Century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens 20th, Part 81

Author: Rockel, William M. (William Mahlon), 1855-1930, ed
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: Chicago, Biographical publishing co.
Number of Pages: 1086


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January 8, 1889, Mr. Schaffner was united in marriage with Della Thomas, who was born at New Moorefield, Ohio, a daughter of George D. and Martha L. (Lamar) Thomas, who came from Fred- erick City, Maryland, to Clark County. Mrs. Schaffner is one of a family of four- teen children, namely: William; Anna, widow of John Uhlery; Della Fletcher, wife of our subject; Sally, wife of B. Shroyer; A. Lowrey, who married Lillian Roll; Alvin H .; Frank D .; Pearl H .; and four who are deceased. Mrs. Schaffner's father died February 28, 1889; her mother is still living at the age of sixty-nine


EDWIN B. TURNER


MRS. MARY S. TURNER


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Mr. and Mrs. Schaffner have one son, Roy, who was born June 20, 1890, and who resides at home.


EDWIN B. TURNER, superintendent of the Ohio I. O. O. F. Home at Spring- field, and one of the prominent and rep- resentative citizens of the city, was born in Marysville, Union County, Ohio, in 1851. Mr. Turner was reared and edu- cated at Marysville and there learned the carriage-maker's trade, at which heworked for a period of twelve years. In April, 1884, when the Children's Home of Union County was established, he became its superintendent and remained in charge of the same for sixteen years and three months, when he resigned to accept his present position of superintendent of the IO. O. F. Home of Ohio, assuming the re- sponsibilities of that position in 1900.


December 29th, 1874, Mr. Turner mar- ried Mary C. Sevirn, a teacher, of Union County, Ohio, and they have one child, Alice, wife of John O. Parnell. Mrs Par- nell's early education was obtained in the public schools of Marysville. She is a graduate of the Marysville High school and also attended for some time the Ohio Weslyan University. She then graduated in music under Otto Ingurson of Colum- bus, after which she studied music in Lon- don, and is at present an instructor in the School of Music at Springfield.


Mr. Turner is a member of the I. O. O. F. Lodge of Marysville No. 78; Marys- ville Encampment No. 114; Magnetic Re-' becca Lodge No. 258 of Marysville, and of the Occidental Canteen No. 21 of Spring- feld. He is religiously connected with the Third Presbyterian Church of Springfield.


JOSEPH HENRY THACKERY, a re- tired agriculturist residing in Dialton, Clark County, Ohio, and owner of two hundred and sixty-six acres of fine farm- ing land, fifty acres of which are just south of Dialton and the remaining two hundred and sixteen acres located one mile west of Dialton, was born July 26, 1856, in Champaign County, Ohio, and is a son of Duncan and Susan (Ray) Thackery.


Joseph H. Thackery passed his boyhood days on his father's farm in Champaign County, Ohio, assisting with the work on the place and attending the district schools. He came to Clark County in 1881 with his parents and here his father died in July, 1899, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. His mother, who is still living, is one of the oldest women in the county. Mr. Thackery has always fol- lowed general farming and is recognized as one of the substantial and leading farmers of Pike Township. Besides his farming interests Mr. Thackery is also financially interested in the Northampton Horse Company.


On January 31, 1889, Mr. Thackery was united in marriage with Sallie Myers, a native of Clark County and a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Overpack) Myers, both of whom were also natives of this county. She was one of a family of five children, namely: Mary, who died at the age of one year; Martha, wife of Dr. A. W. Mitchell; Dr. J. N. Myers of George- town, Ohio; Sallie, wife of the subject of this sketch; and Emma B., wife of Dr. H. A. Cossler of Fairfield, Ohio. Mr. Myers passed out of this life in February, 1902, at the age of sixty-two years, and Mrs. Myers in February, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Thackery have one child, Warder M.


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Politically, Mr. Thackery is a Republican as was his father, and the religious con- nection of the family is with the Reformed Church.


WILLIAM T. OTSTOT, a representa- tive citizen and leading agriculturist of Springfield Township, who resides on his home farm of seventy-five acres, which is situated in section 31, owns thirty acres more, just across the road, practically in the same farm. Mr. Otstot was born in the old log house which then stood on this farm, December 19, 1837, and is a son of Daniel and Hannah (Dushane) Otstot.


Daniel Otstot was born in Pennsylvania, in 1795, and died at Springfield, Ohio, in November, 1881, aged eighty-six years. His father, Adam Otstot, was born in Ger- many. Daniel Otstot was married in Pennsylvania, to Hannah Dushane, who was born in Delaware, of French parent- age, and die on the present home farm, in February, 1860. All of their ten chil- dren, with the exception of William T., the youngest, were born before the family left Pennsylvania. In the spring of 1837 there was a great movement of settlers from the East to Ohio, and among these came Daniel Otstot, wife and seven chil- dren, two having died prior to this, and after they reached Clark County, the father secured one hundred and sixty acres of land, sixty of which he soon trans- ferred to a brother. A small clearing had been made, on which stood a log cabin, but all the remainder of the land was covered with forest. Daniel Otstot im- mediately began to clear up the land and. to put it under cultivation. In 1850, he built the large brick house which his son


William T. occupies. He remained ac- tive until advanced in years, when he re- tired to Springfield. His children were: Martha Ann, who married William Bun- yan, both deceased; John Dushane, resid- ing at Springfield, aged eighty-six years; Mary Jane, who married John W. Ran- dall, both deceased; Adam Hunter, Alfred Walraven, Thomas Miller and Sarah Catherine, all deceased; two children died young; and William T., of Springfield Township.


William T. Otstot obtained his educa- tion in the neighborhood schools and grew to manhood on the home farm, twelve acres of which he cleared of timber. Mr. Otstot is a veteran of the Civil War, hav- ing enlisted first on September 20, 1861, in Company I, Forty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and during his three long years of service, took part in many very serious battles through Ken- tucky and Virginia. Before the expira- tion of his first enlistment he re-enlisted in January, 1864, becoming a member of the Eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and was finally mustered out at Clarksburg, West Virginia, July 30, 1865. Mr. Otstot is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic post at Springfield. After the close of his military service, he returned to Springfield Township and has been engaged in farming here until the present. In 1906 he erected the comfort- able frame residence adjoining his own, which is occupied by his son.


On January 2, 1868, Mr. Otstot was married to Mary A. Willis, who was reared near Columbus, in Franklin Coun- ty, and is a daughter of Thomas and Eliz- abeth (Shanks) Willis. They have had three children, namely: Nellie W .; Wal-


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ter W., who was born in December, 1873, Keifer was married in April, 1902, to and died aged four years; and Harry M., Mary Wilson, a daughter of T. B. Wilson, of Madison County, Ohio. who was born in December, 1877. He married Bessie Starkey. Mr. Otstot and family belong to the High Street Method- ist Episcopal Church at Springfield.


MAJOR HORACE C. KEIFER, mem- ber of the well-known law firm of Keifer & Keifer, of Springfield, Ohio, and one of Springfield's leading and influential citi- zens, was born in this city, November 14, 1867, son of Hon. J. Warren Keifer and Eliza (Stout) Keifer.


Mr. Keifer was reared in his native city of Springfield, and received his literary training in Wittenberg College and at Michigan University, Ann Arbor, Mich- igan. He subsequently took up the study of law and was graduated in 1892 from the Cincinnati Law School. Since com- pleting his education, with the exception of about a year spent in military service in the Spanish-American War, Mr. Keifer has been a member of the law firm of Keifer & Keifer, the other members of which are his father, J. Warren Keifer, and his brother, William W. Keifer. In May, 1898, he was appointed captain of the Third United States Volunteer En- gineers by President McKinley, was sta- tioned successively at Miami, and Jack- sonville, Florida, and Savannah, Georgia, and saw service in Cuba from December, 1898, until April, 1899. He was present at the evacuation of Havana by the Span- ish, January 1, 1899. He served on the staff of his father, General J. Warren Keifer, and was mustered out April, 1899. He had been Major of the Third Ohio Na- tional Guards since November, 1904. Mr.


WILLIAM E. CARTMELL, one of the leading and representative citizens of New Moorefield, Moorefield Township, Clark County, Ohio, and owner of a valu- able farm of one hundred and fifty acres situated near Catawba, Pleasant Town- ship, was born May 1, 1851, near Catawba, Clark County, Ohio, and is a son of Thomas and Amanda (Fisher) Cartmell.


Thomas Cartmell was born in Virginia and when a small boy came to Clark County, Ohio, with his father, John Cart- mell, who located in Pleasant Township, where he was reared to manhood and mar- ried. Thomas Cartmell married Amanda Fisher and reared a family of thirteen children.


William E. Cartmell was reared near Catawba and received his education in the schools of the county and became a farmer by occupation, which he has since followed with considerable success. He was joined in marriage on February 3, 1874, to Mary Ferguson, who was born near Catawba, and is a daughter of Joseph and Jane (Neer) Ferguson, both deceased, the father dying in August, 1849, when she was but eight months old. Her mother died in 1905 at the advanced age of eighty-five years.


Mr. and Mrs. Cartmell first went to housekeeping in Moorefield Township, but subsequently moved to Catawba, Pleasant Township, where they resided for several years, and in 1887 came to New Moorefield, where they had previous- ly bought their property and have resided


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here continuously since. In 1897 Mr. Cartmell purchased his farm of one hun- dred and fifty acres in Pleasant Township, but has never resided on it. In 1893 he became superintendent of the Warder farms-11 farms, then belonging to B. H. Warder of Washington, D. C., and consist- ing of over two thousand acres of land, ten of which are located in Springfield and Moorefield Townships, Clark County, and one in Champaign County, Ohio. For a period of fourteen years Mr. Cartmell acted as superintendent of these farms, all of which, but one, have been sold. Mr. Cartmell is a member and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church of New Moorefield.


JOHN ARTHUR RICHARDS, a rep- resentative citizen of Springfield Town- ship, residing about four miles east of Springfield, was born March 6, 1830, in Virginia, and is a son of Edward and Jane (Benson) Richards.


Edward Richards was a native of Vir- ginia. He came to Clark County, Ohio, July 2, 1836, where he died in September, 1857. He married Jane Benson and they had eight children, the two survivors be- ing: John Arthur, and Margaret, who is the wife of Luke Bird.


When John Arthur hichards was about sixteen years old he went to live with his cousin, Milton Benson, who was a promi- nent man at that time, but since deceased. Mr. Richards remained with Mr. Benson for twenty years. In 1868 he married Nancy Jane Bird, who is a daughter of Anthony and Jane (Snodgrass) Bird. Anthony Bird was born in Virginia and was twelve years old when he accompanied


his father, Luke Bird, to Clark County, in 1817. They settled first on the farm now owned by J. B. Pearson, where Luke Bird died shortly afterward. Anthony Bird became a large landowner, acquiring almost all of the land east of Springfield around the National Turnpike and the Taylor Mill Road, the latter of which is now known as the Bird Road. At the time of his death, Anthony Bird owned two hun- dred and forty acres, which was managed and operated by his son John S. Bird for twenty-five years. Anthony Bird died July 3, 1882, his first wife having died in 1836. Anthony Bird was the father of eight children, four by first marriage and four by his second marriage, there being no children by the third marriage. The three survivors are: John S., Luke and Mrs. Richards.


John S. Bird was born on the old Bird homestead, seventy-eight years ago. In 1872 he was married to Almina Carson, who died in 1875, leaving one daughter, Almina, who married William Scott, of Newark, New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have one daughter, Nellie Irene. The Birds have been prominent in the affairs of Clark County for a great many years. The late Anthony Bird was known as Col- onel Bird, having been colonel of State militia. He also served many years as a justice of the peace. John S. Bird served one term as constable, but declined all other offices. He is an honored member of the family of Mr. and Mrs. Richards.


Two children were born to John A. Richards and wife-Anthony Bird and Carrie. Anthony Bird Richards was mar- ried (first) to Lizzie Schooley, of Clare- mont County, Ohio, who died in 1898, leav- ing one child, Miriam. Mr. Richards was


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married, secondly, to Mabel Dickerson. Carrie Richards married Robert Park. Mr. and Mrs. Park reside with her par- ents.


Formerly, John A. Richards owned fifty-three and one-half acres of land across the road from his present farm, on which he built a fine residence in 1883. In 1894 he sold that farm and subsequent- ly erected his present comfortable house. Mr. and Mrs. Richards are members of the United Presbyterian Church.


CASSIUS W. MINNICH, owner of an excellent tract of one hundred and twen- ty acres in Bethel Township, Clark Coun- ty, situated eight miles west of Spring- field on the Valley Pike, was born Novem- ber 6, 1848, and is a son of John and Caro- line (Layton) Minnich.


Michael and Eva Minnich, his paternal grandparents, came to Ohio in wagons when it was practically a wilderness and were among the first settlers of this sec- tion, where they spent the remainder of their lives. They had six children-three sons and three daughters.


John Minnich, the father of Cassius, was born here in 1810 and when he grew up assisted in clearing the land. Dur- ing his life he acquired two hundred and thirty acres of land and held many im- portant township offices, including the superintendency of the construction of the Valley Pike. He married Caroline Lay- ton, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Layton, early settlers of this section, and to them were born the following children : Michael S .; De Witt C .; Cassius W .; Mary E., who married J. M. Latta (both de- ceased) ; and Jessie, who married A. E.


Umphrey. John Minnich died in 1864, aged fifty-four years, and his widow sur- vived him until 1904, passing away in her seventy-ninth year.


Cassius W. Minnich was born on a farm adjoining his present place and his in- dustrial energies have been devoted en- tirely to agriculture. His education was acquired in the district schools and at Wittenberg College. In November, 1872, he was married to Ida C. Higgins, a native of Mad River Township, whose death oc- curred in September, 1885. They were the parents of three children : Carl; Kenneth, who married Mary Rogers, is a resident of Springfield, and has two children, Louis and an infant; and Alice.


Mr. Minnich has served on the school board and for the past twelve years has been a township trustee. He has also for the past twelve years been connected with the Clark County Agricultural Society. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Ma- sons-Clark Lodge No. 101 of Springfield -and the Knights of Pythias-Mad River Lodge No. 374, at Enon.


JOSEPH F. SNODGRASS, a general farmer in Harmony Township, who was engaged in a grocery business for some five years, during this period being post- master, was born in Clark County, Ohio, November 27, 1867, and is a son of And- rew and Eliza Jane (Foreman) Snod- grass.


Samuel Snodgrass, the great-grand- father, came from Virginia to Clark Coun- ty, in 1808, and was married here to Jane Steel, who was born in Kentucky. Their son, William Snodgrass, was born in Clark County, where he lived until he was forty


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years old, when he moved to Indiana. He married Sarah Edgar and they had four children: John, born in 1838, died aged thirteen years; Andrew, born in 1840; Nancy J., born in 1842, married David Laybourn, resides in Colorado, and they have seven children, Jennie, William, Harry, Frank, Charles, Andrew and Fannie; and Margaret, born in 1844, mar- ried Tobias Bird, resides in Colorado, and they have four children, Harry, Della, William and Fred.


Andrew Snodgrass, father of Joseph F., was reared and educated in Clark County. At the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1861, he enlisted from Springfield, in the Six- teenth Ohio Battery, and served all through the dangers, hardships and pri- vations until the close of the war. He participated in a number of important battles, including Vicksburg, Port Gibson and Champion Hill, together with numer- ous skirmishes and other engagements, and on one occasion on account of injuries was remanded to a hospital, in which he was compelled to remain for six weeks. He is a valued member of the Grand Army of the Republic. When his honor- able discharge reached him at Columbus, in 1865, it found a soldier who had ever been at the post of duty. In 1872, Andrew Snodgrass moved with his family from Clark County to Kansas, where he con- ducted a stock farm of six hundred acres, for five years, after which he returned to Clark County, which has remained his home until the present. He married Eliza Jane Foreman, in 1867. She was born in Clark County and was a daughter of Harvey and Mary (Jones) Foreman. The four children born to this marriage were: Joseph Forest; Emma, born May 23, 1869,


married Mathew Roy Oates, in 1887, who died in 1906; Blanche, who died in in- fancy; and Finley, born in 1873, in Kan- sas, died aged seven years.


Joseph F. Snodgrass owns a one-half acre of land and has an interest in other property in Harmony Township. He was married January 18, 1898, to Agnes En- sley, who was born in 1878, in Fayette County, Ohio. Her parents, Evan and Eliza J. (Mooney) Ensley, were formerly of Fayette County, but in 1890 they moved to Clark County. Mrs. Snodgrass has one sister, Carrie P., and one brother, Her- man. The former married Samuel Payne and they live at Catawba and have six children: Bessie, Glen, Paul, Robert, Helen and Thomas. Herman, born in 1880, married Blanche Fisher and they have two children, Herman and Allegra Wanetta. They reside in Harmony Town- ship. Mr. and Mrs. Snodgrass have two children, namely: Melville, who was born January 20, 1899, and Clark, who was born October 18, 1904. Mr. Snodgrass was reared in the M. P. Church. He has taken a more or less active interest in township affairs for some years.


JAMES J. KINNANE, who has been identified with the business interests of Springfield for the past thirty-eight years and is a leading citizen here, was born June 22, 1853, at Talbert, in County Kerry, Ireland.


Mr. Kinnane was fifteen years old when he came to America and found em- ployment in the dry goods house of E. B. Nugent, at Louisville, Kentucky, where he remained for one year. He then came to Springfield, where his brothers were


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established in business. In 1869 the brothers-James J., Edward, Daniel and John Kinnane-embarked in a dry goods business in Springfield, under the firm name of Kinnane Brothers, founding what is the oldest business house in this sec- tion. The business was conducted under that style until 1893, when it was incor- porated under the present name, The Kin- nane Brothers Company. Edward Kin- nane was the first president and was suc- ceeded by John Kinnane, who was in turn succeeded by the latter's son, John J. Kinnane, Jr. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and is an exception- ally bright young business man. James J. Kinnane is the only survivor of the original firm and still continues his in- terest in the business, which has been de- veloped into one of the largest dry goods and department stores in Clark County. Employment is given to about 140 people and 64,000 square feet of floor space is utilized. James J. Kinnane was married to Olive Coffin, who is a daughter of E. G. Coffin.


BENJAMIN F. KEIFER, who up to his death on December 5th, 1907, was one of Mad River Township's most respected citizens, was a life-long resident of Clark County, where he was born April 22, 1821. His parents were Joseph and Mary (Smith) Keifer.


Joseph Keifer was born near Sharps- burg, Washington County, Maryland, in 1784. He came to Ohio in 1812 and short- ly afterward was married, in Clark Coun- ty, to Mary Smith, who was born near the site of the present city of Cincinnati. Joseph Keifer secured a farm in Bethel


Township, on which he resided until his death, which took place when he was sixty- six years old. His widow subsequently removed to Yellow Springs, where she died at the age of seventy-nine. Their children who attained maturity were Mar- garet, Sarah, Benjamin Franklin, Eliz- abeth, Lucretia Minerva, J. Warren, and Cordelia.


Benjamin Franklin Keifer grew to man- hood on the home farm and obtained a district school education in the old log schoolhouse near his father's farm. He resided on the parental homestead until several years after his marriage, and then removed to a farm on the National Road, where he remained two years. In 1852 he bought one hundred acres of the pres- ent family homestead from Joseph Sipe, and to this he later added until he had ac- cumulated almost four hundred acres, which he placed under careful cultivation. His attention was confined almost entirely to agricultural interests, in which line of industry he was very successful. The es- tate which he thus built up is now one of the most valuable in Mad River Township, and comprises three hundred and ninety- five acres of well improved land.


On March 22, 1846, Mr. Keifer was united in marriage with Amelia F. Henkle, who died May 1, 1873. Though she her- self was a native of Clark County, Ohio, her family came to this state from Vir- ginia. She bore her husband eight chil- dren, namely : Silas, born March 27, 1847; Joseph, born March 3, 1850, who died January 27, 1852; Mary C., born Au- gust 15, 1852; Erwin, born November 15, 1855 ; Montgomery, born October 11, 1858; Benjamin, born August 3, 1861, who mar- ried Ethel Christ; Sarah A., born April


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17, 1865, who married William Drake; years. He then established his present and Ione, born July 10, 1868. Mr. Keifer tin and plumbing business in South Charleston, where he has since continued with much success. had the following grandchildren-Wilbur, Harold and Ruth Agnes Keifer and Marie Ione and Warren Keifer Drake.


Mr. Keifer's political affiliations were with the Republican party. He was a con- sistent member of the Methodist Episco- pal Church. He was a great reader and kept in touch with the general topics of the country.


CHARLES SUMNER BATTIN, prop- rietor of the largest tin and plumbing es- tablishment of South Charleston is one of the leading business men of the city, and was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1860, a son of Samuel R. and Lydia Ann (Winder) Battin.


Samuel R. Battin is a son of David and Sarah Ann (Reeder) Battin, life-long resi- dents of Columbiana County, Ohio, who were farmers by occupation. He was the eldest of a family of two children, having one brother, Franklin, who is deceased. He was born and reared in Columbiana County, Ohio, and engaged in farming there until 1874, when he came to Clark County, locating on a farm near Selma, where he has since continued to reside. He married Lydia Ann Winder, a daugh- ter of Joseph Winder of Carrol County, Ohio, and to them were born four children, Charles S., the subject of this sketch, and David, being the only living children.


C. S. Battin was fourteen years old when his parents came to Clark County, where his education was obtained. He re- mained on the farm near Selma until he attained his majority, when he engaged as a florist and thus continued for seven


Mr. Battin was united in marriage with Mary A. Mather, a daughter of John Mather of Stark County, Ohio, and they are the parents of two children, Leonard, who is an employee of the Springfield Gas Company; and Jessie. Politically, Mr. Battin is a Republican, and fraternally a member of the Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church of South Charleston.


EPHRAIM £ FRANKLIN HARSH- MAN, whose valuable farm of eighty and one-half acres is situated in Section 31, Springfield Township, lying four miles south of Springfield and running to the dividing line of Green Township, was born in Beaver Creek Township, Greene County, Ohio, November 11, 1849. He is a son of John C. and Mary Maria (Miller) Harshman. In his younger years John C. Harshman was a machinist and a distiller, but later acquired three farms in Greene County, and on one of these both he and his wife died.




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