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	HOWARD W. LOOKER.  Agriculture has been an honored vocation from the earliest ages and as a usual thing men of honorable and humane impulses, as well as those of energy and thrift, have been patrons of husbandry.  The free, out-of-door life of the farmer has a decided tendency to foster and develop that independence of mind and self-reliance which characterizes true manhood.  No better fortune can befall a boy than to be reared in close touch with nature in the healthful, inspiring labor of the fields.  It ha always been the fruitful soil from which have sprung the moral bone and sinew of the country, and the majority of our nation's great warriors, renowned statesman and distinguished men of letters were born on the farm and are largely indebted to its early influences for the distinction which they later attained.      Howard W. Looker, the son of Levi and Rebecca (Bennett) Looker, was born Dec. 14, 1869, in Madison county, Ohio.  His parents were natives of the same county and reared a family of three children, Byron, Howard W. and Laura.  Levi Looker was a son of Joseph and Margaret (Hann) Looker.  Joseph Looker came from Virginia and settled in Clark county, Ohio.  Seven children were born to Joseph Looker and wife, Joseph, Levi, Delilah, Nathan, Angeline, Thomas and Joshua.  Levi Looker was a prominent citizen of this county and served with distinction in the Civil War as a member of the Fifty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio - Published Indianapolis, Ind. : B.F. Bowen & Co., 1914 - Page 545
	WASHINGTON LOUGH.  No profession has made greater advancement during the last century than the agricultural profession, and practically all of the disadvantages which surrounded the pioneer farmer have disappeared with the introduction of labor-saving machinery.  It now takes less labor to operate a farm of fifty acres than it did to operate a farm of ten acres fifty years ago, and inventions are coming into use every year which are helping the farmer to increase his efficiency.  Ohio is recognized as one of the best farming states in the Union and no county.  Among the hundreds of farmers who have made this county famous as an agricultural section there is no one more worthy of a place in this volume than Washington Lough the proprietor of two hundred and twenty-two acres of fine land in Wayne township.      Washington Lough, the son of John W. and Mary E. (Mains) Lough, was born Feb. 16, 1879, in Buckskin township, Ross county, this state.  His father was a native of Franklin county, Virginia, and after serving throughout the Civil War in the Confederate army under Gen. Robert E. Lee, came to Ohio and located in Ross county.  John W. Lough and wife reared a family of six children to maturity, Bert, George, Ada, Washington, Charles and Margaret.  Bert, who is deceased, married Medora Rogers, and left his widow with one daughter, Dorothy B.; Ada,  deceased, was the wife of Arthur Parrett; George married Elizabeth Lavery, and has two sons, Richard and Weldon, and a daughter, Mildred E.; Charles married Mary Beatty; Margaret is the wife of Arthur Kline and has two children, Louise and Harold.      Washington Lough received part of his education in the district schools of Ross county and completed it in the Salem school in the same county.  He spent the summer seasons of his boyhood days working for his father on the home farm and remained under the parental roof until he was married, at the age of twenty-nine.  He came to Fayette county in 1894 and located on his present farm of two hundred and twenty-two acres in Wayne township, where he has since resided.  He is a progressive farmer, believes in introducing modern methods of tilling the soil and has met with marked success in his efforts.  He handles a large amount of live stock each year and has been very successful as a stock raiser.      Mr. Lough was married Sept. 2, 1898, to Mary C. Douglas, the daughter of James M. and Rose (Porter) Douglas.  Mr. Douglas was born in Highland county, Ohio, where he is now living the retired life f the farmer.  Mr. and Mrs. Douglas were the parents of two children, Laura L. and Mary C., the wife of Mr. Lough.  The one child of Mr. and Mrs. Lough, James Norman, is deceased and is buried at Greenfield, Ohio.      Politically, Mr. Lough is an independent and has never taken an active part in political matters.  He and his wife are loyal and consistent members of the Presbyterian church, in whose welfare they take a deep and abiding interest and to whose support they are liberal contributors.  Fraternally, he is a member of the Greenfield lodge of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio - Indianapolis, Ind. : B.F. Bowen & Co., 1914 - Page 612
Charles T. Lynch	CHARLES T. LYNCH   Source:  History of Fayette County, Ohio - Indianapolis, Ind. : B.F. Bowen & Co., 1914 - Page 592

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