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Since the death of her husband Mrs. Sutton has been making her home in Jamestown. Minnie B. Hatch married George B. Oldham, a traveling sales- man of Dayton, and has three children, Mrs. Ethel A. Lee, Mrs. Clara Mac- Dorman and Harold H.
MATTHEW ALLEN HAGLER.
Matthew Allen Hagler, a farmer of New Jasper township and pro- prietor of the old Toops place, in that township, where he has been living for nearly forty years, is a native of the neighboring Hoosier state, but has been a resident of Greene county since the days of his infancy. He was born on a farm in the vicinity of the city of Portland, county seat of Jay county, Indiana, December 25, 1855, son of Henry Christopher and Julia Ann (Shook) Hagler, both of whom were born in Greene county and who spent the greater part of their lives here.
Henry Christopher Hagler was born in New Jasper township, son of Samuel and Anna (Fudge) Hagler, who lived on a farm in the vicinity of the village of New Jasper and who spent their last days there. Samuel Hag- ler was a native of Virginia and was the first of that name to come to Greene county, establishing his home here in pioneer days. He and his wife were members of the Reformed church and were the parents of fifteen children, of whom the following grew to maturity: Betsey, Jane, Martha, Lottie, Clara, Eliza, Samantha, William, Milton, Henry C. and Moses. Samuel Hagler became a considerable landowner in New Jasper township. Henry Christopher Hagler grew up on the home farm and after his marriage to Julia Ann Shook, a member of one of Greene county's pioneer families, made his home for a time on one of his father's farms, later moving over into Indiana with his family, two children having by that time been born to him and his wife, and bought a quarter-section farm in the vicinity of Portland, where he sought to establish a permanent home, but illness in the family shortly afterward developing he remained there but nine months, at the end of which time he disposed of his interests there and returned to Greene county. Upon his return here he bought a partly improved farm of eighty acres in New Jasper township and there established his home and spent the rest of his life, his death occurring when he was thirty-seven years of age. His widow later married Silas Matthews, of the neighboring county of Clinton, and after the death of her second husband went to New Mexico, where she spent her last days in the home of her youngest daughter, Mrs. Dotts, her death occurring there when she was seventy-six years of age. Henry C. Hagler was a Republican and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They were the parents of six children, of
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whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being as follow: John, who has been twice married, his second wife being Emma Lloyd, and who is farming in Clinton county .; Samuel, a carpenter, who married Ella Moore and is now living at Toledo; Kate, now deceased, who was the wife of Gustave Curl, of Yellow Springs, this county ; Amanda, who married James Dotts and is now living at Allen, New Mexico, and Sarah, who died in the days of her girlhood.
Matthew A. Hagler was but an infant when his parents returned from Indiana, where he was born, to Greene county, and his youth was spent on the home farm in New Jasper township, his schooling being received in the schools of that neighborhood. When he was fifteen years of age he began working on his own account and was thus engaged, employed on neighbor- ing farms, until his marriage in the spring of 1879, when he established his home on the old Toops place of sixty-six acres, which he had bought, in New Jasper township, and has ever since resided there. In 1892 he built a new house and in 1906, a new barn, meanwhile making other improve- ments on the place. In addition to his general farming Mr. Hagler also has been a quite extensive dealer in timber. He is a stanch Republican, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at New Jasper.
On March 26, 1879, Matthew A. Hagler was united in marriage to Ella M. Huston, who was born in Bath township, this county, daughter of James and Mary (Baker) Huston, the latter of whom also was born in this county, her parents having been residents of the Jamestown neighborhood. James Huston was born in Knox county, Ohio, son of Robert and Ann (Lyons) Huston, who later came to Greene county and settled on a farm in New Jasper township, where they spent their last days. They were the parents of ten children, William; George, James, Josiah, John, Harvey, Mary, Mar- garet, Eliza and Deborah, the Huston family thus coming to be well repre- sented in this county. James Huston established his home in the vicinity of Yellow Springs and became a successful farmer, stockman and trader. He died there at the age of seventy-six years and his widow survived him for sonie years, she having been eighty-four years of age at the time of her death. They were the parents of four children, of whom Mrs. Hagler was the second in order of birth, the others being Lue E., unmarried, who is living at Yellow Springs; William, who married Mary Sparrow and is farm- ing the old home place, and Frank, who died when twelve years of age. To Mr. and Mrs. Hagler have been born two daughters, Mary E., who died at the age of six years, and Anna Willetta, who married Irvin Hoffman and died in 1911, she then being twenty-five years of age.
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ISAAC HOSTETTER.
The late Isaac Hostetter, a veteran of the Civil War and for years a grain dealer in the village of Osborn, where he died in 1909, was a native of the old Keystone state, but had lived in Ohio since the days of his youth. He was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, October 31, 1833, a son of George Hostetter and wife, who came to this state with their family in 1849 and settled in Wayne township, Montgomery county, about seven years later moving over the line into the village of Osborn, where they spent the remainder of their lives.
George Hostetter also was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, a son of Henry Hostetter, who also was born in that county and who later moved to Adams county, in that same state, where he became a farmer and also became engaged in freighting goods to and from Pittsburg. Henry Hostetter's father was a native of Germany, who came to the American colonies with three of his brothers and settled in Pennsylvania. When the colonies declared their independence against British rule he and one of his brothers joined with the colonists and served as soldiers in behalf of the patriot cause during the continuance of the Revolutionary War. One of the other brothers took up arms in behalf of the British cause and fought . with the British army, but at the close of the war was sent across the border into Canada, where he was awarded a considerable tract of land by the Brit- ish government as a reward for his services in behalf of the same. George Hostetter and his wife were reared in the Mennonite faitl and after coming to Ohio continued their connection with that church. Both died at Osborn, George Hostetter being eighty-eight years of age at the time of his deatlı on August 5, 1887. His wife had preceded him more than twenty years, her death having occurred in 1866.
Isaac Hostetter was sixteen years of age when he came with his parents to Ohio in 1849, and he assisted his father in developing the farm upon which the family had settled in Wayne township, Montgomery county. When he was twenty-one years of age he took up carpentering and was for a while thus engaged at Dayton, but presently moved to Osborn, where he spent the remainder of his life. Isaac Hostetter was a member of the local company of the Ohio State Militia and in 1864 took part in the Civil War, going out in the hundred days service as a member of Company K, Fifty-fourth Regi- ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he saw service at New Creek, Green Springs and Moorefield, Virginia, and was mustered out on September 18, 1864. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Hostetter became engaged in the grain business at Osborn with his brother Emanuel, an association which continued for four years, after which he con- tinued in the business alone and was thus actively engaged in business until
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his retirement about 1899. After his retirement from business Isaac Hos- tetter continued to make his home in Osborn, where his widow is still living, and there he died in February, 1909. Besides being the owner of a property at Osborn, Mr. Hostetter was the owner of property at Dayton and at Springfield, which is still held by his widow. He was a Republican and for some years served as a member of the village council. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was for years class leader of the con- gregation with which he was affiliated. He also was a member of the Fair- field post of the Grand Army of the Republic. He and his wife were exten- sive travelers and had seen many of the chief points of interest in this country.
On October 4, 1865, Isaac Hostetter was united in marriage to Lutitia Leffel, who survives him and who, as noted above, is still residing at Osborn. Mrs. Hostetter was born on a farm in the vicinity of New Carlisle. in the neighboring county of Clark, a daughter of Peter and Eliza Jane (Branden- burg) Leffel, who came to this part of Ohio from Virginia. Peter Leffel helped to build the old national road and later took up farming, but presently left the farm and became engaged in the hotel business at Donnelsville; later, however, resuming his home on the farm, where he spent his last days. After his death his widow returned to New Carlisle, where her last days were spent. Mrs. Hostetter has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since she was twelve years of age.
JOSEPH BUCKWALTER.
Joseph Buckwalter, the owner of a farm in Caesarscreek township, located on rural mail route No. 9 out of Xenia, is a native of the Old Dominion, born in that section now comprised within the confines of Hamp- shire county, West Virginia, but has been a permanent resident of Ohio and of Greene county since 1872. He was born on July 19, 1841, son of Anthony and Mary (Buzzard) Buckwalter, whose last days were spent in West Vir- ginia.
Anthony Buckwalter was born at Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and there received an excellent education, becoming particularly proficient as a penman and a mathematician. In the days of his young manhood he began teaching school in that section of Virginia which during the Civil War demanded separate statehood and has since been known as West Virginia and there he married, established his home in Hampshire county, where he and his wife spent their last days, she dying at the age of seventy-six and he at the age of eighty-two. Anthony Buckwalter was reared a Whig and during the days of the Civil War was an ardent Union man. His wife was a member of the Presbyterian church. They were the parents of thirteen children, Mary, (21)
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Sarah, George, David, Elizabeth, Jacob, John, Susan, Daniel, Maria, Esther Ann, Virginia and Joseph, all of whom are now deceased save the subject of this biographical sketch. His brother John, who died in 1918, lived on the old home place in Hampshire county, West Virginia, up to his death.
Joseph Buckwalter was reared on the place just referred to and there received his schooling in the neighborhood "subscription" schools. In 1864, he then being twenty-three years of age, Mr. Buckwalter rode through to this section of Ohio on a three-year-old colt and made a visit to friends in Greene county, liking things here so well that he remained until the fall of 1865. In 1866 he returned to this county and here spent another year, at the end of which time he returned home, where he remained until 1872, when he and the two Keiter boys drove through from West Virginia with a wagon and five-horse team, the trip occupying twenty-one days, and Mr. Buckwalter since has been a resident of Greene county. In the spring of 1874 he married here and for a year thereafter he and his wife made their home on the place just north of the place on which they are now living. Mr. Buckwalter then bought the place where he is now living and established his home there, now the proprietor of a farm of two hundred and sixty acres. He is a Republican.
On May 26, 1874, Joseph Buckwalter was united in marriage to Esther Jane Keiter, who was born in Caesarscreek township, this county, a daugh- ter of Frederick and Mary (Weaver) Keiter, both of whoni were born in Virginia, the former in Hampshire county and the latter in Frederick county. the former being in what is now West Virginia and the latter in old Vir- ginia, and who came to Ohio after their marriage in 1855 and settled in Greene county. Upon coming to this county Frederick Keiter bought a tract of land in Caesarscreek township and there established his home, he and his wife spending the remainder of their lives there, both dying at the age of seventy-four years. They were members of the Old School Baptist church and their children were reared in that faith. There were twelve of these children, of whom Mrs. Buckwalter was the ninth in order of birth, the others being Elizabeth (deceased), Harrison (deceased), John (deceased), Mary (deceased), Margaret, widow of Elisha Bales of Jefferson township; Nancy (deceased), Susan, widow of Daniel Beam, of Caesarscreek township; George A. (deceased), Esther Jane, James and Edward (twins), of the neighboring county of Clinton, and Sarah Catherine, who married Asaph Haines, of Caesarscreek township. The first six of these children were born in Virginia and the last six in Greene county. Mr. and Mrs. Buck- walter have five children, James Keiter, Mary Jane, George William, Frank- lin M. and Clara Elizabeth, all of whom are at home. The family are at- tendants of the Baptist church.
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NIMROD ADAMS.
Nimrod Adams, a pioneer of Caesarscreek township, who died at his home in that township on June 2, 1864, and was buried in New Hope ceme- tery at Paintersville, was born in western Virginia and there grew to man- hood. He married Susan Linkhart, who also was born in the Old Dominion, and not long after his marriage he and his wife put their belongings in a wagon and drove through to Ohio, settling on a pioneer farm not far north of Paintersville, in this county, where they established their home. They became affiliated with the Methodist Protestant church at Paintersville. His widow survived him for more than twenty years, her death occurring in 1886, she then being eighty-one years of age. They were the parents of eight children, all but one of whom are now deceased, namely: Ellen, who married John Borton and lived in the neighboring county of Clinton; Julia, who married Wesley Stephens; Jane, who married John Collagen; Harriet, who married Jonathan Bales; Josephine, who remained at home with her parents and is now making her home with the widow of her brother Harvey; Jackson, who was twice married, his first wife having been Sarah Kildow, and his second, Eliza Cline; Joseph, who married Eunice Haines, and Har- vey, who died at his home north of Paintersville in the summer of 1908 and whose widow is still living there.
Harvey Adams was reared on the old Adams place in the vicinity of Paintersville and there received his schooling. He lived on the home place after his marriage and continued to make it his home until 1897, when he built the house in which his widow and his sister Josephine are now living, north of Paintersville. Mrs. Adams was born, Isabella Wilson, daughter of John and Nancy (Kildow) Wilson, in Caesarscreek township. John Wilson was a Virginian who came to Greene county in the days of his young man- hood and after his marriage established his home in Caesarscreek township, remaining there until his removal to Jefferson township, where he spent his last days. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Protestant church. They were the parents of seven children, namely: William, who is now living at Port William, in the neighboring county of Clinton ; Shannon, deceased; Isabella, widow of Harvey Adams: Joseph, deceased; Stephen, who is still living on the old Nelson home place; Abigail, wife of Allen Hite, of Jefferson township, and John Wesley, who died in the days of his boy- hood.
To Harvey and Isabella (Wilson) Adams were born four children. namely : Lydia, who, married Frank Woolery, who is farming the Adams' place, and has one son, Fred; Emma, who married Charles Powers and died
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leaving two children, Ora R. and Goldie L .; Elsie Laverna, who died at the age of fourteen years, and Nora Belle, who married Everett St. John and died at the age of twenty years. She was the mother of two children, both now deceased. Harvey Adams died on August 13, 1908. His widow and his sister, Josephine Adams, continue to make their home on the old Adams home place north of Paintersville. They are members of the Methodist Protestant church at Paintersville.
GEORGE L. CARTER.
George L. Carter, a veteran of the Civil War and one of the oldest citizens of Miami township, this county, was born in the neighboring county of Clinton and has been a resident of this part of Ohio all his life. He was born on February 6, 1838, son of Jesse and Malinda (Bentley) Carter, the latter of whom also was born in Clinton county, her parents having been among the pioneers of that county, and the former, in North Carolina.
Jesse Carter was born in 1806 and was six years of age when his par- ents moved from North Carolina and came to Ohio, settling in Clinton county in 1811. There Jesse Carter grew to manhood on a farm, acquired an excellent education and was for some years engaged in teaching school in his home neighborhood. After his marriage to Malinda Bentley he estab- lished his home on a farm and continued farming the rest of his life. He and his wife were the parents of ten children, namely: John, deceased; Mrs. Miriam Douglas, who is still living, now a resident of Whittier; in southern California; William, deceased; Rebecca, who died when two years of age; George L., the subject of this biographical sketch; Thomas C., deceased ; Mrs. Anna Osborne, of Plymouth, Kansas; Elizabeth, deceased; Wilson, deceased, and Cyrus E., who is living in the state of Oklahoma.
Reared on the home farm in Clinton, George L. Carter received his schooling in the neighborhood schools. He early began to turn his atten- tion to carpentering and steam engineering and has been more or less inter- ested in these vocations all his life, as a building contractor having erected many houses throughout this part of the state. When twenty-one years of age he became definitely employed as a steam engineer and three years later came to Greene county, working for a while in Xenia and then in the north- ern part of the county and was in the latter section when, in 1863, he enlisted for service in the Union army and went to the front as a member of Company K, First Ohio Heavy Artillery, with which command he served for two years, or until the close of the Civil War. Upon the completion of
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his military service Mr. Carter resumed his occupation in the northern part of Greene county, married there and not long afterward, in 1866, returned to Xenia, where he became employed as a stationary engineer for the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company and later became connected with the Xenia fire department for over four years, then was associated with the county infirm- ary, this latter connection continuing for five years. After eleven years of residence at Xenia Mr. Carter returned to the farm he had previously bought in Miami township and after his marriage in 1886 established his home there and has ever since made that place his home. In addition to the general farming operations Mr. Carter has carried on on his place, he also was for years actively engaged as a building contractor and many houses hereabout bear the marks of his handiwork. Though now in his eightieth year, Mr. Carter retains much of his former physical vigor and is perhaps as well- preserved an octogenarian as there is in this part of the state. He is the oldest living Mason in Greene county, having been made a master Mason in 1862, and during the time of his residence in Xenia never missed a meet- ing of the lodge there; his interest in Masonic affairs is still warmly maintained, though of late years it has not been expedient for him to keep up as close in attendance on lodge meetings as in former days. In his political views Mr. Carter is an "independent."
On January 2, 1866, George L. Carter was united in marriage to Margaret Elizabeth Jamison, who was born in Miami township, this county, and who died on December 20, 1917. She was a daughter of George W. and Sarah (McClellan) Jamison, the latter of whom was born in that same township, on the farm now known as the Gerhardt place, which her grand- father, John McClellan, secured in 1808 in exchange for a tract of govern- ment land he previously had entered on the other side of the road. George W. Jamison was a native of the state of Kentucky, born in the Georgetown neighborhood about 1812. He became a farmer in Miami township and the farm which he owned is now owned and operated by his son, William H. Jamison, only brother of Mrs. Carter. The mother of these children died in 1892 and the father survived her but two years, his death occurring in 1894. To Mr. and Mrs. Carter three children were born, Effie and Myrmeta, who are deceased, and William C., a Greene county farmer, who married Anna Ryman, and has two children, Barbara E. and Rachel A., the former born on September 7, 1911, and the latter, November 21, 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Carter celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1916 and the occasion was made one of general felicitation on the part of their many friends throughout the community. Mr. Carter is a member of the Friends church and his wife was a member of the Christian church.
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SAMUEL A. BROWN.
Samuel A. Brown, superintendent of the electric-light plant at James- town, which plant he installed and continued as proprietor of the same until it recently was taken over by the Dayton Power and Light Company, was born on a farm in Fairfield county, Ohio, on January 12, 1852, son of Capt. Peter and Elizabeth (Stuckey) Brown, the former of whom was born and reared in Pennsylvania, of Pennsylvania-Dutch stock, the latter a native of Fairfield county, Ohio.
Capt. Peter Brown, who gave his services to his country both in the Mexican War and in the Civil War, was born in Northumberland county. Pennsylvania, February 4, 1817, a son of George Peter and Catherine (Kuntz) Brown, also natives of that same county, who spent all their lives there. Captain Brown came to Ohio at the age of thirteen and became en- gaged in farming in Fairfield county, where he was living when the Mexi- can War broke out. He rendered service in that conflict and when the Civil War broke out he raised Company B of the Forty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and went to the front as captain of that company, a year later being discharged on a physician's certificate of disability. Though he had been farming, Captain Brown had a good working knowledge of the tailor trade and after the war followed that trade in Franklin county, re- maining there until his retirement, when he moved to Dayton, where he spent his last days, his death occurring on October 7, 1894. Captain Brown was twice married. On June 15, 1841, he was united in marriage to Mar- garet Ellen McConnell, who died on March 11, 1846. To that union were born two children, Emma C. and Wallace K., both of whom died young. In 1850 Captain Brown married Elizabeth Stuckey, who was born in Fair- field county, Ohio, June 28, 1826, a daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Hensel) Stuckey, who were born in Pennsylvania, of Pennsylvania-Dutch stock. She survived her husband a little more than eight years, her death occurring on December 16, 1902. To that union were born seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the first-born, the others being as follows : Elizabeth, who married Alonzo Trimmer and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased; Charles Edward, who is engaged in farming near Bowling Green, Ohio; George U., who is now living in Chicago, where he is con- nected with the offices of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Frank P., who is engaged in the parcel-delivery business at Dayton; Rosa, now living at Dayton, the widow of John Gilliland, and Milton, who died in infancy.
Samuel A. Brown's youth was spent on a farm, his schooling being obtained in a district school in the neighborhood of Canal Winchester, in
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