JAMES SANDY.  James Sandy, sr., the son of William and Ermine Sandy, was born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, Apr. 16, 1788, his parents being of Scotch descent.  Here he was raised, and soon after the declaration of war with Great Britain, in 1812, he joined the "Virginia Blues," and while a member of that organization, was quartered, during one winter, in the town of Franklinton.  At that time the ground now occupied by the State house was covered with its native forest.  After his return to Virginia, sometime in the year of 1813, he was married to Miss Delilah Dulin, daughter of William and Charlotte Dulin, who was born Feb. 1, 1797.  To them were born eight sons and four daughters. 
     In 1821 he moved, with his family to Ohio, and in 1825 settled in Washington township, Franklin county, where he resided until 1862, since which time, and until his death, Oct. 20, 1864, he has lived with his children in Madison township.  His wife died Nov. 15, 1837, at the age of forty years.
     Mr. Sandy was an ardent lover of his country, a true patriot, and a faithful soldier.  He felt, and often expressed, the most earnest solicitude for the success of the war for the preservation of our government during the late Rebellion.  For many years he was a member of the Christian church, and at his death was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.  The last few years of his life were mostly devoted to the reading of the holy scriptures, in which he took great delight.
     James Sandy, Jr., the subject of this sketch, was the fourth son of James and Delilah Sandy, and was born in Norwich township, Franklin county, Dec. 16, 1826.  He remained on the farm with his father until he was eighteen years of age, and then went to Pickaway county, where he worked on a farm a year, after which he went to Ross county, where he also remained a year.  He then returned to Groveport, in this county, where he learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked eleven years.  He then moved on a farm east of Groveport, where he has since resided, engaged in agricultural pursuits.
     He was married in Groveport, Feb. 28, 1848, to Sarah Shoemaker, who was born Nov. 5, 1831.  The result of this union was one son, William Henry, born Feb. 1, 1849.  Mrs. Sandy died June 6, 1850, aged nineteen years.
Source: History of Franklin & Pickaway Counties, Ohio - Published by Williams Bros. - 1880 - Page 457

DAVID SCOTT was born in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 1786, came to Franklinton in 1811, engaged in the practice of the law, and was appointed prosecuting attorney from 1813 to 1814, by the court, in which last year he died.  He was married.
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DAVID SMITH, son of John and Elizabeth Smith, was born at Francistown Hills, Conough county, New Hampshire, Oct. 2, 1785, came to Franklinton in 1812, and moved to Columbus in 1816, and practiced law.  In connection with Ezra Griswold, in 1812, he commenced publishing the Ohio Monitor, and remained sole editor thereof until 1836, when he sold out to Jacob Medary, and the paper was merged into the Hemisphere - a weekly Jacksonian Democratic paper - and finally became the Ohio Statesman, when Samuel Medary was elected State printer.  Mr. Smith was elected associate judge in 1817, and resigned, on his election to the legislature, in 1822.  He was a member; also, in 1822, and State printer in 1831-1834.  He was a fine writer, and was engaged mostly in newspaper enterprises.  In the latter years of his life he was absent, most of his time, from Columbus, visiting his children, but returned, and died here on February 3, 1863, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, and was buried in Green Law cemetery.
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LYNE STARLING.     Lynn Starling was born in Mecklenburgh county, Virginia, in the year 1784; removed to Kentucky in 1794, and came to Franklinton in 1806.  Through the influence of his brother-in-law, Lucas Sullivant, he was placed in the clerk's office for Franklin county - a position for which, though young, he was well qualified by previous training.  Subsequently he was appointed clerk of the circuit and district courts of the United States, and also of the supreme and common pleas court of Franklin county.  Mr. Sullivant afterward furnished the means and formed a partnership wit his young relative in the mercantile business, and he became a successful merchant and enterprising trader, being the first one who ventured cargoes of produce down the Scioto, and thence to New Orleans in decked flat-boats.  This venture, proving remunerative, was of great advantage, not only to himself, but to others.  He was a commissary and large contractor for supplies to the Northwestern army under General Harrison, which assembled at Franklinton and Urbana during the war of 1812.
     Mr. Starling was all his life a sagacious business man, and was one of the original proprietors of Columbus, the present  central portion of the city having been laid out on land owned by him.  A short extract from a letter to his sister in Kentucky, dated Franklinton, July, 1809, may be of interest, as fixing the date of the purchase of this land; "I have lately purchased an elegant seat and tract of land opposite town, on the other side of the river, which I have an idea of improving," evidently as a gentleman's country seat, in the suburbs of the capital - Franklinton.
     Judge Gustavus Swan, who had known Mr. Starling for forty years, speaks thus of him in an obituary, written with great apparent fairness:

     "The deceased was, by nature, emphatically a great man.  He had a quick and clear perception, a retentive memory, and a sound, unerring judgment.  He possessed the rare faculty of annihilating, in an instant, the space between cause and effect.  He arrived at conclusions, and was acting upon them, while ordinary minds were contemplating the premises.  It was this peculiar intellectual superiority which rendered his efforts in business so uniformly successful, and which enabled him, before reaching the meridian of life, to amass one of the largest fortunes which have been accumulated in the West.

     His health failing, he traveled extensively, both in this country and abroad.  Being a man of quick perceptions, and a close observer both of men and things, he gained much practical knowledge, and, from intercourse with the best society, was much improved by his travels; his experience, during these years of leisure, compensating for his early and exclusive devotion to business.
     Mr. Starling never held any political office, though an unsuccessful candidate for congress - his wealth and apparently exclusive manner being against him with the masses, who considered him an aristocrat.  He finally made Columbus his permanent place of residence, when he returned to take charge, as administrator, of the large and valuable landed estate of Mr. Lucas Sullivant.
     Not long before his death, to show his regard for the city whose first houses he built, and in which his fortune had been amassed, he donated thirty-five thousand dollars to establish a medical school, named after him - Starling Medical college.  As he was never married, at his death, which occurred in 1848, his large estate was distributed, by will, among his relatives.
     At his own request, he was buried in the old graveyard at Franklinton, near his sister, Mrs. Sullivant, and other friends.  When the Green Lawn cemetery was established, the remains were removed, and a fine monument marks the last resting place of one of the founders of the city of Columbus.
Source: History of Franklin & Pickaway Counties, Ohio - Published by Williams Bros. - 1880 - Page 581
SHARON WICK'S NOTE:   Also found Lynn Starling in Chapter XVI.

THE STOMBAUGH FAMILY.     John and Elizabeth (Baker) Stombaugh were natives of York county, Pennsylvania, where they resided until the year 1808, when they removed, with their family, to Ohio.  Mr. Stombaugh, the year previous, had visited Ohio - then the "far West" - and had entered the west half of of section number three, of township number four, in range twenty-two (Hamilton), and on this piece of land the family commenced pioneer life in the western wilderness.  The patent for this land is still in possession of the family, and shows the purchase price to have been two dollars and fifty cents per acre.
     Mrs. Stombaugh died in the early years of their settlement, and Mr. Stombaugh subsequently married again, his second wife being Susan Lindsey, of Hamilton.  He was the father of six children, all by his first wife.  Mary, the eldest, was the wife of John Shannon, and resided in Hamilton several years, when she removed to Peoria, Illinois, where she afterwards died; Margaret is the wife of David Mooberry, and is now living in Peoria, Illinois; Ann and Catharine (now deceased) both lived in Peoria, Ann being unmarried, and Catharine being the wife of David Martin; John Stombaugh married Nancy Adams, daughter of Percival Adams, one of the pioneers of Hamilton, and died in Woodford county, Illinois.
     FREDERICK STOMBAUGH, whose portrait appears in connection with this sketch, was the youngest of the family.  He was born on the homestead, in Hamilton, on the first day of June, 1811.  On Jan. 11, 1838, he was united united in marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of John and Catharine Baylor (born July 28, 1817), who came to this county from York county, Pennsylvania, in 1825, and settled on the Lancaster road, not far from where the toll gate now is.  The father died at the age of forty, and the mother some three years since, at the age of eighty-three.
     Mr. Stombaugh resided on the farm on which he was born, until the day of his death - Sept. 22, 1801.  He was a man of much energy and activity; industrious, prudent, and successful, leaving to his family, as a result of his labor and foresight, a fine property.  The children of Frederick and Elizabeth Stombaugh (who is still living on the homestead) are as follows:  Eveline, born Dec. 29, 1839, is unmarried; Mary C., born Oct. 14, 1840, was married, Apr. 12, 1866, to Jacob Wright, of Logan county, Ohio, who died Aug. 31, 1868, and Mrs. Wright now lives on the farm with her mother; Elizabeth, born Jan. 15, 1843, married, Apr. 4, 1805, S. K. Jones, and lives on a portion of the homestead; John, born Jan. 28, 1847, married, Oct. 19, 1870, Louisa Jane Klickenger, and also occupies a portion of the home farm; Caroline, born May 11, 1850, married, Oct. 20, 1870, Cyracus Wolfel, and resides in Columbus; Sarah, born Feb. 25, 1853, is unmarried; and Martha, born May 11, 1857, married T. J. Moore, Dec. 12, 1873, and is now living in Marion township.
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J. W. STORY,   Joseph W. Story was the fourth child of Marmer Duke Story and Rachel Baggs.  He was born in Sussex county, Delaware, and came to Ohio with his parents when he was nine years old.  The family settled  in Pickaway county.
     The subject of this sketch settled in this county, on the farm he now owns and occupied, in the year 1834.  He has been three times married.  His first wife, whom he married in 1832, was Nancy Turner, by whom he had seven children, five of whom are now living:  Margaret, who married Aaron Lambert, lives in Iowa.  John, who married Elizabeth Thomas, lives on the home farm.  Thomas, who married Miss Louisa Moore, lives in Georgesville, this county.  Sarah, who married Addison Taylor lives in Nebraska.  Diana, who married Richard Hay, lives in Pleasant township.  Matilda, who married Peter Tanner, lives in Madison county, Ohio, and Mary who married Isaac tanner lives in Madison county, Ohio.
     His second wife was Susan Nichols whom he married in the year 1853, and by whom he had two children - a son and daughter.  Marmer Duke is single and lives at home.  Virginia, the daughter, married Richard Chaffin, and lives in Pleasant township, Franklin county, Ohio.
     In 1872 he married his third wife, Margaret White, who is very much his junior, and by whom he has had two children, only one of whom, little Lora, is now living.
     In politics, Mr. Story is a Democrat.  While he has suffered many losses, financially and otherwise, for the want of an education, now stain of dishonesty has ever tarnished his name.  He is now seventy-one years old, and lives at his ease, surrounded by every comfort he desires.

JOSEPH SULLIVANT.     Joseph Sullivant, the youngest and only surviving son of Lucas Sullivant and Sarah Starling, was born in Franklinton, in 1809.  In his early years he was distinguished by an ardent love of books, and, like most boys having this passion, devoured everything which came in his way.  Having a retentive memory, he mastered the ordinary school tasks of his time with little difficulty, and, after attending the first two classical schools which his father was active in establishing in Columbus he was sent to the boys' boarding school in Worthington, under the management of Rev. Philander Chase,  bishop of Ohio.  From this school he carried away, and retained in later life, added, it is believed, to steady progress in book-lore, a keen appreciation of the motherly kindness of "that most estimable woman," the wife of the bishop.  From Worthington he was transferred to Ohio university, and from thence, about a year after his father's death, in 1823, and at the early age of fifteen, he entered Center college, Danville, Kentucky, where his course of study was completed.  Having, as he says of himself, at an early age embibed a tast for, and an interest in, the natural sciences, from his father, who was "a dear lover of nature," he devoted himself to their study, and, before the age of twenty-one, was appointed, by the legislature, one of the corporators of the Philosophical and Historical society of Ohio, and was corresponding secretary and curator thereof for several years.
     The limits of our article do not permit the indulgence of our wish in the free use of the abundant material for an extended biographical sketch of Mr. Sullivant; suffice it to say, that he has been for the last forty years one of the leading spirits in all of the scientific and literary enterprises which have given the city of Columbus its present enviable standing among the centers of intelligence and culture in the West.
     For many years he devoted much time and attention to the public schools of the city, being first a member, and for several years president, of the board of education.  Since his final retirement from that position, as a token of the esteem and regard of the large body of teachers connected with the schools, a bust of Mr. Sullivant has been placed in the hall of the beautiful high school building, and later, his old colleagues have erected the largest and finest ward school-building in the city, and, in recognition of his long, gratuitous, and efficient services, have named it "Sullivant school," an acknowledgment, and, at the same time, a monument, of which any one might justly feel proud.
     Many years ago elected a member of the American Scientific association; a member and treasurer of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture; a trustee of Starling Medical college; and serving a second term as trustee and secretary of the Agricultural and Mechanical college of Ohio; a member of the executive committee, giving valuable service in the late re-organization of that institution under its present charter as the Ohio State university, he has held various positions of honor and trust, some involving much time and labor, but  none of emolument.   Nor have the labors of Mr. Sullivant been confined to merely scientivid and literary enterprises - a pamphlet prepared by him on "A. Water Supply for the city of Columbus," being greatly influential in arousing attention to this important matter.  He was also the projector of Green Lawn cemetery, selected its site, was a member of its first board of trustees, and, for several years, president of the corporation.
     With all these evidences of the high estimation of the community in which his life has been spent, no honor is so dear to him (according to his own affectionate confesson) as the remembrance of the community of tastes and pursuits which rendered especially close the chain linking him with his distinguished brother, whose fame will increase in proportion as knowledge and culture are increased.
     Mr. Sullivant has been thrice married, and has a family of several children.
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     * There is less reasosn for noticing here Mr. Sullivant's stupendous operations in Illinois, since elaborate descriptions of them have been published in Harpers Magazine, and other widely circulated periodicals, thus giving him a reputation which is none too strongly characterized above.
Source: History of Franklin & Pickaway Counties, Ohio - Published by Williams Bros. - 1880 - Page 581

LUCAS SULLIVANT.     Louis Sullivant, the leading pioneer in that territory which afterward became Franklin county, was born in September, 1765, in Mecklenbugh county, Virginia.  His starting out in life reminds us strongly of the youthful career of the greatest of all the Virginians - Washington.
     At the age of sixteen he joined, as a volunteer, an expedition against the Indians, who were threatening the western counties of his native State, and his good conduct and manly intrepidity were such as to gain for him the public commendation of his commanding officer.  Left alone in the world by the death of his parents and only brother, he used his small patrimony in acquiring a more liberal education, and especially in mastering the science and practice of surveying, which he adopted as a profession.
     The new and unsurveyed lands of Kentucky, then an outlying county of the Old Dominion, offering a wider field for his enterprise, he went thither, while quite a young man, and soon found his talent and skill in constant demand.
     The officers and soldiers of the regular Continental army having, under legislative authority, met and appointed Colonel Richard C. Anderson, a distinguished officer of the Revolution, surveyor-general of the Virginia military land district, Mr. Sullivant received from him an appointment as deputy surveyor, and, at the age of age of twenty-two, became one of that dauntless band of pioneers who penetrated into the unbroken wilderness, and opened one of the richest portions of Ohio to the advancing wave of settlement and civilization.  Defeated, in his first attempts, by the wily savage, he was compelled to organize a stronger force, which was equipped at Limestone (now Maysville), Kentucky.  With a party of twenty men, he advanced into the wilderness, and, in due time, having arrived upon the banks of the Scioto, he commenced his operations in the territory of the present Franklin county.  The outfit of this surveying party betokened an occupation of the disputed territory, rather than a flying assault; and, in fact, though constantly in the neighborhood of hostile villages, and passing through many exciting scenes and hair-breadth escapes, Mr. Sullivant brought his work to a fortunate conclusion.
     In the summer and fall of 1797 ten years after the commencement of this adventurous and dangerous career between the Scioto and the Miami.  Mr. Sullivant, having obtained possession of the surrounding lands, laid out the town of Franklinton, believing that, situated as it was in the region of the greatest fertility, on a then navigable river, and so near the center of the State, if it did not become the capital, it would be near it, and could not fail to become a great center in the progress of the State.  Thi was five years before Ohio was set off from the great northwest territory as an independent State, and six years before Franklin was separated from Ross county.
     About this time Mr. Sullivant was married to Sarah Starling, daughter of Colonel William Starling, of Kentucky, and building the first brick house in his proprietory town of Franklinton, he resided thee during the remainder of his life.  Though devoting himself principally to the care of his own estate, he was liberal and public spirited, and the projector of many of the most valuable improvements of those early times, and his influence, counsels, and pecuniary aid, shaped very materially the destinies of Ohio's capital.  He was the builder of the first bridge over the Scioto between Franklinton and Columbus; the president of the first bank established in Columbus, built the first church of the first Presbyterian congregation on its removed to Columbus; and was never second in any enterprise which had for its aim the intellectual or material advancement of the community in which he lived.  Firm and positive in his opinions, but courteous in manner and expression; prompt and decisive to act upon his own convictions; he was altogether a man of forcible character, exercising a great influence over those with whom he came in contact. 
     In the full maturity of his powers, and his natural force not abated, he died, Aug. 8, 1823, in the fifty-eighth year of his age.
      From tributes written by those who knew him well, a few extracts will close this imperfect sketch:
     "He possessed a great spirit of liberality, which an ample fortune, acquired by his own industry, enabled him to gratify to an uncommon extent.  He was a man of strict integrity, of the most persevering industry and rigid economy.  He was a kind and indulgent father, a sincere and hospitable friend, and a generous neighbor; and the poor were never turned away empty from his well-filled granaries."
     "He showed, in his last illness, the same invincible fortitude which had sustained him in the midst of the privations and dangers incurred in the early settlement of the State."
     Dr. John Edmiston, his physician and friend, used to say of him:  "Take him all in all, with his strong and vigorous intellect, his knowledge of human nature, his decision of character, good judgment, and high sense of personal honor and integrity, he is one of the most remarkable men I ever knew.  He seemed born to be a leader, and in whatever direction he had turned his attention, he would have distinguished himself and become a man of mark."
Source: History of Franklin & Pickaway Counties, Ohio - Published by Williams Bros. - 1880 - Page 579

MICHAEL L. SULLIVANT.     Michael L. Sullivant, second son of Lucas Sullivant and Sarah Starling, was born Aug. 6, 1807, in the village of Franklinton, and educated at the Ohio university, and Center college, Kentucky.  Very early in life, Michael manifested a very decided predilection for rural affairs, and, after leaving college, instead of studying a profession he determined to marry, and deliberately chose farming for his life-long vocation.  The fine body of land which he inherited in the immediate vicinity of Columbus, afforded an opportunity for him to carry out his purpose on a then unusually large scale.
     He engaged in farming at a time when there was but a limited price, as well as a limited demand and a circumscribed market for all kinds of farming products, and be at he all at once saw that the only remunerative method was to consume the corn, hay, and grass, through the medium of stock.  He consequently became a grazier and stock-feeder, "stall-feeding," as it was termed, many hundred fat cattle during the fall and winter months.   This was, however, a laborious, and often uncertain, business; for cattle, when ready for market, must b e driven over the mountains to Baltimore, Philadelphia, or New York, and the fluctuations in price from the time of starting until the journey was ended, was often of a most vexatious kind, making all the difference between a handsome profit and an unhandsome loss.  These cattle had generally been grazed in the "Barrens," or Sandusky plains, in Ohio, or even on the praries prairies of Indiana and Illinois, where they were picked up in lots by the enterprising feeders in Ohio, principally located in the Scioto valley.
     Mr. Sullivant remained in his native State, occupying his ample inheritance, until about the year 1854, always showing himself independent and progressive, a man of large views, and taking the lead in many innovations upon fossilized ideas.  He was one of the originators of the Ohio Stock Importing company, and one of the organizers of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, of which he was twice the president.  He introduced new methods and machinery on his farm here, being the first to buy and put in operation a power threshing machine in Franklin county; also a reaper and a mower, and was always interested in everything that concerned agriculture.
     Seeking a wider field of operations - if not marked out by destiny to inaugurate a stupendous experiment - he disposed of his large estate in Ohio, and, removing to Illinois, where he had secured a vast domain at government prices, he gave his attention to establishing the great farm of "Broadlands," which, in connection with that of "Bur Oaks," has given him fame wherever there is an English speaking people.*
     "One of the most striking traits in the character of Mr. Sullivant," says one who knew him well, "was the tenacity of purpose with which he pursued his scheme, when once it was deliberately planed."
     He was twice married, and his domestic relations were always happy, for, says the same friend, he was good-tempered, and of a liberal and generous disposition.  Mr. Michael Sullivant died Feb. 29, 1879, leaving a widow and several children.
Source: History of Franklin & Pickaway Counties, Ohio - Published by Williams Bros. - 1880 - Page 580

WILLIAM STARLING SULLIVANT.     William S. Sullivant, the eldest son of Lucas Sullivant, was born Jan. 15, 1803, in Franklinton, the village, literally in the midst of a wilderness, which his father's indomitable energy, more than that of any other one man, had set on the road to empire.  His boyhood was exposed to all the real dangers, and beset by all the so-called hardships, incident to pioneer life in those early days.  In 1812, when the subject of this sketch was nine years old, the shameful surrender of General Hall to the British forces at Detroit, exposed the whole frontier to an irruption of bloody savages, the allies of Great Britain.  For months, the inhabitants of this new settlement, in common with others still more exposed, were harrassed harassed with fears of such an invasion, and of the cruelties and barbarous atrocities which distinguished savage warfare.  Happily, however, this danger was averted, and peace and prosperity ensued.
     At a proper age, young William, mounted astride of a bag of wheat on one horse, and leading another, on which also was strapped a well-filled bag, was often sent along the blazed bridle-paths through the forest to Sell's mill, near Dublin, to Dyer's mill, on the Darby, and sometimes to Kinnikinnick, in Ross county, to procure flour for the family.  These expeditions frequently involved two or three days' waiting for the grist, and necessitated sleeping in the mill, wrapped in a blanket, where he was fortunate who had a pile of corn or wheat for his couch instead of the hard floor.  But, dear reader, waste no sigh of pity for our young friend, William, and doubt not that in these pilgrimages he was supremely happy, and that these and similar experiences were fruitful in producing, not only the fine physical development and graceful carriage which distinguished him in his maturity, but also in arousing those latent tastes and capacities which have made his name an honor to his family and to his country.  In those quiet journeyings through the leafy aisles of "God's first temples," and in those days of "waiting for the grist,' when forest and stream and bird and flower wooed him to their companionship; to such a nature as his, how entrancing must have been this sweet communion with nature!  And who can say that his chosen pursuit, in later life was not the result of the bias given in these days of his boyhood?  It is said, also, that he accompanied his father upon some of his shorter surveying expeditions, where he gained that knowledge which tended to make him an expert, rapid, and accurate surveyor, when, after his return from college, and after his father's death, he had occasion to exercise his skill in attending to the large landed estate of the family.
     When old enough to be sent from home, he was placed in a celebrated private school, in Jassamaine county, Kentucky.  Afterward he pursued his classical studies, under Professors Lindley and Dana, at the Ohio university, at Athens.  Here he was prepared for Yale college, from which he graduated in 1823.  Though almost immediately immersed in the cares and duties of active business life, while yet in early manhood, he found time to acquaint himself most thoroughly with the flora of central Ohio, discovering, in his botanical researches, several species hitherto unknown, to one of which his eastern botanical associates gave the name Sillivantia Ohinis.  Dr. Asa Gray, the distinguished botanist, and long the intimate friend of Mr. Sullivant, speaks thus of his scientific researches: "As soon as the flowering plants of his district had ceased to afford him novelty, he turned to the mosses, in which he found abundant scientific occupation, of a kind well suited to his bent for patient and close observation, serupulous accuracy, and nice discrimination."  And it was in this field that his world-wide reputation was won; some of the most valuable contributions to the bryology and hepaticology of North America being the result of years of quiet but earnest labor.  In the same article by Dr. Gray, already quioted, occurs the following estimate of the value of these labors: "His works have laid such a broad and complete foundation for the study of bryology in this country, and are of such recognized importance everywhere, that they must always be of classic authority.  wherever mosses are studied, his name will be honorably remembered.  In this country it should long be remembered with peculiar gratitude."  In accordance with his wishes, his bryological books, and his exceedingly rich and important collections and preparations of mosses, are to be consigned to the Gray Herbarium building of Harvard university, with a view to their preservation and long-continued usefulness.  The remainder of his botanical library, his choice microscopes, and his remaining collections, are bequeathed to the State Scientific and Agricultural college of Ohio, and to the Starling Medical college, founded by his uncle, of which he was himself the senior trustee.
     Did space allow an enumeration of all of Mr. Sullivant's botanical labors and publications, it would give emphasis to the reflection that such achievements in science, on the part of one whose life, so far from being given to the pursuit of literature, was marked by great business activity, are to say the least, of very rare occurrence.
Source: History of Franklin & Pickaway Counties, Ohio - Published by Williams Bros. - 1880 - Page 580

GUSTAVUS SWAN, son of John and Sarah (Mead) Swan, was born July 15, 1787, at Petersborough, New Hampshire.  His means of early education were limited, as his parents were poor, but, by his own perseverance and exertion, he obtained an excellent classical, mathematical and scientific course of instruction, at the Aurean academy, Amherst, Hillsborough county, New Hampshire.  Dr. Reuben D. Murrey, son of Dr. John Murrey, and who subsequently settled in the city of Boston, and became one of the most celebrated surveyors in the country, was a fellow schoolmate.  Judge Swan always said he was indebted to Dr. John Murrey's aid in his studies, and encouragement, more than to any one else, for his subsequent success in life.  He studied law with Samuel Bell, a celebrated lawyer, at Concord, New Hampshire, who was afterwards governor of the State, and was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire.
     He first came to Marietta, Ohio in 1810, and remained a year there, and was admitted to the bar of Ohio. In 1811 he came to Franklinton, then the county seat of Franklin, and commenced the practice of the law.  His ability and industry soon gave him high professional reputation, and he was employed in all the important cases, which brought him in constant conflict with Beecher, Ewing, Irwin, Baldwin, Grimke, and other distinguished leaders of the Ohio bar, who then rode the circuit, and practiced in the courts held at the capitol of the State.  Judge Swan, in these legal contests, involving nice questions, under the old rules of pleading, and requiring a thorough knowledge of the land laws, especially in the Virginia military district, soon took rank among the first at the bar.  He was a diligent student, and fine speaker, having great power with a jury, and his practice extended through Fayette, Madison, Union, Delaware, Pickaway and Fairfield counties, where his name is still associated, in the traditions of the people, with the pioneer lawyers of his day.  He was the first representative elected by Franklin county, to the legislature, as soon as she was entitled to elect alone, in 1812, and was elected again in 1817.  He was constantly engaged in the practice of his profession, until 1823, when he was appointed, by Governor Morrow, judge of the court of common pleas, in place of Judge J. Adair McDowell, deceased, and was elected by the legislature, on its meeting, for the term of seven years, and was the judge when the court was removed from Franklinton to Columbus, in 1824, and made an able one.  In pursuance of the resolutions of the general assembly, passed Jan. 22, 1825, he compiled the land laws for Ohio, including the State laws to 1815-16, an invaluable publication to the practitioner.
     In 1820 he resumed the practice of law in Columbus, to which place he moved his residence, in 1815.  He continued, from that date, in active practice, until 1832, doing a lucrative and extensive business.  By this time he had acquired a large fortune.  He had been president, from 1823, of the old Franklin bank, of Columbus, incorporated by the legislature, Feb. 23, 1816, whose charger expired Jan. 1, 1843.  On the organization of the State bank, of Ohio, and its branches, under the act of February, 1845 - the old Franklin bank, on July 1, 1845, organized as one of its branches - Judge Swan was elected one of the directors, and afterwards president of the ablest financiers in the State.  The duties of the place required his whole time, in connection with his other large private interests, and he retired from practice.
     The last time he appeared as counsel, in court, was in defense of William Clark, a convict in the penitentiary, tried for the murder of Cyrus Sell, one of the guards, by a single blow with a cooper's axe.  He was tired at the December term, 1843, of the supreme court for Franklin county, reported in the eighth volume of the Ohio State reports, and convicted of murder in the first degree, and hung on Feb. 9, 1844, with a female colored convict, Esther, who had killed another prisoner.  The The defense was insanity, and there was an army of eminent counsel on both sides, Judge N. H. Swayne conducted the prosecution, examining the medical experts of the defense, including his own family physician.  Judge Swan, who had been generally successful in criminal cases, put forth his full powers, and confidently remarked, it is said, that he had never had a client hung in his life, and if Clark was, he never world put his foot in the court house again, as a lawyer; and he never did, unless on his own business.
     Judge Swan, from this time, devoted himself to his duties as president of the State bank of Ohio, and the management of his large estate.  He was very fond of books and philosophical discussions.  On Oct. 14, 1819, he was married, by Rev. Dr. James Hoge, to Mrs. Amelia Weston, daughter of George and Mary Aldrich, born at Meriden, Massachusetts, Dec. 20, 1785; died, Nov. 5, 1859, and is buried under the same monument, in Green Lawn cemetery, with her husband who died Feb. 6, 1860.  Judge Swan had two sons, both of whom died before him.  George was lost at sea, on the ill-fated steamer, Lexington.  It was a great grief to his father, which was intensified by the death of Charles, who, he hoped, would have lived to take his position.  He had two daughters, Mrs. Sarah Whitney, of New York city, and Mrs. Jane Parsons, wife of George M. Parsons, of Columbus, Ohio.
Source: History of Franklin & Pickaway Counties, Ohio - Published by Williams Bros. - 1880 - Page 64

HENRY C. SWISHER.  In the year 1805, John Swisher and family, of Sussex county, New Jersey, emigrated to Ohio, and in 1807 settled in Madison township, Franklin county.  His wife, who, before marriage, was Mary Peterson, died in 1836, and he again married, a Mrs. Shepherd, of Washington township, and lived near Dublin until his death.
     Jacob, the oldest child of John and Mary Swisher, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, July 5, 1803.  He married, for his first wife, Eliza Scothorn, and resided on the school section until her death, which occurred about a year after her marriage.  A few years subsequently he was again married to Anah, daughter of Philemon Needels, when he settled on the farm where he now lives, and resided there until 1842.  He then removed to the place now occupied by John Anderson, which farm he cleared up and improved.  He finally, after a short residence in Groveport, moved back to the farm he had previously occupied, and on which he now resides.  Besides that of farming, Mr. Swisher's principal occupation has been the buying and selling of live stock.  At an early period of his business career he commenced buying hogs, which he would fatten and drive to the eastern markets.  He has walked to Baltimore and back on such trips a number of times, and for several years made an annual journey.  In 1840 or 1841 he combined with his live stock business that of pork packing, in connection with other gentlemen, in Groveport.  This branch of the business, however, proving unprofitable, it was afterward abandoned.
     His second wife died in September, 1862.  They had a family of nine children, of whom Henry C., the subject of this sketch, is the oldest.  He was born in Madison township, Franklin county, Ohio, Jan. 8, 1837, and married, Dec. 18, 1866, Jennie Nau, daughter of Jacob and Mary Arch Nau, of Madison township.  She was born Oct. 15, 1844, in Hancock county, Ohio.  Her mother died in 1856, and her father is still living on a portion of the Swisher farm.  The subject of this sketch has been engaged principally in agricultural pursuits, and is among the energetic and successful farmers of his township.  For seven years he cultivated a farm in the school section, taking a lease for nine years.  He purchased the farm on which he now lives, and to which he has recently added, in the spring of 1866, and built his residence, a view of which is given elsewhere, about five years since.  Mr. Swisher has also been to a considerable extent engaged in the shipment of live stock to the east, which he has uniformly found a profitable business.
     To Mr. and Mrs. Swisher have been born the following named children:  Ella M., born Nov. 2, 1867 in Crawford county, Ohio, where the parents resided the first year after their marriage; Charles C., born Feb. 19, 1869; Walter, born Dec. 25, 1870, who died Jan. 9, 1871; Edgar A., born Jan. 23, 1872; Anah A., born Dec. 16, 1873; and Florence, born Dec. 13, 1878.
Source: History of Franklin & Pickaway Counties, Ohio - Published by Williams Bros. - 1880 - Page 457