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JOSEPH WHITE, son of John and Mary (Mitchell) White, was born in Bucks County, Penn., October 14, 1806. John White was a soldier of 1812. When fifteen years of age, Joseph was apprenticed to a coach-maker, with whom he remained four and one-half years, and continued to live in Bucks County until his twenty-third year, when he removed to New Hope and set up his trade there. In this town, on May 8, 1830, he was married to Miss Rebecca F. Leach, and continued the trade of coach-making. In 1835, he came to Crawford County, Ohio, and purchased eighty acres, fifteen of which were cleared. This he sold, and coming to Williams County in 1839, entered 160 acres. He assisted in clearing two and one-half miles of road to reach the mill at West Buffalo. Mr. White was Justice of the Peace for three years, and has had a family of ten-Mary A., Deborah, Martha, Lucretia, Fannie, Isaiah, Joseph H., Julie A., Prudence and John. Of these, two (Lucretia and Prudence) are deceased.

JOSEPH W. WILLIAMS, M. D., was born in Williams County, Ohio, April 15, 1852. His parents, Andrew S. and Mary A. (White) Williams, were also natives of Ohio. Andrew Williams served three years in the army, and was wounded at Atlanta, Ga., August 7, 1864, which caused his death the September following. Mrs. Williams resides with her son in Montpelier. Dr. Williams attended the public schools of Williams County in his youth; afterward Bryan Normal School, studying his profession for three years with Dr. P. O. Jump, of Bryan, following which he attended medical lectures and graduated at Cincinnati in 1878. He began practice the same year at Bridgewater Centre, in Williams County, in connection with R. F. Lamson, which was continued for two and a half years, when Dr. W. removed to Edon, remaining but six months, when he decided upon Montpelier as a permanent location. A partnership was formed between himself and Messrs. J. A. and J. W. Starr for the purpose of carrying on the drug business, which is one of the permanent institutions of the place. They carry a fine stock of from $2,500 to $3,000 value. Dr. Williams also has an extensive practice in this vicinity. Miss Emma Starr became the wife of Dr. Williams May 28, 1878. She is a daughter of Richard and Mary A. Starr, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Ohio, but now residents of Williams County, Ohio. Dr. and Mrs. Williams are members of the M. E. Church.

GEORGE WISMAN, son of George and Sarah (House) Wisman, was born in Maryland in 1798. Our subject's youth was passed with his parents, with whom he remained until twenty-one years of age. On March 10, 1829, he was married to Miss Susanna Bannan, in Columbiana County, Ohio. Mr. Wisman then engaged for two years in preparing

coal for a furnace. He began farming on eighty acres of woodland, which he improved for four years. He then went to Massillon for a time; then came to Williams County, October 12, 1836, and located in Superior Township, where he had entered 320 acres of land. He has a fine and extensive farm, and both himself and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. They have had eleven children-William, Nancy, George (died in the army), John, Francis J. and Levi (twins), Sarah, Susannah, Jacob (killed in the army), Eli and Elizabeth E.

WILLIAM M. WOOLF, son of Jacob and Elizabeth Woolf, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, September 2, 1827. During his youth, he attended the schools of the time, and worked on his father's farm until manhood. On February 2, 1848, he was married to Miss Mary Ruhle, in Columbiana County. Our subject continued to farm until 1860, when he removed to Superior Township, remaining until 1872, when he came to Montpelier, and managed a hotel for two years. After some time, he commenced the livery business in Montpelier, which he still continues in the most obliging manner. Mr. and Mrs. Woolf have had nine children-Matilda, Marion, Eliza, Catherine, Clara, Mary E., Servantus, Janetta and William S., the last two being deceased. Mr. Woolf is a member of Fountain City Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Bryan, Ohio. His wife is a member of the Lutheran Church; is a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, and is the daughter of George and Elizabeth Ruhle, natives respectively of the Keystone and Buckeye States.

GEORGE YESBERA is a son of Adam and Sarah Yesbera; the former a native of Germany, the latter of France. Our subject attended the common schools of West Unity, Ohio, and afterward took a commercial course at that place. In boyhood, he learned the tailoring trade, and is at present in the business; but does more cutting than making, sending nearly all his work to his father at West Unity to be made up. In 1880, he opened a tailor shop and clothing store at Montpelier, Williams County, Ohio, it being the only one in the place. On August 22, 1881, at Waldon, Mich., he was married to Miss M. Ella Gump. Since his marriage, he has kept house in Montpelier.

BEN YOUNG was born in Crawford County, Ohio, January 28, 1857. His parents, John and Hannah Young, were natives of Columbiana County, Ohio, and were born September 9, 1815, and December 3, 1813, respectively. They were married in their native county April 20, 1837; in 1844, they moved to Crawford County, and thence in 1865, to this township, when they settled on Section 36, where they remained till their respective deaths, hers occurring April 1, 1869, and his April 23, 1873. They were the parents of eleven children-T. J., W. A., J. A., Mary A., Elizabeth, Susan, J. L., J. C., Ben, Martha H. and

Clara. Ben came here with his parents, and has ever since resided on the old homestead on Section 36, and now owns eighty acres of it. He is as yet unmarried, but is an industrious and popular young man, with every indication of a prosperous future before him.

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JASON AYRES was born in Richland County, Ohio, April 13, 1826, the second in a family of seven children born to Abner and Clara (Garrison) Ayers. Abner Ayers was married in Richland County, where he followed coopering until the fall of 1835, when he moved to this township with his wife and children, and settled on 160 acres of land he had entered the previous year, which he cleared up, undergoing all the hardships of frontier life. In 1858 or 1859, he went to West Unity, where he engaged for a time in the dry goods trade, and later in the boot and shoe business. Some time during the last war, he sold his farm and bought another east of West Unity, on which he resided for about two years, and then returned to town, and there lives in retirement. In his earlier years, he was one of the Associate Judges of Williams County for several Jason Ayres attended the log schoolhouses of his youthful days only two winters, and consequently his education was somewhat limited. He was passionately fond of hunting, and his rifle was his constant companion. During one fall and winter, eighty-four deer fell before his deadly aim, besides any number of wild turkeys and other game. He began hunting at the age of fourteen, and each fall and winter, down to 1878, he has gone on a hunting excursion, and has never failed to secure his share of deer and other game. At the age of seventeen, he was married, and for several years thereafter, farmed for his father on shares. About 1850, he bought eighty acres in Fulton County, Ohio, cleared up, and resided thereon till 1862, when he sold out and came to Brady Township, bought seventy acres, farmed until 1876, sold out again, and bought nine lots of ground in Lockport, where he has ever since resided. He was married, November 7, 1843, to Martha Aldridge, a native of New York, who bore him nine children, of whom eight are still living-seven boys and one girl-and died in Lockport, December 10, 1877, a member of the Disciples' Church. In politics, Mr. Ayres was first a Whig, but is now a Republican.

JOSEPH BARKDOLL was born in Washington County, Md., June 6, 1818, the second child in a family of ten born to George and Susanna (Branstetter) Barkdoll, natives of the same county and State,

and of German descent. The father, who received only three months' schooling, became a man of extensive self-instruction and a master of several languages. He served in the war of 1812, and during that struggle, was married. He afterward engaged in farming on the Western shore of Maryland until 1836, when he moved with his family to Richland County, Ohio, and bought a farm of 175 acres near Mansfield, on which he resided until his death in the summer of 1860. Mr. Barkdoll was at one time offered the nomination for Congress by the Democrats of his district in Maryland, but he declined the honor and withdrew from the State on account of his abhorrence of slavery. Joseph Barkdoll is a self-educated man, but has given his children a thorough education, and nearly all of them have been school-teachers. After leaving his father's farm at the age of twenty-one, he worked out for two years, and rented a farm for five years, and then in October, 1847, came with his wife and children to Brady Township and settled on 160 acres of forest land, which he had bought about two years before. This land he has cleared up and improved in every detail. March 11, 1840, he married Margaret Augustine, a native of Germany, whose father, Jacob Augustine, died at the home of Mr. Barkdoll, in 1881, in his eighty-seventh year. To Mr. and Mrs. Barkdoll have been born ten children-George E., Susan L. (now Mrs. R. D. Ford), Jacob W., Margaret J. (who was married to John Ditrick, and died in April, 1878, leaving two children), Marquis D. L., Benjamin F., Joseph A., Sophronia M. (who died April 30, 1882), Mary and Francis M. George E. enlisted as private in the One Hundredth Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the late war, and was at first thought to be mortally wounded in the left lung at Atlanta, Ga., but he recovered, and when mustered out wore the chevron of a Sergeant. Joseph W. served in the Thirty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Mr. Barkdoll has served as Trustee of Brady Township several terms, and he is a charter member of Springfield Grange, No. 399.

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GARRETT H. BAUM was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, July 18, 1816, the eldest of the seven children of George and Elizabeth (Packard) Baum, natives of Pennsylvania and Virginia. George Baum, when a small boy, was brought to Ohio by his parents. Mahoning County. His wife's parents were the first white settlers of Berlin Township, that county, and she was the first white girl married therein. Mr. George Baum died in Mahoning County, in 1854, aged sixty-two, and his wife in Portage County, in April, 1877, in her seventy-eighth year. She had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for more than sixty years. Garrett H. Baum went to school and worked on his father's farm till twenty-one years of age, and then, his only earthly possession being an ax, went to work in a saw-mill at $10 or

$12 per month. month. At the end of three years, his father gave him thirty acres of land in Mahoning. This he worked for nine years, sold out, bought fifty acres in the same county, sold out again in 1853, removed to Fulton County and bought 100 acres, which he subsequently increased to 150 acres, and in 1877 rented the farm to his eldest son and removed to West Unity, where he owns a handsome property and where he now resides in retirement. Mr. Baum was married, October 10, 1839, to Esther Kime, who was born in Dauphin County, Penn., February 20, 1817, and was the daughter of Samuel and Esther (Beaver) Kime. Mr. Baum thus became the father of five children, of whom three are yet living-Sylvester, Angeline and Curtis H. In politics, Mr. B. is a Democrat, and has held the office of Township Trustee in both Mahoning and Fulton Counties.

GEORGE BEATY is the son of James and Mary (Kahl) Beaty, of Irish and German extraction, and was born in Berks County, Penn., December 8, 1809. He came, with his parents, to Stark County, Ohio, in 1817, and remained with them until twenty-two years of age, and then engaged in alternately running a threshing machine and in lumbering. March 15, 1838, he married Mary Jane Wiser, who was born in Cumberland County, Penn., and came to Ohio, with her parents, about 1835. His mother, Mary Beaty, died about 1825, and his father, James Beaty, was thrown from a buggy and instantly killed, in 1849, while on his way to a camp-meeting near Massillon. He was a consistent member of the Disciples' Church. George Beatty came to this township and entered eighty acres of land on Section 10, in 1834, returned to Stark County, was married there in 1838, and came back to Brady, with his family, in 1845, and settled on his land. There were five sons and four daughters born to him; three of the boys died in infancy, and one-Frank T., at the age of nineteen; the fifth-M. T. Beaty, is now superintending the home farm. This son takes much interest in live stock, and is the owner of a Mambrino colt that promises to become a trotter of some note, and which he calls Red Cloud, Jr. The daughters are all married, excepting one. Mr. Beaty is a member of the Disciples' Church, and in politics he is a Republican. His maternal grandfather, George Kahl, was a soldier of the Revolution.

MRS. SUSANNAH BOHNER, of Welsh descent on the paternal side and French on the maternal, was born in Dauphin County, Penn., February 19, 1807. January 16, 1828, she was married to Jacob Bohner, of German descent, and born in Northumberland County, Penn., August 2, 1808. In 1831, they emigrated to Richland County, Ohio, and in June, 1835, moved to this township, settled in the woods, and hewed out of the wilderness a farm. They had a family of ten children born to