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HARRY B. CAMPBELL, D. D. S. ––A native son of the fine old Buckeye state and a citizen who holds a secure vantage ground in popular confidence and esteem is Dr. Harry B. Campbell, who was born in Lincoln township, Morrow county, Ohio, on the 3rd of March, 1878.  He is a son of Andrew and Ada F. (Farlee) Campbell, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of Ohio. Andrew Campbell is a prosperous farmer in Cardington township and he and Mrs. Campbell are the parents of four children, of which number the Doctor is the eldest.  Blanche is the wife of F. A. Moore, a resident of Cleveland, Ohio; Frank an electro plater; and Marie, in school.
     Dr. Harry B. Campbell grew up on the old farm, in the work and management of which he early began to assist his father.  His preliminary educational training was gained in the district schools and this discipline was later effectively supplemented by an independent course in the Cardington High School.  Thereafter he devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits until 1905, when he was matriculated in the Ohio Medical College at Columbus, in the dental department of which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1908, duly receiving his degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery.  Immediately after his graduation he opened an office in the Kreis block, and he now controls a large and representative patronage.  A thorough technical training along the line of his chosen work, together with innate ability, makes him one of the leading dentists in this county.  In a professional way the Doctor is affiliated with various medical organizations of representative character.  He is a valued and appreciative member of Cardington Lodge, No. 384, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Cardington Lodge, No. 194, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is a past grand.  In politics he is a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor and he and his wife are devout members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the different departments of whose work they have been most active factors.
     In the year 1909 was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Campbell to Miss Virginia Ireland, a daughter of Alexander and Mary (Maxwell) Ireland, representative citizens of Cardington.  The father was identified with agricultural pursuits during the major portion of his active business career and he is now living virtually retired in the enjoyment of former years of earnest toil and endeavor.  Mrs. Campbell was reared and educated in Morrow county and she is a woman of most gracious personality.  Dr. and Mrs. Campbell have no children.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 632-633
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JOHN R. CARPENTER, B. D.—It is most pleasing at this juncture in the history of the lives and careers of prominent men in Morrow county, Ohio, to accord recognition to Rev. John Randolph Carpenter, a native son of the fine old Buckeye state and a citizen whose interest in the material and spiritual welfare of his fellow men has long been prolific of good. Rev. Carpenter was born on a farm in the vicinity of the city of Cleveland, this state, the date of his nativity being December 29, 1859. He is a son of Charles and Harriet (Bennett) Carpenter, the former of whom was born near Dover, Vermont, and the latter of whom hailed from the province of Quebec, Canada, whence she came to Ohio as a young girl. The Carpenter family is one of long standing in America, the original progenitor in this country having come hither from England in the year 1605, he being one William Carpenter, who settled at Mendon, Massachusetts, where he was engaged in the great basic industry of agriculture until his death. He was born in England in the year 1605. Rev. Carpenter, of this review, is a direct descendant from William Carpenter and is a member of the ninth generation of the family in America. He traces his ancestry from William through Abiah, Oliver, Oliver, Oliver, Barow G., Captain John and Charles, the latter of whom was his father. Captain John Carpenter was a gallant and dashing soldier in the Revolutionary war and the three Olivers were sea captains. The other members of the family have been identified largely with agricultural pursuits. The founder of the family in Ohio was Captain John Carpenter, who came to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, about the year 1830. He was a farmer by occupation and he passed the residue of his life in this state. He married Mis Lucina Thompson and they became the parents of nine children. The captain was summoned to the life eternal on the 29th of January, 1861, and his wife passed away on the 1st of July, 1867. The Carpenters were very religious people and for many generations were stanch adherents of the Baptist church. Charles Carpenter, however, transferred his allegiance to the faith of the Universalist church in his boyhood and to the teachings of that order reared his children. Of the nine children of Charles and Harriet Carpenter four grew to maturity, namely: Rev. B. G. Carpenter, who is a Universalist minister at Peoria, Illinois; Jennie M., who is the wife of Richard Hewitt and who resides near Jamestown, Virginia; John R., the immediate subject of this review; and Lydia, wife of J. L. Stetson, died July 25, 1900. The father passed away in 1883 and the mother died in 1906.
     John Randolph Carpenter was reared on the home farm near Cleveland, Ohio, and he received his preliminary educational training in the public schools of the district. At the age of twenty-one years he was graduated from the high school at LaGrange, Indiana, and thereafter he became a popular and successful teacher in the North Olmsted schools, continuing to be so engaged until he had reached the age of twenty-three years. He then felt a call to the Universalist ministry and entered the theological department of Lombard College, at Galesburg, Illinois, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1887, duly receiving the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. He was ordained to the ministry of the Universalist church on the 27th of October, 1887, and thereafter accepted a call to a church of that denomination at Delphos, Kansas, where he was pastor for the ensuing eighteen months, at the expiration of which he assumed charge of a church at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where he remained for one and one half years. He then returned to Ohio, where he was engaged in the work of his calling at Newtown, Belpre, McConnelsville and Peru, coming to Mt. Gilead in June, 1904. He has charge of the Universalist churches at this place and at Attica, Ohio.
     On the 23rd of February, 1888, was celebrated the marriage of Rev. Carpenter and Miss Mary Morecraft, of Woodstock, Ohio. To this union have been born two sons, Loring C., whose birth occurred on the 16th of September, 1890, and who is a student at LeHigh University; and Marvine G., born October 10, 1894, who is a student in the local high school.
     Politically Rev. Carpenter endorses the cause of the Democratic party and he served as mayor of Mt. Gilead from January 1, 1908, until June 1, 1910, giving a most able and satisfactory administration of the municipal, affairs of the city during his incumbency of the mayoralty. In the grand old Masonic order he is a member of Gilead Lodge, No. 206, Free and Accepted Masons; and Gilead Chapter, No. 59, Royal Arch Masons, in which he is past master and past high priest, respectively. He is also affiliated with the Charles H. Hull Lodge, No. 195, Knights of Pythias, in which he is past chancellor commander. He is also a member of the Lemuel H. Breese Camp, No. 65, Sons of Veterans, of which he is past commander. In his lifework Rev. Carpenter has ever been prompted with a desire to benefit mankind and to devote progress wherever possible.   He is a distinctly moral man, of tried integrity and uprightness, and is regarded with marked esteem by all who know him.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 538-540
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GEORGE L. CLARK is a representative of the Logan Gas Company of Mount Gilead, Ohio, and as such maintains his business headquarters at Mount Gilead, where he has resided since 1902. His financial interests in this section of the fine old Buckeye state are of varied order and he is prominent in Ohio Masonry. Mr. Clark was born at Warren, Pennsylvania, on the 29th of April, 1859, and is a son of James and Mary E. (Stevens) Clark, both of whom are still living.
     The father, James Clark, a prominent lumberman and a leading citizen of Warren, Pennsylvania, was born in Scotland December 23, 1831, and is a son of James and Jane McPherson Clark, and a grandson of William Clark. James Clark, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was born in Scotland in 1800. His early life was devoted to lumbering and farming. He came to America in 1846 and settled in Glade township, Warren county, Pennsylvania, on a farm now occupied by his son Alexander Clark. Upon locating in this county Mr. Clark devoted his entire time to farming, the vast tracts of available territory proving highly tempting. He was married in Scotland to Jane McPherson, a native of that country, and they became the parents of six children, one daughter and five sons, named Isabella Kitchen, deceased; James, father of George L.; John, now a resident of Warren, Pennsylvania; Alexander, who lives on the old farm in Glade township, Warren county; Lewis, who died in 1878; and William, who died in 1874. The mother of this family died in 1880 and her devoted husband followed her to the other shore in 1883, aged eighty-three years. They were faithful members of the Presbyterian church.
     James Clark received his early mental training in the schools of his native country and came with his parents to the United States in the year 1846. At the age of eighteen he took up the trade of a millwright and followed the vocation for a few years, but gradually was drawn toward lumbering pursuits. He built the. Warren Saw and Planing Mills, located on the large island, in the year 1864, and operated them until 1892, when he sold out to Newmaker and Reed. In 1881 the mills were destroyed by fire, but Mr. Clark was not to be undone by the fire fiend and before the smoking ruins had cooled he had plans prepared for new mills, which he erected and had in operation within the year. He enjoyed great success, the mills being one of Warren's most important industries while under the Clark management, and it continued as a flourishing enterprise under the new firm.
     In 1858 Mr. Clark wedded Mary E. Stevens, daughter of S. G. Stevens, of Warren, Pennsylvania, and their union has been blessed by the birth of eight children, equally divided as to sons and daughters and as follows in name: George L., Jessie I., Lucy A., Edward A., Frederick C., Annie M., Archie J., and Ethel E. The eldest son, George L, is the subject of this review; Jessie I. married W. R. Johnson, of Falconer, New York, and has one son, R. C., Lucy A., is the wife of J. W. Richards and resides in Warren, Pennsylvania; Edward A. married Addie Horigan, daughter of Thomas Horigan, and they also reside in Warren, their only son being named James A.; Fred C. and Annie M. are at home; Archie J., married Maud Graham, daughter of Jesse Graham, of Warren, and they are the parents of one son, Byron G.; Ethel E. is the wife of Carl T. Campbell, a resident of Sisterville, West Virginia, and the mother of a son, James T.
     Clark is a valued and progressive citizen and ever first and foremost in any enterprise calculated to promote the welfare of his adopted town. He has been a director of the Warren Savings Bank since its organization and the only one now living of its first directors. He has also served on its discount committee continuously since the organization of the bank and he is vice president of the Warren and Chautauqua Gas Company and one of its board of directors.
     George L. Clark was reared and educated in the town of Warren, Pennsylvania, to whose graded schools he is indebted for his preliminary training. At the age of seventeen years he became interested in the gas and oil business and continued to be identified with it until 1882, was then in the lumber business until 1892, when he assumed the position of superintendent of the lines and towns of the Warren-Chautauqua Gas Company, at Warren, Pennsylvania, being thus engaged for some seven years and nine months. He has been in the employ of the Logan Gas Company since June 23, 1902. He was with that concern at Warren, Pennsylvania, for a period of seven years and nine months and for the past eight years has been agent for the Logan Gas Company at Mount Gilead. He holds considerable stock in the gas company and is the owner of fine residence property in Mount Gilead. In politics he accords an uncompromising allegiance to the cause of the Republican party and though he has never manifested aught of desire for the honors or emoluments of political office he is ever ready to do all in his power to advance the general good of the community. Fraternally he is affiliated with Mount Gilead Lodge, No. 206, Free and Accepted Masons, and for three years was its high priest; Gilead Chapter, No. 59, Royal Arch Masons; and Marion Commandery, No. 36, ­Knights Templars. He is a member of the high priesthood of Ohio.
     Mr. Clark married on June 30, 1886, at Garland, Warren county, Pennsylvania, Sadie E. Wilson, who died at Jamestown, New York, in 1902. On August 19, 1902, at Saint Francis De Sales church, Newark, Ohio, he married Miss Adelia Igo, who was born at Grafton, West Virginia, and reared at Newark, Licking county, Ohio. To this union has been born one child, George L. Clark, Jr., whose birth occurred on the 2nd of October, 1906, at Mount Gilead, Ohio. He was baptized at Blessed Sacrament church at Newark, Ohio, in March, 1908.
     Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 624-626
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

ELLSWORTH W. CLEVENGER. ––A resident of Morrow county since his childhood days, Mr, Clevenger has attained to precedence as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of Canaan township, where he is the owner of a finely improved farm of seventy acres in sections 27 and 34.  Farming is a prosaic and monotonously arduous vocation to one who fails to bear progressive ideas and discrimination such as are demanded in other lines of enterprise, but to the one who knows and appreciates its details and is willing to put forth a due amount of efforts it offers the most independent position and the most generous returns.  Mr. Clevenger is one who has thus taken advantage of the gracious opportunities offered in connection with the great basic industry, and his success has been on a parity with the well directed effort he has put forth.
     Mr. Clevenger was born in Morgan county, Ohio, on the 23d of October, 1872, and is a son of Lorenzo C. and Esther (Pletcher) Clevenger.  The mother was born in Morgan county, this state, and was a daughter of the late Eli Pletcher, who passed the closing years of his long and useful life in Morrow county, where he died at the age of seventy-seven years.  The mother of the subject of this review died March 31, 1896.  When Ellsworth W. Clevenger was two years of age his mother and her parents came from Morgan county to Morrow county and located on a farm one mile and a half northwest of the village of Edison, in Canaan township, where he was reared to maturity and where his honored grandparents passed the residue of their lives.  He was afforded the advantages of the public schools until he was twenty-one years of age.  Soon after attaining to his legal majority Mr. Clevenger became associated with his mother in the purchase of a farm of twenty acres, located a half a mile north of the village of Denmark, this county, and he had the supervision of the same for the ensuing six years, at the expiration of which the property was sold and he removed to his present farm, upon which he has made good improvements, the while everything about the place is kept in good repair and excellent order, indicating the thrift and enterprise of the owner.  The place is devoted to diversified agriculture and stock-growing, and is one which is constantly increasing in value, as are other farms in this favored section of the old Buckeye state.  Mr. Clevenger gives his support to those projects and measures that tend to conserve the general welfare of the community along both material and social lines and he is at the present time school director of his district.  In politics he gives his allegiance to the Democratic party, and he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Denmark, Lodge No. 760.  Both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church.
     On the 27th of December, 1894, Mr. Clevenger took unto himself a wife, Miss Lola C. Apt, who has proved a devoted companion and helpmeet.  She was born in Canaan township on the 2d of February, 1877, and is a daughter of Jacob Y. Apt, who was a prosperous farmer of this township.  Mr. and Mrs. Clevenger have four children, as follows: Alta L., Gladys M., Harold J., and Charles E.  The eldest daughter, Miss Alta, is a member of the class of 1913 in the high school at Edison, and the two children next younger are attending the school of their home district.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 807-808
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ADAM CLOUSE. ––Numbered among the skilful and prosperous agriculturists of Morrow county is Adam Clouse, who owns and occupies a valuable farm in Canaan township, which is near the place of his birth, the date thereof being March 22, 1855.  During his half century and more of life, which has been passed in this vicinity, he has won for himself an enviable reputation as an honest man and a good citizen, and as one who has contributed his full quota towards the advancement of one of the best counties in Ohio.  His father, Peter Clouse, was born in Switzerland in 1814, and when eleven years of age came to the United States with his parents locating in what is now Canaan township, Morrow county, Ohio, where his father took up a tract of government land.  Here he grew to manhood and subsequently engaged in farming on his own account.  He married Mrs. Nancy (Apt) Garster, a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and of the eight children born of their union Adam, the subject of this brief sketch, is the sole survivor.
     Attending the district school during the days of his boyhood and youth, Adam Clouse obtained a practical knowledge of the common branches of learning and when ready to start in life for himself chose the free and independent occupation of a farmer.  Laboring with unremitting industry, he has met with richly deserved success as a general farmer and stock raiser, his fine farm of one hundred and fifteen acres being advantageously located one and one-fourth miles north of Denmark.  His homestead is under a high state of cultivation, and with its improvements and appointments is considered one of the choice estates of this part of the county.   In 1905 Mr. Clouse added to the value and attractiveness of his estate by the erection of a fine residence, which contains all of the modern conveniences and improvements, and invariably elicits words of praise from the passing traveler.
     Mr. Clouse married, in 1877, Martha A. Overly, who was born July 8, 1859, in Ross county, Ohio, and was there educated in the common schools.  Her parents, Elisha and Lucinda (Kinnamon) Overly, died in early life, leaving two children, a son and a daughter.  Left motherless when but three years of age and fatherless at the age of twelve years, Mrs. Clouse and her brother were brought up by an aunt, who did the best she could for them until they were able to look out for themselves.  Mrs. Clouse came to Canaan township when a girl of seventeen years, and a year or so later married Mr. Clouse.  Two children have blessed their union, namely: Ada B., born June 20, 1879, is the wife of Charles I. Reed, of Canaan township; and Elsie May, born February 25, 1895, is a student in the public schools.
     A Democrat in his political affiliations, Mr. Clouse has served as township treasurer and as road supervisor, and at the present writing is a member of the local school board.  Fraternally he belongs to Calanthia Lodge No. 116, K. of P., of Caledonia, Ohio.  He is an active and faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church of North Canaan, of which he is a trustee and a steward and a teacher in its Sunday School.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 865-866
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

EDWARD COE. ––An active, enterprising and progressive agriculturist of Morrow county, Edward Coe is the proprietor of a well kept and well appointed farm in South Bloomfield township, which has been his abiding place the greater part of his life.  In addition to managing his farm most successfully, he owns and operates throughout the harvesting season a threshing machine, an industry in which he has been engaged for many years.  He was born July 21, 1855, in Bloomfield township, a son of Edward Coe, Sr.
     Edward Coe, Sr., a native of England, came to the United States with his parents, who settled first in New York state, but later came to Ohio, and from here proceeded westward to Iowa, where they remained permanently.  Edward Coe, Sr., a painter by trade, remained in Morrow county, and after following his trade for some time, bought a farm in Bloomfield township, and there resided until his death, about 1862.  He was twice married.  By his first wife he had three children, Ann, Ellen and William.  He married for his second wife Elizabeth Ebersole, who was born in Pennsylvania, a daughter of John D. and Mary Ebersole, and they became the parents of three children, namely: Edward, the special subject of this sketch, Albert and Elbridge.  He was a stanch Republican in politics, and a trustworthy member of the Christian church at Sparta.  His second wife survived him, passing away in 1883.
     Residing on the parental homestead of one hundred and thirty acres until his marriage, Edward Coe assisted in its management as soon as old enough to work.  He subsequently invested his money in land, and is now the owner of a fine farm of ninety acres, which he is managing most successfully, the greater part of it being under good cultivation, while the improvements are of a practical and substantial character.  Early in his career Mr. Coe purchased a threshing outfit, with which he has since traveled extensively in this section of Morrow county throughout the threshing season, his services being ever in demand at that time, and for thirty-three years has not missed a day’s labor with his machine, a record scarcely to be equaled in this or in surrounding states.
     Mr. Coe married January 2, 1869, Viola Roberts, who was born February 10, 1852, in South Bloomfield township, a daughter of W. S. Roberts and granddaughter of Solomon and Mary (Coleman) Roberts, pioneer settlers of Ohio.  W. S. Roberts learned the carpenter’s trade when young, but later bought land in Bloomfield township, Morrow county, and was engaged in the cultivation of the soil until his death, February 5, 1905.  He was an active worker in the Democratic ranks, and for several terms served on the township board.  While working at his trade he assisted in building the public school house at Sparta.  Mr. Roberts’s wife, whose maiden name was Lydia A. Swetland, survived him, passing away in November, 1910.
     Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Coe, namely: Floy M. and Minnie A.  Floy M., born August 18, 1882, married Earl Hicks, of South Bloomfield, and later became a resident of Fredericktown, Ohio.  They have two sons Lawrence E. and Maurice Coe.  Minnie A., born February 10, 1885, is the wife of Jasper Meiser, of Sparta, and has one son, Herbert.  Mr. Coe is Independent in politics, voting as his conscience dictates, regardless of party affiliations, and has served several years as a member of the local school board.  Fraternally he is a member of Sparta Lodge, No. 268, I. O. O. F., in which he has held all of the chairs.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 636-637
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

GEORGE O. COE. —For some thirty years was George O. Coe engaged in the drug and hardware business at Mt. Gilead and at Edison, Morrow county, Ohio, and he is now residing on his fine farm of eighty acres in Gilead township, where he is identified with diversified agriculture and stock raising. He is a man of prominence and influence in the Republican party, in the local ranks of which he has been an active factor. Mr. Coe was born on the farm on which he now resides on the 23rd of March, 1849, and is a son of Abraham and Margaret (Nichols) Coe, both of whom were born and reared in Virginia, the former in Frederick county and the latter in Loudoun county. The father was born on the 23rd of December, 1806, and his death occurred on the 6th of October, 1893; the mother was born on the 4th of August, 1813, and she was summoned to the life eternal on the 21st of September, 1849. After the death of his first wife Abraham Coe wedded, December 28, 1851, Mrs. Joseph Sellers. No children were born to the latter union, but by his first wife Mr. Coe became the father of nine children, of whom George O. was the ninth in order of birth. Margaret (Nichols) Coe was a daughter of Nathan and Sarah (Thomas) Nichols, the former of whom was born November 30, 1770, and the latter, June 13, 1782. About the year 1828 Sarah Nichols entered a tract of three hundred and twenty acres of government land in section 26, Gilead township, one quarter of which is now owned by the subject of this review and who also has the original deed of the land.
     George O. Coe was reared to the invigorating discipline of the home farm and his educational training consisted of such advantages as were afforded in the district schools. When twenty-one years of age he went to Mt. Gilead, where he engaged in the drug business, in which line of enterprise he was eminently successful, continuing to be thus identified for fully three decades. In 1902, however, having attained a competency, he retired from active participation in business affairs and since that time he has resided on his splendid farm in Gilead township. In politics he is a stalwart Republican and he has ever exerted his influence to further all projects advanced for the general welfare of the community. In 1903 he was elected to the office of precinct assessor, in which he served for two years with the utmost proficiency. He is a man of fine, straightforward principles and sterling integrity of character and as such is highly esteemed in the community which has represented his home from the time of his birth.
     On the 14th of May, 1872, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Coe to Miss Hannah V. McCormick, who was born in Canaan township, this county, on the 12th of January, 1855, a daughter of Seth and Rachel (Brown) McCormick, for many years prominent farmers in this section of the fine old Buckeye state. Mrs. Coe was reared in Edison, where she was also educated. To Mr. and Mrs. Coe have been born six children, namely: Elbert G., whose birth occurred on the 5th of July, 1874, was graduated in the Edison High School and in Scio College of Pharmacy and he is now a druggist at Hastings, Florida, and married to Emma G. Walker, of Franklin, Pennsylvania; Lulu M., born January 16, 1877, was graduated in the Edison High School, where she was a successful and popular teacher for a period of two years; she is now the wife of William G. Taber, of Mt. Gilead; Ray M., born March 9, 1879, was graduated in the Edison High School and is now a resident of Hastings, Florida; Anna M., and Amy M., twins, were born April 12, 1884; Amy M., died in April, 1897, and Anna M., after completing the prescribed course in the Edison High School, was postmistress in Edison for five years; she is now Mrs. Chas. I. Van Natta, of Gilead township; Fred O., born October 14, 1889, was graduated in the Edison High School and was engaged in teaching for two years in the public schools of Morrow county, and is now a student in Wesley College at Delaware, Ohio. The entire family are devout adherents of the Methodist Episcopal church at Edison, in which Mr. Coe is a member of the official board.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 591-595
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EDWARD R. COILE. ––The descendant of an honored pioneer family and an honored resident of South Bloomfield township, Edward R. Coile is numbered among the enterprising and thrifty agriculturists of Morrow county, where he owns a well-kept farm, in the management of which he exercises great skill and good judgment.  He was born on the homestead where he now lives, March 28, 1867, a son of Reuben Coile and grandson of Abraham Coile, an early pioneer of Ohio, coming to this state from Virginia.
     Reuben Coile was born in Virginia, but was reared in Morrow county, Ohio, coming here with his parents.  He began life for himself in South Bloomfield township, buying forty acres of land, on which he carried on general farming until his death, in 1900.  He married, February 13, 1845, Margaret Prosser, who survived him, passing away in 1904.  Eleven children were born into their home, as follows: Alonzo, born March 8, 1846; Alford, born January 25, 1848; Thomas, born January 28, 1850; Leroy, born October 17, 1851; Lycurgus, born May 21, 1853; Mary, born October 1, 1855, married, August 4, 1874, Judson Smothers; Riley, born June 13, 1858; Luceilia, born January 11, 1860, married, in November, 1878, Thomas James; Johanna, born February 5, 1862; Daniel, born April 1, 1864; and Edward R., the subject of this sketch.  The father of these children was a Republican in politics and a member of the United Brethren church.
     Until after the death of both of his parents, Edward R. Coile resided on the parental homestead, which has become his through inheritance.  Since a boy of fourteen years he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits, and as a general farmer and stock breeder and raiser has met with unqualified success.  For the past five years he has also been running a saw mill in Knox county.  On his homestead Mr. Coile has three apple trees and a pear tree that were set out by his Grandfather Coile in 1831.  The pear tree, which is sixty-five feet in height and nine feet in circumference, bore fruit every year until 1910, never missing a season.  Mr. Coile is a firm supporter of the principles of the Republican party, and has served on the local school board.  Religiously he belongs to the United Brethren church.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 721-722
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ELIJAH CONARD. ––The memory of Elijah Conard, Chesterville’s well-known wagon maker, will long remain green in the hearts of the many who knew and loved him.  His quiet, industrious life was consecrated to the good, the true and the beautiful, and it is but natural that he should have won the abiding confidence and respect of the people in whose midst he lived and labored.  His years were more than those allotted the majority of mankind, for he was born June 4, 1822, and died March 10. 1906, the mortal part of him being laid to rest in the Chesterville cemetery.  Mr. Conard was the son of Edward and Mary (Bowman) Conard, both of whom were natives of Knox county, Ohio, their immediate forbears having been pioneers in that locality.  There were seven children in the family, an enumeration of whom is as follows: Mary, Bowman, Samuel, Rhoda, Elizabeth, Raymond and Elijah.  Elijah Conard’s first marriage was to Mahala Simmons, and one son was born, Lewis N., and he wedded Miss Mary A. Potter, daughter of Joseph Potter, of Delaware county.  Two children were born to this union––Bessie Luella and Don Lamerton.  The second marriage was with Miss Nancy Stark, November 11, 1852, and she was the daughter of John and Cornelia (Wilcox) Stark, natives of Pennsylvania.
     Shortly after their marriage, the young couple commenced life together at Homer, Ohio, where Mr. Conard engaged in work at his trade.  Later they removed to Chesterville, which was to prove their permanent residence, Mr. Conard here conducting a wagon shop for the rest of his life.  He was a good workman, careful and conscientious and was a careful repairer.  The union of Mr. and Mrs. Conard was blessed by the birth of four children, the youngest of whom––Martha Luella––died at the age of seven years.  The others are Henry, Charleton, Cornelia and Rozilia.  The only son married Mary E. Ralston, of Knox county, and their present residence is at McBain, Michigan.  Their seven children are as follows: Nancy L., John R. (deceased), George (deceased), Cora, Henry, Helen G. and Virginia.
     Mr. Conard was generally recognized as a useful citizen, a good man and a kind neighbor.  His widow still remains in their pleasantly situated Chesterville home.  She is tenderly eared for by her dutiful daughter, Cornelia, whose presence and thoughful [sic] attention comfort her mother in the evening of life.  Mother Conard is an interesting woman with a remarkable memory and although now in her ninetieth year she takes great pleasure in repeating by the hour beautiful favorite poems pertaining to Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, the home of her childhood.  One of the best loved of these is the following: 

“How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood;
What fond recollections their memories recall.
The days, happy days, I spent in thy wildwood,
Watching in springtime the cataract’s fall.

“Their memories I treasure, it still gives me pleasure
To think of those moments of sweet long ago,
When from the proud summits and loftiest limit
I gazed on thy beauty and glory below. 

“Enchanted I sat in the shade of thy bower,
Inhaling the sweet-scented breeze from the hills,
Made sweet with the breath of the wild, fragrant flowers,
Swelled with the sound of the murmuring rills.

“Forget them I’ll never; my heart’s longing ever
To visit once more the historical ground;
And roam in the wildwood, as oft in my childhood,
And view from thy hillside thy diamond dust mound
Oh lovely Wyoming, oh fairest Wyoming,

My joy and my home.
”Like her beloved husband, Mrs. Conard is esteemed by neighbors and friends among whom she has passed a long and useful life.  She can look back with particular satisfaction over the fact that she and her husband always endeavored to implant in the minds of their children a desire for true and honest citizenship.  Mr. Conard was a faithful and consistent member of the Baptist church and his venerable widow and daughter Cornelia are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 816-817
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

JOHN W. COOK, superintendent of the Buckeye Milling Company, is a representative business man and one of the most popular and highly respected of the citizens of Mount Gilead and Morrow county. The industrial activities of any community form one of its chief sources of material prosperity and the fair capital of Morrow county is particularly fortunate in having at the head of an enterprise of such broad scope and importance a man as progressive, independent and upright as he. He has won the success which ever crowns well directed labor, sound judgment and untiring perseverance and at the same time he has concerned himself with the affairs of his native county in a loyal, public-spirited way. The concern of which he is the head was incorporated as the Buckeye Milling Company, and since 1888, the date of said incorporation, it has undergone many changes. Further mention of the company is made in the historical part of this work.
     Mr. Cook is a native of Morrow county, his birth having occurred some two and one-half miles southeast of Mount Gilead September 6, 1873, his parents being John W. and Matilda (Mateer) Cook. The family is one well known in this part of the Buckeye state, his father being one of the highly esteemed representatives of the great basic industry in this locality. The head of the house is a native of Gloucester, England, his birth having occurred in April, 1834. He was reared in his native land until the age of twenty-two and he was a baker by trade. John Cook is a self-educated, as well as a self-made man. He came to America in 1856 in a sailing vessel, embarking at Liverpool and being six weeks en voyage. When he landed in New York he awakened to the fact that he was a stranger in a strange land and with very little capital. For a while he worked at his trade at Staten Island, becoming associated with an uncle, and in 1858 he came on to Galion, Ohio. As he had no money with which to start in business he secured work on a farm, and it proved so thoroughly congenial that he made it his life work. He is now living east of Iberia on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres.
     The subject's mother was born in Morrow county, Ohio, in 1833, and her maiden name was Matilda Mateer. She was educated in the common schools and she, as well as her husband, was a devout Presbyterian. She was called to her eternal rest November 15, 1889. The union of this worthy couple was celebrated in 1862 and somewhere near that time the father enlisted as a member of Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, receiving his honorable discharge after a term of service. John W. is the youngest member of the family of five children. Alice became the wife of J. W. Walker, of Toledo; Hariette M. is the wife of J. C. Brown, of Harmony township; Charlotte E. is single ; and James M. resides at Mount Gilead, where he is engaged with the Hydraulic Press Company.
     When Mr. Cook was about eighteen months old his parents moved from Gilead township, which had been the scene of his nativity, and took up their residence upon a farm in Harmony township. This valuable tract of seventy-three acres was one of the most valuable and advantageously situated in the county and here were passed the boyhood and youth of the subject. At the proper age he entered the district cshool [sic], which he attended in the winter, in the summer assisting in the various forms of employment to be found upon a farm. When he was seventeen years of age he had some idea of taking up the work of telegraphy, and to that end went to Columbus, where he attended for some time a school of telegraphy. Upon his return to Morrow county he resumed farming for a time, his previous training in that line having given him an up-to-date knowledge of this department of activity. However, he was inclined rather toward commercial and industrial affairs, and about the year 1902 he entered the hardware store of A. L. Pipes, at Fulton, Ohio, where he gave efficient service for about a year. His identification with the town of Mount Gilead dates from September 13, 1903, upon which date he accepted a position with the Buckeye Milling Company, as superintendent of the same. Judging by subsequent events the step was a fortunate and most judicious one, and probably permanently directed the course of Mr. Cook's usefulness. This enterprise, as previously mentioned, was incorporated in the year 1888 by Thomas E. Duncan and others. In 1906 he purchased an interest in the Buckeye Milling Company and still retains the important position of superintendent. The concern, which owes much of its constant expansion to his fine executive force, has gained recognition as one of the finest milling industries in the state.
     Mr. Cook became a recruit to the ranks of the Benedicts when on April 9, 1908, he was united in marriage to Miss Bertha A. Blyth, daughter of John and Louise (Wittibbslager) Blyth. She was born December 15, 1876, in Galion, Ohio, and received her education in the graded and high schools of that place. In 1892 she, with the rest of the household, removed to Bucyrus, her father having been elected to the office of county treasurer of Crawford county, in which important incumbency he served two terms. He was a stalwart Democrat and was well known throughout this part of the state. In 1898 the Blyth family removed to Fulton, Ohio, where the father was engaged in the stone quarry business under the firm name of Rumer & Blyth. John Blyth was a member of the English Lutheran church of Bucyrus and was also a high Mason, being past grand patron of the Grand Chapter of Ohio, and he was probably more widely known and universally beloved and respected than any other member of the order in the state. He was a thirty-third degree Mason, having taken the last degree in Boston, Massachusetts He was a veteran of the Civil war, his service extending over two years as a member of Company B, of the Thirty-second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded at Atlanta, Georgia, July 22, 1864, and received his honorable discharge March 14, 1865. He was a native Scotchman, born at Kirkcaldy, county of Fife, August 22, 1841. At the age of fourteen he went to Cornwall, Canada, and his identification with Galion, Ohio, dates from the spring of 1863. He was a mechanic by occupation. This honored and public-spirited citizen was summoned to the life eternal in February, 1906, upon which regrettable occurrence Mrs. Blyth, with her family, removed from Fulton to Mount Gilead, where she now resides. She and her husband were the parents of six children.  L. W. Blyth resides in Cleveland, Ohio; T. O. Blyth is in business in Ft. Wayne, Indiana; Edith became the wife of T. J. Wiseman, of Joliet, Illinois; Ruth L. and Raymond J. still reside at home.
      Mr. Cook is a very prominent and popular member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Mount Gilead Lodge, No. 169. He has had honors showered upon him in fraternal circles, being past grand and past chief patriarch, and he is also a member of Morrow Encampment, No. 59.  Mrs. Cook is a member of Bucyrus Chapter, No. 3, of the Eastern Star, and she is a prominent member of the Fulton Rebekah Lodge, in which she has passed all the chairs.
     The subject gives his heart and hand to the men and measures of what its admirers term “The Grand Old Party.”  He is, in short, liberal and progressive in his attitude as a citizen and takes a deep interest in all that touches the advancements and prosperity of his native country. Genial and companionable, his circle of friends is circumscribed only by that of his acquaintanceship and he stands as a popular representative of the best type of business man. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church of Mount Gilead and assist with their sympathy and support all the good measures of the church body. Their home is one of the attractive and hospitable ones of the place.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 849-852
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

WILLIAM F. COOK. -- In the prosecution of his independent occupation of a general farmer William F. Cook has met with gratifying results, his land being fertile and well adapted to the production of the cereals common to this section of the country, of which he raises good crops each season. A native of Westfield township, his present home, he was born February 11, 1854, a son of the late John Cook.
      David Cook, Mr. Cook's paternal grandfather, was born, bred and married in Ireland. In 1801, accompanied by his young wife, he immigrated to the United States, impelled by the spirit that led so many men of energy and enterprise to seek new homes in the wilds of America. Making his way to Ohio, he lived first in Upper Sandusky, Wyandot county, from there coming to Morrow county, where he spent the closing years of his life, his body, at his death, being laid to rest in Westfield township. He was very loyal to the country of his adoption, and served her valiantly in the war of 1812 and in the Mexican war.
     John Cook was born in Upper Sandusky, Wyandot county, but was educated in Morrow county. He spent the greater part of his life in Westfield township, being an honored and respected citizen, his death occurring here in 1883. In 1861, about seven years after the birth of his youngest son, he became totally blind, an affliction from which he never recovered. To him and his wife, whose maiden name was Louisa Nichols and who died in June, 1883, four children were born, William F., the special subject of this brief sketch, having been the fourth child in order of birth.
     Reared on the parental homestead, William F. Cook obtained his elementary education in the rural schools of his native district and subsequently attended the Cardington High School for three years. Then, after teaching school a year, Mr. Cook turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, and has since devoted his energies to the care of his farm. He has forty-three acres of land in his home place, which is advantageously located on the Cardington and Delaware road, but two and one-half miles from Cardington.  Here Mr. Cook is carrying on general farming successfully, having all the necessary farm buildings and machinery required by a first-class, modern agriculturist. He is not paticularly [sic] active in politics, and belongs to but one fraternal organization, that one being the Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, of Columbus, Ohio.
     Mr. Cook married, September 4, 1884, Mellvonia Watkins, who was born February 28, 1861, in Gilead township, Morrow county, where she lived until nine years old, when her parents, Thomas J. and Sarah (Henry) Watkins, moved to Cardington township. She was educated in the district and the Cardington schools, living at home until her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Cook are the parents of six children, namely: Ivah, twenty-four years of age, is the wife of Elmer Bond, of Cardington township, and mother of two children, Florence and Charles; Florence, twenty-two years old; George, now twenty-one years old; Marion F., a graduate of the Cardington High School; Ira, seventeen years old; and Inez, who was born eight years ago. Mrs. Cook is a member of the United Brethren church at Shawtown, Ohio.  Mr. Cook on national affairs upholds the Democratic doctrine.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 797-798
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COLONEL JOHN S. COOPER. ––When Colonel John S. Cooper, commanding the One Hundred and Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was so honorably mustered out of his four years’ service in the Union army, he was only twenty-four years of age.  Soon afterward he located in Chicago to study law and was absorbed into the great civil body of the nation as a vital and vitalizing personal element; that fine type of manhood, whose steadfast courage and brilliant deeds of war were founded on moral convictions and a high standard of faith.  He had smoothly melted into the blue ranks of the Federal army with several hundred other fine, bright-eyed students of Oberlin College, and by merit and an irresistible something––which, in war and peace, has been branded “dash”––he rose through the consecutive grades to the lieutenant-colonelcy, commanding his regiment during the last year of his military service.
     As a lawyer, Colonel Cooper never lowered his standard of faithfulness, thoroughness and prompt and fine execution of whatever movement he undertook, his legal character being well indicated by the remark of a professional friend and opponent.  “When Colonel Cooper was on the opposite side of a suit,” he remarked with a reminiscent twinkle, “we knew we were engaged in a legal contest to be finally decided in the court of last resort.”  No higher tribute can be paid to this beloved soldier, lawyer and citizen, than to say that he was ever a brave, a manly, a generous opponent, when the battle was on, and the first to extend the friendly hand when the conflict was over, whether he had emerged from it loser or victor.
     John Snider Cooper was a native of Mount Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, born on the 23rd of July, 1841, to Isaac and Elma (Talmage) Cooper, pioneers themselves and widely connected with the pioneer families of the locality.  The son was orphaned at an early age, and was lovingly received into the family of his uncle, James Madison Talmage, where he reached young manhood in close friendship with his cousins Viola and Eugene Talmage, and (now) Mrs. Annis Olds and Mrs. Emma Barton.  His ideals of life were therefore largely received through the precept and example of his good uncle.
     Colonel Cooper obtained his earlier education in the Mount Gilead schools.  Although usually active, both physically and mentally, he was never unbalanced or unruly, but seemed to instinctively perceive the value of combining discipline with alertness and of curbing ambition with common sense.  His progress was therefore both rapid and substantial.  About his last school days at Mount Gilead were in 1857, when Professor Edward Miller presided over the old school house which stood near the present high school structure.  At the age of sixteen he entered Oberlin College, in which he was a senior at the outbreak of the Civil war.  On April 25, 1861, almost at the outset of hostilities, he enlisted in Company C, Seventh Ohio Volunteers, in which regiment he was later made sergeant, and in October, 1862, was promoted from sergeant to captain in the Eighth Regiment, United States Colored Troops, and on November 17, 1864, was commissioned as lieutenant colonel of the One Hundred and Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out of the service July 10, 1865, after more than four years of fighting, marching and soldierly campaigning.  He was severely wounded in one of the battles before Richmond, Virginia, in 1864; but notwithstanding this, and his hard and continuous service, both in the engineering corps and as a commander of troops, he came to Chicago soon after his discharge, entered vigorously into the study of the law and was admitted to practice.
     Colonel Cooper’s fame as a Chicago attorney was largely gained in the practice of corporation law, and as one of the leaders handling of suits which involved important business and financial of the bar had a most substantial reputation for the successful interests and broad questions of the law bearing upon them.  He saw deeply, quickly and clearly into the most profound and complicated litigation, and spared nothing to master every detail, technicality and fact affecting the matter at issue.  The result of the complete mastery of his subject matter was that he always presented his cases to jury or court with the same force and clearness as its conception and evolution in his own mind.  No wonder that his clients had unbounded confidence in him, and that his fellow-attorneys “on the other side,” highly respected and, sometimes feared him––the latter, only if their cause was not just.
     One of Colonel Cooper’s acts which earned him fame far beyond the bounds of his home city or state was his organization of the Minnesota Park and Forest Association, which resulted in the establishment of the Minnesota National Park by congressional act.  He was one of the leaders in the movement which, even since his death, has so gathered in strength looking toward the conservation of the vast natural resources of the United States, which the past generation have dissipated with such criminal carelessness and avariciousness.  The persistent agitation, under his leadership, by which congress was induced to set aside the splendid park in Minnesota, was in direct line with the general movement which is sweeping the nation at this time.  During his long residence in Chicago he also kept in affectionate touch with his old comrades-in-arms, being an active member of the George H. Thomas Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Commandery of Illinois.
     On the 23rd of July, 1873, Colonel Cooper was united in marriage with Miss Minnie A. Curtis, of Michigan.  Their union occurred in that city and to the old home of the mourning widow were taken the remains of the gallant soldier, able lawyer and high-minded citizen, after his mortal life flickered away, November 20, 1907.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 932-934
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

PROFESSOR ARTHUR C. CORWIN. ––A man of scholarly tastes and attainments, possessing a well trained mind and excellent executive ability, Professor Arthur C. Corwin, superintendent of the Iberia High School, holds a position of note among the leading educators of Morrow county, where his experience as an instructor has been largely gained.  No calling has a wider-reaching and more potent influence than that of the educator and thus it is a matter of general congratulations to find the duties of an office such as his in the hands of one so well qualified.  A son of Charles E. and Lucy (Gantt) Corwin, he was born October 2, 1883, in Sparta, Morrow county, Ohio, and there reared on a farm.
     Laying a substantial foundation for his future education in the district schools, he was graduated from the Sparta High School, after which he continued his studies at the University of Wooster, in Wooster, Ohio.  Having fitted himself for the career pedagogic, Professor Corwin began his career as a district school teacher in his home township and subsequently was engaged by the schools of Mount Liberty, Knox county.  In 1904 he was employed as superintendent of the Alum Creek High School, where he remained one year and the following year he was elected to a similar position in the Troy township high school, which position he held two years, resigning to accept his present position.  It was in the year 1907 that the Professor was elected superintendent of the Iberia High School and he has ever since been actively connected with the institution.  Under his regime the school is in a flourishing condition, sustaining a high rank among similar institutions of learning in this part of the state.  Mr. Corwin is highly esteemed in literary and social circles and takes deep interest in educational matters, as a member of the Morrow county Board of School Examiners performing the duties devolved upon him most ably and faithfully.
     On the 6th day of June, 1906, Professor Corwin established an independent household by his marriage, his chosen lady being Mamie E. Cooper, of Williamsport, a former teacher in the public schools and a daughter of E. E. and Jora (Brewer) Cooper.  They have one child, a son named Harold, born November 2, 1909.  Politically the Professor is a sound Republican.  Fraternally he belongs to the Knights of Pythias and to the sons of Veterans, and religiously he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 730-731
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WILLIAM H. COUNTERMAN. ––An enterprising and practical agriculturist, Wiliam [sic] H. Counterman is prosperously engaged in his independent vocation in one of the pleasantest and most desirable sections of Westfield township, Morrow county.  His farm is finely located, and its fifty-two acres of rich and fertile land are in an excellent state of cultivation, bearing evidence of his thrift and good management.  He is a systematic and thorough farmer, and from his father, who was a skilled mechanic, has inherited decided mechanical talent.  Skillful in the use of tools of all kinds, he can turn his hand to good advantage in many directions, being a good blacksmith, and in addition to having a smithy has a well-furnished machine shop, in which he does a great deal of the necessary repairing of tools and machinery, saving not only much valuable time but large sums of money.  A son of P. S. Counterman, he was born January 3, 1865, in Marion county, Ohio, but was brought up and educated in Morrow county.
     P. S. Counterman came from Marion county, Ohio, to Morrow county with his family in 1873 and located very near Westfield, where he followed his trade of a mechanic.  To him and his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Creglow, eight children were born, namely: One child, a daughter, died in infancy; Sarah J., wife of Levi Luke; Mary A., wife of Moses Slack; Mrs. Martha Lomos, of Toledo, Ohio; Ella, wife of Jerry Claypool; William H., the special subject of this personal notice; James, a resident of Westfield township, married Clara Foust; and Ida, wife of Charles Foust, of this township.
     Coming with his parents to Morrow county when a small lad, William H. Counterman attended school until twenty years of age, obtaining a good education.  Under his father’s instruction he became proficient in the use of tools and is a veritable genius, in his shop doing all kinds of iron work and wood work, as mentioned above.  When ready to settle in life he bought land in Westfield township, and as a general farmer has found both pleasure and profit.
     Mr. Counterman married, February 18, 1893, Orra Worline, who was born in Marion county, Ohio, September 5, 1844, a daughter of Isaac and Catherine (Whisler) Worline.  When she was a girl her parents moved to Delaware county, Ohio, from there coming to Morrow county and locating in Westfield township, where she was brought up in the same neighborhood as Mr. Counterman, who wooed and won her for his bride.  Mr. and Mrs. Counterman are genial, affable people, living honorable, upright lives, attending to their own affairs, and are highly respected throughout the community.  They are generous and hospitable, in love with life and its reasonable pleasures, and in order that they may see as much as possible of the country roundabout have purchased a fine Brush automobile, in which during the summer seasons they take many an enjoyable trip.
     Politically Mr. Counterman votes the Democratic ticket, but he takes no active part in public affairs.  Fraternally he is a member of Ashley Lodge, No. 421, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
     Mr. and Mrs. Counterman have by their industry and frugality accumulated all this property.  They began by the week and month wage, saved their wages and purchased their present farm, which is known as “Ingleside” and located on the old Delaware and Mansfield pike, four and one-half miles from Cardington and three and one-half miles from Ashley, Ohio.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 812-813
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UPTON J. COVER, who has for years figured as one of the representative business men of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, is now engaged in the seed business, with headquarters in the Center Block, on Center street.
     Mr. Cover was born in Morrow county October 10, 1853, a son of Jason J. and Catherine (King) Cover, and was reared in the village of Johnsville in Perry township, this county, where his father was both a farmer and merchant.  After completing his common school studies he went to Westerville, where he entered Otterbein University and pursued a course of study.  Returning home, he worked for his father on the farm and in the store until 1878, when he engaged in the grain business at Edison, Ohio.  After two years spent at that place he sold his interests there and then, in 1880, associated himself as a partner with Mozier Brothers in the grain and seed business at Mt. Gilead.  In 1890 Mozier Brothers sold their interest in the business, and the firm became Levering and Cover, which continued five years.  Afterward Mr. Cover continued the grain business, which claimed his attention until 1905, when he sold out to Wagoner Brothers.  Since that time he has conducted a seed business.  He has a three-fifths interest in the building in which his store in situated, and where he has a prosperous business, and he owns several residences in Mt. Gilead and one in Columbus, Ohio.
     Mr. Cover married Sarah Held, of Johnsville, Ohio, in 1879, and they have two sons: Donn, a clerk in the post office at Mt. Gilead, was born October 30, 1883, and Franklin, born October 22, 1895, has entered Mt. Gilead high school.
     Politically Mr. Cover is a Republican.  Religiously he is identified with the Methodist Episcopal church of Mt. Gilead, in which he is prominent and active, being a trustee and member of the official board.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 668-669Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

ARTHUR CRAVEN is identified with Morrow county, Ohio, as one of its district school teachers, and as son and grandson of its respected citizens. He was born in Franklin township, this county, August 12, 1886. In due time he completed the district school course, and at the age of seventeen successfully passed the examination and received a teacher's certificate. He has taught school five years in Franklin township and two years in Gilead township. In the meantime he attended Wooster University, where he prepared himself for more efficient work as teacher, and in his chosen profession is meeting with marked success. A member of the Franklin Baptist church, Mr. Craven is active both in church and Sunday school work, for the past two years having been superintendent of the Sunday school.
     Mr. Craven is a son of E. J. and Sarah (James) Craven, who were married October 8, 1885, and who now reside on a portion of the old Craven home place.  E. J. Craven was born July 2, 1858, and began life for himself as a farm hand. By industry and careful economy he saved enough money with which to purchase some land, and he now owns eighty and a half acres, thirty-seven of which are a part of the old homestead. His father, Rodney Craven, a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, was born January 3, 1820; was reared to farm life and had the advantage of a good education. He came west to Ohio in 1843 and settled in Knox county, near Levering Station, where he remained three years. Then he removed to Harmony township and purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty acres; and he spent three years in Decatur county, Indiana. In his family were eleven children, namely: Virginia, William H., John A., James R., Reuben R., Winfield, Edward J., George, Laura, Alice and one that died in infancy. James R. and John A., at the ages respectively of seventeen and eighteen years, enlisted for duty in the Civil war the former joining Company S, One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and the latter, Company K, Eighty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; both died in the service. Mr. Craven's mother, Sarah E. (James) Craven, was born June 2, 1862, and is a descendant of one of the prominent old Virginia families who owned plantations and slaves. Her parents, Samuel and Ellen (Carrothers) James, were natives of Virginia; the former is now living in Cardington and the latter died in 1889. Arthur Craven married Miss Bernice S. Haldeman on February 22, 1911, and they are living in Troy township. Mrs. Cravens was educated in the common schools and is a graduate of the Johnsville High School, class of 1907. She taught in Perry and North Bloomfield townships about two years. She is a member of the United Brethren church in Troy township.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 575-576
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ADAM CRIDER. ––The substantial, progressive and well-to-do agriculturists of Morrow county have no more worthy representative than Adam Crider, who through his own exertions has met with success as a farmer and stock raiser and is now living retired from active pursuits at his pleasant home in Iberia, enjoying the fruits of his years of toil.  A son of Daniel Crider, he was born May 9, 1849, in Crawford county, Ohio, not far from Middletown.
     Born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, Daniel Crider came to Ohio in search of a favorable location, and having bought land in Crawford county was there employed in tilling the soil the remainder of his life.  He married Mary Horn, a native of Pennsylvania, and of their union eleven children were born, seven of whom are now, in 1910, living, as follows: Anna, wife of Hezekiah McClure, of Crawford county; Catherine, wife of Nathan Cooper, also of Crawford county; Lydia, wife of Adam Ashcroft; Louisa, of Leesville; Daniel, of Leesville; Adam, the subject of this brief sketch; and Joseph, of Denmark.
     As a boy and youth Adam Crider assisted in the labors incidental to farm life, obtaining a practical knowledge of the various branches of agriculture.  When ready to begin work as a wage earner he engaged for a time in railroading, afterwards becoming a tiller of the soil.  A man of untiring energy and ambition, possessing good judgment, he has met with more than average success in his labors as a farmer and stock raiser, and is now the owner of one hundred and thirteen acres of valuable land lying one mile north of Iberia, eighty acres being in Tully township.  He has been especially successful as a dealer in stock, buying, feeding and shipping hogs, an industry which he finds profitable when carried on judiciously.
     Mr. Crider married on November 21, 1876, Josephine Holmes, and they are the parents of four children, namely: Walter, who is married and lives in Tully township, Marion county; Clifford, married and living in Morrow county; Claudia, wife of Jay Auld, of Greene county; and Tamar, wife of James Nelson, of Marengo, Ohio.  Fraternally Mr. Crider is a member of Galion Lodge, No. 186, K. of P., and religiously he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 745-746
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JOSEPH CRIDER. ––In Canaan township, Morrow county, are many enterprising agriculturists who bring to their calling good business methods and excellent judgment and whose labors are crowned with success.  Noteworthy among this number is Joseph Crider, who for nearly a quarter of a century has been diligently improving his property, continually adding to its value, his present homestead, with its substantial buildings, giving ample evidence to the passer-by of his skill and good taste as a practical farmer and rural householder.  A son of the late Daniel Crider, he was born August 1, 1852, in Crawford county, Ohio, where his early life was spent.
     Daniel Crider was born, in 1803, in Pennsylvania, and died November 3, 1880, in Crawford county, Ohio, whither he removed soon after his marriage.  His wife, Mary Horn, was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania, and died in Ohio April 21, 1895.  Eleven children were born of this union, namely: Ann, born March 22, 1830; Catherine, born August 14, 1831; Barbara, born November 7, 1832; Lydia, born April 29, 1834; Elizabeth, born March 16, 1836; John born March 1, 1838; Mary, born September 16, 1840; Louisa, born June 16, 1843; Daniel, born July 11, 1845; Adam, born May 9, 1849; and Joseph, with whom this sketch is chiefly concerned.
     Brought up on a farm, Joseph Crider attended the district school as a boy, gleaning a good knowledge of the common branches of study.  At the age of sixteen years he began life for himself, poor in pocket but rich in energy and ambition; with sturdy industry and judicial frugality he laboriously toiled onward and upward, rising by slow degrees from poverty to a condition of comparative affluence, since his marriage having had the cooperation of his wife, a woman of ability and judgment.  In 1887 Mr. Crider purchased one hundred acres of land in section twenty-one, Canaan township, and in its cultivation and improvement his efforts have been amply rewarded, his farm being one of the most attractive and valuable in the vicinity.
     On December 30, 1875, Mr. Crider was united in marriage with Elizabeth Russell, who was born March 1, 1853, in Crawford county, Ohio, on the farm of her parents, Perry R. and May (Gladhill) Russell.  Mr. and Mrs. Crider are the parents of five children, namely: Mary, born November 18, 1876, is the wife of John Hardman, of Canaan township; Bessie, born April 29, 1884, married Glenn Bolinger; Amanda, deceased; Florence, born February 10, 1894; and Paul, born November 29, 1896, died in infancy.
     Politically Mr. Crider is a sound Republican and genuinely interested in local and national affairs.  Both he and his wife are faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Denmark, Ohio.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 856-857
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

HARRY S. CRUIKSHANK, of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, may be pointed out as an example of what a young man of thrift and enterprise can accomplish without initial capital and without financial backing to start an enterprise.  Some special mention of him is of interest in this connection and, briefly, a sketch of his life is as follows:
     Harry S. Cruikshank was born on a farm in Delaware county, Ohio, in September, 1872, a son of Stephen L. and Mary (Woodland) Cruikshank, natives of Morrow county, Ohio, and London England, respectively.  His boyhood was spent in farm work and in attendance at the district school near his home.  At the age of eighteen years, with his brother as partner, he began buying hay in Delaware county and shipping to market.  They began on a small scale, with practically no capital, and by close study of the situation and careful management of the 'business prospered from the very beginning of their undertaking.  They went into debt for their horses and hay baler, and it was necessary at times for them to borrow money, but they had good credit and they were careful to keep their credit good.  Good credit!––that, they regarded as the key to success.  Their partnership was continued four years.  In September, 1900, Harry S. came to Mt. Gilead, which has since been his headquarters, and where he is now conducting an extensive baled hay business.  In addition to operating at Mt. Gilead he buys, bales and makes shipments at other points, inluding [sic] Westville, Prospect and Waldo, Ohio.  From these places his annual shipments average in the neighborhood of a thousand carloads.
     Mr. Cruikshank has made profitable investments in large tracts of land in Tennessee and Georgia, and at home he is a stockholder and director in the National Bank of Morrow county.
     He lives with his family in West High street.  Mrs. Cruikshank, formerly Miss Grace Babcock, is a native of Marengo, Ohio.  They have two children, Robert G. and Harry B., the former born January 1, 1897––the latter, in April, 1907.
     Mr. Cruikshank casts his franchise with the Republican party, and is identified fraternally with the Masonic Order, having membership in Mt. Gilead Lodge, No. 169, F. and A. M.  He and his family attend worship at the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is a member of the Official Board.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – p. 498
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JOHN B. CULP. ––Numbered among the valued and highly esteemed residents of Morrow county is John B. Culp, a well-to-do agriculturist of Westfield township.  He was born June 7, 1838, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, a son of Andrew Culp.
     Andrew Culp, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in Cumberland county in 1809, and was reared to agricultural pursuits.  He carried on general farming in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, until about 1859, when he came with his family to Ohio, where he spent his remaining years, passing away February 10, 1890.  He married Leah Beam, who was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1812, and died in Ohio in February, 1867.  Eight children were born of their union, as follows: Catherine S., who married Michael Hoke; Fannie became the wife of John Phillips; Maria married Jacob Smith; Sarah became the wife of Edward Robinson; John B., the special subject of this brief personal review; Samuel, a soldier in the Civil war, died at Washington, D. C.; Simon and George.
     Growing to manhood on the home farm, John B. Culp obtained his education in the district schools, attending the winter terms only, his help being needed at home during seed time and harvest.  At the age of twenty years he came with the family to Ohio, locating in Marion county.  In the fall of 1864 he enlisted in Company I, One Hundred And Seventy-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Twenty-third Army Corps, commanded by General William Tecumseh Sherman.  With his regiment he took part in numerous engagements, including the battles at Overalls Creek and Murfreesboro and the one at Wise’s Cross Road.  At Murfreesboro, Mr. Culp was wounded in the left foot, the bullet which penetrated it being still in his possession.  He now receives a pension of fifteen dollars a month.  Receiving his honorable discharge from service at the close of the war, Mr. Culp returned to Marion county, where he lived until 1866.  He subsequently spent a short time in Waldo, Mississippi, where he was an engineer and a blacksmith.  On coming to Morrow county, soon after his marriage, he settled in Westfield township, where he has since been prosperously engaged in tilling the soil, his well-kept farm of fifty acres lying five miles northwest of Ashley.
    Mr. Culp has been twice married.  He married Catherine Strine, who died in September, 1865, leaving no children.  Mr. Culp married for his second wife, November 6, 1866, Mrs. Margaret (Strine) Waddle, a sister of his first wife and the widow of Isaac Waddle, who at his death left her with three children, namely: John S. Waddle, born July 5, 1854; James G., born September 9, 1856; and Benjamin I., born September 11, 1858.
     Mrs. Culp’s father, John Strine, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1805, and died in Marion county, Ohio, June 7, 1888.  He married Mary Monosmith, who was born in the same county, in 1807, and died in Marion county. Ohio, June 9, 1886.  They were the parents of eleven children, as follows: Catherine, the first wife of Mr. Culp; Margaret, now Mrs. Culp, who was born in Marion county, Ohio, April 5, 1834; Elizabeth; Nancy J.; Mary M.; Jacob; John M.; James; Peter; Martin and Henderson.  Jacob, Peter and John M. all served as soldiers in the Civil war, Peter losing his life in the battle at Kenesaw Mountain.
     Mr. and Mrs. Culp have no children.  Politically Mr. Culp supports the principles of the Democratic party, and has filled various local offices to the satisfaction of the people, including those of township trustee and assessor.  He is well known throughout this section of the county, and both he and his estimable wife are held in high regard.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 757-758
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

  JESSE B. CULVER. ––Prominent among the leading citizens of Morrow county is Jesse B. Culver, who owns and occupies one of the most desirable homesteads in Bennington township.  It comprises two hundred and seventy-five acres of fertile land under excellent cultivation, and with its comfortable and convenient set of buildings is very attractive, indicating to what good purpose the proprietor has employed his time and means.  Here his entire life has been passed, his birth having occurred on this farm July 15, 1846.  He is desended [sic] from a New England family of stability and worth, his father, William Culver, having been born in New Haven, Connecticut.
     Left fatherless when but two years old, William Culver remained at home until sixteen years of age, when he was seized with the wander lust, and traveled through a large part of the southern portion of the United States.  Returning from the Southland, he passed through what is now Morrow county, Ohio, making the entire journey on foot and becoming well acquainted with the country.  While in the South, at a hotel in Big Springs, Alabama, he was robbed by his landlord of the four hundred and fifty dollars money that he had, but friendly Indians subsequently recovered his money for him, returning it intact.  In 1822 he again visited Morrow county, with which he had been so pleased when passing through, and here entered eighty-four and one-half acres of land from the government.  Erecting a log cabin in the midst of the wilderness, he began the task of clearing a farm, and on the homestead which he improved spent the remainder of his days, dying at a venerable age, in 1881.  He was a successful farmer and trader, and also loaned money.  After the formation of the Republican party, he was one of its strongest supporters, and as a public-spirited and able man was held in high esteem.  He married, in what was then Delaware county, Ohio, but is now Morrow county, Elizabeth Bennett, who was born in Orange county, New York, and came with her parents to Ohio when a girl.  Of their family of five boys and four girls, but two children are now, in 1911, living, namely: Jesse B., with whom this sketch is chiefly concerned, and Mrs. Sarah M. Chase, of Marengo.  The mother survived her husband about four years, passing away in 1885.
     Brought up on the home farm, Jesse B. Culver attended the public schools quite regularly until fifteen years old, when he began assisting his father in the management of the homestead property.  He subsequently commenced buying and selling stock, building up a thriving business as a trader and continuing it until 1908, when he retired from active pursuits, being forced to do so on account of ill health.  Mr. Culver has since lived retired from active business, his previous accumulations of money enabling him now to enjoy a well-deserved leisure.  He has other interests, however, being one of the stockholders of the Marengo Banking Company.  He has been influential in agricultural matters, and for fifteen years was one of the directors of the Morrow County Fair.
     Mr. Culver married, September 17, 1878, Nettie Boner, who was born March 6, 1855, in Utica, Licking county, Ohio, and was there reared and educated, attending the common and the Union schools.  She subsequently taught school several terms before her marriage, for a time teaching in South Bloomfield township, Morrow county.  Their only child, Daisy, born March 16, 1880, is now the wife of A. E. Osborn, of Bennington township.
     Mr. Culver is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Bloomfield, which he has served as trustee, and he is now treasurer of the Bloomfield Cemetery Association.  He is prominently identified with the Republican party, and has never shirked the responsibilities of public office.  He has filled various township offices, serving as county commissioner for six years and nine months, from early in 1892 until the latter part of 1898, and at the present time is justice of the peace.  Fraternally Mr. Culver is a member of Chester Lodge, No. 238, Free and Accepted Masons; of Sparta Lodge, No. 268, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is past grand; and of Marengo Lodge, No. 216, Knights of Pythias.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 826-829
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

LEE S. CUNARD. ––Many of the ablest men in America are ardent devotees of the great basic industry of agriculture and it is well that this is so because the various learned professions are rapidly becoming so crowded with inefficient practitioners that in a few years it will be practically impossible for any but the exceptionally talented man to make good or even to gain a competent living therein.  The independent farmer who in addition to tilling the soil cultivates his mind and retains his health is a man much to be envied in the days of strenuous bustle and nervous energy.  He lives his life as he chooses and is always safe from financial ravages and other troubles of the so-called “cliff dweller.”  An able and representative agriculturist who has much to advance progress and conserve prosperity in Morrow county, Ohio, is Lee S. Cunard, who owns and operates a finely improved farm in Lincoln township.
     Lee S. Cunard was born in Lincoln township, near Fulton, Morrow county, Ohio, the date of his birth being October 1, 1881.  He is a son of Alexander H. and Virginia A. (Craven) Cunard, both of whom are now deceased and both of whom were born and reared in Loudoun county, Virginia, whence they came to the old Buckeye state of the Union in an early day.  Judge Stephen T. Cunard, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, on the 3rd of February, 1803.  In early life Judge Cunard entered upon an apprenticeship at the carpenter’s trade; his preliminary educational training was of a primitive nature but in due time he supplemented the same with extensive reading and eventually became a learned man.  He was a son of Edward and Edith (Thatcher) Cunard, both of whom were likewise natives of the Old Dominion state.  Edward Cunard sacrificed his life in the war of 1812, in which he was a lieutenant.  He witnessed the entrance of the British troops into the national capital and participated in many important battles marking the progress of the war.  Prior to his military service he was a civil engineer, in which profession he prosecuted a good livelihood.  His father was Edward Cunard, Sr., a gallant soldier in the war of the Revolution.  The Cunard family traces its ancestry back to the Hirsts, of Yorkshire, England, the original progenitor of the name in America having come to this country in the year 1680, location having been made in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland.
     The paternal grandmother of Lee S. Cunard, of this review, was Vashti B. (James) Cunard, a native of Loudon county, Virginia, born in 1805.  She was a daughter of David and Charlotte (Bradfield) James, who came to Ohio at an early day.  The marriage of Judge Cunard to Vashti B. James was solemnized in Virginia on the 26th of November, 1826, and they removed to Ohio in 1835, settling in the wilds of Lincoln township, Morrow county, then known as Delaware county.  The trip across the mountains into Ohio was made in an old fashioned carry-all, in which were driven the mother and small children, together with such portable goods as the family possessed, the father walking the entire distance.  Judge Cunard secured a farm of about one hundred acres near Mt. Gilead and there constructed a rude log house, which was the family habitation for a number of years.  He was a Whig in politics originally, but later gave his allegiance to the Republican party.  At the time of the organization of Morrow county, in 1848, Stephen T. Cunard was appointed associate judge of the court of common pleas and later he became a member of the state board of equalization for the senatorial district comprising the counties of Knox and Morrow.  At the time of the inception of the Civil war he aligned himself as a stanch supporter of the Union cause and he was a man of prominence and influence throughout his entire life in Ohio.  He was summoned to eternal rest on the 3rd of March, 1881, his cherished and devoted wife having passed away on the 6th of May, 1871.
     To Judge and Mrs. Cunard were born four sons and two daughters, concerning whom the following brief data is here incorporated: Mary C., became the wife of Orman Kingman, of Lincoln township; Captain Ludwell M. was long engaged in farming in Morrow county; Henry E. is deceased; Thomas C., resides near Fulton, this county; Alexander H., was the father of the subject of this review; and Amanda E., who married Dr. A. E. Westbrook, of Ashley, is deceased.  All of the sons were soldiers in the Union army in the Civil war, Ludwell M. and Alexander H. having been members of the Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  Henry E. was a member of Company I, Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he lost his life in the battle of Perryville on the 8th of October, 1862.  Thomas C. was a soldier in the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  Alexander H. Cunard was born on the 22nd of August, 1845, and he was a farmer by occupation.  He married Miss Virginia A. Craven and they became the parents of two children: Orria V., who resides with the subject of this sketch; and Lee S., to whom this article is dedicated.  The mother is a descendant of an old Virginia family and she long survived her honored husband and died on the 14th of September, 1909.  As previously noted, the father was a soldier in the Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil war.  From the effects of extreme exposure suffered at the battle of Stone river he contracted pulmonary consumption and as a result of this dread malady he died in 1886.
     Lee S. Cunard was reared to adult age on the old home farm on which he now resides, and he received his education in the public schools of Lincoln township.  He was a child of but four years of age at the time of his father’s death and as he was an only son he was early obliged to assume the practical responsibilities of life.  He relieved his mother of the management of the old farmstead and he and his sister continued to maintain their home with the aged mother until her death, in 1909.  The sister now keeps house and Mr. Cunard works and manages the farm.  Orria V. owns seventy-three acres of land in Lincoln township, where they reside, and Mr. Cunard has a farm of eighty-seven acres near Cardington.  The sister is a woman of most gracious personality, is prominent in charitable work in this section and is a zealous member of the Baptist church.
     In his political adherency Mr. Cunard is a stanch advocate of the principles promulgated by the Republican party and while he has never manifested aught of ambition for political preferment of any description he is ever on the alert to help along any measure advanced for the good of the community and the county at large.  He is a general farmer and stock-raiser and holds prestige as one of the ablest agriculturists in Lincoln township.  Fraternally he is affiliated with Bennington Lodge, No. 433, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  Lee Cunard is now a student in the Landon School of Art and Cartooning, at Cleveland, Ohio, and he has been a student therein for two years.  He is a man of philanthropical tendencies and he and his sister are prominent and popular factors in connection with the best social activities of the community.  They are both unmarried.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 866-868
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.