David MacClement Rowe.

Looking Backward
(Autobiography of D.M. Rowe)
Part 1: 1868-1873 Dayton & Evansville

Part 2: 1872-1876 Evansville & Illinois

Part 3: 1876-1888 Trip home to Dayton & School

More D. M. Rowe
Phoenix Light Infantry

Letters from Wheeling Creek

Dayton Building Owners and Managers Newsletters (BOMA)
Vol. 2 No. 26  July 19th, 1921 through
Vol. 2 No. 31  August 23, 1921
My Barney Family

Harriet Newell Barney Osgood Stevens (Autobiography)
"Early Reminiscences"

Harriet Barney Stevens from
Some Dayton Saints and Prophets
(typed from my own copy)

Harriet Barney Stevens' Obituaries

The Barney-Smith Car Works

Eliam E. Barney (Harriet's brother)
Some Dayton Saints and Prophets
(link to Dayton History Books Online)

Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co.

A History of the Barney & Smith Car Company, 1911
(Special thanks to Dayton History Books Online)


My Stevens Family

Ansel E. Stevens and Harriet Barney

James Hadley Stevens and Romelia Miller

Anna M. Stevens and David M. Rowe




My Doane/Miller Family

Lucy Ann Doane and Isaac Lane Miller

  Gurdon Miller and Hannah Lane

"Miller Speculation"


My Müller / Mueller Family

Konrad Karl Müller / Carl Conrad Mueller (part. complete)
(immigrant)


Jacob Müller IV and Helena Weiffenbach
(Alsfeld, Darmstadt-Hesse, Germany)



My Schantz Family

Frederick Schantz

Elizabeth Eva Schantz

Index page 2 with some other surnames I've researched.

More Family Info.

Barney Car picture from Narrow Gauge Railways in America. By Howard Fleming, 1876.

The Tope Family Page
(Official site of Tope family researchers)

Eachus Family Site
(Best site on the internet for the Eachus family)

Dayton History Books Online (FREE!)
The Topes of Carroll, Gallia and Madison Counties, Ohio.

This book has been published and is available at Lulu
Coil Bound $15.53 including shipping
Case-wrap Hardcover $28.00 including shipping

There is a preview of the book available on Lulu that shows a sample of the years of research and care put into the book.  The preview includes The table of contents, a section on George W. Tope (there's more in the miscellaneous section) and William Donaldson, a sample of the Civil War letters from George W. to his son William G. Tope a sample of the bibliography and a sample of the index.

The book includes many transcripts of rare documents including family Bibles from the Everhart Family, George W. Tope, and William G. Tope.

And goes off on several connecting families including:  Hixon, Eachus, Rice, Donaldson, Campbell, Morgan, Clarkson, Everhart, Foster, Merrell, Hall, Neal, and many others who married into these families.

A special thank you also goes out to Earl Tope, Audrey Johnson, and Dale Maddux for the photographs included in the book, a few from the Civil War era or before, and many of the latter 19th and early 20th century people.
My Family Home
The Topes, Rowes, Hixons, Muellers, Eachus,
Rice, Stevens, Schantz, and other related families.

Barney, Campbell, Clarkson, Doan, Donaldson, Eachus, Everhart, Hall, Hanitsch, Hixon, MacClement, Merrell, Miller, Morgan, Mueller, Norris, Olt, Rice, etc.
My Tope Family
George W. and Elizabeth Donaldson Tope in the mid 1890s.
David M. Rowe abt. 1890
Isaac Lane and Lucy Doane Miller's children.
circa 1890-1903.
The Algonquin Mill (formerly known as Tope's Mill) in Carroll County, OH.
Anna Maria Stevens
October 30, 1890 m. David M. Rowe
4 Generation Photograph taken Christmas 1897
Frederick J. Schantz, 1920.
Barbara Olt Schantz, 1920.
D.M. Rowe in uniform of Phoenix Light Infantry, abt. 1890.
The Family of Ansel & Harriet Barney Stevens.
Lucy Ann Doan Miller, of Cleveland.
Harriet's brother, Elias E. Barney.
Barney Car in 1876.
C.C. Mueller's  Store
C.C. & Eliza... Mueller on their honeymoon.
A.E. Stevens from A History of the B & S Car Company.
NCR clerks 1895
More NCR clerks 1895
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