Henry Bascom Gaffin
Henry Bascom Gaffin was born September 25, 1862, at Bentonville, in Adams County. His father was Sylvanus N. Gaffin, and his mother was Jane McDaniel. His father came from New York. He attended the District schools as a boy. He began the huckstering business when but twelve years of age, and continued it for two years. He then went into the grocery business at Bentonville, clerking for William Gaffin for three years. He removed to Mineral Springs Station in 1884, and conducted a general store there for nearly ten years, at which time he moved his business to Peebles, and has conducted a general store there ever since. He is also in the livery business at Peebles, with John Sparks, under the name of Gaffin & Sparks. He went into it at the same time he opened the general store in Peebles.
In 1896, he was elected Countv Treasurer of Adams County over F. M. Harover, of Manchester, by 68 majority, and has been elected to a second term. He has always been a Democrat. He has been a member of the School Board and Council of Peebles. He took up his residence in 1894 in Peebles, and removed to West Union in 1898. He was married January 7, 1884, to Lilly B. Sparks, daughter of Salathiel Sparks. They have two children, Jessie, aged thirteen years and Henry Earl, aged five. He is a member of the Methodist Church of Peebles.
Mr. Gaffin is a man of unimpeachable moral character, a public spirited citizen and progressive in all his ideas. He enjoys the confidence of all those with whom he has business relations. He is actively engaged in politics, and as County Treasurer, he is regarded as one of the best who has ever held that office, old General Bradford, who held it for thirty-two vears, not excepted.
From History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900