JOHN Affolter,  manufacturer of bricks Beaver Dam road, near New Philadelphia, Goshen Township , was born in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, December 27. 1841.He is a son of .Stephen and Elizabeth Affolter. both natives of Switzerland , and was reared In his native land, there learning the stone mason's trade, at which he worked many yeas. In 1866, he came to America , living one year at Pilttsburgh, Penn. He then came to New Philadelphia , this county, and worked at his trade till the fall 1882. when be accepted  the position as manager of the brick-yard for T B. Townsend, of Zanesville, Ohio He has  lately leased the yard and operates it himself.  Some 5,000 brick are molded per day, and about fifteen men and boys are employed about the yard. The bricks are sold to the county for the court house, also  private parties in and about New Philadelphia  In 1877, Mr. Affolter bought eight acres of land on the Beaver Dam, road, near the city, part of which is the brick-yard.  He was married, April 4, 1872 to Anna Rentz. a native of Switzerland . They have six children—John, Charlie, Frank, Ella. Herman and an infant daughter. Mr. Affolter and family are members of the German Lutheran Church  New Philadelphia .

George Arnold, a prominent farmer of Goshen Township, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, October 15, 1818. His father John Arnold, was a native of Ireland, and a resident of Jefferson County, Ohio for many years. He finally removed to Morgan County, Ohio, where he died about twenty years ago. He married Elizabeth Hume, also a native of Ireland, who died about 1842. They were the parents of twelve children- five sons and seven daughters- five of whom are living, our subject and four sisters. One brother Robert Arnold was a prominent physician of New Philadelphia for some years, but is now deceased. George Arnold was reared in Jefferson County, Ohio and when twenty-four years of age went to Iowa, where he remained four years. He then came to this county and first bought a farm of eighty acres in Union Township, but sold it soon after and purchased 100 acres of his present far,. He now owns 226 acres, 190 of which are under cultivation. Mr. Arnold is a Democrat; has been Trustee of Goshen Township, also Director of School District No. 2 for twelve years. He was married, March 17, 1838, to Nancy Neel, a native of Jefferson County, Ohio. Of their eight children, five are now living - John, married Mary Parry, and resides in New Philadelphia; Adeline, wife of Oliver Junkins, a farmer of Fairfield Township; Kirkwood, married Caroline Wills, and resides on the home farm; Caroline, wife of George Craig, a hotel-keeper of Dresden, Ohio; and Elzira.

Alex Bartholomew, proprietor of the Union Hotel, Pike Run Goshen Township, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, December 24, 1829. His father John Bartholomew, was a native of Germany, and came to America when sixteen years of  age. About 1836, he came to Tuscarawas County, and located a farm on Beaver Dam. He lived there some years and subsequently removed to Hancock County, Ohio, where he died in 1856. He married Rebecca Smith, also a native of Harrison County, Ohio, who died shortly after their removal to this county. She was the mother of four children, three living; one son John, enlisted in the Union Army and was killed in some battle. After Mrs. Bartholomew's death, our subject and a brother went to work on a farm, and the former lived with  strangers for over twenty years. He finally bought fifty acres of land in Union Township, where he resided for twenty-eight years. In 1881, he located in Pike Run and erected the Union Hotel, where he enjoys a fair run of custom. The farm is leased to a tenant. Mr. Bartholomew is Republican in politics, was Trustee of Union Township two years, Supervisor six years, and has held the latter position in the township for one year; was a member of Union Township Board of Education nine years and School Director for fifteen years. He was  married February 12, 1854 to Prova A. Salmon, a native of Union Township. They have had ten children, eight living- Harriet N., Levina J Sherman, Cora B. John, S. Emma, Charles H.  and Minnie A. Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew are members of the Rockford Methodist Episcopal Church.

JOHN H. REAM is a native of Shanesville, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and the eldest son of William" and Harriet A. (Shultz) Ream, natives of Pennsylvania, who are of German descent, and came to Miami County in 1847 and located in Peru, the former being a blacksmith by trade. John H. was born December 10, 1838, and in 1853 commenced learning the trade of harness-making under J. M. Stutesman, serving an apprenticeship of nearly three years. Not being satisfied with his chosen vocation he secured the position of "news-butcher" on the railroad which he retained for some time, after which he worked in many departments of railroad service, and was finally promoted to that of Master of Transportation of the Grand Rapids and Indiana R. R. (northern division) in which he was retained for about three years, with headquarters at Grand Rapids, Mich., In the year 1877, with Thomas, a brother, he engaged in the grocery and bakery business, and afterwards purchased his brother's interest in July 1886. In April, 1861, he entered the service of his country in the 13th Indiana Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out July 2, 1864, as Sergeant, having then served over three years in this noble cause. He was wounded at the battle of the Deserted Farm, near Suffolk, Virginia. In 1865 he reentered the service as Captain of Company H., of the 151st Indiana Volunteer Infantry, at the re-organization of that regimeut, and continued until the close of the war or until the disbanding of the troops. Mr. Ream's marriage to Miss Lottie C. Covelle, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was solemnized February 21, 1873, and to them one child—Anna M.—was born. Politically he is a Republican. He is also prominently identified with the Grand Army of the Republic, Masonic Fraternity, and Royal Arcanum, in all of which he is a highly respected and much esteemed member. He conducts, at present, the leading grocery and bakery business of Peru.

(Contributed by Barb Zigenmeyer)

CAPTAIN WILLIAM WALLICK. The gentleman whose name introduces this sketch was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, November 4, 1832, the eldest son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Shalter) Wallick, of the same State. The paternal grandfather, Benjamin Wallick, senior, was a native of Pennsylvania and an early settler of Tuscarawas County, where he lived until his removal to Miami County, Indiana, in the winter of 1840. He died in this county about the year 1855-6. Benjamin Wallick, junior, father of William, was born in Tuscarawas County, and in early life worked at the carpenter's trade. He came to Indiana in 1840, and locating in Peru worked at his trade for a time, and then erected a planing mill on Little Pipe Creek, a short distance southwest of the city, which he operated with good success for a number of years. He died in 1883. Elizabeth Wallick was also a native of Ohio, and departed this life in Miami County, Indiana, in the year 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Wallick had a family of six children whose names are as follows, to-wit: William, the subject of the biography; Joseph (deceased), James M. (deceased), John W., Charles F. and Emma, wife of Jackson Ewing, Esq. William Wallick grew to manhood in Miami County moving here with his parents in 1840, when but eight years of age. His early educational advantages were limited, attending only the county district schools irregularly until his seventeenth year. During this period his time when out of school was spent at farm labor, but at the age of eighteen he abandoned agricultural pursuits and began the carpenter's trade. He was thus engaged till the fall of 1861, when the drum and fife (music still familiar to his ears) was heard throughout the North, calling the friends of the Federal Union to organize and rally in its support. The loyal sons of Indiana responded nobly to that call and early took steps to the music for the Union. Among them William Wallick was found on the muster roll of Company G., 51st Regiment Volunteer Infantry, which company he was largely instrumental in organizing. He enlisted on the 8th day of October, 1861, entering the service as Second Lieutenant, and with his regiment soon after proceeded to the front, where in a number of the bloodiest battle of the war he bore an active and conspicuous part. The 51st was attached to the 4th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, and in common with other regiments that participated in the southwestern campaigns suffered extreme hardships and endurance. Among the most important battles in which Captain Wallick was engaged were Murfreesboro, Nashville, Shiloh, Franklin, besides lesser engagements, in all about twenty-nine. At an encounter near Rome, Georgia, on the 8th of May, 1863, the entire command to which the 51st belonged was captured, and the prisoners first taken to Rome and later to Atlanta. Captain Wallick with many of his comrades were subsequently incarcerated in the Libby Prison at Richmond, Virginia, where for a period of nine months, exposed to all the hardships and horrors of that notorious pen, he lived with the one object in view—that of regaining his liberty. Among the many thrilling experiences of the Captain's prison life was that, when with seventy other unfortunate comrades he was obliged to take his chances in drawing lots to determine which two of their number should be executed in retaliation for the death of a couple of Confederate officers captured and hanged by General Burn side He, with twenty-four others, among whom was Col. A. D. Streight, of Indianapolis, all sworn to secrecy on penalty of death, matured and finally succeeded, in carrying into successful effect a plan of escape by excavating a tunnel under the prison walls. Through this aperture one hundred and nine persons made their escape, fifty-seven of whom were recaptured and taken back. The Captain, in common with those who succeeded in reaching the Union lines, narrates with thrilling interest the many adventures he encountered during the two days and nights spent in making his way to Williamsburgh, Virginia, the nearest available point in possession of the Federal forces. To escape observation he was compelled to secrete himself during the day in swamps, thickets, etc., and to travel wholly by night, suffering intensely during the trip from hunger, exposure and cold, the time being early in the month of February, 1864. On reaching Williamsburgh he at once procured a furlough, and after a short time spent with his family and friends in Peru, again returned to the front rejoining his regiment in Tennessee, where he found a Captain's commission awaiting him having been promoted to the command of the company while a prisoner in Libby. He was with his regiment in the campaign of central Tennessee, and the day succeeding the bloody battle of Nashville, in which engagement he took an active part, his term of service expired and he once more became an private citizen. Immediately after his discharge he returned to Peru and resumed his trade which he has since followed, principally in the city and Miami County. Captain Wallick has recently prepared an interesting lecture entitled, Libby Prison, in which are narrated in detail the sufferings, privations and death of union prisoners and prison life in general, with a full account of his wonderful and almost miraculous escape. He is delivering this lecture in various parts of the country and has already won many encomiums from the press and those who have heard him. Mr. Wallick was married June 11, 1855, to Miss Mary E. Burns, of Tuscarawas County, Ohio. To this marriage was born one child, Flora M. Wallick, deceased.

(Contributed by Barb Zigenmeyer)