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USA > Ohio > Greene County > Portrait and biographical album of Greene and Clark counties, Ohio, containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county; together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States > Part 27
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A gentleman of broad eulture, a physician of
high standing, a public-spirited and progressive eitizen, a true husband and indulgent father, a generous friend, considerate in his relations with others, Dr. Marquart's busy and useful eareer has more than fulfilled the promise of his youth, to make life a sueeess, and his presence among us is an honorable addition to the citizenship of this, his adopted eity. The Doctor is a member of the Clark County Medical Society, and belongs to Clark Lodge, No. 101, A. F. & A. M.
SAAC H. SMITH. The headquarters of Mr. Smith, who is located about four miles south of Xenia, comprises a well-developed farm one hundred and six aeres in extent, which under his careful management is highly productive, yielding annually a handsome income. Like many of the successful men about him, Mr. Smith is a native of Greene County, and was born in Paintersville, Sep- tember 7, 1851. He is thus still a young man, prac- tieally just commeneing the sober duties of life, and with bright prospects for the future. He is the representative of an excellent family, being the son of Elijah E. and Susan (Probasco) Smitlı. Eli- jah Smith was born in Clinton County, this State, while his estimable wife was a native of Virginia.
To the parents of our subjeet there was born a family of seven children, viz: Hannah W., Rebecca F .; Zadie B., deeeased; Lydia J., Isaac H., Charles A., and Anna. The mother departed this life at the old homestead in March, 1884; Mr. Smith is still residing on his farm.
The subject of this notice spent his boyhood and youth in the manner common to the sons of pio- neer farmers, obtaining such education as was afforded by the distriet sehool. He was married De- eember 23, 1875, when a youth of eighteen years, to Miss Sarah E., daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Ketteman) Saville, of Greene County. Of this union there have been born three children-L. Maude, Frederick B. S., and H. Mabel. Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church.
The father of our subject was born in Union
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Township, Clinton County, this State, October 8, 1812, and eame to this county in 1850. He was a life-long farmer by occupation, an honest, hard- working man, who enjoyed the respeet of his neigh- bors, and who did a kindly act as he had oppor- tunity. The paternal grandparents of our subjeet were Joseph and Lydia (Walker) Smith, natives of Frederick County, Va., where they were reared and married. They emigrated to Clinton County, this State, in 1805, and Grandfather Smith oeeupied himself as a miller, although in Virginia he had en- gaged in farming. In Ohio he secured two hun . dred and fifty acres of land upon which he settled and spent the remainder of his life, passing away in 1832.
To Grandfather Smith and his good wife, there was born a family of twelve ehildren, eleven of whom lived to mature years, these being Mordecai, Samuel, Elizabetli, Polly, Mary, Rebecea, Edward, Lydia, Joseph, Henry, Elijah, and our subject. Mr. Smithi retains as a valued relic the old cradle in which his uneles and aunts were roeked to sleep in their babyhood, and which has done good ser- viee for many other children since their time.
( THENIEL MOORE. This name represents one of the younger members of the agri- cultural community of Greene County, who is making for himself a good record, both in con- neetion with his vocation and as a eitizen. He is a native of this State, and was born November 4, 1849, at Mt. IIoily, Warren County. His imme- diate progenitors were James and Anna (Cole) Moore, the former of whom was a native of New Jersey, and born near Mt. Holly, of that State.
The father of our subjeet emigrated to Warren County, this State, when a young man, and settled at or near Waynesville, where he learned the trade of a blacksmith. He was first married to Miss Anna Cole, an adopted daughter of James Gest, of Sugar Creek Township, Greene County. This union resulted in the birth of seven children. The eldest, John Henry, during the Civil War eulisted
as a Union soldier in the Ninety-third Ohio In- fantry, and died in the hospital at Nashville, Tenn., in 1864, from the effects of a wound received in battle; Frank, the second son, enlisted in the See- ond Ohio Infantry, first in the three months ser- vice and then re-enlisted for three years, serving until the close of the war; Peter also gave his ser- viees to his eountry, in an Indiana regiment, and served from the beginning until the close; James Newton was in the Thirty-fourth Obio Infantry for about eighteen months; he now resides near Barry, Pike County, Ill .; Hannah Elizabeth be- canie the wife of Charles Rossell, and died at Leba- non, Ohio, in 1868; Otheniel, our subject, was tlie next in order of birth; Martha J. is the wife of Marion Justice, a farmer residing near Richmond, Ind .; Mrs. Anna (Cole) Moore departed this life at her home in Montgomery County, this State, in 1851.
James Moore married for his second wife Mrs. Katie Benliam, and there was born to them one son, George, now a resident of Richmond, Ind. Mr. Moore about 1850 removed to Centerville, Montgomery County, this State, thence to Lebanon, and from there to Riehimond, Ind., where he set - tled on a farm and died in May, 1886, at the age of seventy-six years. Our subject after his mo- ther's death lived among strangers, and received only limited advantages, working ont by the month until his marriage. This important event occurred March 8, 1874, with Miss Laura Belle Wright. She was born March 29, 1854, in Sugar Creek Township, Greene County, and was the daugliter of Charles W. and Elizabeth (Venyard) Wright, who were among the earliest pioneers of that township. This union resulted in the birth of six children, the eldest of whom, a daughter, Nettie Jane, died when about one year old; Charles A., Mary Elmora, Delcie M. and Effie May remain at home with their father; Orville N. died wlien one year old. Mrs. Lanra Belle (Wriglit) Moore departed this life at hier home in Spring Valley Township, September 27, 1888.
Mr. Moore after his marriage located on a farm near Montgomery County,and in the spring of 1877 removed to Clinton County. From there in 1882 he eame to his present farm, this eomprising one
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hundred and sixty acres of land on section 29. In his agricultural operations Mr. Moore evinees the thoroughness and skill which have made his fields uniformly fertile and from which he realizes a comfortable income. His buildings compare favorably with those of the intelligent men around him, and he is looked upon by his fellow-citizens as a valued member of the community. He votes the Republican ticket, and socially, belongs to the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows at Spring Valley.
DDISON W. BUTT, Closely identified with the recent history and development of the eity of Springfield is the record of the life of Mr. Butt, whose portrait appears on the opposite page, and the principal events of whose life we record. He is President of the Springfield Implement Company of this eity, where lie is ree- ognized as one of the stirring citizens and is identi- fied with the leading enterprises. He is a New Yorker by birth, his early home being in Chautau- qua County near the Pennsylvania line, and he first opened his eyes to the light October 14, 1835. IIis father, George Butt, a native-born Pennsylvanian, was from Erie County, and his paternal grandfather was Wendell Butt, a native of Germany. The lat- ter emigrated to America with his parents when a lad of six years, they settling in Pennsylvania where they all spent the remainder of their lives.
The father of our subject was a farmer by oceu- pation and was also master of the miller's trade which lie followed considerably in his native State. Hle left Pennsylvania in 1836 and located on a farnì near LaPorte, Ind., where he carried on agriculture successfully and invested some of his eapital in city lots at Milwaukee, Wis. On account of the hard times which followed, however, most of these were subsequently sold for taxes. The mother, Mrs. Olive ( Wyllis) Butt, died in Indiana in 1838. She was born in Chautauqua. County, N. Y., and was the daughter of Orin Wyllis, who was likewise a native of the Empire State and spent his last days in LaPorte County, Ind.
After the death of his wife George Butt returned to Erie County, Pa., and became interested in mill- ing, which he carried on for a number of years. Then returning to Indiana he embarked in the same business at LaPorte, continuing thus employed un- til 1854. At that time, in company with his son, A. W., he established a general store under the firm name of George Butt & Son, which they conducted until 1857. Addison then disposed of his interest in the business and the father, later selling out, crossed the Mississippi into Kansas where he so- journed four years.
Returning now to LaPorte, Ind., our subject in the spring of 1861 established an agricultural im- plement house and continued in the business until 1865. Next he operated as a traveling salesman and general agent in the States of Indiana, Michi- gan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, for the Jolin HI. Manny Reaper Company, remaining in the employ of this firm until 1868. Next lie became connected with the firm of Thomas & Mast, of Springfield, Ohio, traveling through the East as far as New York City, north to the lakes and west to Nebraska and continued with this firm until it was dissolved. Later he was a member of the firmn of P. P .¿ Mast & Co., and became a stockholder of the company, which engaged in the manufacture of farm implements.
Mr. Butt disposed of his interest in the above enterprise in 1886 and then became eonneeted with the Albion Manufacturing Company, of Albion Mich., of which he was President, remaining with this company until the year of 1888. At this time, accompanied by his wife, he made an extended tour through the West, visiting Colorado, California and Oregon, and on his return visited Denver, Omaha, Kansas City, and Chicago. During the following spring, going to North Carolina, he in- vested a sum of money in the Asheville Furniture Company which was subsequently merged into the Asheville Furniture and Lumber Company. Upon the organization of the latter Mr. Butt was made President. In 1889 he purchased the old Spring- field Manufacturing Company and formed it into a stock company which was organized under the name of the Springfield Implement Company of which Mr. Butt was made President, which posi-
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tion he still holds, not only in that company, but also in the Asheville Furniture and Lumber Com- pany.
The marriage of Addison W. Butt and Miss Frances G. Bagley, of LaPorte, Ind., was celebra- ted at the bride's home November 4, 1862. This lady was born March 18, 1840, in Mercer, Pa., and is a daughter of Asher F. and Elizabeth Bagley, the former of whom was a native of Avon, Gene- see County, N. Y., and the latter of Pennsylvania. They first settled in Lake County, Ohio, and sub- sequently removed to LaPorte, Ind. They are now deccased. Nine children have been born of this union, four sons and five daughters, all of whom are living. They bear the names, respectively, of Edwin B., T. Albert, George A., Frances, May and Maude (twins), Addison W., Daisy E. and Nina 0.
Politically, Mr. Butt is a sound Republican and a warm defender of the principles of his party. In 1882 he was elected President of the Springfield Athletic Club, which at the time was greatly straightened financially and in debt $700. Mr. Butt assumed charge of affairs and introduced many attractions so that the young men of the city were furnished with a pleasant place of resort and in a large measure kept away from saloons and other objectionable places. At the end of three years under his wise management the debt was liquidated and the club had over $1,000 in the treasury. Mr. Butt was one of the charter mem- bers of Anthony Lodge No. 45, F. & A. M., and belongs to Springfield Chapter No. 48, R. A. M., also Palestine Commandery No. 33, K. T.
Asher F. Bagley, the father of Mrs. Butt was in former years a prominent merchant of Pittsburg, Pa., and at one time a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature from Mercer County. After removing to Ohio he settled in Painesville and engaged in the manufacture of carriages and buggies. Upon his removal to LaPorte, Ind., he extended his bus- ness as a carriage manufacturer and engaged in this until his death, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. His wife, Mrs. Elizabeth (Scott) Bagley, died in her seventy-sixth year. Mrs. Butt received careful parental training and a good education and grew up an attractive and intelligent young lady.
She has proved herself in all respects the suitable partner of her husband and has preserved in a marked degree the beauty of her younger years. The family residence is a handsome modern struct- ure, with extensive grounds, pleasantly located on Fernscliff Avenue.
BNER S. BUCK, Justice of the Peacc, Notary Public and Collecting Attorney in Xenia, in former years devoted consider- able attention to the study of law, and cn- gaged in the regular practice five years. He has just passed the seventy-second year of liis age, hav- ing been born September 20, 1818, and is a native of this State, his birth occurring at Washington Court House which for some years was the home of his parents, Samuel and Sarah (Smith) Buck. Samuel Buck was born in Westmoreland County, Pa., May 7, 1780, but when a boy of nine years removed with his parents, John and Martha ( Wasson) Buck to Lexington. Ky.
Grandfather Buck was a native of County An- trim, Ireland, where he was married and whence he emigrated with his estimable wife to America during Revolutionary times. He soon entered the army, fighting on the side of the Colonists, and after the struggle was ended, settled on a farm in Westmoreland County, Pa. A few years later, he in 1789, started with his little family down the Ohio River, running the gauntlet of savage Indians, and arrived safely at the infant town of Lexington, Ky., where he sojourned for a period of ten years. Then, in 1799, he changed his residence to the Ter- ritory of Ohio, locating upon ground now occupied by the flourishing city of Chillicothe, but which was then scarcely marked by a human habitation. He occupied himself in farming pursuits and finally removed to Fayette County, where he spent his last days, departing hence in June, 1823. Grand- mother Buck survived her husband about twelve years dying in 1835, at Greenfield, Ohio.
Samuel Buck, the father of our subject, did not accompany his father's family to Ohio although coming to the State that same year, 1799, making
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the journey alone on horseback. Eleven years prior to this he had entered the service of the Gov- ernment as clerk in the Quartermaster's depart- ment, being stationed at Ft. Pickering, Tenn., which occupied the present site of the city of Mem- phis. Upon his return to Lexington he rode three hundred miles without seeing the face of a white man but one. He lived for a time in Fairfield County, then joined the Buck family in Fayette County, they settling ten miles south of the present site of Washington Court House.
In the meantime the father of our subject, who was studiously inclined, had employed his leisure time in the reading of law and later was a student in the office of William Creighton of Chillicothe, Ohio. In February, 1813, he was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of his profession at Washington Court House. He had now been married six years, being wedded in 1807 to Miss Sarah Smith. He continued the practice of his chosen profession until 1862, making his headquar- ters at Washington Court House, and Wilmington, Ohio, but later for twenty years was a member of the Greene County bar. He was a prominent man in his community, holding some of the local offices and at one time was the prosecuting Attorney of Fayette County. He affiliated with the Democratic party until 1855 and then identified himself with the Republicans. He died in Jefferson Township, Greene County, Ohio, October 27, 1862, leaving a family of five sons, one of whom met his death in the army while fighting the battles of his country. Samuel Buck was a man of decided ideas and a member in good standing of the Reformned Presby- terian Church.
Mrs. Sarah (Smith) Buck, the mother of our subjeet, was born in New Jersey near the city of Philadelphia, Pa., September 29, 1789. Her parents, Abner and Jemima Smith, settled with their re- spective parents near Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, in 1805, and on the 7th of December, 1807, pronounced the word which made them partners for life. Thereafter they spent the most of their lives in Ohio, and Grandmother Smith died about 1820. Abner Smith departed this life September 11,1818.
The early years of the subject of this notice were
spent at Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio, where he completed his education and commenced the study of law in his father's office. He was admitted to the bar of Greene County, May 22, 1841, and commenced the practice of his profession, being for a time engaged as a teacher. He came to this county in 1842, and has resided within its limits for the long period of forty-eight years. He took up his residence in Xenia twenty-two years ago and has been a witness of its growth and development from that time, while at the same time actively interested in its material welfare. He was elected Justice of the Peace in April, 1876, an office which he has since continuously held by successive re-elections. The fact that he is well spoken of by his fellow- citizens is sufficient indication of his character as an official and a private citizen. Esq. Buck chopped two hundred cords of wood during the time he was studying law.
F6 RANKLIN PIERCE BRYAN is the leading business man of Fairfield, Greene County, and a man of prominence and influence throughout the township, well liked by his ac- quaintances and respected for his business enter- prise and zeal, his good citizenship and his upright Christian character. He deals in groceries, hard- ware and general merchandise, and does a large business. He is of Irish extraction in the paternal line, and a descendant of a worthy family, at least two generations of whom were natives of Frederick County, Md.
The grandfather of our subject was Peter Bryan of the above named State and the owner and oper- ator of a large tract of land. He came to Ohio, locating on Government land at Baltimore, Stark County, where he improved a farm and became a large landowner and prominent and influential citizen. His son Henry, accompanying him to Ohio when a boy, was educated in Stark County, remain- ing on the farm until he was grown to manhood. Hle then went to Dayton where he married and soon afterward located in Fairfield, this county, where he learned wagon-making and put up a shop of his
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own. He worked at the business from 1844 until the spring of 1871, when he sold out and retired until fall. After that rest he embarked in the grocery business as a member of the firm of Louck & Bryan, the connection continuing until 1876, when the senior partner was bought out by our subject, and the firm became Bryan & Son. The business was carried on under this style until Sep- tember, 1889, when the father sold his interest to our subject and retired from business.
Henry Bryan was a man of prominence and in- fluenee, and had an extensive acquaintance through- ont the county in which he had made a successful career. He was Treasurer of Bath Township thirty- three years, or from 1856, until his death, Decem- ber 5, 1889. When called from time to eternity he had reached his three-score years and ten. In politics he was a Demoerat and in religion a be- liever in the doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he was a Trustec and Steward. During the raid of Gen. John Morgan he took the field against the raiders.
The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Lydia Petry. She was born in Lancaster, Pa., and is a daughter of Henry Petry, a baker who came to Ohio in an early day, locating at Dayton. He ran the first coffee house in that city. Subse- quently he removed to Fairfield, this county, where he built a bakery, which he carried on until he re- tired from active life. He died in 1870 at the age of eighty-six years. His daughter, Mrs. Bryan, is yet living, her home being in Fairfield, and her age seventy-one years. She is a member of the Metli- odist Episcopal Church. She is the mother of three children -- Laura I., wife of L. C. Mitman of Bath Township; W. H., a blacksmith at Osborn, and our subjeet.
The gentleman with whose name we introduec this sketeh is still a comparatively young man, having been born June 6, 1852. Fairfield is his birthplace and here he was reared and educated, receiving excellent instruction in the Fairfield High Schools. He learned carriage painting, following it from the time he was seventeen years old until 1871, when he went to Dayton and found employ- ment in the carriage shop of Decamp, and later in the agricultural works of Dodge& Stoddard, where
he remained about five years. Ile then returned to Fairfield, bought out Jolin Louck and became . his father's partner in business, enlarging the stock and remodeling the store, which is now 20x57 feet. In addition to the grocery stock they deal in hard- ware and queensware, having a good trade in those lines and doing the largest grocery business in . town.
In 1879, Mr. Bryan started in the undertaking business with Robert Miller under the style of Mil- ler & Bryan. The business is in charge of the senior partner, the firm doing all in that line in the viein- ity, having their own building and the goods, hearse, carriages and horses needed. When in September, 1889, our subject bought out his fa- ther's interest in the business which they were car- rying on, the style was changed to F. P. Bryan, under which it has since been run. Success has at- tended his efforts in life, and beside his business in- vestments he owns a good residence and four lots.
The estimable lady who presides over Mr. Bryan's cozy home and whose companionship is his chief delight, is a native of Bath Township, where she was reared and educated. She bore the maiden name of Nettie Wilson and became the wife of our subject, September 21, 1876. Their happy union has been childless. William Wilson, the grandfa- thier of Mrs. Bryan, was a native of Kentucky who came to this county about 1800 while still a young man. He entered land in Bath Township, upon which he made improvements until the War of 1812, when he cnlisted, while in the army contraet- ing a disease from which he died in July, 1812. He had married Miss Catherine Heffley, a native of Maryland who came to this section about 1805. After her husband's death Mrs. Wilson left the farm and made her home with her father, Michael Heffley, where she died in the spring of 1813.
William Wilson, Jr., who was born in Bath Township, October 14, 1812, was thus left an or- phan at the age of six months, and was reared by his grandparents until seventeen years of age. He was then apprenticed at the blacksmith's trade un- der Jacob Griner, at Byron, where he spent three years as an apprentice and one year as a journey- man. He then bought the shop and tools and ear- ried on the business for himself eighteen years. At
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the expiration of that period he sold out and "bought a small farm in the neighborhood which he operated nntil 1855, when he traded for a larger estate north of Byron, upon which he resided until 1872. He then retired to Fairfield, where he died December 4, 1881. He was Justiee of the Peaee two terms, and belonged to the Reformed Church forty-four years. In May, 1834, he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Watts, who died March 13,1877.
Mr. Bryan of whom we write is the present Treasurer of Bath Township, having taken his fa. ther's place in that offiee. He has been Treasurer of Fairfield for six years, and has also been a mem- ber of the Common Council four years. Few men of his years have taken a more prominent stand than he in publie affairs or have served with greater eredit in official capacities. His vote and influence are given to the Democratic party. He is active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and Sunday-school, holding various offiees.
OIIN T. MCLAUGHLIN, M. D. The medi- eal profession of Springfield, is honored by the presence in its ranks of Dr. McLaugh- lin, who, to a thorough knowledge of The- rapcuties as understood by the Eclectic School of Medicine, combines the keenness of perception and aecurate judgment which gives him skill in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. He belongs to various medical associations and is medical ex . aminer or surgeon to various societies and eorpo- rations. He is still considerably on the sunny side of fifty, bidding fair to spend many years in use- fulness and increasing reputation in his ehosen work.
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