. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. llars. In the spring of1855, the second month,he purchased fifty acresfor three thousand dol-ars, paying two thou-sand cash and discount-ing the remaining debtbefore it became thirty he owneda farm of fifty acres, hadmoved on it, and wasbusily engaged in thechoice of his life. In1869 he bought seventy-eight acres of StephenW. Garrison, payingseven thousand two hun-dred dollars. February,t88o, he added again,and now owns two hun-dred and seventy acres ofgood tillable land Mr Hayes is iem-\rkable as a flat
. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. llars. In the spring of1855, the second month,he purchased fifty acresfor three thousand dol-ars, paying two thou-sand cash and discount-ing the remaining debtbefore it became thirty he owneda farm of fifty acres, hadmoved on it, and wasbusily engaged in thechoice of his life. In1869 he bought seventy-eight acres of StephenW. Garrison, payingseven thousand two hun-dred dollars. February,t88o, he added again,and now owns two hun-dred and seventy acres ofgood tillable land Mr Hayes is iem-\rkable as a flat-boat man, mak-ing five round trips from Lawrenceburgh to New Orleans. Religiously, Mr. and Mrs. Hayes are members of the MethodistEpiscopal church, the former for twenty-three years, the latter for thesame length of time. Educationally, both belong to that class of people who develop bycontact with the world, by labor and industry. Great and generousdeeds hang in clusters about them, friends respect and admire theirmany virtues, and many aspire to reach so envied a MR. M. S. BONNELL. MRS. M. S. BONNELL. Marcus Seneca Bonnell, a prosperous farmer, occupying a beautifulresidence on the dividing line between Harrison and Crosby townships,five miles northeast from Harrison and two miles northwest from NewHaven, is a grandson of Aaron Bonnell, who came to the Miami coun-try in 1805, with his brothers Benjamin and Paul, and his married sis-ters, Rhoda and Abigail—a strong delegation for one family at onetime. They were all children of Benjamin and Rachel Bonnell, who^ame from England and settled in New Jersey, where their family wasreared. The father was drowned in the East river, near New York,with ten others, November 10, 1798, on a boat crossing from the city toBrooklyn, upon which a number of casks of rum rolled to one sideand overturned the frail vessel, with the terrible results above was then seventy-five years old. His wife survived him until 1812,when
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