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JOHNSON CRAWFORD, retired, P. O. Martinsville, was born in Carrroll County, Ohio, July 7, 1819. His parents, Matthew and Susanna (Johnson) Craw- ford, were natives of Ireland and emigrated to America in 1793, and settled in. Augusta Township, Columbiana (now Carroll) County, Ohio, where they were among the first settlers. Our subject was reared on his father's farm. In 1849, he learned painting, which he followed most of the time till the war broke out. He spent one year (1854), in Decatur County, Ind. In 1855, he came to Clark Township, and in 1859. he re- moved to Martinsville. September 11, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Fortietli Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served in the Army of West Virginia, and participated at the battle of Mill Creek, Paintville and Pound Gap. In 1862, he was transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, under Gen. Rosecrans, and served till May, 1863, having fought at Vandoran. He was then taken sick and subsequently was consigned to the Invalid Corps at Camp Jahalt. He served as nurse in Hospital No. 6. Louisville, till February, 1864; he went to Lexington where he was discharged Septem ber 23, 1864. He contracted disease while in military service that disabled him, and he now draws a pension of $6 a month. Mr. Crawford was married, March 19, 1840, to Ruth Sinclair, daughter of Daniel and Lucy Sinclair, born in Columbiana County. Ohio, April 4, 1816. They had two children, viz., William L., born February 7, 1841. married Louisa Roberts, and died September 27, 1872, and left one child -Cora. David was born May 4, 1844. He married Nanny Runyan, now deceased, and had one child-Stella. David enlisted in the late war in Company K, Seventy-sevent !. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served six months; re-enlisted August 2, 1863, in Com- pany C, Seventy-ninth Regiment, and served with Gen. Sherman, and was with him on his famous " march to the sea." He was discharged June 9, 1865, after long and honorable service. Mr. and Mrs. Crawford are members of the Christian Church, and Mr. Crawford is Republican in politics.
HENRY B. CRUMLY, farmer, P. O. Martinsville, ex-Sheriff of Clinton County, was born near Wilmington, Ohio, November 3, 1825. His parents, William and Re- becca Crumly, were natives of Frederick County,. Va. The former was born August
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:1798, and the latter February 12, 1800. William came to Greene County, zel his parents, about 1810, and in 1821, he came to Wilmington. . He followed 'eiching, from early manhood till 1843, when he became Assistant County Clerk, and wcupied that position till 1853, when he was elected Treasurer of Clinton County. He orved the public in that capacity for six years, then kept books in William Fife's pri- rate bank one year. At the expiration of this time, he entered the Auditor's office, as Clerk, and retained that position till the spring of 1865, when he was appointed Audi- tor, and performed the duties of that office till the 25th of August, following, when he was removed from public duty by death. Mrs. Crumly departed this life June, 1875. Henry was reared on his father's farm, near Wilmington, and was educated in the com- mon school. He followed farming up to 1853, then removed to Dover and operated a a w-mill eighteen mouths; then removed to Wilmington, and after three years in the grain trade, he engaged in butchering, which he followed till April 22, 1861, when he : ponded to his country's call by enlisting in the " three months' call," and July 9, 1-61, re-enlisted, and was mustered in, in Company G, Eleventh Regiment Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, for three years as Second Sergeant. and, subsequently, was given the rank of Orderly Sergeant. He fought at Scarry Creek and Canifex, and was skirmish- ing with Tompkins' Cavalry till the following November, when, one night while retreat- ing down Catton Mountain, he fell over a precipice, and sustained injuries for which he was discharged, April, 1862. He now receives a compensation of $4 per month, for his disability. Mr. Crumly served as Assessor of Union Township twelve years. In 1867, he was elected Deputy Sheriff, and, after serving eight years, was elected Sheriff. He served acceptably one term, and declined the earnest solicitations of the people to be a candidate again. In December, 1877, he located on his present farm, which contains sixty-six acres. He was married September 2, 1847, to Mary Doan, daughter of Jesse and Lydia Doan, and a native of Union Township, where she was born October 4. 1825. Of their six children, four are living, viz .. Rosetta, wife of W. A. Harsha, Mollie, Jesse E. and Charles H. Arthur R. and William A. are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Crumly are members of the Society of Friends. Mr. Crumly is a Republican.
THOMAS B. GADDIS, farmer, P. O. Martinsville, was born in Fayette County, Penn., June 30, 1839. His parents, Thomas and Mary Gaddis, were also natives of Fayette County. His father was born December 10, 1805, and died March, 1842 ; and his mother, born June 6, 1809, died July 14, 1881. When Thomas was nine years of age, he was bound out to a farmer, with whom he remained four years. Then, in 1852, le came to his mother, in Highland County, and worked for James B. Herron, a farm- er, for the term of three years. He received, as wages for the first year, $6 per month, $8 for the second, and $13 for the third year. Hc then obtained a situation as clerk, in the store of Enos West, of Berryville. He occupied this position two years, and went to Clermont County and engaged as book-keeper in the turning-mill of J. N. Henning, one year. He then took a course in Bartlett's Commercial College, and graduated in July, 1859. He was then employed as traveling salesman for A. L. Bur- well, a tobacconist, of Lynchburg, Va., till June 1862, when he enlisted in Company HI, Thirty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He rendered able service in the Army of the Mississippi-participating in the three days' fight at Corinth: He was then transferred to Grand Junction, Tenn., and was Private Secretary to John Eaton, Jr., Chaplain of the Twenty-seventh Regiment, for thirteen months. Subsequently, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company D, Ninth Regiment Louisiana Col- ored Troops, October 2, 1863. He was stationed at Cairo, Ill., for a time, receiving and forwarding supplies to the soldiers then at Memphis and Vicksburg. At the close of the war, he came to Lynchburg, Highland County, where he followed merchandising for ten years. He then pursued farming, in Clark Township, till April, 1881, when he removed to Martinsville. In January, 1872, he was appointed Agent for the Royal Fire Insurance, of Liverpool, England, and still retains the agency. Mr. Gaddis owns a fine farm of 336 acres, located in Clark and Washington Townships. Also, 160 acres in Russell County, Kan. He owns town property in Lynchburg, and a beautiful two- story residence and store building in Martinsville. Mr. Gaddis was married June 16,
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1866, to Uphamy Rogers, of Fond du Lac, Wis. She was born in Schuyler County, N. Y., October 5, 1847, and died March 16, 1867. Mr. Gaddis again married, June 30, 1868; this time to Carrie B. Sayers, daughter of John and Jane Sayers, and a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, where she was born September 29, 1851. They have one child living-Thomas Basil. Lulu May and Grace Virginia are deceased. Mr. Gaddis is identified with the I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W. Associations. His political opinions are with the Democratic party.
RILEY GARNER, farmer, P. O. Farmers Station, an carly pioneer of what is now Clark Township, was born near Marysville, Tenn., March 9, 1800. He is a son of James and Mary (Mason) Garner, who came to Clinton County the year prior to the last war with Great Britain. Mr. Garner, our subject, is the fourth son and ninth child of a family of thirteen children, of whom six are living. He was reared to man- hood in the primeval forests of Clark Township, and received only such an education as the " the days " afforded. March 17, 1836, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Betterton, the fourth daughter of Joshua and Mary Betterton, who were among the carly pioneers of this township. Mrs. Garner, a native of Clark Township, was born February 14, 1815. Of twelve children by this union seven are living, viz .: Rebecca J., wife of Seth Hoggatt; Joshua B. married Rebecca Connell ; Louisa, wife of John R. Smithson ; Sarah E .; Susan, wife of John Hildebrant; Olive A., wife of Silas Sanderson ; and William H. Mary E., Emeline, Margaret, Owen B. and au infant are deceased. Mr. Garner has served his township as Justice of the Peace for twenty years consecutively, and has also filled various other local offices. He is a mem- ber of the Society of Friends, and Mrs. Garner of the Methodists. Mr. Garner is also a member of the Grange, and a stockholder in the Farmers & Mechanics Joint Stock Company of Farmers Station. He owns a farm of eighty-five acres and has followed agriculture.
AMOS R. GARNER, farmer, P. O. Martinsville, one of Clinton County's oldest and mest worthy pioneers, was born in Dodson Township, Highland County, June S. 1820. He is a son of John and Eleanor (Ratcliff) Garner, natives respectively of Blount County, Tenn., and North Carolina. His father was born June 1, 1795, and bis mother June 11, 1799. Mr. Garner's parents, James Garner and Mary (Moon) Gar- ner, were natives of Randolph County, N. C. Mr. Garner was born March 9, 1772, and Mrs. Garner was born January 30, 1775. They removed to Blount County, Tenn., in 1796, and to Clinton County, Ohio, in 1811, where they both died, the former March 29, 1856, and the latter August 11, 1840. Mr. Garner, the father of our sub- ject, died in Clark Township June 8, 1831, and his wife died July 23, 1834. Mr. Garner, our subject, was reared on a farm till fourteen years of age, when he began an apprenticeship at tanning, and at the expiration of the term of seven years, he engaged in the business and followed it extensively for over forty years, and it is said that his leather excelled any other manufactured in Southern Ohio. In 1874, Mr. Garner re- tired from active business. Mr. Garner's early life was spent in the primitive forest of Clark Township, whose principal inhabitants were then but wild animals; and it was not unfrequently that Mr. Garner would see a drove of forty deer. His father was a great deer hunter, and Mr. Garner himself became quite an expert as a hunter, and particularly so in dispatching wild turkey, which were very numerous. Mr. Garner's ad- vantages for securing an education were very limited. The schoolhouse was built with poles and furnished with split rail seats, greased paper window lights and a monster fire-place. Mr. Garner was married the first time, June 8, 1843, to Susan Betterton, daughter of Joshua and Mary Betterton, born in Clark Township, Sunday, February 8, 1818, and died January 30, 1872. Mr. Garner again married, December 12, 1872, to Martha Sewell, a native of Vernon Township, born September 2, 1835, and a daugh- ter of David and Martha Sewell. One child was given to bless this union-Eldon C., born October 13, 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Garner are consistent members of the Society of Friends. Mr. Garner's political affiliations were with the Whig party till the organ- ization of the Republican party, when he enlisted in its ranks. He served as a mem- ber of the Board of Trustees of Clark Township for twenty-four years, and within this
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period of time he aided in removing to the County Infirmary 117 paupers, of whom Mighty were driven there by tobacco and strong drink. He also assisted in obtaining the grant for making thirty miles of township ditch in Clark Township. Thus Mr. Girser's labors as Trustee were very efficient.
ROBERT B. GREEN, farmer, P. O. Martinsville, son of Robert and Mary (Jack- & n; Green, was born in the township of his residence September 1, 1835 ; he was on a Arm till eighteen years of age, when he learned the trade of tanning, which he followed 15. Lynchburg, New Vienna and Martinsville for a term of years; he then engaged in the pursuit of farming, which he still follows. In 1872, he took up his residence on his present farm. November 26, 1855, he was united in marriage with Sarah A., daughter of Peyton and Sarah H. West. Mrs. Green was born in Clark Township July 25, 1836. Six children were the fruits of this union, three sons and three daughters, as follows : Charles E., born August 11, 1856 (married Anna P. Patterson) ; Peyton W., was born July 19, 1858; Josiah E., born May 23, 1865 ; Carrie E., born October 14, 1862; Mary .E., born April 22, 1868; and Cora A., born May 20, 1872. Mr. Green and family are members of the Friends' Society. Mr. Green is Republican in politics. He owns a farm of 100 acres, with good improvements and under a good state of cultivation, and he is engaged in farming and raising Poland- China hogs.
HAINES BROS., consisting of S. J. and G. H. Haines, general merchants, Martinsville, are natives of Marion Township, Clinton County. The former was born May 20, 1844, and the latter June 30, 1846. They were both reared to manhood on their father's farm, and were educated in the common schools. The former attended he Lebanon Commercial College, and graduated in 1866. After the latter had taught hool three years, they engaged in the live-stock business in Stark County, Ind., and after pursuing that successfully for two years, they came to Westboro and embarked in the mercantile business. In November, 1877, they came to Martinsville and resumed mercantile pursuits, which they have since carried on quite extensively and with almost unequaled success. They keep on hand a large stock of dry goods, groceries, boots, -hors, and clothing, to the amount of $4,000. Their annual business aggregates $18,- u00. They own conjointly the old homestead in Marion Township, which contains 288 utres, and they pursue to a considerable extent farming and raising Poland-China hogs. The Messrs. Haines grew to manhood together, and ever since formed a firm in busi- ness. They are men of good business qualities, and' their efforts have thus far been crowned with success. Mr. S. J. Haines was married, August 17, 1871, to Mary Sim- cox, a daughter of John and Arena Simcox, and a native of Jefferson Township, where she was born and reared. They have one child-Clarence E., born August 31, 1872. Mr. G. H. Haines was married April 28, 1872, to Sallie E. Leming, who was born in ('lormont County August 18, 1853. Mrs. Haines is a daughter of Randolph and Mar- paret Leming. This union had two children-Everly L., born March 28, 1873, and Raleigh (deceased). The Messrs. Haines are connected with the society of I. O. O. F., and, with their families, are members of the M. E. Church. They own their private residences in Martinsville. Their political views are Republican. Mr. G. H. Haines served as Treasurer of Jefferson Township two years, and as a member of the Village Council in Martinsville two years. Mr. S. J. Haines was a member of Company E., One Hundred and Forty-sixth Regiment Ohio National Guard, and was discharged with ins regiment in 1864.
J. W. HAYNIE, farmer, P. O. Farmers Station, was born near Wilmington, Ohio, December 9, 1845. He was a son of William N. and Sophia (Conner) Haynie, the former a native of Virginia, where he was born December 11, 1821, and the latter of Frederick County, Md., where her birth occurred August 6, 1828. Mr. Haynie, the father of our subject, came to this county, with his parents, in 1831, and settled in Union Township. His father died in Clinton County, January 14, 1880, aged eighty- three, and Mrs. Haynie died August, 1881, aged eighty-two years. Mr. Haynie, our subject's father, was for several years a merchant in New Antioch, and died January 11, 1875. Our subject speut a part of his youth and early manhood as a clerk in his
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father's store. When fifteen, he began and served an apprenticeship of four years at the blacksmith trade. He drove a notion wagon one year for Robert Skimming, of Burtonville. He then resorted to farming, which he followed in Greene Township till ' July, 1880, when he purchased and located on his present farın. He is engaged in till- ing the soil and raising Poland. China hogs. His farm contains eighty acres of well-im- proved and cultivated land. September 6, 1866, he was united in marriage with Sarah J. Babbitt, a daughter of Thomas and Melinda Babbitt, and a native of Washington Township, where she was born November 17, 1848. They have four children living, viz .: Alice, born June 30, 1867 ; Whitfield, born July 27, 1871 ; Emma, born September 26, 1877 ; and Villie, born January 13, 1880. Naomi, Hattie and Thomas are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Haynie are members of the Christian Church. In politics, Mr. Haynie is neutral.
ABNER HIATT, farmer, P. O. Martinsville, an old pioneer of Clark Township, was born near Martinsville February 16, 1821. His parents, Christopher and Jemima (Hunt) Hiatt, were natives of North Carolina and Virginia, respectively. They came to Clinton County in 1813, and settled in Clark Township, where Mr. Hiatt died April 7, 1868, at the advanced age of eighty-five. Mrs. Hiatt died in June, 1868. Mr. Hiatt, our subject, was roared a farmer's boy, and always followed the pursuits of that avocation till 1866, when he embarked in the mercantile business in Martinsville, which ho pursued one year, and removed to Martinsville, and has since lived retired. October 14, 1841, he was married to Elizabeth Lytle, who bore him two children, viz., Francis- co, born May 14, 1843, and married Catharine Millikan. He served in the Eighty- fifth Regimental Battalion of the Ohio National Guards. In June, 1863, he enlisted in Company F of the Eighty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged at the close of the war. Florence E., our subject's youngest daughter, was born Au- gust 15, 1851, and married J. C. Edwards, a harness-maker and dealer in boots and shoes, in Martinsville. Mr. Hiatt is a member of the Village Council of Martinsville, and in politics is a close adherent to the doctrines of the Republican party. He owns a good farm of 152 acres on Survey No. 1008.
CLARKSON HIATT, farmer, P. O. Martinsville, was born in Clark Township, June 25, 1823. His parents, Christopher and Jemima Hiatt, were natives of Guilford County, N. C., and Grayson County, Va., respectively. The former was born February 5, 1783, and the latter June -, 1784. They were married in Grayson County, Va .. and came to Clinton County in 1813, and settled in Clark Township, where Mr. Hiatt died April 7, 1868. Mrs. Hiatt died in June following. They had a family of ten chil - dren, seven sons and three daughters. Our subject is the fifth son and ninth child The Hiatt family are of English ancestry. Their genealogy is traced back to one of three brothers, who emigrated from England with William Penn in 1682, and who boro the original name of Van Hiatt, but since its advent in America it has been modified and changed, omitting the first part of the word. Mr. Hiatt, our subject, was reared and brought up on a farm, and was educated in the common schools. March 3, 1847, he was joined in marriage with Jane Hollingsworth, daughter of James and Esther Hollingsworth, natives of South Carolina and Bedford County, Va. Mrs. Hollings- worth was born January 25, 1800. Mrs. Hiatt was born in Warren County, Ohio, August 5, 1826. They have seven children, viz., Lorenzo D., Francis M., Evelyn (wife of' Cary N. Cluxton), Albert P., Lorn M., Warren E. and Edwin J. In 1848, Mr. Hiatt located on the farin he now occupies, which contains 131 acres, and pursues agri-, culture and stock-raising. He and family are consistent members of the Society of Friends, and politically he is a close adherent to Republican principles, formerly advo- cating Whig policies.
JOSEPH HIXSON, farmer, P. O. Martinsdale, member of the Board of Trust- ees of Clark Township, was born in Highland County, Ohio, December 17, 1837. He is a son of John and Nancy Hixson, who removed to Jefferson Township, Clinton County, in 1852, and they are still residents of that Township. Joseph was reared to his majority on his father's farm, and has always followed the pursuits of that occupa- tion. The spring of 1870 he moved to his present farm, on the Martinsville & Westboro
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Pike, two miles south of Martinsville. He owns a farm of 110 acres, with good improve- ments ; he pursues farming in connection with rearing Poland-China hogs and Cotswold sheep. December 24, 1862, Mr. Hixson was married to Emily J., daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Johnson, and a native of Jefferson Township, where she was born Sep tember 29, 1842. This marriage resulted in five children, four of whom are living -Thomas W., born December 16, 1863; Frank H., August 13, 1866 ; Caleb L., September 14, 1873; and Carl, May 25, 1879; Frederick N., September. 1866, and died April 15, 1877. Mr. Ilickson and wife are members of the Friends' Society. Mr. Hickson is connected with the I. O. O. F. and the Encampment at Lynchburg. In April, 1880, he was elected a member of the Board of Trustees, and was re-elected in 1881. In politics, he is a Republican. He is a Commissioner of the Martinsville & Westboro Free Pike.
M. L. HUNT, banker and merchant of Martinsville, was born in Clark Township February 2, 1836. He is a son of Jesse and Anna (Moon) Hunt, the former a native of Grayson County, Va., and the latter of Clark Township. Mr. Hunt passed his carly life upon his father's farm, and received the elements of his education in the high school of Martinsville and Lebanon Normal. In 1858, he engaged in the profession of teach- ing, which he pursued for eight years. The last three years of his engagements in that. profession he was Principal of the Martinsville Public Schools, and it was during his superintendency that the schools of that place ranked with the best schools of Clinton County. Mr. Hunt then became book-keeper in the First, National Bank of Wilmington, occupying that position till October of 1867, when he engaged in the mer- cantile business in Martinsville, with Larkin Cleland, under the firm name of Cleland & Hunt. In August, 1873, this firm succeeded Moore & Hunter in the Farmers' Bank, and Mr. Hunt has since been in the banking business. Mr. Hunt entered the arena of life with very limited means, but with his self-acquired qualifications and excel- lent business ability, perseverance and energy, he has attained to success in all the posi- tions of his life, as teacher, merchant and banker, and while he has acquired valuable possessions, he highly deserves the success of his honorable achievements. He has filled various official relations in his township and village with general acceptability. He served as Township Treasurer for sixteen years, and as Treasurer of the Special School District and Corporation for the same length of time. He was a member of the Board of School Examiners for the term of five years, and performed the duties of that office with credit to himself and to the highest satisfaction of the public. Mr. Hunt's political affiliations have been with the Republican party. He celebrated his marriage November 1, 1866, with Miss Sarah E. Wright, a daughter of James Wright, and a native of Clark Township, where she was born September 29, 1845. Two sons were the fruits of this union-Wright, born January 15, 1868, and Reid, who was born April 20, 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt are consistent members of the Society of Friends. Mr. Hunt is the owner of a very commodious residence, and a half-interest in two busi- ness houses in Martinsville.
WILLIAM S. HUNT, farmer, P. O. Martinsville, son of Thomas and Susanna Hunt, was born in Grayson County, Va., August 27, 1816; his father was a native of North Carolina, and his mother of New Jersey. They were married, and came to Clin- ton County when our subject was but three years old. They settled in Clark Township, where our subject was reared to manhood. He was married, November 28, 1847, to Phebe, daughter of Ezekiel and Elizabeth Hayworth. Mrs. Hunt was born in Clark Township, January 28, 1828; her parents came to Clinton County at a very early day. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt were blessed with eight children; of these, six are living, viz .: Charles E., born July 30, 1849; Aaron J., born February 14, 1852; Isaiah, born January 20, 1854 ; Sylbia, born March 28, 1859, wife of Sanford W. Doan ; Oliver, born July 14, 1861 ; and William, born March 12, 1870. Sarah E. and Sarah are de- ceased. In February, 1857, Mr. Hunt located on his present farm, and has since been engaged in farming and stock-raising ; he owns 225 acres of well-improved land. Mr. and Mrs. H. are members of the Friends' Church. Mr. H. is Republican in politics.
JOSEPH F. HUNTER, real estate dealer, Martinsville, is a son of James and
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