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��1827, they have six children, two sons and four daugh- ters — Richard E., William W., Mary, Sarah, Esther M. and Lucy Bell ; Mary A. was married to James H. Palm, in 1872; they have two children.

BAKER, HIRAM, farmer and stock-raiser; P. 0. Barnes; he was born in this county March 9, 1828. When 24 years of age, he was -married to Isabella, daughter of John Hull ; she was also born in this county Dec. 25, 1831 ; they were married Nov. 20, 1851 ; they have four children, three sons and one daughter — Albert, Ira Allen, Charles W. and Sadie M.; Albert was married to Hattie Meek in 1875. He is a car- penter.

BENTLEY, ROBERT H., Gen., farmer. He was born at Mansfield, Ohio, Aug. 8, 1835. His father, Bald- win Bentley, was a prosperous merchant in Mansfield, but died at the early age of 26, leaving two children, viz : the subject of this sketch, then only a year old ; a daughter, Mary Lake Bentley, subsequently the wife of Gen. R. BrinkerhofF. When 12 years old, Robert entered the dry-goods store of James Weldon then the principal merchant in Mansfield, and re- mained in the store until he went into partnership with his brother-in-law, Gen. R. BrinkerhofF, in the publication of the Mansfield Herald. Subsequently, he sold his share in the Herald establishment and went into partnership with James Weldon, his old employer in the dry-goods business, and remained with him several years. His grandfather. Gen. Robert Bent- ley, was one of the early settlers of Richland Co.; was an Officer in the war of 1812, and subsequently a Major General of militia, an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and a member of the Ohio State Senate. Robert, his grandson and namesake, inherited his military tastes, and when the war of the rebellion broke out, he was among the first to volunteer. He went into service April 16, 1861, as a private in Capt. iSIcLaughlin's company of the 1st Ohio Infantry. He came out of the service a Second Sergeant, and was soon after appointed Regimental Quartermaster, of the 32d Ohio Infantry. After the capture of Harper's Ferry, the regiment was re-organized, and he was made Lieutenant Colonel. With this regiment he went through the Vicksburg campaign, and in the battles which preceded the capture of the city won the special commendation of Gen. Logan, his division comman- der. After the capture of Vicksburg, he, resigned his position in the 32d Infantry, and was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, and remained with the regiment until the close of the war. In the raid upon Virginia Saltworks, and in the great Stoneman raid through Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas, he was in the command of the regiment, and for serv ces thus rendered, was brevetted a Briga- dier General of volunteers. He was also tendered a position in the regular army, by the Secretary of War, but declined to accept it. In July, 1865, he resigned his position in the army. He remained for a time in business in Washington City, and then returned to Richland Co., where he engaged in farming and stock-raising near Mansfield. He was married, Aug. 3, 1876, to Elizabeth A. Lee ; she was born in Licking >Co., Ohio, Aug. 3, 1837.

BROWN, R. C, farmer ; P. 0. Lexington. He was

��born in Brooke Co., Va., Nov. 13, 1834; in October, 1835, his parents moved back to Washington Township, Richland Co., Ohio, to the farm they had left seven years before, and upon which Robert and his aged mother still live. After receiving the ordinary pi-e- paratory education, he entered Franklin College, and graduated in the year 1860. Enlisted for three months as a private soldier in the 1.5th 0. V. I. April 22, 1861, and served in Western Virginia until mustered out ; same autumn, assisted in recruiting Co. C, 64th 0. V. I., and, when the regiment was organized, was mustered in as Captain, and commanded Co. C in the various battles in which the regiment was engaged, including the battle of Stone River, after which he received a commission as Lieutenant-Colonel ; holding that rank he served with the regiment in the battles of Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, and Rocky Face Ridge, at which Col. Mcllvaine was killed May 9, 1864; the command then fell to R. C. Brown, and June 17, 1864, he was commissioned Colonel ; he commanded the regi- ment in the various skirmishes intervening, besides the battles of Resaca, Adairsville, Dallas, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Lovejoy, Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville ; except at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain (when he was in hospital), he was with the regiment in all its engagements and on all its marches ; was dis- charged from the service of the United States, Feb. 23, 1865, at Huntsville, Ala., by reason of expiration of term of service. (For full military service see chapter on "Richland County in the War," part of which was written by the Colonel.) In company with Maj. S. L. Coulter he then rented a cotton plantation near Mooresville, Ala., where he remained during the years of 1865 and 1866 ; then returned to Richland Co., Ohio. Was married, Sept. 22, 1868, to Mary E. Galley, a native of Westmoreland Co., Penn., and has two children — Helen T. and Charles G. Religion, United Presbyterian.

CAMPBELL, JAMES, farmer and stock-raiser: P. 0. Lexington ; he was born in Wayne Co., Ohio, in 1829, and came to this county in 1837. Was married to Malinda A. Bell in 1852 ; she was born in this county in 1834 ; they have six children, two sons and four daughters, viz., John M., Lacyette, Catherine J., Bertie A., Jessie, and one who died at birth ; two are married, and three are single. Mr. Campbell was In- firmary Director of this county for six years ; he was a good and faithful officer.

CHARLES, C. C, farmer; P. 0. Mansfield; he was born in Cuyahoga Co., June 26, 1824 : he remained there until he was 16 years old, when he came to this county with his parents ; he stayed with them until he was 25 years old ; from the time he was 18 to 24, he worked out bj» the month. He then got married to Miss Ruthan Enlow, April 27, 1874; she was born in AVashington Co., Penn., in March, 1822 ; she came to this county in 1830 ; they have eight children, four sons and four daughters, named William P., John J., George M., David H., Emeline A., Anna D., Alice M. and Lil- lie E. William P. and Emeline A. are dead. Mr. Charles has, by industry and strict attention to busi- ness, made for himself and family a good home ; he first bought a small home of 20 acres from John Fox, and afterward bought 27 acres adjoining, from Peter

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