C. D. Sidle, a farmer, P. O. Richwood. Rev. John C. Sidle, the father of our subject, was born in Ohio in 1812 and died in Richwood in 1877. He came to Union County with his wife, Elizabeth (Hamilton) Sidle, in 1838, and for nearly half a century officiated as a minister of the Methodist denomination in this county. In addition to his ministerial duties, he devoted considerable time to farming, and at one time owned 1,400 acres of land in Union County. He was an honorable gentleman, of a genial, social disposition, a good linguist and fluent speaker, charitable to a fault, and wonderfully attached to his children. He was Trustee of Claibourne Township for a time, and for twenty years served as a Justice of the Peace. It is said of him that he married more couples than any man that ever lived in the county. His family consisted of seven children, and included three pairs of twins, viz.: John, now a merchant in Chicago; Mary and Martha, the latter deceased and the former now the wife of J. J. Jolliff; W. H. and Hannah, now wife of W. H. Tanner; and Sarah R, deceased, and our subject. The latter was born in Claibourne Township March 17 , 1838, and was reared on the farm, receiving the rudiments of his education in the common schools, after which he attended Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware and graduated in 1867. He has followed farming for a livelihood and owns a good farm of 132 acres in the township. In 1869, he married Emeret Wood, a daughter of Benjamin Wood. of English descent. By this union three children were born, viz., Laura C., C. D. and Jacob P. Mr. and Mrs. Sidle are members of the Methodist Protestant Church.