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The Patton family located in Rumley Town- ship, and in February, 1851, Joseph Patton died there, his wife having died in September, 1842, and they lie side by side in the Rumley Ceme- tery. When they came they purchased a quar- ter section of land, and with the help of their children they cleared it. Some of their posterity still live in the community. M. M. Patton and the rest of the family were educated under primitive conditions. The school house of that day was a log cabin with a slab door, slab benches and greased paper windows. In such primitive surroundings, alded by a few well- worn books and a teacher whose muscular de- velopment was never doubted, but of whose literary qualifications little should be said, the
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children of the early settlers received their education.
On March 3, 1844, M. M. Patton married Sarah Jane, a daughter of Samuel Mccullough, a resi- dent of Carroll County. For a time he lived in North Rumley, when he purchased the Pratt farm, remaining there eleven years. After mak- ing extensive improvements he sold and bought a place where the family lived many years. His children are: Sarah Margaret, James, John H., Joseph, Samuel M., Addison, William, Fremont, Ida Fre, and Thomas B. Patton and an infant that was not given a name, born after Fremont. Thomas B. Patton was born December 8, 1863, in Rumley Township, where the pioneers of the family had located so many years earlier.
Mr. Patton began life as a farmer, remaining in Rumley Township until October, 1903, when he located in Hopedale. His first business was a livery with a side Investment in hardware, but the "horseless era" had come and he soon devoted himself to the.hardware interests. Mr. Patton owned a half interest in the business with O. E. Miller, but four and one-half years later Mr. Patton bought the Miller interest and later sold that interest to Charles Hedge, who remained for five years as a business part- ner. For the next five years Mr. Patton con- ducted the business alone and then took his son, C. H. Patton, as a partner. They carry a full line of hardware. builders' supplies and furnaces.
On March 30, 1888, Mr. Patton married Hat- tie E. Finnicum. She was a resident of Rum- ley Township and a daughter of John Finni- cum. Their son, Beryl F. Patton, married Pearl Stringer, and there are two grandsons, Roy Patton, and William Thomas, the latter born January 2, 1921. Carl H. Patton married Etta Nation, and the granddaughter is Alice Louise Patton.
Matthew M. Patton, the father of Thomas B. Patton, had been a democrat, as had been his ancestors until the election of President Alexan- der Buchanan, when he changed his political relation to the republican party, then embody- ing the principles he advocated, and while be never sought or held office he was active in the affairs of the republican party. The Pattons today are republicans and Presbyterians. "Worthy sons of a worthy father," describes the family situation, this quotation being taken from The Commemorative Record of Harrison County.
WILBUR KARL BLACK, M. D. The great Galen boasted "I have done as much to medicine as Trojan did to the Roman Empire In making bridges and roads throughout Italy," thus em- phasizing with the then greatest known marvels of accomplishment his own benefactions to hu- manity. And yet in the light of modern medi- cal science how little Galen did and how radi- cally wrong, remarkable as they were, proved many of his conclusions. To the medical pro- fession the early teachers will ever continue great, but a physician or surgeon of the pres- ent day whose professional knowledge is not vastly broader, higher and deeper could not
lay much stress upon his dependability or ef- fectiveness, nor could he win or hold the con- fidence of his community. The members of this learned calling in Harrison County, fortunately for the people and themselves, however, are men of skill, thoroughly trained in modern profes- sional institutions, and abreast of the latest dis- coverles, and many of the younger ones have seen service during the great war, none of them returning to their everyday practice with- out acknowledgment of the benefit they received in the broadening of their experience. One of these physicians and surgeons of the county de- serving of special mention is Dr. Wilbur Karl Black, one of the active medical practitioners of Freeport and a veteran of the late war.
Doctor Black was born at Freeport, Ohio. October 11, 1880, a son of R. M. and Rebecca Jane (Allen) Black, and grandson of Henry C., and Rebecca Ann ( McCarty) Black.
R. M. Black was born in Guernsey County, Ohio. His wife was born in Freeport Township, a daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Barrett) Allen. For about twenty-six years R. M. Black oper- ated a general merchandise store at Freeport, but in 1900 he branched out and began handling livestock, which occupied him until 1916, when he was made a member of the Ohio State Food Inspection Board, and the duties of this office are now absorbing his time and attention. He and his wife became the parents of the follow- ing children: Corday A., who is the eldest ; Sarah, who married D. M. Starkey; Roy A., who married Minetto Mears, lives at Compton, California : Wilbur Karl, whose name heads this review ; Glenn, who married Rebecca Todd, lives at Chicago, Illinois; and Genevive. Mr. Black is a member of Freeport Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Both he and Mrs. Black belong to the Presby- terian Church and take an active part in its religious work.
Wilbur Karl Black attended the public schools of Freeport and Oberlin College, but after a year in that institution he entered the Univer- sity of Indiana at Valparaiso, and there spent three years. For the subsequent year he was at Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio, and in 1906 entered the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, from which he was graduated in 1910. Following that he served as an interne for a year at the Rockford City Hospital at Rockford, Illinois, and then for another year he alternated interneships between the Cook County and Saint Mary's Hospitals at Chicago. Doctor Black still further prepared himself for his life work by taking a year's interneship at Saint Anthony's Tuberculosis Hospital of New York City. He then felt competent to enter upon the practice of his calling and began the practice of medicine at Lima, Ohio.
When the United States entered the great war Doctor Black was one of the men of his profes- sion who offered the Government their services, and he was commissioned a first lieutenant of the medical corps in July, 1917, and was sent without training to England and attached to the English army. He served in an English military hospital for about six weeks, when he was sent to France and attached to the Thirty-seventh Division. Field Ambulance. He saw service in
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Flanders, and was gassed in November, 1917, and sent to the base hospital at Havre, France. After a month in the hospital as a patient, he was attached to it for duty and remained there until May 1, 1918, when he was transferred from the English army to the American army and attached to the One Hundred and Twenty- Seventh Infantry, Second Battalion, Thirty- Second Division, remaining with that division out along the front from Alsace to Belgium. He took part in the offensives of Chateau Thierry, Soissons and the Oise Alsne. In the taking of Juvigny Doctor Black won his Croix de Guerre from the French, with whose forces the Thirty-second Division were operating. Doctor Black was also in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, and after the signing of the armis- tice he went beyond the Rhine into Germany, where he was on outpost duty until April 18. 1919, when his organization, which had crossed the Rhine on December 13, 1918, entrained for Brest, France. On February 6, 1919, Doctor Black was married to Marcelle Apte of Paris, France. Her father, who was mayor of a French town, was killed in the service of his country. In order to bring his wife along on the same boat with him Doctor Black crossed as a casual, leaving Brest May 14, 1919, on the "Victoria" and arrived at New York City, May 22. He received his discharge from Camp Dix, May 25, 1919. Returning to Ohio, Doctor Black established himself in practice at Freeport, where he has since remained.
Concerning his services in the World war the following testimonials of Doctor Black's ef- ficiency are here recorded :
WAR DEPARTMENT,
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE. Washington.
September 14, 1920.
From : Colonel Russell C. Langdon, Adj. Genl's Dept., U. S. Army.
To: The Adjutant General of the Army. Subject : Services of Captain Wilbur Karl Black, Medical Corps, Emergency.
1. I desire to place on record in The Adju- tant General's Office. my appreciation of the services of Captain Wilbur Karl Black (Medi- cal Corps, Emergency.
2. This officer is not now in the service, and so far as I know is not an applicant for the Regular Army.
3. He has not applied to me for any letter of recommendation, but nevertheless, I feel it only just to the Government and to himself to have placed with his papers a letter setting forth my estimate of his work while with the 127th Infantry in the American Expeditionary Forces.
4. Captain Black served with the British Ex- peditionary Forces for several months. In the middle of May, 1918, he was transferred to the American Expeditionary Forces. He joined the 127th Infantry immediately after I took com- mand of that regiment on the 9th of July. 1918. He remained with it while the regiment occu- pied a trench sector in Haute-Alsace: through- out its service in Europe and returned with it to the States for demobilization In May, 1919.
5. Captain Black rendered splendid service as medical officer with our regiment in the Aisne-Marne Offensive, the Oise-Aisne Offensive, and the first and last phases of the Meuse-Ar- gonne Offensive, the march to the Rhine and in the occupation of the Coblenz bridgehead area.
6. He was tireless in his energetic care of the wounded and sick, and worked with such disre- gard for his own personal safety as to win the respect of all who knew him. I particularly re- call how on one occasion during the fighting in the Argonne he showed considerable initiative in seeking out a new location for an advanced regimental aid station in the village of Gesnes, which at the time was subject to heavy artil- lery fire, but through which our wounded had to be brought from the front line. However, this was only one of numerous examples of courage and initiative displayed by Captain Black.
7. Captain Black throughout his work was always patient and gentlemanly with all who dealt with him, which made his work as a medi- cal officer all the more valuable.
8. This letter is wholly unsolicited, but for the reason stated I feel it should be placed on record.
RCL/AMS.
RUSSELL C. LANGDON.
GRAND QUARTIER GENERAL DES ARMEES FRANCAISES DE L'EST
ETAT MAJOR ORDRE No. 14251 "D." (Extrait)
Apres approbation du General Commandant en Chef les Forces expeditionnaires americaines en France, le Marechal de France, Commandant en Chef les Armees Francaises de l'Est, cite a l' Ordre de la Brigade.
Capitaine Wilbur K. Black, Service de Sante du 127e. Regiment d'Infanterie Americaine :
"A fait preuve d'initiative et de grand cour- age en etablissant des postes de secours a proxi- mite des lignes. A montre en tous temps un grand mepris du danger et a ete un bel exemple pour tout son personnel."
(English translation of the above.)
"Has shown unusual initiative and great cour- age in establishing advanced aid stations in line work. Has shown always great disdain for danger and has been a fine example for his men."
Au grand Quartier General, le 12 Mars, 1919. Le Marechal, Commandant en Chef des Armees Francaises de l'Est,
PETAIN.
HEADQUARTERS THIRTY-SECOND DIVI- SION AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES.
GENERAL ORDERS April 7th, 1919
No. 28
II. With the approbation of the Commander- in-chief of the American Expeditionary Forces, the Commander-in-chief of the French Armies
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of the North and Northeast, being cognizant of the brave deeds on the field of battle of the fol- lowing soldiers, awards them the Croix de Guerre and cites them in orders.
CAPTAIN W. KARL BLACK, Medical Corps, 127th Inf.
"By his contempt for danger in establishing and maintaining advanced dressing stations, was inspiration to his men."
By command of Major General Lassister,
R. M. BECK, JE. Colonel General Staff, Chief of Staff.
ROBERT W. REYNARD has been a resident of Harrison County from the time of his birth, is now the owner of one of the fine farms of Ca- diz Township, where he is staging his success- ful activities as an agriculturist and stock- grower, and he is a representative of the fourth generation of the Reynard family in Ohio. His great-grandfather, Marmaduke Reynard, was born and reared In England, where was sol- emnized his marriage to Mary Shaw, a native of Scotland. In 1817 Marmaduke Reynard came with his family to the United States from Yorkshire, England, and became one of the pio- neer settlers in Jefferson County, Ohio, where be and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, both having been members of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, and his political alle- giance having been given to the whig party. Their children were eight in number: John, William, Marmaduke. Jr., James, Thomas, Jo- seph, Mary and Hannah.
John Reynard, grandfather of Robert W. of this review, was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1806, and thus was about eleven years old at the time of the family immigration to Amer- ica. He continued his studies in the pioneer schools of Jefferson County, Ohio, and was a young man when he came to Harrison County, where was solemnized his marriage to Julia Pittis, a daughter of John and Mary Pittis, she having been born on the Isle of Wight, England, in 1817. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Reynard remained one year in Franklin Town- ship, Harrison County, and they then removed to Meigs County, where they purchased 320 acres of wild land and began the reclamation of a farm in the midst of the forest. They there remained seven years and then removed to Jefferson County, but within a short time thereafter returned to Franklin Township, Har- rison County, where Mr. Reynard engaged in farm enterprise and where he remained until his death, in 1864. His widow passed the clos- ing years of her life in the home of her daugh- ter Alice in the state of Kansas. Both were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Reynard was a whig until the organi- zation of the republican party, when he trans- ferred his allegiance to the latter. Of their children the eldest is William, father of him whose name introduces this article: Marma- duke is deceased; Mary D. became the wife of George Moore; Jane married Wesley Cox ; Alice E. married Marion Hefling, and after his death contracted a second marriage, the name of her second husband being Watson and she being
still a resident of Kansas; John W. likewise resides in the state of Kansas; Hannah is the wife of Worthington McFadden; Julia Josephine died young ; Nancy Louis married Marion Tittis; Mrs. Jane Blackwell is the youngest of the daughters; and Thomas died young.
William Reynard was born in Franklin Town- ship, Harrison County, August 14, 1842, and was four years old at the time of the family removal to Meigs County, as noted in a preceding para- graph. He was about twelve years of age at the time of the return to Franklin Township, Harrison County, where he was reared to adult age and where he continued his association with farm enterprise until the summer of 1864, when he became a member of Company D, One Hun- dred and Seventieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he continued in active service nearly 150 days or virtually until the close of the Civil war. Upon his return home he resumed farming operation In Franklin Township, where he developed and improved a fine farm of 225 acres, which he still owns, and where he con- tinued his vigorous activities as an agricultur- ist and stock-grower for fully forty years. In the spring of 1908 he and his wife removed from their farm to the village of Deersville, where he still maintains his home, as one of the venerable native sons of the county, and where his devoted wife died on the 31st of October, 1917. In politics Mr. Reynard has always been a staunch republican, and he has
served in various township offices, including that of trustee. of which he was the incumbent about eight years, besides which he served four years as member of the Board of Directors of the county infirmary and was for a long period a member of the School Board of his district. He has been a most zealous and influ- ential member of the Presbyterian Church, of which his wife likewise was a devout adherent, and has served as elder and treasurer of the church, as well as superintendent of the Sun- day School, which last-mentioned position he held for many years. Mr. and Mrs. William Reynard became the parents of four children : Mary Delphine, who is the wife of John Lyle Clark: Horace W., who married Miss Marie Markley and is engaged in the drug business at Salem, Columbiana County : Robert W., who is the immediate subject of this review; and Eva Lena. who is the wife of Arthur Wharton.
Robert W. Reynard is indebted to the pub- lic schools of his native township for his early education, and he continued his active associa- tion with the management of the old home farm for eleven years after his marriage. In the autumn of 1918 he purchased the John P. Ross farm of 138 acres in Cadiz Township, adjoin- ing the farm of the .county infirmary, and here he Is carrying forward his progressive enter- prise as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-raisers of his native county. His po- litical allegiance is given to the republican party, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, the county seat.
On the 14th of November, 1907, was solemn- ized the marriage of Mr. Reynard to Miss Nel- lie V. Finical, who was born and reared in
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Cadiz Township, a daughter of John and Martha (Irwin) Finical, the former of whom died Feb- ruary 4, 1899, and the latter still resides in Har- rison County, at a venerable age. John Finical was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1829, a son of Isaac Finical, and both his paternal and maternal grandfathers were patriot soldiers in the War of the Revolution. Soon after attaining to his legal majority Isaac Finical married Margaret, youngest daughter of Robert Anderson, of Washington County, Penn- sylvania, and they continued their residence in the old Keystone State until 1831, when they came to Harrison County, Ohio, where he died in 1854, at the age of seventy-five years, his widow having been eighty-five years of age at the time of her death, and their children hav- ing been nine in number. John Finical was reared to manhood in Harrison County and as a young man became a successful teacher in the district schools, to which profession he devoted his attention for a number of years, though the major part of his active life was given to farm industry, in which he was successful. In April, 1856, he married Miss Martha Irwin, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Irwin, removed that same year to Iowa, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Finical became the parents of six sons and four daughters, and Nellie V., wife of the subject of this review, is the youngest of the five now living. Mr. and Mrs. Reynard have one child, John William, who was born April 4, 1914.
JAMES B. LYONS, who lives in Cadiz, has re- tired from active business pursuits, and yet he superintends his farm and keeps in close touch with agriculture. He was born in Cadiz May 12, 1833. Older Inhabitants speak of that period as the year the stars fell, and he has always lived in Harrison County. His father, Robert Lyons, was born December 14, 1803, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and August 7, 1832, he married Ann W. Rowland of the same community. She was a daughter of Rob- ert Bowland, and they located in Harrison County. The grandfather, Mathew Lyons, of Pennsylvania ancestry, was born the year Amer- ican Independence was declared, 1776, and he died in 1852 in Washington County. His wife was a Miss Kelly. He was a farmer. Their children were Mathew, Richard, Joseph and Robert.
The youngest son, Robert, founded the Lyons family in Harrison County. As a boy of fifteen years he came to Cadiz, and in partnership with Daniel Kilgore he operated a general store. He is listed among the pioneer merchants of Har- rison County.
In 1847 there was a branch of the Ohio State bank organized in Cadiz, the first bank in Har- rison County, and Robert Lyons became its first cashier. He remained with this bank until 1855, when he established a brokerage office in Cadiz, and he continued that business the remainder of his days. Of the five children of Robert Lyons, Nancy and Ann Eliza died in child- hood. The others are: James B., Martha C., who married Barclay Welch, and she is now
deceased, and Richard Lyons. The mother died May 16, 1844, and on November 21, 1848, Mr. Lyons married Anne B. Allison.
After finishing public school in Cadiz J. B. Lyons entered Franklin College at New Athens. Like his father, he became a bank cashier. For many years he was cashier of the Frst National Bank of Cadiz, and in 1858 went to Cambridge, where he engaged in the brokerage business, and soon after the Civil war he went to Philadel- phia, where he engaged in the produce business with William Isham. After a few years Mr. Lyons returned to Cadiz and entered the broker- age business in the office of his father, finally buying a farm in Green Township, and since that time he has given his attention to general farming and the livestock business.
On January 3, 1858, Mr. Lyons married Sal- lie G. Thomas, who was born April 4, 1838, at Cambridge, Ohio. She is a daughter of Lam- bert Thomas. Their children are Anna B., wife of Dr. Frank Martin; Catherine G., Robert, deceased, Mary T., wife of Albert Bullock, and Nancy, wife of Jesse Slemons. The Lyons fam- ily are communicants in the Cadiz Presbyterian Church.
THOMAS A. PALMER has shown no indirection or lack of initiative energy in his long and suc- cessful career as one of the representative farm- ers of his native county, and though now ad- vanced in years he still resides upon his old home farm in North Township, Harrison County, the place having comprised 140 acres until the spring of 1919, when he relieved himself of the cares of managing the entire place by selling ninety-two acres, so that he retains at the pres- ent time a farm of forty-eight acres and is giv- ing his attention principally to growing apples. He is a man of marked mentality, is genial and affable, has lived a life of uprightness and pro- ducive toil, and no citizen of the community commands more secure vantage-place in popular confidence and good will.
Mr. Palmer was born in Archer Township, this county, on the 28th of October, 1849, and is a son of Adam and Catherine (Shirey) Pal- mer, both natives of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where the former was born in December, 1812, and the latter on the 11th of January, 1816, she having been a daughter of
John and Rachel Shirey. Adam Palmer's par- ents, Jacob and Hannah (Archibald) Palmer, came from the old Keystone State of Ohio in the early pioneer days and were numbered among the first permanent settlers in Stock Township, Harrison County, where they estab- lished their home in 1814 and where the father reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds. Adam Palmer was about two years old when the fam- ily came to Harrison County, where he was reared on the pioneer farm and attended the primitive schools of the period. In his youth he learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed in connection with farm enterprise in Archer Township until 1860, when he removed to a farm in North Township, this place hav- ing been Improved and developed by him and having continued his place of residence until his death, October 15, 1881. His widow sur-
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vived him by fifteen years and passed to the life eternal on the 29th of February, 1896, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The names and respective dates of birth of their children are here re- corded : Jacob G., October 18, 1838; Mary E., July 8, 1840; William, May 21, 1842; Israel A., June 2, 1844; Thomas A., subject of this review, October 28, 1849.
Thomas A. Palmer gained his youthful edu- cation in the rural schools of Harrison County and as a youth he learned the carpenter's trade, principally under the direction of his father. After devoting a few years to work at his trade he engaged in farming, with which great basic industry he has continued his connection during the long intervening years, the while he has owned and resided upon his present farm since the time of his marriage, in 1875. He has always been ready to give his support to meas- ures and enterprises advanced for the general good of the community, is a Democrat in politics, and is an active member of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church at Hanover, as was also his wife, whose death, on the 3d of March, 1911, brought the supreme loss and bereavement of his life.
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