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A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio

An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention
to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial,
Educational, Civic and Social Development
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Prepared Under the Editorial Supervision of
Dr. Benjamin F. Prince
President Clark County Historical Society
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Volumes 2
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Chicago and New York
1922

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  CHARLES ELIHU BALLARDThe profession of law at Springfield is ably represented by Charles Elihu Ballard, who has had a successful and busy professional career, in which he has attained a high place in his calling. During the twenty-three years that he has practiced at Springfield he has not only established a high personal reputation for ability and character, but has also served acceptably in positions of trust and responsibility.
     Mr. Ballard was born in August, 1865, on a farm in Clinton County, Ohio, and is a son of Abram and Mary J. (Oren) Ballard. David Ballard, the great-great-grandfather of Charles E. Ballard, was born in Virginia, and in 1800 came to the present site of Wilmington, Ohio. A Quaker in religious faith, he served as preacher at Quaker meeting, and was probably the first of that denomination in that part of the country. His son, John Ballard, the great-grand father of Charles E. Ballard, accompanied his father to Wilmington, in which locality he entered Government land and engaged in agricultural pursuits during the remainder of his life. Joseph Ballard, the grandfather of Charles, was born at Wilmington, in 1812, and married Susanna Stillings, who had been brought from Virginia to Clinton County by her parents about 1825, the family traveling overland in true pioneer fashion.
     Abram Ballard was born in Clinton County, Ohio, where he was given a country school education, and on attaining his majority followed in the footsteps of his forefathers and adopted the vocation of farming, which he followed throughout his life. He was a man of industry and probity, and in his death, which occurred in 1913, his community lost a reliable and public-spirited citizen. Mr. Ballard married Miss Mary J. Oren, who died in 1892, a daughter of Elihu and Jane (Newcomb) Oren, the former born in Tennessee, whence he came with his father, John Oren, to Clinton County, Ohio, in 1810. Elihu Oren was a farmer and schoolteacher, and during the Civil war and prior thereto was an ardent Union man and abolitionist. His home served as a station on the Underground Railway, and he assisted many slaves to the securing of their freedom by helping to send them to a safe refuge in Canada. He married in Clark County in 1830, and immediately thereafter moved to Clinton County, where he spent the rest of his life. He and the members of his family belonged to the Society of Friends. The children born to Abram and Mary J. (Oren) Ballard were: Clara, who died at Adrian, Michigan, in September, 1921, as the wife of Hiram Arnold; Charles Elihu, of this review; and Joseph F., who is the owner of a model farm in Clinton County.
     Charles Elihu Ballard attended the public schools of his home locality, following which he pursued a course at Wilmington College. He then took up his professional studies at the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated in 1894 with the degree of Bachelor of Law, and immediately thereafter commenced his professional labors at South Charleston. After five years he decided that Springfield offered a wider field for the demonstration of his abilities, and he accordingly opened an office at this city, which has since been the scene of his success. He has always practiced independently and has carried on a general law business. For four years, 1913, 1914, 1915 and 1916. he served ably as prosecuting attorney, establishing an excellent record for industry and close attention to the duties of his office. In 1890 he served as census enumerator. Mr. Ballard is a republican in politics. As a fraternalist he holds membership in Springfield Lodge No. 146, I. O. O. F., and Springfield Lodge No. 51, B. P. O. E.
     In March, 1915, Mr. Ballard was united in marriage with Miss Jessie Parker, of Springfield, Ohio, daughter of William J. and Libby (Stewart) Parker, and to this union there has come one son, Charles Jesse, born March 1, 1916.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio; Vol. 2; Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 408 - Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz
  OSCAR N. BARTHOLOMEW, now deceased, was for many years one of the leading contractors and builders of Springfield, but for some time prior to his demise was living in retirement. He was born in Tompkins County, New York, September 18, 1835, and died at Springfield, Ohio, February 5, 1918. His parents, Josiah and Chairy Ann (Eaton) Bartholomew, were natives of New York.
     Growing up in his native state, Oscar N. Bartholomew was educated in an academy at Elmira, New York. For two years he served in the Union Army, as a member of the Seventy-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry, and among other important engagements, participated in that of the Wilderness. In 1872 he came to Springfield and went into a contracting business, and became an acknowledged authority on the design and construction of heavy buildings, a number of which were erected by him at Springfield, among which was the church building of the First Congregationalists, which was later destroyed by fire. He was noted for his fidelity to the spirit as well as the letter of his contracts, and no one ever stood any higher in public esteem than he.
     On June 24, 1859, Mr. Bartholomew married Harriet M. Malory, born near the Mohawk River in New York State, a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Turner) Malory. Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew had the pleasure of celebrating their Golden Wedding in 1909. Two children were born to them, namely: Ella R. and Charles J. but the latter died November 22, 1917.
     After coming to Springfield Mr. Bartholomew affiliated with the First Congregational Church and later with the First Lutheran Church of this city, to which his widow also belonged, and she continued one of its active supporters until her death January 18, 1922. He was a zealous Mason, and very active in the work of Mitchell Post, Grand Army of the Republic. On each Memorial Day he rode at the head of the procession of the veterans, wearing his uniform, and mounted on a white charger, and his imposing figure is sadly missed on these days since his demise. He was an upright man of unflinching honesty, and never asked more of anyone than he was willing to give, but expected others to live up to the principles he believed so necessary for the maintenance of good government and proper business relations. His long life of useful endeavor and helpful effort along practical lines teaches a lesson, and his example may well be emulated by the rising generation.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio; Vol. 2; Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 402 - Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz
  HENRY E. BATEMAN, Shrewd business ability, special adaptiveness to his vocation, appreciation of its many advantages and belief in his own power to succeed have placed Henry E. Bateman among the leading promoters of agriculture in Clark County. From the prairies his unaided hands brought forth ample means, permitting his retirement to South Charleston and his consigning to younger hands the tasks that made up the sum of his existence for many years. He has a modern home and is regarded as one of the financially strong and morally high retired farmers.
     Mr. Bateman was born on a farm in Greene County, Ohio, August 21, 1837, and is a son of Daniel H. and Elizabeth (Sirlotte) Bateman, and a grandson of William and Margaret (Duckel) Bateman. Daniel H. Bateman was born near Baltimore, Maryland, on a farm, in 1783, and at the age of twenty-one years left his native state and moved to Ohio. He had an excellent education, having received instruction under his father, who conducted a private school near Baltimore, known as the Oxford of America. On coming to Ohio Mr. Bateman located at Chillicothe, having letters of introduction to the Rennicks, large cattle raisers of their day and locality, with whom he remained for four or five years, thus getting his start in life. Later he came to Greene County, Ohio, and was employed in the stock business with William Harpole until 1851. In that year he came to South Charleston, Clark County, where his death occurred February 2, 1863. In Greene County, in 1824, Mr. Bateman married Elizabeth Sirlotte, who was born in Bracken County, Kentucky, in 1799, and had a good education for her day and state. She died November 25, 1854, in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she was a very devout member. They were the parents of five children: William, who met his death on the Pacific Ocean when the ship on which he was traveling was wrecked and burned on the coast near the Magdalena Islands; Abner L., who died at Columbus, Ohio, March 15, 1916; Henry E., of this review; Ruth, deceased, who was the wife of Edward Garrett, who met his death at the same time that William Bateman died; and Margaret, who died in July, 1899, as the wife of Amos Briggs.
     Henry E. Bateman went to the public schools and remained on the home place until his father’s death, remembers distinctly the Underground Railway, a station of which was conducted at his father’s home. Fugitive slaves, fleeing from their former masters in the South, were sheltered and passed on to the next station, finally arriving in Canada, where they were safe from pursuit and a return to bondage. When he entered upon his independent career Mr. Bateman adopted farming and dealing in stock as his life work, and this he followed during the active years of his life. Ever since his retirement he has lived in South Charleston, and is still interested in farms, although merely as a matter of investment.
     On February 19, 1866, Mr. Bateman was united in marriage with Miss Annamelia Paullin, who was born in Clark County, Ohio, May 22, 1844, a daughter of Newcomb T. and Mary A. (Harpole) Paullin. She died in the faith of the Presbyterian Church, of which she had been a lifelong member, January 22, 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Batemen were the parents of two children: Howard D., a graduate of Phillips Academy, of Andover, Massachusetts, is now a capitalist of New York City, Mary B., a high school graduate and a graduate of the Phelps School of Columbus and the McDonald-Ellis School of Washington, D. C., married H. W. Paxton, a graduate of Wesleyan College, Delaware, Ohio, a prominent democrat and ex-member of the Ohio Legislature and now an attorney of Clark County. They have two children, Annamelia B. and Howard Bateman Paxton.
     Mr. Bateman is a republican, while his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian Church. He is known throughout his locality as a dependable and upright man, one who regards his word as he would his bond, and who has ever maintained the highest method of farming and the noblest ideals of home and community life.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio; Vol. 2; Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 218 - Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz
  CLIFFORD HOLLIDAY BAUMGARDNER, M. D., a physician and surgeon with offices in the Fairbanks Building at Springfield, saw active service with the Hospital Corps during the Spanish-American war, subsequently graduated in medicine, and has had a successful professional career for twenty years.
     Doctor Baumgardner is a native of Clark County, born at Catawba, November 7, 1876, son of David S. and Susan L. (Ward) Baumgardner. His father was born in Ohio, son of Peter Lynch and Mary (Skillman) Baumgardner, who were also natives of Clark County. His great-grandfather Baumgardner was one of the first settlers in Pleasant Township, locating there when the Indians still made their home in this section of Ohio. David S. Baumgardner had a brother, Isaac, who died at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, while a Union soldier and was buried in Clark County. He had a sister, Lou B., now Mrs. Samuel Neer, living at Mechanicsburg, Ohio.
     David S. Baumgardner enlisted in the Forty-fourth Ohio Infantry and subsequently veteranized with the Eighth Ohio Cavalry and was in service until the close of the war. After the war he engaged in the undertaking business at Catawba, being associated with his father in that work. As undertakers after the pioneer custom of the time the firm made caskets to order. They were also contractors and built a number of schoolhouses and other buildings in that vicinity. He finally removed to Springfield and was in the maintenance of way department of the Big Four Railroad. He died in 1910. His wife, Susan L. Ward, was born in Virginia, daughter of Paragon Ward, a native of Maryland. Her mother was a native of Virginia and a cousin of Gen. Robert E. Lee. She came to Catawba with two sisters shortly after the close of the Civil war, and died in this county in 1887. The two sons of David S. Baumgardner and wife are Doctor Ward L., a dentist at Columbus, and Clifford Holliday.
     Clifford Holliday Baumgardner attended grammar and high schools at Catawba and Springfield, was a student in the Maple Park University of Cincinnati, and graduated in 1903 in the Ohio Medical University of Columbus. His service with the Hospital Corps during the Spanish American war started soon after the outbreak of hostilities and continued until November, 1898. After graduating he had a year’s experience in hospital work at Columbus, and engaged in private practice there for two years. For seven years his home was at Selma, Ohio, and since then he has been identified with the medical profession at Springfield, and since 1915 has had his offices in the Fairbanks Building.
     On February 22, 1899, Mr. Baumgardner married Miss Marie L. Wilson, who was born at Fredonia, New York, June 2, 1880, daughter of Charles Walter and Affa L. (Lowell) Wilson, both natives of Chautauqua County, New York. Her maternal grandparents were James and Jane (Schlick) Lowell. James Lowell started one of the first vineyards in Chautauqua County. Sherman Lowell, a brother of Affa L. Lowell, is now national grand master of the Farmers Grange. Doctor and Mrs. Baumgardner have one child, Lowell Ward, born June 30, 1902. Mrs. Baumgardner was educated in the State Normal School of New York. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Doctor Baumgardner is a republican, is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Springfield and the Junior Order United American Mechanics.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio; Vol. 2; Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 218 - Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz
  VIRGIL AUSTIN BELL.  One of the younger members of the Clark County bar is Virgil Austin Bell, who since 1920 has been identified with the well-known Springfield law firm of Zimmerman, Zimmerman & Zimmerman, and who has made a favorable impression on his associates during his comparatively short professional career.
     Mr. Bell was born July 4, 1888, at Springfield, and is a son of Darius W. and Sarah (Fansler) Bell. His grandparents on the maternal side were Noah and Melvina (Neese) Fansler, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Champaign County, Ohio.
     Virgil Austin Bell attended the public schools of Springfield and of Clark County, and the high school at Marion, Ohio. His professional studies were prosecuted at Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1920, in June of which year he was admitted to the Ohio bar. Soon thereafter Mr. Bell identified himself with the law firm of Zimmerman, Zimmerman & Zimmerman, and this connection has continued to the present.
     Mr. Bell is unmarried and resides at the home of his parents, 715 West High Street. He is independent in politics, not having formally allied himself with any political party. Fraternally he is affiliated with Marion Camp, Modern Woodmen of America.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio; Vol. 2; Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 375 - Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz
  SPALDING WESLEY BISHOP, a retired citizen of Springfield, living at 622 Linden Avenue, was in service nearly a third of a century in the city police department, and is honored and respected as one of the oldest minions of law and order in the city.
     Mr. Bishop was born in Springfield Township, in November, 1849, and represents one of the earliest families established in Clark County. He is a son of John and Elizabeth (Elwell) Bishop, and he and his father were born in the same house. Elizabeth Elwell was born in Greene County, Ohio, daughter of Israel Elwell, a native of that county. John Bishop was a son of Edward and Tabitha (Winchester) Bishop, the latter a native of Clark County. Edward Bishop was born in New Jersey, son of Moses Bishop, who died in that state. The widow of Moses Bishop married a Mr. Tremble. This Mr. Tremble was a western pioneer, coming by raft on the Ohio River in 1808, along with Benham and Hunter. They were three months on the way, largely due to the fact that they stopped off at different points to survey the country for a prospective location. In that year Tremble entered a tract of land in Clark County. In 1813, after accompanying Captain Benham with troops to Fort Recovery during the War of 1812, he returned and took possession of this land. In 1814 it became the property of Edward Bishop, and remained in the Bishop family until 1912, for practically a century. John Bishop and Elizabeth Elwell were married in 1848, and then settled on the old homestead, remaining there until 1875, when they moved to Hardin County, Ohio, where John Bishop died. His widow passed away in Springfield in 1914. Of their children Spalding Wesley is the oldest; James is deceased; Melissa lives at Yellow Springs, widow of George Pearson; Anna is the widow of Elwood Cusic, and lives in Chicago; Edward is at Seattle, Washington; Katie is the widow of Jefferson Mahoney, of Chicago.
     Spalding Wesley Bishop remained at the old home, acquiring a district school education, and in September, 1873, married Mary Burns. She was born at Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Tifney) Burns, natives of the same state. After his marriage Mr. Bishop rented a farm in Springfield Township two years and then moved to Harmony, Ohio, and farmed and operated a ditching machine for seven years. On leaving the county he came to Springfield, and for three years was employed in a wholesale fruit house. At the conclusion of that employment he went on the police force, under Mayor O. S. Kelly, and his thirty-two years’ service with the police department ended in 1919, in which year he was retired. Mr. Bishop was reared a Methodist, is a democrat in politics, and is affiliated with Lodge No. 146, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
     He and his wife had six children: John, Harry and Florence, all of whom died in early childhood; Hanford, of Detroit, Michigan, who married Gertrude Smith and has two children; Vivian and Constance; Fannie, who died when twenty-three years of age; and Clarence, who lives with his father and married Beula Dennis.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio; Vol. 2; Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 406 - Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz
  WILLIAM HENRY BITNER In business activities that in the highest degree constitute a public service, and in a personal career that represents a singular combination of adversity and persistent will to overcome misfortune, the life story of William Henry Bitner is one of the most interesting that can be told of any citizen of Clark County. Mr. Bitner is general manager of the Springfield Dairy Products Company. He helped organize this corporation, and its growth and success has been due to his efforts more than to those of any other individual.
     Mr. Bitner was born August 18, 1855, in Adams County, Pennsylvania, representing the third generation of the Bitner family in this country. His grandfather, Henry Bitner, came from Germany and settled in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The old Bitner family Bible brought from Germany was printed 150 years ago and is still carefully preserved in the home of William H. Bitner. The father of the Springfield business man was Henry Bitner, who was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and for a number of years operated a grist mill, later a hotel at Mummasburg, Pennsylvania, and from that town he moved to Biglerville, Adams County, where he was in the butcher business until 1862. In that year he enlisted in the Union Army and served about twelve months, until severely wounded. After his army service he was in the nursery business at Biglerville, then rented his land and became a merchant. He lived in Adams County until his death. Henry Bitner married Nancy Glass, a native of Franklin County. The old Glass homestead owned by her grandparents is still in the family. She also died in Adams County. The children of Henry Bitner and Nancy Glass were Jennie, Elizabeth, William H., George, Enna and Alice.
     William H. Bitner was about eight years old when the great battle of Gettysburg was fought. He shared in the excitement and turmoil incident to the invasion of Southern Pennsylvania by Lee’s army. The family at that time lived in a small town named Heidelberg. This was ten miles from Gettysburg, scene of the three days’ battle in July, 1863. However, some of the events of that campaign came under the eyes of the boy and made impressions that can never be effaced from his memory. He relates that on the day before the battle the Confederate troops came to the quiet little town of Heidelberg and camped there, tearing down the residents’ fences to feed their fires, and a large detachment settled on a vacant lot immediately next to the Bitner home. At first they demanded all the food in the house, and then gave the family three minutes to vacate the premises. His father had fortunately driven his horses to Lancaster, and thus saved them. He was preparing to leave the home to the invaders when the order to vacate was suddenly countermanded and they were not further disturbed. The great battle of Gettysburg came to an end on Friday, although smoke of gun powder still hung over the field on Sunday, when William H. Bitner, accompanied by two others, went to view the scene. It was a terrible sight, horses and men lying so close together that the horrified visitors could scarcely put foot on the ground. The great Lutheran College had been thrown open as a hospital, and every poor mangled body in which there still remained a spark of life had been gathered up and crowded in this building in the hope of easing their sufferings. This was no sight proper for a child of eight years, and probably William Bitner was one of the few ever an eye-witness of such an appalling scene on American soil. He walked ten miles to the scene of the battle and then tramped over the grounds, returning to his home after covering a distance of twenty-five miles, and all that time had not a morsel to eat.
     Mr. Bitner since he was nine years of age has been self-supporting, starting out at that time to work on farms in the neighborhood at monthly wages. It is literally true that from that age he has been a producer and doer of things. At the age of fourteen his arm was badly torn by a circular saw, and until he was seventeen he worked on a farm and then for two years was employed in an iron ore mine at Pinegrove, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Not long afterward a cave-in occurred in the mine, and he was taken out for dead. After this experience he resumed farm work, and in August, 1875, a young man of twenty years, he came to Clark County, Ohio. During the next several years he continued as a farm laborer, and then came the third accident, when he was run over by a heavily laden wagon. Still later, while operating his threshing machine and saw mill, he fell from a log and broke his leg. These injuries interfered with but did not balk his steadfast ambition to succeed, and he went back with renewed energies after each misfortune.
     Mr. Bitner began farming on his own account in 1883, when he rented the Creighton farm south of Springfield. It was on that farm that he made his start in the dairy business in 1884. In April, 1885, he moved to the Snyder farm north of Springfield, and he lived there for fourteen years. In October, 1898, he bought the farm of Cornelius Miller, his father-in-law, and that has been his home for the past twenty-two years, though in the meantime by purchase the area of the farm has been increased to two hundred and twenty acres. The improvements on this farm constitute one of the notable country places of Clark County. Besides all the building equipments devoted to the use of stock and the dairying industry there are six dwelling houses.
     Mr. Bitner has been actively identified with the dairy industry in Clark County for nearly forty years. He was one of the promoters of and bought and paid for the first stock, in 1902, in the Springfield Pure Milk Company. From its organization and incorporation in 1903 he was general manager and a director. In 1919 this company was consolidated with the Home Dairy and Ice Cream Company, and the business was then incorporated as the Springfield Dairy Products Company, with Mr. Bitner retained as general manager. He was one of the first practical dairymen in the county to become an enthusiastic advocate of the highest standards of purity, and he has done much to extend the use of this wholesome food product. He was the pioneer in pasturizing the milk supply of Clark County. The corporation of which he is the active head now owns and operates seven plants in Clark County, and it is a business as closely identified with the vital welfare of the people as any other industry.
     Mr. Bitner is also a director in the Lagonda National Bank, the Morris Plan Bank and the Springfield Coal and Ice Company. He is a member of the Rockway Lutheran Church, and for the past twenty-five years has been superintendent of its Sunday school. In many other ways he has co-operated with and has contributed to the success of movements for the promotion of general welfare.
     December 28, 1880, Mr. Bitner married Elmira A. Miller, daughter of Cornelius and Henrietta (Kieffer) Miller, old residents of Clark County. Mr. and Mrs. Bitner have two daughters, Etta B. and Grace M., both graduates of Wittenberg College. Etta is the wife of Dr. J. F. Browne, a well-known Springfield dentist, and they have a daughter and son, Jean and William Bitner. Grace is the wife of Harry Clink, of Clark County, and they also have two children, Robert and Myra.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio; Vol. 2; Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 410 - Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz
  RAYMOND G. BOEHME, M.D. In the present era of expanding horizons in the science of medicine and surgery, of wonderful discoveries and unthought-of surgical achievements, the profession seems to have almost reached a point when its accomplishments are little short of being miracles. The modern physician and surgeon, taking advantage of every opportunity for advancement and knowledge, must often realize with professional elation his great power over disease and disability and he encouraged in his struggle to conquer the strongholds that have not yet been overcome. Possessing the steady nerve, the patience that never tires, the trained understanding gained through his long period of special study, he must yet possess, in order to be a successful surgeon, a courage that never quails, together with a superb technical manual skill. Of the physicians and surgeons of Springfield who are thus equipped, and who through this equipment are gaining advancement in their calling, one who is making steady progress is Dr. Raymond G. Boehme.
     Doctor Boehme was born at Newport, Kentucky, September 30, 1888, and is a son of Herman and Mary (Wittman) Boehme, natives of Newport, Kentucky, who are now residents of Clermont County, Ohio, where Dr. Herman Boehme is engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery. Raymond G. Boehme attended the graded and high schools in his youth, following which he expressed a predilection for the medical profession and accordingly entered the Ohio Miami College at Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1911. At that time he returned to Newport, Kentucky, where he was engaged in practice for two and one-half years, after which he went to Somerville, Ohio, which was his field of practice and place of residence for one and one-half years. Doctor Boehme then moved to Enon, Clark County, where he followed his profession for two and one-half years, and in 1918 came to Springfield, which has since been his home. Here he has been successful in building up a large and lucrative practice of the most desirable kind, and in forming a number of pleasant connections of a social nature as well as of a professional character. He is recognized as being thoroughly conversant with his profession, to which he devotes himself unreservedly. He is a member of the Clark County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society and is a close and careful student. On September 30, 1921, he moved into a handsome modern brick residence located at No. 709 West Main Street. Doctor Boehme has served as assistant health officer of Springfield one year. In politics he is a republican, and his religious connection is with Central Methodist Episcopal Church, while fraternally he is affiliated with Kissell Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Springfield, and the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees, in all of which he has formed numerous friendships.
     On November 10, 1914, Mr. Boehme was united in marriage with Miss Edna Droste, who was born at Newport, Kentucky, a daughter of Gustav and Elizabeth (Smith) Droste, the former born at Cincinnati, Ohio, and the latter at Newport. Three children have come to this union: Donald Wilfred, born October 10, 1915; Gordon Ray, born March 2, 1917; and Robert Clement, born October 13, 1918.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio; Vol. 2; Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 357 - Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz
  WARREN K. BUFFENBARGER is a well known business man of South Charleston, where he is proprietor of the leading garage.  He also has and manages some valuable farming interests in this section of Clark County.
     Mr. Buffenbarger was born on a farm in Green Township, Aug. 6, 1883, son of Samuel and Florence (Baldwin) Buffenbarger.  The Buffenbargers were one of the first families of Clark County.  His grandfather George Buffenbarger, was a native of Virgina and was one of the first settlers in Madison Township, where he located in 1806.  Samuel Buffenbarger was born in Madison Township, July 28, 1851.  His wife, Florence Baldwin, was born in Greene Township, Sept. 13, 1854, daughter of John and Jane McQuality BaldwinSamuel Buffenbarger and wife were reared and educated in Madison Township, and after their marriage settled on a farm in Green Township.  She died on the old homestead, and he passed away at South Charleston in 1821.  They were members of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics the father voted as a republican.
     Warren K. Buffenbarger was the only one of five children to survive infancy.  He spent his life on the farm, acquired a district school education, and in 1908 moved to South Charleston, where for twelve years he was active in the lumber business.  Since 1920 he has devoted his time to the management of his garage and his farm.
     Nov. 25, 1903, Mr. Buffenbarger married Della McDaniel, a native of Pickaway County, Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs. Buffenbarger have two children: Elmer Willard, born Dec. 29, 1909, and Warren K., Jr., born in 1914.  Mrs. Buffenbarger is a Presbyterian.  He is affiliated with the Junior Order United American Mechanics and is a republican.

Source:  A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio - Vol. 2 - Publ.: The American Historical Society - Chicago & New York -  1922 - Page 74
  ASA SMITH BUSHNELL, fortieth governor of Ohio, reflected the distinction of his spotless private life and long leadership in business and politics upon the City of Springfield, his home for over half a century. The name Bushnell will always remain significant in Springfield, and as a result of the career of the late Governor Bushnell it has a permanent national distinction as one of the great industrial captains of the last century and one of the most trusted leaders Ohio gave to the republican party.
     Governor Bushnell was born at Rome, Oneida County, New York, September 16, 1834, and was of old New England ancestry. His grandfather, Jason Bushnell, fought as an American soldier in the Continental Army during the Revolution. He was first a member of the company of Capt. Charles Miel, in General Waterbury’s Brigade, and subsequently was with Washington’s Army at Tarrytown. The Connecticut family of Bushnells has been distinguished in the field of science and education. Daniel Bushnell, father of Governor Bushnell, was born at Lisbon, Connecticut, February 17, 1800. In 1845 he brought his family to Ohio, locating in Cincinnati. Daniel Bushnell married Miss Harriet Smith on March 9, 1825.
     Asa S. Bushnell was eleven years of age when the family moved to Cincinnati, and he completed his education in the common schools of that city. Like nearly all the prominent men that Ohio produced in the last century, he had only the advantages of common schools, and his achievements were more directly the product of his integrity and resourceful energy rather than the result of unusual training or education. Asa Bushnell came to Springfield in 1851. A youth of seventeen, his first employment here was as clerk in a dry goods store. Three years later he became bookkeeper for the firm of Leffel, Cook & Blakeney. In the spring of 1857 he accepted employment as bookkeeper and traveling salesman for Warder, Brokaw and Child. Though he remained with this firm only a few months, the employment is significant since their business was the manufacture of mowers and reapers, and it is with the great industry of manufacturing harvesting machinery that the name Bushnell is most closely identified. After leaving that firm Mr. Bushnell was for ten years associated with his father-in-law, Dr. John Ludlow, in the drug business.
     In the meantime the Civil war came on and the young business man readily put the call of patriotic duty above private interests and raised Company E of the One Hundred and Fifty-second Ohio Infantry. As captain of this company he was under the command of Gen. David Hunter in the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864. After the war he resumed his connection with the drug business, but a few years later rejoined his former employers, which firm in the meantime had become Warder, Mitchell & Company. Still later this became the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company, and as a Springfield industry it was one of the foundation stones upon which the city’s industrial progress rested. Mr. Bushnell became president of the company in 1886, and the machinery manufactured by his company and bearing his name was distributed and used in every agricultural state of the Union, and was exported to practically every agricultural country in the world.
     Among other important business interests that felt the guiding hand of Governor Bushnell were the First National Bank and the Springfield Gas Company, which he served as president, and he was a stockholder and director in a number of the city’s prominent corporations. Governor Bushnell always generously shared his great success in material affairs with his home community and its institutions. He was one of the largest benefactors of the Ohio Masonic Home at Springfield, and donated generously of his wealth to many other organizations and causes in his home city. He was a member of Mitchell Post, No. 45, G. A. R.
     Apart from the intimate association of his name with manufacturing, his reputation over the state at large is due to his long and distinguished service in the republican party and the efficient administration he gave as governor of the state. In 1885 Mr. Bushnell became chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee, and in this connection he aided materially in securing that most important party victory implied in the election of Governor Foraker by a handsome plurality and in the unprecedented result of securing a republican majority in the General Assembly without the vote of Hamilton County, thus insuring the return of John Sherman to the United States Senate.
     In 1886 he was appointed quartermaster-general of the state by Governor Foraker, and served in the capacity for a term of four years. In the State Republican Convention of 1887 Mr. Bushnell was nominated by acclamation as a candidate for lieutenant-governor on the ticket with Governor Foraker, but he declined the honor. In 1889 the leaders of Ohio republicanism insistently urged that he should head the party ticket, but he positively refused to have his name considered in the connection. Again, in 1891, he was most urgently importuned to accept the gubernatorial nomination, his party associates maintaining that he was the most logical and available man for the place, and the one who would most successfully uphold the standard of the organization; but owing to the intimate association of national politics in that campaign the nomination naturally went to Major McKinley, of whom Mr. Bushnell was a most ardent supporter. Mr. Bushnell was one of the four delegates at large from Ohio to the National Republican Convention at Minneapolis in 1892, and in every republican convention for many years he served as a delegate. He refused on several occasions to become a candidate for Congress from the Springfield District, and manifested at other times his preference for working in the cause aside from the position as a public official or candidate.
     This high honor which was accorded Mr. Bushnell in his nomination for governor of the state came entirely without his solicitation. His services to the party and his particular eligibility for the office were so thoroughly recognized that at the Republican State Convention held at Zanesville in May, 1895, the demand for his nomination for governor was so unqualified that he could not but accept the candidacy. Throughout the ensuing campaign he made a canvass that was dignified and particularly gratifying to his constituents, gaining the good will of all classes, and in his utterance showing that practical judgment and effective policy which made his administration so thoroughly acceptable to the people of the state and so creditable to him as a man and as an official. The campaign was a vigorous one, and at the November election he was elected by the flattering majority of 92,622, a victory greater than any ever achieved by any other Ohio governors save John Brough, who was a candidate at the time of the late war and who received practically the entire vote of the state. Governor Bushnell was inaugurated on the 13th of January, 1896. As chief executive he conducted affairs with that mature wisdom and according to those practical business principles which his character naturally indicates. He was one of the delegates-at-large to the National Republican Convention held at St. Louis in June, 1896.
     Governor Bushnell was a member of the Episcopal Church and was a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason. In September, 1857, he married Miss Ellen Ludlow, daughter of Dr. John Ludlow, of Springfield. The death of Governor Bushnell occurred in 1904, and three children survived him: Mrs. J. F. McGrew, Mrs. H. C. Diamond and John L. Bushnell. The son is president of the First National Bank of Springfield.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio; Vol. 2; Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 12 - Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz
  JOHN L. BUSHNELL had the disadvantage of being a son of an illustrious father, but in spite of that handicap has achieved for himself a prominence and a very useful place in the commercial life of his native city.
     The career of his distinguished father, Governor Bushnell, is the subject of the full and carefully written article preceding and what follows is only a brief outline of the life and service of the son.
     John L. Bushnell was born at Springfield, February 15, 1872. He was reared and received his early educational advantages in his home city and in 1894 graduated from Princeton University. He has given nearly thirty years of his life to the commercial affairs of Springfield. Mr. Bushnell is president of the First National Bank and president of the Morris Plan Bank. For many years he has been an ardent horseman and has owned some prize-winning animals. He married Miss Jessie M. Harwood, daughter of the late T. E. Harwood.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio; Vol. 2; Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 14 - Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz

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