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SAMUEL P. TRUMPER.
It is the progressive, wide-awake man of affairs who makes the real history of a community. His influence as a potential factor in the body politic is difficult to estimate. The examples that such men furnish of patience, purpose and steadfast integrity illu- strate what is within the power of each to accomplish. There is always a measure of satisfaction in referring, even in a casual way, to their achievements. The venerable Samuel P. Trumper, a retired citizen of London, Ohio, is a man who has lived a life of a good citizen, especially in rearing his family and providing them with every educational advantage possible during the time in which they lived.
Samuel P. Trumper was born on May 10, 1838, in Fayette county, Ohio, and is the son of Lewis and Marjorie ( Boggs) Trumper, natives of New York and Ohio respectively. Marjorie (Boggs) Trumper was the daughter of pioneer parents, who came from the Keystone state. Lewis and Marjorie (Boggs) Trumper were married in Ohio. He was a farmer by occupation, and died after attaining the age of eighty-two years. His widow survived him and lived to be ninety-five years old. Both died at Bloomingburg, in Fayette county. Of their four sons and two daughters, Samuel P. Trumper is the only surviving child. One of the sons. William, was a teacher for many years in Madison county, Ohio, but became a blacksmith at Newport, where he lived ten years. He died in Fayette county, Ohio. Another sou, Joseph, was a carpenter by trade. Hiram L. was a teacher, and was employed in Madison and Fayette counties. One of the daughters died unmarried at the age of more than eighty years. The other was married and died at Van Wert, Ohio.
Samuel P. Trumper was reared on the farm and educated in the district schools of the Buckeye state, which he attended in the winter. He began teaching before he was twenty-one years old in the district schools, and was engaged in this profession for about ten years in Fayette and Madison connties, Ohio. In the meantime, he took a com- mercial course and completed it. After coming to Madison county, he was employed during the summer as a farmer and during the winter as a teacher. In 1880, Mr. Trumper came to London, Ohio.
During the Civil War, Samuel P'. Trumper had enlisted in Company C. Sixtieth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served in West Virginia principally but was captured at Harper's Ferry, and, after his parole, sent to Chicago. During his service as a soldier, he rose from the ranks as a private to second lieutenant. and was discharged as a second lieutenant. For a time, he had command of Company C, Sixtieth Ohio. at Harper's Ferry. Mr. Trumper is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and is past commander of Lyon's Post, at London. For many years he has made it a habit to attend the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Having been elected to the office of county recorder in the fall of 1880. Mr. Trumper came to London on January 1, 1881, and served four successive terms in this office of three years each. He was elected each time as a Republican. During his tenure he adopted the Campbell improved system of indexing. Later. he was for four years deputy county treasurer under Benjamin Emery. Since that time, he has not been employed in any county office. He has served for two terms, however, as a member of the London council. He also served seven years as a justice of the peace.
Mr. and Mrs. Trumper were married in Fayette county. Mrs. Trumper, before her marriage. was Maria Louisa Hidy, a native of Fayette county. Of their children, Frank, who is a graduate of the London high school, was for several years a teacher in Madi- son county. He is now. however, the manager of an automobile company at Louisville, Kentucky. May, who graduated from the Granville Female College, is also a teacher by profession. Formerly, she was principal of the high school at Kallspell, Montana.
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She was also county superintendent eight years at Kalispell, Montana, but is now a student at the University of California, located at Berkeley. Minnie, the widow of Dr. S. A. Noland, of London, is a graduate of the Granville Female College and is a teacher in the public schools at London. Samuel, from the time he was a small boy, has been employed by the American Tobacco Company at Louisville, Columbus, Indianapolis and New York City. Still later, he was employed by the British-American Tobacco Company, and during the past three years has been located in the home office of the British- American Tobacco Company in London, England. He has been sent twice by his firm to China and other countries in the interests of the business. Bessie, the youngest child, is a graduate of Dennison University, and is a teacher in the primary grade at London. Two of Mr. Trumper's daughters hold life certificates as teachers.
Mr. and Mrs. Trumper have given their children every educational opportunity. He is ever alive to the opportunities of the future, and, from any point of view, must be regarded as one of the best citizens of Madison county.
WILLIAM E. FITZGERALD.
Mature judgment after long association has formed the basis of public sentiment in favor of William E. Fitzgerald, one of the prosperous farmers of Canaan township, and one whose abilities are recognized by his fellow citizens. His experience in farm life has been devoted to the practical study of scientific agriculture, and every advan- tageous point in that direction has been made use of, the result of which has been a gratifying success.
William E. Fitzgerald, farmer, West Jefferson. Madison county, was born on April 27. 1882, in Gillivan, Ohio, and is a son of David D. and Johanna (Daley) Fitzgerald, of Irish lineage. He was educated in the public schools and remained at home until he went into business for himself in West Jefferson, from which place he moved to Grove City. finally locating at his present residence. Mr. Fitzgerald's home place is located about five miles north of West Jefferson, and is known as the "White Oak Farm." Politically, he is a strong believer in the principles of the Democratic party, and has always felt a deep interest in the progress of his township. In religion, he is a devout member of the Catholic church at West Jefferson. He divides his time between general farming and the raising of pure bred Duroc-Jersey hogs, some of which are highly pedigreed.
David D. and Johanna (Daley) Fitzgerald, were both born in County Cork. Ireland. Mrs. Fitzgerald came to America with her parents quite a while before her husband came, as a young man, and settled near Plain City. They were the parents of thirteen children, nine of whom are living in 1915: David A., who lives in West Jefferson; Edward J., who lives on the Gillivan pike ; Nora, who is single and lives in West Jeffer- son ; Ellen lives in Gillivan, and is the widow of Malachi Riley; Hannah became the wife of P. C. Gainard, of Summerford; Mollie, who married Frank Ryan, of Columbus; Julia, who is now Mrs. Francis Graham of Columbus: Elizabeth was married to Arthur Murphy, of Columbus; and William E., the subject of this sketch.
William E. Fitzgerald was united in marriage. November 24. 1908. with Ella Harbage, daughter of Joseph and Rachel (Scott) Harbage of West Jefferson, the former of whom died on October 21. 1908, and the latter is still living at West Jefferson. Three children have been born to this union. Joseph, born in November, 1909: Stanley, January 10, 1912; and William V., August 21, 1915.
Mrs. Fitzgerald was first married on June 17, 1900, to S. W. Lyday. who was born near Harrisburg. Ohio. He was a blacksmith and died in October. 1904. There were two children by the union: Margaret, died in infancy ; Seymour. born in June. 1902.
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Mr. Fitzgerald has not been so wrapped up in his business affairs that he could not give the proper amount of his time and attention to his family, to whom he is a kind and attentive husband, and a loving and devoted father.
CARY JONES.
For more than a quarter of a century, Cary Jones, attorney-at-law, has been prac- ticing his profession at Loudon, county seat of Madison county. For a period of six years, Mr. Jones served this county as prosecuting attorney, during which time he was called on to prosecute numerous cases of more than ordinary importance, and has made a name as a lawyer that is known far beyond the confines of his home county.
Cary Jones was born on a farm one mile east of Jeffersonville, in Fayette county, Ohio, on September 10, 1862, son of Dr. William H. and Olivia (Hidy) Jones, the former a native of Wales and the latter, of Fayette county, her father having been one of the first settlers of that county, having arrived there from Virginia on horse- back and settling on Paint creek at a very early day in the settlement of that section. Dr. William H. Jones was the son of William and Jane Jones, natives of Wales, where the father followed farming and milling and there spent his entire life. Upon his death, his widow, with two of her children, started for the United States, following her son William, who was already established here. The brave mother died at sea, however, and the orphaned children were compelled to continue their journey alone. They safely reached Cincinnati, where their brother, William, tenderly cared for them until they reached years of maturity. These children were David and Jane, later Mrs. Burnham. Two other children remained in Wales. On the maternal side, Cary Jones is descended from Joseph and Mary (Carr) Hidy, the former a native of Phil- adelphia, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Virginia, he of German descent and she of Irish extraction, who located in Fayette county, Ohio, at an early day, becoming exten- sive landowners. Both Joseph Hidy and his wife died in Fayette county, both having lived to advanced ages, she having been eighty-seven years of age at the time of her death and he, ninety-seven. They were the parents of ten children, Joseph, Humph- rey, Urban, Isaac, William, Mrs. Olivia Jones, Mrs. Margaret Beatty, Mrs. Louisa Tway. Mrs. Sidney Brock and Mrs. Clarissa Wendel.
Dr. William II. Jones for many years was one of the best-known physicians in Fayette county, he having continued his practice there until he was near the three- score-and-ten stage of his career, after which he retired to his farm, where he died at the age of seventy-eight, his widow surviving him but a year or two. They were the parents of six children, namely : Mrs. Mary J. Irwin, wife of Luther M. Irwin, who lives on the old home farm near Jeffersonville, this state; William Hidy, who lives near the town of Merom, in Sullivan county, Indiana : Ihumphrey, a well-known attorney, banker and farmer, of Bloomingburg. Ohio, with offices at Washington C. H .; Dr. Emma O. McCormack, a physician, wife of Richard McCormack, of Columbus, Ohio; Cary. the immediate subject of this sketch, and Mrs. Minnie Reading, wife of Dallas Reading, living near Jeffersonville, this state.
Upon completing the course in the public schools at Jeffersonville, Cary Jones supplemented the same by a comprehensive course at Buchtel College. now known as Akron University, Akron, Ohio, from which excellent institution he was graduated with the class of 1887. Thus equipped by preparatory study, he entered the Cincin- nati Law School. with a view to preparing himself for the practice of the profession to which he had decided to devote his life, and was graduated from that institution in 1889. Upon receiving his diploma, he came to Madison county and on July 1, 1889, opened an office for the practice of law in London, the county seat, and has been in continuous practice there ever since. Not long after locating in London, Mr. Jones
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was elected city solicitor, but did not complete the term for which he was elected, being compelled to resign the same to take up the duties connected with the office of prosecuting attorney, to which he was elected on the Republican ticket in 1892. Mr. Jones was re-elected in the next county campaign and served two terms, a period of six years. During his incumbency of the prosecutor's office, Mr. Jones was called on to represent the state in the trial of several homicide cases, including the noted Parnell case, one of the most celebrated trials in the history of the Madison courts.
On October 27, 1897, Cary Jones was united in marriage to Bessie Gamlin, who was born and reared in London, this county, daughter of William Gamlin, a prom- inent resident of that city, and to this union five children have been born, Catherine Olivia, William Humphrey, Norman Carl, Marian Virginia, and Helen Eloise. Mr. and Mrs. Jones take a warm interest in the good works of this community and are among the most active promoters of the same, their influence being felt in many helpful ways hereabout.
Mr. Jones is a Mason of high degree, having attained to the rank of Knight Tem- plar, and takes much interest in that order. He also is a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge at London. As indicated above, he is a Republican and for years has been regarded as one of the leaders in that party in Madison county. Mr. Jones owns a fine farm in. Range township, this county, and also looks after several farms for clients. He has an extensive practice and is generally looked upon as one of the county's most substantial citizens.
W. E. HOFFHINES, D. D. S.
Among the professional men of this county there are few who have a wider acquaintance in the county, or a higher standing among their professional associates than Dr. W. E. Hoffhines, the well-known dentist, of Lebanon, who, during the more than ten years of his residence and practice there not only has succeeded in building up a fine practice, but has earned the respect and esteem of all who know him. .
W. E. Hoffhines was born in the pleasant village of Ashville, Pickaway county, Ohio, on January 5, 1878, son of P. H. and Catherine (Noecker) Hoffhines, both natives of the same county. P. H. Hoffhines, for many years engaged in the mercantile business at Ashville, but now a resident of Columbus, this state, where he is engaged in the real-estate business, is the son of George Hoffhines, who still lives at Ashville, at the age of eighty-five years. To P. H. and Catherine (Noecker) Hoffhines there were born but two children, both sons, the subject of this sketch having a brother, J. W. Hoffhines, who is prominently connected with the auditing department of the National Cash Register Company, with headquarters at Detroit, Michigan.
Reared at Ashville, W. E. Hoffhines received his elementary education in the public schools of that place and was graduated from the high school there in 1896, after which he taught school in Ashville for three years. In the meantime he had decided upon the practice of dentistry as his life work and began the study of dental surgery in the Ohio Medical University at Columbus, following the course there for one year, after which he entered the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated, after two years of additional study, with the class of 1903. Upon receiving his diploma he began the practice of his chosen profession at Portsmouth. this state, but did not remain there quite a year. the advantages of a location at London, this county, appealing to him so strongly that he moved to London in 1904. and since that time has been quite successfully engaged in practice at the county seat.
Upon arriving in London, Doctor Hoffhines entered into a partnership with Doctor Chance, who later retired from practice, since which time Doctor Hoffhines has been
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practicing alone, and it is not too much to say that he has gained the high favor of the entire community. His office in the Bridgman building is admirably equipped, the doctor keeping fully abreast of all the modern devices designed to advance the remedial art of dentistry, and he has earned a fine reputation as a skilled practitioner.
On August 23, 1914, Dr. W. E. Hoffhines was united in marriage to Helen Rainey, daughter of William Rainey, a well-known and prominent citizen of London. Doctor and Mrs. Hoffhines take an interested part in the social activities of London, are interested in all forward-looking movements there, and are deservedly popular in their large circle of acquaintances, their friends all holding them in the highest possible regard.
Doctor Hoffhines is a Democrat and is warmly interested in the political affairs of Madison county, being a consistent and ardent advocate of good government; but is hardly what might be called an active politician, the exactions of his profession preventing him from giving much attention to matters outside; though he is ever willing to give his time and his support to measures designed to further the best interests of the commonwealth. He is a member of the popular and influential London Club and is a Mason, having attained to both the council and the chapter of that ancient order. Ile also is a member of the Knights of Pythias and is warmly devoted to the affairs of both these orders.
Doctor Hoffhines is a member of the Lutheran church at Ashville and is a member of the Mad River Dental Society, of which he was secretary; the Ohio State Dental Society and the National Dental Society, taking an active part in the affairs of all these professional organizations. During his residence in London, Doctor Hoffhines has made a wide acquaintance throughout the county and enjoys the fullest confidence of all, he being generally recognized as a very enterprising and public-spirited citizen. who is performing admirably his part in the community life of the county.
ROBERT G. BRADFIELD.
Pleasantly situated one mile southwest of the village of West Jefferson, in Jefferson township, this county, is a snug little farm on which there is a very comfortable home in which resides a delightful little family, the members of which enjoy to the full the highest esteem of all their neighbors. The proprietor of this farm, Robert G. Bradfield, has been a life-long resident of the township in which he lives, he having been born there, and is well known throughout that whole conntryside as a man of true and modest worth, in whom his neighbors have the utmost confidence.
Robert G. Bradfield was born on a farm in Jefferson township, Madison county. Ohio, on May 13. 1873, son of Morris and Jane ( Worthington ) Bradfield, both natives of Franklin county, the former having been born in Georgesville and the latter at Pleasant Corners. Following their marriage. Morris Bradfield and wife came to Madi- son county and located on a farm in Jefferson township. where they reared a family of six children. all of whom are still living. The mother of these children died on May 18. 1904, and later Morris Bradfield contracted a second marriage and moved to Columbus, Ohio, where his death occurred on December 16. 1912.
To Morris and Jane ( Worthington) Bradfield were born the following children : Albert W .. a well-known farmer of Fairfield township. this county: H. R., who is engaged in the livery business at West Jefferson. this connty : Anna, the wife of William Durflinger, of Los Angeles, California: Robert G., the immediate subject of this sketch ; R. T., a well-known farmer in Fairfield township, this county, and Mary, the wife of David Howard, of Portland, Oregon.
Reared on the home farm in Jefferson township, Robert G. Bradfield received his
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education in the district schools of his neighborhood and in the West Jefferson high school, remaining at home until his marriage at the age of twenty-three, after which he began farming for himself and is now the owner of a snug little farm of forty-four and one-half acres one mile southwest of West Jefferson, to which he gives his closest attention and which he believes is about as much land as one man ought to. attempt to till properly. He is up-to-date in his methods and is doing well, having a very com- fortable home and a well-kept place.
On November 24, 1896, Robert G. Bradfield was united in marriage to Laura E. Kelly, who was born in this county, daughter of Asbury Kelly, a well-known veteran of the Civil War, who lost a leg while fighting the battles of the Union, and to this union one child has been born, a son, Leigh F., who was born 'on June 23, 1902.
Mr. and Mrs. Bradfield are earnestly interested in community betterment and are held in high regard throughout that whole neighborhood. Mr. Bradfield is a Republican and is properly interested in political affairs, though not an active party worker. He is a member of the Franklin County Protective Association, in the affairs of which he takes much interest and his neighbors and associates generally esteem him very highly.
GRANT TIMMONS.
Among the small farms in the West Jefferson neighborhood of Madison county, few are kept up in better shape or are managed with better skill than that belonging to Grant Timmons, a well-known farmer living one and three-fourths miles southwest of the village of West Jefferson. Mr. Timmons is alive to modern progress in the agricul- tural field and keeps fully abreast of the latest methods of up-to-date farming, with the result that he is doing well and is regarded as a substantial farmer and an excellent citizen.
Grant Timmons was born on a farm in Jefferson township, Madison county, Ohio, on February 6, 1864, son of Thomas and Hannah (Oglesby) Timmons, the former of whom was a native of Ross county, Ohio, and the latter was born in this county. Thomas Timmons came from Ross county to this county and here he married, he and his wife becoming the parents of seven children, those besides the subject of this sketch being as follow : Mary, now deceased, was the wife of David Warner; Jane, wife of Moses Roberts. lives in the West; Will, deceased; Alice, wife of Alva Calhoun, of Gillivan. Ohio: Dr. Catherine Vickers, upon the death of V. W. Vickers took up the study of medicine and is now a physician at Cleveland, Ohio; Ruth, wife of Eugene Stuckey, of West Jefferson, this county.
Reared on the paternal farm in Jefferson township, Grant Timmons received his education in the district schools of his home neighborhood, remaining at home assisting his father on the farm until his marriage at the age of twenty-five, after which he started out for himself, presently becoming the owner of his present fine farm of sixty-one acres southwest of West Jefferson, where he and his family are living in happy comfort.
The marriage of Grant Timmons took place in 1889, in which year he led to the altar Virginia Kelly, who was born in this county, and to this union six children have been born, namely : Vick, who married Mary Matheny, is a teamster at West Jefferson ; Hannah, at home: James C., who married Ruby Harbage, is a farmer in this county ; Francis, Stephen and Augustus, at home.
Grant Timmons is a Republican, though not an active participant in the political affairs of the county. He is a member of Madison Lodge No. 221, Free and Accepted Masons, at West Jefferson and is very popular with his lodge associates as well as with all his neighbors. who hold him and his family in the highest esteem.
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J. SCOTT CHENOWETH.
Descended from a grandfather honored by local public office and twice elected to the Ohio Legislature, J. Scott Chenoweth, tax commissioner, is one of the most popular meu in Madison county, a fact of which the people gave proof when they gave him the largest majority of votes ever given a candidate for treasurer in this county. Mr. Chenoweth has demonstrated their wisdom, for he has lent dignity and honor to every position he has held, and has retained the respect and confidence of those whose votes placed him in office. Born in Range township on December 11, 1855. he is a native of the county, and a son of Jeremiah B. and Eliza ( Boyer) Chenoweth.
John F. Chenoweth, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was no inconsider- able factor in the life of his time. He served as county commissioner of highways, was justice of the peace in Franklin county, Ohio, which was his home after he was twelve years of age, and was twice chosen by his constituents to represent them in the state Legislature. He was a Republican and stanch abolitionist. Though born in Ken- tucky in 1792, he early became a resident of Franklin county, from which he was drafted for the war in 1812. His wife's maiden name was Margaret Ferguson. Jere- miah B. Chenoweth, father of the subject of this sketch, was born on a farm, twelve miles from the state capital, on September 22, 1866, but later removed to Range township, this county, where he became a prominent farmer and stock raiser. He was the fourth of a family of fourteen, and early had to make his way in life. On September 23, 18441, he married Eliza Foster of Range township, this county, a daughter of James and Margaret (Boyer) Foster, the former of whom was born in Ross county, Ohio. on August 2, 1824. These young married people were content to begin life on a rented farm, but after five years of hard work, they purchased a two-hundred-acre farm, to which they gradually added until they accumulated fourteen hundred acres, a part of which they gave to their children, of whom there were nine, as follow : James F., born on September 7, 1844, enlisted in the Civil War, returned home sick and died at the early age of twenty; John W., September 9, 1846, is a farmer in Range town- ship: Daniel B., January 10, 1849, also a farmer; Nelson P., April 26, 1851, a farmer and stock raiser; George W., October 3, 1853, a farmer, who died on August 4, 1887; Jeremiah S., December 11. 1855. and Newton M., December 25, 1857. both of Range township Like his father, J. B. Chenoweth was a stalwart Republican, and an adher- ent of the Methodist Episcopal church. He passed away in December, 1904.
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