Who resides in Griggsville; Nicholas and David, both deceased; Charles E., who is living on the old homestead near Maysville; and Orpha J., who is the wife of Stanton Kennedy, a resident of Griggsville township.     William H. Dunham was educated in Maysville, acquiring a good English education. As the father was crippled the children early had to start out in life on their own account and William H. Dunham followed the plow when only eight years of age. His youth was largely a period of earnest and unremitting toil but he developed thereby a self-reliance and force of character which have made him a strong man in later years — strong in his honor and good name, strong in his purposes and in what he has accomplished. When twenty-one years of age he was married, but remained upon the home farm for two years longer and at the age of twenty-three years he began the operation of rented land, giving his time and energies to farm labor for ten years longer. He then bought one hundred and sixty acres where he now resides, taking up his abode thereon in 1891. He has a splendid property here, the land being arable and responding readily to the care and cultivation he bestows upon it. The fields are now well tilled and he has good buildings upon the place, including a fine two story residence. He also buys and sells hogs and cattle and everything about his farm is kept in excellent condition, its neatness and thrift indicating his careful supervision.     Mr. Dunham was married in 1880 to Miss Sarah E. Aber, a native of Detroit township, Pike county, born on the 28th of October, 1862, and a daughter of Henry and Ann Eliza (Sloan) Aber. The father was an early settler here, having come to Pike county when a young man with his parents. By trade he is a blacksmith and for many years led a very busy life. He still survives but his wife has been called to her final rest. Mrs. Dunham is one of six children. Her father married again and had five children by his second wife. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Dunham have been born ten children, of whom one died in infancy. Nellie May, who pursued her education in Maysville, Griggsville and in the State Normal School, is now teaching for the fifth term. Mary Alta married Newton Moon, resides in Griggsville township and has two children, Amy May and Charles Winfred. Nannie A., Orpha L., Bessie D., Nathaniel Clay, Daniel Truman, Willa Fern, and Sadie Esther are all at home. Lucinda died in infancy. The home farm is pleasantly located about two and a half miles southeast of New Salem. Mr. Dunham votes with the democracy and for fifteen years served as school director. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen camp, No. 1110, of New Salem and his wife and eldest daughter are members of the Royal Neighbors. He and his family hold membership in the United Brethren church, in which he is serving as a trustee and president of the board. His life has been honorable and upright, his actions manly and sincere and he is a gentleman whom to know is to respect. He has made all of his property by hard and persistent work and his name stands as a synonym for business integrity and unfaltering perseverance.                                       _________________                                              J. T. KIBLER    J. T. Kibler, living on section 11, Martinsburg township, is one of the settlers of Pike county, dating his residence here from 1851, while since 1866 he has lived upon his present farm. He owns and operates one hundred and sixty acres of land and is a prosperous agriculturist. A native son of Ohio, he was born in Highland county, on the 17th of July, 1824. His father was Frederick Kibler, a native of Virginia, and his grandfather was William Kibler, one of the early residents of the Shenandoah valley in the Old Dominion. He was of German birth. Frederick Kibler was reared and educated in Virginia and there married Leah Wilkin, who was born in that state and was a daughter of Henry Wilkin, who was likewise a native of Virginia but became an early settler of Ohio. Both the Kibler and Wilkin families went to the Buckeye state, settling near Hillsboro, in Highland county, where Frederick Kibler engaged in clerking and also developed a farm. In his family were ten children, all of whom reached years of maturity, J. T. Kibler