BIOGRAPHIES

Source:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio -
Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
1883

	J. W. WALLACE, baker and dealer in provisions and musical instruments, came to Hamden Junction in January, 1877, and carried on a dry goods and grocery store until 1880.  He then closed out his dry-goods department and added the bakery and musical instruments  He carries a full line of provisions.  His bakery is carried on under his own supervision.  He has another at Wellston, Jackson Co., Ohio.  He was born in Harrison County, Ohio, and in 1853 removed to Jackson County, Ohio.  He was married in 1875 to Francis L. McGhee.  They have two children - Earl S. and Lolo F.  Mr. Wallace is a member of Mineral Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 259.  He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools, which was developed by a course of study at the Lebanon Normal Institute.  He taught one year previous to attending Normal, and afterward several years. SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1379 - Clinton Twp.
	E. H. WALLAR, son of William S. and Sarah A. (Camp) Wallar, was born Feb. 9, 1842, in Guernsey County, Ohio.  He moved to Vinton when eleven years old old where he lived with his father till he was eighteen.  He married Cordelia, daughter of Benjamin Reynolds, an old pioneer of Vinton County.  They have two daughters - Viola D., born Mar. 21, 1867, and Susan L., Apr. 14, 1868.  Mr. Wallar enlisted in the Union army in Company F, One Hundred and Fourteenth Ohio Infantry, Aug. 19, 1862.  He participated in the battles of Chickasaw Bay, Arkansas Post, Champion Hills, siege of Vicksburg and others.  He was mustered out of service at Houston, Texas, Aug. 18, 1865.  After the close of the war he bought 200 acres of land, being the old homestead of his father, upon which he lived till 1871, when he sold it and bought 240 acres in Swan Township, where he lived ten years.  In October, 1880, he purchased his present farm on section 22 containing 160 acres, on which, in 1881, he erected a fine dwelling at a cost of $1,500.  With the exception of $950 received from his father his success in life is due to his own efforts; he now owns one of the finest farms in Swan Township.  Politically Mr. Wallar is a Republican.  He has been a member of the Board of Township Trustees for a number of years until 1883.  William S. Wallar, father of our subject, was born in Loudoun County, Va., Oct. 20, 1809.  He was reared in Guernsey County, Ohio, and Aug. 8, 1828, he married Sarah A. Camp, born Aug. 12, 1810, in Guernsey County, and daughter of Robert Camp.  They had a family of seven children, four still living - Jasper N.; E. H., our subject; Sythia A., wife of Thomas B. Phillips; Mary L. wife of A. J. Vest.  William S. bought a farm of 120 acres near Claysville where he remained about twenty-three years.  In 1851 he sold his farm and resided in Clinton Township, Vinton County, for seven years.  He then bought 230 acres in Swan Township, on section 9, where he died Aug. 18, 1860.  His wife died Mar. 12, 1881, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Phillips.  John Wallar, father of William S., was a native of Virginia, of Dutch-Irish descent.  He moved with his family to Guernsey County, Ohio.  He died in Cambridge City, Ind., about 1840. SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1329 - Swan Twp.
	JOSEPH W. WARREN, boot and shoe manufacturer, was born in Canaan Township, Athens County, July 30, 1838, a son of N. O. and Hannah (Dewey) Warren.  In 1856 he took a trip through the Western States and located for a time in Crawford County, Ill.  At the breaking out of the late war he was the third man in Athens County to volunteer, enlisting for three months.  After his time was out he made a short visit home and then enlisted in Company C, Third Ohio Infantry, for three years.  He participated in the battles of Rich Mountain and Perryville.  At the latter he was wounded in the left hip, which disabled him for active duty, and from the effects of which he has never recovered.  He was transferred to the invalid corps, and sent to Indianapolis, where he remained till his discharge in June, 1864.  After the war he went to Atchison County, Mo., and remained two years; then went to California and remained a year, returning again to Missouri, and a short time after coming to his native State.  For three years he was in the employ of the Akron Iron Company, Buchtel, and then became established in his present business. Apr. 10, 1883, he came to Amesville, where he is now doing a good business.  He was married, Mar. 16, 1859,'to his first wife, Helen Philips, daughter of Captain Ezra Philips of Ames Township. One child was born to them—Eugene.  In 1873 he married Louisa Hunter.  Mr. Warren is a member of York Lodge, No. 75, K. of P.; Buchtel Lodge, No. 712, I. O. O. F.; Columbus Golden Post, No. 89, G. A. R., and K. of L. SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1388
	GEORGE W. WAXLER, a son of George Waxler, who was born and reared in Virginia, came to Ohio when about twenty-two years old and married Susannah Ashton. They settled in Muskingum County, Ohio, near Zanesville, on a farm, where they lived until death.  He died in 1865, dropping dead from heart disease; and his wife died July 4, 1880.  He was a farmer through life, and having been left fatherless, a poor boy, started in life with nothing.  Of their fifteen children George is the fourth child and was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, Jan. 14, 1832.  He was reared in his native county and received a common-school education, and at twenty-two he married and started in life her himself by farming.  His wife was Henrietta Swartz, a native of Virginia, born in 1832.  They have had six children, four now living.  In 1866 Mr. Waxler sold his land and came to his present farm to take charge of it for another party but in 1873 bought it.  The farm has 345 acres, about one-half underlaid with limestone ore and coal, also limestone coal; about a four foot vein, producing about 1,000 tons of ore and coal for his own use and about 1,000 tons or ore and coal for his own use and about 1,000 tons of limestone annually.  He is now devoting considerable time to raising French merino sheep-raising and mining.  He in 1862 enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-Second Ohio Infantry under Captain Joseph Peach and served three years, until the close of the war, and was present at the surrender of Lee.  He was in the battles of the Wilderness, Coal Harbor, and the Shenandoah Valley; returned home in 1865, having passed through the war uninjured.  He now belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic. SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1273
	S. T. WEED was born in Tioga County, Penn., July 22, 1832.  He removed from there with his father at the age of five years, and came to Ohio, locating on section 29, in Brown Township.  Here he remained until he was twenty-three years of age, when he married Sarah Jane Gillabridge, Oct. 28, 1855, who was born June 5, 1837, in Vinton County.  Their children are:  Sarah Melissa, Mary J., Eli D., Hester A. and Joseph L.  Mrs. Weed is a member of the United Brethren church.  Mr. Weed has a farm of 140 acres on section 23, Brown Township, Vinton County.  He has a fine vein of coal on his place. SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1305 - Brown Twp.
	R. E. WELLS, miller and carpenter, was born in Vinton County, Ohio, Sept. 11, 1848.  He has always resided in the county with the exception of four years spent in Nebraska.  He was educated in Wilkesville Township and commenced the carpenter's trade with his father, with whom he worked most of his life, his father being a carpenter.  He was married in 1875 to Jennie McClure, born in Jackson County, Ohio, Apr. 19, 1844, where she lived till her marriage in 1875.  They have two children living - Mary L. born July 4, 1878, and Jewell, July 15, 1880.  John B. McClure, father of Mrs. Wells, is a native of Muskingum County, Ohio.  He died in 1871.  Her mother died in 1860, and she was adopted by H. S. Bunty of Wilson, Jackson Co., Ohio.  She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.  Our subject's father, Agrippa Wells, was born in Wilkesville Township, Vinton Co., Ohio, about 1818, and has always been a resident of the county.  His mother was born in Wilkesville Township about 1827.  They were the parents of five children, three still living - Harvey, R. E. and Mary R. E. is engaged with his father in running a saw and grist-mill on section 14, Wilkesville Township, known as Wells Mills. SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1367 - Wilkesville
	NATHAN B. WESCOAT was born where he now resides in 1849.  In 1875 he was married to Lydia Robnet, by whom he has had two children - Charley and Sabirt.  He has held the office of Trustee and is the present incumbent.  He owns the old homestead and is engaged in stock-raising to a considerable extent.  He and his wife are members of the United Brethren church and take much interest in religious matters.  Philander Wescoat, our subject's father, was a son of Isaac Wescoat, who settled in this township about 1815 and died in Scioto County, Ohio, in 1849.  Philander was married to Margaret Brewer and soon after settled where his son Nathan now resides.  He was the father of eleven children - Isaac, John, Amos, Orrin, Clarissa, Margaret, Triphena, Louisa, Samantha, Nathan B. and one who died in infancy.  The eldest son, Isaac, served in the three months' service in the late war, and afterward 1864 till the war closed.  Amos Brewer, father of Mrs. P. Wescoat, was a native of North Carolina.  He settled in Ross County, Ohio, in 1805, and in 1810 located in this county near the present site of Zaleski.  He was a soldier in the war of 1812.  He and his wife, Jane (Graves) Brewer, died at an advanced age. SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1273 - Elk Twp.
	C. L. WHITE was born at Barbarsville, Cabel Co., W. Va., Oct. 29, 1840, the second son of Samuel L. and Rebecca W. (Masterson) White, and a grandson of Christian and Elizabeth White, who emigrated from Germany about the year 1750 and settled in Lancaster and afterward Berks County, Pa., subsequently moving ot Shenandoah County, Va., and from thence to Leesburg, Washington Co., East Tenn.  His father moved to Ohio with his family in 1845 and settled in Gallia County, near Centerville.  He came to Wilkesville in 1848 and from thence to Ewington in 1850.  Being a hatter by trade his business did not afford ample means for his large family of eight children, consequently was not able to furnish his son even moderate advantages of schooling.  Therefore young White was early thrown upon his own resources.  At the age of fourteen years, in the spring of 1855, he with his brother, Dr. John F. White, chopped 200 cords of wood at Keystone Furnace, Jackson Co., Ohio, and in the spring of 1856 they cut and split 3,000 rails for different parties in the neighborhood, and in the fall of the same year were again engaged in chopping wood and splitting  rails, attending school during the winter of 1856-'57.  He progressed so rapidly that he and his brother resolved to change their avocation to that of teaching, whereupon he borrowed $25 and commenced attending the academy at Ewington, Aug. 7, 1857.  School closed some time in the fall of the same year and young White walked to Gallipolis, a distance of twenty miles, to the examination of teachers, obtaining a certificate for twelve months, and commenced teaching his first school at Harrisburg, Gallia Co., Ohio, Nov. 23, 1857.  He attended school at Ewington Academy through the summer and taught during the winter in the counties of Jackson and Gallia until the spring of 1861.  He then attended Gallia Academy at Gallipolis, Ohio, finishing his academic course  at Ewington Academy, June 20, 1863, he was married to Eliza N. Bussard, of Jackson County, Ohio.  Removing to Wilkesville in the spring of 1864 he worked at the tanning business until the fall of the same year, when he volunteered in Company I, First United States Volunteer Engineers, serving until Sept. 30, 1865.  After being mustered out he again taught in the common schools of the county until September, 1873, when he took charge of the Union Schools at Zaleski, Vinton Co., Ohio, as Superintendent.  Jan. 31, 1876, he resigned his position.  Having studied law while teaching he was admitted to the bar Sept. 8, 1874, and was elected by the Democracy of his county State's Attorney in October, 1875;  re-elected to the same office in 1877 - he was the first Prosecuting Attorney who had the same office in 1877 - he was the first Prosecuting Attorney who had ever been re-elected in the county.  He gave such satisfaction to the people of his county that he was elected Auditor in 1880, in which position he is now serving.  Mr. White possesses peculiar talent and temperament, never yielding to discouragements, and always appearing in fine humor.  He has wonderful tact in the management of men and seems by intuition to be a natural politician, possessing force of character, energy of purpose, tact in management, and shrewdness in thought that make him at once a leader of no small magnitude.  He is recognized by both friends and foes as one of the best and foremost politicians of Southeastern Ohio.  Mr. White was a successful laborer, pupil and teacher, receiving the highest wages and employed nearly all his time when so engaged.  He is one of the most successful prosecutors his county ever possessed, and has so far given such entire satisfaction as an executive official that there seems to be a world of praise for him in the management of his present official duties.  Mr. White is yet in the prime of life, and with his usual health and former success in life bids fair to reach many positions of honor and trust within the gift of a generous and confiding people and certainly has set an example for the young men of to-day to imitate.  Mr. and Mrs. White have had three children born to them - Carrie L., Charles Norwood and James Edgar.  The second child died in infancy.  Mr. White resides with his wife and children at McArthur, Ohio, where he enjoys the confidence and esteem of all. SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1274 - Elk Twp.
	JACOB WHITE was born Dec. 19, 1844, in Athens County, Ohio, where he remained until 1869.  He then came to Vinton County, where he has resided almost ever since.  In October, 1873, he was married to Jennie Coil, a native of Morgan County, Ohio, being born there in 1853.  Mr. White has followed the saw milling business for sometime, but at present is engaged in farming and stock-raising.  He has eighty acres of excellent land on section 12, in Brown Township, and may be classed among the rising young men of the township. SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1305 - Brown Twp.
	J. P. WHITLATCH, ex-County Treasurer, McArthur, is a son of Charles Whitlatch who was born in Monongahela County, Pa., but in early life settled with his parents in Adams County, Ohio, where he married Eva Wisecup, of German extraction, born in Pennsylvania, but reared in Adams County, Ohio.  They subsequently settled in Lawrence County, Ohio, where they remained until 1856, when they came to Vinton Furnace, Vinton Co., Ohio, where he died in 1870.  He was for the greater part of his life a carpenter and wagon-maker.  Of his children Joseph P. is the seventh and last child; was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1840, but since sixteen years of age he resided in Vinton County.  His youthful days were spent at hard manual labor together with improving the winter months in school.  In 1871 he engaged as clerk or coal receiver for the Vinton Furnace, for Bancroft & Rader, and thus continued until his election in 1874 to the office of County Treasurer.  He was re-elected in the fall of 1876.  At the expiration of this term he engaged as clerk or ore receiver for J. R. Buchtel & Co.  Jan. 26, 1881, he was married to Lydia M., daughter of Edmond Wolfe.  They have one child - Eva M. SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1276
	WM. WHITLATCH, Superintendent County Infirmary, MacArthur, Ohio, is a brother of J. P. WHITLATCH.  He was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, June. 11, 1838.  He came with his parents to Vinton Co., Ohio, in 1855 or 1856, where he matured and acquired a common - school education.  He was reared to public works until his appointment to his present position in 1876.  His care of property, judicious management of his trusts, and economical transactions for the county's institution, is only to be comprehended by knowing that he has been reappointed six years and is now serving his seventh term.  He superintends the county farm of 320 acres, mostly under cultivation, pleasantly situated one and one half miles north of McArthur.  His knowledge of agriculture and care to fertilize the soil succeeds in supplying the vegetables and wheat consumed, so that the out-lay by the county is mostly for groceries, dry-goods and medicine.  He spares no pains applying his individual time on the farm, always taking the lead.  The farm contains about 300 maple trees, producing annually considerable syrup.  The house of forty-seven rooms is located on the southern part of the farm, a two-story brick with neat and comfortable surroundings.  The rooms are well cared for by Mrs. Whitlatch, who devotes her entire time to that department, and promoting peace and order within.  They have now a capacity of about seventy-five inmates and at present, April, 1883, there are fifty-three in the institution - eighteen males and thirty-five females.  Mr. Whitlatch married Miss Ellen J., daughter of Conrad Wolf, of Pennsylvania birth but of German parentage.  They have eight children of which seven are living.  Mr. Whitlatch makes a specialty of merino sheep and Poland China and Chester White pigs.  Of the latter he makes a specialty of breeding, and stands high among stock-breeders of this county. SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1276
	DANIEL WILL, President of the Vinton County National Bank, was born in Hocking County, Ohio, in 1832, and since nine years of age has been a resident of McArthur.  In boyhood his educational advantages were limited.  In 1850 he engaged to assist in driving stock to Harrisburg, Pa., at a salary of $11 per month, returning as he went, on foot.  That fall he taught a term of school, and the following spring became a clerk in his Uncle Joseph K. Will's store, remaining with him three years at a salary of $125 per year.  At the end of that time he went into partnership with his uncle, remaining till 1858.  He then withdrew from the McArthur store and opened a store in Zaleski, soon after taking his father as a partner.  After a time he opened a general store in McArthur, on purely a cash system, buying and selling for cash, thus being able to buy at large discounts, and sell lower than the general for him, and in 1865 became partners, the firm still existing.  In 1867 the bank of Will, Brown & Co. was established, and Sept. 1, 1868, was consolidated with the Vinton County Bank, and D. Will was chosen President.  In October, 1872, the bank was incorporated with $100,000 capital as the Vinton County National Bank.  Mr. Willhas always dealt largely in real estate, and now owns nearly 1,200 acres of land, the most of it in Vinton County.  He started life with no capital, but energy and industry, which, coupled with good business principles, has won for him a successful business life.  Mr. Will is a member of the I. O. O. F., of McArthur.  He has never married, George Will, Sr., great-grandfather of Daniel Will, came from Germany to America when the latter was under English rule, and fought for American independence in the struggle to free the colonies from England's tyranny.  He died at Adelphi, Ross Co., Ohio.  His son, George Will, Jr., was born in Berks County, Pa., July 3, 1774.  At that time educational advantages were very meager, but, either by inheritance or from having it instilled by example, he possessed true patriotism, and in 1795, though but a boy, offered his services to defend the country from the French and Indians.  At that time he could not write, but, desiring to keep a diary, he made extraordinary efforts, and the reports of his army service are still extant.  We copy the following, written Apr. 25, 1798:                          "DETROIT, 25th April, '98.      "This day opens with the pleasing idea of my being my own master, and may the Almighty God that gave me existence and preserved me through the perils I underwent heretofore conduct me with prosperity in my future station.  Finis."      In 1806 he removed to Adelphi, Ross Co., Ohio.  In 1812 he again enlisted, and for his soldierly conduct was given a Captain's commission.  Upon his return home he resumed his mercantile business which, in his absence, had been carried on by his wife.  About 1827 he assisted his son, Joseph K., in business in McArthur, but never became a resident of Vinton County, although as early as 1814 he had entered land where the southern town of McArthur now stands.  He died in 1845.  His son, Jacob G., was born in Somerset County, Pa., in the early part of 1806.  He married Sarah Swinehart, of Adelphi, born in 1806.  Soon after his marriage he settled in Salt Creek Township, Hocking County, and seven years later in Hallsville, Ross County, where he carried on the mercantile business.  In 1841 he came to McArthur, but in 1846, having met with severe losses by shipping pork, he resumed farming.  In 1858 he opened a store in Zaleski, and soon afterward was appointed Postmaster, holding that position until he resigned in 1881.  He was a man weighing 250 pounds, strongly built, and equal to all emergencies that pressed themselves upon him.  He had a family of ten children—Joseph B., who died Oct. 19, 1881, being at the time of his death Clerk in the Sixth Auditor's office of the Treasury Department at Washington, having been appointed by Salmon P. Chase; George L., of Arkansas; Daniel, of McArthur; Susan E., wife of A. J. Dunkle, of Des Moines, Iowa; Caroline, died in infancy; Jacob S. and Aaron, merchants, of McArthur; Mary A.; Clarissa, wife of George D. Reah, of Zaleski, and Henry C., of Columbus, Ohio. Jacob J. Will died in Zaleski, Dec. 19, 1882. SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1277 - Elk Twp.
	B. F. WILLIAMS, a native of Meigs County, Ohio, was born Oct. 3, 1840.  He was educated in his native place and worked on a farm till he was eighteen years of age, when he went to Mercer County, Ohio, and commenced the blacksmith's trade.  On Apr. 23, 1861, he enlisted in the late war serving most of the time till its close.  While making a charge on Kennesaw Mountain, June 20, 1864, he lost his left leg, and by this accident he was in the hospital till May 10, 1865, when he was discharged.  The following year, Apr. 26, he was married to Miss Charlotte C. Rance, born in New York City, March, 1838.  Their children are - Ettie J., born June 24, 1867, and John l. born June 6, 1873.  Mr. Williams was appointed Postmaster, Mar. 19, 1867, under President Johnson's administration, and has served in that capacity ever since, besides having a grocery and notion store.  He is a member of the Grand Army, and is Adjutant of 'Kearney Post. SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1367 - Wilkesville
	STEPHEN H. WILLIS, deceased, was born in Greenbrier County, Va., Sept. 14, 1804, a son of Ammill and Mary (Hix) Willis.  He lived in Greenbrier County till he was about twenty-three years old.  From the time he was ten years of age he was obliged to work, and aside from his immediate necessities would give his earnings to his parents. His father was afflicted so as to be unable to work and was somewhat dependent upon his children.  There were twelve children in their family—James was killed in Virginia by the falling of a tree; John, Jonathan, Stephen, Samuel, William, Hannah, Margaret, Jane, Mary, Elizabeth and Ammill.  About 1827 Stephen Willis left his home in Virginia and came to Ohio, locating in Athens (now Vinton) County.  He went to work for Aaron Lantz (who married a cousin of Mr. Willis) and remained with him for some time after his marriage.  He was married Mar. 31, 1829, to Hester Stevens, who was born near Chillicothe, Ohio, Nov. 30, 1811, a daughter of James and Rebecca (Webb) Stevens.  When Mrs. Willis was a small child her parents came to this county.  In 1834 Mr. Willis bought a farm of eighty acres in Elk Township where they lived about four years.  In 1838 he entered the present homestead place.  The first entry was forty acres, and after a few years sixty acres more were bought, there being now 100 acres in the farm.  There were eight children born to them, all of whom are still living—James, Mary Ann, Rebecca, George, Parcels, Hamilton J., Margaret J., Wm. A. James is a resident of Brooklyn, Schuyler County, Ill.; Mary Ann, is in Central City, Merrick County, Neb.; Rebecca, on. the homestead; George, in Brooklyn, Ill.; Parcels, in Hamilton, and Margaret J., in Hamilton County, Neb., and Wm. A., on the homestead.  Mr. Willis died May 5, 1864.  He was a prominent member of the Methodist church; was a Class-Leader in the church and an exhorter and devoted several years of his life to preaching.  Mrs. Willis is still residing on the homestead. SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1329 - Swan Twp.
	M. C. WINGET, a resident of Madison Township, was born Feb. 28, 1826, in Green County, Pa., and is a son of Caleb and Martha Winget.  His mother died when he was quite young, but his father is yet living, aged about seventy-nine years.  In 1841 Mr. Winget moved from Pennsylvania to Knox County, Ohio, where he lived eight years.  He learned the stone mason and plasterer's trade, serving an apprenticeship of three summers.  From there he moved to Meigs County, Ohio, where he lived three years, and from there came to Vinton County.  He was married in December 1844, to Nancy Berry, daughter of John and Jane Berry.  They had nine children, six now living - Henry, Margaret J., Sophronia, Stephen F., Isaac C. and James.  Rholden died June 17, 1868; Mary R., Jul. 28, 1854, and Emily, Aug. 1, 1856.  Mrs. Winget died Apr. 18, 1873.  Feb. 5, 1880, Mr. Winget married Judith Clewell, daughter of John and Lydia Clewell.  They are the parents of one child - Elmira C.  Mr. Winget is a member of the Protestant Methodist church and has been a local preacher for twenty years.  He was an ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal church three years.  Although he only had the advantage of a common-school education and that being limited to a great extent, he is a man of more than ordinary talent.  As an example of his ability, we add the following composed by him while meditating upon his boyhood days in Pennsylvania:      "Far, far away from here on the high and lofty plains of the great Keystone State, in peace and content I passed the days of my childhood.  It was told me in life's summer day that pleasure streams did flow along the thorny path of life.  I did not find it so.  The reminiscences of the past are now present with me as the busy hum of population died away on the distant sinking and swelling forest.  The songster in the arbor pouring forth his vesper song of praise on the topmost twig of the tall arch tree, as if he thought the nearer he could make his perch to heaven the sweeter his voice would sound.  The mourning dove with wings all covered with silver and feathers of shining gold had fled away to the nightly bower.  The star that melted away in the light of heaven when the brighter sun rose on the world was gleaming through the night-fall gloom.  The sun had spent his fury amid the golden clouds of the Western skies.  Then stationing his red sentinels in the Western hemisphere amid his own departing glory gone to shine on other lands.  I stood on the riding ground looking far away the distance of forty miles upon that blue ridge called Laurel Hill, and as the evening shades prevailed the little fire fly lit up the swamps as pleasant as the air of a summer evening when it floats among the trees.  Those juvenile days and years have long since receded and passed away, and on this beautiful month of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, my meridian sun is shining bright and I trust will still continue until I shake off this mortal coil and step down into the packet of death and put on the wardrobe of the skies to join the lookout angel standing on the hill of Zion." SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1297 - Madison & Knox Twps.
	CAPTAIN JOHN SIVERLY WITHERSPOON, son of John and Mary (Siverly) Witherspoon, was born in Oil City, Venango Co., Penn., Dec. 4, 1836.  He was reared in Pennsylvania, and in the summer of 1859 came to Vinton County, Ohio, and the following winter taught school in Zaleski, Ohio.  He spent the summer of 1860 at school in his native State and in the fall of that poor returned to Vinton County, where he has since resided.  He was one of the first to enlist in the three-months' service in 1861, and went out in Company D, Eighteenth Ohio Militia.  At the expiration of his term of service he continued reading law at McArthur, which study he had commenced some time previous.  In July, 1862, he enlisted in the three-years' service, in Company B, Ninetieth Ohio Infantry, he was commissioned First Lieutenant, and remained with this company nine months. April 14, 1863, he was commissioned Captain of Company I, which he commanded till he left the service.  He received a wound in 1864 at Kennesaw Mountain which unfitted him for duty, and his resignation was accepted Feb. 14, 1865, at Huntsville, Ala.  He left the army on the 27th of that month and reached home Mar. 2, 1865.  He was married while in the service, Oct. 13, 1861, to Delilah E., daughter of William and Nancy Albin.  They have had a family of five children, four of whom are living—John Plyley, William Franklin, Ianthe Ellen, Charles Henry.  Mr. Witherspoon's early life was spent around furnaces in the mining districts of Pennsylvania, his education till he was twenty-two years of age being very limited.  Since that age he has devoted himself to study and now holds a five-year certificate to teach.  In 1864 he purchased his present farm and moved to it Mar. 20, 1865.  Since then he has been engaged in farming and teaching.  Since 1867 he has taught during the winters with the exception of the winter of 1881, and has also taught select schools three summers, at which he has been very successful.  In politics he is a Republican.  In the fall of 1865 he was elected Justice of the Peace to fill a vacancy, which office he held two years when he resigned it.  John Witherspoon, our subject's father, was born near Pittsburg, Allegheny Co., Pa., and his wife, Mary (Siverly) Witherspoon, is a native of Masonville, N. Y.  They had eleven children of whom only two sons and two daughters survive, eight having been reared to maturity.  Two sons, David P. and William V., enlisted in the late war, in the Seventy-fifth Ohio Infantry, Company I.  They gave up their lives in defense of their country at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863.  Mr. Witherspoon died in the spring of 1852.  Mrs. Witherspoon is still living and resides with our subject, John S., in Swan Township, Vinton County. SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1330 - Swan Twp.
Andrew Wolf	ANDREW WOLF, M. D., McArthur, Ohio, is a son of Christopher and grandson of Andrew Wolf, Sr.  The latter was a native of Germany where he matured, but soon after his majority came to America and married a lady who was also of German birth.  They both died in Westmoreland County, Penn., where they had settled soon after marriage.  He was by occupation a fanner and died, leaving his second wife a widow.  Of Andrew, Sr.'s children Christopher, the father of our subject, was the eldest and was born in Westmoreland County, Penn.  When only a youth he with his brother George came to Ohio and settled in Ames Township, Athens Co., Ohio, where they after resided.  Here they were frontier woodsmen and pioneers, possessing energy, industry and perseverance.  Christopher possessed some of the characteristics of Lewis Wetzel, and in consequence had a number of chases with wild animals. He subsequently married Rhoda Dorr, a native of Connecticut and a daughter of Captain Dorr.  The Dorr family were early settlers at Marietta where Rhoda was often protected from the red intruders by the block-house.  The Dorr family subsequently became early settlers in Athens County, Ohio, where Captain Dorr and wife both died.  Rhoda and husband, Christopher Wolf, settled in Athens County, Ohio, where they ended their days.  They were early and noble pioneers of Hocking Valley and endured many privations that would be difficult to describe by those who have not passed through them.  They had ten children—William, Lydia, Andrew, Matthew D., Barak D., Rhoda (died young), Edmond D., Joseph, Jonathan D. and Elizabeth.  Of the ten, six are now living, of which our subject is the second eldest and was born in Athens County, Ohio, July 19, 1810.  He matured to farm life and had few educational privileges.  In early life he, by natural talent, selected for his future the profession of medicine, which his father assisted him to complete in maturer years by sending him East to read medicine under Dr. Jonathan Dorr, of Cambridge, New York.  He graduated at the Medical College of Castleton, Vt., in the fall of l834 and soon after married Eliza Lottridge, of Rensselaer County, N. Y.  In November of the year he graduated he returned to Athens County, and in April, 1835, came to McArthur, where he has since lived and practiced his profession, and is now the oldest resident physician of the county.  In August, 1859, he buried his wife who was the mother of four children—Sarah M. (deceased), Anna D. (deceased), Charles B. (deceased), and Lydia M. (now Mrs. Dr. Rannells, of McArthur).  Dr. Wolf's second wife was Pauline Bryan, of Rensselaer County, N. Y.  The Doctor has practiced in McArthur for nearly half a century and experienced many changes in the profession, as well as seeing Vinton County grow from a wilderness to a well-developed county.  His deserving efforts as a practitioner have been favored with success, and he has also accomplished a neat competency.  He has at all times in life been enterprising and liberal toward all movements tending to make society better, educate the rising generations and establish law and order.  His self-denial and resolutions to accomplish/whatever he undertakes, integrity, correct habits, and enterprising spirit present to the struggling youth of to-day' an example worthy of imitation.  The Doctor, in his old age is somewhat relinquishing his practice and devoting his time partially to that of sheep-raising. SOURCE:  History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1279 - Elk Twp.