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with good improvements. He has been Township Trustee several terms, Assessor one term and School Examiner two terms by appointment. Both Mr. and Mrs. Beard are members of the M. E. Church; they have five children-0. Clide, B. Britton, Carl P., Ernest W. and Doan.

ADAM BECHTOL, son of George and Eleanor (Evans) Bechtol, was born in Chester County, Penn., November 3, 1809. Our subject lived in Chester County until he was twelve years old, when he, with his parents, moved to Lebanon County, Penn., his education consisting of what could be learned in the schools of the place and the period. He remained at home until he was twenty-one years of age, when he learned the trade of a molder, which he followed about eight years, four of them in Massillon, Ohio. He was married, in Pennsylvania, to Miss Mary Starr, December 23, 1834. He purchased his present farm of 280 acres, then woodland, in 1836. His wife died January 6, 1851. His second marriage was to Miss Elizabeth Hight. Mr. Bechtol is a thorough farmer. In 1881, he built a fine frame residence. He was Township Trustee for nine years and assessed the township eight times. Both he and Mrs. Bechtol are members of the M. E. Church, Mr. B. having joined in 1830. He has had born to him eleven children-George, John, Rebecca, Ezra, Nathan (deceased), Mary and Hannah by his first marriage; Adam, Isaac H., Sarah J. and Abraham L. by his second wife.

WILLIAM S. BOON is one of the most extensive lumber dealers in Williams County, and has been engaged in handling lumber for several years, running a mill in connection with other business. During 1881, he sawed 900,000 feet of lumber. Mr. Boon came to Montpelier in April, 1882, and erected one of the finest and most commodious residences in the place, where he resides with his family. He is the owner of 280 acres of timber land in Bridgewater and Madison Township, in this county. Mr. Boon is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Washington County March 18, 1844. His parents, Thomas and Annie (Criss) Boon, were natives of Virginia and Pennsylvania respectively. Mrs. Boon died in Wayne County, Ohio, where Mr. Boon still lives. William S. Boon worked on his father's farm when not in school until he was eighteen years old, when he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, remaining in the service nearly three years. He was in the battles of Clarksville, Decatur and Athens, Ala.; was taken prisoner at the latter place by the enemy and held for five months and nineteen days, subsisting on half a pint of corn-meal daily, and a small portion of beef semi-weekly, but Mr. Boon survived this starvation treatment, and after his return home went on a trip to the Rocky Mountains, where he remained a year, afterward spending a winter at Shreveport, La. Mr. Boon and Miss Mary Hoverstock were wedded

in Wayne County, Ohio, December 1, 1870, where Mr. Hoverstock still lives. Mr. and Mrs. Boon are members of the M. E. Church.

SAMUEL C. BOTHWELL was born in Albany, Ill., and is a son of James and Ruth (Congreve) Bothwell. His father died when he was six years old, and at ten years of age he was sent to an uncle in Massachusetts, where he attended school at Northampton. Coming to Michigan, he enlisted, in August, 1862, in the Eighteenth Michigan Infantry. He served three years, having been in several important battles, and an Orderly under Gen. Granger. He was discharged in July, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn. After the war, he began selling goods for Barnum & Converse, with whom he remained one year. He was married, September 3, 1867, in Superior Township, to Miss Adeline E. Opdyke, native of this township and daughter of Hiram Opdyke. They have two children, Leroy and Ada. In 1868-69, Mr. Bothwell clerked for O. C. Ashton at at Bryan; from 1870 to 1874, clerked for his father-in-law at Montpelier; dealt for himself in wool and other merchandise for three years; for three years clerked for E. T. Binns at Bryan; in 1881, he engaged with Hood & Alexander in Montpelier, and is now in their employ. He was Township Clerk in 1871, has served as Councilman for four years, and is Past Master of Masonic Lodge, No. 215. Mrs. Bothwell is a member of the Universalist Church.

FRANK BRANNAN, son of John J. and Catherine (Swaney) Brannan, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, November 8, 1842. His father was a farmer, and came hither in 1851, locating on 160 acres of woodland, which he cleared and dwelt upon until his accidental death, in May, 1882. Frank Brannan came with his parents to Williams County, where he attended school, and lived at home until his marriage in Williams County, February 12, 1863, to Miss Samantha Smathers. Three children were the fruit of this union-Chester W., Cora B. and Harmon E. He now commenced farming with his father, and exchanged threshing-machine for forty acres of improved land. He then continued trading lands in Ohio, Michigan and Kansas, and removed to Montpelier April 28, 1881, where he pursued farming and furnished milk to the village. He is now agent for wind and other mills, and owns seventy-five acres of his father's homestead. He has been Assessor of Jefferson Township one year.

F. L. BRANNAN was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, February 5, 1845, and is the son of J. W. and Margaret Brannan, who came to Williams County in 1847, pursuing their vocation as farmers. F. L. Brannan was well educated, in his youth attending the schools of this township and also the high school at Bryan, and began teaching in the neighborhood at the age of twenty-one. March 7, 1867, he married

Miss Elizabeth E. Young, a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, and daughter of John and Hannah Young. Mr. Brannan began farming here on twenty acres of land, to which he added another lot of twenty acres, which he subsequently disposed of, and then purchased an equal quantity near the home farm of eighty acres, which he also now owns, making a total of 120 acres of good land improved with fine frame buildings. Mr. and Mrs. Brannan have four children-H. Urilla, John W., Annie M. and Bartley A. Both Mr. and Mrs. Brannan are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which our subject is an Elder. He has also been Superintendent of the Sabbath school since 1869, and has also served the Township as Justice of the Peace for six years. For the past eight years he has dealt largely in live stock, and is now a regular shipper.

JOHN BRANNON is the son of Hugh and Rebecca Brannon, and is the eldest of a family of six children. He was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, July 4, 1825, and was there married, December 18, 1846, to Jane Custard, a native of the same county, and born October 19, 1825. In October, 1850, Mr. Brannon came to Williams County and settled in Superior Township, on the farm of 160 acres where he now resides. He has had born to him a family of nine children-Mary C., James J., Olive E., Rebecca A., Eliza M., A. L., Walter C., Sarah B. and Amanda J. Mr. Brannon is a progressive and enterprising citizen, and posseses the confidence of the entire community. He has served his township in the office of Assessor, and also in that of Land Appraiser, and, though no seeker after public place, yields to a sense of duty when called upon to serve his fellow-citizens.

FRANCIS J. BRANON, son of Hugh and Rebecca Branon, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, August 14, 1830. The school advantages of our subject were meager, his parents being pioneers of Williams County, coming here in 1848, after which he had no opportunity to go to school. On December 25, 1851, he was married to Miss Susanna R. Ewan. For six years thereafter, he farmed on rented land, when he came into possession of 160 acres, on which he has lived till the present time now a very fine property. He has also an interest in a saw-mill adjoining his land. Mr. Branon has been Township Trustee, and both himself and wife are members of the Christian Church. They have a family of nine-Edith, George L., Rosella, Harriet, Warren N., Nathan T., Lydia, Jessie and Ora J.

CHARLES BRUNDYDGE, son of Jonathan and Susan Brundydge, was born September 27, 1800, in Westchester County, N. Y., where his parents lived and died. Our subject lived at the scene of his birth until twenty years of age, attending school and laboring on the farm. He

then removed to Connecticut, engaging at farm labor. In 1821, he was married to Miss Maria Brown, daughter of David Brown, native of Connecticut. Two years later he came to Huron County, Ohio, where he purchased fifty-three acres of woodland, which he cleared and improved. This he exchanged, in 1842, for 160 acres of unimproved land in this township, where he resides. Mr. and Mrs. Brundydge are members of the Presbyterian Church. They have three children-Jane, Phebe and C. Henry; the first is a widow, and the last two are also married. Mr. Brundydge is an uncommonly active man for his years, still taking his part in the fields. C. H. Brundydge resides with his father and is a successful manager of the home farm.

NATHANIEL D. CHEW was born in New Jersey, April 17, 1845. His parents, Dr. E. C. and Caroline (Woolston) Chew, are also natives of New Jersey: Dr. Chew is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, and is practicing his profession in Leistville, Ohio. Dr. Chew's father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all Methodist preachers in the New Jersey Conference at the same time. The latter being too aged to travel, was local preacher. Dr. Chew also has two sisters who have been in China as missionaries since 1856, and contemplate returning in two years. Nathaniel Chew's educational advantages were good. After the public schools of Darke County, Ohio, he attended college at Liber, Ind., and began teaching when but seventeen years of age, and continued to wield the rod for seventeen years-nine years of this time in the same school building. Mr. Chew then decided on a change, and established himself in the grocery business in 1879, at Logansport, Ind., where he remained nearly three years, and in 1881 came to Montpelier, where, with a fine location and nicely selected stock, he does a prosperous and flourishing business. Mr. Chew was elected Clerk of Allen Township, in Darke County, for five successive terms. On April 18, 1867, he was married to Miss Maggie Heistand, a daughter of Rev. T. Heistand, who is now preaching near Leistville, Ohio. Mrs. Chew's grandfather was a Bishop in the United Brethren Church until his death. Three uncles and three cousins are also ministers in the same church. Mr. and Mrs. Chew are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and parents of five children, viz.: Cooper, Elizabeth, Caroline, Jennie and Nathaniel.

WILLIAM CLUM, son of Samuel and Catharine Clum, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, August 18, 1846, where his early days were spent, and where he lived until the war, when he enlisted, in 1864, in the One Hundred and Sixty-first Ohio Regiment, for three months previously having been in the Government service as teamster. On January 15, 1870, he was married in Williams County, Ohio, to Miss Ellen Platt;

one child-Bernice, was the fruit of this union. Mr. Clum began farming on thirty acres of land owned by him in Tuscarawas County, which he sold, and purchased eighty acres in Superior Township, this partly improved, and he has added many other improvements from time to time. ISAAC COURTNEY, son of Edward and Phebe (Votaw) Courtney, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, December 2, 1827. Our subject attended school in Columbiana County, and afterward learned carpentering, beginning at the age of nineteen. On July 4, 1851, he was married to Miss Sarah Hoadley. He then followed his trade in the county and purchased twenty acres of woodland. This he sold and came to Williams County in 1853, locating in Superior Township, on 160 acres where he now lives. He has since added to the original acres until they reach at this time 360, 240 acres of which are under cultivation; he also deals in stock. Mr. and Mrs. Courtney have four children-Elizabeth J., Eli Wisman, Alphretta and Louis Faber. Mr. Courtney's parents were natives of Maryland and Virginia, and were pioneers of Ohio, settling in Columbiana County when it was a wilderness-their nearest neighbor being eight miles away. Mrs. Courtney's parents, Hiram and Elizabeth Hoadley, were natives of Connecticut and of Wales.

EDWIN DANIELS, a son of William and Diantha (Leech) Daniels, was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., March 12, 1839. The youth of our subject was passed in Syracuse, N. Y., where he lived until he was twenty-seven years old, there receiving what education he could obtain at the local schools. When seventeen years of age, he went to the blacksmith trade at an apprenticeship of three years. For a time he managed a shop of his own. In 1863, he came to Williams County, Ohio, continuing his trade at Brannan's Corners. On January 8, 1865, he was married to Miss Catharine A. Scott, in Superior Township. After two and a half years Mr. Daniels removed to Kendallville, Ind., remaining two years, thence to Bryan, where he became foreman in a spoke and hub factory, holding the position for five years. At present, in company with Leech and Lindersmith, he is erecting a wheelbarrow factory at Montpelier, in connection with a steam saw-mill. Mr. Daniels is a member of Parish

Lodge, A., F. & A. M., and also a member of the Church of the Disciples. Mrs. Daniels is a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, and daughter of Robert and Betsey J. (Brannan) Scott, natives of this State and now residing in Superior Township, this county.

HENRY DELLINGER, son of Harrison and Sophia (Keller) Dellinger, was born in York County, Penn., November 27, 1813. The early life of our subject was passed at the scene of his birth. His opportunities for acquiring education were exceedingly meager. He learned the trade of a weaver and began the strife of life for himself when sixteen

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