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William Haley was born on April 9. 1841, in County Cork, Ireland, the sou of Deunis and Julia (Creedon) Haley, both natives of Ireland, who died in their native land. They were the parents of three children, William, John and Abbie. Of these children William and John came to America. Dennis Hlaley, who was a farmer by occupation, was a devont member of the Catholic church. His death occurred about 1845, his widow surviving him many years. William Haley came to America in 1888, at the age of twenty-seven. He had been married in his native country, and after arriving in America, first located in Wilmington, this county, where for some time he worked as a section hand on the railroad. Later he took up farming on the Leo Wells farm, being employed by Mr. Wells until 1873, when he moved to Wilson township, where he rented land until 1889. In that year he bought a farm of one hundred and seven acres, to which he later added sixty acres, and still later eighty acres, and upon which his children now live. He made many improvements on this place and was known in bis community as a thrifty farmer. He was a member of the Catholic church at Wilmington and active in local public affairs until his death, which occurred on October 9, 1912. His good wife had died ten years previously, on September 27. 1902. William Haley and wife were the parents of ten children, Dennis, John, Jeremiab, Julia, Thomas, Mary, William, Hanora, Michael and Charles. Of these children, Dennis died at the age of twenty-one, unmarried, and Thomas died at the age of twelve. John married Mary Dehan, and they have three children, Katherine. Anna Marie and Rose. Jeremiah married Mary Keegan, and they are the parents of six children, William, Eugene, Agnes, Helen, Frank and Paul. The remainder of the children are unmarried. Michael is a physician at Piqua, Ohio. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus. Hanora is a teacher in the schools at Wilmington, this county, and Charles, Julia, William and Mary live on the old home place.
Charles Haley is a hustling young farmer, who attended the public schools, supple- menting this with a course at Wilmington College for two years, during 1905 and 1906. He played on the basketball and baseball teams of that institution, and won his letter in both branches of athletics, Not only is Charles Haley a skillful farmer. but he is one of the most popular young men in the section of Clinton county in which he resides.
JOHN BRACKNEY.
John Brackney. a highly-respected farmer of Liberty township, who owns one hundred and three acres of land and who has held various positions of trust and responsibility in that township, was born on March 9, 1871. in Union township, this county, the son of George and Judith Ann (Haines) Brackney. George Brackney was born on the Port William pike, near Todd's fork, on January 6. 1838, and Judith Ann Haines was born in what is now the Country Club house, of Wilmington, December 30. 1837. Her father, Stacy Haines, was a pioneer settler in Clinton county and operated a grist-mill near the present Wilmington Country Club. He was a member of the Friends church. George Brackney was the son of Marmaduke and Susannah ( Hayworth) Brack- ney, the former a native of Virginia, who located In Clinton county in 1806 or 1808. He was a farmer and followed that occupation until his death, In 1856. Susannah Hayworth was a native of Tennessee, who died in 1865 or 1866. Marmaduke Brickney and wife
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were members of the Friends church and occupied the farm where their grandson, John, the subject of this sketch, now lives. They were the parents of five chlidren, Ell, Mahlon, Mary, Rachel and George, of whom Ell, Mablon and Rachel are now deceased.
George Brackuey was born in Union township, on the Port William road, on January 6, 1832, and was married in 1853 to Julla Ann Haines, a native of Greene county, this state, daughter of Stacy und Judith (Terrell) Haines, both natives of Virginia, who located in Greene county, this state, at an early day and in 1838 came to Clinton county, locating on Todd's fork. George Brackney and wife were the parents of eight children, Stacy, Mahlon, Edwin, George, Lewis, Mable, John and Anna, all of whom are living. George and Julia Ann (Haines) Brackney are both still living, and have celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary. George Brackney has been a life-long member of the Republican party.
John Brackney was educated in the common schools and in Wilmington College, where he spent three years, and has spent his life on the farm. On October 29, 1896, he was married to Lillian Peelle, who was born in Greene county, this state, the daughter of W. C. and Sarah ( Bevan) Peelle, farmers of Greene county, members of the Quaker church and owners of one hundred and sixty acres of land. To this union six children have been born, Charlotte, Lauren, Charles, Ruth, George and Richard.
Mr. and Mrs. Brackney and family are members of the Friends church. Mr. Brackney served six years as trustee of Liberty townsbip, having been elected as a Republican, and also served for some time as a member of the school board.
WILLIAM A. STINGLEY.
One of the prominent old families of Chester township, this county, is that of William A. Stingley, an enterprising and prosperous farmer, who owns two hundred and seventy acres of land, and who, like his father and grandfather before him, has been very successful in agricultural pursuits. The Stingley family was established in America by George Stingley, the great-grandfather of William A., who was born in Germany on September 12, 1763.
William A. Stingley, the son of Noub and Sarah (Jones) Stingley, and the cousin of Calvin, Alvin and J. Albert Stingley, referred to elsewhere in this volume, was born on the farm where he now lives, in Chester township, on January 18, 1863. His father was a native of Ross county, Oblo, who died on April 8, 1894, and his mother, the daughter of Lewis Jones, who married a Miss DeMoss, was born on September 8, 1822. Noah Stingley was the eldest of four children born to John and Elizabeth (Bush) Stingley, Jobu Stingley was a native of Virginia, born on August 22, 1792. He came to Ohio in 1800, and located first in Ross county, where, on April 16, 1818, he married Elizabeth Bush, who was born on May 31, 1798. In 1822 they removed to a farm in Chester township, this county, where they spent the remainder of their lives. John Stingley was one of the foremost farmers of Chester township, and he and his wife were the parents of four children, namely : Gilead, born on November 24, 1820; Tabitha, April 27, 1823; Julian, October 7, 1825, and Noah, the father of William A., February 24, 1519. John Stingley died on September 6, 1826, and after his death his widow married Sebastian Stingley, the twin brother of her first husband.
The late Noah Stingley was educated in the common schools of Chester township and was engaged in farming all his life, having been the owner of about six hundred acres of land, and was an extensive breeder of cattle. On January 27. 1848, Noab Stingley was united in marriage to Sarah Jones, to which union nine children were born, as follow : Tabitha, born on December 4. 1SAS; Martha, December 5. 1849; Elizabeth, January 17. 1551, who died early in life: Arvilla. December 10, 1552; John, March 10, 1854: Lewis, September 19, 1857; Lawson, April 22, 1:59; William A .. the immediate
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subject of this review, and Ida, April 17, 1865. Nouh Stingley's family were all members of the Methodist church, and he was a Democrat.
William A. Stingley, like bis grandfather and father, received most of his education in the district schools of Chester township, but this early education has been supple- mented by wide reading and diligent home study. He has been a farmer all his life, aud has been very successful because he bas paid close attention to modern developments in agriculture.
On March 4, 1896, William A. Stingley was married to Elizabeth Martindale, who was born on October 25, 1863, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Roach) Martin- dale, and to this union two children have been born, Russell N. and Raymond T., the former born on January 11, 1898, and the latter on May 20, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Stingley are earnest and faithful members of the Friends church, and fraternally, Mr. Stingley is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of the Maccabees, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows In politics, he is an independent voter, casting his ballot for men rather than for party platforms. He and his family are held in high esteem among their neighbors and enjoy the confidence and respect of all.
WILLIAM M. BORING.
William M. Boring, now a prosperous and well-known farmer of Liberty township. this county, was born on August 3, 1862, in Green township, this county, the son of Lafayette and Polly Lieurance ( Hall) Boring, the latter of whom was Lafayette Boring's second wife.
Lafayette Boring was born in Harrison county, Virginia, the son of Thomas and Ruth Boring, natives of Maryland. Thomas Boring having been the son of Absalom and Sarah Boring, also natives of Maryland, who subsequently settled in Virginia, where Mrs. Boring died. Absalom Boring then moved to Obio and died in Clinton county after having attained the age of more than eighty years. Thomas and Ruth Boring were married in Maryland and resided many years in that state. from which they moved to Harrison county, Virginia. In 1830 they moved to Ohio and settled on a farm, where their son, Lafayette, later lived. They were the parents of nine children. Lafayette Boring was a young man when the family came to Clinton county. About 1840 he married Ailsey Collett, who was born in Kentucky, the daughter of John Collett. a native of Pennsylvania, who immigrated to Kentucky in an early day, when the Indians were very troublesome. one of his brothers having been killed by the redskins, To Lafayette Boring and his first wife the following children were born : Elizabeth, Ruth, Ann. John and Absalom. After Mrs. Allsey Boring's death. Lafayette Boring married, secondly, Mrs. Polly Lieurance, daughter of Tilman and Betsy Hall, natives of North Carolina, to which second union there were four children born, namely : William M., the subject of this sketch: Mary Alice, who married George Skinner, and lives In Wilmington. this county : Eliza Jane, who married Squire Beaty, and lives in Green township, this county. and Susan, who married Ellas Morton, of Wilmington. Lafayette Boring and wife were members of the Baptist church, and their children were reared in that faith. He was n Republican in politics and owned one hundred and twenty acres of land in Green town- ship. He died about thirty years ago.
William M. Boring was educated in the common schools of Clinton county and was renred on the farm. He married Cora Early, who was born in this county, the daughter of George Early, a farmer of Liberty township and a prominent member of the Methodist church. After his marriage. Mr. Boring located in Green township. on the home farm. and In 1913 bought one hundred and seventy-five acres of land where he now resides. To him and his wife were born seven children, Ira, Ernest. Zella, Roy. Luella, Harry and Glenn, the latter of whom died at the age of eighteen months. The mother of these
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children died on Decoration Day, 1915, and was buried at the Antioch burying ground. Ira Boring married Allce Collins, and has two children, Lavonne and Mable Jane. Ernest Boring married Ada Cast, and lives in Wilmington.
Mr. Boring is a member of the Baptist church at Wilmington and is a well-known citizen of this county.
ARTHUR OGLESBEE.
Arthur Oglesbee is a successful farmer of Liberty township, who lives on the Xenia pike, near Lumberton, and who was born on June 17, 1874, in Liberty township. He Is the son of Solomon and Sabina ( Middleton) Oglesbee, both natives of Clinton county. The latter is the daughter of Jumes Middleton, a native of Greene county, Ohio, a farmer by occupation and a member of the Methodist Protestant church. The paternal grand- parents of Arthur Ogleshee were Amos and Anna (Hoffman) Oglesbee, the former of whom, the eldest son of John Oglesbee, was born in Virginia in 1810 and came to Ohio in 1817, three years later, settling in Clinton county. In 1835 Amos Oglesbee was married to Anna Hoffman, who was born in 1814 in Virginia and who came to Oldo with her parents soon after the War of 1812. Soon after their marriage, they settled on a farm in Clinton county, where he died on December 31, 1851. His widow survived him many years, her death not occurring until June 25, 1875. They were the parents of nine children. Solomon Ogleshee, one of these nine children, was educated in the common schools and farmed one hundred and eighty-five acres of land in Liberty town- ship, which he owned. He was a member of the Methodist Protestant church and died on October 29, 1898. His widow is still living. They were the parents of seven children. James, Hattie. Nettie, Allie, Arthur, Lelia and Carrie. James died unmarried, at the age of forty-seven years. Hattie and Carrie are unmarried. Nettie is the wife of Wesley E. Jordan, of Dayton, Ohio. Allie married Edward McKny, a resident of 'nion township, and Lelia married Charles Linkhart, of Liberty township.
Arthur Oglesbee received a good common school deucation in the schools of Clinton county. On November 15, 1900, he was married to Florence Shook, a native of Greene county, the daughter of David and Lucinda (Devo) Shook, who were farmers in Greene county and members of the Methodist church, and to this union four children have been born, Bernice, Melville, Edith and Dorothy. Mr. and Mrs. Ogleshee are members of the Methodist church and their children are being reared in that faith.
After his marriage. Mr. Oglesber located on the farm of one hundred and sixty- eight acres, where he now lives, and where he is engaged in general farming and stock raising.
JOHN W. HIATT.
J. W. Hiatt, who is a successful farmer of Liberty township, this county, where he owns a farm of eighty-four acres, was born in Liberty township on July 16, 1862, the sou of Isane and Phoebe (Oglesher) Hiatt, both natives of this county. the former of whom was born on January 4, 1813. In Union township, and the latter of whom is the daughter of John and Sallie (Stump) Oglesbee, antives of Virginia, who had several children before coming to Ohio. John Oglesbee owned about six hundred neres of land in Liberty township. He was a member of the Baptist church. Isaac Hiatt was the son of Hezekiah and Ann (Perkins) Hiatt, who were farmers in Clinton county and prominent members of the Quaker church. They came to Ohio before their marringe and were prominent in the civic life of the county, To them were born six children. Sallie, Isaac, Allen, Susan, Mary and Pheniah.
The late Isaac Hliatt was educated in the common schools and was engaged in farming practically all of his life. He also assisted his father in the pottery shop before
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leaving home. In time he cume to own about four hundred acres of land in Liberty township. He was a member of the Friends church and died at the age of ninety-eight years. His wife, who was born In 1816, died at the age of sixty-six years. They were the parents of five children. Sarah (deceased) and Lydia Jeffries, Mary E., J. W., and Mrs. Olivia St. John.
Born and reared on the farm and educated in the common schools of Clinton county, Mr. Hlatt has always lived In Liberty township. He has been twice married, the first time to Mayme Haines, a native of Greene county and the daughter of Eber Haines, a prominent farmer and member of the Friends church. By this marriage there were born two children. Truman H. and Phoebe Mary. Truman H. married Grace Rotroff, and has two children, William D. and Phoebe Susanna. Phoebe married Harry Lighthizer, of Liberty township, and has one child, Mary E. Mr. Hiatt married, secondly, Anna Hazard, a native of Clinton county and the daughter of Herbert and Hannah (Jeffers) Hazard, who are farmers of Clinton county, and members of the Friends church. By this second marriage, there have been born four children, Loren E., Veda H., Lenna C. and Hazel I.
Mr. and Mrs. Hiatt are prominent members of the Friends church in Liberty town- ship.
P. B. BLACK.
P. B. Black Is a well-to-do farmer of Richland township, this county, who was born on June 22, 1853, in Brown county, Ohio, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth ( Workman) Black, the former of whom was born on April 10, 1803, and the latter of whom was the daughter of Samuel Workman. Samuel Black, after his marriage to Elizabeth Work- man, emigrated from Kentucky to Brown county, Ohio, where be purchased one hundred acres of land, which he cultivated and improved, and upon which be spent the rest of his life. He and his good wife were active members of the New Light church, and he was prominent in the public affairs of Brown county. In Kentucky he had been known as a "bully," because he was a good fighter. He was a very strong man physically, and remained so until his death, on August 1, 1869. His widow survived him for nearly twenty years, her death occurring on June 1, JS88. They were the parents of twelve children, as follow : John, born on December 15, 1825, died on March 8, 1870; James, November 19. 1827: Sarah Ann, February 9. 1831; Mary E., November 10, 1833; Jacob, April 22, 1835; Thomas, April 3, 1538; William, October 14, 1840; Amella Ellen, December 28, 1842. died on October 12, 1800; David G., November 18, 1844; Hannah, June 27. 1817; Nancy Catherine, March 14, 1850. died on August 9, 1899; and P. B., June 22. 1553. Three of these sons, John, William and Jacob, were soldiers in the Union army during the Civil War, John serving one year: William, four years, and Jacob, three years.
P. B. Black received his education in the public schools of his home neighborhood. and was reared to the life of a farmer. Hle was married on December 27. 1877. to Samantha Martin, who was born on September 24, 1850, In Fayette county, this state. the daughter of Jehu and Martha Jane ( Thompson) Martin.
Jehu Martin was a native of Clinton county, but a farmer in Fayette county. He was a member of the Friends church, and active in the work of that church until his death, on September 13. 1900. Hls wife had preceded him to the grave, her death having occurred on January 21, 1894. They were the parents of ten children, of whom Mrs. Black was the eldest, the others being Elmer. Margaret, Eli, Mary Jane (decensed). Grant, Allee, May. Lawson, Quiney and Edna (decensed). The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Black were Stephen and Martha (Curtis) Martin, who were among the early pioneers of Clinton county, they having come here about 1809, at which enrly date they had entered about one hundred acres of land from the government. They were the
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parents of nine children, Mary, David, Ell, Charles, Jane, Martha, Alfred, John and Edward.
After Mr. Black's marriage, he and his wife settled in Fayette county, Ohio, where they lived for twelve years, at the end of which time they disposed of their farm of eighty acres there and on January 8, 1903, came to Clinton county, having purchased the farm where they now live, a mile and one-half out of Sabina, three years prior to that date, in 1900.
Mr. and Mrs. Black are the parents of five children, namely: Minnie, born on April 10, 1879, is the wife of Frank Bloom, of Richland township, and has three children, Florence, Raymond and Noel (deceased) ; John, September 21, 1853, who married May Jacks, to which union three children have been born, Albert D., Helen Elizabeth and one that died in infancy ; Alvie, June 28, 1887; Roy. May 30, 1890, and Harold, May 27, 1896, the last three named being unmarried and living with their parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Black and family are earnest and devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of Sabina. Politically, Mr. Black is a Prohibitionist, and while living in Fayette county served three years as constable.
JAMES K. BERNARD.
Among the citizens of Clinton county who belong to a past generation and who built up comfortable homes and surrounded themselves with valuable property, few attained a larger measure of success than the late James K. Bernard, one of the largest landowners and one of the most public-spirited citizens of Clinton county. With few opportunities, except what his own efforts were capable of mastering. and with many discouragements to overcome, he achieved a remarkable success in life, and, in the declining years of his life. enjoyed the satisfaction of knowing that the commu- nity had been benefitted by his presence. He was regarded as a good business man, who possessed sound Judgment and keen foresight; one who was, in every sense of the word. progressive, and always enjoyed the respect. esteem and confidence of those who knew him. His interest in public affairs and his upright life secured for him an enviable place in the life of this great county, in whose advancement he took such a conspleu- ous part.
James K. Bernard was born on June 19, 1835, in Greene township, this county, and died at New Vienna in the same county, on September 5, 1907, at the age of seventy- two years, two months and seventeen days. He was the son of George Washington and Harriet (McConnell) Bernard, the former of whom was born in Goochland county. Virginia. September 13. 1790, and the Intter, in Brown county, Ohio, October 12, 1810. George Washington Bernard was the son of Thomas and Mary Bernard, natives of Vir- ginia. Thomas Bernard was the son of William Bernard, a native of England, who married Mary Fleming and was a prominent resident of the Old Dominion state. He owned three thousand acres of Iund in Virginia and also was extensively engaged in business at Richmond, that state, where he was a wholesale merchant, During the War of the Revolution, his store was robbed of nearly all of its goods. Willlam and Mary (Fleming) Bernard spent their last days in Virginia. Thomas Bernard was born in March, 1756, grew to manhood in Virginia, and served as a soldier through the War of the Revolution having been engaged in the battles of Brandywine. Germantown Mon- month. Stony Point, and others. In 1:07 he married Mary Hicks and removed from Virginia to Ohio, settling in Highland county, near the Clinton county line. In those days wolves and deer were in abundance, and on one ocession he heard a loud bleating near his cabin which he thought was one of his calves in the merciless cintches of a wolf : hurrying to his cabin door, he beheld a wolf holling fast to a deer. The wolf at once loosed its prey and Bed and the the deer escaped in an opposite direction, In 1×2 Thomas Bernard moved to Leesburg, where he died on June 11, 1533. His widow sur-
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vived until May 22, 1847, when she died. At that time, she was a resident of Clinton county. They were the parents of three sons and five daughters, of whom two were Hving as late as 1882-George W. and Nancy, who married Thomas Riley.
George W. Bernard, son of Thomas and Mary ( Hicks) Bernard and father of James K. Bernard, the subject of this biographical sketch, was about eight years of age when his parents removed to the Ohio wilderness. Here he grew to manhood and became fully inured to the hardships of pioneer life. On March 28, 1831, he was married to Harriet McConnell, who was born in Brown county. Oblo, October 12, 1810, the daughter of James and Salle (Downing) McConnell, natives of Pennsylvania, who were early settlers in Brown county, this state, and who removed to Clinton county about 1821. They were the parents of four sons and five daughters, four of whom were living as late as 1852, as follows: Thomas, Betsey, who married Isaac Wilson of Illinois, Har- riet and Joseph M., the last named of whom resided in Oregon.
To George W. and Harriet ( McConnell) Bernard eleven children were born, nine of whom lived to full maturity, as follow : Thomas F., James K., Mary E., who mar- ried Joshua Wilson; John W .. Matilda Jane, who married Edmund West. George W .. Charles B., Martha H., who married Falward MeVey, and Elijah M. In 1832. George W. Bernard located on the farm in this county where he spent practically the rest of his life, living to be the oldest man in Greene township, and to see all of his children married and settled in life. Although he had in his youth little opportunity for an education, he had supplemented his limited opportunities by special study and in Inter setrs was known as an unusually well-informed man. By energy, industry and ermiomy. he nequired a largo estate, amounting to something over thirteen hundred acres. He died at his home in Greene township in 1894. at the age of ninety-five years.
James K. Bernard, the second child born to his parents, George W. and Harriet (MeConnell) Bernard, grew up on the old homestead in Greene township, which is stil! held by the Bernard family, and received a Hinited education in the pioneer schools of his neighborhood. On October 19. 1861. he was married to Kezia MeVey, who was born in Clinton county on January 19, 1538, a daughter of Christopher and Catharine ( West ) MeVey, natives of Fayette aml Brown counties, Ohlo, respectively ; both of whom were born in 1812.
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