eyor's compass and chain (still in my
possession), and when in Ohio, in addition to clearing lands and
farming, he surveyed many extensive tracts of land for the early
settlers. Later in life he gave up surveying, save for his neighbors
when called on. He had some inclination to music. He served for
a short time in the War of 1812, joining an expedition for the
relief of General Harrison and Fort Meigs on the Maumee when besieged
by the British and Indians in 1813. He, however, lived in his Ohio
home a quiet, sober, peaceful, contented, studious, moral life,
much esteemed for his straightforward, honest, plain character by
all who knew him, but always taking a deep interest in public
affairs, state and national, his sympathies being with the poor,
oppressed, and unfortunate. His detestation of slavery led him to
emigrate from a slave State to one where slavery not only did not
and could not exist, but where free labor was well requited and
was regarded as highly honorable. Though among the early settlers
of the then wild West, he did not care much, if at all, for hunting
and fishing, then common among his neighbors and associates. He
preferred to devote his leisure hours to reading and intellectual
pursuits and to the society of those of kindred tastes, especially
interesting himself in the education of his large family of children.
He was, in theory and practice, a moral and religious man, a church
attendant, though never a member of any church, yet one year before
his death (1849), at his own request, he was baptized in Mad River,
by Rev. John Gano Reeder, of the Christian Church.

He was one of the founders and first directors of the Clark County
Bible Society, organized September 2, 1822.

Throughout his life he took a deep interest in politics, but he
never sought or held any important office. He was an Adams-Clay
Whig.

He died on his farm, April 13, 1850, and his remains, likewise his
mother's and his brother's, are now buried in Ferncliff Cemetery,
Springfield, Ohio.

He was married, November 9, 1815, to Mary Smith, daughter of Rev.
Peter Smith, a Baptist minister (then resident on a farm near what
is now Donnelsville, Clark County, Ohio), who had some celebrity
also as a physician in the "Miami Country." He was a son of Dr.
Hezekiah Smith of the "Jerseys," and was born in Wales, February
6, 1753, from whence this branch of the _Smith_ family came. He
was some relation to Hezekiah Smith, D.D., of