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HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society Inc., 1925 Volume III - page 45-46 MARSHALL ALEXANDER SMITH, president of the Smith Agricultural Chemical Company, and an active business man of Columbus for nearly thirty years, is a native of Ohio, and inherits some of the study virtues and rugged character of the old New England stock found in his forebears, who were among the earliest pioneers of Delaware and adjoining counties in this state. His ancestry possesses general historic interest, and is unusually rich in Revolutionary records. Mr. Smith was born near Sunbury, in Delaware County, in 1869, son of Marshall Black and Elvira Abbie (Thrall) Smith. Mr. Smith is descended in direct line from Nehemiah Smith, the first of this family in America, who was born at Newcastle -under Lyme, Staffordshire, England, about 1605. His coat of arms showed: Arms-Barry of six, ermine and gules, a lion rampant, ducally crowned sable. Crest -Anheraldic tiger passant; argent, wounded on the shoulder, gules. Nehemiah Smith made application to be admitted as freeman at Plymouth, Massachusetts, March 6, 1637. His wife, Anne Bourne, was of aristocratic lineage. Later he removed to Stratford, Connecticut, and was the largest land owner of any of the first settlers. He was a minister of the Gospel, and died in 1686. Another ancestor in the paternal line was David Smith, who was born near Wilkes-Barre, in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, in 1770. In 1778, following the terrible massacre of the inhabitants of this valley by the British and Indians, David Smith, with two other children, was carried away in captivity and kept for six months. David Smith married Sarah Murphy, and early in the following century came to Ohio, settling near Galena in Delaware County, where he died in 1845. A number of other prominent characters in the early history of New England are included in the ancestry of Mr. Smith, in both the paternal and maternal lines. One of them was John Howland of the Mayflower, and another, Peter Brown, one of the signers of the Mayflower compact of 1620. His mother's ancestor, William Thrall, came to Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630, on the ship Mary and John. Others are: Richard Mather, the ancestor of the famous Cotton Mather; Thomas Chase, the forebear of Salmon P. Chase, and other distinguished Americans of this name; Robert Holmes, the progenitor of the Stonington Holmes family for whom the town of Stonington, Connecticut, was named; Obediah Gore, the progenitor of Capt. Obediah Gore of Norwich, Connecticut, a prominent military figure in the Colonial wars; Samuel Sherman (early spelling Shermon), the ancestor of a long line of notable Americans; and a large number of members of these families who took part in the American Revolutionary war. James Smith, son of David, and grandfather of Marshall A., was for many years the leading business man of Sunbury. He married Malinda Black, whose name introduces another interesting record of ancestral connections. Malinda Black was a daughter of Marshall and Polly (Gardner) Black. Her grandfather, Isaac Black, was born in Berkshire, Massachusetts, in 1745, and was one of the pioneer New England settlers of Delaware County, Ohio. He died at Cheshire in that county in 1826. Isaac Black married Mehitable Brown, whose father died in the Revolutionary war. Their son, Marshall Black, married Polly Gardner, daughter of Stewart and Lydia (Ames) Gardner, whose ancestors came over in the Mayflower. Marshall Black and his wife and children moved from Genesee County, New York, to Springfield, Ohio, and a few months later, in December, 1817, Delaware County. Marshall Black Smith, father of the Columbus business man, was born at Sunbury, near Galena, in Delaware County, in 1837, and died at his home at Westerville, Ohio, October 8, 1900. For many years he was a prominent merchant and banker at Sunbury. In 1861 he married Miss Elvira Abbie Thrall, who is still living. She is a direct descendant in the eighth generation from William Thrall, who founded the Thrall family in America, coming, as previously noted, from England in 1630. The Thralls were among the first families of Granville, Massachusetts. Elvira Abbie Thrall is also a descendant of the tenth generation from Rev. Richard Mather of Massachusetts, father of Increase Mather and grandfather of Cotton Mather. Through the Thrall he is also a descendant of Peter Brown of the Mayflower. Elvira Abbie Thrall's parents were William Cooley and Mary Chase (West) Thrall. Her great-grandfather, Capt. William Cooley, commanded a company in John Moseby's Regiment of Massachusetts Militia in the Revolution, fought under Washington at White Plains, and was wounded November 16, 1776. Samuel Thrall, Sr., grandfather of William Cooley Thrall, was staff quartermaster in Colonel Robinson's Third New Hampshire Regiment in the Revolution. Dated in camp at Ticondroga, February 24, 1777. August 8, 1781, he raised a company for three months' service in western department on Mohawk River, and served as captain of Samuel Thrall's company, attached to Col. Marimon Willett's regiment, and was discharged from this service on November 9, 1781. His son, Samuel Thrall, Jr., was a private in several Massachusetts regiments. Mrs. Elvira Abbie Smith had other Revolutionary ancestors in the West and Chase families of Massachusetts. Elvira Abbie Thrall was reared and educated at Granville, Licking County, Ohio, a town founded by her ancestors, the Thralls and Cooleys and their associates in 1805, and named in honor of their ancestral home town of Granville, Massachusetts. Granville in its modern history was a center of education and high moral influences, and reflects some of the fine character and the spirit of its New England founder. Mrs. Elvira Smith finished her education in Granville Female College. For many years she has been recognized as an authority on the genealogy and general history of Granville. Marshall Alexander Smith spent the first thirteen years of his life on his father's farm near Sunbury. The family then moved to that village, where he continued his education in the public schools. As a youth he went to work in his father's mercantile establishment at Sunbury, and subsequently was connected with the Farmers Bank, which had been founded by his father and three associates in 1872. Mr. Smith with his three brothers removed to Columbus in 1895, and soon afterward started the manufacture of commercial fertilizer and sulphuric acid. Later the industry was incorporated under the name of the Smith Agricultural Chemical Company, with Marshall A. as president and principal owner. The company maintains a branch plant at Indianapolis. This is one of the important and essential industries of Ohio. Mr. Smith is former president of Benjamin Franklin Chapter at Columbus of the ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Scioto Country Club and the Columbus Athletic Club. For many years he has been an active member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. He married at Columbus in 1893 Cora M. Smith, of an unrelated branch of the Smith family. She was born in Delaware County, near her husband's birthplace, daughter of Newton and Lunette (Sherman) Smith. Her father moved from Pennsylvania to Ohio when a boy. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. Smith are: Harold Albert; Hurtha M., wife of Frank Rankin Schwartz; Marjorie E. and Adrienne L. Smith. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 18:19:04, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: HERMAN RHODES CAMPBELL - DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society Inc., 1925 Volume III - Page 62-63 HERMAN RHODES CAMPBELL, has given more than twenty years to the service of the Ohio state Government at Columbus. He has been identified with the state auditor's office through changing administrations and is an authority on Ohio financial statistics. He represents one of the prominent old families of Ohio. He was born at Delaware, Ohio, March 1, 1877, son of George and Daisy (Rhodes) Campbell and grandson of George W. Campbell. George W. Campbell was born in New York State, in 1794, and married Elizabeth Little, of Boston, direct descendent of the distinguished Massachusetts family of Warren. A prominent early member of the Campbell family in Ohio was David Campbell, who came from New York State to Sandusky and founded in 1821, a newspaper that subsequently became the Sandusky Register. He was president and secretary of the Ohio Horticultural Society and the originator of the Delaware Grape. George Campbell, father of Herman Rhodes Campbell, was born at Delaware, Ohio, February 15, 1848, and his wife, Daisy Rhodes, was born in the same Ohio town and was well known through her literary productions. Herman Rhodes Campbell attended the high school at Delaware, finished his literary education in the Ohio Wesleyan University, and during the Spanish-American war enlisted in Company K of the Fourth Ohio Regiment of Infantry. After his military service he was for about two years connected with the National Cash Register Company of Dayton and in 1903 took a position in the auditors office at the state house in Columbus. His service has been continuous, and he is one of the most valued employes of the state government. During the greater portion of this period he has held the position of statistician in the State Bureau of Uniform Accounting. As a result of his long experience and accurate knowledge he wrote and complied a work published by the state under the title "Ohio Comparative Statistics," the first copy of which was issued in 1914, under the administration of Hon. A.V. Donahey, state auditor. Mr. Campbell married in 1902 Estella Marie Edwards, of Cincinnati. They have one child, Mary Katherine, born at Columbus May 9, 1906. Ohio has not only contributed many favorite personages to the nation, including presidents, soldiers and statesmen, and great inventors, but also in Miss Mary Katherine Campbell possess a young women designated again and again America's most beautiful girl. She was graduated from the East High School at Columbus and has a record of excellent scholarship. In January 1924, she entered Ohio State University, taking the liberal arts course. In 1922 she was selected to represent Columbus in the National Beauty Contest held at Atlantic City, New Jersey, in September of that year, and was awarded first prize. She is called "Miss America," the most beautiful girl in the country. She is well entitled to that honor, not only through her personal charms also because she represents generations of pure American stock. In 1923 she was selected to represent Columbus, and again awarded first prize and designated at Atlantic City as the most beautiful girl in America. Many other honors have been shown her, and in January, 1924, she was an honor guest of the Ohio Society of New York. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 18:18:52, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: FRANKLIN RUBRECHT - DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society Inc., 1925 Volume III - page 15 FRANKLIN RUBRECHT. In the thirty-two years he has been an active member of the Columbus bar, Judge Rubrecht has from a sense of civic duty set aside a part of his time for the responsibilities of various public offices, offices involving much work and with little compensation compared to a successful private practice. He was born at Delaware County, Ohio, August 31, 1868, son of Joel and Priscilla (Heller) Rubrecht. His father, an early settler of Delaware, was born in Pennsylvania of Bavarian ancestry. Franklin Rubrecht was reared in Delaware, and was educated in the public schools of that city and in business college. Subsequently he entered the Ohio State University at Columbus, graduated in law with the class of 1892, and soon afterward entered practice in this city. He has always enjoyed high standing as a lawyer, and for a number of years his practice has been largely concerned with corporation and probate matters. On May 1, 1923, he became a member of the new law firm of Rubrecht, Ulrey & Randall, with offices in the Outlook Building. During 1897-'98 he served as police prosecutor, and for a number of years was police judge. He was first assistant director of law at Columbus in 1901-02, in 1913 and 1914 was a member and chairman of the Municipal Civil Service Commission and in 1915-16 was first assistant prosecuting attorney of Franklin County. His services are always drawn upon in local campaigns and drives for worthy benevolent or civic enterprises. During the World war he practically closed his law office and placed his professional abilities, and as a speaker and his entire influence at the disposal of the government. He was a leader in all the local drives, did work in various sections of the state, and was an active member of the legal advisory board. He was a member of the Columbus Reserve Guard, with a captains commission. Mr. Rubrecht is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Elks, is a past supreme orator of the Supreme Council Royal Arcanum, and a former member of the committee on laws of that body. In 1894, at Lancaster, Ohio, he married Miss Blanche Newell. Their daughter, Miss Mercedes Elizabeth Rubrecht, for two years has been a student in the New York School of Music and Arts, preparing herself for a musical and artistic piano career. Mr. Rubrecht resides at 94 Hoffman Avenue. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #330 *******************************************