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Mr. and Mrs. Duan are members of the Friends church. They are popular in the social life of Wilmington and have a hospitable home.
CHARLES L. HAWORTH.
The Haworth family have held an honorable place in the history of the state of Ohio for over one hundred years, since one branch of the family came to Clinton county, Ohio, as early as 1810. Charles I .. Haworth, the son of James Haworth, Jr., was born in Highland county, Ohio, on September 2, 1800. His parents, James, J., and Harriet Haworth, were born near Martinsville, in this county.
The paternal grandparents of Mr. Haworth were James and Amelia (West) Haworth, the former of whom was born in Tennessee and came to Clinton county when ten years of age with his parents, who were Absalom and Phoebe ( Wright) Haworth. The paternal great-grandparents were born in Guilford county, North Carolina, marrying there and moving to Tennessee. When James Haworth was two weeks old his mother died and his Grandmother Wright reared him. Absalom Haworth was a first cousin of Mahlon Haworth, who was an early settler of this section of the state, and the founder of this branch of the Haworth family in Clinton county. He was a descendant of George Haworth of Pennsylvania, who was a Quaker.
In 1810 James Haworth. then only ten years old, came with his Grandmother Wright and his uncle, Isaac Wright, to this county. Some of the Wrights first settled near Martinsville, but Isaac Wright and wife located in the Dover neighborhood, in Union township, where James lived with his Grandmother Wright until he was of age, when he married and went to the farm of his father, Absalom Haworth, south of Wilmington. Their religious belief was that of the orthodox Quakers.
The parents of James Haworth's wife. Amelia West. were Owen and Elizabeth West, the former of whom was born in Virginia and the latter in Georgia. Amelia's father was a wealthy plantation owner in Virginia, who had fine Ideals of human rights and determined to realize his ideals by freeing all slaves who belonged to him. Then he left his native state. loyal to his high principles, and came to Ohio, settling in this county. where he purchased one hundred acres of land for each of his children, including his son-in-law, James Haworth, who settled on his share, one mile north of Martinsville, in Clark township. There James Haworth became a prosperous farmer, finally owning eight hundred acres in the township, where he reared his children without. moving until 1851. when he went to New London, Indiana. There be planned large interests, having bought a hotel and farm lands and started In the dry-goods business, but death stepped in and closed his active, honorable career in 1852. his wife also dying in the same year.
The children of James and Amella ( West) Haworth. eleven in all. are as follow : Morris, a farmer, who died in Howard county, Indiana; Phoebe. of Howard county, also deceased: May. who married William 8. Easter. of Howard county : Louisa, who married a second time after the death of her first husband, lives in Red Oak, Iowa, and is a Quaker prencher ; Jobu. who did not marry, died In this county ; James, who was
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the father of Charles L., now living in Wilmington, this county; Gilbert, who died aged twenty, in Howard county, Indiana; Clarkson, who is dead, was a farmer in Howard county, Indiana ; Amelia, who was eighty-four years old on December 22, 1914, lives in Wilmington, Ohio, the widow of Asa H. Jenkins; Sarah, who married Jesse Hiatt, who is now retired from business and lives in Washington, D. C., and Harriet, the widow of Marcus Pickering, who lives in Elwood, Indiana.
Charles I. Haworth's father, James Haworth, Jr., spent his early years on a farm in this county until his father moved to Indiana, where he spent four years, after which he returned to Ohio, locating in Highland county. During the Civil War he was engaged in the dairy business in Cincinnati. but moved from there to Highland county and became a farmer. Later he farmed in Clinton county, where he remained for several years. After Charles L. Haworth's mother died, his father married a Mirs. Hawkins and resided in Richmond, Idiana, until his death at the age of sixty-nine. The brothers and sisters of Charles L. Haworth were: Thomas Clarkson, decensed, who was a farmer in Howard county, Indiana; Z. G. A., who is an attorney residing in Cincinnati ; Jennie, who married John Bodkins, lives in Jeffersonville, Indiana ; Harriet, who died in infancy, and Harry Clinton, who works in the American car shops at Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Charles L., Haworth received his education in the schools of Highland county. Burtonville, this county, and in Wilmington, and began his business career as a clerk In the dry-goods and clothing store owned by F. S. Broomhalls. In Wilmington. where he worked for eighteen years, after which he clerked In C. A. Rannells' clothing store for a short time. In 1905 Mr. Haworth formed a partnership with Mr. Cast under the firm name of Haworth & Cast and conducted a men's clothing and furnishing store In Wilmington. In 1912 Mr. Haworth bought his partner's interest in the store, and has since been successfully conducting the store himself.
On August 24. 18SS. Charles L. Haworth was married to Lona E. Barrett, who was born in Martinsville, this county, the daughter of Peter D. and Lydia Barrett.
Peter D. Barrett was born in Waynesboro, Ohio, on April 15, 1845. the son of Dr. William S. and Nancy ( Walker) Barrett. the former of whom was born in Virginia in 1800 and died in 1857, and the latter of whom was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in. 1820 and 'died in 1895. Peter D. Barrett's father, who was a noted physician, stayed in Cincinnati, at his post of duty. during the scourge of cholera. Afterward he moved to Rainshoro, Highland county, Ohio, where he had an extensive practice until he died from exposure of severe weather.
In August, 1862, Peter D. Barrett and his brother. John. enlisted in Company H. One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served two years and ten months in the Civil War, participating In twenty-three battles. At the close of the Civil War, Peter D. Barrett, who played the snare drum, took part in the Grand Review at Washington, D. C., in General Fuller's First Brigade, First. Division, Seventeenth Army Corps, On November 27, 1867, Peter D. Barrett married and went to Martinsville. this county, where he lived until 1883, when he moved to Wilmington, where he is still living, being engaged in the shoe business. Mr. Barrett is a. stanch Republican and a member of the city council, also secretary of the soldiers' relief commission of Clinton county. He is a charter member of the Morris McMillan post of the Grand Army of the Republic and also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. the encampment and the Daughters of Rebekah, and is a loyal member of the Christian church at Wilmington.
Charles L. Haworth is an active worker in the Republican party and has served as treasurer of U'olon township for many years. He-is a member of the . Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Including the encampment : the Royal Arcanum: the Knights of Pythias, in which he is- a past chancellor commander: the Benevolent and Protective
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Order of Elks, of which he is a past exalted ruler, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, of which he is a past president.
He is a member of the Friends church at Wilmington and his wife is a member of the Christian church.
EBERLE D. TRICKEY.
Very few county officials of Clinton county have performed their official duties with a more conscientious regard for the needs of the public, or have proved themselves more popular with those whom they have thus served, than the present efficient county civil engineer, Eberle D. Trickey, who for nearly ten years has been connected with the county surveyor's office, eight years of which time he has been the duly elected Incum- hent. Hle first entered the surveyor's office as a deputy in 1907, shortly thereafter being appointed to fill an unexpired term. During the succeeding campaign the Republicans made him their candidate for the office he was then holding and he was elected by n most flattering majority. He has since been elected for four successive terms, certainly a notable compliment to bis eminent fitness for the difficult and trying position.
Eberle D. Trickey was born on a farm near the village of Blanchester, Marion township. Clinton county, Ohio, on September 20, 1875, son of Thomas R. and Sarah A. Tricker, the former of whom was born on June 25, 1852, in Warren county, this state, and the latter of whom was born on February 11, 1857, in Marion township. Clinton county, Ohio, both of whom are still living and making their home with their son in Wilmington, this county.
Thomas R. Trickey's parents. John K. and Theodocia Trickey, were natives of War- ren county. Ohio, the former of whom was the son of William Trickey, a Virginian, born about the year 1810, who emigrated to this state in his young manhood, becoming one of the earliest settlers of Warren county. He entered an extensive tract of land from the government and there he reared his family, the Trickeys becoming one of the most influential families thereabout. From the beginning of his residence in Warren county. William Trickey took a prominent part in pioneer affairs and at the time of his death was reckoned as among the substantial men of the county. It was amid such home Influences that John K. Trickey was reared, and it was but natural that he, too. should take a leading part in affairs during his day and generation. During the period of the Civil War, Jobn K. Trickey performed a most valuable and distinct service to bis community as provost marshal of the district in which he lived. being one of the most prominent figures in that part of the state during war times. In addition to farming. he devoted much of his time to surveying and work along the general lines of civil engineering, his services in that connection being called for throughout that section. He was an ardent member of the Universalist, church, having been reared in that faith. and he brought up his family in the ways of dutiful observance of the tenets of the same faith. He lived to be seventy-three years of age and at the time of his passing was deeply and widely mourned throughout the section of the state in which he had for so long been a dominant factor in general affairs.
Under such conditions of family life and rearing, it is not to be regarded as remark- able that Thomas R. Trickey grew up to be a citizen of sterling worth and admirable traits of character. It was during his early childhood that his parents moved from Warren county to this county, and It was thus that Thomas R. Trickey received his rearing in Clinton county. Upon nearing the period of manhood, he learned the carpen- ter trade and for many years was engaged in the business of general building and con- tracting, many houses in and about the town of Blanchester testifying very visibly to the substantial character of his work, even to this day. In 1908, Mr. Trickey retired from further active labors and moved to the county sent, where he and his wife since have made their home with their son, the county surveyor, who is their only child.
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Mrs. Trickey, mother of the subject of this sketch, is the daughter of Joseph and Lucetta Laymon, who were residents of Marion township, this county. the former of whom died shortly after the close of the Civil War from diseases contracted in the army. Thomas R. Trickey is a Republican and for years has been an active worker in the ranks of that party. He and his wife are members of the Universalist church, as is their son and his wife and all are interested participants in the activities of the congregation of that church.
Eberle D. Trickey has been interested In the abstruse problems of civil engineering since childhood. Even during the days of his boyhood schooling, he began to pick up the rudiments of the surveyor's profession and gradually enlarged his knowledge until he became one of the best-equipped surveyors in this part of the state. His first prac- tical work in this connection was done with the engineering department of the Balti- more & Ohio railroad, during which period of service he received much excellent and valuable instruction and experience. Following this engagement with the railroad service, he was for several years engaged as foreman for a firm of general contractors at Lima, Ohio, and in the spring of 1907 returned to Clinton county and accepted the position of deputy surveyor in the office of Mr. Brown. Shortly thereafter he was appointed to fill the unexpired term and at the end of this appointive term of service, was elected on the Republican ticket to fill the office of surveyor, and has since been elected four successive terms, certainly a most flattering commendation of the ability he has displayed in disposing of the intricate affairs of his office. Mr. Trickey occasionally finds time from his official duties to handle difficult engineering problems outside the public service and many are the calls made upon him throughout this section.
On June 20, 1904, Eberle D. Trickey was united in marriage to Mary L. Lauer, daughter of Charles A. and Molinda ( Reynolds) Lauer, of Wapakoneta, Ohio, the former of whom Is now deceased. No children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Trickey and they Imve adopted two little girls, Opal, born In 1908, and Hazel, born in 1910.
Mr. Trickey is not ouly popular in the official circles of Clinton county, but has the entire confidence of the community, the utmost reliance being placed in the accuracy of his surveys, and he holds the highest regard of all who know him. In fraternal circles he also is quite popular, being an active and influential member of the Masonic lodge, the Elks lodge, the Odd Fellows lodge and the Eagles at Wilmington, doing cheer- fully his part in promoting the interests of these popular fraternal associations.
HORATIO B. HAYNES.
Horatio B. Haynes, a prominent citizen of Clinton county and a retired farmer living in Wilmington, was born on July 8, 1859, in Sabina, Cinton county, and is the son of Joshua R. and Nancy (Geffs) Haynes, the former of whom was born on May 26. 1827. in Wayne township. Clinton county, Ohio, and the latter was born in Virginia. Nancy Geffs was the daughter of John and Tamar ( Faucet) Geffs, natives of Ireland and Pennsylvania, respectively. John Geffs, with his parents, James and Elizabeth Geffs, immigrated to America, when John was but a child and located in Virginia, where the father died and where John grew to manhood and married. He learned the tanner's trade in Hagerstown, Maryland, which business he followed until the fall of 1830, when, with his family, he immigrated to Ohio and passed the winter near Chillicothe. In the spring of 1831 he came to Clinton county and purchased and located upon the farm later owned by his son, Thomas Geffs. There he lived until his death, In 1840, when he was fifty-one years old. His mother also became a resident of Clinton county and died while living with her grandson, at the age of eighty-six years. On one occasion she walked ten miles to hear John Wesley preach. Mrs. Geffs remained npon the home place with her children until ber death, on March 25, 1881, when she was ninety-two years old. They were the parents of thirteen children, of whom five.
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Jacob, Thomas, Jumes, Margaret ( Grove) and Nancy, lived to advanced. ages. Jacob and James moved to Illinois Nancy married Joshua R. Haynes. Robert, the eleventh child, was a soldier in the Mexican War and died in the service near Jalapa, Mexico, at the age of twenty years. Thomas became a prominent man in the political life of Clinton county. He served as township trustee, county commissioner and member of the Ohio Legislature. He was married to Mary West ou February 9, 1843.
The paternal grandparents of Horatio B. Haynes were Pleasant and Millie Haynes, both of whom were natives of Virginia. The paternal great-grandfather was William Haynes, a native and resident of Virginia and a large slavebolder. Pleasant Haynes. after coming to Oblo, married and settled in Fayette county. Later he moved to Clinton county and engaged in farming. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Epis copal church. They had nine children, among whom were: Joshua R., Isaac, Alfred, Mahala, Surab and Elizabeth. Joshua R. Haynes was educated in the common schools and for seven years was engaged in teaching and business in Sabina, Ohio. He and his wife were prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He died near Sabina on March 22, 1871, and his wife on July 31, 1883. They were the parents of eight children.
Horatio B. Haynes was educated in the common schools of this state and reared on a farm. On November 11. 1885, he was married to Jane Morris, a native of Fayette county, and the daughter of Jonathan and Sarepta Morris, who were farmers and members of the Friends church. Two children were born to this marriage, Herbert and Frank, both of whom are unmarried.
Mr. and Mrs. Hayues are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They have a comfortable home on Walnut street in the city of Wilmington. Mr. Haynes has been a progressive and very prosperous farmer, but has always held character above wealth.
FRANK MURPHY.
Many years ago a child was born in County Cork, Ireland, and as he grew up his ambitions to get on in the world led him to seek a home in America. Even though he did not find fame or fortune in the new country, he was able to rear a family of chil- dren and earn an honorable living. Among bis sons was one who has become known throughout the sporting world in this country and who has become in addition to this one of the wealthiest citizens of our great metropolis of the Middle West. The Irish lad who many years ago sought a home and fortune in this favored land, was the late Pat- rlek Murphy, and his son, who is a brother of the subject of this sketch and who has become famous in the sporting world, is Charles Murphy, the former president of the Chicago Cubs. .
Frank Murphy, the subject of this sketch, who is well known to the citizens of Clinton county, has in his velns the blood of this ambitious Irish lad, who left his home in County Cork, Ireland. Frank Murphy was born in Wilmington, Oblo, January 24. 1870, the son of Patrick and Bridget (O'Donnell) Murphy, the former of whom was born in County Cork in 1841, and who died in 1896, and the latter of whom was born in County, Tipperary. Ireland in 1850, and who is still living. Mr. Murphy's paternal grandparents lived and died In Ireland. They were devout members of the Catholic church. His maternal grandparents also lived in Ireland, his grandfather having died when a young man and his widow, after his death, married Daniel Credan. They followed Mrs. Credan's daughter, Bridget, to America.
Patrick Murphy grew up on the farm in Ireland and when a lad still In his teena came to the United States and located at Madisonville Ohio, where he learned the plastering trade, at which he worked for many years .. Subsequently, he came to Wilming- ton and was married and here worked as n plasterer on all of the main buildings of the city, Including the churches, college buildings, schools and the business houses. He was a "rock-ribbed" Democrat and a devout member of the Catholic church, as were all
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of the members of his family. Mrs. Patrick Murphy is still living in the house on South Mulberry street, in Wilmington, to which she and her husband moved after they were married in 1866. Frank Murphy is one of four children born to his parents: Charles, the eldest, who has heretofore been referred to as the former president of the Chicago Cubs: Frank, who is the subject of this sketch; James, who is employed as a scout for the Chicago Cubs; and Katle, who died at the age of thirty-three.
Frank Murphy attended the public schools of Wilmington and learned the plasterer's trade from his father, which he followed more or less until 1007, when he started a mov- ing picture show in Wilmington, called the West House Show. Previously, he and his brother, Charles, had operated a restaurant in Wilmington for four years. In 1909 Mr. Murphy started the Cub theatre and in the same year moved the West House Show Into another building and called' It the Gem theatre. These two shows were operated until 1014, when he sold out.
On January 12, 1893. Frank Murphy was married to Anna Fahey, the daughter of Thomas Fahey and who was born in Texas, Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Murphy have been born four children : Thomas, who was born in 1804, is a bookkeeper; Joseph, April 4, 1899; Charles, April 6, 1003; and Frank, February 2, 1908.
Mr. Murphy is a Democrat. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy and all of the mem- bers of their family are stanch supporters of the Catholic church
JOHN WILLIAM VANDERVORT.
In the early days the Middle West was often a tempting field to energetic, ambitious, strong-minded men, and Oblo was filled with them during the time she was struggling to a respectable position in the sisterhood of states. Many of the familles whose progeny has since become prominent in the life of this state were founded in Ohio shortly after the state was admitted to the Union. There was a fascination in the broad fields and great promise which this newer region presented to activity and which attracted many men, inducing them to brave the discomforts of the early life here for the pleasure and gratification of constructing their fortunes in their own ways and after their own methods. It is this class of men more than any other which has given shape, direction and character to the great state of Ohlo. J. W. Vandervort, formerly a well-known farmer of Clinton county and a member of the' board of county commis- sloners for two terma, is a member of one of the familles which had to do with the early history of this county.
John William Vandervort, who is now living retired in Wilmington, was born near New Antioch, in Green township, this county, on July 21. 1850, the son of Paul H. and Matilda (Mckenzie) Vandervort, the former of whom was born near Starbuck, in Clinton county, on January 1. 1815, the son of Jonah and Jane ( Tibbs) Vandervort.' and the latter of whom was the daughter of John and Isabelle Mckenzie.
The ancestry of the Vandervort family goes back to Michael Paulus Van Der Voort, who came from East Flanders, region of Dendermonde, prior to the 'year 1640 and located in New Amsterdam, now New York. The records show that Michael Paulus Van Der Voort was married to Marie Rapalye on November 18, 1640. their marriage being the fifth recorded In New Amsterdam. Among their children was Paul Van Der Voort, baptised on January 3, 1649, who married Lysbeth Paulus Dincksen, to which union was born a son, called Paul, who was born at Bedford. Long Island, and was baptised in 1681. He married Nultze Staats, and they had a son, Nicholas, born at Bedford, Long Island. Subsequently, the family moved to Orange county, New York, where Nicholas married Abigail Halstead, to which union six children were born, John. Martha. Paul. Peter, William and Jonah, the latter of whom was the grandfather of J. W. Vandervort, the subject of this sketch. Jonah Vandervort settled in Clinton
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county, Oblo, in 1810, the year In which the county was organized. He was born in Shepherdstown, Virginia, on May 30, 1765, and was married to Jane Tibbs on March 29, 1796. They moved to the Northwest Territory in 1800, and located at Columbia, which is now within the city limits of Cincinnati, Ohio. Later, in 1810, they came to Clinton county.
Nicholas and Abigail ( Halstead) Vandervort, both of whom were natives of New York state, became residents of Virginia after their marriage and emigrated from Vir- ginia about 1800, the objective point being Green river in Kentucky. On their way down the Oblo river, upon arriving at Columbia, near Cincinnati, they anchored their boat for the night. A large limb from a tree overbanging the boat broke and fell, damaging the boat so much that it was unfit for further travel with safety. After some Investiga- tion of the surrounding country they became so well pleased with it that they concluded to settle there and it is belleved that Niebolas and Abigail ( Halstead) Vandervort spent the rest of their lives there. Jonah Vandervort's wife, who before her marriage was Jane Tibbs, was the daughter of John and Mary Tibbs, natives of Ireland. The latter, when a girl, was kidnapped and taken on board a vessel and brought to America. where she grew to womanhood and was married. subsequently becoming a resident of Vir- ginia, whence she emigrated to Columbia, Ohio, where she died. Jonah and Jane ( Tibbs) Vandervort resided at Columbia until 1809, when they came to this county, locating on Todd's fork, where they lived for six years, at the end of which time they removed to near New Antioch, where they spent the remainder of their lives. They were among the earliest settlers in that region and assisted in the organization and establishment of the first Christian church at Antioch, in which they were leading members and in the good works of which they assisted with their purses and with their influence. Jonah Vander- vort became of great strength to the church and was a very upright Christian man. He was a man of good judgment and one of the first jurymen of Clinton county. Jonah Vandervort and his wife were the parents of six sons and five daughters. He died in January, 1842, and his widow died three years later, in 1845.
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