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GEORGE JOBE.
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farmer, of the Sidney neighborhood: William, a tailor at Xenia: Sarah, deceased ; Jane, who married Andrew McClure, of Shelby county, this state, and Martha, who married James B. Sterrett.
To George and Mary Ann (Hutchinson) Jobe were born nine children, namely : James Harvey, deceased, who was a merchant in Xenia and who married Mrs. Eliza M. Anderson, who was a Stewart, of Clark county; John Hutchinson, deceased, who married Nancy Ellen Collins and was en- gaged in farming; Margaret Ann, deceased; Hugh Boyd, deceased, who married Margaret Ann Jobe; Martha Jane, deceased; William H., deceased ; Samuel F., deceased ; George F., the subject of this biographical sketch ; Lida R., unmarried, who has always made her home with her brother George, and Albert Alexander, deceased.
George F. Jobe and his sister Lida, the only present survivors of their formerly considerable family, have always made their home together and until their retirement from the farm and removal to Xenia in 1914, had always lived on the home farm east of town. Their early schooling was re- ceived in the schools in the neighborhood of their home and George F. Jobe supplemented this course by attendance one year at the Cedarville school and a course in college at Jacksonville, Illinois. Miss Lida Jobe attended school one year at Xenia and one year at Oxford, Ohio. Mr. Jobe later assumed direction of the farm operations and he and his sister remained with their parents, caring for them during their declining years; and con- tinued the operations of the farm until February 24, 1914, when they left the old home place and moved to Xenia, where they own a twelve-room house at 22 West Market street and where they are now living. Mr. Jobe still owns the home farm of one hundred and ninety-three acres, besides two other farms in Greene county, one of eighty acres at Wilberforce and one of one hundred and sixty-five acres in Cedarville township. He is a Republi- can, but has not been a seeker after public office. He and his sister are mem- bers of the First United Presbyterian church at Xenia, in the faith of which communion they were reared.
HON. J. CARL MARSHALL.
The Hon. J. Carl Marshall, judge of probate for Greene county, former clerk of the court of common pleas and previous to that terin of service and for some years deputy clerk of that court and before that time superintendent of the Cedarville township schools, is a native son of Greene county and has lived here all his life. He was born on a farm in Sugarcreek township, Sep- tember 12, 1881, son of Willis and Emma (Tate) Marshall, both of whom also were born in this county.
The Marshalls are one of the oldest families in Greene county, the first
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of that name to settle here having been John Marshall, who was born in the vicinity of what is now the city of Lexington, Kentucky, in 1784. and who in 1803, the year in which Greene county became a civic unit, came up here into the valley of the Little Miami and took up a considerable tract of land in Sugarcreek township, where he established his home. This pioneer John Marshall was one of the early associate judges of Greene county. He and his wife were the parents of six children, two sons and four daughters, namely : Nancy, who married James N. McConnell; Sarah, who married John Brock: Hester, who married Captain Kepler; Betsy, who married William Morgan; James, who became a farmer in Sugarcreek township, and Jesse, who was Judge Marshall's grandfather.
Jesse Marshall and his wife were the parents of seven children, of whom four sons and two daughters are still living. Willis Marshall, the eldest of these sons, grew up on the home farm and after his father's death was the mainstay of the family, his mother continuing to make her home on the old home place until her death. He is now living on a farm in the New Burlington neighborhood in the neighboring county of Clinton. Willis Mar- shall has been twice married, his first wife, Emma Tate, having died in the fall of 1884, after which he married Laura Holland, of Spring Valley. Willis Marshall has two sons, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Leroy T. Marshall, who is practicing law at Xenia and who formerly served as clerk of courts of Greene county. Leroy T. Marshall was graduated from the Bellbrook high school in the same year in which his brother, the Judge, was graduated there and later was graduated from Cedarville College, after which for two years he served as principal of the Cedarville schools. In 1908, as the nominee of the Republican party, he was elected county clerk and in 1910 was re-elected, thus serving two terms. In the meantime he had been giving attention to the study of law and in 1912 was admitted to the bar and since his retirement from the clerk's office has been engaged in the prac- tice of his profession at Xenia. He for six years served as chairman of the executive committee of the Republican organization in this county. He mar- ried Nellie Turnbull and has two children, Maxwell and Emma Jean.
J. Carl Marshall's early schooling was received in the district schools in the vicinity of his boyhood home in Sugarcreek township and he supple -. mented this by a course in the Bellbrook high school, from which he pres- ently was graduated. He then entered Cedarville College and was gradu- ated from that institution in 1907. During the following winter he was em- ployed as a teacher in the Clifton high school and during the next winter, 1908-09, was employed as superintendent of the Cedarville township high school. In August, 1909, he was appointed deputy clerk of the cominon pleas court and for four years held that position, or until his election, in
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1912, to the office of clerk of the common pleas court. In 1914 he was re- elected to that office and would have served in the same until 1917, but in the meantime, in the fall of 1916, was elected judge of probate for Greene county for a term of four years and resigned his position as county clerk to enter upon his new duties on the bench and has been thus engaged since February 9, 1917. Judge Marshall is 'a Republican.
On October 10, 1910, Judge J. Carl Marshall was united in marriage to Fern C. Ervin, who was born and reared in Cedarville, daughter of David S. and Belle (Murdock) Ervin, both of whom are still living in Cedarville, where the former is engaged in the grain business and also operates the lime kilns there, and to this union two children have been born, Frances Emma, born on July 22, 1911, and Carl Ervin, September 16, 1915. Judge and Mrs. Marshall are members of the United Presbyterian church at Xenia and the Judge was elected a member of the session of the same in 1916. In that same year Judge Marshall also was elected alumnus trustee of Cedarville College.
LEVI RADER.
Levi Rader, a veteran of the Civil War and former trustee of Xenia township, was born in Xenia on July 6, 1832, last-born and now the only surviving child of Adam and Christina (Smith) Rader, natives of Pennsyl- vania, the former of whom was born on October 28, 1787, and the latter, May 24, 1791, who were the parents of twelve children, those besides the subject of this sketch having been the following: John M., born on March 5, 18II; Joseph, September 29, 1812; David, December 23, 1813; Susanna, July 24, 1815; William, December 31, 1816; Adam, Jr., November 15, 1818; Mary Ann, July 10, 1820; Andrew, July 5, 1823; Catherine, October 5, 1825; Julia Ann, July 14, 1827, and Washington, April 15, 1829.
Reared at Xenia, Levi Rader received his schooling in the schools of that city and early learned the trade of a bricklayer, which vocation he fol- lowed all the active days of his life. He was married in 1853 and was living in Xenia when the Civil War broke out. In 1862 Mr. Rader volunteered for service at the Greene county court house in behalf of the arms of the Union and went to the front as a member of Company H, Ninety-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, attached to the Army of the Cumberland, under General Buell, and served with that command until honorably discharged two years later, at the end of which time he returned to his home in Xenia, re- sumed his vocation and so continued until his retirement when the weight of advancing years rendered such a course advisable. Mr. Rader is a Re- publican, one of the original voters in the ranks of that party, and in 1912,
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he then being eighty years of age, was elected trustee of Xenia township and served a term in that office, appreciating greatly the honor the people of the township had conferred upon him in his old age. Mr. Rader was reared in the Reformed church, with which church his family has ever been affiliated.
Mr. Rader has been twice married. On December 28, 1853, he was united in marriage to Sarah E. Foreman, who was born on September 30, 1834, and to that union were born six children, namely: John A., born on October 6, 1854; Clara (deceased), May 26, 1857; Kimber, February 9, 1859; Emma D., February 8, 1863; Henry P. (deceased), May 26, 1865, and Jennie K., February 14, 1867. The mother of these children died on July 9, 1868, and on March 13, 1872, Mr. Rader married Nina L. D. Fox, who died on February 16, 1906. All of Mr. Rader's surviving children are living in Ohio with the exception of John A., the eldest, who is making his home at Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Rader has three living grandchildren.
FRANK ANDREW JACKSON.
Frank Andrew Jackson, sheriff of Greene county, was born at Cedar- ville on July 10, 1876, son of the Hon. Andrew and Mary J. (Dunlap) Jackson, the former of whom is still living and further, extended and fitting mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. It is but proper to state in the outset that Sheriff Jackson is one of the real "Old Hickory" Jacksons, his great-great-grandfather having been a brother of Andrew Jackson, the hero of the battle of New Orleans and seventh President of the United States. He also is a member of one of Greene county's oldest fami- lies, his father, the Hon. Andrew Jackson, former member of the Legisla- ture from this district, being a son of Gen. Robert Jackson, who settled on Clarks run, three miles west of Cedarville, in 1805, and who in 1831 was commissioned general commanding the militia forces of this district. All of this, however, is set out much more at length elsewhere and is introduced here merely as a sidelight on the distinguished family to which Sheriff Jack- son belongs and of which he is a typical and sturdy representative in this generation.
Reared at Cedarville, Frank A. Jackson was graduated from the high school there and then entered his father's coal and lumber office in that city, and while thus engaged, when twenty-one years of age, was elected clerk of his home township, a position he filled by consecutive re-elections for thir- teen years. He also for some time operated the opera house at Cedarville and was otherwise active in the affairs of his home town. For two terms during his father's service in the state Legislature he served as a legislative clerk and for three years thereafter was engaged as an agent of the Ohio
FRANK A. JACKSON.
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Fuel Supply Company, buying rights-of-way between Columbus and Cin- cinnati. During the incumbency of Sheriff W. B. McCallister, Mr. Jackson was appointed deputy sheriff of Greene county and in the campaign of 1914 received the Republican nomination for the office of sheriff: He was elected in the election of that fall and so satisfactory did his services prove that he was renominated and re-elected in 1916, his present term of office running until 1919. Sheriff Jackson is a Republican and since the days of his boyhood has been an active worker in the ranks of that party in Greene county, for years committeeman from his home precinct at Cedarville.
On December 21, 1914, Frank A. Jackson was united in marriage to Edna Townsley, who also was born in Cedarville township and who had been teaching school there for some time before her marriage. Mrs. Jackson also is a member of one of the oldest families in Greene county, the Towns- leys having been represented in the Cedarville neighborhood ever since the days, even before there was a Greene county, when Thomas Townsley, a soldier of the Revolution and a Pennsylvanian, came up here with his family from Kentucky in 1800 and settled on Survey 3746, a part of the old Vir- ginia military tract set apart for the Revolutionary soldiers, two miles east of the present town of Cedarville. She is a daughter of Henry A. and Anna Townsley, the former of whom, a retired farmer, is still living, now a resi- dent of Cedarville, and the latter of whom died in February, 1910. Henry A. Townsley and wife were the parents of four children, Mrs. Jackson hav- ing two brothers, John, who is now serving in the United States regular army, and Herman, a contractor engaged in business at Little Rock, Arkan- sas, and a sister, Esther, who is engaged in teaching school in this county. Both the Jacksons and the Townsleys have been United Presbyterians ever since the "union" of 1858, having previously been of the old Associate com- munion, and Mr. and Mrs. Jackson retain their adherence to that church, being now connected with the United Presbyterian church at Xenia.
IRA W. BALDWIN, M. D.
In making up the biographical annals of Greene county due mention must be made of the part taken in the affairs of this county by the late Dr. Ira W. Baldwin, veteran of the Civil War, physician, journalist, former post- master at Yellow Springs and former member of the United States pension board for this county, who died at his home in Xenia early in 1902, and whose widow is still making her home in that city.
Dr. Ira W. Baldwin was a native son of Greene county and the most of his life was spent here. He was born on a farm on the Clifton pike, October II, 1838, son of David P. and Julia Baldwin, and was the elder of the two children born to that parentage. Upon completing the course in the neigh-
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borhood schools he entered Antioch College and after a course in that insti- tution entered Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati and was graduated from that institution in 1867. Meanwhile, during the progress of the Civil War, the Doctor had taken an active part in that struggle, serving in behalf of the Union, serving first as a member of the Sixty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Vol- unteer Infantry, from which he received an honorable discharge on account of disability, and later as a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Upon receiving his diploma from Ohio Medical College, Doctor Baldwin opened an office for the practice of his pro- fession in the village of Enon, in the neighboring county of Clark, and was there engaged in practice for two years, at the end of which time, following his marriage, he moved to Clarksville, Iowa, where he remained two years. He then returned to Greene county and located at Spring Valley, later mov- ing to Yellow Springs and thence, in 1899, after a period of eight years of practice there, to Xenia, where his last days were spent, his death occurring at his home in that city on February 2, 1902. For nine years Doctor Baldwin served as a member of the local examining board for Greene county of the United States penison bureau ; served for four years, under appointment of President Cleveland, as postmaster of Yellow Springs, and for some time was connected with the local journalistic field. He was the founder of the Greene County Democrat and later purchased the Xenia Democrat News, merging the two into the paper now known as the Xenia Herald. Doctor Baldwin also was the founder of the Saturday Morning Post and his jour- nalistic activities were continued until his retirement from that field in 1882. He was a Democrat. During his residence at Yellow Springs he also was engaged in farming in that neighborhood. For many years the Doctor was a meniber of the board of trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church. It was written of the Doctor, after his death: "In manner he was genial and jovial and his personal characteristics were such as to make him a popular citizen. Public spirited, he co-operated with every movement for the general good and lived an honorable, upright life, commending him to the confidence and respect of all."
In 1869 Dr. Ira W. Baldwin was united in marriage to Josephine Allen, who also was born in this county and who is still living, continuing to make her home at Xenia, residing at the corner of West Second street and West street.
To that union were born three children, Benjamin (deceased), John and Minnie. John Baldwin, unmarried, is still making his home with his mother in Xenia, and Minnie is now living at Dayton, the wife of William Thomas.
Mrs. Baldwin is the only survivor of the three children born to her parents. John C. and Mary (Arnold) Allen, both of whom also were born in
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Greene county, members of pioneer families, and the latter of whom died when her daughter Josephine (Mrs. Baldwin) was but five years of age. The other two children were Frank Allen, who died in 1857, at the age of twelve years, and Edward Allen, who died unmarried in 1889. The mother of thesc children was born near New Burlington, this county, daughter of Jesse and Jane (Linton) Arnold, Quakers, and among the early settlers of Greene county, the Arnolds having come here from South Carolina and the Lintons from Pennsylvania. Mrs. Mary Arnold Allen died in 1849. She and John C. Allen were married in 1842. In 1883 John C. Allen married, secondly, Maria Bell, also now deceased.
John C. Allen was born on a farm one mile north of Spring Valley, in this county, June 22, 1815, and died in 1890. He was a son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Campbell) Allen, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of South Carolina, who were married in this county, both having been well grown when their respective parents settled here. Benjamin Allen was a Quaker and his wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. She died in 1856 and he survived her until 1868, he then being eighty-four years of age. During the latter years of his life Benjamin Allen had made his home at Spring Valley, to which place he had moved upon his retirement from the farm. John C. Allen grew up on the home farm and upon start- ing on his own account bought a small place adjoining his father's place and there built and operated a tanyard. A few years later this was burned and he then moved to Xenia and set up a tanyard on Cincinnati avenue, in the southwestern part of the city. In 1851 he bought a farm in the western part of the county and thereafter confined his operations chiefly to agricultural pursuits, becoming eventually the owner of "Whitehall," an estate of a thousand acres, on which was situated the finest house in Greene county. now owned by E. S. Kelly. For thirty years or more after the Civil War period Mr. Allen was a heavy investor in practically every important ·business en- terprise in Xenia. He was a Democrat, but was not a seeker after public office.
ROBERT D. ADAIR.
Robert D. Adair, proprietor of a furniture store at Xenia, a member of the boards of directors of the Citizens National Bank and of the Home Sav- ings and Loan Association, and formerly and for years a member of the school board of the city, is a native of the old Keystone state, but lias been a resident of Xenia since 1886. He was born in Allegheny, the northern suburb of the city of Pittsburgh, in 1857, son of John and Ann (Duncan) Adair, both of whom were born and reared in the north of Ireland, of Scot-
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tish descent, and who were married in this country, having come here in the days of their youth, later locating in Allegheny, where the subject of this sketch was reared and in the schools of which place he received his schooling.
Upon completing his schooling Robert D. Adair became engaged as a traveling salesman, handling glassware and lamp goods, and during his commercial travels took a particular fancy to Xenia and to Greene county in general; so much so, in fact, that in 1883 he married a Greene county young woman. In 1886 Mr. Adair bought out the furniture store of Wilson & Lindsay at Xenia and in association with his wife's brother engaged in business in that city, the firm doing business under the name of Nichols & Adair. Mr. Nichols died within a year and Mr. Adair then bought the interest held by his deceased partner in the firm and has ever since continued the business. In 1910 he bought the building in which his store is located, at 22 North Detroit street, and remodeled the same. In addition to his com- mercial interests, Mr. Adair is a member of the board of directors of the Citi- zens National Bank of Xenia, a member of the board of directors of the Home Savings and Loan Association, and a member of the board of directors of the Shawnee Refrigerator Company, all of Xenia. He also was for eigh- teen years (1892-1910) a member of the city school board, during that period having served as secretary and as president of the board for certain terms.
It was in October, 1883, that Robert D. Adair was united in marriage to Clarissa Celia Nichols, who was born in this county, daughter of Erastus and Mary Nichols, both now deceased, and the former of whom was for years engaged in the insurance business in Xenia, and to this union have been born three sons, Charles Wallace, James Duncan and Robert Nichols, the two former of whom are engaged in business with their father in Xenia and the last-named of whom, Robert Nichols Adair, is now a soldier of the National Army, having enlisted in July, 1917, and is a present corporal in the Sixty-second Artillery Brigade, which was trained in the camp at Mont- gomery, Alabama, for service abroad. Previous to his. enlistment Corporal Adair had been working in the Saxon automobile factory. The Adairs reside on North Galloway street. They are members of the First Presbyterian church and Mr. Adair is an elder in the same. Mr. Adair also is a Mason, affiliated with the lodge of that order at Xenia.
JAMES ELLIOTT PAULLIN.
James Elliott Paullin, who died at his home in Ross township in the spring of 1888 and whose widow is now living in the city of Xenia, was born in that township and there spent all his life with the exception of a short time during the period of his young manhood, when he was attending
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college in Indiana. He was born on December 25, 1846, a son of David and Susan (Smith) Paullin, who were married on December 6, 1827, and whose last days were spent in Ross township.
The founders of the Paullin family in Greene county were Uriah and Rebeckah Paullin, natives of New Jersey, the former born on October 25, 1765, and the latter, November 17, 1766, who were married on April 13, 1785, and who, when they came to Greene county in 1807 had seven children, Jacob, aged nineteen years; Mary, seventeen; Joseph, twelve; Enos, ten; Sarah, eight; Elizabeth, four, and David, an infant of twelve months. One year after reaching this county another child, Ruth, was born and four years later, Newcomb. For five years preceding their arrival in this county the Paullins had been residents of Highland county and during the five years preceding that period had resided at Salt Lick. Uriah Paullin had been offered his choice of two tracts of land of one thousand acres each, for one thousand dollars, one near Selma, on the site of the late Robert Tindall's estate, and the other in Ross township, Greene county. He chose the latter site and some of that land is still in the possession of his descendants. On that place he and his wife established their home and the good works of "Granddaddy" Paullin are still matters of tradition in the Jamestown neigh- borhood, though just why he came to be locally known as "Granddaddy" is not so apparent, as the inscription on his tombstone shows that he died at the age of forty-six years and eleven months. His widow survived him until July 8, 1832, she then being seventy-two years, seven months and twenty-one days of age, according to the inscription on her tombstone. The descendants of that pioneer pair now form a numerous connection in Greene county and throughout this part of the state. As noted above, David Paullin was but an infant when his parents came to this county and he was but six or seven years of age when his father died. He came in for a portion of his father's estate and in time began farming on his own account in that same township, though he had sold his portion of the land to his brother Newcomb. After his mar- riage in 1827 he established his home on a farm in Ross township and there spent the rest of his life.
James Elliott Paullin, son of David and Susan, grew up on the home farm in Ross township and received his schooling in the neighborhood schools. As a young man he attended college in Indiana, but presently re- turned to the old homestead and after his marriage in the summer of 1885 established his home there and there spent the few remaining years of his life, his death occurring on March 26, 1888. He was a Republican and a member of the Christian church at Jamestown.
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