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ANDREW J. BAGLEY, a leading citizen of Orange Township and one of her self-made and substantial men, engages in farming and stock-raising on his property situated here, which consists of 218 acres of very valuable land. Mr. Bagley was born April 25, 1838, in Muskingum County, Ohio, and is a son of Samuel and Sarah (Lenhart) Bagley.
     The pioneer of the Bagley family in Ohio, was the grandfather, Reuben Bagley, who started from Loudoun County, Virginia, in n two-horse wagon, with his wife, five sons and three daughters, the names of his children being: John, Benjamin, Samuel, Hiram and Christopher, and Sarah, Betsey and Polly. Reuben Bagley settled in Muskingum County. At this time the son Samuel was a boy of 16 years and he grew to manhood on the pioneer farm and was subsequently married in Muskingum County to Sarah Lenhart. She was born in 1805 and died in June, 1861. Her parents were John and Eliza (Morgan) Lenhart. Samuel Bagley was married (second) in 1862, to Lovitha Mathews, both deceased. In 1851 the parents of Andrew J. Bagley removed from Muskingum to Vinton County, Ohio, where they lived until death, the mother at the age of 56 years and the father aged 77years. For 55 years he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was conscientious in his support of all its uplifting agencies. For many years he was a subscriber to a religious journal and on the day of his death, walked a distance of a mile and a half in order to get it from the post office. He was suddenly stricken, and with apparently no suffering passed out of life, leaving behind him the record of a good man. His 11 children were born to his first union and two of these died in Infancy. James William, the oldest survivor, resides at Logan, Hocking County, Ohio. Andrew J., of Orange Township, is the second in order of birth. Spencer resides at Rock Island, Illinois. John L. resides at Logan, in Flocking County. Samuel H. and Christopher both reside in Worth County, Missouri. Eliza Amanda died in Athens County, Ohio.  Arie Jane and Martha reside at Columbus.
     Andrew J. Bagley attended the district schools of Vinton County and spent his boyhood on the home farm, after which he worked for a time through the neighborhood. When the Civil War was precipitated, Mr. Bagley's thoughts turned toward a military life, one strange enough to a country-bred youth, and his mind was soon made up. On July 14, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Thirty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a company that was recruited in the neighborhood of Nelsonville. For a few days the regiment was detained at Cincinnati and at camp at Springfield and then was sent on to St. Louis, where it embarked for Island No. 10, down the Mississippi River. The military annals of the time tell how New Madrid was captured, with 1,600 Confederates evacuating Island No. 10. The regiment went on down the mighty river to Fort Pillow, and from there to Hamburg Landing. There the Thirty-ninth Regiment formed a part of the left wing of the army that participated in the battle of Shiloh which followed, and then continued to pursue the enemy to Farmington, where the latter made a slight stand, and then fell back to Corinth. Four regiments, including the Thirty-ninth, with a battery, were then detailed to guard the M. & C. Railroad. From there nearly the entire brigade went to Memphis. Tennessee.
     At Memphis, in the winter of 1863-64, Mr. Bagley re-enlisted as a veteran, marched with his regiment from that city to Chattanooga. There General Sherman consolidated his forces for the Atlanta campaign, and Mr. Bagley was with the part of the army that pursued General Joseph Johnson, participating in that series of great battles reaching from Ringgold Station to Resaca, Dallas, Big Shanty and Kenesaw Mountain, followed by Marietta, Bethel Church and Chattahoochee River. He was also in the engagement at Decatur and in the battle of Peach Tree Creek. His regiment marched then to Jonesboro and to Lovejoy Station and after following General Hood and fighting in the battle at Franklin, returned to Atlanta. As a member, successively, of the 17th. 14th, 15th and 20th Army Corps, he saw extreme military hardship. he took part in the march to the sea and assisted in the taking of Atlanta and of the opening up of communication from there to Beaufort, South Carolina. His regiment reached that point by steamer, disembarked there and went on to Columbia. South Carolina, and from there to Goldsboro. North Carolina, and later to Raleigh, and at that city Mr. Bagley witnessed the meeting of those two great commanders, Generals Grant and Sherman. The fight at Raleigh, North Carolina, was the last one in which Mr. Bagley took part, he was promoted several times and during the last year's service he was with a four-gun battery. He was present at the Grand Review at Washington City. He is one of the 250,000 men out of the 300.000 first enlistments, who veteranized. He was finally mustered out. after four years of faithful service, at Detroit, Michigan, and reached his home in June, 1865. He is a valued member of Price Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Westerville, and prizes those occasions when he can talk over those old days of danger and hardship, but yet of great enthusiasm and patriotism, with comrades some of whom stood at his side when both faced almost certain death on many a southern battlefield.
Mr. Bagley has devoted himself to agricultural pursuits ever since the close of his army life, and he has been a resident of Delaware County for the past 30 years. His first purchase of land was of 90 acres, which he subsequently traded for his present farm, paying a difference of $6,500 in cash. This property Mr. Bagley acquired through his own persistent industry, he being entirely a self-made man. His farm is so situated that it is well adapted to both the growing of grains and the developing of fine stock. He has made many substantial improvements and his surroundings indicate thrift and good management.
     In the fall of 1865, Mr. Bagley was married (first) to Hannah Allen, who was a daughter of David Allen, of Athens County, Ohio, and three children were born to this union, namely: William Sherman, who resides at Portland, Oregon; Sarah Agnes, who married William Jacox, and they reside in Orange Township and have two children, Harold and Wilbur; Samuel Fenton, who married Kate Sapp. They have four children— Glenn, Paul. Merrill and Edgar. On April 24. 1884. Mr. Bagley was married (second) to Sarah Frances lrwin, who was born in Berlin Township, Delaware County, Ohio, and is a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Cashner) lrwin. They have three children: Leroy, Leona and Lodemia. Leona married Arthur Freeman, a native of Delaware County, and they reside on the home place. They have three children, Frances Lucile, Willis and an infant. For 21 years Mr. Bagley has been a justice of the peace of Orange Township.
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The Bank of Ashley
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JUDGE GIDEON G. BANKER was born in Cardington, Morrow County, Ohio, on the twenty-fifth day of December, 1850.  He is the eldest son of Captain Benjamin A. Banker and Elizabeth (Worline) Banker.  The parents, soon after the birth of their son, came to Delaware County and located on a farm where the subject of this sketch spent his boyhood days and received his early education in the public schools.
     When Mr. Banker was sixteen years of age, his parents moved to the city of Delaware, and he attended the city schools and prepared himself for a collegiate education.  He then entered the Ohio Wesleyan University and took a classical course, being graduated in the month of June, 1873.  Mr. Banker immediately entered the office of Messrs. Reid and Powell, attorneys at law, where he read for two years, when he was admitted to the Bar in the year 1875.
     He was soon after elected solicitor of the city of Delaware, which position he held for three successive terms.  Mr. Banker continued the practice in Delaware County until about the year 1888, when he was employed as a traveling agent for a collecting association, in which agency he continued for five years, during which time he resided in Delaware, Ohio.  In the year 1893, Mr. Baker removed to Findlay, Ohio, where he opened an office and began the practice of his chosen profession.  In 1902 he received the nomination for the office of probate judge by the Democratic Party of Hancock County and was duly elected at the November election of that year.  He assumed the duties of his office on the ninth day of February, 1903.  He was re-nominated by the same party in the year 1905, to succeed himself, and was again elected and he is now the present incumbent.  His second term will expire February 8, 1909.
Dr. Barbour
James M. Barnes
Dr. Lewis Barnes
Geo. W. Barry
Clay W. Barton
GEORGE W. BAXTER, formerly a well-known citizen of Radnor Township, where he owned a valuable farm of almost 150 acres, died at his home, Aug. 12, 1899, and is survived by his widow and four children.  Mr. Baxter was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1836, and was a son of John D. and Elizabeth Baxter, natives of Germany.  After the parents of Mr. Baxter emigrated to America, they settled in Pennsylvania, where they resided until their son, George W., was nineteen years of age, when they moved to Kansas.  Later, George W. Baxter came to Ohio, settling in Marion County, where he lived for some years, and prior to his marriage he followed the carpenter's trade.  After marrying he settled down to farming in the northern part of Radnor Township, Delaware County.  He was careful and industrious and prospered, carrying on extensive farming and stock-raising and remaining thus occupied until near the end of his useful life.
     On Oct. 3, 1872, Mr. Baxter was married to Alsina A. Coleman, who was born Nov. 17, 1843, in Marion County, Ohio, and who is a daughter of Henry and Sarah (Schultz) Coleman.  Her parents were natives of York County, Pennsylvania, and when she was nine years old they removed from Marion to Delaware County, settling in Oxford Township, where she was reared and was married.  Her mother died in her eighty-fifth year and her father in his eighty-eighth year.  Their family consisted of seven children, namely:  Alsina A.; Absalom B., residing in Morrow county; Theresa M., who married Edward Houseworth, residing in Oxford Township; James E., residing in Morrow County; Lucinda J., who married Samuel Strine, residing in Oxford Township; Sarah A., who married John Waddel, and resides in Oxford Township; and Eva A., who married Clyde Smith,  and resides in Trumbull County, Ohio.
     The late George W. Baxter was a man of sterling character, a good and worthy citizen in every relation in life.  When his country was in danger of disruption he responded. early in 1862, to the call for troops, and for three years risked life and health in the Federal army, as a member of Company H., Sixty-third Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry.  He took part in the famous march to the sea under Sherman; and at various times faced the enemy on the battlefield.  He was fortunate enough to escape injury, and was honorably discharged and returned safely to his home.  In politics he was a Democrat. for many years he was a worthy member of and liberal contributor to the Lutheran Church.  He was widely known and bore the reputation of being a man of honest purpose and exemplary life.
     Mr. and Mrs. Baxter had four children, namely:  Arthur A., a farmer residing in Troy Township; Walter M., residing in Radnor Township on the home farm; Henry C., also residing in Radnor Township; and Corda M., residing at home with her mother.  Mrs. Baxter manages the home farm since the death of her husband and is ably assisted by her son, who takes all the care from her shoulders.  She is a highly esteemed lady and is a valued member of the Lutheran Church at Prospect.
Hiram Bean
JOHN BEAN, stock-raiser and farmer; P. O. Ostrander; was born in Hardy Co., Va., Nov. 26, 1813;  he is the second of a family of seven children of George and Susannah (Carr) Bean, both natives of the "Old Dominion."  There they were married and in 1817, removed to Ross Co., Ohio, where they remained about two years, and then came to Delaware Co., and settled on Mill Creek in Scioto Township.  The parents were energetic and enterprising, and it was not log before they had a "patch" of ground cleared, and were quite well-to-do people for that day.  They remained on the land they first improved until their death; the father dying in 1866, and the mother in 1867.  Of the seven children, there are but three now living.  The old log cabin, built in 1819, is still standing, and in a good state of preservation.  It is probably the oldest structure of that kind in the county.  Mr. Bean was brought up on a farm, and had but few educational advantages.  He began for himself at 22 years of age, by commencing the improvement of a farm in Scioto Township.  He was married to Miss Sally Smart Jan. 7, 1836; she was born in Franklin Co., Ohio, Sept. 15, 1812.  Her father, Joseph Smart, came from Pennsylvania, where he was born, in 1776, to Franklin Co., Ohio, in 1800.  About a year afterward, he was married to Miss Jane Beaty, of that county; he was one of the first white men to settle in Central Ohio; he died in 1838, and his wife in 1851.  From the union of John Bean and Sally Smart there were seven children, six of whom are now living - Emily A., Susannah J., William M., Joseph S., George W. and John L.; deceased, Mary L.  Mr. Bean has a well-improved farm of 100 acres, which he has obtained by hard work and economy.  He and his amiable wife are members of the Baptist Church, with which they have been connected a number of years.
Harry H. Beecher
B. W. BELL, farmer; P. O. Sunbury; is a son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (McClellan) Bell; his father was born in Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in 1812, settling in Knox Co., where he died in 1853.  Mr. Bell's father was one of eight children; John married Miss Knox, now in Pennsylvania; James married Miss Knox, now in Pennsylvania; James married Miss Hayes; Isaac married E. Herod; Hannah married B. Woodruff, of Pennsylvania; Polly married N. Woodruff, of Pennsylvania; Sarah married J. Hayes, connection of President Hayes; David married Katie Canady, of Pennsylvania.  Mr. Bell's mother was a daughter of Cary McClellan, who, together with a brother John, were Revolutionary soldiers; the latter was the father of Gen. McClellan, prominent in the civil war; now Governor of New Jersey; she died in Kansas in about 1869.  B. W. Bell was born Oct. 4, 1829, in Knox Co., Ohio, where he remained until 21, attending school in Martinsburg, and farming and stock-raising.  He was married May 11, 1850, to Louisa Warren, daughter of David Warren; she was born April 8, 1830; this marriage was celebrated by Rev. Sanders, of the Disciples' denomination; they were blessed with eight children, five of whom are living - Emma L., Willie J., Ida M., Frank B. and Henrietta; three deceased - Elizabeth, Aug. 23, 1852; an infant, Oct. 4, 1852; and Nancy, Oct. 23, 1864.  After marriage, they settled in Licking Co. until 1857, when they moved to the present farm of 375 acres, which is well improved with living springs, and well adapted to stock-raising, which he gives considerable attention to, making a specialty of fine Spanish merino sheep.  Mr. Bell hired a substitute in the war, and was out opposing the Morgan raiders in Ohio; was Township Clerk in Knox Co., and has been connected with school offices.  He and wife are members of the Christian Church in Trenton Township, of which denomination he has been Superintendent of Sunday school.  Mr. Bell remembers hearing his father tell of his settlement in Knox Co., at which time there were but two log houses where Newark now stands, one of which was used for a whisky cellar; his father would offer 6¼ cents more on the day for hands who would not drink whisky, in order to encourage temperance; his father was instrumental in organizing a church on his farm, and in connection with his brothers built a fort, in an early day in Pennsylvania called after them; his grandfather enlisted in the war of 1812, but hired a substitute for a pair of socks.  Mr. Bell was one of eleven children - Cary, born Aug. 19, 1805, died Mar. 11, 1826; Jacob L., born Aug. 11, 1807, deceased Oct. 15, 1874; Cephas, born Mar. 15, 1810, deceased July 17, 1812; Henrietta, born May 2, 1812, deceased Oct. 30, 1879; Mary, born June 15, 1814, deceased Aug. 15, 1875; James born April 18, 1819, deceased March, 1879; Malinda, born July 26, 1819; deceased July 19, 1875; Amy, born Aug. 18, 1821, deceased; Nancy, born 1823, married D. H. Elliott; Eunice, born Nov. 11, 1826, deceased Mar. 12, 1876.
Stanley Bell
Griffith G. Benedict
Dr. A. E. Bennett
Benj. T. Benton
Burt P. Benton
Edw. W. Benton
J. R. Benton
John Berlett
Dr. Henry Beese
David Bevan
David Bevan, Sr.
William Bevan
DR. ALPHUS BIGELOW located in Galena in 1821.  He was a brother of the noted evangelist Rev. Russell Bigelow of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  These two brothers were self-educated and self-made man.  They both possessed great energy and strong minds.  The doctor was not a regular graduate, but was an excellent physician.  He died in 1850. ~ Page 346
Abner J. Bird
Oxford Twp. -
ELIJAH T. BISHOP, farmer; P. O. Ashley; was born July 1, 1818 in Oxford Township; he was the son of Elisha and Pheraby Bishop, who came fro Powell Valley, Tenn., to Ohio, and built them a cabin on the banks of the Whetstone, in Marlborough Township, where they lived about six years; they then bought a farm in Oxford Township, where they lived at his father's death, Aug. 11, 1854.  Elisha Bishop, Sr., was born Apr. 9, 1789, and Pheraby Bishop was born Feb. 24, 1790.  Elijah T. Bishop lived with his father until he was 22 years of age, when he was married, Sept. 6, 1838, to Melinda Burch, daughter of Adriel Burch, of Meigs Co., Ohio; he then bought a farm in that part of Oxford Township now Westfield  Township, Morrow Co., on the Whetstone River; two years afterward, he went to Old Eden, Brown Township Delaware Co., and engaged in the ashery business for three years, when he moved back to his farm; in 1847, he sold his place on the Whetstone, and bought the farm of 100 acres where he now lives, one and one-half miles west of Ashley; he sold fanning-mills for six years after buying this place, receiving $30 and $40 per month wages, and in this way finished paying for his farm.  He has been Supervisor and School Director, and has been a member of the Old School Baptist Church since he was 17 years old; Mrs. B. has held membership in the same church for thirty-seven years.  They have had born to them seven children - Minerva, born July 24, 18139; Mary G., Aug. 11, 1844; Elisha A., Sept. 1, 1846; Amanda E., Nov. 23, 1849; Elmer H., Feb. 6, 1853; John L., Jan. 8, 1857; Lily M., May 21, 1864 - all living in Delaware Co., and four of whom are married.
Source: History of Delaware Co., Ohio - Publ. 1880 - Page 785
Oxford Twp. -
ELISHA A. BISHOP, dealer in agricultural implements (Bishop & Owen); P. O. Ashley; was born Sept. 1, 1846, in Oxford Township, on the Whetstone River, in what is now Morrow Co., but then Delaware; at 21 years of age, in the spring of 1867, he took a trip to Central Iowa, and bought 40 acres of land; his father becoming dangerously sick, he sold the land, returned home, and remained until he was 23, when he was married, Dec. 30, 1869, to Miss America Dix, daughter of Squire David Dix, of Troy Township; she was born Sept. 16, 1849, in Troy township; they had one child, which died in infancy.  Mr. B. built a house on a farm which he bought, adjoining hsi father's place; he at length engaged in the agricultural implement business, and has made it a success; in 1876, he formed a partnership with H. F. Owen, under the firm name of Bishop & Owen; this firm is well known over the county.  Mr. and Mrs. B. are members of the Old School Baptist Church, in which they have held membership seven years.
Source: History of Delaware Co., Ohio - Publ. 1880 - Page 785
DR. DAVID P. BLISS was born at Sparta, Morrow County, Ohio, in 1843.  He received his education in the public schools.  AT the age of nineteen he enlisted in the service of his country with the One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment O. V. I., and received an honorable discharge from the service in 1865, at the close of the war.  He was an exemplary soldier, and one of the highest Christian character.  After returning from the army, he entered the office of the illustrious Dr. J. W. Russell, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, in 1867.  After many long years of hard work, he came to Delaware in 1901 to enjoy a much needed rest.  He is a member of Asbury M. E. Church, and is always ready to do the Master's work.
A. JENKS BOCKOVER, (Berkshire Twp.), farmer; P. O. Constantia; was born in Berkshire Township Aug. 23, 1829; son of Jacob and Eliza Bockover; lived a bachelor until he was about 40 years of age, when he wooed and won the hand of Miss Lovisa Henion, a native of Putnam Co., N. Y.  She came out West with her parents in 1868, and settled in Berkshire; the house Mr. Bockover now owns was the one that her parents lived in, and here he met and courted his wife, and since their marriage have been constant residents; they have had four children - Jacob, John, Jennie (deceased), and Bettie; his farm, consisting of eighty acres is located on the west side of the township.  He is Democratic, yet is very liberal in his views, and prefers to vote for good men rather than party.
DR. O. W. BONNER was born in Licking County, Ohio, in 1866.  He, with his parents moved to Bloomfield, Morrow County, Ohio, in about 1870.  He was educated at Sparta High and Normal schools.  He commenced the study of medicine in 1888.  He attended one year at the Western Reserve Medical College.  He began the practice at Norton, Delaware County, Ohio, and about ten years ago came to Delaware, Ohio, where he is now in active work, and engaged in a large practice.  He served as health officer for the city of Delaware for five years, with great satisfaction to the city.  He has been for several years a member of the local Board of Pension Examiners.  He is a member of the Delaware County, and Ohio State Medical Societies.
DR. JOHN F. BOUGHER, a prosperous young farmer of Liberty Township, has been located on his present farm of 121 acres, formerly known as the Charles Alder place, since 1898.  He was born July 8, 1874, and is a son of Benjamin and Clara (Macabee) Bougher.
     Benjamin Bougher was born in 1849, at Rockbridge, Hocking Co., Ohio.  In 1872 he moved to Pickaway Co., Ohio, settling six miles south of Circleville, on the Chillicothe turnpike road, and resided there for about twenty-five years, removing then to Columbus, where he fills the position of watchman for the McCune Block.  His parents were Henry and Katie Bougher.  To Benjamin Bougher and wife the following children were born:  Louise, who married Dennis Rader, residing at Circleville; John Frederick, residing in Liberty Township; Leroy, born June 25, 1878, who is associated with his brother John F., in farming, and who married Olive Hardin, of which union there are two children - Louise and Frank; Clinton, born in 1882, who died aged three years; Arthur, residing in California; and Edward, who died August 31, 1906, at the age of 17 years.
     John F. Bougher was educated in the schools of Pickaway County, and was reared to be a farmer.  He married Victoria Hardin, who is a daughter of Krider and Alice (Levering) Hardin, and they have two children - John H. and Benjamin.  Mr. and Mrs. Bougher are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Stratford.  In politics, he is a Democrat.  He is numbered with the substantial men and progressive citizens of Liberty Township.
20th century history of Delaware County, Ohio and representative citizens - Chicago, Ill. :: Biographical Pub. Co., 1908 by James R. Lytle~ Pg. 824
EMANUEL BOVEY, carriage-maker; P. O. Ostrander; was born in Hagerstown, Md., July 11, 1833, and is the eldest of a family of four children of David and Catharine Bovey, both natives of Maryland; the father was an extensive pump manufacturer in his time, and he died in 1844.  Our subject, up to the time he was 14 years of age, worked on a farm and attended school in Hagerstown; he was then apprenticed to the carriage maker's trade with a Mr. Zedmire, of Hagerstown, and served an apprenticeship of three years; he then came to Ohio, and worked at his trade for some time in Newark; he at one time revisited his old home in Maryland; at length he started at shop of his own in Fairview, Delaware Co., where he remained about a year; the C., C., C. & I. R. R. was at this time being constructed, and the village of Ostrander being started; Mr. Bovey came to the place and commenced business, opening at first on a small scale; he now owns one of the largest and most extensive carriage manufactories in the county.  He wa married to Elizabeth A. Winget July 20, 1854; she was born in Delaware Co., Ohio, Nov. 7, 1838; they had six children, five of whom are now living - William C., Mary C., Clement L., Emma M. and Martin L., deceased, Frankie.  Mr. Bovey began life as a poor boy, and is a self-made man.
EDWARD THOMPSON BRANDEBURY was born in Delaware, Ohio.  He is the son of Rev. Brandebury, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  The subject of this sketch received his early education in the public schools of this city.  Having graduated from the high school about the year 1876, he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University the same year from which institution he graduated in 1880.  He studied law in Delaware and was admitted to the Bar.  He located in Minneapolis, where he practiced for some years, and then returned to Delaware, Ohio, where he began the practice.  He was soon after elected justice of the peace of this township, which office he held for several years.  He returned to Minneapolis but a short time since, where he is again engaged in the practice of his profession.
TOBIAS BREECE, florist, residing near Berlin Station, on the Berlin turnpike, was born in 1841, in Brown Township, Delaware County, Ohio and is a son of Lewis and Sarah (Smith) Breece.
     Lewis Breece was born in Pennsylvania and made his first visit to Ohio in 1825.  He subsequently returned to the East and in 1829 he was married to Sarah Smith, with whom he returned to Delaware County and settled in what was then a wild region although it was but two miles east of Delaware.  Lewis Breece cleared up an excellent farm and continued its improvement through his active years.  He died on his land in 1871, aged 65 years.  His parents were Daniel and Abigail (Love) Breece, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Delaware County after their son had settled here and spent their remaining years with him.  Lewis Breece married as above noted.  Sarah Smith was a daughter of Nathan and Rhoda (Love) Smith.  They were native of Pennsylvania, from which State they later moved to New York and from there to near Pontiac. Michigan, where they subsequently died.  Lewis and Sarah Smith had ten children, as follows:  Amy, Ann, Merva, Delilah, Lorane, Celia, Biancy, Melvin W., Tobias E., Bethesby and Olive.  Of this large family eight still survive, the youngest of whom is 60 years of age.
     Tobias C. Breece attended school until about 18  years of age and then learned the carpenter trade.  At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the Federal Army, entering Company G, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served as a brave and faithful soldier for three years, during this long period participating in many dangerous battles and a protracted series of tiresome marches.  With great good fortune, however, he reached home in safety. 
     In 1865, Mr. Breece was married to Susan C. Osborn, who is a daughter of Henry and Mary A. (Havens) Osborn, natives of New Jersey, who came to Delaware County in 1852, locating at Berlin Station, where Mrs. Osborn died.  There Mr. Osborn passed the remainder of his life, with the exception of the last two years, which were spent in Delaware.  He died March 7, 1898.  Mr. and Mrs. Breece have four sons, namely:  Melvin J.,  who is superintendent of the water-works at Galion, Ohio; Henry L., residing at Delaware, following the carpenter trade; Archie O., residing in Texas; and Clayton A., residing at home.
     For some 20 years following his marriage, Mr. Breece worked at the carpenter trade, after which he settled on his present place.  He has always had a taste for flowers and after coming here engaged in raising them as a business.  He has a beautiful, well-arranged home and grounds, with equipments for growing and caring for tender plants.  Mr. Breece is a highly respected citizen.  He is a man of temperance and is identified with the Prohibition party.
DR. CHARLES B. BREWSTER was born at Corning, Perry County, Ohio, in 1876.  He graduated from the High School in 1893.  After clerking in a bank for a time, he went to Hiram College. He began reading medicine in 1899, and graduated from Puolt Homeopathic College at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1904.  He began the practice at his home in 1904, and came to Delaware in 1906.
R. C. BRINKERHOFF, stoves and tinware, Sunbury, Ohio; is a son of P. J. and P. S. Brinkerhoff; his father was born in 1815, in New York, and came to Richland Co. in 1832; his mother was a daughter of Barney Coe; she was born in 1821; they had five children; three are living, two - Alice and Henry - in California, and Mr. Brinkerhoff, who was born on his father's farm, in Richland Co., Ohio, Nov. 20, 1846, and was reared in a log cabin; he had all the advantages that were afforded by the district schools for an education; in 1859-62, he attended Willoughby College, at Willoughby, Lake Co., and, in 1863, he went with his parents to California; in 1868, he returned and began learning the tinner's trade with H. C. Breckenridge, at Plymouth, Lake Co., afterward working with O. C. Williams; in January, 1875, he engaged in the present business, at Galena, which he has since continued.  He contracted a happy marriage, October, 1876, with Alice M. Gregory, a daughter of E. G. Gregory, of Huron Co., Ohio; she was born in 1856, and taught school when 14.  He takes an active interest in the temperance cause and Sunday schools; he is at present Superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday School at Sunbury, of which church he and his wife are members.
CYRUS C. BROOKS is the son of David and Jane (Butler) Brooks.  He was born in Licking County, Ohio, Jan. 29, 1845.  He received his early education in the public schools.  He attended the high school at Sunbury, Delaware Co., Ohio, and the Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, where he prepared himself to teach.  He taught in the public schools for a number of years and during the time he was teaching he read law under the preceptorship of Messrs. Powel and Reid, attorneys of Delaware, Ohio, and he was admitted to the Bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio, in the year 1874.  He opened an office in the village of Sunbury, Delaware Co., Ohio, where he has continued the practice ever since.  Mr. Brooks, living near the Franklin, Knox and Licking County lines, has practiced in all of these counties as well as in his own county.
     He has been elected mayor of the village of Sunbury for four terms and has held that office for eight years.  In the early part of his practice he was elected to the office of justice of the peace, which office he held for a great number of years and from which he derived the title by which he is most generally known of "Esquire Brooks."
DR. WILLIAM C. BUCKY was born in Franklin County, Ohio, in 1860.  He attended the "O. W. U.," Delaware, Ohio, for a while and graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1890.  He read medicine with Dr. S. M. Sherman in Columbus, Ohio, and settled in Ashley, where he is now practicing.  He is a member of the Ohio Eclectic Medical Institute.  (Source #1)
DR. LEUCIUS BUMSTEAD, osteopathic, graduated at the American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Missouri, June 14, 1906, and he came to Delaware, Ohio, in 1906.  (Source #1)
G. J. BURRER (Berkshire Twp), miller, Sunbury; is the son of J. G. and Catharine (Bullinger) Burrer.  His father was born in Wittenburg, Germany, and was a stonecutter and saloon-keeper; he came to Ohio in 1855, and died in 1874; his wife is still living in Sunbury; they had eight children, all of whom survive and are in Ohio.  Mr. Burrer, the subject of this sketch, was born in 1848, in Germany; when 7 years old, he came with the family on a sail vessel to America; he worked for his father until 21 years of age, when he began business for himself; he laid stone for one year; he then engaged in milling in Trenton Township, in partnership with Judge F. B. Sprague, where they continued for five years; they established the present mill at Sunbury in 1875, and are doing a successful business.  He was married in 1875, to Anna A. Gammill, daughter of S. S. Gammill, of Delaware Co.; she was born Aug. 15, 1858; have two children - Sprague and an infant; he has a house and three lots in Sunbury and an interest in a stone-quarry at Sunbury.
 
ARCHIBALD BUTTS, (Concord Twp.) farmer; born in Concord Township Nov. 2, 1827, and the son of Isaac and Effa (Hamilton) Butts; the former was born in Virginia in 1797, and, in 1826 came to Ohio, locating in this township; worked at Cryder's mill on the Scioto River for two or three years.  It was at some time during this period that the marriage with Miss Hamilton took place; about the year 1829, he purchased and moved on the farm adjoining, where Archibald Butts now lives; here he remained until his death in July, 1877, at which time he was the owner of about five hundred acres of land in one body, his wife having died some twenty-five years previously.  Archibald Butts obtained a fair education in the manner that most farmers' boys do, by attending the neighborhood school in the winter, the summer being spent upon the farm in honest toil.  Nov. 3, 1849, he was joined in wedlock with Miss Nancy Blomer, and commenced life on the farm where they now live; ten children, and all living, gladden their hearts; they are named Mary U., Isaac, Jessie, Sarah, Caroline, Matilda, John, Harmon, Louise and Bertha L.; farming and stock-raising have occupied Mr. Butts' attention through life.  He has served his township as Supervisor for seven terms with satisfaction to all.
 
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