ADAM PRINCE, deceased. Adam Prince and his wife, Eve Burok.er, were natives of Virginia, and emigrated to Kentucky in 1805, and from there to this county in 1809. Having found a spring which was so attractive to those reared in a mountainous country, Mr. Prince entered the quarter-section upon which it was located. The land office was in Cincinnati, and it seems that another man also wanted the same tract, and had started to make his entry the day before Mr. Prince expected to go. Mr. P., hearing of him on the way, rode all night, determined to have the land he wanted, and reached Cincinnati before his rival, entered the land, and started on his return. Meeting the other man, Mr. Prince informed him that the tract in qttestion was not on the mark.et at that time. Mr. Prince passed six months on the frontier in the north- western part of the State, during the war of 1812, leaving his family in charge of a neighbor. His land was covered with a magnificent growth of walnut and poplar, which were gradually removed and the land brought under cultivation. He was quite a noted mechanic. and manufactured barrels, wooden clocks, and all needed farm implements, with equal facility. His wife died in 1828; he survived her twenty-one years, having been all his life a devoted member of the Lutheran Church. He was a prosperous man, and left to each of his children a tract of land. Adam and Eve Prince were parents of four children-Elizabeth, Mary, William and Nancy. William died in 1848 -the three daughters still survive. The first husband of Elizabeth was Isaac Smith, a son of one of the excellent families of the county, and after his death she was mar ried to James Crabill, who also died many years ago. She reared a large family, some of whom live in the neighborhood, and others are scattered over the West. Mary wedded Adam Pence; their children are noble men and women, and their names are given in connection with their family history. William Prince was born in 1807; his edueation was such as the schools of his day afforded; he was a good penman and an excellent arithmetician, as can be seen by looking over his old copy-book., wherein his problems were solved, which is now in possession of his children. In 1828, he was married to Miss Sarah, a daughter of Christian Norman, who also had emigrated from the Shenandoah Valley in 1805. His death occurred in 1848. Mr. Prince eame into possession of the land entered by his father in 1833, to which other purchases were added. He also owned a lot of Western lands. He received a commission as Captain of a militia company in 1841, or 1842, which was held until the company was disbanded. He was a man of considerable influence in his neighborhood, and was always firm in the support of all moral and religious work, living and dying in the faith of his fathers. Nancy, his youngest daughter, was married to David Vance, a relative. of Ex-Gov. Vance, of this State. They reared five children two of whom-John and David -are ministers in the Methodist Church. To William and Sarah Prince were born nine children, six of whom grew to maturity-Mary, David N ., Peter W ., Elizabeth, Benjamin F. and Lydia. Mary was married. to Rhinehart Snapp, with whom she lived until his death, six years later. She is now a resident of Jackson Township. David N. married Mary Jones, of this county. He volunteered, in 1861, in Co. I, 42d 0. V. I. From a private, he became Captain of his company, and, after many engagements in the war, from which he escaped unharmed, was honorably discharged, after a service to his country of more than three years. His residence is in Shelby County. Peter W. is the owner of the old home farm, which he has greatly improved, and is, in all respects, a prosperous farmer. His wife was Miss Mary Browning. Elizabeth married John Wantz, and died in 1873. Benjamin F., after passing his boyhood on the farm, attended Wittenberg College, at Springfield, Ohio, from which institution he graduated in 1865. He also studied theology, and is now Professor of Greek in that institution. He was married to Ellen Sanderson, datighter of Col. Sanderson, of the regular army. Lydia is the wife of Emanuel Largent, a resident of this county.

B. F. PRINCE, A. M., Professor of Greek and History in Wittenberg College, Sprinfield, Ohio. Benjamin F. Prince, A. M., was born Dec. 12, 1840, in Champaign Co., Ohio; his ancestors came to this country about the middle of the last century and were settlers in Eastern Pennsylvania; his grandfathers, Christian Norman and Adam Prince, with their wives, settled in the forests of Champaign. Co., the one in 1805, the other in 1809 ;both were prosperous farmers, and succeeded in gaining a competency for themselves and their children. William Prince, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Kentucky in 1807, and the mother, Sarah Norman, in Ohio in 1808 ; they were married in 1828. William Prince became a successful farmer and a man of influence in the community in which he lived; he died in 1848. Benjamin F. Prince is the fifth of six children who grew to maturity; he was brought up to the labors of the farm, and received his early education in the district school; in 1860, he entered the Preparatory Department of Wittenberg College; he graduated from this institution in 1865, and, at the opening of the next session, he proceeded to the study of theology; In the spring of 1866, he was appointed Tutor in said institution; in 1869, Principal of the Preparatory Department, and Assistant Professor of Greek j in 1873, Professor of Natural History; and in 1878, Professor or Greek atld History, which position he now holds. In 1869, he was married to Ella Sandersoti, of Springfield, Ohio; Miss Sanderson was the daughter of J. Sandersoh, a lawyer or Philadelphia, editor of the Daily News of that city in 1861, Chief Clerk to Simon Cameron, Secretary of War ;and afterward Colonel in the regular army. Miss Sanderson received her education in the schools of Philadelphia and in the Springfield Seminary, from which she graduated in 1866.