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On the 19th of January, 1898, Mr. Minamyer was married to Miss Olive Barnes of North Vernon, Indiana, and unto them have been born two children, Margaret Joan and Grace Eleanor. Mr. Minamyer is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to both the lodge and chapter. His political endorsement is given to the republican party and at the last convention in the fall of 1908, he was nominated by his party for county auditor but refused to stand for election. At the present time, however, he is serving as a member of the city council and exercises his official prerogative in support of many progressive public measures. His worth as a business man and citizen is unquestioned. His strong mentality, invincible courage and determined individuality render him a natural leader of men and the director of opinion. He has been and is distinctively a man of affairs and one who wields a wide influence.
URIAH MCFARLAND.
Uriah McFarland, now owning and operating a valuable farm of eighty acres on section 4, Lake township, Ashland county, Ohio, is one of Ohio's native sons, his birth having occurred June 19, 1846, in Clinton township, Wayne county. He is a son of William and Ruth (McConkey) McFarland, the former a native of Scotland and the latter of Wayne county, this state. William McFarland was the youngest son and fourth child in a family of six children whose parents were William and Elizabeth McFarland. On leaving Scotland he accompanied his parents to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where the early years of his life were spent. As a young man he came to Wayne county, Ohio, where he took up the occupation of farming, devoting his entire life to this field of labor, while his parents, following his removal westward, also came to this state and located in Holmes county on a farm just across the county line from that of their son. Here William McFarland was married and here he spent his remaining years, passing away in the faith of the Christian church. His family consisted of seven children, namely : Thomas, who died in California ; Robert, also deceased; William, a resident of Holmes county ; Mary, who has also passed away; Ruth, the wife of E. J. Shrieve, of Missouri; Sarah Jane, the deceased wife of William Bonham; and Uriah, of this review.
No event of special importance occurred to vary the routine of farm lite for Uriah McFarland in his boyhood and youth. At an early age he became familiar with the task of plowing, planting and harvesting, and he remained ou his father's farm until 1871, when he took up his abode on his present farm. He owns eighty acres of land which, under his care and supervision, is highly
MR. AND MRS. URIAH MCFARLAND
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cultivated and yields annually to its owner gratifying returns. He also raises stock to a great extent, making a specialty of shorthorn cattle, horses, fine Merino and Shropshire sheep and Chester White and Poland China hogs. He is a democrat in politics but the honors and emoluments of office have no attrac- tion for him, preferring, as he does, to concentrate his time and energies upon his private business affairs.
On the 5th of March, 1871, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. McFarland and Emma S. Wicoff, a native of Lake township, this county, born October 10, 1854. Her father, William Wicoff, was born in 1811 in Harrison county, Ohio, and came with his father to Ohio, where they settled on the same farm. In 1831 he married Sabina Orem, and they made their home in Lake township, where both passed away. In their family were five children: Nancy J., the wife of Andrew Stewart; Jasper; Newton, who died at the age of nine years ; Delphinia, the wife of Silas Smith; and Emma S., now Mrs. Uriah McFarland. William Wicoff was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and gave his political allegiance to the democratic party. He was a prominent figure in the public life of Lake township, serving for twelve successive years as justice of the peace and also for several years as township trustee.
Mr. and Mrs. McFarland became the parents of the following children : Wicoff, at home; Viola, the wife of John Rainey, residing in Clinton township, Wayne county; Nancy, who resides in Cleveland, Ohio; Emmit, a resident of Cincinnati ; Nellie, the wife of John Molter, of Clinton township, Wayne county ; Orem, of Youngstown, Ohio; Ruth, at home; and Joshua, who died in infancy. Public spirited in citizenship, Mr. McFarland takes a deep interest in all matters pertaining to the general welfare and progress of the community. His entire life has been spent in Ohio, where he has made many warm friends, and the fact that he is most respected where he is best known is an indication that his life has been at all times an honorable and upright one.
JACOB J. RUSH.
Jacob J. Rush is a veteran of the Civil war. One by one the boys in blue who fought for the defense of the Union are passing away and to those who remain too much honor cannot be accorded in connection with their service as defenders of the stars and stripes. Other chapters in the life record of Mr. Rush are equally creditable. For many years he was closely associated with building operations, working diligently and persistently as a carpenter and now he gives his entire attention to general agricultural pursuits, having three hundred acres of valuable land whch is cultivated under his supervision. His birth occurred in Clinton township, Wayne county, Ohio, on a farm bordering the Ashland county line, his natal day being January 10, 1839. His parents were Jacob and Margaret (Hoffman) Rush, who were natives of Alsace, France, a district that is now in possession of Germany. The father was born in 1808 and the mother in 1810. They were reared in the place of their nativity, remaining there until after their marriage and the birth of one of their children.
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It was about 1830 that they came to the new world, locating first in Wooster, Ohio, where they lived for a year, after which they established their home on a farm in the midst of the forest, where the birth of Jacob J. Rush occurred. When a boy Mr. Rush of this review remembers his father holding him on his shoulder to watch a drove of deer passing through a clearing in the woods on their farm. After living for twelve years in Wayne county the family crossed the dividing line into Lake township, Ashland county. The father owned two farms on the county line and also cornering on Holmes county. Both he and his wife spent their remaining days in this locality, on one side or the other of the boundary line between Ashland and Wayne counties. Jacob Rush, Sr., gave his time and energies to clearing the land and improving the farms, bearing his full share in the arduous task of reclaiming this region for the purposes of civilization. He had about one hundred and sixty-five dollars when he came to the county and as the result of his persistent and unremitting diligence and energy he accumulated an estate valued at about forty-five thousand dollars. He died in 1889, having for two years survived his wife, who passed away in 1887. They were the parents of fifteen children, of whom three died in infancy. The others were: Margaret, who became the wife of John Heid but both are now deceased; Jacob, who died at the age of two years; John, living in Holmes county ; Mary, who is the widow of Charles Dilgard and a resident of Mohican township; Jacob J., of this review; Julia Ann, who is the widow of Peter Wetzel and is living in Holmes county, Ohio; Katharine, the wife of Philip Wetzel, a resident of Cleveland, Ohio; Frederick, who has passed away; Magdalen, the deceased wife of John Norwich; Henry and William, who are residents of Mansfield, Ohio; and Daniel, living in Wayne county, this state.
Jacob J. Rush resided at home with his parents until eighteen years of age, when he went to Minnesota, spending two years in the northwest, during which time he worked at the carpenter's trade. He then returned to Lake township and in June, 1862, enlisted as a soldier of the Civil war in response to the president's call for more troops to aid in crushing out the rebellion in the south. He joined company A, One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served for three years lacking one month, being honorably dis- charged at the close of the war in May, 1865. He was twice captured and was sent back to Columbus for exchange. He was first taken prisoner at Camp Dick Robinson in Kentucky and the second time was captured near Frankfort, Kentucky. He went with Sherman on the Atlanta campaign, being there until after the capitulation of that city. He made an excellent military record, for he was ever loyal to the cause which he espoused, meeting all the hardships, privations and dangers meted out to the soldier.
When the country no longer needed his military aid Mr. Rush returned to his parents' home in Lake township but soon afterward was married .. It was on the 7th of September, 1865, that he wedded Elizabeth A. Molter, who was born in Perry township, Ashland county, Ohio, on the 18th of April, 1839, and is a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Garst) Molter, both of whom were natives of the Rhine country of Germany. Mrs. Molter lost both of her parents in New York, where they died of cholera soon after arriving in the United States. She was then about seventeen years of age and she and her brother then went to
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Pennsylvania, where she lived until after her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Molter then came to Ashland county, Ohio, about 1837, and spent their remaining days in this county or across the line in Wayne county. They were the parents of four children : Katharine, who is now the widow of O. W. Lake and resides in Clinton township, Wayne county ; Elizabeth A .; Henry, living in Morrow county, Ohio; and Peter, who resides in McZena, this county.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Rush resided on a farm in Mohican township, where he worked at the carpenter's trade, following that occupation until two years ago. He has owned a farm since the war and his landed possessions now aggregate three hundred acres, of which one hundred and sixty acres is comprised in the home farm, while the other place contains one hundred and forty acres and is about a mile south of the home farm. On the latter his son now resides. Both are well improved properties, having especially good buildings and indicate in their well kept appearance the careful supervision and practical methods of the owner. The homestead is situated on section 28, while the other farm is on section 33, Mohican township.
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Rush was blessed with seven children : Willis, who died at the age of three years and nine months; Emma, the wife of G. W. Black, of Mohican township; Roscoe, who is living on his father's farm; Burton J., also of Mohican township; Elsie, the wife of S. S. Hootman, of Cleveland; Lodella, the wife of W. H. Obrecht, of Texas; and Iler M., of Mohican township.
Mr. Rush gives his political allegiance to the republican party, being in hearty sympathy with its principles and its policy. He is a member of the Evangelical church of McZena and holds membership in Hayesville Post, G. A. R., thus maintaining pleasant relations with his old army comrades. His life has been ever characterized by loyalty to duty, whether in defense of the Union, in business circles or in his relations with his family and friends. His many good qualities have gained him the highest regard and he well deserves mention in this volume as one of the representative citizens of Ashland county.
CHARLES B. SCOTT, M. D.
Dr. Charles B. Scott, a physician and surgeon recognized as a prominent representative of the profession in Ashland county, with a large practice in Loudonville and throughout the surrounding country, was born October 24, 1856, in the town which is yet his home. He is a grandson of Hugh Scott, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1785 and came to Ohio in 1824, settling near Steubenville, where he died May 22, 1827, a few months prior to the birth of his son Andrew. In 1807 he married Katharine Humphries and in the year of her husband's death she removed to Ashland county, settling on a farm in Green township, but the following spring went to Vermillion township. She died November 21, 1854, while on a visit to her old home in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania. She was the mother of eight children : Thomas, Jane, James, Francis, Winfield, William, Oliver H. and Andrew J. Scott, father of the subject.
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Dr. Andrew J. Scott was born November 12, 1827, in that part of Richland county which is now a part of Ashland county. He was a student in the Ash- land Academy while Loren Andrews was proprietor and also continued his education in the Vermillion Institute at Hayesville, Ohio. He engaged in teaching for two years in the old Loudonville Academy and then studied medi- cine under Dr. E. B. Fuller, while later he was graduated from the Buffalo University of Medicine. He then entered the Howard College of Physicians & Surgeons of New York and also attended lectures for a time at the Starling Medical College of Columbus Ohio. Following his graduation he opened an office in Loudonvile in 1853 and here practiced continually until his death, which occurred May 4, 1895. He was a member of the Ashland County and Ohic State Medical Societies and always remained a deep and discriminating student
of his profession. He was also a corresponding member of the Gynecological
Society of Boston and a member of the American Medical Association.
He
enjoyed a very large practice in his profession and was connected with the Wooster Medical College of Cleveland as a lecturer on the diseases of women and children. He was a surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for twenty-five years and was president of the state board of health and at the time of his death was a member of the county board of medical examiners under the pension bureau. He took a deep interest in literary pursuits and when a teacher was regarded as one of the best mathematicians in the county. In politics he was a stalwart democrat, active in the work of the party and in the campaigns was a fluent, forceful, entertaining and instructive speaker concerning the issues and questions of the day. In 1874-5 he erected a fine brick residence containing twenty-two rooms at a cost of thirty thousand dollars. He was a man of splendid physique, of athletic build, six feet in height and moreover his was a most attractive personality because he was a broadminded, sympathetic progressive man.
Dr. Andrew J. Scott was married three times. In 1852 he wedded Miss S. M. Fuller, who died in 1854 leaving one child, L. Content, who became the wife of Major Walker of Columbus and died in 1900. In 1856 Dr. Scott wedded Miss Anna Fuller, a sister of his first wife. She died in 1864. There were three children of that marriage: Dr. Charles B. Scott, whose name introduces this review ; Harriet S., who is the widow of Henry W. Gilbert and resides in Chicago; and Idella A., the wife of Dr. C. L. Franks, a practicing dentist of Cleveland. In 1867 Dr. Scott was again married. Miss Charlotte Garret becom- ing his wife and she still survives him.
Dr. Andrew J. Scott took a most lively interest in the social and commercial welfare of his town and county and was ever ready to help onward any movement for the advancement of all. He was a man of more than average ability, of wide research and well trained mind. His skill in his profession was recognized by the medical fraternity throughout the state but it was in the hearts of his friends, neighbors and lifelong acquaintances that he filled the most important place-a place won by care and deeds of kindness, which is not easily filled. At the time of his death, which occurred May 9, 1895, the Loudonville Advocate said :
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"It has been many years since our little city has sustained so great a loss as it does in the death of Dr. A. J. Scott. He had been a man with a mind single for the advancement and improvement of the place in which he lived and has during his long and useful life rendered yeoman service to the town of his abiding. He was a man of strong convictions and sterling integrity .. That which he considered right he espoused with all the fervor of a strong and culti- vated intellect. He was ever ready to take up the cause of the weak and was ever the friend of the friendless. To the unfortunate and erring he was always a ray of hope, combatting the hasty judgment of extremists and offering laudable excuse in extenuation of indiscretion. He was not above his neighbors and the people with whom he lived, but was ever ready with hearty welcome and cheering words for all. He will be missed, not alone among us with whom he has so long lived, but among the medical profession all over this broad land his absence will be keenly felt. In his home will his absence create the greatest void. His home life was most beautiful. He was an indulgent father, loving his children with the most intense feeling. He was a lover of the beautiful and had surrounded himself with all that combines to make life worth living. For years he has been the most prominent counsellor in all matters of importance concerning the town, and has held all the places of honor in the gifts of our people."
Dr. Charles B. Scott, who has spent his entire life in Loudonville and since attaining his majority has given his attention to the work of the medical profes- sion, comes in the paternal line of a family long and prominently connected with this calling. Not only was his father a distinguished Ohio physician but also his maternal grandfather, his uncle Amos B. Fuller and his cousin G. B. Fuller have all practiced successfully in Loudonville, the last named being still a representative of the medical fraternity here. Dr. Scott was educated in the public schools of his native town, also attended the Greentown Academy at Perrysville and later took up the study of medicine under the direction of his father. He likewise continued his reading for two years under Dr. J. N. Dixon, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and attended and assisted Dr. Dixon in holding private clinics in anatomy and surgery. He won his professional degree from the University of Buffalo in 1881 and at once entered upon the active practice in Loudonville in connection with his father, this relation being maintained until the latter's death in 1895. Since that time he has been alone. He fully sustains the excellent reputation which has always been associated with the name of Scott as a representative of the medical fraternity. His ability is pronounced, his experience broad and his laudable ambition leads him to con- tinually study that he may make his professional services of the utmost benefit to his fellowmen. In addition to his practice he is known in financial circles as one of the directors of the Citizens Savings Bank of Loudonville, with which he has thus been associated since its organization. He is local surgeon for both the railroads entering Loudonville and has a large private practice which attests his ability and the confidence reposed in him.
Dr. Scott was united in marriage to Mrs. Elizabeth Lee Priest, a native of Warren county, Ohio, the widow of Columbus Priest and a daughter of Austin McCreary. Dr. and Mrs. Scott have one son, Ross J., who is attending St.
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John's Military Academy at Delafield, Wisconsin. In his political views Dr. Scott has ever been an earnest democrat, desiring the success of the party princi- ples which he deems the most effective forces for good government. He has served on the village council and is now a member of the board of education. He is likewise connected with the Elks and the Knights of Pythias and is a gentleman of genuine personal worth, whose sterling traits of manhood and citizenship, as well as his professional skill, have gained him high place in the regard of his fellow townsmen.
MARTIN LUTHER HUMM.
Martin Luther Humm, who is engaged in general farming and stock raising, has lived a life of well directed industry and thrift and that there have been few leisure hours in his record is indicated in the success which now rewards his labors. His farm comprises one hundred and sixty acres, covering the south- east quarter of section 29, Mohican township. His birth occurred on a farm about three miles south of Loudonville in Hanover township, Ashland county, July 4, 1861, and in the spring of 1862 the family home was established on a farm in Vermillion township. His parents were George and Susanna (Stauffer) Hum. The father was born in Alsace, France, January 17, 1820, and became a resident of Columbus, Ohio, in 1853. He remained there for three years and then removed near Loudonville, where he spent his remaining days, his death occurring in Lake township on the 28th of December, 1884. He had devoted his entire life to general agricultural pursuits and his diligence constituted the foundation upon which he builded his prosperity. His first wife bore the maiden name of Barbara Barnhart and it was with her and his three children that he made the voyage to the new world. She died during their residence in Columbus, while of their children George is deceased. John B., the other son, is a resident of Toledo, Ohio, while the daughter, Mrs. Julia Rominger, is living in Kansas. IIaving lost his first wife, George Humm wedded Susanna Stauffer, who was born in Pennsylvania, July 15, 1817, and was brought to Ohio by her parents when twelve years of age, the family home being established in Craw- ford county, while later a removal was made to Ashland county. Mrs. Humm still survives and is now a resident of Loudonville. By her marriage she became the mother of two sons, Jacob S., the elder, being now a resident of Loudonville.
The younger, Martin Luther Humm, lived with his parents on a farm in Vermillion township for about five years and then a removal was made to Lake township, where he continued for thirty years. In 1896 he removed to his present farm, which has since been his home and today one hundred and sixty aeres of rich and productive land pays tribute to the care and labor which he bestows upon it. It is situated on the Jeromeville and Mohicanville road, about a mile north of the latter village, and is a well improved farm, carefully cultivated, its fields giving evidence in the springtime of the rich harvests to be gathered in the autumn. In fact his place is one of the best in the township and upon it are two good bank barns and a pleasant dwelling. An air of neat-
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ness, thrift and prosperity pervades the place, for everything about the farm is kept in good repair, high grades of stock are seen in the pastures and the cribs and granaries each fall are full of the fruits of the field.
On the first of December, 1885, Mr. Humm was united in marriage to Miss Mary Jane Metcalf, who was born a mile west of Mohicanville in Mohican town- ship, August 15, 1860, her parents being Zebulon and Sarah (Leidigh) Metcalf, of whom mention is made in connection with the sketch of Levi Metcalf on another page of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Humm are parents of two sons and a daughter: Guy Z., who was born February 8, 1888; Mary Eliza, born on the 9th of June, 1893; and George Walter, on the 18th of March, 1896. Mr. Humm's success enables him to provide liberally for his family, who are situated in a comfortable home that is noted for its warm-hearted hospitality. The parents are members of the Reformed church of Mohicanville, in which Mr. Humm is serving as elder and at the time of the erection of the house of worship he was a member of the building committee. He has contributed generously to the support of the church and at all times rejoices in its growth and aids in promoting its activities. His political views are in accord with the principles of the democratic party but he has never been an aspirant for office, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs. The secret of his success lies in the fact that he has applied himself closely to his work, allowing no outside interests to claim his time or attention and as the years have gone by his industry has brought him to the goal of prosperity.
WILLIAM ALVIN WHITE, M. D.
William Alvin White, a representative and successful physician and sur- geon of Ashland county, is now prosecuting his profession in Rowsburg. He was born on the 16th of November, 1862, a son of William R. and Hannah Eva (Paul) White, who were natives of Lancaster county and Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, respectively. The birth of the father occurred January 30, 1823, while the mother first opened her eyes to the light of day on the 9th of March, 1840. Their marriage was celebrated January 6, 1859. In 1864, William R. White made his way to Ashland county, Ohio, and purchased a farm of two hundred acres in Milton township, on which he continued to reside until called to his final rest. In spite of many reverses in the way of fires, etc., he won a gratifying measure of prosperity in his business undertakings. He did not hoard his capital, however, but used it freely in providing his children with good educational advantages and opportunities and also in aiding the poor. His religious faith was indicated by his membership in the Presbyterian church, of which he was a constant attendant and in which he served as elder for more than forty years. Though the church was three miles from his home and the weather was often inclement, he never failed to be in his accustomed place at religious services. His life may well serve as an example for others to follow being characterized by integrity, purity and uprightness in all relations and when he passed away on the 26th of May, 1899, the community mourned the loss of
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