven months, and during the Winter of 1879 attended college at Oberlin six months, and on the first of the year 1881 came to Middletown. His parents were Daniel and Anna Pragh.
Hannah Peters, farmer, settled in this county in 1871. She was married in 1870. Her children are Mary S., born November 28, 1872; James B., born August 31, 1874; Nancy S., born January 8. 1876; and Jacob M., born February 15, 1880. She is the daughter of James Franks and Naney Hewett, and was born in Harrison County, Kentucky. Her husband was in the late war.
Andrew Wannenwetsch, M. D., deceased, was born in Germany, on the 26th of December, 1820. He received in his native country a good education, taking a full course in medicine and also in pharmacy. In 1803 he .came to America, and after a short stay in Cincinnati, removed to Trenton, Madison Township, wher ; he prac- ticed his profesion until 1872, when he removed to Middletown, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying ou the Sth of April, 1x79. He was well skilled in the science of his chosen profession, and not only took charge of a large practice but was honored by the gov- erminent in being appointed to the position of an assistant . surgeon of the One Hundred and Seventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was in the service six months during the war. He married Ana Denscher, daughter of Michael Deascher and Christina Schenrer, who came to America in 1832. They remained four years in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where Miss Anna Deutscher was born May 3, 1836, after which they came to Butler County, where Mr. Den-cher died in 18 H. Mrs. Deutscher is now past eighty-one years of age. Mrs. Wannenwetsch is a sister to the well-known Captain H. P'. Deuscher, of Hamilton.
Elias Webb, of Middletown, is a native of Butler County, and was born near Poasttown, February 18, 1818. His parents came to this place in 1820, and Mr. Webb has since that time resided in the place. He was formerly proprietor of a line of boats on the canal. and for twenty-five years was very successful in business. In 1857 he began the lumber business, and for several years followed that pursuit. He now owns considerable land, and is a retired farmer. He was married to Miss Abby Brashear in 1858. His maternal grandmother was Phoebe Enoch.
William D. Sheeley was born near Flenner's Corners, July 13, 1822. His parents were Davis and Elizabeth Sheeley. He was married on the 4th of July, 1873, to Mrs. Abby F. Cummins, and has had by her one child, Wilbur, born July 23, 1875. By her previous marriage Mrs. Sheeley bad five children. William Cummins was born June 2, 1858; Clara B. Cahill, March 25, 1860; Annetta Cummins, June 7, 1862; Clarence Cummins, March 10, 1865; and Birdie Cummins, November 12, 1867. Abby F. Sheeley, the grandmother of Mr. Sheeley, died at the age of ninety-six.
Mrs. Clara Stout, of Amanda, daughter of A. Long- street, deceased, was born February 25, 1848. She re- sides ou a good farm of one hundred acres of land, one half mile south-east of Amanda. She was married to Mr. Stout February 21, 1871, and has two children. Nathan A. Stout was born May 29, 1874, and Justin Charles Stout was born January 18, 1878. Mr. Stout is a self-made man, aud a prosperous, well-to-do farmer. Her mother, Mrs. Naney Longstreet, died September 14, 1878, at sixty-two years of age. Her father, Aaron Longstreet. died April 9, 1881, at seventy-for years of age. He took an active interest in all that concerned the educational interests of his district, and filled the position of director for many years also.
Mrs. Stout had a twin sister, Rebecca, who died when eighteen years of age; akzo another sister, Mrs. Laura Schenck. She was married to Me. Frank Schenck of Maroa, Illinois, October 27, 1876, returned home on her bridal tour, and was by accident burned to death. The guests were scated at the table when one of the waiters accidentally knocked a gasoline lamp from its socket, and it fell on the shoulders of the bride and ex- ploded, scattering the blazing fluid before the light could be extinguished. Her clothing was burned from her shoulders, and her face, neck, and shonblers frightfully barned. so that she died on the 31st of that month. The groom was badly burned also. Just two weeks from that sad event, lacking two hours, Mary Jane Longstreet, another sister, died at the age of twenty-five. She joined the Methodist Episcopal Church February 8, 1876, and was the list of fifty to unite with that society during the revival of that year, and the first of that number to die. AAbrela Sutphin, lumber merchant, of A. Susphin & Co., Middletown, was boru near Franklin, Ohio, July
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28, 1816. When eighteen months of age his parents moved to Lemon Township and settled where Mr. Gar- rett Deheisse now lives. When Mr. Sutphin was twenty- two years of age he took a contract on the old Lebanon Canal, and dug oue and three-quarter miles of that ditch, running a force of fifty men sometimes, but generally only ten or twelve. He was two years thus engaged, and the year following, 1839, went to Logansport, Indiana, and in the Spring of that year bought a little place six- teen miles north of that city, and on December 18th, of that year, married Miss Eliza Brown. In March, 1840, he moved upon his farm, and lived there until 1847, when he returned to Middletown. In 1872 he went into the hardware business, which he carried on successfully until 1877. In 1878 he entered the lumber business, and is doing a business of about $36,000 a year.
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He has six children living and three dead : Mrs. La- vina Long, Maria Louisa, Mrs. Sarah L. Holmes (a widow), Mrs. Rhoda M. Lucas, also a widow. Christo- pher D. married Miss Alice Wiles, daughter of Mayor Wiles, of Hamilton. He has two children and lives in Hillsboro, Ohio. Francis M. Sutphin, the youngest son, married Miss Hattie Gest, of Cincinnati, in 1878. He is clerk for A. Sutphin & Co.
W. H. Todhunter was born in Monroe, May 20, 1842. His father, John D. Todhunter, was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, April 30, 1814. His mother, Haanab Clark, was the daughter of John and Maria Clark. They were married in 1841. Mr. Todhunter was educated at
the Mouroe Academy, and graduated at the Ohio Wes- leyan University, at Delaware. Ohio, in 1867. He read law with Doty & Gunckel, and was admitted to practice in 1871, when he entered into partnership with Mr. Gunckel, and thus remained for three years. Since then he has been a partner with L. D. Doty. For two years -- 1880 and 1881 -- he was editor and proprietor of the Middletown Journal, and he has also been interested in real estate. He is a Republican in politics, and is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was married on April 9, 1871, to Jennie Wilson, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Wilson, of Middletown, aud has four chil- dren living.
James Macready, M. D., of Monroe, is the son of John and Mary Hart Macready. He was born neer Maineville, Warren County, Ohio, March 17, 1835, aud came to this county in 1859. His parents never were residents, and are now both dead. After acquiring a liberal education he began the study of medicine in the office of the late Joshua Stevens. of Lebanon, Ohio, an.I graduated with the degree of doctor of medicine at the Medical College of Ohio. He immediately began the practice of his profession at Bethany. On the breaking out of the civil war he entered the army, and was assist- ant surgeon of the Thirteenth Ohio. In February. 1864, he settled at Monroe, where he has been ever since. He was married to Sarah E. Keyt on the oth of May. 1860. She is the daughter of Edwin and Sarah Aun Keyt. D .. Maeready's grandfather was in the Revolutionary War.
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