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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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DAVID
H. CAMPBELL is postmaster of Plattsburg, and is a
member of the firm Campbell and Price, general merchants and
dealers in grain, coal and seeds. He has been continuously
in business in that rural town of Harmony Township for over
thirty years, and is one of the very substantial citizens of
that section of Clark County. Mr. Campbell was born on a
farm in Harmony Township, January 14, 1858. His father,
Samuel D. Campbell, was also a native of Harmony Township,
had a public school education there, and married Mary
(Jones) Foreman, who was born in Illinois and was married
there, she and her husband then locating in Harmony Township
of Clark County, where Mr. Foreman died. Samuel D. Campbell
after his marriage followed farming, and at the time of the
Civil war enlisted at Springfield in the Union Army, and
died while in the service. He and his wife were members of
the Christian Church. Of their four children two are now
living, David H. and Melyne B., the latter of Cedarville,
Ohio. David H. Campbell was only a small boy when his father
died. He spent several years in Springfield, but about 1865
his mother returned to Harmony Township, and he grew up
there. He had a common school education, and as a boy began
working for his own support. For a time he was in the employ
of the man who owned the store now conducted by Campbell and
Price. He was also in the grain business, was employed for a
time by Hamilton and Brooks, and for four or five years he
operated a tile factory. He then bought the store at
Plattsburg owned by John Nicholson & Company, in 1890, and
two years later John Price bought into the business and the
firm of Campbell and Price has now been in existence for
thirty years. In 1879 Mr. Campbell married Jennie
Hartman,
who was born at South Vienna, Ohio. She died July 29, 1920,
and was long a faithful member of the Christian Church.
Their two children were Jessie, who died in 1901, and
Freeman. Freeman is a graduate of High School and the Ohio
Wesleyan University of Delaware, and by his marriage to Jessie
Grube has two sons, David A. and Robert. Mr.
Campbell
is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., and
has filled the chairs in the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He is treasurer of the Home
Telephone Company of Plattsburg, and he has been postmaster
under the civil service rules for a number of years. He was
formerly a democrat, but is now a republican in politics.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 218 -
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OLIVER C. CLARKE.
Veteran honors in the abstract of title business in Clark
County go to Oliver C. Clarke, who has lived in
Springfield all his life, and two generations of his family
preceded him here. Mr. Clarke has been active
in the business life of the city for forty years. His
grandparents, Oliver and Elizabeth (Strong) Clarke,
were both natives of New England, and they went south to the
State of Georgia to teach school. Their own children,
however, they could not permit to remain and grow up in an
influence blighted by the institution of slavery, and,
therefore, in 1837 they came north to Ohio. Oliver
Clarke acquired 180 acres of land in Clark County, and
practically all of that property is now within the city
limits of Springfield. He was a man of much force of
character, well versed in general affairs, and was elected
and served as one of the judges of the Court of Common
Pleas. He died in 1855. Oliver Clark
also at one time was president of the old Springfield Bank,
out of which the present First National Bank is a modern
development. Oliver Clark was reared a
Presbyterian, but in Springfield became a charter member of
the First Congregational Church. He and his wife had
nine children, all now deceased.
The son, Charles E. Clarke, was born in Georgia,
July 25, 1830, and was seven years of age when brought by
his parents to Springfield. He was reared and educated
here, began his active career as clerk in a store, and later
was in a book and publishing house at Dayton. Early in
the Civil war he joined a friend who was adjutant general of
the State of Missouri, and was assigned to the commissary
department, with the rank of captain. Subsequently he was
promoted to major. After the war he established
himself in business at Independence, Missouri, and laid the
foundation of his fortune in the lumber business. He
also lived three years at Fort Scott, Kansas, and from there
returned to Springfield, where he spent the rest of his life
and where he died in March, 1876.
Charles E. Clarke married Mary Christie,
and their two children were Frances, now deceased, and
Oliver C. Charles E. Clarke was an able business
man. quiet and unassuming in character, and earned the
respect and honor of all who knew him.
Oliver C. Clarke, son of the late Major
Clarke, was born in Springfield, July 9, 1861. He
was educated in the public schools of that city, and
graduated from Wittenberg College in 1883. Mr.
Clarke has been in the abstract of title business in
Springfield for twenty-seven years. He is also one of
the directors in the Merchants and Mechanics Savings and
Loan Association.
He married Jessie Allen in 1918, and they have
one daughter, Emily.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County,
Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 119 |
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OLIVER T. CLARKE.
The wearisome sameness that frequently attends the
continuous following of a ingle line of effort has never
been a feature of the career of Oliver T. Clarke,
of Springfield, draughtsman for the Hobart Manufacturing
Company. His has been a life in which he has followed
several lines of industry and in which has been a life in
which eh has followed several lines of industry and in which
each step ahs been a forward one. Mr. Clarke is
a native of St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, and was born Oct.
25, 1885, a son of Hiram F. and Nelly (Thompson) Clarke,
natives of Springfield.
The paternal grandparents of Mr. Clarke, Oliver and
Elizabeth (Strong) Clarke, were born in Southampton,
Massachusetts, and shortly after their marriage moved to
Decatur, Georgia. They resided there for some years,
and Mr. Clarke conducted a store in partnership with
a Mr. Willard. Later they came to Springfield.
Hiram F. Clarke attended the public schools of
Springfield, and as a young man went to Cincinnati, where he
learned the hardware business with the firm of Henry
Hammet & Son. Returning to Springfield, he
embarked in the hardware business on his own account and,
later, in partnership with his brother Lewis S. Clarke,
conducted a sugar plantation in St. Mary's Parish,
Louisiana. Returning to Springfield in 1887, he
connected himself with the Springfield Seed Company,
subsequently identifying himself with the wholesale paper
business. He then became one of the organizers of the
Star Paper and Box Company, on Wet Pleasant Street, and
sometime later this was changed to the Clarke Paper Box
Company, of which he was the head until his retirement.
He died June 21, 1914, greatly respected and esteemed by all
who knew him. Mrs. Clarke, who survives him,
resides at 525 North Wittenberg Street, Springfield.
She is a daughter of James I. and Lavinia G. (Snyder)
Thomson natives of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The
former for some years was bookkeeper for the firm of
Counts & Comeback, early dry goods merchants of
Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke had two
children: Oliver T. and James, who died
in infancy.
Oliver T. Clarke attended the graded and high
schools of Springfield, withdrawing from the latter in 1902,
and at that time started to learn the vocation of machinist
at the plant of the Owen Machine Tool Company, where he
spent three years. After mastering his trade he worked
thereat a various places, including the George Rogers
Tool Works and the Foos Gas Engine Company, but left
the latter in August, 1908, and became identified with the
firm of Staley & Bowman, patent attorneys, as
a draughtsman, an occupation in which he had become
proficient by attendance at the Young Men's Christian
Association night classes and by a course with the
International Correspondence School. Leaving the
latter in the fall of 1911, he became identified with the
American Seeding Machine Company as draughtsman, continuing
until April of the following year. On Apr. 13, 1912,
he started to work as a tool designer for the Robbins
& Myers Company and remained with that firm until
Sept. 17, 1921. On November 14 of the same year he
became connected with the Hobart Manufacturing Company of
Troy, Ohio, who manufacture coffee grinders, meat grinders,
food mixers, etc. He still maintains his connection
with this concern and is now engaged in doing the company’s
experimental drafting. Mr. Clarke is a member
of Christ Episcopal Church at Springfield, and is
fraternally affiliated with St. Andrews Lodge No. 619, F.
and A. M., and Springfield Chapter No. 48, R. A. M.
On June 28, 1916, Mr. Clarke married
Miss Blanche Gardner, who was born Nov. 22, 1882, at
Springfield, Ohio, daughter of Frank and Kathryn
(Garrett) Gardner, the former born at Fredericktown,
Maryland, and the latter in Springfield. Mrs.
Clarke, who graduated in 1905 from Wittenberg College,
traveled in Europe and the United States, followed the
educator's profession for several years, and taught at the
high schools of Celina and Springfield prior to her
marriage. She and her husband are the parents of three
children: Oliver T., Jr., born June 22, 1919;
Nelly Kathryn, born November 18, 1920; and Frances,
born May 13, 1922. Mrs. Clarke is a member of
the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church and of the
Springfield Woman’s Club.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County,
Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 399 |
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WILLIS B. CLARKE.
The late Willis B. Clarke was one of the highly
respected men of Springfield, where he resided from 1872
until his death. He was born in Rappahannock County,
Virginia, May 3, 1851, a son of Robert and Mary (Bradley)
Clarke, who came to Licking County, Ohio, when Willis
B. Clarke was a lad, and there he continued worked in
the wood shop of the Saint John Company, but when the mill
burned he became custodian of the Springfield public
schools, and continued to be employed in this capacity until
his death, which occurred May 14, 1917. In politics he
was a republican. A man of high principles, he lived
up to his conception of his duty as a good citizen and
christian, and always held the confidence of all who knew
him.
On May 1, 1882, Mr. Clarke married Ada M.
Wright, born at Catawba, Clark County, Ohio, in
February, 1862, a daughter of Lewis and Maria (Davisson)
Wright, he was born in Ohio and she at South Champaign,
Ohio. The maternal grandparents of Mrs.
Clarke, Isaac and Sarah (Curl) Davisson, natives
of Virginia, traveled overland on horseback with teams at an
early day from Virginia to South Charleston, Ohio, where
they permanently settled. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke
became the parents of the following children: Carrie M.,
who is a decorator and artistic painter; Nell M., who
married Robert Shaw, has two children, Robert
Clarke and Elizabeth Jean, and they live at 504
East Madison Avenue, Springfield. Miss Clarke
is a valued member of the Fortnightly Club.
Mrs. Clarke owns a fine modern residence at 114
Woodlawn Avenue, Springfield. When the Springfield Day
Nursery was founded in October, 1920, she was appointed its
matron, and since then has most acceptably held this
position, and it is largely because of her efficiency and
kindly care of the little ones under her supervision that
this enterprise has been so decided a success. She is
a consistent member of, and worker in, the Saint Paul’s
Methodist Episcopal Church.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County,
Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 102 |
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HOMER C. CORRY,
one of the younger members of the Clark County bar, and
junior member of the well known legal firm of Martni &
Corry, with offices atr 203 Bushnell Building,
Springfield, is a native of Clark County, and a son of
Robert F. and Ethel (Stewart) Corry.
Robert F. Corry was born in Greene County, Ohio, in
1867, and died in 1917. He was a son of James Corry,
also a native of Greene County, whose parents were pioneers
of that locality, they have come from Pennsylvania to the
Buckeye State during early days. Ethel Corry
was born in Greene Township, Clark County, in 1859, and is
now residing at Springfield. She is a daughter of
Thomas E. Stewart, who was born in the same township, a
son of John Templeton Stewart, who came from
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1805, and settled in
Greene Township, where he became a prosperous farmer and
large land owner.
Homer C. Corry was born on the farm in Green
Township. July 9, 1887, and attended the graded and high
schools of Springfield. He graduated from the Clifton
High School of Green Township in 1904, and then entered
Antioch College from which he received his Bachelor of Arts
degree as a member of the class of 1910. During 1910 he
taught in the Enon High School, Clark County, during 1911
and 1912 was a teacher in the Yellow Springs High School,
and during 1913 and 1914 was an instructor in the Ironton
(Ohio) High School. During this period Mr. Corry
studied in the law department of Chicago University, and was
graduated from the law department of the Ohio State
University in 1915, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws.
Admitted to the bar in 1915, he entered practice at
Springfield in the offices of Chase Stewart.
From 1916 to 1918 he taught law in the Law School of the
Ohio State University, and in the latter year enlisted for
service in the United States Army as a private and during
the World war was stationed at Camp Sherman. He was
promoted to sergeant and later received his commission as
first lieutenant and was assigned to duty in the judge
advocate general’s department, serving at Camp Logan, Texas,
and at Washington, D. C. He was mustered out and
honorably discharged July 5, 1919.
Returning to the practice of law at Springfield, Mr.
Corry became associated with Paul C. Martin
and in September, 1921, became a member of the firm of
Martin & Corry. He is a member of the Clark
County, the Ohio State and the American Bar Associations,
and holds membership in the Phi Delta Phi and the Order of
the Coif, and Harry S. Kissell Lodge No. 674, Free and
Accepted Masons. He is president of the Springfield
Chamber of Commerce and a trustee of Antioch College, Yellow
Springs, Ohio.
On Jan. 1, 1920, Mr. Corry was united in
marriage with Miss Helene Jobe, daughter of
Charles L. and Margaret Jobe, of Xenia, Ohio.
Mrs. Corry died at Springfield, Dec. 4, 1920.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County,
Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 598 |
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LEE B. CORRY
is the executive head of the firm of L. B. Corry &
Company, which conducts one of the largest and most
successful general insurance agencies in the City of
Springfield, with finely equipped offices in the M. & M.
Building.
Mr. Corry was born in Greene County,
Ohio, on the 11th of March, 1855, and is a son of William
R. and Eliza (Brown) Corry, of whose family of ten
children two died in infancy, the other eight attaining to
maturity and all of the number still living except the
eldest. William R. Corry was born in
Pennsylvania and was a representative of the family in whose
honor the City of Corry, that state, was named. In
1831 his parents removed to Greene County, Ohio, and there
he assisted in reclaiming the pioneer homestead from the
forest wilds. He was in the 100-days’ service in the
Civil war and both he and his wife were zealous members of
the Presbyterian Church.
Lee B. Corry, fourth in order of birth in the
family of ten children, was reared to the sturdy discipline
of the farm and acquired his preliminary education in the
district schools of his native county. Later he
continued his studies in turn in Antioch College and the
Lebanon Normal School. He continued his alliance with
farm enterprise in Greene County until his marriage, in
1879, and thereafter was associated with his father-in-law,
Elder R. Stewart, in the operation of the latter’s
flouring mills at Clifton, Greene County, until the autumn
of 1884, when he came to Springfield and took the clerical
position in the employ of the Springfield Manufacturing
Company. When the company later went into the hands of
a receiver Mr. Corry was made superintendent
of the plant, the operation of which was continued. In
the spring of 1892 he purchased the old established Ohio
Farmers Insurance Agency, from which he has developed his
present substantial and prosperous general insurance
business, he having purchased at intervals other insurance
agencies and consolidated their business with his own, which
now is one of extensive scope and representative clientage.
His elder son, Clifford C., being now the junior
member of the firm.
Mr. Corry is a progressive business man and a
progressive and liberal citizen. His political
allegiance is given to the republican party and he and his
wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is a
valued member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce.
In the Masonic fraternity he has been for twenty years a
trustee of Clark Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons,
his maximum York Rite affiliation being with the Commandery
of Knights Templars in his home city, besides which he is a
member of the Mystic Shrine and has received the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite.
Sept. 24, 1879, recorded the marriage of Mr. Corry
and Miss Nannie J. Stewart, youngest daughter of the
late Elder R. Stewart, of Clifton, Greene County, and
of the three children of this union the firstborn, Bessie,
died in early childhood; Clifford C., as previously
noted, is a partner of his father in the insurance business;
and William R., who likewise is associated with the
business, was a second lieutenant with the American
Expeditionary Forces in France in the World war. He
received his preliminary training at Fort Benjamin Harrison
in Indiana and at Chillicothe, Ohio, and was in active
service in France for about one year.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County,
Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 241 |
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HENRY S. CRADLEBAUGH, proprietor of Silver Lake
Park, two miles northwest of New Carlisle, has done and is
continuing to do a most commendable work in the development
and upbuilding of this place as one of the most attractive
recreation and amusement resorts of this section of the
state, and he is one of the popular and representative
citizens of New Carlisle.
Mr. Cradlebaugh was born in Seneca
County, Ohio, but came to Clark County in 1881 and passed
ten years on a farm near New Carlisle. He then removed to
this village, where he operated a machine shop and where he
eventually added a garage and general automobile repair
shop. He has much of native mechanical ability, early gave
special study to gasoline engines, and in 1890 he purchased
one of the first gasoline engines manufactured at
Springfield. In 1902-3 he held the position of designer for
the Foos Gas Engine Company at Springfield, and in
this connection he devised many improvements on various
types of gas engines. For the past twenty-eight years Mr.
Cradlebaugh has successfully conducted a well-equipped
general machine shop and also an automobile garage at New
Carlisle, his original work in connection with automobiles
having been initiated in 1899, so that he is a veteran in
this industry. He has been granted a number of patents on
improvements to gas engines and also on farm implements and
machinery. Among his patents is one on a device to indicate
low water supply in connection with gas engines; another,
now expired, to indicate speed; and a friction clutch pulley
which was placed in use by the Foos Company while he
was associated with that concern. Impaired health caused
Mr. Cradlebaugh to retire from his position with
this corporation, in the development of the business of
which he contributed in large measure through his admirable
inventions.
For the past three years Mr. Cradlebaugh
has been actively identified with the improving and
developing of beautiful Silver Lake Park, which comprises
seventeen acres, the lake being of pure spring water and
with shell marle beaches that make it specially attractive
for bathing and swimming. The lake is fed entirely by fine
springs, its maximum depth is twenty-seven feet, and wooded
hills surrounded it and add to its picturesque attractions.
The resort is now equipped with modern bath houses, and at
the park the summer season of 1922 shows frequently as many
as 700 persons bathing and swimming at the beaches. Adequate
provisions are made for the serving of meals and
refreshments, and a large auditorium has been erected for
assembly purposes, with the result that the resort is used
by the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. of Springfield and by
other organizations devoted to religious and cultural
service. On his lake tract Mr. Cradlebaugh has
850 peach trees that are just coming into bearing. Mr.
Cradlebaugh has had no desire for political activity
or public office, but for twelve years he gave effective
service in caring for the apparatus of the New Carlisle Fire
Department. He and his wife are active members of the United
Brethren Church in New Carlisle, and their circle of friends
in the county is limited only by that of their
acquaintances.
Mr. Cradlebaugh married Miss Laura B.
Wolf, daughter of the late Jacob Wolf, who was a
substantial farmer near New Carlisle. Mr. and Mrs.
Cradlebaugh have two daughters: Nellie is the
wife of Rev. Galen B. Roger, a clergyman of the
United Brethren Church, and Ruth is the wife of
Dr. Marion C. Moses, of whom individual mention is made
on other pages of this work.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
County, Ohio; Vol. 2; Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 382 -
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