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The Southard family traces its lineage, in both a direct and collateral way, back to English origin, the record extant being clear and unbroken. The first of the family to become its representative in the New World was Thomas Southard, one of the early set- tlers of Hempstead, Long Island. His name appears in the official archives and shows him to have been one of the prominent men of the locality, also denoting the fact that he was one of the landholders in that colo-
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nial hamlet as early as 1657. The influences which ever tend to broaden the functional province of mankind and lead to the seeking of new fields of endeavor eventuated in the removal of his descendants to New Jersey, where they were settled nearly a century later and where several representatives sub- sequently attained distinction in professional and official life.
Abraham Southard, the grandfather of Dr. John Q., was a native of Somerset county, New Jersey, and was a relative of the distinguished Henry and Samuel L. Southard, of that State.
Attaining maturity he removed to Wash- ington county, Pennsylvania, where he sub- sequently was united in marriage to Eliza- beth Hull, daughter of Francis Hull, who met his death at the hands of the Indians, while on an expedition down the Ohio river, about the close of the last century. In 1805 the grandfather took up his residence in Ohio, becoming the first representative of the fam- ily in this State. He settled in Licking county where he established a home for his wife and their several children, among whom was Isaiah Southard, the father of the imme- diate subject of this review. In early life Isaiah Southard was engaged in the manage- ment of blast-furnace enterprises, in Adams county, Ohio, but later he took up agricul- tural pursuits. February 23, 1825, he married Elizabeth Parnell, who was born February 28, 1807, in Baltimore, Maryland, daughter of James and Achsah (Stockdale) Parnell, who were of stanch old Irish stock.
Isaiah and Elizabeth Southard reared to maturity four sons and one daughter, of whom we offer the following epitomized rec- ord : James M. became a physician and was one of the foremost practitioners of this
county and of the State, his death occurring at Marysville, March 16, 1891: a memoir touching his life appears elsewhere in this volume; John Q. is the immediate subject of this sketch; Anna M., who is a woman of noble attributes and gentle refinement, is the widow of U. C. Hall, and resides on the old homestead, in Licking county, secure in the esteem of those who have known and appreciated her sterling worth; Milton I. is an eminent attorney of New York city, and an ex- Member of Congress, in which he represent- ed the Thirteenth district of Ohio for three consecutive terms, attaining much distinc- tion by his labors in the national legislature; Frank H. is one of the distinguished lawyers and statesmen of Ohio, and retains a resi- dence at Zanesville. The father died May 19, 1885, and the mother passed away on the 2 Ist of August, 1893.
John Q. Southard was born in Adams county, Ohio, November 28, 1829, and grew up on the parental farmstead in Licking county, contributing his share in boyhood to carrying on the work of the farm and imbib- ing copious draughts of the spirit of inde- pendence, which is ever the concomitant of the life thus closely linked to nature. The discipline was one which also begot a lively appreciation of the nobility of honest toil and of the advantages which stretched far beyond such a narrowed mental horizon. Our subject was granted such educational privileges as the locality afforded, attending the district schools during the successive winters until he had attained the age of nineteen years. Now the ambition of the youth began to strain at its fetters and he determined to prepare himself for a wider field of usefulness than that which is round- ed up by the dull routine of the farm. His ambition was one of effort, and he bent
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every energy toward the accomplishment of the desired ends. When but a child of four years Dr. Southard was sorely afflicted in the loss of his right eye from disease, but this misfortune seems to have not daunted his courage in the least, nor has it interfered with the success of his career. It is an ex- ceptional and noteworthy incident that though fostered under the influences and duties of the farm, not only our subject but each of his three brothers turned to the learned professions in choosing his life work, -two adopting the law and two medicine. Young John early realized that if he attained the height to which his ambition directed him he must secure a broader and more lib- eral education than the common schools af- forded, the educational facilities of the West- ern States at that time being very meager in scope. He accordingly, after some fur- ther academic preparation under select tutor- age, began to apply himself assiduously to the study of medicine at home, and by his fidel- ity and close analytical faculty he succeeded in gaining far more than a superficial knowl- edge of the science in its various branches, even before he could see his way clear to secure proper preceptorage. He continued this application for three years in connec- tion with other duties and was then enabled to take a course of lectures in the medical department of the Western Reserve Univer- sity, at Cleveland, Ohio,-said department having subsequently been separated from the main institution and continued individually as the Cleveland Medical College, -one of the strongest institutions in the line that the West can boast at the present time. At this college he graduated with the coveted degree of M. D., in 1856.
Immediately after his graduation Dr. Southard located at Frazeysburg, Muskinum
county, this State, and there commenced the active practice of his profession, con- tinuing there about one year and then going to Des Moines, Iowa, where he remained but a brief interval, his delicate health rendering it impossible for him to withstand the cold winds and somewhat rigorous climate of that section. He then came to Union county, which has been the field of his operations during all the long years interven- ing since that time. His ability in a pro- fessional way and his earnest and sympa- thetic devotion to those to whom he minis- tered soon gained him a practice which ramified into all sections of the county and which placed exacting demands upon his at- tention, -a professional duty from which he never flinched, standing ever ready to sub- ordinate his personal inclinations and his personal comfort. Coming to the county fully thirty-seven years ago, the Doctor found the conveniences for traversing the same vastly inferior to what they are at the present time, although the population was nearly as dense as it is to- day. Long, straggling roads, little im- proved, and at certain seasons of the year almost impassable, extended through the county, and over these, in all kinds of weather, the Doctor made his way, much of the time on horse-back and with saddle- bags slung beneath him with his cases of medicines. Through summer's heat or win- ter's frost; night time or day, he pursued his humane mission, visiting alike the man- sion and the cabin. On many occasions he was compelled to let down fences and travel for miles through the fields on horse-back, the roads being impassable. He recalls instances where, the mud being deep and slightly frozen, he would have to walk for miles, driving his saddled horse before him.
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He had ever an exceptional and deep charity for the poor and needy, often returning a portion of his fees to widows and orphans and according his services without reserve where there was an inability to render him any return save that of heartfelt gratitude. A familiar figure this, in days long past, and one viewed with delight by many a poor sufferer at whose bedside he attended This was not the life of a sybarite, but one filled with days and nights of toil and hours of heavy anxiety, -a phase of the healing pro- fession that stands in highest honor to one who has thus devoted himself to the noble work against the greatest odds and with the most marked self-denial. Dr. Southard stands to-day as one who has done more business in the line of his profession than any other physician who lives or has lived in the county, and to-day his face is known and his presence welcomed far and wide throughout this section, where he still con- tinues in active practice from his home and headquarters in the thriving city of Marys- ville.
Skilled, as he is, in his profession, he has reached the point of high attainment by h's own efforts, keeping constantly abreast of the advances made in the science and ever maintaining a deep interest in his work, which has become a very part of his life. He has shown a fine executive and business ability and has been prospered in temporal affairs. While still a young man he engaged in sundry land speculations in Kansas and Iowa, and by a successful manipulation of the properties thus secured in an incidental way he realized good returns.
To-day Dr. Southard stands as one of the most substantial capitalists of the county, and one whose success is viewed with pleasure by all who know his honest
deserts. He owns 1,300 acres of as fine agricultural land as can be found in the county, the same being comprised in six farms, averaging over 200 acres each, and all under a high state of cultivation. The family home in the city of Marysville is a sub- stantial brick structure of attractive archi- tectural design, beautifully situated on west Fifth street. The place is recognized as one of the finest homes in the city, and is com- plete in all its equipments. The Doctor is president of the Farmers' Bank of Marys- ville, which was organized in 1868, with a capital stock of $50,000. He has been connected with this financial institution for a number of years and has been its president since 1891.
He is a member of the Union County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society; fraternally is identified with the Masonic order, being a member of Marys- ville Chapter, No. 99; and politically he has ever been found stanchly arrayed in sup- port of the Democratic party and its princi- ples. In his religious views the Doctor is liberal, and there is nothing apologetic in his attitude in this regard. He has a rever- ence for spiritual realities and not for mere traditional tenets, having a clear apprehen- sion of the fundamental truth and the altru- istic element in human life. He is a man of true sympathy, inclined to regard all men at their best and reluctant to inflict pain, being ever tolerant and charitable.
He has been signally alive to public in- terests, and has done much in the way of furthering State, county, and municipal im- provements. He was prominently identi- fied with the work of securing to Union county the extensive system of fine pike roads, which have given the county the rep- utation as the banner one in the State in
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this particular; he was active in securing the extension of the Columbus division of the Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad, which has proved of much value in affording transpor- tation facilities to the county, and has ever stood ready to lend influence and aid to all undertakings which have conserved public prosperity and legitimate progress. He is safely conservative, discriminating in his de- cisions and views. In addition to attending to his representative practice, Dr. Southard maintains a personal supervision of his farm- ing and other interests, keeping his business affairs well in hand at all times. In men- tal characteristics he is strongly intellect- ual, and in his bearing is courteous and genial, though not a man of many words. The Doctor is now (1894) sixty-four years of age, but enjoys the strength and virile vigor of a man at two score.
Turning, in brief, to the more purely do- mestic pages of our subject's history, we find that, September 14, 1861, in this county, was consummated his marriage to Miss Lu- cinda M. Green, who was born in Fulton county, New York, October 7. 1836, daugh- ter of Theodorus and Eliza (Stuart) Green. Theodorus Green was a prominent stock- grower and farmer of Liberty township, this county, and was a member of the Christian Church, as is also his daughter, Mrs. South- ard. He was born in the State of New York, January 26, 1797, and he married Eliza Stuart, who was born in Saratoga county, same State, June 3, 1811. His death occurred in October, 1875, and that of his venerable widow February 19, 1890. Mrs. Southard's maternal grandfather, Na- thaniel Stuart, was the only son of Captain Joseph Stuart, an officer in the war of the Revolution, and of Scotch ancestry. Na- thaniel Stuart was born in New York De-
cember 11, 1786, married Keziah Toby, and in 1836, with his wife and a family of twelve children, emigrated to Union county, where he resided until his death.
Theodorus and Eliza (Stuart) Green left their Eastern home in 1839, making the long and weary journey to Union county, Ohio, in the dead of winter and by means of horses and wagon. The distance thus traversed aggregated some 600 miles, and Mrs. Southard was a child of but two years at the time, being borne in her mother's arms for the greater portion of the way. In these latter days, with rapid and comfortable means of transportation, it would be deemed fatuous in the extreme to thus attempt such a journey with an infant child to be nour- ished and cared for. Theodorus Green and his wife lived for more than a half century on the same farm, in Liberty township, this county, the place being now owned and oc- cupied by their son, Stuart Green.
Dr. and Mrs. Southard became the par- ents of five children, three of whom are liv- ing at the present time, namely: Frank Stuart, who was born March 12, 1865, was reared at the parental home in this county and received the best of educational advan- tages, graduating at the Marysville high school, then matriculating at Antioch Col- lege, in Greene county, this State, where he completed the classical course, graduating, with honors, in 1887. He then entered the law department of Harvard University, was graduated in 1890, having been admitted to the bar in 1889. He is now engaged in the practice of his profession at Seattle, Wash- ington, retaining a representative clientage and holding precedence as one of the most capable young attorneys in that section of the Union: he was married, September 17, 1 890, to Miss Lena Morris, of Greene county,
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Ohio, and a classmate of her husband at Antioch; Homer H. was born June 2, 1868, was educated at Antioch College, but was unable to complete the course by reason of impaired health: he is now engaged in farm- ing and stock-growing in this county; Harry Green, born January 1, 1878; Otto M., who was born May 26, 1863, died May 6, 1865, and Henry B., who was the twin of Harry G., died November 4, 1881.
ILLIAM D. MILLER .- At this point we are permitted to take in cursory review the life history of one who stands conspicuous as one of the most extensive and substantial farmers of Trenton township, Delaware county, Ohio, and as one of the most intel- ligent, progressive and enterprising men who has ever directed his attention and efforts to the noble work of husbandry. If one is to sojourn for any length of time in that natur- ally favored portion of the Buckeye com- monwealth designated by the title of Tren- ton township, he is sure to note with appre- ciation the changes wrought by the hand of man to the end of securing the great fields of waving grain, the undulating meadows dotted with innumerable flocks, the substan- tial improvements and the various other conditions indicatory of a prosperous agri- cultural community. He is almost equally sure to forthwith hear specific mention made of one of the show places of the township, Evergreen Farm, the domain of the subject of this sketch. Abiding here in peace, con- tentment and plenty, honored by those among whom his life has been passed, con- spicuous in all that tends to the conservation of the best interest of the community, what
more consonant than that the life of such a man be taken under consideration in this connection.
Born in Knox county, Ohio, April 4, 1833, William D. Miller is the son of John B. and Cornelia (Clutter) Miller, the former of whom was born in Greene county, Penn- sylvania, in 1810, being brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his father two years later. The latter, George Miller, was also a native of the old Keystone State, where he died, leaving a widow and seven children. Cornelia Miller was the daughter of Samuel Clutter, a Pennsylvanian by birth. She became the mother of seven children, four of whom are living at the present time, William D., Cinderella, Rachel and Calvin. The mother died at the age of thirty-three years and the father later on consummated a second marriage.
William D. Miller was reared in Knox county, receiving a good education in the common and high schools of Utica. He was thereafter engaged in teaching for a period of two years, meeting with success in his pedigogic labors. In 1864 he came to Trenton township, Delaware county, where he purchased a farm, incidentally assuming the burden of a debt of $6,850. He devot- ed himself earnestly to the work in hand, bending every effort toward freeing himself from the obligation assumed, and in due time cancelled all indebtedness upon the farm. Later on he purchased other farm- ing land in the township, and at the present time he is the owner of 1,000 acres, well improved and under an effective system of cultivation. Three large barns are conspic- uous among the substantial improvements of the magnificent farmstead, one being 30x120 feet in dimensions, another 30x64, and the third sixty feet square.
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In connection with his general farming our subject devotes especial attention to sheep raising, being one of the most exten- sive and successful sheep breeders in the en- tire county. For thirty years he has kept the same stock of sheep and has continuous- ly improved the strain in the line of a com- bined wool and mutton producing merino. His success is attested in his large sales of stock for breeding purposes. In his politi- cal proclivities Mr. Miller casts his influence and vote with the Prohibition party, being a most zealous worker in the cause and oc- cupying a position of prominence in the councils of the Prohibitionists of the county. Fraternally he has been identified with the Masonic Order, having served as Master of Utica Lodge for a number of years. He is also president of the Delaware Mutual In- surance Company, a prosperous and popu- lar organization.
Mr. Miller was married at the age of twenty-five years to Miss Melissa King, a native of Licking county, Ohio, and a daughter of William King. The issue of this union was two children: Nettie, who is a resident of Columbus, Ohio, and one de- ceased in childhood. The wife and mother died in 1861, and three years later our sub- ject wedded Miss Mary, daughter of James and Sarah (Bane) Paul, the former of whom has attained the venerable age of ninety-one years (1894), having been a prominent and honored resident of Morrow county, Ohio, for many years; the mother is deceased. Mr. Miller insists upon giving fully half the credit for his business success to Mrs. Miller, who has been his faithful coadjutor during the years of their married life.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller have four sons: Henry P., Fred D., John B. and William E. Henry and William received their edu-
cation at Antioch College, near Springfield, Ohio, and the latter is now instructor in mathematics in the high school of Portland, Indiana. Upon graduating at college, Henry at once assumed control of one of his fath- er's farms, near Sunbury, and devoted him- self to sheep-breeding and to writing upon subjects pertaining to the industry. At the present time he has charge of the sheep de- partment of the Ohio Farmer. Fred and John remain at home, devoting themselves with interest and energy to assisting in the farm work. The only daughter of our sub- ject and his wife, Sarah E., died at the age of three years.
Mr. Miller is a Deacon in the Christian Church, is a man of marked intelligence and intellectuality, has attained to a high measure of success in temporal affairs, and lends his influence to all efforts looking to the advancement of education, religion and temperance. Broad in his sympathies, char- itable and public spirited, he holds the es- teem and good will of all.
HEODORE L. MULLEN, who successfully conducts a livery, sale and feed stable, on Plum street, Marysville, Ohio, deserves recogni- tion among the representative business men - of the city, and accordingly a place in this volume. He was born in Marysville, Octo- ber 18, 1843, son of Charles and Sarah (Bancroft) Mullen, both of whom are now deceased, the death of the mother occurring in 1850 and that of the father in 1882.
Theodore Mullen passed his boyhood days in his native place, attending the public schools until he had attained the age of fourteen years, when he secured employment in a woolen mill in this place and there con-
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tinued to be employed until the cloud of war darkened the national horizon. His patriotism was fired and he determined to go forth in defense of the stars and stripes. With this end in view he made his prepara- tions, walked from Marysville to Columbus, the capital city of the State, and there en- listed as a member of Company B, Sixty- first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the date of his enlistment being March 26, 1862. He forthwith went to the front with his regiment, and the records show that he participated in several of the decisive and most hotly con- tested battles of the great civil war. He served in the Army of the Potomac, and among the engagements in which he took part may be mentioned the following: Second battle of Bull Run, August 30, 1862; Fred- ericksburg, November 9 to 16, 1862; Gettys- burg, July 1, 1863; Mission Ridge, and Lookout Mountain, in November of the same year; and Dallas or New Hope Church, Georgia, where he was wounded in : the night and was taken prisoner while be- ing conveyed to the hospital at Chattanooga. He was, however, paroled the succeeding day and sent to Nashville, Tennessee, where he remained until convalescent, when he was transferred to Columbus, this State, and was there discharged, in December, 1864. His wound was a severe one, and he still suffers from the effects of the same, which has never healed. For gallant and meritorious service at the battle of Gettys- burg he was promoted to the office of Cor- poral, and as such was discharged from the service.
After the close of the war he returned to his home in Marysville and once more as- sumed his position in the woolen mill, where he remained for a number of years, the manufactory being operated by James W.
and Col. Aaron B. Robinson, who are still honored residents of Marysville. In June, 1881, he engaged in the livery business, in company with J. B. Robinson, and this as- sociation continued about four years, when our subject purchased his partner's interest and has since conducted the enterprise upon his own responsibility, giving his entire at- tention to the same, which is now one of the best in point of equipments that the city can boast, and one whose supporting pat- ronage is of representative order.
Politically Mr. Mullen is identified with the Republican party, and fraternally he re- tains a membership in Marysville Lodge, No. 100, Knights of Pythias, and Ransom Reed Post, No. 113, G. A. R. Mr. Mullen has erected four residences in Marysville, his own home being eligibly located on Seventh street.
He was married, in 1867, to Miss Lydia Jewell, daughter of Samuel S., deceased, who was one of the representative men of the county. Our subject and his wife are the parents of one child, Edward A.
AVID H. KYLE, another one of the prosperous farmers of Radnor township, Delaware county, Ohio, was born November 17, 1844, on the farm on which he now lives, and which his grandfather, Hugh Kyle, settled about 1802.
Hugh Kyle was a native of Pennsylvania, and was one of the earliest pioneers of this township, he having come here when it was an unbroken wilderness. His wife's maiden name was Sarah McCarthy, and at the time of their removal here they had one child, Polly. His mother, the great-grandmother of our subject, came with them, and she
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was the first person buried in the Radnor cemetery, hcr tombstone bearing the date of 1807. Four other children were born to them in their frontier home: James, David, Betsy and Sarah, -all of whom are de- ceased. Both he and his wife lived to an advanced age, and both were members of the Presbyterian Church.
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