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Mr. Turner was born in Liberty township. Union county, Ohio, Septent- ber 5, 1872. He is the son of John and Roxana Jane (Myers) Turner, who were also natives of Ohio. There were three children in this family: Otto F., who resides on the old home farm, about a mile south of Peoria; Adrian C., the subject of this sketch; and Bernice, deceased, who was the wife of William Wood.
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John Turner was reared on the farm and followed that occupation for the greater part of his life. His farm was in Liberty township and consisted of sixty-five acres of fertile land, which he had improved and on which he established a comfortable home. When the Civil War came on and the call was made for volunteers to defend the flag and suppress the rebellion, he was among the thousands of other young men and boys of Ohio to respond to that call. He enlisted as a private in Company F, Thirty-first Ohio Volun- teer Infantry, in 1861, and served in that company and regiment for four years. This was one of the Ohio regiments that saw hard service, having participated in many of the strenuous campaigns and hard-fought battles. To have served for four years in the ranks of that regiment is a record of patriotism and valor to which the family and succeeding generation may point with pardonable pride. A short time before his death in 1898, at the age of fifty-eight years, he removed to Peoria.
The paternal grandfather of Adrian C. Turner was Samuel Turner, and the maiden name of his wife was Scott. Their children were John, Robert, Hull, Frank, Henry, Mary, Ruth, Christine and two others who died in infancy. Besides John, already mentioned, Robert and Hull of this family were soldiers in the Civil War. Both of them died in the service.
The maternal grandfather was Myers; his wife was Catherine Stiner. They were among the early settlers of Union county and contributed their full share in the development of the country. Their three children were Elizabeth, Roxana Jane and Abraham.
Adrian C. Turner, as before stated, worked on his father's farm until he grew to manhood. He attended the district schools, which afforded an education sufficient to qualify him for the business in which he engaged in later life. On December 10. 1903, he was united in marriage to Della Blue. daughter of Josiah and Susanna (Wells) Blue. He then rented his father- in-law's farm, established a home and engaged in farming on his own ac- count. For seven years he was engaged in this occupation and then decided to abandon this line of work and seek an opportunity to engage in other busi- ness. He first moved to Lewisburg where he found employment in a meat market. After working a year at this place he moved to Marysville where he was employed in factories for three years ; then he spent four years in the employ of E. E. Cartmell & Company, grocers. In the two or three years following he made some other changes in location and business employment. and finally he found opportunity to obtain an interest in the grocery business in partnership with E. J. Morris. This partnership continued for two years
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when Mr. Turner sold his interest and purchased the J. A. Ligett & Son's grocery store which he has since operated.
Mr. and Mrs. Turner have a nice little home at No. 804 West Fifth street, Marysville, and have one daughter, Nellie. They are members of the Con- gregational church and take an active interest in church affairs. In fraternal affiliations Mr. Turner is a member of the Odd Fellows, being a past grand of that order ; he also belongs to the Encampment and is a member of the Maccabees and Eagles. His political affiliations are with the Republican party.
Mrs. Turner was born in Paris township, Union county, Ohio. Her parents were natives of this state and are both dead. Each of her parents were twice married and their children were Lucy, Sarah, William, Viola. David and Della. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Turner was Josiah Blue, and his wife was Susanna, both natives of Ohio.
WILLIAM A. CONKLIN.
There have been many citizens of Union county, Ohio, who came here from other states in the Union, and among the citizens of Mill Creek town- ship is found William A. Conklin, who was born and reared in Pennsylvania. He was married in his native state and came afterwards to Union county, where he has since resided and now owns a fine farm of one hundred acres eleven miles southeast of Marysville.
William A. Conklin was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, March 28, 1871, the son of Henry and Eleanor (Hoy) Conklin. His parents . were both natives of Pennsylvania, and his father is still living in Jerome township, Union county, in his eighty-second year. Eleven children were born to Henry Conklin and wife, seven of whom are now living: S. M., of Marysville; Ruie, the wife of L. I. Moore : William A., of Mill Creek town- ship: Melissa, single: Bella, the wife of G. W. Spragg; Emma, the wife of Henry Phillips, and Louis H., of Mill Creek township.
William A. Conklin was reared on his father's farm in Greene county, Pennsylvania, and educated in the district schools of his home township. At the age of eighteen he left school and began farming with his father. After his marriage in Pennsylvania he came to Union county, Ohio, and located in Mill Creek township, where he has since resided. He is a general farmer
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and stock raiser and by dividing his attention between these two lines of activity he has met with flattering success.
Mr. Conklin was married in June, 1899, to Mary Delaney, who was born and reared in Greene county, Pennsylvania, and to this union four children have been born : Charles, aged fourteen ; Pearl, aged thirteen : Dale, aged seven, and Gladys, aged nine.
Politically. Mr. Conklin is a member of the Democratic party, and is now serving as a member of the school board of Mill Creek township. Mrs. Conklin is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Jerome, in this county. Mr. Conklin and his wife have always been active in all movements which seek to elevate the general welfare of the locality in which they live. and all movements looking to this end find ready and willing helpers in them.
WALTER B. DULL.
The career of Walter B. Dull began in Claibourne township, Union county, Ohio, in 1868, and his entire life since that time has been spent within the confines of this county. He comes from a highly respected and influen- tial family of the county and he is a worthy scion of the family and has re- flected credit upon his honored ancestors. He and his wife have reared a large family of children to lives of usefulness and honor and have given them such training that they are becoming useful citizens of the con- monwealth.
Walter B. Dull, the son of John and Marietta (Tippett) Dull, was born in Claibourne township, Union county, Ohio, December II, 1868. His father and mother were both natives of Licking county, Ohio, and came to this county after their marriage, where they lived the remainder of their lives. John Dull, who died in 1904, served throughout the Civil War as a member of the Seventy-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. There were two children born to John Dull and wife: Lottie, the wife of Ira Chandler, a farmer of Allen township, this county, and Walter B., of Tay- lor township.
Walter B. Dull was reared in Claibourne and Paris townships, and re- ceived most of his education in the schools of the latter township. He re- mained at home until he was nineteen years of age and then began working for himself. After his marriage in 1889, he began farming in Taylor town- ship. where he has since resided, and his efforts have been crowned with suc-
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cess as is indicated by his well improved farm of one hundred and twenty- eight and one-half acres, three miles northeast of Broadway. He has de- voted his life to the ordinary duties of the good American citizen and has never failed to measure up to a high standard of good citizenship.
Mr. Dull was married September 17, 1889, to Mary L. Martin, of Tay- lor township, and to this union fourteen children have been born: Homer, Fenton, Ira, Denver, Kenova, Verble, Thurston, Lee, Arizona, Winona, Vernon, Lottie, Berdena and Walter, Jr.
Mr. Dull and three of his sons, Ira, Homer and Fenton, are members of the Improved Order of Red Men, and Mrs. Dull is past district chief of the degree of Pocahontas of Marysville, and Mr. Dull himself is the past sachem of his tribe. He and five of his sons are members of the Patrons of Husbandry. Politically, he is a Republican, and at the present time is a member of the board of education of his township. The family are members of the Universalist church.
WILLIAM T. HOOPES.
The late William T. Hoopes was for more than thirty years one of the leading members of the legal profession in Union county, Ohio. He came to Marysville in the spring of 1881 and was engaged in the active practice of law until his death in the fall of 1914. As a lawyer he was easily among the prominent members of the Union county bar, and during his long career in this county was connected with many of the most important cases in the local courts. His honesty and integrity were never questioned and his recog- nized probity made him honored and respected by all who knew him. He was one of the leaders of the Republican party in this section of the state, and was nominated on his party's ticket for Congress, a fact which speaks well for his worth as a public citizen in the eyes of his fellow men.
William T. Hoopes, the son of Nathan and Elizabeth (Todd) Hoopes. was born in Colerain, Belmont county, Ohio, October 3, 1851, and died at his home in Marysville, September 15, 1914. His father was born in Penn- sylvania, and when a child came with his parents to Morgan county, Ohio, where he lived the remainder of his life on a farm. Nathan Hoopes and wife were the parents of six children, four of whom are living, William T., Rachel M., Lydia E., C. D., Susanna and Arthur F. Rachel M. Hoopes was educated in the public schools and later attended high school at Mc-
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Connellsville and a private school at Bartlett, Ohio. With the intention of fitting herself for the teaching profession she became a student in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio. In 1885 she came to Marysville as a teacher in the public schools and has been in continuous service in this place since that year. Certainly this is a record which speaks well for her efficiency as an instructor. Lydie E. Hoopes became the wife of William Epps and now resides in Marysville. C. D. Hoopes is a farmer of Union county and has a well improved farm near Marysville. Susanna died at the age of four years. Arthur F. makes his home in Marysville. Nathan Hoopes was a mechanic and early in life learned the trade of a gunsmith, following this for a number of years. Later in life he farmed in Morgan county, Ohio, and in 1885 moved to Union county and settled on a farm in Dover township, where he lived until his death, August 7, 1913. His wife had passed away previously, April 27. 1890.
William T. Hoopes was educated in the public schools of Morgan county. Ohio, and then spent two years in the National Normal University at Leb- anon, where he was a student in the law department. After leaving the uni- versity he was admitted to the bar and began the active practice of his pro- fession in North Lewisburg, Champaign county, Ohio, where he remained for three years. In the spring of 1881 he came to Marysville and practiced by himself until 1901, when the firm of Hoopes, Robinson & Hoopes was formed. This firm was for more than a decade one of the leading legal firms of the county, and had its full share of the legal business which came before the local courts. In 1908, Clarence A. Hoopes entered the firm. Mr. Hoopes was district attorney of Union county for two terms, and fearlessly and impartially interpreted and enforced the law. A few years ago he was selected as the candidate of Union county on the Republican ticket for Con- gress, and as evidence of his personal popularity he was defeated only by one vote.
Mr. Hoopes was married to Lucy Wood and to this union two children were born, Dr. Carl W., a physician of Marysville, and C. A., an attorney of Marysville. C. A. Hoopes graduated from the Marysville high school and after spending four years in Ohio State University, spent two years in the law department of Columbia University, since which time he has been prac- ticing in Marysville. After his father's death he took his place in the firm under the firm name of Robinson & Hoopes.
William T. Hoopes was reared in the Quaker faith, although in later life he was not an active member of this church. Fraternally, he was a member
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of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Marysville. Mr. Hoopes was disciplined in hard work, and worked with unceasing energy to accomplish a worthy object. With an indomitable will and irresistible energy he carved out suc- cess for himself in a field where many others have failed. He was thoroughly loyal to his clients and never accepted a case which he thought was not thoroughly meritorious. He did what he believed was right, and whenever he accepted a case he spent all of his energies in mastering it in its every detail. He compared the law in the case, marshaled his evidence with good judgment and then entered the contest with self reliance and confidence, with enthusiastic hopefulness and grim determination. He was a public speaker of no mean ability and during his political days campaigned with some of the most brilliant men of Ohio, among them being Governor Willis, Harding, William Gibson, Joseph Cooper and many others of the state's prominent men. He was an able trial lawyer, a safe counsellor, a practical business man, a citizen always interested in the welfare of his community, and a man who was always high minded, honorable and true to the best that was in him.
ESAU REED.
The most of the citizens of Union county, Ohio, are engaged in farm- ing, and it is safe to say that the largest portion of the bank deposits of the county are the result of the busy farmers of the county. Taylor township boasts of many excellent farmers and among them Esau Reed occupies a prominent place. He has lived on his present farm since 1874, and all of the improvements which are now on his farm have been placed there by him since that time. He has taken an active part in the civic life of his com- munity and has served as trustee for several years, filling this important po- sition with eminent satisfaction to his fellow citizens. He is essentially a self-made man and his broad acres are a glowing tribute to his ability as a farmer.
Esau Reed, the son of William and Catherine (Harding) Reed, was born May 29. 1846, in the state of West Virginia. His father was a native of Virginia and his mother of Pennsylvania. and they were married in Fay- ette county, Pennsylvania, where they lived until they came to Union county, Ohio, where they settled in Taylor township in 1857. A short time after-
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wards they moved to Madison county, Ohio, but three years later returned to Union county, where they spent the remainder of their days. William Reed and wife were the parents of eight children, four of whom are now living: Harriette, of Union county; Amanda J., the wife of Hamilton Rit- tenhouse, of Ostrander, Delaware county; Martha, the widow of Le Roy Weaver, of Plain City, Ohio, and Esau, of Taylor township, this county.
The education of Esau Reed was received in the schools of Madison county, Ohio, and also those of Union county. He was eleven years of age when his parents moved from Pennsylvania to Union county, and conse- quently most of his life has been spent within the confines of this county. He remained at home until he was twenty-three years of age and then be- gan working for himself. At the age of twenty-six he was married and started to build up a farm of his own. As he prospered year after year he added to his land holdings until he is now the owner of two hundred and three and one-half acres of fine land a little more than a mile from Broad- way. He and Mrs. Reed own sixty-three acres of land in Liberty township, and all of his farm is the direct result of his own initiative. He has lived on his present farm since March 3, 1874, and during the long years which have elapsed since that time he has ever been regarded as one of the leading agriculturists of the township.
Mr. Reed was married on the 13th day of February, 1873. to Winnie Smith, who was born in Darby township, this county, educated in the com- mon schools and later became a student of Wesleyan College at Delaware, Ohio. After completing her college course she taught school until her mar- riage. She is a woman of refinement and culture and has always been in- terested in church and social service work in her county. Mr. Reed and his wife have no children of their own, but have reared a son, Ernest C. Colby, whom they took at the age of four years from the Orphan's Home at Cleve- land, Ohio. They gave him all the tender care they would have given to a child of their own and have the satisfaction of knowing that he has become a useful member of society. He was educated in the common schools and later graduated from the high school at the early age of sixteen. He then entered the Northern Ohio Normal School at Ada, and graduated from the agricultural course in that splendid school. Since then he has been engaged in farming and with marked success. Ernest C. Reed married Bertha Lash, and has two daughters, Pauline and Ernestine.
Mr. Reed and his wife are loyal members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Broadway. Fraternally, Mr. Reed is a member of the Independent
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Order of Odd Fellows, while, politically, he has been a life-long Republican. and has served for six years as trustee of his township. His son has served as township clerk for two terms and is a Mason. Mr. Reed is a fine type of the splendid American citizen who takes an intelligent interest in the life of his community and always stands ready to help all worthy causes.
CONE HOWARD.
One of the largest and most extensive farmers and stock raisers of Union county, Ohio, is Cone Howard, whose whole career of a half century has been spent in this county where he was born. The Howard family are among the pioneers of the county and the father of Mr. Howard is the largest land owner of Union county today. He has made his greatest success in the raising of live stock and has found, as have other farmers in this country, that the greatest profits for the farmer are to be found in the stock raising business. While he has been interested in advancing his own interests he has not neglected to take an active part in the civic life of his community, and is regarded by everyone as a man of public spirit, who is always willing to do his part toward the advancement of the general welfare of his county.
Cone Howard, the son of Nathan and Helen ( Hathaway) Howard, was born in 1865, in a log cabin in Union township, Union county, Ohio. His father is the son of William and Nancy ( McDonald ) Howard, pioneers of Union county. His father started in with a team of oxen and by good man- agement and close attention to his business has accumulated a farm of three thousand acres, the largest farin owned by any man in Union county. Nathan Howard and wife reared a family of four children: Helen, who died in infancy; C. M., of Fort Scott, Kansas; Cone, with whom this narrative deals, and O. N., of Woodstock, Ohio.
Cone Howard was reared on his father's farm in this township and re- ceived his education in the district schools of Allen township. He then entered the Milford high school and after finishing there, entered Ohio State University at Columbus and took the short course in agriculture. After com- pleting his college education he returned home and became a partner with his father in the management of the home farm. He and his father were in partnership for nine years and he then began working by himself. Since 1901 he has had charge of his own farm of seventeen hundred acres and has made a pronounced success of every phase of farming. His farm is well
RESIDENCE OF CONE HOWARD.
MR. AND MRS. CONE HOWARD.
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improved in every way and has every convenience which modern agriculture demands. He has given particular attention to the breeding of Percheron horses and finds a ready sale for all that he cares to dispose of. He engages in the buying and selling of stock and is one of the most extensive feeders of live stock in the county. His residence is modern in every respect, in- cluding electric vacuum cleaner, concrete walks and a driveway from the road to the porte cochere.
Mr. Howard was married September 11, 1895, to Alice Hunt, the daughter of Asa and Elizabeth ( Rice) Hunt, natives of Madison county, Ohio, and to this union four children have been born, Ercil, Bethmar, Cone, Jr., and Verne.
Politically, Mr. Howard gives his stanch support to the Republican party, but his extensive agricultural interests have been such that he has not been actively engaged in political matters. However, he gives his hearty support to all measures which have for their end good government and is frequently consulted by the leaders of his party upon questions affecting local politics. He is a man of genial and pleasing personality and is highly re- spected by everyone with whom he is acquainted.
JOSEPH W. RITCHIE.
A prominent farmer and the present trustee of Taylor townhip. Joseph W. Ritchie is one of the leading citizens of his township. His whole career of more than forty years has been spent in Union county, where he has de- voted himself to agricultural pursuits. Being ambitious from his boyhood days he has resolutely forged to the front and surmounted all the difficulties in his way and in due course of time arose to a prominent position in the agricultural circles of his community. Besides winning the confidence and esteem of those with whom he has come in contact, he has prospered in a material way as is shown by his well improved farm of one hundred and twenty acres four miles east of Broadway.
Joseph W. Ritchie, the son of Jerome and Sarah J. (Gardner) Ritchie, was born November 10, 1873, in Leesburg township, Union county, Ohio. His father was born in Pennsylvania, and his mother in Licking county, Ohio, but they spent most of their married life in Union county, where the father died in 1899. Four children were born to Jerome Ritchie and wife:
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Ettie, the wife of Cassius McCollister, a farmer of Claibourne township; Herbert, of Springfield, Ohio; Joseph W., of Taylor township, and Blanche, the wife of Stanley Bowen, of Richwood.
Joseph W. Ritchie was reared on his father's farm in Leesburg town- ship, and received his education in the public schools of his home neighbor- hood. He remained at home until he was married and then began farming for himself on the farm where he is now residing, giving due attention to stock raising and general farming, and he has met with pronounced suc- cess, and is recognized throughout his township as an enterprising farmer who is thoroughly abreast of the times.
Mr. Ritchie was married January 16. 1896, to Josephine Braithwaite, who was born in Madison county, Ohio, and is a daughter of Milton Braith- waite and wife. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie, Warren, Sophia, Rosella, Cletis, Mary, Jerome and John. Warren and Sophia are twins and are now students in the high school at Broadway.
Fraternally, Mr. Ritchie is a member of the Knights of Pythias and is theN present chancellor commander of his lodge at Pharisburg. In politics he has always given his allegiance to the Republican party and is now serv- ing as one of the trustees of his township.
OTWAY CURRY.
Among the literary men and gifted poets who were residents of Ohio in the early days of the nineteenth century. Otway Curry, of Marysville, ranked high. He was, indeed, one of the sweet singers of that period and ex- celled as a writer of prose and poetry. No more befitting tribute can be paid the subject than to quote from the writings of Bishop Edward Thomp- son, who wrote in a biography, among other things, the following :
Otway Curry was a child of the wilderness-a situation not unsuitable to awaken imagination, to cultivate taste and to call forth the love of nature and the spirit of poesy. The approach of the bear, the rattle of the snake, the whoop of the savage were among the sources of his early fears. To observe the swallow build her nest in the barn, and to watch the deer bounding through the bushes were among his early amusements; to mark when dogwood blossoms and when the north winds blew, to observe how nature mingled storm with sunshine, and draws the rainbow on the clouds, were among his first lessons in philosophy.
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