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child of John Sands the second, was married in October, 1748, to Mary, daughter of Richard Smith, and located at Newburg, Orange county, N. Y., where he died in 1789, after rearing two sons and two daughters. John Wilkes, son of Joshua, married Catharine Tidd, by whom he had four sons and six daughters. His son and namesake, Joshua the second, eldest of the children, was born March 2, 1802, and married, August 9, 1827, to Betsey Cole, of Delaware county, N. Y. He resided at Elmira and elsewhere in New York until 1852, when he located at Five Mile Summit, Hock- ing county, Ohio. He was a railroad contractor and built a portion of the old Scioto & Hocking Valley railroad, losing heavily when the company in charge of that line failed. He had seven sons and three daughters, of whom there still live Alexander C., of Logan, Ohio; Amelia Mariah, widow of Mark Horth, of Salamanca, N. Y .; Clarissa Ann, wife of J. G. Brand, who has been in mission work at Tokio, Japan, for twenty-eight years; and John Frederic. The latter was born February 7, 1841, at Elmira, N. Y., and began rail- road work with the old Marietta & Cincinnati, now the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, in 1857. In October, 1895, after remaining forty years in the employment of that company, he removed to Hillsboro to take charge of the United States express office at that place. June 23, 1863, he was married to Sarah Josephine, daughter of Joseph E. and Julia A. (Lindley) Lange, of Napoleon, Ind. From this union came Clarissa, who died in childhood; Frederic A., dis- patcher for the Missouri Pacific railroad company in Kansas ; John E., agent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company at Hills- boro; William Peabody, chief dispatcher of the Mexican Central railroad at Jimulco, Mexico ; Julia Ann, stenographer in Cincinnati ; George Narumo, with the Illinois Central railroad at St. Louis; and Mary Agnes, assistant manager of the Hillsboro Home telephone company. John E. Sands, third of the above enumerated children, was born January 29, 1869, in Zaleski, Vinton county, Ohio, and began railroad work with his father when thirteen years old. He took charge of the Hillsboro station of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad in January, 1897, and in the following November was married to Estelle, daughter of Henry and Martha (McFadden) Gallup, of Wilmington, Ohio. The Gallups are relatives of the Captain Gal- lup, of Revolutionary fame, to whose memory a memorial tablet has been erected at Stonington, Conn. Mr. Sands is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, belongs to all the Masonic bodies up to and including the Knights Templar, is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. He and wife have one son, Carlos E., born October 18, 1898.
John Satterfield, former trustee and at present a justice of the peace of Jackson township, is a native of Adams county, and a
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descendant of pioneers of southern Ohio. His grandfather, James Satterfield, a native of Virginia, married in that state and came with his wife to Pike county, where he lived the remainder of his life, and reared a family of ten children-James, William, John, Mazie, Elizabeth, Patsy, Fannie, Anna, Polly, and Thyrza. James Satterfield, the eldest son, born in Pike county, January 1, 1809, was married October 18, 1830, to Mahala Legg (born March 16, 1810), and they began their married life in Pike county, but soon bought a farm in Adams county, where the husband and father lived to the age of seventy-seven years. The mother died at forty-three. They had ten children: Charles, born in 1832, now living in Kansas ; Francis, born in 1834, deceased; Thomas, born in 1836, also in Kansas; Noble, born in 1838, whose home is in Jackson township; Lewis, born in 1840, deceased; Elizabeth, born in 1842, deceased ; Sarah, born in 1845, deceased; Angenora, born in 1847, deceased ; and John, the subject of this sketch. The latter was born on the home farm in Adams county, near Locust Grove, April 10, 1850. At seventeen years of age he went out to work at farming by the month, making his own way in the world, and in early manhood he was married to Rachel Beavers, a native of Pickaway county, Ohio. They began married life in Pickaway county, and afterward lived two years in Franklin county, Ohio. Four children were born to them-Maggie, Blanche, James, and an infant unnamed, all of whom are deceased, and their mother died in 1882. Subsequently Mr. Satterfield was married to Sarah E. Gall, of Jackson township, and they have three children: Harry, Homer, and William, who share their home. Mr. Satterfield has been engaged in general farm- ing and stock raising since his residence in Jackson township, and has been honored with the office of trustee for several years, and that of justice of the peace for two terms. In 1890 he was the land appraiser of the township. He and wife are members of the Chris- tian church and he follows the traditions of his family in maintain- ing a stanch allegiance to the Democratic party.
Stephen Sauner, one of the most prominent and prosperous citizens of White Oak township, now retired, came to America in April, 1852, and reached Mowrystown fifty dollars in debt for his trans- portation. Since then he has been the owner of as much as seven- teen hundred acres of land in the township, and has had a leading part in the affairs of his community. This worthy citizen was born in Alsace, France, July 15, 1830, son of George Sauner, a native of the same place. George Sauner was married three times and had nine children, Stephen being a son by the second marriage. He lived and died in the old country, but some of his sons, like Stephen, have become prosperous citizens of the United States. Stephen, on coming to White Oak township, where he was attracted by the old
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French settlement, worked at farming by the month for something over three years, and then married Susan Gayman, a native of France and daughter of John Gayman, with whom he went to house- ยท keeping on a rented farm near Taylorsville. Three years later they rented a farm near Mowrystown, known as the Trimble farm, and after six years he and a partner bought a farm of six hundred acres. Through his industry and good management he was able to buy out his partner, and later he added to his holdings a farm of 250 acres, where he now resides, and some time after another farm of 750 acres, near Taylorsville, where he lived for thirty-five years. After that he divided his land among his children and moved to his present home previously purchased as noted above. He has been honored for two terms with the office of township trustee, has served as school director a few years, and is a devoted member of the Presbyterian church, which he joined at the age of fourteen years in France. The eleven children of Stephen Sauner are all living in White Oak town- ship, and are counted among the most worthy people. They are, Sophia, wife of Lee Kay; Edward, Amelious, Lewis S., Frank; Anna, wife of Frank Ruble; Louise, wife of Scott Kay; Mary, wife of Sherman Underwood; Lizzie, wife of William Windom; Henry and Harry. Frank Sauner, a prosperous farmer and present town- ship trustee, was born on the farm now owned by his brother Amelious, December 22, 1863. He was educated in the district schools, and in early manhood married Lillie Hoskinson, a native of Athens county, Ohio. Two years after their marriage he bought the farm where he now lives. He is the owner of two hundred acres of valuable land, and is successful as a farmer and stock raiser. In politics he is, like his father, a Democrat, and his religious affiliation is with the Presbyterian church. His home is blessed with four chil- dren : Bessie, Ina, Elza, and Ada.
Amelious Sauner, son of the foregoing, was born July 21, 1859, in the house where he now lives, and he was there reared, receiving his education in the district school. When he had attained man- hood he married Ida J. Roberts, a native of White Oak township, daughter of J. P. and Maria Roberts, and a member of one of the prominent old families of the county. They began housekeeping where they now reside, and in the course of the years that have fol- lowed six children have been born to them-Blanche C., Stephen H., Gary J., Marsena M., who are living at home; and Stella and Clara, deceased. Mr. Sauner has prospered as a farmer and stock raiser, giving special attention to the breeding of Shorthorn cattle and Poland-China hogs, and he has added to his land possessions until he has four hundred acres. He is also active in business as a dealer in livestock of all kinds, and in the handling of brick and tile, with
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headquarters at Mowrystown. Altogether he is one of the busiest and most successful men of the township. Socially he has a wide circle of friends. He and wife are members of the Presbyterian church, in which his family has been prominent for many years, and in politics he is a Democrat.
Lewis S. Sauner, son of Stephen Sauner, a sketch of whom pre- cedes this mention, is one of the prosperous farmers and influential citizens of White Oak township. He was born at the old Sauner homestead, June 29, 1861, and there reared and educated, attending the district school and aiding in the work of the farm, and also attend- ing school at Taylorsville. In early manhood he was married to Altie E. Surber, who was born and reared in the same township, daughter of John P. and Jennie M. Surber, and descendant of one of the first settlers. They began their married life upon a farm adjoining the one where they now live, which he bought twelve years after their marriage. He has made all the improvements on this new home, and has one of the best equipped and managed farms in the neighborhood, a mere glance at which testifies to his skill as a husbandman. He is the owner of 350 acres of valuable land, and in addition to farming raises livestock and deals in the same to a con- siderable extent. Mr. Sauner is a worthy member of the Christian church, in politics is a Democrat, and enjoys the esteem of many friends. He has three children, all living at home-Winnie L., Ora C., and John Leroy.
Theodore F. Scott, M. D., one of the popular physicians of Lynch- burg, where he has made many friends during his period of residence, is of Virginia descent and Ohio birth. His grandparents, John and Mary Scott, came from Scotland to Virginia in the early part of the nineteenth century. Their son, John F. Scott, was born in that state in 1818, migrated to Ohio in early manhood and subsequently married Catharine Erlougher, born in 1820 in Muskingum county. She was a daughter of Frank and Elizabeth Erlougher, who came from London, England, settled near Zanesville and besides Mrs. Scott reared a son named John and two daughters, who are now all dead. The children of John F. and Catharine (Erlougher) Scott were twelve in number, three sons and nine daughters. Anthony Scott, eldest of the family, was the first volunteer enrolled in the call for 75,000 troops made in April, 1861. He served three months as major of the Fourth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry and upon re-enlistment was transferred to the Eighteenth regiment United States regular troops. The second of the children in order of birth was Mary Elizabeth, who married James Stevens, of Delaware, Ohio; next came Frances, wife of Lucien Derthick, of Lima ; Helen, wife of Rev. G. W. Burns, minister of the Methodist Episcopal
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church at Middleport, Ohio; Theodore F., subject of this sketch; Josephine, wife of E. E. Gardner, of Hamler, Ohio; Anolia, wife of William Faze, of Columbus Grove, Ohio; Iad, wife of Leroy Douglas, of Lima; Belle, Catharine, and Harry F. died in child- hood, and Minnie M., who resides with her mother at Lima, Ohio. Theodore F. Scott, one of the three sons of this interesting family, was born November 5, 1850, and received his academical education in the schools of Sunbury and Delaware. As he grew up he went through a course of medical study and eventually began practice at Hamler, Ohio, subsequently following his profession at Fort Collins, Col. Returning from the west he spent some time at Lima and then located in Cincinnati, where he attended lectures and graduated at the Medical Institute in the class of 1890. In the following Janu- ary Dr. Scott located at Lynchburg, where he has since remained and become one of the permanent fixtures of that prosperous town. His thirteen years' residence has given him a wide acquaintance, both professional and personal, and a corresponding degree of popularity in the country where he does business. March 2, 1871, he was mar- ried to Viola J., daughter of John and Hannah (Truax) Campton, formerly of Lima: Their only son, Wilmer, graduated in 1901 from the Lynchburg high school and is now going through a course of reading preparatory to becoming a practitioner of medicine.
The Scott Family :- The founder of the Highland county branch of this well known and influential connection was William Scott, a native of Peterboro, N. H., who when a small boy came with his mother to Franklinton, Ohio. David Scott, the husband and father, had preceded the family to the town mentioned, now a part of Colum- bus, where for many years he was a practicing attorney. William received a collegiate education, which was supplemented by a thor- ough study of the law, and in 1832 located at Hillsboro. There he practiced his profession with success and rose rapidly, being elected prosecuting attorney a year or two after his arrival and serving through 1834-5 with a decided addition to his reputation. As busi- ness increased, Mr. Scott engaged in brokerage and money lending, through which means he accumulated a comfortable competency which at his death was bequeathed to his widow and children. He was a man of unostentatious demeanor, but possessed excellent qual- ities which made him beloved by his family and highly esteemed by his intimate friends. During the civil war he was noted for the warmth of his patriotism and conscientious devotion to the Union cause. In 1862 he was appointed provost marshal for the district including Hillsboro, but on account of declining health was com- pelled to resign the position after a few months, to be succeeded by Joseph K. Marley. In many ways he made a patriotic record, notably in paying for the equipment of a Hillsboro cavalry company
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which, in his honor, was named the Scott Dragoons. In 1843 he was married to Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Dr. Samuel Parsons, of Columbus, which union resulted in the birth of a son and daughter. Samuel Parsons Scott, the only son and executor of his father's estate, was born at Hillsboro, Ohio, and received as he grew to man- hood an excellent education, both academic and professional. He was graduated with high honors at the Miami university in 1866, subsequently applied himself assiduously to the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1868. Mr. Scott is indeed a gentleman of unusual accomplishments, having traveled extensively in Europe, acquiring a knowledge of several languages and written a volume entitled "Through Spain." He looks after the estate of his father, which includes numerous holdings of realty and constitutes one of the factors in the wealth and prosperity of the Highland city. In 1895 he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert B. and Mary (Woodbridge) Smart, of Chillicothe, and granddaughter of John Woodbridge. The family enjoy high social rank at Hillsboro.
James H. Sellers, proprietor of the marble works at Greenfield, is a factor in the religious, fraternal and industrial life of the city. The family are of Highland county, where his father, Grover C. Sellers, son of John H. Sellers, an old settler of Greenfield, was for a time engaged in the furniture business. In 1896 he concluded to change the character of his investment and embarked in the marble business at Greenfield, which he followed until the time of his death. He was a steady and reliable citizen, took a lively interest in public matters, including politics, and contributed his full share toward the city's industrial growth. Grover C. Sellers married Mary, daughter of John Fullerton, by whom he reared a family of six chil- dren, who are in business at various points in Ohio. George C. Sellers is assistant cashier in the First National bank of Wellston, and Otis Q. is engaged in the produce business at the same place. Carrie Marie Sellers lives in Dayton, Ohio, and her sister Ola is the wife of Edward J. Pratt, a farmer residing near Granville, in Lick- ing county. John F. follows the occupation of paper-hanging at Greenfield. James H. Sellers is next to the youngest of the children, and was born in Highland county and there grew up and received his education. He was not in business for himself until after his father's death, when he took charge of the marble works in Green- field and has since conducted the same successfully. Though he occasionally lends a hand in the political campaigns, Mr. Sellers is not an office seeker and does not allow politics to interfere with busi- ness. He holds membership in the First Baptist church at Green- field and is prominent in the Sunday school work. His influence is always thrown to the right side of good causes and he aids as far as lies in his power every movement for the advancement of the moral
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welfare of the community. His fraternal connections are confined to the Odd Fellows and he is a member of the encampment of that order.
Ben Ami Selph, a large land-owner and one of the representative farmers of Highland county, is of pioneer descent through Virgin- ian parentage. Coleman Selph, son of a physician in King and Queen county, Va., was born in 1803, was married in Rockbridge of the same state to Mary Heck, and migrated to Highland county in 1829. He located first not far from the source of Fall creek and next year bought a tract of one hundred acres of land in Penn town- ship, a mile south of the village of Samantha, where his second oldest son, Eli B. Selph, still resides. The mother died on this place in 1880 and her husband passed away August 1, 1882. Their children, aside from the one above mentioned, were John, who died at the age of twenty-three years; Elizabeth, widow of Charles Evans, who is farming several miles north of Hillsboro; Cynthia, widow of Daniel Thorp, formerly of Hillsboro; David, a retired farmer of Hillsboro; Ben Ami, who is fully noticed below ; Amanda, who married Madison Boatright and died in Liberty township in 1865; and Hester, who died when twenty-three years old. Ben Ami Selph, the youngest of the sons, was born in Highland county, Ohio, July 12, 1838, and went through the usual vicissitudes of a farmer's boy in his passage by way of schools and farm work to manhood's estate. He has been a farmer all his adult life and a good one, managing well and work- ing hard with the result that he now owns the tract of 376 acres for- merly taken up by John Matthews, who about 1825 erected the brick residence in which Mr. Selph and family now reside. He also owns 330 acres of fine farm land in Dodson township. The fine farm he resides on is situated three miles north of Hillsboro, near Clear creek. On August 16, 1864, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Houston) Robb, who were early settlers in Cler- mont county, and the offspring of this union are: Coleman Emmett, who married Elizabeth Keeler and lives in Covington, Ky. ; Georgia, wife of Carey McConnaughey, a farmer of Dodson township; Auta N., wife of Dr. George Groth, a practicing dentist at Hillsboro ; Pearl, who graduated as a trained nurse from the Jewish hospital of Cincinnati and resides in Kentucky, Arlington and Vesta, at home. These children, so far as they have branched out in business, have exhibited unusual talent in their respective lines of employment and give bright promise of future success.
Giles W. Setty has long been favorably known in his native county of Highland as a soldier who did his duty during the civil war and as an industrious citizen since the close of the great conflict. His father, Christopher Setty, was a native of Virginia who came west
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in the carly part of the last century to cast his lot with the ever increasing army then engaged in making the great state of Ohio. Being a poor man, with little capital aside from his ability and dis- position to work, he had a long and hard struggle to gain a foothold, but eventually succeeded in accumulating a creditable competence. He settled in Brush Creek township, Highland county, bought thirty acres in the woods, built a round log cabin with one room and set to work hewing and felling, grubbing and clearing until he had a hab- itable abode. By saving and industry he managed to add to his lit- tle place from time to time, and his holdings amounted to 123 acres when at the age of eighty-three he closed his earthly career. Before leaving Virginia he had married Margaret Shoemaker, who shared the toils and struggles of his western home and made him the father of fourteen children. Of these thirteen grew to maturity, twelve married and reared families, five are now dead and seven living in different parts of the country. Levina, the eldest, is the widow of John Setty, and resides in Brush Creek township; Amy is the wid- owed wife of William Hottinger of Adams county ; Levi resides on the old homestead ; John lives in Jackson township; Elizabeth is the widow of David Kessler, of Marshall township; Anthony G. is a resident of Adams county, and Sanford E. is a farmer in North Dakota. The children who are dead include Malinda, who married Thomas Gall; Mary, wife of N. Glaze; Jemima, wife of Adam Stults; Abraham, who was thrown by a horse and killed at the age of nineteen ; and one who died in infancy. Giles W. Setty, one of the living children not enumerated above, was born in Brush Creek township, Highland county, Ohio, September 6, 1843. In those days they still had the old fashioned subscription schools and to one of these, a mile from his home, Mr. Setty used to walk in his boy- hood for the purpose of gleaning such crumbs of knowledge as were dispensed by the pedagogue in charge. When he was well on towards manhood the civil war interrupted the even tenor of his way and like other patriotic boys of the time he was anxious to take part in the fighting. As his youth caused parental objection, he ran away from home one day and, hunting up a recruiting officer, enrolled his name on the list of Company D, Sixtieth regiment Ohio volunteer infan- try. Under command of Col. William H. Trimble this regiment was sent to the Shenandoah valley in the spring of 1862 to join Fre- mont in his pursuit of Stonewall Jackson. It fought well at Cross Keys and other engagements of that campaign and was among the unfortunates who got caught in that "man trap," as Harper's Ferry had before been called by General Joe Johnston, and were forced after four days' fighting, to surrender to the redoubtable Jackson. They were sent to the parole camp at Annapolis, M.d., and subse- quently to Camp Douglass, Chicago, where they were mustered out of the service. But Mr. Setty had not had enough of war and
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July 15, 1863, he enlisted in Company E, First regiment Ohio heavy artillery, with which he served until the close of hostilities. This command was sent to Knoxville, Tenn., in the winter of 1864, and later accompanied Stonemen on his raid into southwest Virginia. Mr. Setty was detailed as a scout in Georgia, North Carolina and East Tennessee and obtained his discharge in August, 1865. After returning home he was married September 10th to Ruth A., daugh- ter of William and Harriet Hiser, of Brush Creek township. He rented his father's farm for a year and then spent two years in Fay- ette county, after which he put in three years on a farm in Jackson township, Highland county. His next move was to Adams county, where he bought a farm and managed it four years, and this was fol- lowed by a purchase of sixty acres in Paulding county. This proved a disastrous venture, as he lost all he had in a two years' trial there, which caused him to return to Highland county and begin again as a renter. In 1888 Mr. Setty located on the sixty-three acres of land, where he has since resided, engaged in general farming and stock- raising. By his first marriage he had six children: George W., a machinist in Chicago; Evan M., a carpenter also of Chicago; Albert D., resident of Highland county; Ora A., in the quarter- master's department of the regular army, stationed at New Orleans ; Hattie A. and Eva M., wife of Walter Brock, of Highland county. The first wife dying in March, 1897, Mr. Setty married Mrs. Lizzie Gordon, widow of Edward Gordon and daughter of Lewis Eckert. Mr. Setty has held several offices in the county and township and has always given satisfaction. He served three terms as assessor and two terms as constable of Paint township. He has been school direc- tor for many years, and in 1898 was elected one of the members of the board of commissioners of Highland county. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, the Union Veterans' Union, Odd Fellows lodge at New Petersburg, and Rainsboro post, Grand Army of the Republic.
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