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connection is a numerous one in the present generation. Samuel Collins grew to manhood in this county and married Rebecca McClellan, a daughter of John McClellan, another of the pioneers of Greene county. After his marriage he established his home on a farm in the vicinity of the old Col- lins place and spent the rest of his life there. He and his wife were the parents of eight children, of whom Mrs. Jobe was the first-born, the others being William H., John Q., Lydia, James M., Mary Jane, who married Jolin D. M. Stewart, Isabella, who married S. K. Williamson, and Anna Rebecca, who married R. W. Moore. To John H. and Nancy (Collins) Jobe were born six children, five sons and one daughter, of whom but three are now living, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Homer H. Jobe, who is living on the old home place in Xenia township, and George E., who resides in Cedarville township. The others were Jolin Riley, Laura B. and Samuel, the latter of whom died at the age of sixteen monthis.
Charles L. Jobe spent his youth on the home farm in Xenia township and received his elementary schooling in the district schools of that neigh- borhood, supplementing the same by attendance at the Xenia city schools, after which he took a two-years course at Wooster University. He then entered the dry-goods store of Millen, Jobe & Company at Xenia, the store at that time having been located at the corner of Main and Whiteman streets and his uncle, J. H. Harvey Jobe, was one of the proprietors. Two years later he transferred his connection to the Hutchinson & Gibney dry-goods store and was thus connected, off and on, for five years, at the end of which time he returned to his first employment, the firm at that time being E. Millen & Company, his uncle having withdrawn from the firm. Upon return- ing to the Millen store Mr. Jobe was made the buyer and later became man- ager of the store, a position he continued to occupy until E. Millen & Com- pany closed out their business in 1888, when Mr. Jobe and H. C. Hardy started a dry-goods store and took over the Millen organization, doing busi- ness under the firm name of Jobe, Hardy & Company. Two years later Mr. Hardy, who had come over here from Columbus, withdrew from the firm and Mr. Jobe's brother, J. Riley Jobe, became a member of the firm and thus continued until his death on September 20, 1910, the business being carried on under the firm name of the Jobe Brothers Company, which name Mr. Jobe has continued since the death of his brother. Mr. Jobe took over the interest held by his brother after the latter's death, so that since 1910 he has been sole proprietor of the store. In August, 1890, the location of the Jobe store was changed from its old stand at Main and Whiteman streets to its present location at 23 East Main street and in the fall of 1907 the quarters were enlarged, the store now occupying a three-story building forty- five by one hundred and fifty-five feet in dimension, the first and second floors being used for retail purposes and the third floor for stock rooms.
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When Mr. Jobe first became connected with the business the store was given over to dry goods and carpets, but in 1894 he eliminated the carpets and put in millinery, later adding women's ready-to-wear goods. In March, 1899, a stock of women's and children's shoes was added and now the store car- ries every class of wearing apparel for women and children, the capacity of the store having been more than quadrupled since Mr. Jobe became connected with it. In 1914 he put in a new set of fixtures.
On September 9, 1886, Charles L. Jobe was united in marriage to Mar- garet Moore, who was born in Xenia, daughter of John and Mary (Monroe) Moore, both now deceased, the former of whom was for years a Xenia merch- ant, and to this union two children have been born, daughters both, Helen, who completed her schooling at Wilson College at Chambersburg, Pennsyl- vania, and is at home, and Margaret, who also completed her schooling at Wilson College and afterward married Karl Bloom, who is assisting Mr. Jobe in the management of the store. The Jobes reside on East Market street. their home occupying the lot on which formerly stood the house in which Mrs. Jobe was born. They are members of the First Presbyterian church. Mr. Jobe is a Republican ..
WILLIAM H. BREWER.
William H. Brewer, retired farmer of Miami township and one of the oldest native sons of Greene county now living in this county, was born on a farm a mile and a half south of Yellow Springs and has lived in that neighborhood all his life, a resident for more than fifty-five years on the farm on which he is now living, a mile and a half southwest of Clifton. He was born on August 20, 1826, son of John G. and Sarah ( Miller ) Brewer, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of the Blue Ridge coun- try in Virginia, who were married in this county, on the John Gregg farm, and who were the parents of nine children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being George, Rebecca, Piny. John, Charles, Sarah, Louella and Russell, all of whom are now deceased save William H. and his brothers John and Russell and his sister Sarah.
Reared on the home farm south of Yellow Springs, William H. Brewer received his schooling in the pioneer schools of that neighborhood and from the days of his boyhood was trained in practical farming, a vocation he fol- lowed until his retirement about ten years ago. For ten or twelve years he also owned and operated a threshing-rig during seasons. During the early '50s Mr. Brewer married and began farming on his own account, in 1862 taking possession of the farm on which he is still living and has ever since made his home there. Not long after moving to that place Mr. Brewer
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enlisted for service in the Civil War, a recruit in the hundred-days service, and was attached to the Army of the Potomac, doing service in West Virginia, and was thus connected with the army for one hundred and sixteen days before being mustered out.
Mr. Brewer's wife, who before her marriage was Sarah Bell, died on April 2, 1915. To William H. and Sarah (Bell) Brewer were born four children, namely: Adam, who lives on the same farm with his father and who married Ella Wilson and has three children, Belle, Ernest and Nellie; John, now living in Oklahoma, who has been married three times and by his first wife, Nettie McHatton, had two children, Mac and Bessie, and by his second wife, Emma Sommers, had two children, Marietta and Saralı ; Florence, deceased, and Rebecca, who died when a child.
HENRY FETZ.
Henry Fetz, merchant at Xenia, the proprietor of a grocery store at the southwest corner of Second and Detroit streets, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Xenia since the days of his infancy. He was born in the neighborhood of Cincinnati on October 14. 1855, son of Paul and Elizabeth (Lippert) Fetz, both of whom were born in Germany and the latter of whom is still living, being now in the ninetieth year of her age. Paul Fetz was a young man when he came to this country about 1850 and located at Xenia, where he died in 1902. He was married in Cincinnati and he and his wife were the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being George P., who lives at Xenia: Katherine, who married William Ambuhl and is also living in Xenia; Charles, who died in 1916, and William, who is now living at Denver, Colorado.
Henry Fetz was but one year of age when his parents located at Xenia and his schooling was completed in the schools of that city. During the days of his young manhood he was variously engaged until the year 1880, when, in association with his brother, George P. Fetz, he opened a grocery store at the corner he now occupies. This partnership continued for twenty- three years, at the end of which time George P. Fetz retired and since then Henry Fetz has been carrying on the business at the old stand alone.
On May 3, 1883, Henry Fetz was united in marriage to Matilda Feurle and to this union have been born three children, namely: Paul G., who is married and who is connected with his father in the grocery business; Alma, who married Leon Spahr, of Xenia, and has one child, a daughter, Eliza- beth Alexander, and Eda Elizabeth, who married Philip W. Prugh, of Xenia, and is now residing in Chicago.
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FRANK HUPMAN.
Frank Hupman, a former farmer and carpenter, now living retired at Xenia, was born on a farm in Spring Valley township, this county, Decem- ber 26, 1852, son of John and Jane (Peterson) Hupman, both of whom were members of pioneer families in this county, the latter having been born in this county, a member of the Peterson family which became established in the Caesarscreek settlement back in the early days of the settlement of the county.
John Hupman was born in Augusta county, Virginia, in 1821, a son of John Hupman and wife, who came to this state with their family and settled on a farm between Enon and Springfield, where they spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of eight children, Samuel. Kate, Fannie, David, James, Sarah, Peter and John. The latter was but a child when he came with his parents to this part of Ohio. After his marriage he located on a farm on the Wilmington pike in Caesarscreek township, this county, later moving to a farm two and a half miles north of Spring Valley, in the township of that name, where he remained until 1852, when he bought a farm on the Bellbrook pike, in Xenia township, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there in 1880. For many years he operated a threshing-machine in his neighborhood. He was a Democrat and by relig- ious persuasion was a member of the Reformed church. John Hupman was twice married. His first wife, Jane Peterson, died in 1869 and in the spring of 1875 he married Amanda O. Brewer, of Enon, who still survives him. To this latter union was born one son, John Edgar, who was killed by an explosion while working in a powder mill in Illinois in 1899. By his first marriage John Hupman was the father of the following children: Celia, now deceased, who was the wife of Thomas Moore, a Xenia undertaker; Emma, wife of J. A. Webb, of West Jefferson; Frank, the subject of this biographical sketch; a son who died in infancy ; Charles, a farmer of Beaver- creek township; J. S. C., who is now living in California, and Harvey C., a resident of Xenia, where he is engaged in the paper-hanging business.
Frank Hupman was reared on the farm and completed his schooling in the old Xenia College, spending two years there under the instruction of Professor Smith. He remained at home until his marriage when twenty- seven years of age and for two years thereafter made his home on a farm on the Wilmington pike in Caesarscreek township and then, his father mean- while having died, he returned to the home farm and was in charge of the operation of that place for several years, at the end of which time he moved to the Carothers farm on the Cincinnati pike, having leased that place for five years. A year later, however, he gave up the farm and became engaged in the drayage business in Xenia and thus continued engaged for nine
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months, at the end of which time he resumed farming, moving to the John Weaver farm, where he remained until his retirement in 1910 and return to Xenia, where he since has made his home. Upon his return to Xenia Mr. Hupman became more or less engaged in carpentering, but is now content to regard himself as "retired" from the active labors of life. He was the owner of two farms in Xenia township and still owns a farm of one hundred and five acres on the Cincinnati pike, a mile and a half out of town. Mr. Hup- man is a Democrat, a member of the Reformed church and a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Xenia.
Mr. Hupman has been twice married. On June 3, 1880, he was united in marriage to Alice Compton, who was born in Spring Valley township, daughter of Eber Compton and wife, the former of whom was a son of Henry and Catherine (Mock) Compton, members of pioneer families in Greene county, Henry Compton having been a son of Stephen and Dinah (Millhouse) Compton, who came here with their family from North Caro- lina in the early days of the settlement of this part of Ohio, and to that union were born two sons, Orville C., born in 1882, who died when nine years of age, and another who died in infancy. The mother of these children died in 1886 and in 1890 Mr. Hupman married Olivia A. Weaver, who was born in the neighboring county of Clinton, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Boots) Weaver. Mr. and Mrs. Hupman are members of the Reformed church.
WARREN HAMILTON GLOTFELTER.
The Glotfelters have been represented in Greene county since the year 1816, when Adam and Elizabeth Glotfelter came here from Somerset county, Pennsylvania, with their family, and settled on a tract of land in Beavercreek township, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Adam Glotfelter lived to be ninety years of age. His death occurred on December 21, 1860, and he was buried in Mt. Zion cemetery. Solomon Glotfelter, one of the sons of this pioneer couple, was born in Pennsylvania on August 24, 1804, and was twelve years of age when he came with his parents to Greene county. He grew up on the home farm and was married in his nineteenth year, thereafter settling in a log house on a forty-acre tract of land in Sugarcreek township, the place on which the subject of this sketch is now living, and in time came to be the owner of about three hundred acres. On that place he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there on August 7, 1880. Reared a Whig, Solomon Glotfelter became a Republican upon the organization of that party. He was a member of the Reformed church.
Solomon Glotfelter was twice married. On April 8, 1824, he was
WARREN H. GLOTFELTER.
MRS. ANNA S. GLOTFELTER.
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united in marriage to Sarah John and to that union were born six chil- dren, the last survivor of whom was William Glotfelter, who had moved to Menier, in Tazewell county, Illinois. Following the death of the mother of these children Solomon Glotfelter married Lydia Gerhard, who was born in Liberty township, Frederick county, Maryland, July 9, 1815, and to that union were born three children, the subject of this sketch having an elder brother, Henry Clay Glotfelter, born on August 22, 1844, who served as a corporal with the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, during the hundred-days service in connection with the Civil War, married Catherine Benham and made his home at Dayton, and a sister, Ruffina, wife of Samuel Benham, of Goshen, Indiana. Mrs. Lydia Glotfelter survived her husband for more than twenty years, her death oc- curring in October, 1902, and she was buried in the Mt. Zion cemetery.
Warren Hamilton Glotfelter, son of Solomon and Lydia (Gerhard) Glotfelter, was born on the farm on which he is now living, August 1. 1855. He received his schooling in the neighboring district school and after his marriage established his home on the old home place and has ever since resided there, though for some years past he has been living practically retired from the active labors of the farm. Politically, Mr. Glotfelter is a Republican. He is a member of the local lodge of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics at Bellbrook and formerly was a member of . the Xenia lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His wife is a member of the Reformed church.
On October 3, 1882, at Alpha, this county, Warren Hamilton Glotfelter was united in marriage to Anna S. Volkenand, the Rev. David Winter offi- ciating. Mrs. Glotfelter also is a native of Greene county, born at Alpha on February 20, 1856, daughter of Herman and Elizabeth (Broat) Volkenand. natives of Germany, who were married in this county. Herman Volkenand was about twenty-three years of age when he came to this country and came on out to Ohio, locating in Greene county. He was for some time after coming here employed at various occupations, but after his marriage bought a small tract of land on the river in Beavercreek township and settled down to farming, in time enlarging his holdings until he had two farms. His wife died in 1898 and he survived her about seven years, his death occurring in 1905. They were the parents of seven children, of whom Mrs. Glot- felter was the second in order of birth. Mr. and Mrs. Glotfelter have four children, Herman Ray, Clay Roy, Katy May and Frank Mckinley, all of whom are married and have families of their own, Mr. and Mrs. Glot- felter having ten grandchildren. Herman Ray Glotfelter was born on July 16, 1883, and on November 19, 1903, was united in marriage to Susanna Mundabaugh, to which union three children have been born, Mildred May.
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born on September II, 1904; Herman Ellsworth, August II, 1907, and Margaretta Pearl, April 3, 1914. Clay Roy Glotfelter was born on July 26, 1885, and on September 14, 1905, married Bessie R. Overholser, to which union four children have been born, Anna Evelyn, born on August 18, 1906; Clyde Roy, January 21, 1908; Wilford Edgar, March 12, 191I, and Evaline, who died as an infant. Katy May Glotfelter was born on August 10, 1887, and on March 27, 1907, married Harry V. Rackstraw, to which union one child has been born, a son. David Warren, born on September 20, 1915. Frank Mckinley Glotfelter was born on April 20, 1893, and on December 23, 1914, married May Sidenstick, to which union two children have been born, Ethel May, who died on October 8, 1915, and Paul William, born in February, 1917.
KARLH. BULL.
Karlh Bull, editor and publisher of the Cedarville Herald, was born at Cedarville and has lived there all his life. He was born on April 1, 1878, son of Lancaster Granville and Emmazetta (Barber) Bull, the latter of whom, also was born at Cedarville, January 16, 1849, daughter of Martin M. and Nancy (Townsley) Barber, both members of pioneer families in this county, and is still living there.
Lancaster Granville Bull, who died at his home in Cedarville on Janu- ary 16, 1914, also was a native of this county, born at Goes Station on June 22, 1850, son of Robert Scott and Ann (Reid) Bull, both of whom also were born in Greene county, members of pioneer families, and all his life was spent here. To him and his wife were born three sons, Karllı Bull having two brothers, Frank B. Bull, who for some years has been connected with the staff of the Indianapolis . Star, and Ralph E. Bull, now living at Seattle, Washington, with offices in the White Building in that city. Else- where in this volume there is set out at considerable length a story relating to the Bull family in this county and also to the Townsley family, both these families having been represented here for more than a hundred years.
Karlh Bull was reared at Cedarville, was graduated from the high school there in 1898 and then took a course in Cedarville College. In April, 1899, he and Robert J. Harper took over the Cedarville Herald and when, in the following year, Mr. Harper retired from the firm, Mr. Bull assumed sole control of the paper and has since continued as editor and publisher of the same. Mr. Bull is a Republican; fraternally, is affiliated with the local lodge of the Masons at Cedarville and he and his wife are members of the United Presbyterian church.
On January 5, 1911, at Cedarville, Mr. Bull was united in marriage to
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Dora Siegler, who was born in that village on August 9, 1877, daughter of Jacob and Carrie (Haller) Siegler, who were the parents of three children, Mrs. Bull having a brother, George F. Siegler, and a sister, Mrs. Charlotte Watt. Mr. and Mrs. Bull have one child, a daughter, Mary Eleanor, born on April 10, 1914.
CHARLES I. CRAMER.
Ever since the first decade of the past century the Cramers have been represented in Sugarcreek township, John and Margaret (Hoover) Cramer, great-grandparents of the subject of this sketch, having come up here into the valley of the Little Miami from Kentucky in the year 1807 and established their home on a farm of one hundred and eighty-six acres a half mile from the present village of Bellbrook, where they reared their family. Charles I. Cramer, one of the numerous descendants in the fourth generation of this pioneer couple, was born in the house in which he is now living, on the old Cramer homestead place founded by his great-grandfather, and has lived there all his life. He was born on May 4, 1881, son of John H. and Laura L. (Irvin) Cramer, both of whom also were born in this county and the latter of whom is still living. The late John H. Cramer was born on a farm one mile south of Bellbrook in 1852 and was a farmer all his life, after his mar- riage locating on his grandfather's old place, the place now occupied by his son. To him and his wife were born four children, Anna, who died in infancy ; Ethel, who married Albert Davis, of Bellbrook, and died in 1915; Charles I., the subject of this sketch, and Ada B., widow of the late Raymond Crowl, now living with her mother in Bellbrook.
Charles I. Cramer was reared on the farm on which he is now living and where he was born, and received his schooling in the schools of the adjacent village of Bellbrook, completing all but the closing quarter of the last year in the high-school course. After his marriage, he at that time being not yet twenty-one years of age, he established his home on the home farm and has continued to make that his place of residence. In addition to his general farming Mr. Cramer has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock.
On October 30, 1901, Charles I. Cramer was united in marriage to Maud K. Marshall, who also was born in Sugarcreek township, daughter of John and Harriet (James) Marshall, both members of old families in this county, and to this union one child has been born, a son, John Howard, born on June 25, 1902. Mr. Cramer is a member of the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics at Bell- . brook and he and his wife are both members of the lodge of the Pythian Sisters at that place.
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ELLSWORTH GRANT LOWRY.
Ellsworth Grant Lowry, proprietor of a garage at Cedarville, where he also is engaged in electric-equipment contracting, former director and man- ager of the plant of the Cedarville Light and Power Company, former member of the city council and former member of the school board, is a native of West Virginia, but has been a resident of Cedarville for thirty-three years. He was born on a farm in Berkeley county, West Virginia. December 22, 1864, son of Samuel Smith and Sarah C. (Manor) Lowry, both of whom were born in that county, where they spent all their lives.
Samuel Smith Lowry. was a farmer, a Republican and a member of the Presbyterian church. He died in 1882 at the age of sixty-five years, and his widow survived him for eight years, her death occurring in 1890. They were the parents of ten children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the eighth in order of birth, the others being the following: Margaret, who died in Kansas; Hannah, who also died in Kansas; James M., who is farming in Kansas; Mary, who is still living on the old home place in West Virginia : John, who is farming in the vicinity of Waynesville. in the neighboring county of Warren, in this state; Joseph, who years ago became a clothing merchant at Cedarville and whose last days were spent there: Martha, who is still living in Berkeley county, West Virginia, and Minnie, who lives in Kansas.
Ellsworth Grant Lowry remained at home until he was about eighteen years of age, receiving his schooling in the schools of his home neighbor- hood, and then, in 1881, came to Ohio to join his brother, who some time before had located at Cedarville. For a while after coming here he worked at farm labor and then became engaged in the office of the S. K. Mitchell Company, lumber, at Cedarville, and was thus engaged for seven years. In 1896, Mr. Lowry became interested in the promotion of the movement to give Cedarville an electric-light plant and set about the organization of a company with that end in view, his efforts leading to the organization of the Cedarville Light and Power Company, with the following officers and stockholders : President, G. F. Sigler ; vice-president, W. J. Tarbox, and directors. M. I. Marsh, D. S. Ervin, O. L. Smith, L. H. Sullenberger, Dr. John Dixon and E. G. Lowry. Upon the organization of the company Mr. Lowry was given charge of construction and after the plant was erected he continued in charge of the same until it was sold to the Dayton Power and Light Company. Dur- ing the 'gos Mr. Lowry also was for a time engaged in the hotel business at Cedarville. When the lighting plant changed hands he opened a garage and automobile-repair establishment and has since been engaged in that business, also filling contracts for installing electric-light equipment. Mr. Lowry is a
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