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ALVAH T. GARLOUGH, a represent- ative agriculturist of Springfield Town- ship, operating a valuable farm of 223 acres in Section 8 of that township, was born in Green Township, Clark County, Ohio, November 28, 1861, and is a son of James T. and Sarah J. (Hause) Gar- lough.
The father of Alvah T. Garlough was also born in Green Township, where he died March 28, 1905, but the grand- father, Jacob Garlough, was born in Maryland and came to Clark County in 1812, taking up land in Green Township, on which he lived during the remainder of his life. James T. Garlough spent the whole of his long and useful life in Green Township. His occupation was farming and he was numbered with the township's substantial men. He married Sarah J. Hause, who was a daughter of William Hause, who came from Virginia to Clark County prior to the birth of Mrs. Gar-
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lough. The surviving children of James known as the old Tuttle home place, T. Garlough and wife are: Clara, who married C. F. Stewart; Alvah T. and Sheridan G., Jesse Elmer, W. Forrest and Robert Centennial, all residing in Green Township. Those deceased were named: Flora, Mary, Retta and Alice, the latter of whom married Charles Otstott. The mother of the above family still resides in Green Township.
Alvah T. Garlough was reared in his native place and passed his boyhood at- tending school and learning the first de- tails of farming. He has devoted himself almost exclusively to agricultural pur- suits and raises wheat, corn, hay and oats and a considerable amount of good stock.
In 1884 Mr. Garlough was married to Emma J. Crabill, who is a daughter of David and Nancy C. Crabill, who are prominent farming people of Springfield Township. Mr. and Mrs. Garlough have had two sons: David C., residing at home, assisting in the management of the farm, and Ralph, who died aged three years. After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Garlough resided for three years in Green Township and then came to the farm upon which they now reside. It is the David Crabill homestead.
GEORGE W. TUTTLE, formerly a for some seven years.
substantial citizen and prominent farmer of Springfield Township, where he died in March, 1893, was born in Clark County. Ohio, July 22, 1823. His parents were John and Margaret Tuttle and his grand- father was Sylvanus Tuttle, who was an early pioneer of Clark County.
When George W. Tuttle was seven years old his parents settled on what was
which is now owned by Judge Kunkle. George W. Tuttle had twin brothers, David and Jacob Tuttle, and the three brothers married daughters of James Todd, who was a prominent farmer of Green Township. George W. Tuttle mar- ried Catherine A. Todd and they had five children, namely: Mrs. Ellen Hoffman; John, who died aged nineteen years; James, who is superintendent of schools at Washington Court House, Ohio; Will- iam Eugene, who resides at Springfield, and Elma K., who married William G. Otstot.
Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle were married Feb- ruary 23, 1847, and in the March follow- ing they moved to the present farm of Mrs. Ellen Hoffman, a tract containing over 152 acres, on which stood an old log house, which is now used as a stable. In 1865 Mr. Tuttle greatly improved the property by erecting the present commo- dious brick house, and in 1885 he erected a comfortable frame one, which is now oc- cupied by a son of Mrs. Hoffman. Mr. Tuttle was an excellent business man and was a successful farmer until his health failed, but until the close of his life he continued to manage his affairs, although not able for some time to take any active part in the work. He survived his wife
Mrs. Ellen Hoffman was reared on the farm on which she has always livad, with the exception of ons year, 1872-3, when she accompanied her husband to Kansas, just after her marriage, which took place February 22, 1872, to Martin C. Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1843, and died July 4, 1884. He was a son of Jacob
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Hoffman, who came of an old family of Lancaster County. Martin C. Hoffman came to Clark County at the age of nine- teen years. He served almost three years in the Civil War as a member of the Ninety-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was with the army under General Sherman on the famous march to the sea. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman had five children, namely: John, who resides with his mother; Harland and Howard, twins, now deceased; Wilfred, who married Lillie M. McDonald, and has two chil- dren-Wilfred Carl and Louis Martin; and Ada Celia, who resides at home.
EDWARD A. HAYS, a representative citizen of Springfield Township, whose fine farm of ninety-eight acres is all in one body and is situated on the Gillett Road, about two and one-half miles south of the city of Springfield, was born May 7, 1859, at Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, and is a son of Samuel and Emily (Otstot) Hays.
The paternal grandfather of Edward A. Hays came to America from Scotland and for some years afterward he lived in Michigan. Later he established his home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and there Samuel Hays, father of Edward A., was born October 9, 1825. He died on his farm in Springfield Township, Clark County, April 23, 1894. When he came to Springfield in 1842 he had completed his apprenticeship to the trade of cabinet- maker and this he followed until about 1863, when he purchased a team of good horses and rented a farm, that tract of land now being practically a part of the city of Springfield. He followed farming
here for five years and then moved to the farm on which Edward A. Hays resides. It was the girlhood home of his wife, the old Otstot farm, and here he continued agricultural pursuits until the close of his life.
Samuel Hays was married at Spring- field, to Mrs. Emily (Otstot) Crossland, who was the widow of Jacob Crossland. She had one son born to her first mar- riage, Albert Crossland, who resides on his farm in Springfield Township. Mrs. Hays was a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Hinkle) Otstot. She was three years old when her parents left Pennsylvania and came to Springfield Township, the long journey being made in wagons. She was too young to remember the wild con- dition of the country at that time or to recall the many pioneer privations to which the family was subjected, but learned of these as she grew older and left many stories of the early days with her children. Her father secured 160 acres of Government land for which he paid $5.00 per acre, and he built his first log cabin on the site of the present Hays home. In this little cabin his daughter grew to womanhood and she was quite regular in her attendance at the district school. The log structure used as a schoolhouse stood on the present site of Congress Hall. Jacob Otstot came to Clark County with money amounting to $1,700, which he had earned at the cooper trade. He was an expert workman, but did not follow his trade after leaving Pennsylvania, finding plenty to occupy his time in clearing up his pioneer farm. The death of his wife preceded his own and his last years were spent with his daughter, Mrs. Hays, where he died in
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1883, aged eighty-three years. The farm and household possessions came then to his daughter and her husband. Among the latter is a clock that was made by John Hoff, of Lancaster County, Penn- sylvania, which is over 150 years old, an ancient spinning wheel and many tools and implements. Another relic was a silver dollar that was coined in 1800, the year of Mr. Otstot's birth, which he had always carefully preserved, and it, with all the other objects, are now just as care- fully treasured by his grandson, Edward A. Hays.
Samuel Hays and wife had two chil- dren : Charles O., who was born in 1857, is engaged in farming in Harmony Town- ship, Clark County, and Edward A. The mother of these two sons died October 6, 1894.
Edward A. Hays was four years old when his parents moved to Springfield Township and almost the whole of his life has been spent on a farm. After his marriage he continued to reside on the home place and from his father he re- ceived sixty-one acres of the land that his grandfather had obtained from the Government. In 1902 Mr. Hays pur- chased almost thirty-eight acres of the old Hinkle land. In 1894 he built his com- modious and comfortable frame house . and in 1895 he remodeled his barn. The latter building was destroyed by fire in April, 1906, but he lost no time in rebuild- ing and had another structure ready by the time his crops were harvested.
On March 5, 1889, Mr. Hays was mar- ried to Lily Garlough, who is a daughter of Owen and Sarah (Littler) Garlough. The father of Mrs. Hays died when she was one year old. Her mother subse- years.
quently married Benjamin Garlough, a relative of her first husband. Mr. and Mrs. Hays have four children, namely : Glenn Garlough, who is a student in the Springfield High School; Albert Owen, who is also in the High School classes; and Anson Erwin and Chester K. Mr. and Mrs. Hays are members of the Sec- ond Lutheran Church at Springfield. Mr. Hays belongs to the Junior Order of American Mechanics. “
GARRETT SHERLO, who has re- sided on his present valuable farm of 120 acres, which is situated on the Troy Turn- pike, about five miles northwest of Springfield, since 1876, was born in Brunswick, Germany, in December, 1837. He is a son of Casper Sherlo.
Mr. Sherlo was left an orphan in his childhood and he was reared to the age of eighteen years by strangers. He then came to America and settled at West Alexandria, Preble County, Ohio, finding farm work in that neighborhood. He en- listed during the Civil War from Preble County in a military organization known as the "Squirrel Hunters" and served 100 days. Just before the close of the war he came to Greene County and rented a farm on which he lived until after his marriage in 1866. He then rented land in Montgomery County, about four miles northwest of Dayton from which he soon moved to a more desirable farm that he rented for three years in Champaign County. Mr. Sherlo then returned for several months to Greene County and then came to Clark County, and operated a rented farm west of Medway for six He then returned to Greene
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County for a residence of three more locating in Pickaway County and later in years, after which he bought his present Clark County. He married a Miss Hill, of Virginia, and to them were born five sons, Obed, father of Edward H., being the second eldest. The maternal grand- father was Isaiah Hunt. Obed Florence lived for many years in Madison County, moving to Indiana in 1859, where his death occurred some few years later. property. At that time an old dwelling stood where, in 1881. he erected his fine frame residence. In 1904 his barn was burned, but he has replaced it and his surroundings are very complete and con- venient. Mr. Sherlo has practically re- tired from farm work, having placed the operation of his farm in the hands of Edward H. Florence was reared on his
Amos Judd, his son-in-law, who is a very ' father's farm in Madison County and re- competent man.
In 1866 Mr. Sherlo was married at Cin- cinnati to Mary Shuey, who was born in Preble County, Ohio, July 14, 1839, and is a daughter of Adam and Sarah (Nise- wonger) Shuey. Mr. and Mrs. Sherlo have one daughter, Delta, who married Amos Judd. Mr. Judd was born in Rap- pahannock County, Virginia, February 17, 1881, and is a son of Samuel P. and Mary (Bolen) Judd, who came to Ohio from Virginia in 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Judd have one son, Delbert. The family be- long to Grace Reformed Church at Springfield. Mr. Sherlo had many hard- ships to endure during the earlier part of his life, but he overcome all obstacles, ac- cumulated a fine property by years of earnest effort and has long been consid- ered one of German Township's repre- sentative citizens.
EDWARD H. FLORENCE, township trustee and owner of 1,100 acres of valu- able farm land in Madison Township, was born in 1848 near Lilly Chapel, Madison County, Ohio, and is a son of Obed Florence.
Thomas Florence, his paternal grand- father, came to Ohio from Virginia, first
ceived his education in the common schools. After leaving school he oper- ated his grandfather's farm for a number of years, and then engaged in farming for himself, with great success, and he is now one of the largest land owners in the county, owning 1,100 acres of fine farm- ing land. He is politically a Republican and has been for thirteen years township trustee, in which capacity he is now serv- ing. He was also for a number of years a member of the school board. Mr. Flor- ence married Emma Woosley, a daughter of Benjamin Woosley, of Clark County. They have had two children, one now liv- ing, Walter, and Keturah, who died in 1888, aged five years.
JACOB TUTTLE, who was once a well known farmer and respected citizen of Springfield Township, was born No- vember 12, 1836, on the old Tuttle home- stead, in Springfield Township, Clark County, Ohio, and died in Clay County, Texas, July 15, 1898. His parents were John and Margaret (Prickett) Tuttle.
Jacob Tuttle was one of a family of eleven sons and five daughters and to- gether they were reared on the old home farm and attended the neighborhood
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schools. The boys were all taught to be aged during the fourteen years that she good farmers and one of the brothers, H. continued in Texas by her two sons, Louis H. Tuttle, became a minister. and Ralph Tuttle. In October, 1904, Mrs. Tuttle and her son Louis returned to the old home in Springfield Township, this farm having been under the manage- ment, in the meanwhile, of her son Fred Tuttle. In January 1907, the Tuttles sold their Texas land, it having been a good investment.
When Jacob Tuttle reached manhood he married Nancy Todd, the ceremony taking place August 27, 1857. She is a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Gar- lough) Todd. James Todd was born in Pennsylvania and came to Green Town- ship, Clark County, when a young lad. His wife was born in Maryland and was a daughter of John Garlough and she was seven years old when her parents came to Clark County. James Todd and wife were married in Green Township, where Mrs. Tuttle was born, being one of a fam- ily of nine children, five of whom still live. After marriage Jacob Tuttle and wife settled on the present farm in Springfield Township, which is located about one mile from Mrs. Tuttle's old home. When they came to this farm no improving had yet been done, but build- ing was soon commenced and the present fine, large house was erected, together with barns and the other farm buildings. At first Jacob Tuttle owned the place with his brother David, but later bought the latter's interest. He carried on gen- eral farming and also raised stock, par- ticularly hogs.
Jacob and Nancy Tuttle became parents of eight children, the survivors being: Lelia, who married John Larkins, resides in Greene County, Ohio; Fred, residing at Springfield, a rural route mail carrier, married Elizabeth Hinkle and they have two children, Hazel and Russell; Clifford, residing in Texas, married Jessie E. Irvine, and they have one child, Ida; Lewis, unmarried, operates the home farm; and Ralph, who resides at Wichita Falls, Texas, married Nora Ramsey. Nina, Etta and Ada, twins, all died with- in three weeks of each other from scarlet fever, aged, respectively, five and two years of age.
WILLIAM HUNTER, whose magnifi- cent farm of 380 acres, all in one body, lies about one and one-half miles south- east of Catawba, is one of the substantial citizens of Pleasant Township. He was ty, Ohio, on a farm which is now owned by his brother, Eli Hunter, March 8, 1841, and is a son of Lemuel Hunter.
In 1891 Mr. Tuttle's health failed and he decided to move to Texas, hoping the change of climate would benefit him. He born in Pleasant Township, Clark Coun- secured 320 acres of land in Clay County and lived there for seven years, but his health was never entirely restored and his death occurred in Clay County, Lemuel Hunter resided in Pleasant Township all his life. His father, Will- iam Hunter, came to this section from near Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and built the first mill in Pleasant Township, where his burial took place. After Mr. Tuttle's death Mrs. Tuttle and two of her sons purchased 320 more acres of land ad- joining the other tract and this was man-
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which still stands. Lemuel Hunter had seven children, namely: Mary Ann, Will- iam, Sarah Jane, Lewis, Eli, Miranda and Bruce. Mary Ann married J. M. Hodge and they lived on the line between Moore- field and Pleasant Townships. Both are deceased. They had seven children, three of whom, Asa, Ida and Anna, are living. Sarah Jane married James M. Yeazell and they died leaving no issue. Lewis died unmarried. Eli, residing on the homestead farm, married Lucinda Mc- Clintock. They have had three children: Cecil, who is assisting his father; Edna, who is a student at Oxford College; and one son died in infancy. Miranda mar- ried James Yeazell and they had two chil- dren, one of whom died very young. The survivor, Laura, married Dr. V. D. Krout and they live on a farm east of Mechanics- burg and have two children, Elden and Helen. Bruce died at the age of nineteen years.
William Hunter was reared to man- hood on the home farm and attended the country schools of Pleasant Township. He was twenty-three years of age when he enlisted in the Sixteenth Ohio Battery, in the Federal Army, for service in the Civil War, and his term of enlistment covered nine months. He was honorably discharged at the expiration of this time, at New Orleans, Louisiana.
On February 15, 1866, Mr. Hunter was married to Elizabeth Cartmell, who is a daughter of John and Mary Ann (Apple- gate) Cartmell and a granddaughter of John L. Cartmell, the latter of whom was born in Champaign County, Ohio. John Cartmell, son of John L., was born Janu- ary 16, 1818, and died November, 1876. The mother of Mrs. Hunter was born No-
vember 28, 1823, and died June 17, 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter have had three sons, namely: Milton, Oliver and John. The eldest son, Milton, was born December 16, 1866. Oliver was born August 23, 1872, married Donna Harmison, and they have three children: Clarence, Ralph and Hazel. John, the youngest son of Mr. Hunter, was born April 23, 1876, and died in infancy. Mr. Hunter, in association with his two sons, carry on general farm- ing and stock-raising and make a special- ty of raising Duroc hogs. Mrs. Hunter is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Catawba.
ALONZO ADDISON BAKER, M. D., who was formerly in active practice as a physician and surgeon in Clark County, located in Springfield in 1880 and there resided until his death February 5, 1895. He was born in 1831 on his father's farm near Enon, Clark County, Ohio, his par- ents being Ezra D. and Anne (Morgan) Baker. The Baker family has long been one of prominence in Clark County. Ezra Baker, father of the late Dr. Baker, attained a very advanced age, at the time of his death being the oldest living settler of Madison Township. He served four terms as county commissioner of Clark County and during almost all of his active life was a man of public affairs. He sur- vived his wife many years, her death tak- ing place in 1867. They had four chil- dren, namely: Cassandra, Leander, Gus- tavus and Alonzo A.
Alonzo A. Baker entered upon the study of medicine in 1845 and during the two following years attended medical lectures at Starling College. Subsequent-
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ly he was graduated from the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati. Dr. Baker married, and he and his wife became the parents of four children, namely : Annetta M., wife of Dr. E. Myers; Elizabeth A., wife of Edgar N. Lupfer ; Scipio E., and Nellie B., deceased. Scipio E. Baker is now one of Springfield's leading manu- facturers. He is president and treasurer of the Champion Chemical Company, and president of the Foos Gas Engine Com- pany. He owns a beautiful home at the northeast corner of High and Sycamore Streets.
Dr. Baker became interested in several large business enterprises, among which we may mention The Champion Chemical Co. and The Springfield Metallic Casket Co., he having been one of the original or- ganizers of both.
WILLIAM CRABILL, JR., one of Springfield's leading citizens and ex- tensive farmers, owning a farm of one hundred and seventy-eight acres, on which he lives, and a second farm of seventy- eight acres, on which a son resides, was born in Springfield Township, Clark Coun- ty, Ohio, March 15, 1834, and is a son of Thomas V. and Sidney (Yeazell) Crabill, who were very prominent people in this section of Ohio, at an early day.
William Crabill was one year old when his father moved from Springfield Town- ship, to Homer, Champaign County, Illi- nois, where the family lived for one year and then returned to Clark County. The parents of Mr. Crabill settled again in Springfield Township, on the farm which is now occupied by Joseph Crabill, and William Crabill lived in the old log cabin
home until he was twenty-one years of age, about which time the present fine brick residence of Joseph Crabill, Sr., was built. On November 1, 1860, William Crabill was married to Sarah E. Wise, who died April 9, 1901. She was a daughter of Jesse Wise. Mr. and Mrs. Crabill went to housekeeping on a rented farm in Madison Township, but on April 1, 1863, they moved to Harmony Town- ship. Twelve years later they left that farm and on September 3, 1874, settled on the present farm in Springfield Town- ship. With the exception of one year, in his infancy, Mr. Crabill has lived con- tinuously in Clark County. He has had eight children, namely: Joseph, residing in Springfield Township; William Edgar, living at home; Elizabeth, deceased, mar- ried William J. Copeland, also deceased, and their three surviving children, Clar- ence, Esther May and James, reside with their grandfather; Alice, who married Charles Croutwatter, a farmer of Spring- field Township; Elza, residing in a ten- ant house on the home farm; May, de- ceased, who married John Stratton, left one son; Hattie, who died in 1900; and John, who died aged four years. Elza Crabill, who assists his father in the man- agement of the home farm, married Stella May Smith, and they have had three chil- dren: Forest, David and Ormas, the lat- ter being deceased.
Mr. Crabill owns what is considered one of the best farms in Springfield Town- ship and he makes a specialty of raising Chester White hogs and Delaine sheep. On August 4, 1895, he suffered the loss of a barn full of hay, and about 700 bushels of wheat by fire, resulting from a stroke of lightning. He has erected all
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of his substantial buildings and yearly adds to the value of his estate. Having several springs on his farm he has in- stalled a hydraulic ram which forces the water all through his house and barn- lot, millions of gallons of water escaping down the road. All the Crabills have been men of enterprise and have acquired property through their industry and good management. The father of Mr. Crabill started out in life with but a pittance, but owned over one thousand acres of land at his death. William Crabill is a member of the Fifth Lutheran Church at Springfield.
JOHN DAVID SCHAFFNER, a much esteemed citizen of Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio, who is engaged in general farming and stock-raising on a fine farm of seventy-three and one-half acres, was born April 4, 1860, in Spring- field, Ohio, in the Old Pennsylvania House, a tavern which was conducted by his father, Peter Schaffner.
Peter Schaffner was born at Weisen- berg, Germany, and when a boy of eight years accompanied his parents to this country, they immediately coming to Ohio and settling in Clark County. Here Peter was reared and became a distiller, and at the time was considered the best distiller in the county. He later engaged in milling and after his marriage operated a grocery and tavern at Springfield. He was united in marriage with Caroline Frick, also a native of Germany, who came to America at the age of sixteen years. They became the parents of six children, all born in the old Pennsylvania House, of whom two years.
died in infancy. The other four were: Lewis, now deceased; Peter, Jr .; Caroline, who married Thomas Fisher; and John David, the subject of this sketch. In later years Mr. Schaffner purchased the old Miller estate of one hundred and eleven acres in Bethel Township, seventy-three and one-half acres of which, as above noted, are owned by John D. Schaffner, and here he resided until his death at the age of seventy-six years. Mrs. Schaff- ner died in January, 1892, aged sixty-four years.
John D. Schaffner was eight years old when his parents moved to his present farm, where he attended the district schools of the township, and grew to man's estate. He became a farmer, which oc- cupation he has always continued to fol- low, and purchased his farm from his father's estate. Many of the improve- ments made on the farm, including the fine large brick residence, were made by him, and in connection with his farming he raises considerable stock, making a spe- cialty of Poland China hogs.
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