WILLIAM J. WARD.     Even as the kindly products of the soil must ever figure as the stable basis of material prosperity, even so must special importance attach to those agencies which make possible the handling and manufacturing of agricultural products, particularly grain. This, the thriving little City of McArthur, Vinton County, is signally favored in having as one of its leading industrial enterprises that represented in the substantial and fine equipped McArthur Mills, which have the best of facilities for the manufacturing of flour and other grain products of the best modern standard, and of these mills William J. Ward, a native son of this city, has the active supervision and management.  He is senior member of the operating firm of Oilman & Ward, in which his coadjutor is George H. Oilman, who maintains his residence in the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, where he is a master car-builder in the service of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
     In 1896 Mr. Ward became one of the interested principals in control of the McArthur Mills, by purchasing the interest of William D. Gold, and since that time he has had the entire charge of the mills, the while he has gained accurate knowledge of all details of operation and has had thirty years' experience in the milling business in the Buckeye State.  The fine mills are comprised in a substantial brick structure that is 45 by 73 feet in lateral dimensions and that is three stories in height, besides having a basement that is likewise fully utilized.  Operative power is supplied by natural gas engines, and it is specially pleasing to note that the gas utilized is obtained from the Ohio Fuel Supply Company.  The grain supply sources are of the best, and the products find a ready market.
     The mechanical equipment and other facilities of the McArthur Mills are of the most approved modern type, there being a full complement of four sets of double rolls and also a modern machine for the grinding of corn into corn meal.  Storage facilities are such that Mr. Ward is able to keep on hand at all times an adequate supply of grain, and his progressive policies and careful management have made the enterprise remarkably successful as a valuable contribution to the industrial prestige of Vinton County and its judicial center.
     William Judson Ward was born at McArthur, his present place of residence, and the date of his nativity was Nov. 8, 1854, his early educational advantages having been those afforded in the public schools of the fine little city in which he is now a representative business man.  He is a son of Benjamin and Samantha (Pilcher) Ward, both of whom were born in Vinton County, Ohio, the old homestead of her parents, who were sterling pioneers of the county, having been that which now constitutes the county infirmary farm.  The marriage of the parents of Mr. Ward was solemnized in Vinton County, and though for ten years they resided in Knox County Illinois, the major part of their lives was passed in Vinton County, where the father died in 1857, at which time he was in the prime of life.  His wife long survived him and passed to the life eternal on the eighty-second anniversary of her birth, she having been a devoted member of the Christian Church for many years prior to her death.  Of the children the first born were twins, Robert and James, the former having died in the West and little being known by his kinsfolk concerning his life in later years.  James was a resident of Cincinnati at the time of his death and was survived by his wife and a number of children.  Columbus P. was nearly seventy-eight years of age at the time of his death, in 1915, and is survived by one child, Amanda, who has sons and daughters, is a resident of McArthur and is the widow of Captain Alexander Pearce who was a valiant soldier and officer in the Eighteenth Ohio Regiment during the Civil war.  The subject of this sketch was the youngest of the children and was about three years of age at the time of his father's death.
     In politics Mr. Ward maintains an independent attitude and gives his support to the men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment, without being constrained by partisan dictates.  Though he is essentially a business man and has had no ambition for political office, he is liberal and progressive as a citizen and he consented to serve one term in the office of township clerk.  He is affiliated with the local lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity and is past master of the former, both he and his wife being active and valued members of the Christian Church of McArthur.
     In his native city was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ward to Miss Eliza T. Gilman, June 29, 1879, who was born at this place in 1857 and who is a daughter of Oscar W. and Mary (Lantz) Gilman.  Her father was for many years one of the best known and most honored and influential citizens of McArthur, where he continued to reside until his death, somewhat more than a decade ago, his wife surviving him by several years, Oscar W. Gilman was born at Messena, New York, Sept. 7, 1830 and as a young man he learned the trade of millwright in Buffalo and built his first grist mill at Erie, Pennsylvania, after which he made three trips to California in the interest of milling parties.  He came to Vinton County, Ohio, to superintend the building and equipping of the original flour mill at McArthur, the capital of which was furnished by Brown & Hewitt.  This mill burned to the ground in May, 1896, and the present substantial brick mill was erected under his supervision in 1896.  He eventually became one of the owners of the mill property.  He continued to be actively identified with the operation of the mill until virtually the time of his death, and after he assumed control he had various partners, of whom the last was his son-in-law, Mr. Ward, the present manager of the business, his son being now the other interested principal in the firm of Gilman & Ward, as has been previously noted in this article.
     Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Ward the eldest was Charles Oscar, who died in the prime of his young manhood. Miss Edna May Ward still remains at the parental home and is a popular factor in the social life of the community, she having been for a number of years employed in a clerical capacity in local mercantile establishments.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Pages 1207

ALONZO WARTHMAN.     It was in the prime of his years and the high tide of his usefulness that Alonzo Warthman was taken away by death, and for what he did, for what he was, and the influence he exerted in many ways it is fit that he should be long remembered especially in Vinton County, and in the community of New Plymouth, where he resided for many years and where Mrs. Warthman and her children still live.
     Born in Hocking County, Ohio, Feb. 6, 1867, Alonzo Warthman was a son of Daniel and Ellen (Nimon) Warthman.  Both parents  were reared in Jefferson County, Ohio, were married in Hocking County, and the father was a miller who at one time operated a grist mill in Washington Township of Hocking County, but subsequently established a saw and grist mill in Brown township of Vinton County, his mill being operated by water power.  His parents lived in Brown Township most of their active careers, and the mother passed away at the home of her youngest son Alonzo in 1910, when eighty-three years of age.  Daniel Warthman is still living among his children in Vinton and Hocking counties, and on Mar. 18, 1916, celebrated his eighty-eighth birthday.  He is still hale and hearty, takes long walks and during the year just past shot a number of ground hogs and squirrels.  Since the years of his early youth he has been devoted to the Methodist Church and his wife belonged to the same denomination.  In politics he is a democrat.  Alonzo Warthman was the youngest of these children and the three still living are:  Luther, a farmer and miller in Swan Township of Vinton County, who is married and has a family of one son and two daughters.  Lafayette, a farmer in this state, who has four sons; and Martha, wife of Fred Stout, living near New Plymouth.
     Alonzo Warthman after being reared in Vinton County was married in Northeastern Tennessee in 1889 to Minnie B. Conner.  She was born in Swan Township of Vinton County, Mar. 9, 1871, but when eleven years of age her parents moved to Northeastern Tennessee.  She is a daughter of William and Harriet (Rodeheaver) Conner.  They were born in what is now West Virginia and were married at Morgans Glade, and subsequently moved to Vinton County.  Her father spent several years as a farmer and subsequently started a sawmill in Vinton County, but moved it to Hocking County, then again to Swan township, and in 1882 established a lumber mill in Tennessee.  In 1890 having sold out the family returned to Vinton County and bought land in Swan Township, where Mrs. Warthman's father died in the spring of 1910.  Her mother passed away Mar. 11, 1911.  They were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he served as an official, and in politics he was a republican.
     After their marriage Alonzo Warthman and wife settled at New Plymouth in Vinton County, and for several years he conducted a sawmill there.  Later he managed a sawmill in Ross County not far from Chillicothe, but eventually sold his interests there and returned to Vinton County and took up sawmilling and grist milling, having a grist mill at Hamden.  In 1902 he bought a comfortable home of ten rooms with a large lot of ground surrounding at New Plymouth, and he also bought 318 acres in Hocking County, chiefly grazing land and timber.  His prosperity was also measured by the ownership of 160 acres of well improved farming land in Swan Township.
     The late Mr. Warthman was a man of good business judgment, industrious, honorable in all his relations, doing whatever he did well, and unselfish in every way.  His death was consequently a shock to the community where he had lived so long and he passed away at New Plymouth Feb. 23, 1912.   He was a democrat in politics, and had no regular church membership.  Mrs. Warthman still lives at the tine home at New Plymouth, and she and her children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
     Mr. Warthman was survived by the following children: Myrtle, born in 1890, was educated in the public schools and in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware and is now the wife of Howard L. Hockman of Hocking County, who owns and runs a grist mill at New Plymouth, having conducted this local industry for the past four years.  Newman A., born in 1892, is also a saw mill man at McArthur, and by his marriage to Dora Hanning has two children, Minnie B. and Luther G.  Lela B., born in 1897, is the wife of Albert Redick, of New Plymouth, and they have a son Vyron P.   Mary E., born in 1902, is now in the public schools.  Dallas Wayne was born Feb. 12, 1905, and is also in the grade schools.  Alonzo E. was born Nov. 4, 1912, after the death of his father.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1054

FENTON ELSWORTH WAXLER.     For nearly half a century members of the Waxler family have had their home in Vinton County.  It is an old and well known name in Elk Township, where Fenton Elsworth Waxler has for fully thirty years prospered as a progressive farmer and stock raiser, and has in that time developed one of the pleasantest country homes to be found in all the country around McArthur.
     He is descended from both Ohio and Virginia stock.  His grandfather, George Waxler, was born in Virginia, grew up on a farm there, but when still young came to Ohio and located in Muskingum County.  There he married a native of Muskingum County, Susan Ashton.  They then settled on the Muskingum River, where for a number of years George Waxler conducted a salt works.   Later he became a farmer, having moved down the river from Zanesville, and on his farm spent the rest of his days.   Both he and his wife were quite old when they died.   Both were church people, he a member of the United Brethren and she in the Methodist Church.   They were the parents of twelve children.  The two now living are: Mrs. Duanna Etta Neff of Zanesville, Ohio; and Mrs. Nancy, widow of Alva Waxler, of Taylorsville, Ohio.
     George Waxler. Jr., one of these twelve children and the third in order of birth, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, in January, 1832.  He grew up there, and in 1854 married Miss Henrietta Swartz.  She was born in Virginia Oct. 22, 1832, and when thirteen years of age came with her family to Muskingum County, Ohio. She was also one of twelve children, most of whom grew up and married and besides Mrs. Waxler those now living are Wilson, John and Tillie, all of whom are married and have families.  Their parents were Daniel and Mary (Mowery) Swartz.  The former was born in Virginia and the latter in Germany, having come with her parents when six years of age to the United States.  After George Waxler Jr., married he continued to live in Muskingum County until the spring of 1867.  In the meantime four children, Alice, Fremont, Louis H. and Fenton Elsworth were born into their household. Alice died in March, 1900, and Fremont and Lewis H. died young.  Fenton Elsworth and Alice were the only ones who accompanied their parents on the removal in 1867 to Vinton County.  They located in Elk Township not far from what is now Vinton Station on the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, three miles east of McArthur.  They acquired a part of the old Jones estate, comprising 257 acres.  The improvement was a substantial nine-room brick house.  George Waxler Jr., continued to live there and operate the farm until he was accidentally killed on the Baltimore & Ohio Railway near his home Nov. 20, 1886. He was not only a very energetic and prosperous farmer, but a man whose character commanded respect wherever he went.  As a republican he held several local offices, and was also a Union soldier in the Civil war from 1862 until the close.  He enlisted from Muskingum County in the 122d Ohio Volunteer Infantry as a private and went through without wounds or capture.  Much of his service was in the quartermaster's department. He was an active member of the United Brethren Church.  His widow is still living, making her home with her son Fenton Elsworth, and in spite of her eighty-three years still hale and hearty, able to look after part of the household duties and is a much beloved personage in her community.  She has been a lifelong member of the United Brethren Church.  After the family came to Vinton County two other sons were George V., who lives in Jackson County and by his marriage to Eva Timms has six sons and daughters; and William H., who is agent and operator for the Hocking Valley Railroad at Wellston, Ohio, and by his marriage to Zaidee O'Neal has two sons.
     Fenton Elsworth Waxler was born while the family was still living in Muskingum County on May 10, 1861.  He was about six years of age when they came to Vinton County and recalls some of the incidents of the removal.  He was reared in Elk Township, gained an education in the local schools, and since 1882 has been an active and progressive farmer, having in that year bought his first place of 114 acres close to Vinton Station and not far from the old homestead of his parents.  He has his land under improvement and cultivation, and has it well stocked with horses, cattle and sheep.  Mr. Waxler considers sheep to be the best kind of stock for farms in this part of Ohio, and raises those animals both for wool and for mutton.
     Mr. Waxler was married in Elk Township to Miss Barbara Hohl.  She was born in Elk Township of Vinton County Mar. 12, 1862, and was reared and received her education in her native locality.  Her parents were Jacob and Catherine (Weaver) Hohl, both natives of Germany where they were married before coming to the United States.  They sailed on one of the old fashioned sailing vessels, spent several weeks on the ocean, and after living for a few years in the East came in the late '40s to Eagle Furnace in Clinton Township of Vinton County, where Jacob Hohl was employed as a teamster at the furnace for a number of years.  The family located on a farm in Elk Township and died there in 1867, when in middle life.  His widow died there in 1904, being at that time seventy-two years of age, having been born in 1832.  She was a member of the United Brethren Church in this country, but both had been reared as Lutherans.  Mr. Hohl was a democrat.
     To Mr. and Mrs. Waxler have been born five children: Carrie A. is the wife of Guy Teeters, and they now live in the State of Maryland and have three children: Vernon, Virgil and Gladys.  Ruby O. received her education in the public schools and is still living at home.  Ora Emma is at home and is a graduate of the McArthur High School and for two years was a student in the Ohio University at Athens and is now a popular teacher in Vinton County. Zaidee P. is in the second year of the McArthur High School.  Fenton R. died at the age of four months.  Mr. and Mrs. Waxler and their family are members of the United Brethren Church, and attend worship close to their own home.  In politics Mr. Waxler is a republican.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Pages 1327

Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1335

DANIEL WILL.   Nearly a half a century has passed since the founding of the institution which now bears the name of the Vinton County National Bank, at McArthur, and during this entire period its fortunes have been directed by Daniel Will.  Mr. Will's start in life was not auspicious, for his early schooling was confined to a mastery of the "Three R's," but he possessed inherent talent for business and finance, had an ingrained honesty of principle that made it impossible for him to carry on transactions in other than a strictly honorable manner, and was the possessor of an ambition and determination that never allowed obstacles to stand in his way.  While accumulating a material fortune, Mr. Will has also contributed signally to the welfare of the town with whose interests he has been so intimately associated, and to few men is McArthur indebted in greater degree for services rendered.
     The Will family in America is an old and honored one, and its members have been identified largely with pioneer life.  The founder of the family in this country was George Will, who emigrated in a sailing vessel from Baden, Germany, and located in Berks County, Pennsylvania, some years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary war.  Enlisting in the patriot army, he was promoted from private to sergeant, and then to lieutenant, which rank he bore when mustered out and honorably discharged.  He married a Pennsylvania girl, and their family included George Will, Jr., the grandfather of Daniel Will, who was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1774.  He grew up in his native community, and there learned the trade of shoemaker under his father, although he later gave up that trade to become a merchant.  He married a German young lady, a Miss Greschner, and some time between the years 1790 and 1800 came with his family, his father and the latter 's family to Adelphi, Ross County, Ohio, and settled in Colerain Township.  There the elder George Will died not many years later, possibly early in the nineteenth century.  He was either a Methodist or a Lutheran in his religious faith.
     George Will, Jr., soon after settling in Ohio, became a merchant at Adelphi, at which place there was a whisky distillery.  This product he bought at 12½ cents per gallon and disposed of it for 50 cents per gallon.  His old accounts, kept in shillings, pounds and pence, show that the greater part of the liquor was bought by the gallon.  He had served in the early Indian wars of the state and was corporal of his company, and when the War of 1812 came on, raised a company, was elected captain, and joined the army of General Harrison, making a gallant record as a soldier.  After his return to the life of the civilian he resumed his mercantile operations, and also secured 160 acres of land in Elk Township, Vinton County, all underlaid with coal, which is now the property of his grandson, Daniel Will.  This sturdy old pioneer rode from his Ohio home all the way to St. Louis, Missouri, on horseback, securing 160 acres of land from the United States Government on the present site of St. Louis.  Later he was compelled to sell this land to pay a debt he had secured for a neighbor.  The entire 160 acres are now built over with residence and business property, and had he held on to this property a few years longer he would have accumulated a vast fortune from its sale.  In May, 1845, Mr. Will rode a horse from Adelphi to Jackson, Ohio, and then to McArthur, all through a cold rain.  This experience brought on an attack of pneumonia, from which he died a few days later at this city.  His widow outlived him for some years, and died while on a visit to Albany, Athens County, Ohio, aged seventy-six years.  Both were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  His father had been a member of one of the first sessions of the Ohio Legislature, and the junior George Will inherited his taste for politics, being an active and prominent whig, and at one time mayor of Adelphi.  Of the children of George Will, Jr., Jacob G. was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, July 11, 1806.  He was reared in Ross County, Ohio, where his brother Joseph K. Will was born, the latter becoming a pioneer merchant at McArthur, where he died, leaving three sons and one daughter.  Jacob G. Will had three sisters: Elizabeth, who married J. K. Johnson, a pioneer farmer of Vinton County, and left issue at her death; Lucinda, who married Rev. Abram McCartlich, a pioneer preacher and old-time circuit rider of the Methodist Episcopal Church; and Clarissa, who married James Fowler, who located and became a well known merchant at Lafayette. Indiana, leaving at his death descendants who have since been prominent in business affairs.
     After his marriage, Jacob G. Will embarked in farming but later sold out and became a merchant at Hallsville, Ross County.  In 1841 he came to McArthur, where he became a merchant, but in 1858 returned to farming.  Subsequently he sold goods at Zaleski, Vinton County, where his death occurred in 1882.  Mrs. Will, whose maiden name was Sarah Swinehart, lived to be eighty-nine years of age, and died in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which her husband was also a member.  He was a republican, and although not an office seeker served as justice of the peace and associate judge of Vinton County.  There were nine children in the family: Joseph B., deceased; Aaron; George L., deceased; Daniel; Susan; Jacob S. and Mary, who are deceased; Henry C., and Clara.
     Daniel Will grew up with but few advantages to secure an education, but he soon found out that he could educate himself by reading and observation, and thus became a proficient scholar.  In 1851 he began his business career as a clerk for his uncle,  Joseph K. Will, and three years later secured an interest in the store.  This he sold in 1860, and in 1861 became the proprietor of a strictly cash store at McArthur, and while he had no book accounts he was soon selling more goods than the other three stores in town put together.  In 1866 he associated with him his brothers, Jacob S. and Aaron Will, and continued as their partner until Oct. 1, 1867, when he started the Vinton County Bank, a state institution with a capital of $75,000 his associates being Thomas G. Davis, Jacob G. Will, Jacob S. Will, Aaron Will, Andrew Wolfe, Edward  G. Dodge, Charles Brown and H. S. Bundy.   J. W. Delay was cashier and Daniel Will, president.  On Oct. 1, 1872, Mr. Will secured a charter and started the Vinton County National Bank, with a capital of $100, 000, and this institution has continued as one of the most safe and substantial banking houses in the county.  Some years ago, for convenience, the capital was reduced to $50,000.  Aside from the bank Mr. Will has many other interests, being the owner of the Will Hotel and of 1,600 acres of valuable land in the county, as well as city and town realty.  He has held but few offices, but has been an active factor in securing advantages for his community and no movement for the general welfare is considered complete until his name has been added to its list of backers.  Worthy charitable enterprises never appeal to him in vain, and for many yeas he was a supporter of religious movements.  He is a republican in his political views, but not a politician.  Mr. Will is unmarried.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1036

Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1168

Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1214

Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1214

RUFUS H. WYMAN.  Of the varied lines of business enterprise effectively represented in the progressive little City of McArthur, Vinton County, one that is maintained at specially high standard is that of firm of Wyman & Gorsuch, who are dealers in and manufacturers of the highest grade of artistic granite and marble monuments and other cemetery appurtenances of similar order.  In their well equipped establishment, eligibly situated on East Main Street, are handled the finest grades of domestic and imported granite and marble monuments and the business of the firm extends into all parts of Vinton County, as well as into contiguous counties.  Of this representative firm Mr. Wyman is the senior member and he is known as one of the essentially progressive business men and public spirited citizens of McArthur, where he has been established in his present line of enterprise since Aug. 3, 1903, his coadjutor being Nichols Gorsuch.  The well equipped shop of this firm is a substantial brick building 35x54 feet in dimensions, and the same was erected in the spring of 1915, to provide adequate accommodations for the constantly increasing business.
     Rufus H. Wyman was born in Elk Township, Vinton County, on the 19th of July, 1859, and the old homestead farm which was the place of his nativity is situated only a few miles distant from McArthur, the county seat.  Though in his youth he was enabled to avail himself of the advantages of the village schools of McArthur, and that he made good use of these opportunities is evidenced by the fact that in 1877 he proved himself eligible for the pedagogic profession and became a successful teacher in the rural schools of his native county.  Through study and practical experience he acquired virtually a liberal education, and he continued his services as one of the able and popular teachers in the schools of this section of the state for somewhat more than eleven years and up to the time when he engaged in his present business enterprise, in 1903.
     Mr. Wyman is a son of Levi Wyman, who was born in the State of New York about the year 1815 and who was a boy at the time of the family emigration to Ohio.  His father became one of the pioneer settlers of what is now Elk Township, Vinton County, where he entered claim to Government land and instituted the development of a farm from the forest wilds.  He became one of the representative farmers and influential citizens of the pioneer community and both he and his wife continued to reside on the old homestead until their death.  Levi Wyman was reared to manhood under the conditions and influences of the pioneer era and early began to assist in the reclamation and cultivation of the home farm, the while he availed himself of the somewhat primitive facilities of the schools of the locality and period.  He eventually succeeded to the ownership of the farm which had been obtained from the Government by his father, and he continued to be there one of the successful exponents of agricultural and livestock industrial enterprise during the residue of his long and useful life, his death having occurred about a quarter of a century ago.  He was a man of steadfast integrity and strong mentality, was well and favorably known in this section of Ohio and commanded unqualified esteem in the county of which virtually his entire life was passed.  His political proclivities were indicated by the staunch support which he gave to the republican party and both he and his wife were earnest adherents of the Christian Church, in which he held official position for many years.
     In Vinton County Levi Wyman wedded Miss Sarah T. Cox, who was born and reared in this county and who survived by a number of years, she having been nearly eighty years of age when she passed to the life eternal, in 1899.  They became the parents of four sons and five daughters and the first born was Sarah, who died within a comparatively few years after her marriage and who left no children.  Nancy is the wife of David B. Dye, a prosperous farmer of Clinton Township, and they have two sons and one daughter.  John continued his residence in Vinton County until his death and was survived by his wife and three daughters.  James is now a successful orange-grower in the State of California and has one son.  Joseph, who was a patternmaker by trade and vocation, was a resident of Nelsonville, Athens county, Ohio, at the time of his death, and was survived by his wife and two sons, his widow being now deceased.  Eliza became the wife of Justin H. Smith, a telegraph operator, and she died while a resident of Chillicothe, Ross County, being survived by her husband, two sons and one daughter.  Martha, who died in 1914, at Jackson, judicial center of the Ohio county of the same name, first became the wife of William F. Mapes, and after his death she wedded Robert E. Reives, two children of the first marriage surviving her and there having been no children by the second marriage.  Rufus H., of this review, was the next in order of birth.  Miss Alice, the youngest of the children, resides in the home of her sister Nancy, Mrs. David B. Dye.
     He whose name introduces this article has never wavered in his allegiance to the Republican party and is well fortified in his convictions concerning matters of economic and governmental policy.  He has served several years as township assessor of Elk Township and is the incumbent of this office at the present time, 1915.  For the past thirty years he has been actively affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, as a member of which he has passed all of the official chairs in the McArthur lodge, in which lie is now master of finance.  He attends and gives liberal support, to the local Christian Church, in the faith of which he was reared and of which his wife is a zealous member.
     In Scioto County, in 1883, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Wyman to Miss Maggie A. White, who was born in that county on the 20th of January, 1856, and who was there reared and educated.  She is a daughter of Asa and Elizabeth (Irwin) White, who likewise were natives of that county, where the respective families were founded in the early pioneer days.  Mr. White was a prosperous farmer of Scioto County at the time of his death, about twenty-eight years ago, and his widow, who celebrated, in 1915, her seventy-eighth birthday anniversary, died Mar. 3, 1916, in the City of Portsmouth, that county, she having long been a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Of the fourteen children of this venerable pioneer woman all but one attained to adult age and the most of them are still livng and well established in life.  In the concluding paragraph of this sketch is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Wyman.
     Miss Cora remains at the parental home.  Lelia is the wife of Russel Rudolph, of Sugar Grove, Fairfield County, and they have one daughter, Eileen.  Linnie is the wife of Harry Rumbaugh, and they are associated in the millinery business at Lebanon, Indiana, no children having been born to them.  Estella is the wife of Grover Smith, who is engaged in the restaurant business at McArthur, and they have one son, Earl.  Harry was graduated in the McArthur High School and is now a member of the class of 1917 in the Ohio State University.  Mary and Helen are attending the public schools of McArthur and the former is a member of the class of 1916 in the high school.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1067