Bernard B. Scarff, who is numbered among the progressive business citizens of Tippecanoe City, has been identified with several lines of commercial endeavor in this city, but since 1907 has devoted his attention to the hardware business conducted under the firm style of Scarff & Baldwin. Mr. Scarff was born on a farm in Clark county, Ohio, June 23, 1869, a son of William H. and Margaret (McKinley) Scarff. William H. Scarff was an Ohioan by birth and throughout his career followed the pursuits of farming with the exception of the period that he spent as a soldier of the Union during the Civil war. At the outbreak of the struggle between the North and the South, he enlisted in an Ohio contingent, as a 100-day man, and at the close of his term of enlistment re- enlisted in an Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, with which he fought faithfully and gallantly until the close of the war, four years later. He then returned to the peaceful pursuits of farming and rounded out big honorable career in Clark county, where his death was greatly mourned. There were four sons and two daughters in the family, those still surviving being: Nellie G., who is the wife of S. W. Baldwin, member of the firm of Scarff & Baldwin; Clifford A., who is identified with the Troy Lumber Company, of Troy, Ohio, and Bernard B. Bernard B. Scarff acquired his educational training in the public schools of Clark county and grew up as a farmer's son. For a time he assisted his father in the work of the home property, then going to Missouri, where he was made manager of a large ranch and occupied that post for six years. Returning to Ohio, he spent the next four years in farming on his own account, after which he was foreman in the yards in the lumber business at Tippecanoe City. His experience therein was followed by his entrance into the Tippecanoe Building and Manufacturing Company, of which concern he was foreman of the lumber department for two and one-half years, and in 1907 he entered the hardware business when he bought his present place of business, which is conducted as Scarff & Baldwin, his partner being his brother-in- law, S. W. Baldwin. Under capable management this venture has been built up to important proportions and through his connection therewith Mr. Scarff has established the fact of his ability firmly in the minds of his associates, while at the same time impressing the buying public with his integrity. Mr. Scarff married Marion Augusta, daughter of P. W. Baldwin, of New Carlisle, Ohio. Mr. Scarff is a Scottish Rite Mason and has numerous friends in that order and he is also a Shriner. As a citizen, he has supported worthy movements making for the betterment of his community and during the war period was a member of all the local committees in the various drives for war funds. During the six years that he served as treasurer of Tippecanoe City, he established an excellent record.