Born - 1827, Half Moon, Saratoga Co. N.Y.
Came to Spring Valley, 0hio with his family ln 1843.
Married - (1) Rebecca Swayne, 1850
(2) Mary Evans, 1856
At the time of his second marriage, and for some time
after, he operated a General Store in Spring Valley, making periodic trips to Philadelphia
and New York to purchase "Dry Goods".
Just how much he was involved in his father's woolen mill, if at all, is not now clear;
nor when he started the Flour mill, though it was in operation in 1872. He also engaged in
a Pork Packing business with his father and one of the Waltons.
In 1862 he was appointed Revenue Collector in his
district by Abraham Lincoln, and served with the rank of Major.
He served in the Ohio Legislature in the 1870's and
late 1880's, both as Representative and as Senator.
He also served on the Board of Trustees of Earlham
College at Richmond Ind. in the late 1880's.
Always interested and active in the Church, he and his
wife were instrumental in establishing a Friends Meeting in Spring Valley. (Prior to that,
the nearest Friends Meetings were Caesar's Creek and Waynesville.)
He died in Spring Valley in 1894, at the age of 67.
