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On October 5, 1893, William H. Slagle was united in marriage to Sarah E. Fristoe, who was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, but was reared in Shelby county. Her mother died while she was still a child, being six years old at the time. She accompanied her father to Shelby county after the death of her mother, the father settling in that county, where he was a farmer. Mr. Slagle is a supporter of the Republican party, but has never been a seeker after public office, preferring to devote his time to his saw-mill and farming interests.
Nicholas Trapp, maternal grandfather of William H. Slagle, was a soldier in the United States army in 1848 during the Mexican War, serving
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as a captain. He also served in the Civil War for three months as a first term and on the expiration of that period he re-enlisted as captain in Com- pany K, First Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served to the end of the war. He was in several severe engagements and was wounded four times at the battle of Lookout Mountain. During the rush to the gold fields of Cali- fornia he joined with a number of other "forty-niners" and remained there until 1851.
SAMUEL RILEY.
Samuel Riley, village councilman, a well-known building contractor at North Lewisburg and an honored veteran of the Civil War, is a native of the Keystone state, but has been a resident of Ohio ever since the completion of his service in the Union army during the Civil War, he having located in this state at the close of the war. He was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1847. son of John and Amanda Riley, both of whom also were natives of Pennsylvania and whose last days were spent in Bedford county.
Upon completing his studies in the schools of his home county, Samnel Riley took up farming with his father and was thus engaged when, in 1865, he then being eighteen years of age, he enlisted for service during the con- tinuance of the Civil War as a member of Company E, Second Regiment. Maryland Volunteer Infantry, and served with that command for eighty-four days, or until mustered out at the close of the war. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Riley came to Ohio and for eighteen months was engaged as a farm hand in the section lying between Troy and Covington. He then married and took up the trade of plasterer at Covington, where he established his home and where he remained for eleven years, at the end of which time he came to this county and located at Cable. During a part of the time he was living at Covington Mr. Riley was engaged in the railway service and it was while thus engaged that he was sent to Cable to take charge of the gravel pit operated at that place by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany. Two years later he moved to Woodstock, where he resumed his voca- tion as a plasterer and bricklayer and where he remained for seven years, at the end of which time he moved to North Lewisburg, where he opened in business as a general building contractor and where he has ever since been located, a period of more than thirty years, during which time he has exe- cuted contracts in all parts of the county, long having been recognized as one of the leading contractors in this part of the state. Mr. Riley is a Repub-
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lican and has long given his earnest attention to local political affairs, and is now serving as a member of the village council.
Mr. Riley has been married four times. It was in 1867, at Covington, that he was united in marriage to Sarah Barnhardt, who died at Woodstock. To that union five children were born, of whom two are now living, Mollie, who married Gwynn Clark and has three children, Herbert, Charles and George, and Maude, who married Charles Granser and has two children, Earl and Lou. Following the death of the mother of these children Mr. Riley married Mrs. Susan (Epps) Smith and after her death he married Adia Heston, following whose death he married Cora Spain. Mr. and Mrs. Riley have a pleasant home at North Lewisburg and give proper attention to the general affairs of their home town. Mr. Riley is a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, past noble grand of the local lodge of that order, and is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, past chancellor com- mander of the local lodge of that order, having for years taken a warm inter- est in the affairs of both these popular organizations.
EDGAR S. EVERHART.
Edgar S. Everhart, one of Union township's well-known and substantial farmers, now living practically retired from the active labors of the farm at his pleasant home in that township, where he has a fine farm of one hundred and fifteen acres, is a Virginian, but has been a resident of Ohio since the days of his boyhood and of Champaign county since the early eighties. He was born on a farm in the vicinity of Lovettsville, in Louden county, Vir- ginia, October 11, 1852, son of Israel and Maria (Ropp) Everhart, both of German descent, who later moved to Ohio and located in Clark county, where they spent the remainder of their lives.
Israel Everhart also was born in the vicinity of Lovettsville, in Louden county, Virginia, in 1811, and there grew to manhood, becoming a building contractor. There he married Maria Ropp, who was born in that same neighborhood in 1817, a daughter of Nicholas Ropp, a substantial farmer of that vicinity, who spent all his life there, and who was the father of ten chil- dren, those besides Mrs. Everhart having been Polly, Melissa, Samuel, Jacob, John, Emanuel, Elizabeth, Eliza and Jane. Israel Everhart was one of six children born to his parents, the others having been Solomon, Tillie, George, Nathaniel and William, the last two named having been twins. In April,
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1861, Israel Everhart moved with his family from Virginia to Ohio and settled on a farm in the Catawba neighborhood, in Clark county, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. Israel Everhart was a mem- ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Protestant church. He died in 1883 and his widow survived him for some years, she having been eighty years of age at the time of her death. They were the parents of six children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fifth in order of birth, the others being William, Matilda, John A., Thomas and George. The late William Everhart was for years a well-known farmer in Union township, this county, and was also engaged in the grain business at Catawba. He married Virginia Hunter, also now deceased, and to that union were born two children, Charles, a farmer, living in Union township, this county, and Nilette, of Butler county, Ohio. Matilda Everhart, now deceased, married William H. Grubb, of Vir- ginia, also now deceased, and was the mother of eight children, Oscar, Wilbur, Robert, John, Eugene, Daisy, Harry and Grace. The late John A. Everhart, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, was for years a well-known farmer in Goshen township, this county. He married Anna M. Near, who is now living at Catawba, and to that union were born four sons, Scott, Herbert, Warren and Robert. Thomas Everhart, a farmer of Clark county, married Ella Kimball and has two children, Elton and Bessie. George Everhart, a retired farmer, now living at South Vienna, married Margaret Beard.
Edgar S. Everhart was but eight years of age when he came to Ohio with his parents from Virginia in 1861 and he grew to manhood on the home farm in the neighborhood of Catawba, receiving his schooling in the schools of that place and becoming a practical farmer. After his marriage when twenty-one years of age he began farming on his own account in Clark county and was there thus engaged for about nine years, at the end of which time he bought his present farm in Union township, this county, created there a fine place and has ever since made his home there. This was the old John Bald- win place and when Mr. Everhart bought it consisted of one hundred and seventy-three acres. He has sold part of the place, however, and now has one hundred and fifteen acres, well improved and profitably cultivated. In 1895 Mr. Everhart erected his present handsome residence and in 1901 built a new barn. The general farm plant is in keeping with these substantial improvements and the place has long been looked upon as one of the best- kept farms in that neighborhood. In 1913 Mr. Everhart practically retired from the active labors of the farm and since then has been in a position to
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"take things easy." He is a stanch Republican, was for years director of schools in his home district and he and his wife are members of the Meth- odist Protestant church, in the affairs of which they for years have taken an earnest interest.
On June 1, 1874, Edgar S. Everhart was united in marriage to Mary .A. Grove, of Clark county, daughter of Jacob and Sarah ( Walkman ) Grove, both of Virginia stock and early settlers in Clark county and both long since deceased. Jacob Grove and wife were the parents of four children, those beside Mrs. Everhart, the second in order of birth, having been William. who died at the age of twenty-one years; David and Frank, the latter of whom is now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Everhart three children have been born, Albert, Laura ( deceased) and Sarah B., the latter of whom completed her schooling at Adrian, Michigan, and married Lewis Melvin, a bookkeeper for the Armsted & Burk Milling Company at Springfield. Albert Everhart, who completed his schooling in the college at Ada, this state, is now superintendent of the plant of the Niagara Radiator Company at Tonawanda, New York. He married Jessie Warrick and has two sons, Howard and Edgar.
WILLIAM HOWARD SHARP, M. D.
Dr. William Howard Sharp. well-known physician and surgeon at Woodstock and the proprietor of a well-stocked drug store in that thriv- ing village, is a native son of the old Buckeye state and has lived in this state all his life. He was born at Pottersburg, in the neighboring county of Union, July 15. 1877, son and only child of Dr. David W. and Lottie ( Stewart) Sharp, both also natives of this state and both now deceased, their last days having been spent in Woodstock, where the elder Doctor Sharp died about seven years ago.
Dr. David W. Sharp, who for years was a well-known physician and druggist at Woodstock, was born on a farm near Middleburg, in the neigh- boring county of Logan, and there grew to manhood, receiving his early schooling in the schools of his home neighborhood. He early turned his attention to the study of medicine and after a course in Delaware College he entered the College of Medicine and Surgery at Cincinnati and was grad- uated from that institution in 1875. For the first three years after receiving his diploma, Dr. David W. Sharp was engaged in the practice of his pro-
DAVID W. SHARP, M. D.
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fession at Pottersburg and then he moved to Middleburg, where he was engaged in practice for four years, at the end of which time he moved to Woodstock and there spent the remainder of his life, being for years one of the best-known physicians in the eastern part of the county. In addition to his general practice, he also was engaged in the drug business and con- ducted a drug store at Woodstock until the day of his death, which occurred there in November, 1910. Doctor Sharp was a Republican, a member of the Christian church and a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the com- mandery at Urbana. He was twice married, his first wife, Lottie Stewart, of Harrisburg, mother of the subject of this sketch, dying at her home in Woodstock in 1888, after which he married Nellie T. Bindon, of Wood- stock, who survives.
Dr. William Howard Sharp's professional education was received at Starling Medical College at Columbus, from which excellent old institution he was graduated in 1904. From boyhood and during the time he was pursuing the course in the Woodstock schools he had given his close atten- tion to the study of medicine, his father's extensive medical library being open to him. Upon receiving his diploma, the younger Doctor Sharp re- turned home and for three years thereafter was engaged in practice at Woodstock in partnership with his father. He then opened there an office of his own and has since been engaged in practice alone, being widely known throughout that part of the country covered by his practice. In addition to his general practice, Doctor Sharp is the owner of a well-stocked and up-to-date drug store at Woodstock and does a good business in that line. He is a member of the Champaign County Medical Society and of the Ohio State Medical Society and in the deliberations of both of these learned bodies takes a warm interest, ever keeping fully abreast of the advances being made in the practice of his chosen profession. The Doctor is a Re- publican and takes a good citizen's interest in local political affairs, but has not been a seeker after public office.
On December 5. 1907, Dr. William H. Sharp, was united in marriage to Mabel Fawn Kimball, of Woodstock, daughter of David R. Kimball. a biographical sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. Doctor and Mrs. Sharp have a very pleasant home at Woodstock and take an inter- ested part in the general social activities of their home town. The Doctor is a Knight Templar Mason, being a member of the blue lodge at North Lewisburg and of the commandery at Urbana, and takes a warm interest in Masonic affairs.
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IRA LINCOLN.
The late Ira Lincoln, who died at his home in Rush township, this county, in 1886. was a native son of Champaign county and his whole life was spent here. He was born on what is known as the old Lincoln homestead in Rush township, June 4, 1848, son of Charles and Allura ( Johnson) Lincoln, who came to this state from Connecticut and settled on a farm in Rush township, this county, where they established their home and where they spent the remainder of their lives, influential and useful members of the community which they did much to help develop. Charles Lincoln and his wife were the parents of ten children and elsewhere in this volume there is set out at con- siderable length something of the history of this important family, which it will hardly be necessary to repeat in this connection.
Reared on the home farm in the Woodstock neighborhood, Ira Lincoln received his schooling in the district schools near his home and from boyhood gave his attention to farming. After his marriage in the spring of 1876 he began farming on his own account and established his home on a farm in Rush township, where he spent the rest of his life, successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising. He was an ardent Republican and gave his earnest attention to local political affairs, but was not a seeker after public office. Ira Lincoln died at his home in Rush township on September 12, 1886, he then being thirty-eight years of age, and his widow still survives him, making her home at Woodstock. where she is very comfortably situated. She is a member of the Universalist church and takes an earnest interest in church work, as well as in other good works of the community in which she has lived all her life and in the general social activities of which she has ever taken a useful and helpful part.
It was on March 30, 1876, that Ira Lincoln was united in marriage, at Woodstock, to Martha E. Marsh, who was born in that village, daughter of Charles W. and Laura E. ( Cranston) Marsh, the former of whom was born in Vermont and the latter in this county. Charles W. Marsh, a son of the Rev. Joseph Marsh, a minister of the Christian church, came to this county from Virginia in the days of his young manhood and located at Woodstock, where he became engaged in the blacksmithing business and where he mar- ried and established his home. He died on February 22, 1869, leaving four children, those besides Mrs. Lincoln, the eldest, being C. E. Marsh, a retired farmer, now living at Woodstock; Lucy D., wife of William Kimball, of Woodstock, and Hattie, who died in childhood. Charles W. Marsh's widow
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married, secondly, Erastus Martin Smith, of Woodstock, who died on Janu- ary 22, 1898. She survived for nearly twenty years, her death occurring on February 17, 1917, she then being seventy-nine years of age. To that second union one child was born, a daughter, Nina H. Smith, who, in 1916, married the Rev. Harlan E. Glazier, pastor of the Universalist church at Woodstock. The Rev. Harlan E. Glazier is a native of the Empire state, born in Court- land county, New York. He was graduated from Union College in 1897 and later became connected with the Ballon & Hobegard Preparatory School at Boston, as principal and treasurer of the same. He continued his studies in Harvard and was graduated from that institution in 1904, with the degree of Master of Arts. Later lie took up the gospel ministry and for two years was stationed at Tacoma. Washington, coming from there in 1915 to take charge of the Universalist church at Woodstock, where he is now located.
To Ira and Martha E. (Marsh) Lincoln, one child was born, a daugh- ter, Harriet I., born on June 3, 1881, who died on May 31, 1909.
WILLIAM P. GLENDENNING.
William P. Glendenning, one of Rush township's progressive farmers and stockmen, was born on the farm on which he is now living, on rural route No. I, out of North Lewisburg, and has lived there all his life. He was born on November 15, 1862, son of William and Mary ( Hawkins) Glenden- ning, influential residents of that community, both now deceased.
The Glendennings are an old family in Champaign county, the first of the name here having been James Glendenning, a native of Scotland, who came to Ohio with his family from Virginia in 1829 and settled on a farmi in the Mechanicsburg neighborhood, where he established his home and created a good farm property. James Glendenning was born in Scotland and was but two years of age when his parents came to this country with their family, about 1795, and settled in Harrison county, Virginia, in that portion of the Old Dominion now comprised in West Virginia. There James Glen- denning grew to manhood and married Mary D. Vanhorn, who was born in Pennsylvania about 1793. In December, 1829, James Glendening came to Ohio with his family, driving through with a team and leading one cow, and settled in this county. After a brief residence in Mechanicsburg he bought a farm of one hundred and fifty-five acres surrounding Brush Lake in Rush township and there established his home. They were members of the Baptist church in Virginia and of the Methodist Episcopal church after
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coming to Ohio. A log cabin was erected and later a double cabin. His wife died there at the age of about seventy and he later sold his farm to his sons, William and Webster, and thereafter lived with his children, surviving to the age of eighty-two. He and his wife were the parents of eight children, among whom, besides William, were Mary, who married Joseph Ellsworth and lived in Missouri; Margaret, who married John McColly and lived near Cable, this county; J. Webster, who married Elizabeth Wilson and also made his home in this county; Thomas J., who was first married to Hester Stover and later to Matilda Williams, and who lived and died in Mechanics- burg: Elizabeth, who married Joseph Black and lived in Rush township. and James, who died at the age of thirteen years.
William Glendenning was born at Lost Creek, in Harrison county, now in West Virginia, July 8, 1817, and was about thirteen years of age when he came to Champaign county with his parents in 1829 and settled in Rush township. His first term of schooling in this county was had at the village schools in Mechanicsburg and he thereafter attended the district school in the vicinity of his home at Brush lake. From the days of his boyhood he was a valued assistant to his father and brother in the labors of clearing and developing the home farm and upon his father's retirement from the active labors of the farm, he and his brother, Webster, bought the same. This farm he later sold to his brothers and his last days were spent at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Everett, at North Lewisburg, where his death occurred on March 2, 1897. He was the owner of seven hundred acres of land, and was a stocholder in the Bank of North Lewisburg.
William Glendenning was twice married. In 1842 he was united in marriage to Susan Black, who died in 1850, leaving five children, namely : John W., who served for three years as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War, a member of Company H. Sixty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volun- teer Infantry, with which he enlisted on July 2, 1862, serving to the close of the war, married Sarah Foster; Amy A., who married James Rudisell and after a sometime residence in Illinois returned to Champaign county and here died in 1877: Mary E .. who married Sibley Coates and is living in Rush township, this county; Delilah, who died young, and Thomas J., who died at the age of two years. After the death of his first wife William Glendenning married Mary Hawkins, who was born in New Hamp- shire on January 23, 1825. and who died in this county on September 16, 1903, while living with her daughter, Mrs. L. P. Spensely, of North Lewis- burg. To that union were born eight children, the others, exclusive of Wil- liam P., being as follow: Margaret J., who died at the age of twelve years: Levi H., who died at the age of three years; James M., a farmer of
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Rush township and a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume; Martha C., wife of W. H. Everett, of Union township, this county; Ada B., who died at the age of five years; Abraham L., a farmer of Rush township and a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume, and Jennie M., who on December 12, 1888, was united in marriage to Lonsdale P. Spensely and is now living at North Lewisburg, this county. Lonsdale P. Spensely was born in Medina county, this state, November 24, 1849, son of Ray and Ann (Falshow) Spensely, natives of England, who were married there and in 1848 came to the United States, locating in Medina county, this state, where they spent the remainder of their lives, the former dying in 1862 and the latter in 1900. Ray Spensely and wife were the parents of six children, of whom Lonsdale Spensely was the third in order of birth, the others being as follow: Annie, born in England, who married Hiram Lackey and is now living in Lawrence county, Indiana: James, who married Alice Vero- man and is living on the old home farm in Medina county: Rachel, who mar- ried A. F. Taylor and lives on a farm west of Urbana, this county; Royal F., who was a veterinary surgeon and who died on the old home place in Medina county, and another son, who died in youth. In 1884 Lonsdale Spensely came to Champaign county and six years later bought a farm in Mad River township, where he lived for fourteen years, at the end of which time he sold that place and bought the McFarland farm in Rush township. where he remained until retirement in 1900 and removed to North Lewis- burg, where he is now living.
William -P. Glendenning grew to manhood on the home farm in Rush township, receiving his schooling in the schools of district No. 4, and has always lived on the home place. In addition to his general farming he has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock, making a specialty of Percheron horses, Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs, and has done very well in his operations, long having been regarded as one of the sub- stantial farmers of that neighborhood. Mr. Glendenning is a Republican and has rendered public service as a member of the school board for several years.
On November 15, 1889, William P. Glendenning was united in marriage to Anna Curran, who also was born in Rush township, this county, daugh- ter of James and Mary (Spollen) Curran, the former a native of England and the latter of Ireland, who were married in England and who came to the United States in 1867, settling in this county. For two years after coming to Champaign county James Curran made his home at Woodstock and then settled on a farm one-half mile east of that village, where he spent
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the remainder of his life, his death occurring there on September 30, 1912, he then being seventy-three years of age. His widow is now living at Wood- stock. They were the parents of five children, of whom Mrs. Glendenning was the third in order of birth, the others being as follow : John and James, twins, the former of whom is now living at Milford Center and the latter of whom for the past twenty-four years has been a conductor on the Erie rail- road, with headquarters at Toledo; William, who is a conductor on the Pennsylvania railroad, with headquarters at Columbus, and Margaret, who married P. J. Hannegan and is living at Urbana.
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