JUDGES COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

Hon. Cyrus Newby, Hillsboro; Hon. Frank G. Carpenter, Washington C. H.; Hon. James F. Goldsberry, Chillicothe; Hon. Clarence Curtain, Circleville.

OTHER COURT OFFICERS.

E. W. Durflinger, clerk; Oliver S. Nelson, sheriff; Stella D. Hendricks, court stenographer: James Clark, court constable; T. S. Maddox, prosecuting attorney; Rell G. Allen, probate judge.

HON. H. B. MAYNARD.

Judge H. B. Maynard, who located in Fayette county in 1854, died at the ripe old age of eighty-one years, in September, 1907. He was born in Holdren, Massachusetts, October 12, 1826, and commenced the study of law and was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts. When about twenty-eight years old he came West, that being in the autumn of 1854. He finally decided to locate permanently in Washington C. H. Soon after his arrival he was engaged to teach the school on the corner of Market and Hinde street. Two years later he formed a law partnership with Judge Briggs, which business relation continued until the death of Mr. Briggs.

After the Civil War came on, Mr. Maynard volunteered as a member of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Ohio Regiment and soon rose to be lieutenant-colonel of his regiment, serving with marked distinction. During the famous Morgan raid through Ohio, he re-enlisted as colonel of the regiment raised for home defense against the rebel raider. After the war had closed he resumed his legal pursuits, and was elected as proscuting attorney, which position he held until 1869. About that date he formed a partnership in law with Hon. H. L. Hadley, and the firm took a conspicuous part in the many cases brought about by the great 1873 panic. In 1894, upon the death of Judge Ace Gregg, Governor William McKinley appointed him to fill the vacancy on the bench. At the next election he won out for the judgeship by a majority of two thousand four hundred. He was president of the board of education a number of years and was the gentleman who named Sunnyside school building. He was also a member of the board of trustees for the County Children's Home.

HON. JOHN JAMES HARPER.

Judge J. J. Harper, ex-judge and eminent lawyer of southern Ohio, was a man of more than ordinary ability and prominence in the county and state in which he spent his life. He passed to higher realms October 21, 1906, aged seventy-two years. He was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, July 6, 1834, and was educated in the common schools and saw many early hardships in securing his coveted education, but finally obtained an excellent English education in all branches. Before he had reached man's estate he taught several terms of district school in both Pickaway and Fairfield counties. In 1858 he located at Portsmouth, Ohio, as a law student under Hutchins & Gabby and was admitted to the bar April 25, 1860. In 1856 he was united in marriage to Emily Jones, of Portsmouth, Ohio, by whom four sons were born: John Ellis, who practiced law in Denver, Colorado; William A.; Samuel G., of Portsmouth, Ohio; John H., of Washington C. H., a partner with his father in the law firm of Harper & Harper. The wife and mother died in 1874, and in 1875 Mr. Harper married Anna Eliza Robinson, of Washington C. H., Ohio. She died the same week of the Judge's death, and before him.

On being admitted to the bar, Mr. Harper began his practice in Portsmouth. In 1863 he was elected prosecuting attorney for Scioto county, Ohio, and was re-elected in 1865. In May, 1864, he enlisted as a member of Company G, One Hundred and Forty-first Ohio Infantry Regiment, and served during the balance of the Civil War. In 1868 he was presidential elector and cast his vote for U. S. Grant. In 1871 he was elevated to the bench of the court of common pleas in the second sub-division of the seventh judicial district of Ohio. He was re-elected in 1876, serving in all ten years, retiring in 1882. He was an able, industrious and very popular judge. After his retirement from the bench he formed a law partnership with Hon. John K. Richards, and subsequently was associated with John C. Milner and also J. C. Searl, continuing till 1891. He moved to Washington C. H. in 1886 and there spent the remainder of his days, practicing law. During that time, for three years he was a law partner of T. W. Marchant, but in 1892 his son was admitted to a firm known as Harper & Harper.

The Judge was a strenuous worker, a great student, a clear thinker and a profound lawyer. He had no other business, his whole time being directed to his chosen profession. He thoroughly prepared his papers and was never taken by surprise by opposing lawyers, for he knew both sides of his cases.

He also had a high sense of professional honor and was a man of much integrity. He always honored his profession as a lawyer of dignity and character. As a citizen, he was a model American and a true gentleman. His funeral was largely attended by members of the southern Ohio bar, and also by his comrades, members of the Grand Army of the Republic. Hon. Mills Gardner read a befitting memorial at his funeral, and to this we are indebted for much in this sketch of his life. Rev. D. H. Jones, of the Presbyterian church, and Rev. J. C. Arbuckle, of Grace Methodist Episcopal church, had charge of the services.

CHAPTER XIII.

MILITARY HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY.

War has always been a dreadful thing for any country or any people, yet this has always been the means of settling great national difficulties, and not until after the close of the Civil War in the United States of America did it receive its logical name, when Ohio's honored military chieftain, Gen. W. T. Sherman, said "War is hell." And still the world is at war, for at this very hour (September, 1914) Europe is aflame with the conflict of great contending armies which threaten the destruction of a once great and happy people. Even America looks on with a shudder, fearing that in some manner she may be drawn into this bitter European conflict.

Fayette county was organized too late (1810) to have had a very important part in the last war this country had with England-that of 1812. She furnished a considerable amount of provision for the American cause, and, in proportion to population, probably had as many enlisted men in the military service as any county in the state to do battle for the flag she had learned to love so well. Before passing from this subject, it should be related as a matter touching locally on Fayette county, that in the month of December, 1813, while the War of 1812 was still going on, Major Samuel Myers, of Fayette county, was employed by the army contractors to superintend the transportation of about eight hundred hogs from Urbana, Ohio, to Fort Wayne, Indiana. These hogs had been bought in Madison and Fayette counties, the Funk families furnishing the majority of them, hence the swine were raised in Fayette county. John Funk was to accompany Major Myers with the hogs. In the latter part of December, under guard of twelve soldiers, under Ensign Gilmore, a number of cattle and about forty pack horses and a few assistants, the party set out on their march from Urbana, through the thick forests to Fort Wayne. Although Indians were plenty, they passed on quietly, occasionally stopping to allow the hogs to feed on the nuts and acorns in the heavy timber.

The St. Mary's river and Shane's prairie were covered with ice, upon which the men and hogs crossed in part, but not altogether. The day before reaching their destination, being bright and sunshiny, the pack-horses were

allowed to crop the tall bear grass that stuck up above the ice, while Myers and the soldiers, with Funk, of this county, remained, and the hands drove on the hogs. They had not gone far before they discovered a band of about fifty Indians-painted warriors, not over a hundred yards distant. The Indians took in the situation and went back for supposed report to the other braves, while the frightened swine drivers hastily retreated to where Major Myers was and reported to him. The soldiers wanted to flee for the fort, fifteen miles away, but Myers ordered them to obey him and remain until attacked. They then moved a short distance and cooked supper and put out a heavy guard, having their horses' heads near them. There they remained all night, but not to sleep. At about ten o'clock there arose a fearful snow storm and this Myers believed would deter the Indian band from making an attack, which proved to be the case. In the morning the Major rode swiftly to the fort and secured a heavy guard to aid in getting the hogs and other supplies into safe quarters. Thus ended what might have been a disastrous trip for men and stock.

MEXICAN WAR IN 1846.

The War with Mexico was fought between 1846 and 1848, and it did not require a very large army of men to quell the disturbance, hence no one state had to furnish a large number of soldiers. large number of soldiers. Ohio sent forth her full quota and did so willingly. Some of her brave sons lost their lives and are now resting beneath Mexican skies. Fayette county furnished a few men

in that war, but not many.

This county has taken part in two great wars since the War with Mexico. -the Civil War of 1861-65 and the lesser conflict of the Spanish-American War in 1898, but before going into the details of the support the county gave to these wars, it may be of interest to the present reader, as well as to those of the future who shall look upon these pages, to note something concerning the preparations made in this county for war when it might come, by the training and drilling of her able-bodied male citizens.

MILITIA MUSTER DAYS.

In early times, throughout this country, there was no national guard system, but nevertheless all males between the ages of sixteen and fifty years were subject to military training and had to drill at "general training days." The law in Ohio establishing a militia of this type was dated at Marietta July