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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County,
Ohio
An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention
to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial,
Educational, Civic and Social Development
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Prepared Under the Editorial Supervision of
Dr. Benjamin F. Prince
President Clark County Historical Society
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Assisted by a Board of Advisory Editors
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Volumes 2
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Published by
The American Historical Society
Chicago and New York
1922
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CHARLES ELIHU BALLARD.
The profession of law at Springfield is ably represented by
Charles Elihu Ballard, who has had a successful and
busy professional career, in which he has attained a high
place in his calling. During the twenty-three years that he
has practiced at Springfield he has not only established a
high personal reputation for ability and character, but has
also served acceptably in positions of trust and
responsibility.
Mr. Ballard was born in August, 1865, on
a farm in Clinton County, Ohio, and is a son of Abram and
Mary J. (Oren) Ballard. David Ballard, the
great-great-grandfather of Charles E. Ballard, was born in
Virginia, and in 1800 came to the present site of
Wilmington, Ohio. A Quaker in religious faith, he served as
preacher at Quaker meeting, and was probably the first of
that denomination in that part of the country. His son,
John Ballard, the great-grand father of Charles E.
Ballard, accompanied his father to Wilmington, in which
locality he entered Government land and engaged in
agricultural pursuits during the remainder of his life.
Joseph Ballard, the grandfather of Charles, was
born at Wilmington, in 1812, and married Susanna
Stillings, who had been brought from Virginia to Clinton
County by her parents about 1825, the family traveling
overland in true pioneer fashion.
Abram Ballard was born in Clinton County, Ohio,
where he was given a country school education, and on
attaining his majority followed in the footsteps of his
forefathers and adopted the vocation of farming, which he
followed throughout his life. He was a man of industry and
probity, and in his death, which occurred in 1913, his
community lost a reliable and public-spirited citizen. Mr.
Ballard married Miss Mary J. Oren, who died in
1892, a daughter of Elihu and Jane (Newcomb) Oren,
the former born in Tennessee, whence he came with his
father,
John Oren, to Clinton County, Ohio, in 1810. Elihu
Oren
was a farmer and schoolteacher, and during the Civil war and
prior thereto was an ardent Union man and abolitionist. His
home served as a station on the Underground Railway, and he
assisted many slaves to the securing of their freedom by
helping to send them to a safe refuge in Canada. He married
in Clark County in 1830, and immediately thereafter moved to
Clinton County, where he spent the rest of his life. He and
the members of his family belonged to the Society of
Friends. The children born to Abram and Mary J. (Oren)
Ballard were: Clara, who died at Adrian,
Michigan, in September, 1921, as the wife of Hiram
Arnold; Charles Elihu, of this review; and Joseph F.,
who is the owner of a model farm in Clinton County.
Charles Elihu Ballard attended the public
schools of his home locality, following which he pursued a
course at Wilmington College. He then took up his
professional studies at the Cincinnati Law School, from
which he was graduated in 1894 with the degree of Bachelor
of Law, and immediately thereafter commenced his
professional labors at South Charleston. After five years he
decided that Springfield offered a wider field for the
demonstration of his abilities, and he accordingly opened an
office at this city, which has since been the scene of his
success. He has always practiced independently and has
carried on a general law business. For four years, 1913,
1914, 1915 and 1916. he served ably as prosecuting attorney,
establishing an excellent record for industry and close
attention to the duties of his office. In 1890 he served as
census enumerator. Mr. Ballard is a republican
in politics. As a fraternalist he holds membership in
Springfield Lodge No. 146, I. O. O. F., and Springfield
Lodge No. 51, B. P. O. E.
In March, 1915, Mr. Ballard was united in
marriage with
Miss Jessie Parker, of Springfield, Ohio, daughter of
William J. and Libby (Stewart) Parker, and to this
union there has come one son, Charles Jesse, born
March 1, 1916.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
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OSCAR N. BARTHOLOMEW,
now deceased, was for many years one of the leading
contractors and builders of Springfield, but for some time
prior to his demise was living in retirement. He was born in
Tompkins County, New York, September 18, 1835, and died at
Springfield, Ohio, February 5, 1918. His parents, Josiah
and Chairy Ann (Eaton) Bartholomew, were natives of New
York.
Growing up in his native state, Oscar N. Bartholomew
was educated in an academy at Elmira, New York. For two
years he served in the Union Army, as a member of the
Seventy-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry, and among other
important engagements, participated in that of the
Wilderness. In 1872 he came to Springfield and went into a
contracting business, and became an acknowledged authority
on the design and construction of heavy buildings, a number
of which were erected by him at Springfield, among which was
the church building of the First Congregationalists, which
was later destroyed by fire. He was noted for his fidelity
to the spirit as well as the letter of his contracts, and no
one ever stood any higher in public esteem than he.
On June 24, 1859, Mr. Bartholomew married Harriet M.
Malory, born near the Mohawk River in New York State, a
daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Turner) Malory.
Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew had the pleasure of celebrating
their Golden Wedding in 1909. Two children were born to
them, namely: Ella R. and Charles J. but the
latter died November 22, 1917.
After coming to Springfield Mr. Bartholomew
affiliated with the First Congregational Church and later
with the First Lutheran Church of this city, to which his
widow also belonged, and she continued one of its active
supporters until her death January 18, 1922. He was a
zealous Mason, and very active in the work of Mitchell
Post, Grand Army of the Republic. On each Memorial
Day he rode at the head of the procession of the veterans,
wearing his uniform, and mounted on a white charger, and his
imposing figure is sadly missed on these days since his
demise. He was an upright man of unflinching honesty, and
never asked more of anyone than he was willing to give, but
expected others to live up to the principles he believed so
necessary for the maintenance of good government and proper
business relations. His long life of useful endeavor and
helpful effort along practical lines teaches a lesson, and
his example may well be emulated by the rising generation.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
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HENRY E. BATEMAN, Shrewd
business ability, special adaptiveness to his vocation,
appreciation of its many advantages and belief in his own
power to succeed have placed Henry E. Bateman among the
leading promoters of agriculture in Clark County. From the
prairies his unaided hands brought forth ample means,
permitting his retirement to South Charleston and his
consigning to younger hands the tasks that made up the sum
of his existence for many years. He has a modern home and is
regarded as one of the financially strong and morally high
retired farmers.
Mr. Bateman was born on a farm in Greene County, Ohio,
August 21, 1837, and is a son of Daniel H. and Elizabeth
(Sirlotte) Bateman, and a grandson of William and
Margaret (Duckel) Bateman. Daniel H. Bateman was born
near Baltimore, Maryland, on a farm, in 1783, and at the age
of twenty-one years left his native state and moved to Ohio.
He had an excellent education, having received instruction
under his father, who conducted a private school near
Baltimore, known as the Oxford of America. On coming to Ohio
Mr. Bateman located at Chillicothe, having letters of
introduction to the Rennicks, large cattle raisers of their
day and locality, with whom he remained for four or five
years, thus getting his start in life. Later he came to
Greene County, Ohio, and was employed in the stock business
with William Harpole until 1851. In that year he came
to South Charleston, Clark County, where his death occurred
February 2, 1863. In Greene County, in 1824, Mr. Bateman
married Elizabeth Sirlotte, who was born in Bracken
County, Kentucky, in 1799, and had a good education for her
day and state. She died November 25, 1854, in the faith of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she was a very
devout member. They were the parents of five children:
William, who met his death on the Pacific Ocean when the
ship on which he was traveling was wrecked and burned on the
coast near the Magdalena Islands; Abner L., who died
at Columbus, Ohio, March 15, 1916; Henry E., of this
review; Ruth, deceased, who was the wife of Edward
Garrett, who met his death at the same time that William
Bateman died; and Margaret, who died in July, 1899,
as the wife of Amos Briggs.
Henry E. Bateman went to the public schools and
remained on the home place until his father’s death,
remembers distinctly the Underground Railway, a station of
which was conducted at his father’s home. Fugitive slaves,
fleeing from their former masters in the South, were
sheltered and passed on to the next station, finally
arriving in Canada, where they were safe from pursuit and a
return to bondage. When he entered upon his independent
career Mr. Bateman adopted farming and dealing in stock as
his life work, and this he followed during the active years
of his life. Ever since his retirement he has lived in South
Charleston, and is still interested in farms, although
merely as a matter of investment.
On February 19, 1866, Mr.
Bateman was united in
marriage with Miss Annamelia Paullin, who was born in
Clark County, Ohio, May 22, 1844, a daughter of Newcomb
T. and Mary A. (Harpole) Paullin. She died in the faith
of the Presbyterian Church, of which she had been a lifelong
member, January 22, 1916. Mr. and Mrs.
Batemen were the
parents of two children: Howard D., a graduate of
Phillips Academy, of Andover, Massachusetts, is now a
capitalist of New York City, Mary B., a high school
graduate and a graduate of the Phelps School of Columbus and
the McDonald-Ellis School of Washington, D. C., married
H. W. Paxton, a graduate of Wesleyan College, Delaware,
Ohio, a prominent democrat and ex-member of the Ohio
Legislature and now an attorney of Clark County. They have
two children, Annamelia B. and Howard Bateman
Paxton.
Mr. Bateman is a republican, while his religious faith
is that of the Presbyterian Church. He is known throughout
his locality as a dependable and upright man, one who
regards his word as he would his bond, and who has ever
maintained the highest method of farming and the noblest
ideals of home and community life.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
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CLIFFORD HOLLIDAY
BAUMGARDNER, M. D., a physician and surgeon with
offices in the Fairbanks Building at Springfield, saw active
service with the Hospital Corps during the Spanish-American
war, subsequently graduated in medicine, and has had a
successful professional career for twenty years.
Doctor Baumgardner is a native of Clark
County, born at Catawba, November 7, 1876, son of David
S. and Susan L. (Ward) Baumgardner. His father was born
in Ohio, son of Peter Lynch and Mary (Skillman)
Baumgardner, who were also natives of Clark County. His
great-grandfather Baumgardner was one of the first
settlers in Pleasant Township, locating there when the
Indians still made their home in this section of Ohio.
David S. Baumgardner had a brother, Isaac, who
died at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, while a Union soldier and
was buried in Clark County. He had a sister, Lou B.,
now Mrs. Samuel Neer, living at Mechanicsburg, Ohio.
David S. Baumgardner enlisted in the
Forty-fourth Ohio Infantry and subsequently veteranized with
the Eighth Ohio Cavalry and was in service until the close
of the war. After the war he engaged in the undertaking
business at Catawba, being associated with his father in
that work. As undertakers after the pioneer custom of the
time the firm made caskets to order. They were also
contractors and built a number of schoolhouses and other
buildings in that vicinity. He finally removed to
Springfield and was in the maintenance of way department of
the Big Four Railroad. He died in 1910. His wife, Susan
L. Ward, was born in Virginia, daughter of Paragon
Ward, a native of Maryland. Her mother was a native of
Virginia and a cousin of Gen. Robert E. Lee. She came
to Catawba with two sisters shortly after the close of the
Civil war, and died in this county in 1887. The two sons of
David S. Baumgardner and wife are Doctor
Ward L., a dentist at Columbus, and Clifford Holliday.
Clifford Holliday Baumgardner
attended grammar and high schools at Catawba and
Springfield, was a student in the Maple Park University of
Cincinnati, and graduated in 1903 in the Ohio Medical
University of Columbus. His service with the Hospital Corps
during the Spanish American war started soon after the
outbreak of hostilities and continued until November, 1898.
After graduating he had a year’s experience in hospital work
at Columbus, and engaged in private practice there for two
years. For seven years his home was at Selma, Ohio, and
since then he has been identified with the medical
profession at Springfield, and since 1915 has had his
offices in the Fairbanks Building.
On February 22, 1899, Mr.
Baumgardner married Miss
Marie L. Wilson, who was born at Fredonia, New York,
June 2, 1880, daughter of Charles Walter and Affa L.
(Lowell) Wilson, both natives of Chautauqua County, New
York. Her maternal grandparents were James and Jane (Schlick)
Lowell. James Lowell started one of the first vineyards
in Chautauqua County. Sherman Lowell, a brother of
Affa L. Lowell, is now national grand master of the
Farmers Grange. Doctor and Mrs.
Baumgardner have one child, Lowell Ward, born
June 30, 1902. Mrs. Baumgardner was educated
in the State Normal School of New York. She is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. Doctor Baumgardner
is a republican, is affiliated with the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks of Springfield and the Junior Order
United American Mechanics.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
County, Ohio; Vol. 2; Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 218 -
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VIRGIL AUSTIN BELL.
One of the younger members of the Clark County bar is
Virgil Austin Bell, who since 1920 has been identified
with the well-known Springfield law firm of Zimmerman,
Zimmerman & Zimmerman, and who has made a favorable
impression on his associates during his comparatively short
professional career.
Mr. Bell was born July 4, 1888, at Springfield, and is
a son of Darius W. and Sarah (Fansler) Bell. His
grandparents on the maternal side were Noah and Melvina (Neese)
Fansler, the former a native of Virginia and the latter
of Champaign County, Ohio.
Virgil Austin Bell attended the public schools of
Springfield and of Clark County, and the high school at
Marion, Ohio. His professional studies were prosecuted at
Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, from which he was
graduated in 1920, in June of which year he was admitted to
the Ohio bar. Soon thereafter Mr. Bell identified himself
with the law firm of Zimmerman, Zimmerman & Zimmerman, and
this connection has continued to the present.
Mr. Bell is unmarried and resides at the home of his
parents, 715 West High Street. He is independent in
politics, not having formally allied himself with any
political party. Fraternally he is affiliated with Marion
Camp, Modern Woodmen of America.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
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SPALDING WESLEY BISHOP,
a retired citizen of Springfield, living at 622 Linden
Avenue, was in service nearly a third of a century in the
city police department, and is honored and respected as one
of the oldest minions of law and order in the city.
Mr. Bishop was born in Springfield
Township, in November, 1849, and represents one of the
earliest families established in Clark County. He is a son
of John and Elizabeth (Elwell) Bishop, and he and his
father were born in the same house. Elizabeth
Elwell was born in Greene County, Ohio, daughter of
Israel Elwell, a native of that county. John
Bishop was a son of Edward and Tabitha (Winchester)
Bishop, the latter a native of Clark County. Edward
Bishop was born in New Jersey, son of Moses Bishop,
who died in that state. The widow of Moses Bishop
married a Mr. Tremble. This Mr. Tremble
was a western pioneer, coming by raft on the Ohio River in
1808, along with Benham and Hunter. They were
three months on the way, largely due to the fact that they
stopped off at different points to survey the country for a
prospective location. In that year Tremble entered a tract
of land in Clark County. In 1813, after accompanying
Captain Benham with troops to Fort Recovery
during the War of 1812, he returned and took possession of
this land. In 1814 it became the property of Edward Bishop,
and remained in the Bishop family until 1912, for
practically a century. John Bishop and
Elizabeth Elwell were married in 1848, and then
settled on the old homestead, remaining there until 1875,
when they moved to Hardin County, Ohio, where John
Bishop died. His widow passed away in Springfield in
1914. Of their children Spalding Wesley is the
oldest; James is deceased; Melissa lives at
Yellow Springs, widow of George Pearson; Anna
is the widow of Elwood Cusic, and lives in Chicago;
Edward is at Seattle, Washington; Katie is the
widow of Jefferson Mahoney, of Chicago.
Spalding Wesley Bishop remained at
the old home, acquiring a district school education, and in
September, 1873, married Mary Burns. She was born at
Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Tifney)
Burns, natives of the same state. After his marriage
Mr. Bishop rented a farm in Springfield Township
two years and then moved to Harmony, Ohio, and farmed and
operated a ditching machine for seven years. On leaving the
county he came to Springfield, and for three years was
employed in a wholesale fruit house. At the conclusion of
that employment he went on the police force, under Mayor
O. S. Kelly, and his thirty-two years’ service with the
police department ended in 1919, in which year he was
retired. Mr. Bishop was reared a Methodist, is a democrat in
politics, and is affiliated with Lodge No. 146, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.
He and his wife had six children: John, Harry
and Florence, all of whom died in early childhood;
Hanford, of Detroit, Michigan, who married Gertrude
Smith and has two children; Vivian and
Constance; Fannie, who died when twenty-three
years of age; and Clarence, who lives with his father
and married Beula Dennis.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
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WILLIAM HENRY BITNER.
In business activities that in the highest degree constitute
a public service, and in a personal career that represents a
singular combination of adversity and persistent will to
overcome misfortune, the life story of William
Henry Bitner is one of the most interesting that
can be told of any citizen of Clark County. Mr.
Bitner is general manager of the Springfield Dairy
Products Company. He helped organize this corporation, and
its growth and success has been due to his efforts more than
to those of any other individual.
Mr. Bitner was born August 18, 1855, in
Adams County, Pennsylvania, representing the third
generation of the Bitner family in this
country. His grandfather, Henry Bitner, came
from Germany and settled in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
The old Bitner family Bible brought from
Germany was printed 150 years ago and is still carefully
preserved in the home of William H. Bitner. The
father of the Springfield business man was Henry Bitner,
who was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and for a
number of years operated a grist mill, later a hotel at
Mummasburg, Pennsylvania, and from that town he moved to
Biglerville, Adams County, where he was in the butcher
business until 1862. In that year he enlisted in the Union
Army and served about twelve months, until severely wounded.
After his army service he was in the nursery business at
Biglerville, then rented his land and became a merchant. He
lived in Adams County until his death. Henry
Bitner married Nancy Glass, a native of Franklin
County. The old Glass homestead owned by her grandparents is
still in the family. She also died in Adams County. The
children of Henry Bitner and Nancy Glass were
Jennie, Elizabeth, William H., George, Enna and
Alice.
William H. Bitner was about eight years old when
the great battle of Gettysburg was fought. He shared in the
excitement and turmoil incident to the invasion of Southern
Pennsylvania by Lee’s army. The family at that time lived in
a small town named Heidelberg. This was ten miles from
Gettysburg, scene of the three days’ battle in July, 1863.
However, some of the events of that campaign came under the
eyes of the boy and made impressions that can never be
effaced from his memory. He relates that on the day before
the battle the Confederate troops came to the quiet little
town of Heidelberg and camped there, tearing down the
residents’ fences to feed their fires, and a large
detachment settled on a vacant lot immediately next to the
Bitner home. At first they demanded all the
food in the house, and then gave the family three minutes to
vacate the premises. His father had fortunately driven his
horses to Lancaster, and thus saved them. He was preparing
to leave the home to the invaders when the order to vacate
was suddenly countermanded and they were not further
disturbed. The great battle of Gettysburg came to an end on
Friday, although smoke of gun powder still hung over the
field on Sunday, when William H. Bitner, accompanied
by two others, went to view the scene. It was a terrible
sight, horses and men lying so close together that the
horrified visitors could scarcely put foot on the ground.
The great Lutheran College had been thrown open as a
hospital, and every poor mangled body in which there still
remained a spark of life had been gathered up and crowded in
this building in the hope of easing their sufferings. This
was no sight proper for a child of eight years, and probably
William Bitner was one of the few ever an
eye-witness of such an appalling scene on American soil. He
walked ten miles to the scene of the battle and then tramped
over the grounds, returning to his home after covering a
distance of twenty-five miles, and all that time had not a
morsel to eat.
Mr. Bitner since he was nine years of age
has been self-supporting, starting out at that time to work
on farms in the neighborhood at monthly wages. It is
literally true that from that age he has been a producer and
doer of things. At the age of fourteen his arm was badly
torn by a circular saw, and until he was seventeen he worked
on a farm and then for two years was employed in an iron ore
mine at Pinegrove, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Not long
afterward a cave-in occurred in the mine, and he was taken
out for dead. After this experience he resumed farm work,
and in August, 1875, a young man of twenty years, he came to
Clark County, Ohio. During the next several years he
continued as a farm laborer, and then came the third
accident, when he was run over by a heavily laden wagon.
Still later, while operating his threshing machine and saw
mill, he fell from a log and broke his leg. These injuries
interfered with but did not balk his steadfast ambition to
succeed, and he went back with renewed energies after each
misfortune.
Mr. Bitner began farming on his own
account in 1883, when he rented the Creighton farm south of
Springfield. It was on that farm that he made his start in
the dairy business in 1884. In April, 1885, he moved to the
Snyder farm north of Springfield, and he lived
there for fourteen years. In October, 1898, he bought the
farm of Cornelius Miller, his father-in-law, and that
has been his home for the past twenty-two years, though in
the meantime by purchase the area of the farm has been
increased to two hundred and twenty acres. The improvements
on this farm constitute one of the notable country places of
Clark County. Besides all the building equipments devoted to
the use of stock and the dairying industry there are six
dwelling houses.
Mr. Bitner has been actively identified
with the dairy industry in Clark County for nearly forty
years. He was one of the promoters of and bought and paid
for the first stock, in 1902, in the Springfield Pure Milk
Company. From its organization and incorporation in 1903 he
was general manager and a director. In 1919 this company was
consolidated with the Home Dairy and Ice Cream Company, and
the business was then incorporated as the Springfield Dairy
Products Company, with Mr. Bitner retained as
general manager. He was one of the first practical dairymen
in the county to become an enthusiastic advocate of the
highest standards of purity, and he has done much to extend
the use of this wholesome food product. He was the pioneer
in pasturizing the milk supply of Clark County. The
corporation of which he is the active head now owns and
operates seven plants in Clark County, and it is a business
as closely identified with the vital welfare of the people
as any other industry.
Mr. Bitner is also a director in the
Lagonda National Bank, the Morris Plan Bank and the
Springfield Coal and Ice Company. He is a member of the
Rockway Lutheran Church, and for the past twenty-five years
has been superintendent of its Sunday school. In many other
ways he has co-operated with and has contributed to the
success of movements for the promotion of general welfare.
December 28, 1880, Mr. Bitner married
Elmira A. Miller, daughter of Cornelius and Henrietta
(Kieffer) Miller, old residents of Clark County. Mr.
and Mrs. Bitner have two daughters, Etta B. and
Grace M., both graduates of Wittenberg College. Etta
is the wife of Dr. J. F. Browne, a well-known
Springfield dentist, and they have a daughter and son,
Jean and William Bitner. Grace is the wife of
Harry Clink, of Clark County, and they also have two
children, Robert and Myra.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
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RAYMOND G. BOEHME, M.D. In the
present era of expanding horizons in the science of medicine
and surgery, of wonderful discoveries and unthought-of
surgical achievements, the profession seems to have almost
reached a point when its accomplishments are little short of
being miracles. The modern physician and surgeon, taking
advantage of every opportunity for advancement and
knowledge, must often realize with professional elation his
great power over disease and disability and he encouraged in
his struggle to conquer the strongholds that have not yet
been overcome. Possessing the steady nerve, the patience
that never tires, the trained understanding gained through
his long period of special study, he must yet possess, in
order to be a successful surgeon, a courage that never
quails, together with a superb technical manual skill. Of
the physicians and surgeons of Springfield who are thus
equipped, and who through this equipment are gaining
advancement in their calling, one who is making steady
progress is Dr. Raymond G. Boehme.
Doctor Boehme was born at Newport, Kentucky, September
30, 1888, and is a son of Herman and Mary (Wittman)
Boehme, natives of Newport, Kentucky, who are now
residents of Clermont County, Ohio, where Dr. Herman
Boehme is engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine
and surgery. Raymond G. Boehme attended the graded and high
schools in his youth, following which he expressed a
predilection for the medical profession and accordingly
entered the Ohio Miami College at Cincinnati, Ohio, from
which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine
in 1911. At that time he returned to Newport, Kentucky,
where he was engaged in practice for two and one-half years,
after which he went to Somerville, Ohio, which was his field
of practice and place of residence for one and one-half
years. Doctor Boehme then moved to Enon, Clark County, where
he followed his profession for two and one-half years, and
in 1918 came to Springfield, which has since been his home.
Here he has been successful in building up a large and
lucrative practice of the most desirable kind, and in
forming a number of pleasant connections of a social nature
as well as of a professional character. He is recognized as
being thoroughly conversant with his profession, to which he
devotes himself unreservedly. He is a member of the Clark
County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society
and is a close and careful student. On September 30, 1921,
he moved into a handsome modern brick residence located at
No. 709 West Main Street. Doctor Boehme has served as
assistant health officer of Springfield one year. In
politics he is a republican, and his religious connection is
with Central Methodist Episcopal Church, while fraternally
he is affiliated with Kissell Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of
Springfield, and the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias
and the Knights of the Maccabees, in all of which he has
formed numerous friendships.
On November 10, 1914, Mr.
Boehme was united in marriage
with Miss Edna Droste, who was born at Newport,
Kentucky, a daughter of Gustav and Elizabeth (Smith)
Droste, the former born at Cincinnati, Ohio, and the
latter at Newport. Three children have come to this union:
Donald Wilfred, born October 10, 1915; Gordon Ray,
born March 2, 1917; and Robert Clement, born October
13, 1918.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
County, Ohio; Vol. 2; Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 357 -
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WARREN K.
BUFFENBARGER is a well known business man of South
Charleston, where he is proprietor of the leading garage.
He also has and manages some valuable farming interests in
this section of Clark County.
Mr. Buffenbarger was born on a farm in Green
Township, Aug. 6, 1883, son of Samuel and Florence
(Baldwin) Buffenbarger. The Buffenbargers
were one of the first families of Clark County. His
grandfather George Buffenbarger, was a native
of Virgina and was one of the first settlers in
Madison Township, where he located in 1806. Samuel
Buffenbarger was born in Madison Township, July 28,
1851. His wife, Florence Baldwin, was
born in Greene Township, Sept. 13, 1854, daughter of John
and Jane McQuality Baldwin.
Samuel Buffenbarger and wife were reared and
educated in Madison Township, and after their marriage
settled on a farm in Green Township. She died on the
old homestead, and he passed away at South Charleston in
1821. They were members of the Presbyterian Church,
and in politics the father voted as a republican.
Warren K. Buffenbarger was the only one of five
children to survive infancy. He spent his life on the
farm, acquired a district school education, and in 1908
moved to South Charleston, where for twelve years he was
active in the lumber business. Since 1920 he has
devoted his time to the management of his garage and his
farm.
Nov. 25, 1903, Mr. Buffenbarger married
Della McDaniel, a native of Pickaway County, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Buffenbarger have two children: Elmer
Willard, born Dec. 29, 1909, and Warren K., Jr.,
born in 1914. Mrs. Buffenbarger is a
Presbyterian. He is affiliated with the Junior Order
United American Mechanics and is a republican.
Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
County, Ohio - Vol. 2 - Publ.: The American Historical
Society - Chicago & New York - 1922 - Page 74 |
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ASA
SMITH BUSHNELL, fortieth governor of Ohio, reflected
the distinction of his spotless private life and long
leadership in business and politics upon the City of
Springfield, his home for over half a century. The name
Bushnell will always remain significant in Springfield, and
as a result of the career of the late Governor
Bushnell it has a permanent national distinction as one
of the great industrial captains of the last century and one
of the most trusted leaders Ohio gave to the republican
party.
Governor Bushnell was born at Rome, Oneida County, New
York, September 16, 1834, and was of old New England
ancestry. His grandfather, Jason Bushnell, fought as
an American soldier in the Continental Army during the
Revolution. He was first a member of the company of Capt.
Charles Miel, in General Waterbury’s Brigade, and
subsequently was with Washington’s Army at Tarrytown. The
Connecticut family of Bushnells has been
distinguished in the field of science and education.
Daniel Bushnell, father of Governor Bushnell,
was born at Lisbon, Connecticut, February 17, 1800. In 1845
he brought his family to Ohio, locating in Cincinnati.
Daniel Bushnell married Miss Harriet Smith
on March 9, 1825.
Asa S. Bushnell was eleven years of age when the
family moved to Cincinnati, and he completed his education
in the common schools of that city. Like nearly all the
prominent men that Ohio produced in the last century, he had
only the advantages of common schools, and his achievements
were more directly the product of his integrity and
resourceful energy rather than the result of unusual
training or education. Asa Bushnell came to
Springfield in 1851. A youth of seventeen, his first
employment here was as clerk in a dry goods store. Three
years later he became bookkeeper for the firm of Leffel,
Cook & Blakeney. In the spring of 1857 he
accepted employment as bookkeeper and traveling salesman for
Warder, Brokaw and Child. Though he
remained with this firm only a few months, the employment is
significant since their business was the manufacture of
mowers and reapers, and it is with the great industry of
manufacturing harvesting machinery that the name Bushnell
is most closely identified. After leaving that firm Mr.
Bushnell was for ten years associated with his
father-in-law, Dr. John Ludlow, in the drug business.
In the meantime the Civil war came on and the young
business man readily put the call of patriotic duty above
private interests and raised Company E of the One Hundred
and Fifty-second Ohio Infantry. As captain of this company
he was under the command of Gen. David Hunter
in the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864. After the war he
resumed his connection with the drug business, but a few
years later rejoined his former employers, which firm in the
meantime had become Warder, Mitchell &
Company. Still later this became the Warder, Bushnell
& Glessner Company, and as a Springfield
industry it was one of the foundation stones upon which the
city’s industrial progress rested. Mr. Bushnell became
president of the company in 1886, and the machinery
manufactured by his company and bearing his name was
distributed and used in every agricultural state of the
Union, and was exported to practically every agricultural
country in the world.
Among other important business interests that felt the
guiding hand of Governor Bushnell were the First National
Bank and the Springfield Gas Company, which he served as
president, and he was a stockholder and director in a number
of the city’s prominent corporations. Governor Bushnell
always generously shared his great success in material
affairs with his home community and its institutions. He was
one of the largest benefactors of the Ohio Masonic Home at
Springfield, and donated generously of his wealth to many
other organizations and causes in his home city. He was a
member of Mitchell Post, No. 45, G. A. R.
Apart from the intimate association of his name with
manufacturing, his reputation over the state at large is due
to his long and distinguished service in the republican
party and the efficient administration he gave as governor
of the state. In 1885 Mr. Bushnell became
chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee, and in
this connection he aided materially in securing that most
important party victory implied in the election of
Governor Foraker by a handsome plurality and in
the unprecedented result of securing a republican majority
in the General Assembly without the vote of Hamilton County,
thus insuring the return of John Sherman to
the United States Senate.
In 1886 he was appointed quartermaster-general of the
state by Governor Foraker, and served in the
capacity for a term of four years. In the State Republican
Convention of 1887 Mr. Bushnell was nominated by acclamation
as a candidate for lieutenant-governor on the ticket with
Governor Foraker, but he declined the honor.
In 1889 the leaders of Ohio republicanism insistently urged
that he should head the party ticket, but he positively
refused to have his name considered in the connection.
Again, in 1891, he was most urgently importuned to accept
the gubernatorial nomination, his party associates
maintaining that he was the most logical and available man
for the place, and the one who would most successfully
uphold the standard of the organization; but owing to the
intimate association of national politics in that campaign
the nomination naturally went to Major McKinley,
of whom Mr. Bushnell was a most ardent
supporter. Mr. Bushnell was one of the four
delegates at large from Ohio to the National Republican
Convention at Minneapolis in 1892, and in every republican
convention for many years he served as a delegate. He
refused on several occasions to become a candidate for
Congress from the Springfield District, and manifested at
other times his preference for working in the cause aside
from the position as a public official or candidate.
This high honor which was accorded
Mr. Bushnell in his
nomination for governor of the state came entirely without
his solicitation. His services to the party and his
particular eligibility for the office were so thoroughly
recognized that at the Republican State Convention held at
Zanesville in May, 1895, the demand for his nomination for
governor was so unqualified that he could not but accept the
candidacy. Throughout the ensuing campaign he made a canvass
that was dignified and particularly gratifying to his
constituents, gaining the good will of all classes, and in
his utterance showing that practical judgment and effective
policy which made his administration so thoroughly
acceptable to the people of the state and so creditable to
him as a man and as an official. The campaign was a vigorous
one, and at the November election he was elected by the
flattering majority of 92,622, a victory greater than any
ever achieved by any other Ohio governors save John
Brough, who was a candidate at the time of the late
war and who received practically the entire vote of the
state. Governor Bushnell was inaugurated on the 13th of
January, 1896. As chief executive he conducted affairs with
that mature wisdom and according to those practical business
principles which his character naturally indicates. He was
one of the delegates-at-large to the National Republican
Convention held at St. Louis in June, 1896.
Governor Bushnell was a member of the
Episcopal Church and was a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite
Mason. In September, 1857, he married Miss Ellen Ludlow,
daughter of Dr. John Ludlow, of Springfield. The
death of Governor Bushnell occurred in 1904,
and three children survived him: Mrs. J. F. McGrew, Mrs.
H. C. Diamond and John L. Bushnell. The son is
president of the First National Bank of Springfield.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
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JOHN L. BUSHNELL had the
disadvantage of being a son of an illustrious father, but in
spite of that handicap has achieved for himself a prominence
and a very useful place in the commercial life of his native
city.
The career of his distinguished father, Governor
Bushnell, is the subject of the full and carefully
written article preceding and what follows is only a brief
outline of the life and service of the son.
John L. Bushnell was born at Springfield,
February 15, 1872. He was reared and received his early
educational advantages in his home city and in 1894
graduated from Princeton University. He has given nearly
thirty years of his life to the commercial affairs of
Springfield. Mr. Bushnell is president of the
First National Bank and president of the Morris Plan Bank.
For many years he has been an ardent horseman and has owned
some prize-winning animals. He married Miss Jessie M.
Harwood, daughter of the late T. E. Harwood.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
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