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Source:
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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Assisted by a Board of Advisory Editors
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Volumes 2
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Published by
The American Historical Society
Chicago and New York
1922

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  DAVID H. CAMPBELL is postmaster of Plattsburg, and is a member of the firm Campbell and Price, general merchants and dealers in grain, coal and seeds. He has been continuously in business in that rural town of Harmony Township for over thirty years, and is one of the very substantial citizens of that section of Clark County. Mr. Campbell was born on a farm in Harmony Township, January 14, 1858. His father, Samuel D. Campbell, was also a native of Harmony Township, had a public school education there, and married Mary (Jones) Foreman, who was born in Illinois and was married there, she and her husband then locating in Harmony Township of Clark County, where Mr. Foreman died. Samuel D. Campbell after his marriage followed farming, and at the time of the Civil war enlisted at Springfield in the Union Army, and died while in the service. He and his wife were members of the Christian Church. Of their four children two are now living, David H. and Melyne B., the latter of Cedarville, Ohio. David H. Campbell was only a small boy when his father died. He spent several years in Springfield, but about 1865 his mother returned to Harmony Township, and he grew up there. He had a common school education, and as a boy began working for his own support. For a time he was in the employ of the man who owned the store now conducted by Campbell and Price. He was also in the grain business, was employed for a time by Hamilton and Brooks, and for four or five years he operated a tile factory. He then bought the store at Plattsburg owned by John Nicholson & Company, in 1890, and two years later John Price bought into the business and the firm of Campbell and Price has now been in existence for thirty years. In 1879 Mr. Campbell married Jennie Hartman, who was born at South Vienna, Ohio. She died July 29, 1920, and was long a faithful member of the Christian Church. Their two children were Jessie, who died in 1901, and Freeman. Freeman is a graduate of High School and the Ohio Wesleyan University of Delaware, and by his marriage to Jessie Grube has two sons, David A. and Robert. Mr. Campbell is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., and has filled the chairs in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He is treasurer of the Home Telephone Company of Plattsburg, and he has been postmaster under the civil service rules for a number of years. He was formerly a democrat, but is now a republican in politics.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 218 - Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz
  OLIVER C. CLARKEVeteran honors in the abstract of title business in Clark County go to Oliver C. Clarke, who has lived in Springfield all his life, and two generations of his family preceded him here.  Mr. Clarke has been active in the business life of the city for forty years.  His grandparents, Oliver and Elizabeth (Strong) Clarke, were both natives of New England, and they went south to the State of Georgia to teach school.  Their own children, however, they could not permit to remain and grow up in an influence blighted by the institution of slavery, and, therefore, in 1837 they came north to Ohio.  Oliver Clarke acquired 180 acres of land in Clark County, and practically all of that property is now within the city limits of Springfield.  He was a man of much force of character, well versed in general affairs, and was elected and served as one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas.  He died in 1855.  Oliver Clark also at one time was president of the old Springfield Bank, out of which the present First National Bank is a modern development.  Oliver Clark was reared a Presbyterian, but in Springfield became a charter member of the First Congregational Church.  He and his wife had nine children, all now deceased.
     The son, Charles E. Clarke, was born in Georgia, July 25, 1830, and was seven years of age when brought by his parents to Springfield.  He was reared and educated here, began his active career as clerk in a store, and later was in a book and publishing house at Dayton.  Early in the Civil war he joined a friend who was adjutant general of the State of Missouri, and was assigned to the commissary department, with the rank of captain. Subsequently he was promoted to major.  After the war he established himself in business at Independence, Missouri, and laid the foundation of his fortune in the lumber business.  He also lived three years at Fort Scott, Kansas, and from there returned to Springfield, where he spent the rest of his life and where he died in March, 1876.
     Charles E. Clarke married Mary Christie, and their two children were Frances, now deceased, and Oliver C. Charles E.  Clarke was an able business man. quiet and unassuming in character, and earned the respect and honor of all who knew him.
     Oliver C. Clarke, son of the late Major Clarke, was born in Springfield, July 9, 1861.  He was educated in the public schools of that city, and graduated from Wittenberg College in 1883.  Mr. Clarke has been in the abstract of title business in Springfield for twenty-seven years.  He is also one of the directors in the Merchants and Mechanics Savings and Loan Association.
     He married Jessie Allen in 1918, and they have one daughter, Emily.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 119
  OLIVER T. CLARKE.  The wearisome sameness that frequently attends the continuous following of a ingle line of effort has never been a feature of the career of Oliver T. Clarke,  of Springfield, draughtsman for the Hobart Manufacturing Company.  His has been a life in which he has followed several lines of industry and in which has been a life in which eh has followed several lines of industry and in which each step ahs been a forward one.  Mr. Clarke is a native of St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, and was born Oct. 25, 1885, a son of Hiram F. and Nelly (Thompson) Clarke, natives of Springfield.
     The paternal grandparents of Mr. Clarke, Oliver and Elizabeth (Strong) Clarke, were born in Southampton, Massachusetts, and shortly after their marriage moved to Decatur, Georgia.  They resided there for some years, and Mr. Clarke conducted a store in partnership with a Mr. Willard.  Later they came to Springfield.  Hiram F. Clarke attended the public schools of Springfield, and as a young man went to Cincinnati, where he learned the hardware business with the firm of Henry Hammet & Son.  Returning to Springfield, he embarked in the hardware business on his own account and, later, in partnership with his brother Lewis S. Clarke, conducted a sugar plantation in St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana.  Returning to Springfield in 1887, he connected himself with the Springfield Seed Company, subsequently identifying himself with the wholesale paper business.  He then became one of the organizers of the Star Paper and Box Company, on Wet Pleasant Street, and sometime later this was changed to the Clarke Paper Box Company, of which he was the head until his retirement.  He died June 21, 1914, greatly respected and esteemed by all who knew him.  Mrs. Clarke, who survives him, resides at 525 North Wittenberg Street, Springfield.  She is a daughter of James I. and Lavinia G. (Snyder) Thomson natives of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.  The former for some years was bookkeeper for the firm of Counts & Comeback, early dry goods merchants of Springfield.  Mr. and Mrs. Clarke had two children:  Oliver T. and James, who died in infancy.
     Oliver T. Clarke attended the graded and high schools of Springfield, withdrawing from the latter in 1902, and at that time started to learn the vocation of machinist at the plant of the Owen Machine Tool Company, where he spent three years.  After mastering his trade he worked thereat a various places, including the George Rogers Tool Works and the Foos Gas Engine Company, but left the latter in August, 1908, and became identified with the firm of Staley & Bowman, patent attorneys, as a draughtsman, an occupation in which he had become proficient by attendance at the Young Men's Christian Association night classes and by a course with the International Correspondence School.  Leaving the latter in the fall of 1911, he became identified with the American Seeding Machine Company as draughtsman, continuing until April of the following year.  On Apr. 13, 1912, he started to work as a tool designer for the Robbins & Myers Company and remained with that firm until Sept. 17, 1921.  On November 14 of the same year he became connected with the Hobart Manufacturing Company of Troy, Ohio, who manufacture coffee grinders, meat grinders, food mixers, etc.  He still maintains his connection with this concern and is now engaged in doing the company’s experimental drafting.  Mr. Clarke is a member of Christ Episcopal Church at Springfield, and is fraternally affiliated with St. Andrews Lodge No. 619, F. and A. M., and Springfield Chapter No. 48, R. A. M.
     On June 28, 1916, Mr. Clarke married Miss Blanche Gardner, who was born Nov. 22, 1882, at Springfield, Ohio, daughter of Frank and Kathryn (Garrett) Gardner, the former born at Fredericktown, Maryland, and the latter in Springfield.  Mrs. Clarke, who graduated in 1905 from Wittenberg College, traveled in Europe and the United States, followed the educator's profession for several years, and taught at the high schools of Celina and Springfield prior to her marriage.  She and her husband are the parents of three children: Oliver T., Jr., born June 22, 1919; Nelly Kathryn, born November 18, 1920; and Frances, born May 13, 1922.  Mrs. Clarke is a member of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church and of the Springfield Woman’s Club.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 399
  WILLIS B. CLARKE.  The late Willis B. Clarke was one of the highly respected men of Springfield, where he resided from 1872 until his death.  He was born in Rappahannock County, Virginia, May 3, 1851, a son of Robert and Mary (Bradley) Clarke, who came to Licking County, Ohio, when Willis B. Clarke was a lad, and there he continued worked in the wood shop of the Saint John Company, but when the mill burned he became custodian of the Springfield public schools, and continued to be employed in this capacity until his death, which occurred May 14, 1917.  In politics he was a republican.  A man of high principles, he lived up to his conception of his duty as a good citizen and christian, and always held the confidence of all who knew him.
     On May 1, 1882, Mr. Clarke married Ada M. Wright, born at Catawba, Clark County, Ohio, in February, 1862, a daughter of Lewis and Maria (Davisson) Wright, he was born in Ohio and she at South Champaign, Ohio.  The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Clarke, Isaac and Sarah (Curl) Davisson, natives of Virginia, traveled overland on horseback with teams at an early day from Virginia to South Charleston, Ohio, where they permanently settled.  Mr. and Mrs. Clarke became the parents of the following children: Carrie M., who is a decorator and artistic painter; Nell M., who married Robert Shaw, has two children, Robert Clarke and Elizabeth Jean, and they live at 504 East Madison Avenue, Springfield.  Miss Clarke is a valued member of the Fortnightly Club.
     Mrs. Clarke owns a fine modern residence at 114 Woodlawn Avenue, Springfield.  When the Springfield Day Nursery was founded in October, 1920, she was appointed its matron, and since then has most acceptably held this position, and it is largely because of her efficiency and kindly care of the little ones under her supervision that this enterprise has been so decided a success.  She is a consistent member of, and worker in, the Saint Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 102
  HOMER C. CORRY, one of the younger members of the Clark County bar, and junior member of the well known legal firm of Martni & Corry, with offices atr 203 Bushnell Building, Springfield, is a native of Clark County, and a son of Robert F. and Ethel (Stewart) Corry.
     Robert F. Corry
was born in Greene County, Ohio, in 1867, and died in 1917.  He was a son of James Corry, also a native of Greene County, whose parents were pioneers of that locality, they have come from Pennsylvania to the Buckeye State during early days.  Ethel Corry was born in Greene Township, Clark County, in 1859, and is now residing at Springfield.  She is a daughter of Thomas E. Stewart, who was born in the same township, a son of John Templeton Stewart, who came from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1805, and settled in Greene Township, where he became a prosperous farmer and large land owner.
     Homer C. Corry was born on the farm in Green Township. July 9, 1887, and attended the graded and high schools of Springfield.  He graduated from the Clifton High School of Green Township in 1904, and then entered Antioch College from which he received his Bachelor of Arts degree as a member of the class of 1910. During 1910 he taught in the Enon High School, Clark County, during 1911 and 1912 was a teacher in the Yellow Springs High School, and during 1913 and 1914 was an instructor in the Ironton (Ohio) High School. During this period Mr. Corry studied in the law department of Chicago University, and was graduated from the law department of the Ohio State University in 1915, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws.  Admitted to the bar in 1915, he entered practice at Springfield in the offices of Chase Stewart.  From 1916 to 1918 he taught law in the Law School of the Ohio State University, and in the latter year enlisted for service in the United States Army as a private and during the World war was stationed at Camp Sherman.  He was promoted to sergeant and later received his commission as first lieutenant and was assigned to duty in the judge advocate general’s department, serving at Camp Logan, Texas, and at Washington, D. C.   He was mustered out and honorably discharged July 5, 1919.
     Returning to the practice of law at Springfield, Mr. Corry became associated with Paul C. Martin and in September, 1921, became a member of the firm of Martin & Corry.  He is a member of the Clark County, the Ohio State and the American Bar Associations, and holds membership in the Phi Delta Phi and the Order of the Coif, and Harry S. Kissell Lodge No. 674, Free and Accepted Masons.  He is president of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce and a trustee of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
     On Jan. 1, 1920, Mr. Corry was united in marriage with Miss Helene Jobe, daughter of Charles L. and Margaret Jobe, of Xenia, Ohio.  Mrs. Corry died at Springfield, Dec. 4, 1920.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 598
  LEE B. CORRY is the executive head of the firm of L. B. Corry & Company, which conducts one of the largest and most successful general insurance agencies in the City of Springfield, with finely equipped offices in the M. & M. Building.
     Mr. Corry was born in Greene County, Ohio, on the 11th of March, 1855, and is a son of William R. and Eliza (Brown) Corry, of whose family of ten children two died in infancy, the other eight attaining to maturity and all of the number still living except the eldest.  William R. Corry was born in Pennsylvania and was a representative of the family in whose honor the City of Corry, that state, was named.  In 1831 his parents removed to Greene County, Ohio, and there he assisted in reclaiming the pioneer homestead from the forest wilds.  He was in the 100-days’ service in the Civil war and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church.
     Lee B. Corry, fourth in order of birth in the family of ten children, was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and acquired his preliminary education in the district schools of his native county.  Later he continued his studies in turn in Antioch College and the Lebanon Normal School.  He continued his alliance with farm enterprise in Greene County until his marriage, in 1879, and thereafter was associated with his father-in-law, Elder R. Stewart, in the operation of the latter’s flouring mills at Clifton, Greene County, until the autumn of 1884, when he came to Springfield and took the clerical position in the employ of the Springfield Manufacturing Company.  When the company later went into the hands of a receiver Mr. Corry was made superintendent of the plant, the operation of which was continued.  In the spring of 1892 he purchased the old established Ohio Farmers Insurance Agency, from which he has developed his present substantial and prosperous general insurance business, he having purchased at intervals other insurance agencies and consolidated their business with his own, which now is one of extensive scope and representative clientage.  His elder son, Clifford C., being now the junior member of the firm.
     Mr. Corry is a progressive business man and a progressive and liberal citizen.  His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.  He is a valued member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce.  In the Masonic fraternity he has been for twenty years a trustee of Clark Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, his maximum York Rite affiliation being with the Commandery of Knights Templars in his home city, besides which he is a member of the Mystic Shrine and has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite.
     Sept. 24, 1879, recorded the marriage of Mr. Corry and Miss Nannie J. Stewart, youngest daughter of the late Elder R. Stewart, of Clifton, Greene County, and of the three children of this union the firstborn, Bessie, died in early childhood; Clifford C., as previously noted, is a partner of his father in the insurance business; and William R., who likewise is associated with the business, was a second lieutenant with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in the World war.  He received his preliminary training at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana and at Chillicothe, Ohio, and was in active service in France for about one year.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 241
  HENRY S. CRADLEBAUGH, proprietor of Silver Lake Park, two miles northwest of New Carlisle, has done and is continuing to do a most commendable work in the development and upbuilding of this place as one of the most attractive recreation and amusement resorts of this section of the state, and he is one of the popular and representative citizens of New Carlisle.
     Mr. Cradlebaugh was born in Seneca County, Ohio, but came to Clark County in 1881 and passed ten years on a farm near New Carlisle. He then removed to this village, where he operated a machine shop and where he eventually added a garage and general automobile repair shop. He has much of native mechanical ability, early gave special study to gasoline engines, and in 1890 he purchased one of the first gasoline engines manufactured at Springfield. In 1902-3 he held the position of designer for the Foos Gas Engine Company at Springfield, and in this connection he devised many improvements on various types of gas engines. For the past twenty-eight years Mr. Cradlebaugh has successfully conducted a well-equipped general machine shop and also an automobile garage at New Carlisle, his original work in connection with automobiles having been initiated in 1899, so that he is a veteran in this industry. He has been granted a number of patents on improvements to gas engines and also on farm implements and machinery. Among his patents is one on a device to indicate low water supply in connection with gas engines; another, now expired, to indicate speed; and a friction clutch pulley which was placed in use by the Foos Company while he was associated with that concern. Impaired health caused Mr. Cradlebaugh to retire from his position with this corporation, in the development of the business of which he contributed in large measure through his admirable inventions.
     For the past three years Mr. Cradlebaugh has been actively identified with the improving and developing of beautiful Silver Lake Park, which comprises seventeen acres, the lake being of pure spring water and with shell marle beaches that make it specially attractive for bathing and swimming. The lake is fed entirely by fine springs, its maximum depth is twenty-seven feet, and wooded hills surrounded it and add to its picturesque attractions. The resort is now equipped with modern bath houses, and at the park the summer season of 1922 shows frequently as many as 700 persons bathing and swimming at the beaches. Adequate provisions are made for the serving of meals and refreshments, and a large auditorium has been erected for assembly purposes, with the result that the resort is used by the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. of Springfield and by other organizations devoted to religious and cultural service. On his lake tract Mr. Cradlebaugh has 850 peach trees that are just coming into bearing. Mr. Cradlebaugh has had no desire for political activity or public office, but for twelve years he gave effective service in caring for the apparatus of the New Carlisle Fire Department. He and his wife are active members of the United Brethren Church in New Carlisle, and their circle of friends in the county is limited only by that of their acquaintances.
     Mr. Cradlebaugh married Miss Laura B. Wolf, daughter of the late Jacob Wolf, who was a substantial farmer near New Carlisle. Mr. and Mrs. Cradlebaugh have two daughters: Nellie is the wife of Rev. Galen B. Roger, a clergyman of the United Brethren Church, and Ruth is the wife of Dr. Marion C. Moses, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this work.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio; Vol. 2; Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 382 - Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz

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