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William Baldwin's youth was passed on his grandfather's farm and at Urbana, After the close of his army service he returned to peaceful pursuits and in 1869 he went to Wichita, Kansas, where he lived until 1876, when he accepted a gov- ernment clerkship in the quartermaster general's office at Washington City, where he remained for five years. Prior to entering the army Mr. Baldwin had graduated from the Cincinnati Law School and had engaged in the practice of his profession at Urbana. During his res- idence at Wichita he practiced law, and for five years was city attorney, and for one term was judge of the Probate with his parents, and he grew to man- hood with a fortunate environment. When the Civil War was precipitated he was eager to take part in the struggle and his first enlistment was for three months in Company K, Second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry Militia. His second enlistment was in the Sixty-sixth Regi- ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served for twenty-three days as a pri- vate and was then promoted to be second lieutenant in Company D, Twenty-sixth Regiment, later to be first lieutenant and still later to be captain of Company G, . Court. He had become a very prominent which continued to be his rank through political factor and was a member of the the period of the war. He was on special Kansas State Legislature when he decided
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to remove to Washington. In 1882 Mr. to his present responsible position. From . Baldwin returned to Clark County and subsequently he served as a justice of the peace in Moorefield Township. He is one of the representative citizens of this sec- tion.
After his return from the army Captain Baldwin was married to Emily Read, who is a daughter of Joel Read, and they have four children, namely: William residing at Osborn, Ohio; Blanche, who married James W. Roberts; Leah, who married Andrew G. Dey, residing at Springfield; and Read, residing at home. There are five grandchildren in the family. Mr. Baldwin is a Mason.
C. E. WADE, formerly secretary and treasurer of the Owen Machine Tool Com- pany, and now serving in the capacity of purchasing agent and office manager for the Oscar Lear Automobile Company, has been also, since 1905, secretary and treasurer of the Yieldable Gear Company, all of which are among the more prom- inent business concerns of Springfield. Mr. Wade is a native of Springfield and a son of John A. Wade.
C. E. Wade was educated in the Springfield public schools and his first business position was with the District Telegraph Company, where he was em- ployed for eight months, going from there to McGregor Brothers, and later to the George H. Mellen Company. With the latter firm he remained for two years and a half, after which he was bookkeeper for the Foos Gas Engine Company for two years. As each business opening pre- sented itself, Mr. Wade proved his abil- ity to fill it and has climbed step by step
October 1905 to March 1908 he filled the position of secretary and treasurer for two important business combinations at Springfield. He is also a stockholder and a member of the advisory board of the Republic Life Insurance Company.
ISAIAH WOOD, one of the representa- tive men of Pleasant Township, where he owns a small farm of fifteen acres, has been engaged for a number of years in raising fine horses and in dealing in live stock. He was born in Pleasant Town- ship, Clark County, Ohio, January 18, 1842, and is a son of Albert Wood.
His paternal grandfather, Benjamin Wood, removed from New Jersey to North Carolina about 1800. From there he went to Cincinnati and thence to the vicinity of Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio. About 1805 he came to Clark County. Albert Wood came to Clark County from New Jersey and married here some ten years later. His children were: Mary, Benjamin, Sarah, Juliet, Anna, Henry and Isaiah, five still sur- viving. Albert Wood was a well edu- cated man and taught school. He died in 1843, aged thirty-five years.
Isaiah Wood was reared in Pleasant Township and attended the district schools. He married a Miss Malinda Endsley, whose parents were born in Vir- ginia and came to Ohio in the early for- ties. They settled first in Logan County, where they remained until 1852, when they moved to Champaign County and for the next twenty years lived on a rented farm near Mechanicsburg, after which they moved to Pleasant Township. There Mr.
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Endsley died, aged sixty-nine years, and Mrs. Endsley at the age of sixty-seven. Mr. Endsley served in the Civil War as a member of the Sixty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, until after the battle of Bull Run, when he returned to Pleasant Township.
Mr. Wood has always lived in this sec- tion with the exception of a period of twenty-seven months, during which he was in the army. He enlisted in 1862 in the Ninety-fourth Regiment, Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, starting in as a private, and for gallantry was promoted to the rank of corporal. He took part in the battles of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and Resaca, at the latter receiving a serious wound that put an end to his military career. A bursting shell so shattered his left leg that it was necessary to amputate it, but before receiving surgical attention he had the painful experience of lying ap- parently deserted on the battlefield from one o'clock in the afternoon until ten o'clock at night. While lying in this posi- tion he received four additional wounds. Even after receiving aid he had to en- dure the pain of the amputation and the dressing of his other wounds while fully conscious, there being no anaesthetics at hand, and the danger of blood poisoning being also increased owing to the lack of that antiseptic treatment that forms an inseparable part of the surgery of today. In his weakened condition Mr. Wood was conveyed first to Chattanooga and thence to Nashville, and subsequently reached the hospital at Camp Dennison. There he remained for six months and finally was honorably discharged and received his papers in December, 1864.
After Mr. Wood returned to Pleasant Township he established a harness busi- ness at Catawba, in which he continued for eighteen years. Since then he has de- voted his attention to raising fine horses and other stock. He owned the noted Helen P. and also American Boy, which had a record of 2:091%, and which was the best race horse ever known in this section. He was also the owner of Ivanhoe and Gambetta, the latter a French horse; the former was valued at $2,000, and the lat- ter at $1,600. He has also dealt exten- sively in cattle.
Mr. Wood has two sons and three daughters, namely: Addie, born in 1868. who married Albert Tavenner in 1891, and has one son, Ralph; Albert, born De- cember 21, 1870, who married Annie Hoss, and has one child, Lois, born in 1903; Lorell, born in 1876, who married Kemp Coffey ; Roy, born in 1882, who was married in 1904, to Nora Runyan and they reside at Muncie, Indiana; and Blanche, who was born in 1885, and resides at home. Mr. Wood is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Catawba, and is a class leader. He belongs to the local Grand Army post. Mrs. Wood taught several terms of school before her marriage.
JOSEPH VAN HORN, senior member of the Van Horn & Gilbert Lumber Com- pany, of South Charleston, Ohio, dealers in hardwood and lumber, which is the largest concern of its kind in this section of the country, was born August 31, 1850, in Harrison County, Ohio, and is a son of Edward and Eliza (Gilbert) Van Horn. Edward Van Horn was a native of
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Bucks County, Pennsylvania, of which his father, Christopher Van Horn, was also a native. The family was an agri- cultural one. Edward was one of seven children. three boys and four girls, all of whom are now deceased. When about fifteen years old his parents moved to Harrison County, Ohio, and later to Cedarville, Greene County, where they both died. Edward engaged at various kinds of work, operating a well drill dur- ing his younger days and farming prior to his military service. For four years he was a member of the Tenth Ohio Battery during the Civil War and saw much hard service, his death, which occurred in Cedarville, Greene County, being due to rheumatism, which was contracted while in the army. He married Eliza. Gilbert, of Harrisonville, Harrison County, Ohio, and to them were born four children: Ed- ward, who died in 1885; Martha F., who married Thomas Carlyle, of Yellow Springs; Susanna, who married Frank Hilttabridle, of Baltimore, Maryland; and Joseph.
Joseph Van Horn was two years old when his parents moved from Harrison- ville to Cedarville, Greene County, and there was reared and received his educa- tion. He remained at home, working at various things, as opportunity offered, un- til his marriage at the age of twenty-eight years, after which he remained in Cedar- ville for four years as lumber buyer for a Dayton firm. He then moved to Harmon Township, Madison County, Ohio, where he owned a mill, which he operated three years and then moved to South Charles- ton, where he has since been engaged in the lumber business. About 1903 Mr. Gil- bert was made a member of the firm,
which is one of the substantial business enterprises of Charleston.
Mr. Van Horn was married in 1878 to Sally Milburn, of Cedarville. Politically Mr. Van Horn is a believer in the doctrine of the Republican party and has served as a member of the town. council. Fra- ternally he is a member of the Odd Fel- lows.
AYDON ALLEN, who owns 146 fertile acres of what was formerly known as the old Thorpe farm, in Springfield Town- ship,, was born in Harmony Township, Clark County, Ohio, September 3, 1846, and is a son of William and Rebecca C. (Henkle) Allen.
William Allen was born in New York and was a son of William Allen, who was born in Yorkshire, England. The first William Allen came to America in young manhood and settled in New York, subse- quently removing to Cincinnati, Ohio. When his son William was about ten years of age he came to Harmony Town- ship, Clark County, where he took up a quarter section of land and on that farm he lived during the remainder of his life. William Allen (2) passed the whole of his life from the age of ten years on the same place. He married Rebecca C. Henkle, who was a daughter of Joel Henkle, and the granddaughter of a noted German scholar, who had seven sons, five of whom became Methodist ministers. Joel Hen- kle's inclinations turned toward agricul- ture instead of the ministry and when he reached manhood he came to Clark Coun- ty and settled in Moorefield Township, where Mrs. Allen was born. William Allen (2) remained with his widowed
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mother until her death, when he inherited the old Allen homestead of forty-two acres. He had three children: Aydon; Joseph W., who was formerly county re- corder, residing at Springfield; and one died in infancy.
Aydon Allen was reared on the old Al- len farm on which he lived for fifty years and six months. He obtained his educa- tion in the country schools and in young manhood worked as a farmer. When twenty-six years of age he began to teach and for sixteen years followed the profes- sion through Harmony and Moorefield Townships. After he retired from the educational field he returned to his farm, on which he continued to live until March, 1897, when he moved to his present place. Prior to this, however, he had bought his brother's interest in the old Allen farm, which then contained sixty-five acres, and he disposed of the property in 1901. Here he carries on a general farming line. He is widely known and highly esteemed and if his neighbors have ever found fault it has been because of his never setting up a domestic hearthstone, Mr. Allen never having married. He is identified with the Masons and the Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the M. P. Church at Harmony.
GEORGE W. DURKEE, who has been a continuous resident of Clark County for the past sixty-eight years, owns a fine property in Harmony Township, consist- ing of 140 acres, on which he carries on general farming and stock-raising. He was born in Geauga County, Ohio, Decem- ber 30, 1833, and is a son·of Marcus and Sophronia M. (Work) Durkee.
Marcus Durkee was born in Connecti- cut and was a son of Martin Durkee. He was a mechanic by trade, becoming also a farmer after acquiring land. In 1827 he came to the Western Reserve and set- tled first in Trumbull County and lived later in Geauga and Lorain Counties, both he and his wife dying at Brighton, Ohio, when full of years. They were married in Connecticut and they had the following children born to them: Clarissa A., George W., Thomas C., Francis M. and Mary. Clarissa Durkee was born Decem- ber 17, 1831, and died February 17, 1886. She married Philip L. Coe and they had four children, Delmar and Emory, resid- ing in Ohio; Byron, living in California, and Clinton, whose home is in Pennsyl- vania. Thomas C. Durkee was born in 1840 and died in 1906. He married Emma Hopkins and they had five children : Lenora, Frank, Bertha, Herbert, Nettie, Bertha being deceased. Francis M. Durkee was born February 9, 1847, and resides in Kansas. He married Isabel Farrar and they have three children: Howard, Florence and Henry. Mary Durkee was born August 11, 1849. She married Elijah C. Smith and they reside at Dayton, Ohio. They have four chil- dren living, one, Maud, being deceased.
George W. Durkee obtained a district school education and then learned the cooper trade, following it for a number of years at Brighton. During the Civil War he served as a member of what was called the Squirrel Hunters' Brigade, while his brother Thomas was in the Eleventh Regi- ment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. George W. retains membership in the existing commemorative body at Springfield. In 1865 he purchased his present farm, which
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is situated one-half mile east of Brighton, on the National Turnpike Road. At that time it was covered with timber and for a part of it he paid $25 per acre. He has done all the clearing and has made the many excellent improvements which to- gether have developed it into one of the best farms in the township.
At Springfield, Ohio, in 1862, Mr. Durkee was married to Matilda Perkins, who was born February 18, 1835, and is a daughter of Samuel and Frances (Ward) Perkins.
Samuel Perkins was born December 16, 1805, and died March 22, 1850. He mar- ried Frances Ward, who was born Decem- ber 24, 1810, and died July 5, 1863. They had the following children : Henry W., Willard D., Walter D., Matilda W., David W., Sarah M., Columbia L., Esther and Abigail J. Henry W. Perkins was born April 3, 1828 and died December 7, 1853. He married Jane St. John, and they had one child, Granville R. Willard D. Per- kins was born July 30, 1830, and died May 25, 1896. He married Eliza N. Bell and they had four children: Elnora, Celia, Edith and Elmer. Walter D. Perkins was born January 18, 1833. David W. Per- kins was born March 30, 1838. He mar- ried Elizabeth Ervan. Sarah M. Perkins was born January 18, 1841. She married (first) James Thomas and (second) George Truitt. Three children were born to the first union: Harry, Addie and Nettie. Columbia L. Perkins was born January 23, 1844. She married Alfred Ervin and has four children: Leon, Mary, Charles and Harry. Esther O. Perkins, deceased, was born November 12, 1847. Abigail J. Perkins was born November 1, 1849. She married Daniel
Davis and they had six children: Glenna, Blanche, Oliver, Nettie, Irma and Orrie. Mrs. Frances (Ward) Perkins and family arrived in Clark County March 29, 1851.
Mr. and Mrs. Durkee have had four children: Carrie B., Ella F., Ernest C. and Arthur L. Carrie B., born December 5, 1862, died December 27, 1889. She married Benjamin Woosley and they had two children, Leonard C., born September 17, 1887, and Lohren F., who was born in 1889 and died May 22, 1906. Ella F., born September 23, 1864, married David Woos- ley and they have two surviving children, Ethel and Ercil. Ernest C., born August 3, 1867, died February 17, 1872. Arthur L., born June 12, 1871, resides at Spring- field, Ohio.
Mr. Durkee is a good citizen, taking an active interest in what concerns his com- munity. He and wife are valued members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Vienna Cross Roads.
JAMES EDWARD LOWRY, county commissioner, and owner of 225 acres of highly cultivated farm land, located in Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio, was born on his present farm August 27, 1852, and is a son of Robert Mitchell and Elizabeth (Bancroft) Lowry.
David Lowry, his grandfather, was one of the first settlers of Clark County, com- ing here in 1795 with J. Donnell, who laid out Donnellsville. They came from Vir- ginia to Cincinnati, Ohio, where they joined the surveying party of Rogers and Clark. The entire party came up the Miami River as far as Dayton and en- camped at the mouth of the Mad River. The next day -- Sunday-Mr. Lowry and
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Mr. Donnell strolled up Mad River until they came to Jackson's Creek and Mr. Donnell drove his stake into the ground on the present site of the Donnellsville elevator. David went on farther and took up the site of the present C. W. Minnich farm. In 1796 he brought his parents to this place, where the remainder of their lives was spent. David Lowry was mar- ried twice; first to Sarah Hamer, of Clark County, by whom he had children-Mary, Nancy, Elizabeth and Susan. His second wife was Jane (Wright) Hodge, widow of a Mr. Hodge and a native of Botetourt County, Virginia, where she was born September 26, 1778. To them were born four children -- Martha, David W., Robert M. and Sarah R.
Robert M. Lowry, father of James Ed- ward, was born in Bethel Township in 1815 and spent his life on the old home place, passing away in 1902. He made many hunting trips to Michigan and while there married Elizabeth Bancroft, of White Pigeon that state. She was born in Canada October 4, 1820, and died Oc- tober 16, 1887. They had five children, namely : Selina E., who died when young; John, now deceased; Martha, who died aged sixteen years; David, who died in infancy; and James Edward, the subject of this sketch.
James Edward Lowry, like his father, has spent his life on his present farm, en- gaged in farming and stock-raising. His education was obtained in the district school and the normal school at Lebanon, Ohio. He was married October 26, 1886, to Emma O. Wallace, who is a daughter of Smith and Sarah (Stephens) Wallace. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs.
Lowry, namely, Martha, who is attending Wittenberg College.
Politically Mr. Lowry is a Republican, . and in 1905 he was appointed to fill the unexpired term of County Commissioner Joseph H. Collins. After serving one year he was nominated at the county con- , vention in 1906 and elected to the office that same year. Fraternally he is a mem- ber of the Knights of Pythias, Mad River Lodge No. 374, of Enon.
J. B. CLINGERMAN, who is engaged in an investment and security business; with offices in the Bushnell Building, has been a resident of Springfield for twenty- seven years. He was born in Logan County, Ohio, where he received his edu- cational training.
From boyhood until 1881 Mr. Clinger- man was in the employ of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank at De Graff, Ohio. He then came to Springfield and entered the employ of P. P. Mast & Company, with which business house he remained for eight years, subsequently carrying on a manufacturing business of his own for two years. He was then elected to the of- fice of justice of the peace and was twice re-elected, serving eight years, when he resigned. Mr. Clingerman was then elected clerk of the County Court of Clark County, for six years being one of the most efficient and popular officials of the county. After retiring from office Mr. ·Clingerman engaged in his present busi- ness, dealing in securities and invest- ments. His political connection is with. the Republican party and he has served as chairman of the County Executive committee, the Congressional Committee
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and for two years was chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. He is an astute politician and a hard and loyal worker for his friends.
. In 1880 Mr. Clingerman was married to Minnie I. Youngman, a resident of De Graff, Ohio, and they have four children, namely: Byron Horace, who is general superintendent of the People's Light, Heat and Power Company, of Springfield, being a graduate of the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology and also of Witten- berg College; Marie; Robert Lewis, who is also with the above named company; and Paul A., who is a student in the Springfield Seminary. Mr. Clingerman and family belong to the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church. He belongs to the Masonic Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council and Commandery, to the Knights of Pythias, to the Junior Order of Amer- ican Mechanics and to several insurance fraternities. He is a charter member of the Springfield Commercial Club and is president of the Masonic Club.
D. D. LAWRENCE, a well known resi- dent of Springfield, who has been identi- fied with both business and political af- fairs of this city for the past twenty years, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1868. There he was reared to manhood and when about twenty years of age came to Springfield and entered the employ of the Wickham Piano Plate Company, with whom he remained for two years, after which he was associated with Myers-Laf- ferty & Company for a period of ten years. Mr. Lawrence has always taken considerable interest in political affairs, and was elected constable in about 1900,
serving as such for three years, when he entered the sheriff's office, where he has continued ever since,
Mr. Lawrence was married March 31, 1889, to Anne E. Conn, and of their union have been born three children-Clarence, Irwin and Wesley. Mr. Lawrence is a member of the First Lutheran Church of Springfield and is fraternally a member of the Knights of Golden Eagle, Knights of Pythias and the Maccabees.
BENJAMIN F. GARLOUGH, a well known and highly esteemed citizen of Green Township, residing on a finely im- proved farm of 160 acres six miles south of Springfield, has been a life-long resi- dent of this township and was born on his present farm January 26, 1838. He is a son of Jacob and Nancy (Luce) Garlough and a grandson of John Garlough.
The Garlough family has long been es- tablished in Ohio, the grandfather of our subject, John Garlough, a native of Maryland, having moved here in 1808. Just 100 years ago, in March, he settled on the farm now owned by our subject. Tne grandfather and great-grandfather of Benjamin F. Garlough both died on this farm and were buried in the cemetery just across the road from the farm. Jacob Garlough was just eleven years old when his parents moved to Ohio and here he was reared and followed farming all his life. He married Nancy M. Luce, a native of Clark County, and to them were born seven sons-William, John, Thomas, Justis, James, Edward and Benjamin F.
Benjamin F. Garlough grew to man- hood on his present farm and obtained his education in the village of Pitchin. He
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served as a private in the army for four years, participating in many important engagements in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia. Mr. Gar- lough was united in marriage with Sallie Jane (Littler) Garlough, and to them were born six children, namely: Charlie Irvin, Anson A., Effie A., Glen E., de- ceased, Maud E. and Alda May. By the first marriage Mrs. Garlough had one child-Lillie (Hayes). Mr. Garlough has always followed farming, as did all his ancestors for many generations back, and is one of the foremost men of the township. He is public spirited and en- terprising and is held in highest esteem by his fellow citizens. Mr. Garlough is a member of the G. A. R., Mitchell Post, and is politically a Republican.
W. G. CAMPBELL, a well known mem- ber of the Springfield bar, was born at Preston, Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1874, where he was reared and prepared for the National Normal University, at Lebanon.
has built up, Mr. Campbell is interested in the McCain Realty Company. Politi- cally Mr. Campbell is identified with the Republican party and he takes quite an active interest in political matters and is a factor in local public movements.
In 1907 Mr. Campbell was married to Nina Serviss, who is a daughter of O. F. Serviss, assistant postmaster of Spring- field. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell belong to the United Brethren Church. His fra- ternal relationships include the Masons, the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World. He is also a member of the Springfield Commercial Club.
HENRY ROCKEL, a highly esteemed retired resident of Tremont City, has spent the larger part of his long and use- ful life engaged in agricultural pursuits. He owns three valuable farms in German Township, aggregating two hundred acres. Mr. Rockel was born on the old Rockel farm, on the Valley Turnpike, in German Township, Clark County, Ohio, March 14, 1835, and is a son of Adam and Mary A. (Baker) Rockel.
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