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ADAMS WILLIAM, Bedford township, shoemaker, postoffice West Bedford, born in 1320, in Jefferson county. He came to this county in 1834 with his father, John Adams, who was born in 1792, in Maryland. He came to Jefferson county in 1806, and was married in 1818 to Miss Margaret Donley, of that county, who was born in Pennsylvania. He died in 1875, and she died in 1872. They were the parents"of five children, the subject of this sketch being the oldest. He was married in 1855 to Miss Ann McCullough, of this county, who was born in 1827, in Delaware.

ADAMS E. W., Roscoe postoffice, farmer and lumber dealer, born January 24, 1832, in Keene township, son of J. Q. Adams, a New Englander by birth and of English descent; married October 3, 1866, to Miss Olivia M., daughter of Alanson Gleason, of Ashtabula county. Their family consists of five children, viz: Lora L., John Q., Dorothy A., Edward G. and Clifford G. In 1872 the firm, Adams & Gleason, lumber dealers, was established in North Roscoe. Their stock consists of both rough and dressed lumber and they manufacture frames and all kinds of supplies used for building purposes.

ADAMS THOMAS, White Eyes township, farmer, is a native of this county, and was born in 1839. His father, John Adams, emigrated to this country from Ireland and settled In White Eyes at an early date. Thomas was drafted in 1862, and employed John Bowman, of Columbus, as his substitute. He married November 29, 1866, Miss Angeline Wilhelm, daughter of Samuel Wilhelm. She was born in this county in 1844. They have two children-Ida R., born in 1867; Reo Alva, born 1877.

ADAMS G. W., Virginia township, born in Coshocton county, Ohio, February 23,1827; married January 2.1854. Mr. Adams been blessed with eight children, two of whom are married and six are still living with their parents. Mr. Adams is engaged in farming. Postoffice Dresden, Muskingum county, Ohio.

ADAMS C. E., Virginia township, born in this county March 15, 1822, son of Beal and Betsey Adams, grandson of George and Anna Adams. He was married January 12,1843. Mr, Adams has been blessed with twelve children, six of whom are living and six are dead. Postoffice Adams' Mills.

ADAMS ALEX., White Eyes township, farmer, born in 1847, in this township, the son of John Adams and Jane (McCullough) Adams, who were both natives of Ireland, and came to this country in 1832, and settled in Keene township. They then moved upon eighty acres he, entered in White Eyes, and subsequently bought the Cassady place, where he now resides. August 9, 1877, Alexander Adams married Margaret Cutshall, of Crawford township, the daughter of John Cutshall. They lived on the McBratney place one year, next moved to George county, Nebraska, where Mr. Adams entered a quarter section. After living on that one year, he sold it and bought eighty acres near the same place, on which he lived seven months, and then returned to White E es, where he now resides. They have one chip, Jennie Rosalie, born July 22, 1878.

*ADDY SAMUEL, Adams township, farmer, postoffice, Evansburgh; born June 20,1843; son of Anthony T. and Sarah A. (Norris) Addy; grand

* Since the above was written, Mr. Addy has gone to Iowa.

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son of Robert Addy and Samuel and Lydia (Hartly) Norris. He enlisted February 22,1864, in Company H, Fifty-first O. V. I, under Captain Samuel Stevens. He took part in the engagements at Tunnel Hill, Resaca, Cassville, Dalton, Kennesaw Mountain, and Peachtree Creek. Arriving at Atlanta, they went to Jonesboro, thence to Atlanta again, thence to Chattanooga, then to Athens, Alabama, from there to Pulaski, thence to Franklin and Nashville, then to winter quarters, thence to Nashville, and from there to Texas, and was discharged November 4, 1865. He was married October 5, 1866, to Miss Sarah J. Norris, daughter of Matilda (Maple) and Jacob Norris. The ancestors were : William and Anna Smyth Norris, William and Sarah (Johnson) Maple, great great grand-daughter of Catherine (Bridgewater) Johnson. She was born in Adams township, December 20, 1848. This union has been blessed with five children, viz : Mary A., born October 14, 1867; Martha E., born September 26, 1869; Amanda E., born May 16, 1872; Matilda, born November 24,1874; Orla, born February 20,1878.

ALMACK D. E., Jefferson township, was born October 15,1843, in Perry township, Coshocton county, postoffice, Mohawk Village; son of K. L. and Caroline (Johns) Almack; was brought up on a farm and educated in district schools. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in Company H, Ninety-seventh O. V. I; served three years under Captain C. C. Nichols, in the Army of the Cumberland, Second Division Fourth Army Corps. He was in the battles of Stone River, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Resaca, Dalton, Adairsville, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Columbia, Tennessee, Springhill, Franklin and Nashville. He was severely wounded at Kenesaw Mountain, and was taken to hospital No. 1, Nashville, Tennessee, where he remained three months, when he again joined his regiment at Chattanooga. In 1865, He was honorably discharged at Nashville, and mustered out at Columbus. He was married to Miss Delila Meredith, November 4, 1867, who died September 12,1868. Mr. Almack was mar ried to his second wife, Miss Rebecca Richards, January 4, 1870, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Meredith) Richards. Their children are Francis M., Jay Quincy, and Kinsey D. Mr. Almack has been engaged in merchandising since 1868, in Mohawk Village, where he is doing a good business.

ALMACK L. F., Jefferson township, was born January 15, 1846, in Perry township, Coshocton county; son of K. L. and Caroline (Johns) Almack, and grandson of Thomas and Dorcas (Cullison) Almack, and David Johns. He was brought up on a farm, and educated in district schools, and followed farming till 1872, when he began the grocer business in Mohawk Village, and continued tree years, since when he has been engaged as clerk in his brother's store. He was married to Miss Heater Mikesell, February 7, 1869, daughter of Philip and Orpha (Gerrard) Mikesell. James R., born November 6, 1869, is their only child.

ALMACK J. W., merchant, Pike township. He was born in 1846, in Perry township. His father, J. C. Almack, was born m 1800, in Baltimore county, Maryland, and came to this county in 1827. He was married in 1826 to Mary Richards, who was born in 1806, in Belmont county, Ohio. Mr. Almack died in 1873; Mrs. Almack, in 1880. They were the parents of eight children. The subject of this sketch, the seventh, was married in 1876 to Sarah Preston, who was born in' this county in 1856. Mr. Almack was in the mercantile business in Mohawk Village and Coshocton prior to locating in West Carlisle, to which place he came in 1878, and where he now has an excellent stock of goods.

ALPETER J. J., Crawford township, farmer, postoffice, Buena Vista, Ohio; son of John Alpeter, deceased, who was a farmer and stone mason. He was born January 12,1814, in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany; came to America in 1848, and located first near Rogersville, Tuscarawas county, where he remained nearly two years ; thence to near Carlisle, Holmes. county, where he remained five years; after which he came to the homestead, where he died April 3, 1876. Mr. Alpeter was married in the fall of 1840 to Miss Catharine, daughter of Henry and Charlotte (Miller) Hooprich. They became the parents of seven children, viz: Adam, John (deceased), Frederick, Elizabeth, Caroline, John J. and Henry. Mr. Alpeter began business in America with but $200, but, by industry and good management, he left a good farm for his children and aged widow, who shared the toils and hardships of his early life.

ALTMAN B. F., Jefferson township, miller, postoffice, Warsaw; born September 6, 1847, in Holmes county, Ohio; son of Elijah and Mary (Beck) Altman, and grandson of Isaac Altman and Michael Beck. Until the age of twenty-three he attended school and assisted his father on the farm, saw-mill and flouring-mill.He then went to Indiana, then back to Ohio and then to Missouri, and remained there about six months, after which he came home and has been engaged at milling in the following named mills, viz: Becks' Helmeck's, Princeton and Warsaw mills, where he is at present doing a good business. He was married October 17, 1875, to Miss Lydia Cross, daughter of John and Roda (Swan) Cross. They have two children-Flora N., born June 30, 1877, and Rosa N., born November 5,1879.

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AMANS BENJAMIN, Oxford township, farmer, postoffice, Evansburgh, Ohio; son of Isaac and Jane (Robinson) Amans; was born in 1843, in this county. He was raised on the farm and has always followed that occupation. bar. Amans enlisted, in 1862, in company C, Fifty-second regiment O. V. I, and served three years. He fought under Sherman and McCook, and was engaged in the battles of Chicamauga, Kenesaw Mountain, Stone River and numerous others of less importance. He was married September 3, 1868, to Miss Anna M. Loos, of this county They are the parents of five children, viz: Isaac (de ceased), John W. (deceased), Ananias, Eliza E., and Rosa A. (deceased).

ANDERSON DR. J. & SON, druggists, No. 218 Main street, Coshocton. Dr. Anderson is a native of Guernsey county, Ohio, where he was born September 8,1820. He received his education in the district and select schools of that county, after which he attended the Cincinnati college of medicine and surgery, from which be graduated in 1862. He entered upon the practice of his profession at Port Washington, Tuscarawas county, where he remained one year. He then came to Keene, this county, where lie practiced with success and acceptance some years. In 1868 he came to Coshocton and engaged in the drug business in which he still continues. He occupies pleasant and commodious rooms in Central hall lock, where he keeps a very large and complete stock of pure drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, trusses, toilet articles, fancy goods, paints, oils, varnishes, dye stuffs, miscellaneous and school books, wall paper, etc., etc., etc.

ANDERSON GEORGE H., Bedford township, farmer, postoffice, Tunnel Hill, born in 1827, in Muskingum county, Ohio, and was married in 1856 to Miss Elizabeth Story, of Zanesville, who was born in 1835 in Perry county, Ohio. They came to this county in 1862, and are the parents of three children, viz: J. A., Clara E. and Isaac G.

ANDERSON WILLIAM, Pike township, postoffice, Fraysburgh, Muskingum county, farmer and stock raiser, born in Maryland, in 1807, settled in this county in 1817 ; son of Joshua and Sarah (Fairall) Anderson. Mr. Anderson's father died in 1809, and his mother in 1880. The subject of this sketch was married in 1831, to Miss Mariah Riley, daughter of William and Hannah (Long) Riley. They are the parents of the following children, viz: George W., Isaac C., Mary J., John H., who enlisted in 1862 in Company A, Seventy-sixth regiment, Captain Lemert ; Phoebe A., Eunice T., Truman B., Joshua B. and Sarah M. All are married.

ANDREW'S JOHN, Keene township, farmer, born June 14,1815, in Philadelphia; came to Ohio in 1817, and settled in Steubenville, lived there four years, then came to Coshocton county, Keene township. Mr. Anderson says he remembers distinctly of sending about three miles to get William Boyd and the only ax in the neighborhood, to cut the brush from between the George Beaver farm and Mr. Andrews' present home. He is a son of Gabriel and Catharine (Bechtol) Andrews, and grandson of John Andrews. He was married to Miss Pricilla Snyder April 9, 1840, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, daughter of George and Mary (K ersy) Snyder; grand-daughter of Noah and Hetty (Bechtol) ersy; and great granddaughter of John and Catharine (Ritter) Kersy. The children born to them were Secillia, born January 1, 1843 ; G. G., born March 29,1845; and John L. July 20,1855.

ANDREWS G. G., Coshocton; liveryman, of the firm of Snyder & Andrews; was born March 27, 1845, in Keene township, Coshocton county, Ohio; son of John Andrews, American born, of Irish ancestry. Young Andrews was raised on the farm, where he remained until he was about twenty-three years old, when he took a contract from the government to carry United States mail from this city to Millersburgh, Holmes county. He held this route for eight years. In July, 1874, he engaged in his present business, at the corner of Main and Second streets. This firm keep an average of ten horses and suitable rigs, such as barouches, carriages; buggies, sample wagons, sleighs, etc., also keeps a sale and feeding stable Mr. Andrews was married January 12, 1871, to Miss Sarah L. Munn, daughter of Samuel Munn, of Keene township.

ANGLE DANIEL, Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh; born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania,. March 18, 1811; son of Jacob and Rebecca (Smith) Angle, and grandson of John Angle and Adam Smith. He went to Cambric county, Pennsylvania, in 1844, and in 1850 came to Jefferson county, Ohio, and after remaining there about thirteen years, he moved to Adams township, Coshocton county, and has remained there since. He was married March 11, 1830, to Nancy Gossaid, daughter of John and Mariah (Keifer) Gossaid, who died October 15, 1853. They were the parents of three children-Daniel, born January 12, 1835, Jacob, born April 6, 1833, and Malachi, born November 5,1839. He was married in February, 1&55, to Sarah Gilly, who died December 2, 1879. They had one child, William, born October 31, 1855. Malachi was married April 12, 1868, to Alice Crawshaw, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Ellis) Crawshaw, born in Chester, England, July 4, 1842. . They have three children-Joseph C., born December 12, 1868, George, born May 22, 1873 and Lucy J., born January 12, 1878.

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ARMSPAUGH GIDEON, Monroe township; was born May 25, 1803, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, son of George and Catherine (Lookenbill) Armspaugh, and grandson of George Armspaugh, who is of German descent. In 1811 he came, with his parents, to Oxford township, Coshocton county, where he lived until 1863, when he removed to Monroe township, and resides there at present on his farm. By honest industry and economy he has acquired and saved enough to keep him in comfort during the remainder of his days. He says he remembers distinctly the first Indian he ever saw, was Chief Doughty, who came down the Walhonding river, crossed the Muskingum to Colonel William's saloon and got a coffee pot full of whisky and returned the way he came. Mr. Armspaugh was married to Miss Mary Groom, daughter of George and Nancy A. (Fletcher) Groom, who were English. Lewis T., born November 21, 1837, is their only child. Mr. Armspaugh is a farmer in Momroe township. He was married to Miss Margaret McPeek. heir children are Marshall and Ids Bell. Mrs. Armspaugh died March 30, 1864. After her death he married Mrs. Pardy, a widow, whose maiden name was Mary Conner, daughter of James and Ann (Douglas) Conner, granddaughter of Cornelius and Anna (Powelson) Douglas. The children by his first marriage are Calvin C., Isaiah, Francis, James, Isaac and Martha I.

ARTHURS THOMAS, city of Coshocton ; foreman paper mills; born in 1828 in Ireland; son of Edward Arthurs. Young Arthurs was raised on the farm until 17 years of age, when he came to America and went into a paper mill in, Steubenville, Ohio, where he remained until 1863, when he took charge of the mill where he is at present engaged. Mr. A. was married April 27, 1852, to Miss Anne Kelley, daughter of Gilbert Kelley, of County Down, Ireland. They have had ten children, three of whom-John, Elizabeth and Thomas-have deceased. Their living children are William K., Ellie, Mary Anne, Josephine, Annie, James and Edward.

ASCHBAKER JOSEPH, Linton township; farmer, postoffice, Plainfield; born June 28,1853, in Linton township; son of John and Mary Anne (Bordenkircher) Aschbaker, natives of Germany, came to America about 1839 and located on the farm mow owned by their son Joseph, who was married September 14,1875 to Miss Magdalena, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Lash) Shue, a native of Alsace, France. They became the parents of two children-Henry Edward, and Mary Elizabeth. He also had two brothers, David and Jacob, in the late war, in which David contracted the disease which caused his death. Joseph's father died September 22,1857.

ASHCRAFT JACOB, Pike township; postoffice, West Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser;. born in this county in 1832, son of Jacob and Martha Ashcraft. He was married in 1857 to Miss Liddie Russell, daughter of William and Harriott Russell. They are the parents of twelve children-William S., George W., Thomas (deceased), Norah, Mary N., Harriott K., Russell E., Arthur and Jacob L. Two are married.

AXLINE JOHN, Jefferson township ; farmer;. postoffice, Warsaw ; was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, April 6, 1845; son of Philip and Eleanor (Lyle) Axline, and grandson of Jacob Axline,. and Robert and Ellen M. Lyle, and is of German, Scotch and Irish descent. He attended school and farmed until the age of nineteen ; he them worked in Wise's woolen mills, in Holmes county, for over two years, them in Beck's mills the greater part of three years. After that he worked on a sawmill and farmed for about six years in Holmes county, then moved to Jefferson township, this county, where he has followed farming for the past six years. He was married December 12,. 1866, to Miss Parmelia Wise, daughter of Peter and Esther (Baum) Wise, and granddaughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Tombaugh) Wise, also of Peter and Rachel (Bryfogle) Baum, of Pennsylvania (of German descent), and great granddaughter of George Tombaugh. She was born May 2, 1845. They have three children, viz :: Jesse F., born April 1, 1868 ; Laura E., born August 10, 1871, and William S., Born October 29, 1877.

AYRES S. H., born March 18,1841, in Coshocton county, Jefferson township ; son of James and Mary (Killpatrick) Ayers, and grandson of William and Susan (Hall) Ayres, and of Hugh and Sarah (Quick Killpatrick. He was born on a farm and live with his parents till the death of his father, when at the age of eight years he went to live with his brother-in-law where he remained till the age of twenty-one. Being a natural genius he began the shoemaker trade without an instructor, at which he made rapid progress, and soon he engaged as a journeyman for White, of Coshocton, where he worked for some time. He them took up the carpenter trade in like manner. . On the 20th of December, 1878, he was appointed postmaster at Spring Mountain. He was married to Miss Mary E. Conner, December 18, 1868,. daughter of James and Mary (Holt) Conner, and granddaughter of James Conner,

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BAAD CHRISTIAN G., Crawford township; boot and shoemaker; postofface, New Bedford,. Ohio; was born December 25, 1830, in Wertemberg, Germany; son of John Godfried and Christians (Schiess) Baad. He came to America in.

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1846, and located in Crawford township, and went to his present trade when about sixteen years of age. October 1, 1864, he enlisted in Company G, Thirty-eighth O. V. I, and served one year under General Sherman, and was honorably discharged at Columbus. Mr. Baad has held the office of notary public and several township offices, all of which he efficiently filled. Married January 9, 1855, to Miss Doratha Grammes, and they are the parents of four children, Daniel J., Christian F., John G. and Frederick E. L. Mr. Baad was married the second time May 17,1866, to Mary Anne, daughter of Michael and Mary Anne (Ried) Schweitzer. Their children are George M., Mary A., Lizzie J., Rosalee M., Charles H. and Franklin O. Mr. Baad is an intelligent, first-rate work man.

BABCOCK D. W., Mill Creek township; merchant; postoffice, Mound; born in 1838, in this county. His father, Eleazer Babcock, was born in 1801, near Dartmouth college. He came to this county in 1812, and was married in 1831, to Miss Elizabeth Elliot, of this county. She was born in 1809, in New York. He died in 1873. She died in 1859. They were the parents of eight children, the subject of this sketch being the fourth. He was married in 1875, to Miss Sarah Allishouse, of Holmes county, Ohio, who was born in 1849. They are the parents of two children, Nora A. and Londa, Mr. Babcock built the store room he is in, and put in the stock of merchandise in the spring of 1880. He has lots for sale near his store.

BACHMAN BARTHOLOMEW, dealer in groceries, provisions and liquors, corner of Second and Chestnut streets, Coshocton. Mr. Bachman is a native of Austria, and emigrated to America in 186?, and located in Coshocton, where he engaged in stone-cutting, which he followed until 1875. He then established his present business. He occupies rooms in his own building, twenty by sixty feet, where he keeps a large, first class stock of staple and fancy groceries, confectioneries, bread, plain and fancy cakes and pie of all kinds, tobaccos and cigars, fruits and vegetables, and dealer in all kinds of country produce stone and wooden ware, sugar-cured and pickled meats, bologna and fish, flour and salt, and a full line of miners' and laborers' wear and supplies Also a large stock of foreign and domestic bran dies, wines, gins, beer, ales and blackberry wine of the best American brands.

BAHMER VALENTINE A., Adams town ship; shoemaker; postoffice, Bakersville; born in Bucks township, Tuscarawas county, June 15 1841; son of Valentine and Elizabeth (Thomas Bahmer, and grandson of Valentine and Louis (bleu) Bahmer. He began his trade in the fall of 1856, with John Eckhart, of Rogersville, remaining about two and one-half years. He then worked in Canal Dover about two years, and a short time at Shanesville; then returned to Rogersville and enlisted in Company K, Fifty-first O. V. I, October 13, 1862, and served eleven months, being discharged in September, 1863. He then resumed his trade, working in Mansfield, Ashland, Nashville, Tennessee; Louisville, Kentucky; Cincinnati; Covington, Kentucky; Columbus, Ohio, with Reed, Jones & Co.; Gallion, and Ashland, Ohio; then returned to Bakersville, where he has been carrying on a flourishing business since 1869. He was married January 3, 1866, to Elizabeth Schweitzer, daughter of Valentine and Phebe (Froelich) Schweitzer, and granddaughter of Valentine Schweitzer and Nicholas Froelich. They are the parents of seven children, namely: Phebe, Charles V., William H. (deceased), Lewis, Edward, Harry and Carrie.

BAHMER A., Coshocton; livery man; born November 20, 1852, in Tuscarawas county, Ohio; son of Valentine Bahmer, of French ancestry. Young Bahmer spent his childhood on the farm. At the age of fourteen he entered a store as clerk, at Bakersville, this county, and continued six years, when he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and clerked in a provision store until 1877, when he came to this city and engaged in his present business. Mr. Bahmer was married to Miss Sarah M. Mizer, daughter of William Mizer, of Adams township. The result of this union was five children, all living, viz: Freeling H., Harriett Belle, Catherine E., Michael V. and Josephine E. Mr. Bahmer keeps an average of about seven horses, with rigs to suit, such as barouches, buggies, wagons, sleighs, etc., and is doing a very fair business in feeding and caring for most of the best horses in town. He is the owner of Jerry Hadwig, who has a public record of 2:35, trotting, and can to-day beat his record several seconds.

BAILEY STEWART, Tiverton township: farmer; postoffice, Gann, Knox county; born December 1, 1853, in this county. His father was born in 1802, in Muskingum county, Ohio; and was married September 11, 1826, to Miss Phoebe Richards, of Homes county, who was born September 7, 1810. He came to this county in 1836.She died November 15,1847. They were the parents - of eleven children. He was married June 20, 1848, to Miss P. W. Humphrey, of this county, who was born April 15,1818, and died January 8,1877. They were the parents of eight children. The subject of thin sketch being the fourth:

BAIRD GEORGE, Jackson township ; farmer; postoffice, Roscoe, Ohio; son of William and Nancy Baird; was born May 1, 1808, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. He came to Ohio in 1828, and has since remained. The

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country was then a wilderness of woods, with few settlers and plenty of wild animals. Mr. Baird was married in 1837 to Miss Elizabeth Clark, who was born in Virginia, but principally raised in this county. They became the parents of ten children, eight of whom are living, viz: Keziah, Nancy J., Louisa, Rachel, William, George, John, James (deceased), and Josiah. Mr. Clark's father served in the revolutionary war. He now owns a fine farm in the Walhonding valley.

BAKER R. LANE, Linton township; farmer; born in Linton township , November 17, 1818; son of Rezin and Mary (Addy) Baker, daughter of William Addy, one of the earliest settlers of Linton township. Mr. Baker was married in 1849 to Melinda Loos, daughter of John Loos. Five of his ten children survive, viz: Mary Ellen, Barbara Ada, William A., John H. and Jessie. He has served a term of three years as county surveyor, and has just been re-elected to a second term.

BAKER ISAAC, Monroe township ; was born February 21, 1836, in Knox county, Ohio. He is a son of William and Mary (Ankney) Baker, grandson of George and Susan (Brother) Ankney; was born and brought up on a farm; educated partly in district schools and partly at Millwood and Danville. He taught school three terms then engaged as clerk with Robert McCloud in a general merchandise store, where he continued for same time. He then bought McCloud's goods and went into the business himself, in 1864, where he remained till 1866, when he sold out and moved to Spring Mountain, Coshocton county, and engaged in the same business with Ed. Lybarger, and is there at present doing a very good business. Mr. Baker was married first to Miss Adelia Shroyer in 1864. The children by this marriage are: Edwin W. and Claude A. Mrs. Baker died October 11,1878. After the death of Mr. Baker's first wife he married Hattie A. Hogle, September 1;1880, daughter of John Hogle.

BALCH GEORGE, miller; postoffice, Canal Lewisville, Ohio; was born May 4.1838, in Clay township, Knox county; son of John W. and Ma Linda (Hull) Belch. His father was a native of New York State, and his mother of Pennsylvania Mr. Belch's first occupation was a sawyer, but has successfully followed carpentering, millwrighting and farming. He came to this count in 1852 and remained in the county to the pre ant time, with the exceptions of the years 1865-6-7 he lived in Missouri. Mr. Batch was married September 19, 1865, to Miss Nancy, daughter of John and Elizabeth Boyd, of White Eyes town ship. They are the parents of eight children viz: Charles H., deceased, Emma, (twins), Nannie Eda, Laura Melissa, Lola Jane and Lucius J. The last three are triplets, growing well, of good health and ordinary size. At about eight yearn old they were all of exactly the same weight. At present Mr. Belch is principal owner of the fine flouring mill in Lafayette township, where the Conotten Valley railroad crosses the canal.

BALO FRANCIS, Virginia township; born in Switzerland, November 18, 1810; settled in this county in 1853; son of Francis and Susannah Balo. He was married October 24, 1835, to Elizabeth Strum, daughter of David and Anna Strum. Their union has been blessed with seven children five of whom are living and two dead. Abram died in the army. Postoffice, Adams' Mills.

BALO STEPHEN, Virginia township; born in Switzerland, in 1836; son of Francis and Elizabeth Balo; married in 1865 to Martha Bird. Their union has been blessed with six children, all of whom are living. Mr. Balo is a farmer. Post-office, Adams' Mill.

BALO DAVID, Virginia township; born in Switzerland in 1837; settled in Coshocton county in 1853; a son of Francis and Elizabeth Balo, and was married, in 1860, to Mariah J. Newell, daughter of Alexander and Jane Newell. He enlisted August 2, 1862, in company H, Ninety-seventh regiment Army of the Cumberland, and participated in the battles of Perrysville, Chattanooga, Mission Ridge, Tunnell Hill, Reseca, Dallas, Spermey Camp, Peach Tree Creek, Kenesaw, Atlanta, Jonesboro', Spring Hill, Franklin, Nashville and Lovejoy Station. Mr. Balo was discharged June 15, 1864, at Nashville. He has been blessed with five children, four of whom are living and one dead. Postoffice, Adams' Mills.

BANKS BENJAMIN, Linton township; farmer; born in Maryland, in 1821; son of Samuel and Mary (Piper) Banks, the youngest of eight Children. When about fifteen months old, he came with his parents to Linton township. His father died the same year in which he came to Ohio; his mother survived until March, 1870. Mr. Banks was married in 1846, to Elizabeth Johny son, daughter of James Johnson, formerly of this township. Children-Samuel (deceased), Ragan, Sarah Jane, Mary, Martha, Ellen, Dwight (deceased) and Seldom. He was married in 1864 to Frances C. Glenn, daughter of John Glenn, of Linton township. By this marriage, he had four children-Clare, Maggie, Laura and John R. His wife died March 4, 1876.

BARCROFT ELIAS B., Franklin township; born in Jefferson county, Ohio, August 30,1820; son of Lee J. Barcroft. In 1836, he moved, with his father's family, to Lafayette township; learned the wagonmaker trade, in Linton township, and

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worked at it for a number of years; moved to Franklin township, in 1856, and has lived here since, engaged in farming. He was married October 19, 1843, to Sarah Rodruck, daughter of Lewis Rodruck, a pioneer settler of Franklin township. Daniel A., Lewis B., William H. Sarah A. (Moore) and John B., are their children.

BARCROFT W. H., M. D., Coshocton ; born February 9, 1851, in Linton township, this county; son of E. B. Barcroft, of Jefferson county, and of English ancestry. Young Barcroft was raised on the farm until he was about eighteen years old, when he began teaching school and going to high school in this city. In 1871, began reading medicine with Dr. Ingraham, of this city. On finishing his preliminary reading he entered the medical college at Columbus, Ohio, and attended two years, where he graduated in the spring of 1875, with the title of M. D. The doctor first began professional practice at Jacobsport, and continued there from March, 1875, to November, 1876, when he came to this city, where he has continued his practice to the present writing. Dr. Barcroft was married December 27, 1877, to Miss Susie J. Patterson, daughter of H. E. Patterson, of Detroit, Michigan.

BARGE J. D., Adams township ; farmer ; post-office Bakersville ; born March 26, 1844, in Tuscarawas county; son of Robert and Achsah (Foreman) Barge, and grandson of Robert and Elizabeth (Tailor) Barge and Thomas and Elizabeth Foreman.He was married March 24, 1867, to Miss Susanna Myser, daughter of Joseph and Catharine A. (Shanks) Myser, and granddaughter of Jacob and Catharine (Fancier) Myser and James and Christina (Helwick) Shanks. She was born January 4, 1844. They are the parents of two children-Carrie, born April 17, 1868 and Byron W., born September 10, 1870. August 13, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Twenty-second O. V. I, went to Camp Zanesville in September and was mustered into service October 8, and in the latter part of the month went to Marietta, thence to Parkersburg, remained there a few days then went to Clarksburg, Va.., thence to Winchester, arriving there January 1, 1863, where on June 15 our forces were attacked by Early's command, aided in repulsing them. He was one of 200 of his regiment that were left in the fort and was made prisoner, having been detailed to the hospital as nurse for P. Worley. He was marched to Staunton, Va., under guard of the Fifty-fourth N. C. Infantry, thence by rail to Libby prison, at Richmond, Va., remained there four days, was fed on squaw-pea soup, consisting of three pints of water to two, ounces of peas boiled a few minutes, was soon removed to Belle Island and kept there about thirty days, and then paroled and taken to City Point, thence by water to Annapolis, Md., at which place he, with Daniel Shook, S. Daugherty and Samuel Wortz, received a verbal permit to go home until he could be exchanged. Not having a furlough, they avoided all guards through the country, also kept clear of all towns and railroad stations, traveling through fields, over hills and hollows via Baltimore, Chambersburg, Gettysburg,. Brownsville, Pittsburgh, Florence and Steubenville, a distance of 575 miles, in 12 days, and remained at home until notified of his exchange, then went to his regiment at Brandywine station and took part in the engagements at Winchester, Mine Run, Locust Grove, Spottsylvania, Cedar Creek, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. $e lost one brother, L. T. Barge, belonging to the Fifty-seventh O. V. I. ; also had a brother in the Fiftyfirst O. V. I. He was discharged July 1, 1865.

BARKHURST J. W., Coshocton, Ohio; managing sewing machine agent, 408 Main street. Born October 8, 1843, in Guernsey county, Ohio, son of James and Elizabeth C. (Welling) Barkhurst. He was brought up on a farm with. his parents, in the southwest corner of Jackson township, where he remained until September, 1861, when he was the first man to enlist in Company D, Fifty-first O. V. I. He re-enlisted Jan. 1,1864, and was discharged on account of a wound received June 22, 1864, at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, After his discharge he returned home to his parents, where he remained about one year, then entered the Ohio Weslyan university, at Delaware, Ohio. He then located in Coshocton, but only remained one year, after which he located at his present residence in Roscoe. Some two years after he gave up his purchase of the home property, his parents made an amicable division of heir effects, and have since made their home with their son, J. W. He was married in the spring of 1868, to Miss Mary Virginia, daughter of George E. and Letitia (Nicholas) Edwards. They became the parents of five children, Charles W., Shelley E., Ada (deceased), and Minnie Harvey.

BARNES RICHARD, Jackson township; born in Pennsylvania in 1813; son of Mordecia and Matilda Barnes; married in 1846 to Miss Charlotte Kirker, daughter of William and Ellen Kirker. Mr. Barnes is the father of seven children, five living and two dead. Mr. Barnes departed this life September, 1876. His widow still survives him, and lives upon the old homestead. Post-office, Tyrone.

BARNES WILLIAM, Jackson township; born in this county in 1847; son of Richard and Charlotte Barnes, and grandson of Mordecia and Matilda Barnes. He was married in 1871 to Miss Lillie D. Cox, daughter of C. B. and Elizabeth Cox. Mr. Barnes is the father of three children, viz: R. B., O: C., M. M. Post-office, Roscoe.

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BARRETT JOHN, Perry township; New Guilford post-office ; farmer ; born in this county in 1830; son of Hugh and Mary (Neldon) Barrett, and grandson of Hugh and Nancy M Barrett, and of John Neldon; married in 1854 to Elizabeth J. Almac, daughter of John and Mary Almac. They are the parents of twelve children, viz: Mary N., Manda M., Celestia R., Sarah B., John W., Elizabeth E., Margaret L., Dora A., James E. (dead), Cora E., Ira, and Oda F. Three are married. Mr. Barrett enlisted in the 100-days service, in 1864.

BARRETT ISAAC, Bedford township ;farmer ; post-office, Mohawk Village; born in 1838, in this count . His father was born 1802, in Ireland, settle in Delaware in 1808 and in this county in 1812. He was married in 1826, to Miss Sarah Todd, of Alleghany county, Pennsylvania, who was born in 1808. They are the parents of nine children. The subject of this sketch was married in 1861, to Miss Mary E. Piersol, of this county, who was born in 1840, in Muskingum county, Ohio. They are the parents of six children, viz Elmer G., Sarah J., Luella A., Melvin, Zora and William W.

BARRICK DANIEL, Crawford township; farmer; was born July 20, 1847, in Crawford township; son of Simon and Susan (daughter of William Stall) Barrick. Mr. Barrick started in life for himself f as a hired farm laborer, but now owns a good farm of his own. He was elected ,justice of the peace, of Crawford township, when but twenty-three years of age and served two terms. During this time he married twenty-two couples. Squire Barrick was married September 14,1871, to Miss Margaret, daughter of Henry and Louisa (Baad) Stroup. They have one child-Daniel H.

BARTH ANDREW, Crawford township, New Bedford postoflice ; retired farmer; born December 13, 1811, in Wurtemburg, Germany ; son of Frederick and Eve (Long) Barth. After completing the usual school course, at fourteen he went to the tailor's trade, which he followed until he came to America, in August, 1838. He landed at Baltimore, Maryland. and by way of Philadelphia went to Pittsburgh, where he worked on the Beaver and Erie canal with a lot of Irishmen, who, not affiliating with him, treated him very unkindly. Being a stranger, in a foreign land, entirely destitute of money or friends, he endured this rather than beg, and by perseverence, honesty and industry; obtained a good farm, the rent of which affords him ample means to live free from labor in his old age, at a good public house. He worked at his trade (tailoring) in many towns in eastern Ohio, among them Zoar, where he was married in 1840, to Miss Catharine, daughter of Christian Ceogle. The fruit of this marriage was four children, Rachel, Christian Frederick, Andrew and John; all dead except Christian Frederick, who is the head of a large family of children. Mr. Barth lost his help-mate July 20, 1880. Being left alone, be has now a pleasant home at the Commercial hotel, its genial host being Charles C. Hinkle.

BEACH D. C., Coshocton; merchant tailor, 412 Main street; born June 12, 1819, in New Brunswick, New Jersey; son of Ebenezer Beach, a native of New Jersey. Young Beach was raised in Newark, New Jersey until fifteen years of age. At the age of thirteen" he went to his trade in Newark, New Jersey; at fifteen went to Brooklyn, New York, and continued his trade, where he remained until 1844, when he removed to Knox county. In 1862 he established business in Mount Vernon as merchant tailor and clothier. In 1863 came to this city and was cutter for different firms until 1872, when he established his present business, which he has conducted to the present time. Mr. Beach was married in 1848 to Miss Lucy Eliza Amadon, of New York State. They have had five children, Alice, deceased), Henry D., Louis Kossuth, Lillie Dale, Frank and James. Mr. Beach is doing a good business, having all that himself and several workmen can do. BEALL C. N., Keene township; farmer; born February 3, 1825, in Harrison county; son of John and Margaret (Noble) Beall, and grandson of Colmire Beall. His mother's parents were George and Mary Noble. In 1850 he came to Coshocton county, settling in Keene township. He was married October 5, 1848 to Martha Milliner, born July 17, 1823, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Randle) Milliner. They have but one child, John S., born July 14, 1849, who was married October 21, 1875, to Sarah J., daughter of John and Seneth (Rawer) Beaver, and granddaughter of George Beaver. They have one little girl, Zura Mary, born March 7, 1878.

BEALL J., Keene township; farmer; son of John and Margaret (Noble) Beall; was born April 2, 1828, in Harrison county, Ohio. He came to this county in 1852. Mr. Beall was raised on the farm and has always followed that occupation. He was married October 8,1847, to Miss Rhoda Smith of Washington county, Pennsylvania. They became the parents of six children, viz: William E., Joseph S., Mary J. (deceased), Alva, John (deceased), and Carrie. Mr. and Mrs. Beall are prominent members of the M. E. church at Keene, and are respected by all who know them. Mr. Beall has held different offices in his township for many years.

BEALL ROBERT, Lafayette township ; station agent, express agent, postmaster and grain dealer; was born in Harrison county, June 1

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1829; lived on the farm until the fall of 1855, when he went to Doods county, Wisconsin, and engaged in the lumber business, for three years; then went to Illinois, and spent three years in the wagon and carpenter business; came back to Ohio, and spent nine years in the broom business; then, from that, came to West Lafayette, and is now station agent, express agent, postmaster and grain dealer; was justice of the peace, six years; was married, in the fall of 1849, to Miss Rogers, of Harrison county. They have had seven children-Mary D., Sarah E., Frank A. (deceased), Ella, Viola, Rosa deceased) and Jennie. Mr. Beall is kept very busy, attending all his business, but always has time to treat his customers, and others with whom he may come in contact, in a gentlemanly manner; is a cash dealer throughout, and has got what he is possessed of, by honest hard work.

BEAM WILLIAM T., Crawford township; post-office, Chili; farmer and stock man ; born September 28, 1835, in Somerset county, Pennsylvania; son of Christopher and Margaret (Deters) Beam. He came to Carroll county, Ohio, when about three years of age. When about eighteen, he began stock dealing in Holmes county, and came to his present residence in May, 1877. Mr. Beam was married May 10, 1877, to Miss Lucinda, daughter of Peter and Cathrite (Neff) Snyder, of Crawford township, but a native of Switzerland. One child (Mary Dell), was born to them. Mr. Beam has had a very extensive experience in stock dealing, having been a successful shipper for many years.

BEARDSLEY O. M., Virginia township; post-office, Dresden: born in New York, in 1801, settled in this county in 1837; son of David and Hanna Beardsley. He was married in 1837. Mr. Beardsley has four children, viz : Laura, Charles E., Louisa, and John.

BEAVER JOHN, Coshocton county, treasurer; was born January 19,187, in Tuscarawas county; son of George Beaver, born June 20,1800, in Tuscarawas county. John Beaver was raised on the farm, where he remained until September 6, 1880, when he took charge of the office above named, to which he was elected October 14, 1879. Mr. Beaver was married April 21, 1850, to Miss Sarah Reamer, daughter of George Reamer, deceased, formerly of Keene township. This union was blessed with eight children, one deceased (Catherine), and seven living, viz: Mary M., Sarah J., George C., Angeline L., J. D, and Charles. Mr. Beaver's grandfather, John Beaver, when seventeen years old, was with Bouquet's expedition.

BECK SAMUEL, miller, Monroe township post-office, Spring Mountain; born in 1847, in Holmes county. He come to Bloomfield, this county, in 1871, and was married, in 1872, to Miss Martha Frederick, of this county, who was born in 1854. They are the parents of one child, Eugene. Mr. Beck purchased the grist-mill, where he now lives, in 1874. He has since attached a saw-mill and can run by water or steam. He does custom work only in the grist-mill.

BECK JAMES, Warsaw, Jefferson township; miller; post-office, Warsaw; was born in Holmes county; Ohio, March 18, 1860; son of Benjamin and Julia (Butron) Beck, and grandson of Michael Beck. . He received his education in the district schools in Holmes county. At the age of sixteen he began learning the millers' trade, under Peter Widner, of Holmes county, and two years later he took charge of the Hendrick mills, and acted as foreman of that mill about nine months, when he came to Warsaw and took charge of the Warsaw mills for Beck & Welling, and the business is progressing finely under his management. Mr. Beck is a very promising young man, and possesses more than ordinary ability in his profession

BERRY L. F., New Castle township; farmer; post-office, New Castle; was born in Perry township, Coshocton county, September 9, 1850; son of Epoch and Mary E. (Buxton) Berry, and grandson of John and Elizabeth Berry and Francis and. Sarah E. Buxton. He attended school and assisted his father on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age, after which he attended college at Delaware, Ohio, a term of six months, since which time he has been farming, excepting from November, 1876, to November, 1877, during which time he was engaged in mercantile business with his brother and Mr. McKee. He was married December 11,1873, to Miss Emma Lash, daughter of John and Elizabeth Barrow) Lash, and granddaughter of Peter and Catharine Lash and William and Elizabeth Barrow. She was born May 21,1852. They are the parents of two children, Ralph S., born December 22,1876, and Zella. Mabel, born November 6, 1879. His father, Epoch Berry, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, May 1, 1818; son of John and Elizabeth (Yost) Berry, and grandson of John Berry and Peter Yost. He moved to this county in 1828, with his parents, and has remained a resident ever since. He married Miss Mary Buxton, who died in February, 1877; leaving a husband and three children to mourn her loss. She was born in the village of East Union, June 9, 1824.

BERRY ENOCH, New Castle township post-office, New Castle; farmer; was born in Belmont county, Ohio (near St. Clairsville), on May 1, 1818; son of John and Elizabeth (Yost) Berry,

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and grandson of Peter Yost, of German-Irish descent. He moved with his parents to this county in the year 1828, has resided here ever since, and is a highly respected and energetic farmer. He was married July 15, 1843, to Miss Mary A. Buxton, daughter of Francis and Sarah Buxton, who was born in East Union, Perry township, June 9, 1824, and died February 5, 1877. They had born to them four children, of whom three are living, viz: Sarah E., John W., and Leonidas F. He was a resident of Perry township about nineteen years, and had received his schooling by going a day or two now and then when his services were not needed on the farm.

BERRY JOHN W., New Castle township; son of Enoch and Mary E. (Boston) Berry; was born in Perry township, September 25, 1848. He remained with his parents until the age of twenty-one, attending school and assisting on the farm. At that age he married Miss Elizabeth Copland, daughter of James and Margaret (Bail) Copland, and granddaughter of James and E Elizabeth (Norton) Copland, and James, and Elizabeth Baily. The date of this marriage is October 2, 1869. Mrs. Berry was born May 13, 1852. Her father lost his life in attempting to cross the Walhonding river on horseback, when she was but three years of age. They have been blessed with three children, viz : George, born January 25, 1871; Albert, born August 6,1874; and Wilber, born January 18,1877.

BERTON EUGENE, Franklin township; iron worker; post-office, Wills Creek; born April 28, 1853, near Metz, France ; son of Francis and Anne (Beandonin) Berton. At the age of fifteen he went to his present trade in Harnes, France, and remained five years; for the first two he received no wages, he having to board and cloth himself. In July, 1873, he came to his present place in Franklin township. Mr. Berton was married January 26,1875, to Miss Mary, daughter of John and Annie (Grant) Davied. They became the parents of two chit ren, Estella and Francis. Mr. Berton has been eight years in America and is doing a very fair business.

BEST JOHN M., Keene township; born March 23, 1845, in Coshocton county. He is a son of Jacob and Susan (Miller) Best, native of Pennsylvania, and grandson of John and Christina (Hootman) Best. He is a farmer by occupation. Married to Miss Malinda Wilson. They have two children: William, born December 22, 1873; Alpha, August 30,1875.

BIBLE JACOB, Bethlehem township; farmer; born in 1796, in Rockingham county, Virginia. He was married in 1820, to Miss Elizabeth Richey, of the same county, who was born in 1802. They came to this county in 1821 and located in Keene township, and remained until 1837, when they removed to Bethlehem township. They became the parents of ten children, five of whom are living, viz: Philip, born in 1829, George, born in 1831, Josiah, born in 1834, Hannah, born in 1823 and Mary, born in 1828. Philip was married to Miss Courtright, of this county, and now lives on the old homestead. They have five children, viz : Elizabeth, Catharine, Margaret, Eliza and Jacob. George Bible was married to Miss Randles, of this. county, and now lives in Keene township. Josiah was married to Miss Walton, of this county, and is now living in Illinois. Hannah was married to Mr. Henry Mumford, of this county, and now lives in Keene township. Mary was married to Mr. George Turner, of this county, and now lives in Bethlehem township. Mr. Bible, the subject of this sketch,. was a carpenter in his younger days, but later has followed farming. He was also an old hunter and trapper. He had four sons in the late war at one time, all of whom enlisted from this county. Mrs. Bible died in 1869, aged sixty-seven 'years. Mr. Bible is now in his eighty-fourth year, and is still active in both mind and body.

BIGGS WILLIAM, Jackson township; born in this county in 1828; son of William and Hester (Markley) Biggs, and grandson of William and Mary Biggs and Andrew and Mary Markley; married in 1853, to Mary Smith, daughter of Newman and Heater Smith. Mr. Biggs is the father of twelve children, viz : Palms, James, John (deceased), Frederick, Frank (deceased), Joseph, Evalina, Elizabeth, Heater, William, Mary, Samuel. Two are married and living in this county. James is a teacher.

BIGGS F. F., Roscoe, Ohio, of the firm of Wright, Biggs & McCabe, general merchandising, West Main street, Coshocton, Ohio. Mr. Biggs was born June 7, 1858, in Jackson township ; son of William Biggs, a native of America, but of Irish ancestry. He was brought up on the farm until nineteen, when 'he began teaching school, and taught three years. Then he became a partner in the above firm. Mr. Biggs was married December 31,1876, to Miss N. E., daughter of John L. Dougherty, of Jackson township. They are the parents of two children, viz: Lelia and Ethel.

BIRCH JACOB, Pike township; post-office, blest Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser; born in Virginia in 1805, and settled in this county in 1851; son of William and Nancy (Simmons) Birch. He was married in 1835, to Miss Mary Cooksey. Their children are Eliza A., Mahala, Evaline, Edward and Anderson. Mr. Birch was married to his second wife, Miss Mary Connard, in 1865. They have one child, Elvin.

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BLACKMAN HOLDER Dr., Jefferson township; post-office, Warsaw ; born April, 1822, near Haverill, Suffolk county, England; son of William and Susan (Holder) Blackman, natives of England. He came to America in 1832, and settled in Gambier, Knox county, Ohio. He went to school until the age of twenty-one, when he began the house-joiner trade with William Rice, of Wooster, and followed that for about two years. He thin took an irregular coarse at Kenyon college at Gambier for two years. He. then studied medicine with Prof. Homer M. Thrall for two years, attending a course of lectures at the Cleveland medical college during the winter of 1848-49, after which he began the practice of medicine in the spring of 1849, at Walhonding, Coshocton county, and remained there two years. Hi then came to Warsaw, where he is at present, having a fair practice. He was married in January, 1850, to Miss Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of Edward Spencer. They had four children, viz: William R., born November 15,1850; Anna, born June 14, 1853; Frank, born March 25, 1855, and Lillie, born March 1, 1859.

BLUCK WILLIAM (deceased), Lafayette township; was born in England, Shropshire county, about 1796; was married to Miss Price, of England. They have had four children, two of whom only are living. His wife dying, he married Miss James, of England, who became the mother of seven children, six of whom are living, as follows: Thomas P., Edmund, Edwin, Joseph, Lucy, Arthur, Lucretia, William and Rose. Edwin was born in England, in 1843, and, coming to this State and county, with his parents, in 1853, located in this township, where hi now resides. He enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Seventy-fourth O. V. I, at Newark, Ohio, and returned home, when peace was declared. He was married, in 1866, to Miss Mary C. Whiteside, of this county, to whom one child F. E., was born August, 1867. Bluck's father and mother died in 1867, at the ages of seventy-one and forty-seven years.

BOCK GEORGE J., Coshocton city ; proprietor barber-shop, Main street; was born June 14, 1852, in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. At sixteen, he learned his trade, and worked in the city of Pittsburgh, and in several towns in the Pennsylvania oil region, and in Maryland. In 1875, he established a shop in this city, which he has carried on to the resent writing. Mr. Buck was married May 1,1874, to Miss Mary L. Barer, of Erie, Pennsylvania, who was a native of New Jersey. This union has been blessed with three children, Mary V., Catherine B. and George Jerome Bock. Mr. Buck is doing a very good business.

BODKIN AMMI, Perry township, New Guilford post-office; born in West Virginia, in 1841; settled in Licking county, Ohio, 1863; son of John and Rebecca. Bodkin, and grandson of Jacob and Hanna (Stewart) Bodkin. He was married in 1872, to Alice Boyd, daughter of John and Jemima Boyd. Mr. Bodkin is the father of four children, viz: Nellie, John, William and Maud. Mr. Bodkin entered the Southern army in 1862, Company A, Fourteenth regiment, and was engaged to the battles of Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Stone Wall, Scotts Spring,. Fisher's Hill, Gettysburg and others.

BOERING JOHN D., merchant; post-office, West Lafayette ; was born in this county, in 1846,. and educated at the public school of Roscoe. He was married in 1880, to Miss Hannah Weatherwax, who was born in Clark township, in 1847. Mr. Boering established the hardware trade in West Lafayette, in 1880, and keeps in stocks general line of hardware, cutlery, etc., and is having a liberal trade.

BONHAM T. W., Pike township; post-office, West Carlisle; farmer and stock maser; born in Tuscarawas county, in 1837, settled in this county in 1840; son of Evan and Mary A. ( Worley) Bonham, and grandson of David and Tacy Bonham. He was married in 1866, to Miss Nervy J. Chancy,. daughter of Franklin and Margaret (Gibbins) Chancy. They are the parents of two children, L. M. and Flawra E.

BORING P. W., Coshocton ; helper to miller in Empire Mills, Roscoe, Ohio; born January 22, 1852; son of Joshua Boring, a native of Maryland. P. W. Boring was raised on the farm where he remained until 1879, when hi engaged in his present employment where he has remained to the present writing.

BOSTWICK W. W., Coshocton; jeweler, 224 Main street; was born January 9, 1847, in Knox county ; son of Nathan Bostwick, American barn, but of Scotch ancestry. Young Bostwick lived on the farm until twelve years old, when he went into a dry goods store as clerk, where he remained seven years. He then attended the McNeely normal school at Hope Dale, one year. On leaving school hi spent the next three years learning his trade with Hide & Young, Mount Vernon. January 15,1870, he came to this city and established his resent business in company with his brother, H. C. In 1872 he became sole proprietor. Mr. Bostwick was married April 16, 1873, to Miss Kate Hay, daughter of H. Hay of this city, which union has been blessed with two children, Houston H. and Frank B. Mr. Bostwick is doing a very extensive business in his line of goods, having the most extensive stock of the kind in the county.

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depot, Coshocton. Mr. Bostwick is a native of Knox county, born August 24, 1852, and was educated in the public schools of Mt. Vernon. His first business engagement was in learning the jewelry business with H. C. Bostwick, of Newark, Ohio, whom he served four years. He then came to Coshocton and engaged in business for himself, in November, 1875, and in which he still continues. He occupies spacious and elegant rooms south side Main street, where he keeps a very large and well selected stock of first-class foreign and American watches, solid and plated silverware, cutlery, clocks of all styles, and a large and elegant assortment of ladies' and gents' jewelry, all of the latest patterns; also, all kinds of watch, clock and jewelry repairing a specialty.

BOWEN, C. J., Crawford township; teacher; postoffice, New Bedford, Ohio; born April 21, 1853, in Holmes county; son of John and Catherine (Limbaok) Bowen. He commenced teaching when nineteen years of age, and has taught to the present time, excepting one year's clerking in store: Mr. Bowen is one of the good teachers of the county, having thoroughly prepared himself for his profession at the National Normal School, at Lebanon.

BOWER LORENZO, Monroe township; was born October 22,1833, in Holmes county, Ohio; son of William and Corrilla (Barnes) Bower, and grandson of Leonard Bower and of Nancy Price, also, great grandson of Richard Barnes. He has followed farming all his life. In 1864 he came to Coshocton county, where he yet lives. He married Cordelia McKee, December, 1860, daughter of Andrew and Julia A. (Corns) McKee, and granddaughter of William Corns. She died December 2, 1873. The children are Alex. Q., Silas C., Charles E. and Leonard P.

BOWER IRWIN, Monroe township; was born May 9, 1831, in Holmes county; son of William and Corrilla (Barnes) Bower, and grandson of Leonard Bower and Nancy Bower, and great grandson of Richard Barnes. He followed farming in Holmes county till 1861, when he came to Coshocton county. He was married first to Catharine Brightwell October 25, 1854. After the death of his 'first wife he married Mary Wilson, May 6, 1878.

BOWMAN G. W., of the firm of Bowman & Shanwecker, merchants; postoffice, New Bedford; born May 27, 1844, in New Bedford; eon of John and Susanna (Noel) Bowman. When a boy, he assisted his mother in a hotel, his father having died when G. W. was nine years of age. In 1865 he enlisted in Company E, One hundred and Ninety-first O. V. I, and served to the close of the war. On his return, he established business with his brother, A. J., firm name of Bowman & Brother, and continued the business together until 1876, when G. W. sold his interest to his brother, who conducted the store one year, then the present firm took charge, and are doing a very satisfactory business. Mr. Bowman was married July 4, 1867, to Miss Mariah, daughter of Daniel and Lydia (Newman) Forney. Lottie, May, Charles W., Ida, Alice and Mary Elizabeth are the names of their children.

BOWMAN JOHN, White Eyes Township, is a native of Tuscrawas county; and was born in 1828. His father, John Bowman, came to this county in 1831, and settled at Adams Mills; moved to New Bedford, in 1840, and blacksmithed there. He died in 1853, at the age of fifty-three years, and his wife died March, 1878, aged seventy-four years. The junior, John, learned the blacksmith trade with his father, and worked at the trade for fourteen years. He went to Missouri, in 1852, remained there one year, and returned to Ohio. He went to Iowa, in 1855, remained there one year, and then went on to California, where he staid four years, and returned to Ohio. In 1861, he married Miss Agnes Erwin, of Tuscarawas county. They have three sons-Benjamin, born in 1863; James G., born in 1865, and Erwin F., born in 1871. From 1860 to 1865, Mr. Bowman lived in Holmes county, and then he located on a mill property, south of Chili, where he now resides.

BOWN H. E, Virginia township; born in Coshocton county, in 1858; son of J. T. and R. E. Bown, and married in June, 1880, to Miss Theodocia Slaughter. Postoffice, Willow Brook.

BOYD WILLIAM R., White Eyes township; born in the county of Donegal, Ireland, October 1801. He came to this county with his parents about 1824, who settled in White Eyes township. He was married in 1836, to Miss Isabella Finley. She was born in the county of Donegal, Ireland, February, 1816. They became the parents of ten children-John F., Jane M., Ramsey W., Margaret A., George B., Alice A., Richard W., Florence R., Alexander F. and Robert E. All married, except Robert E., and Margaret A., who is a widow. George B. enlisted in Company H, Eightieth O. V. L, at Coshocton, in 1861. He was killed at Vicksburg, and was buried on the battle-field. Ramsey W. enlisted in the 190-day service. Jane M. marred Dr Chapman, of this county, and is now living in Woodford county, Illinois, where the doctor has a large practice. Ramsey W: was married to Charlotte Hagle, of Bethlehem township, and is now living in Illinois. Margaret A. was married to John W. Bell, of Wakatomika, who is now deceased. Alice A. married George W. Kraut, and lives near Wakatomika. Richard W. married Lucy Dunemyer, of Illinois, and is now living in

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Keene township. Florence R. married Howard Lawrence, of Keene township. Alexander F. married Pauline Compton, of Roscoe. Robert E. is single and lives at home with his parents. Mr. Boyd and family are members of the M. E. church.

BOYD WILLIAM M. Keene township; born March 13, 1803, in Pennsylvania; a son of Robert Boyd, who was born September 5, 1769, died November 28, 1826, and Mary McMaster, born August 27,1779, died January 23,1872, and grandson of William Boyd and James McMaster. Mr. Boyd came to Jefferson county in 1803, and remained there till 1814, when he came to Coshoc ton county to the farm where he now lives. He has traveled considerably in the United States, and was married to Miss Bowl. April 1, 1824, who was born April 12, 1804, died September 3, 1873, a daughter of James and Nancy (Thompson) Bowl. Their children were: Nancy, born February 11, 1825; Gilbert, February 11, 1826, died January 21, 1849; Mary, born April 12, 1831; Robert, September 10, 1833; Sarah, June 28,1836, and John C., February 25, 1841, died December 25, 1852.

BOYD ROBERT R., White Eyes township; postoffice, Canal Lewisville; farmer; was born in August, about 1811, in county Donegal, Ireland; son of Robert and Jane (Ramsey) Boyd. He came to America and located with his parents on the farm where he now resides. He was married May 23, 1839, to Miss Mary Anne, daughter of Robert and Jane (Stephenson) Johnson. They have had fourteen children : William J., married to Elmira Elliott, now residing in Caldwell county, Missouri; Jane, married to Thomas Hamilton, residing in White Eyes township; Samuel F., married to Elizabeth Brown, living in the same township; Robert A., married to Mary Jane McMurray, residing in Marion count ; Mary Anne, married to Alexander Adams, residing in Keene township; Hester Ellen, married to James Elliott, residing in Mill Creek township, Elizabeth, married to John Clark, residing in White Eyes township; Daniel, marred to Matilda Compton; Zelma, Carbetta, Evert Richard and Caroline, de ceased. Mr. Boyd has given his entire attention to mired husbandry and agriculture, and by honest industry has obtained a competency.

BOYD FRANCIS, farmer; White Eyes township ; Chili postoffice ; born February 10, 1828, in Washington county, Pennsylvania; son of Robert and Margaret (Cassidy) Boyd. His grandfather's name was Robert Boyd, a native of Ireland, and his mother was also of Irish descent. She died in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and is buried at Bethel church, in that county. Young Boyd lived about four years in West Virginia before coming to this county, which he did in 1834, and located in White Eyes township. He was married November 13, 1854, to Miss Jane, daughter of Alexander and Rebecca (Virtue) Lockard, of Irish ancestry. They have four children-Alexander, married to Caroline Carnahan, Robert Dayton, married to Elizabeth Beaver, James D. and Rebecca Jane. Mr. Boyd has devoted his attention to mixed husbandry and agriculture, but principally to wool growing, having a very fine farm well adapted to sheep husbandry. It is kept in good- condition, making .an elegant home for himself and family.

BOYD W. S., Virginia township; born in Coshocton county, October 7,1840, and was married April 23, 1862 Mr. Boyd was blessed with five children, viz: Cora A., Emma L., Sarah E., William W., and Edward S. He died in 1875. His widow survives him.

BOYD SAMUEL A., of the firm of Wier & Boyd, groceries and provisions, 220 Main street, Coshocton, Ohio. Mr. Boyd was born May 18, 1850, in White Eyes township; is son of Samuel and Nancy (Allen) Boyd, both natives of the county Tyrone, Ireland. William Boyd, grandfather of Samuel A., was one of the first settlers of White Eyes township, having emigrated with his family to the township in 1833. He identified himself with the anti-slavery movement from its beginning, and was one of the strongest advocates of human liberty. He lived a consistent and pious life, and died May 17, 1879. Young Boyd, the subject of this sketch, was brought up on the farm, educated in the public schools of his native township, and at West Minster college, New Wilmington, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania. He began teaching when about eighteen and taught thirteen terms, farming during the summer. In the spring of 1875 he visited Nebraska and taught two terms of school while there. Also in company with a hunting expedition visited southern Nebraska, northwestern Kansas and eastern Colorado, killing buffalo on the plains. He returned to his native home in 1876 and resumed teaching and farming. Mr. Boyd was married December 25,1877, to Miss Nannie G. J., daughter of Robert and Angeline (Hammond) Dickey, of White Eyes township. They are the parents of one child, viz: Charles Hammond, born August 11, 1879. Mr. Boyd established his present business April 11,1881. This firm keeps a first-class assortment of goods in their line.

BRECHT VALERIAN, Franklin township; farmer; postoffice, Wills Creek, Ohio; born January 6, 1845, in Baden, Germany; son of Benhart and Catherine (Harwidel) Brecht, natives of Baden, Germany. They emigrated to America in 1854, bringing their family with them, and located near Adamsville, Muskingum county. The father was born in 1799, and died in 1862. The

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mother was born in 1801, and died in 1867. Valerian, the subject of this sketch, began life for himself as a hired hand on a farm, but by economy and industry, he has obtained a good farm. Mr. Brecht was married first to Miss Mary A., daughter of Solomon and Bridget (Rodenburger) Gossman. They became the parents of two children, William Solomon and Annie Varonica. Their mother died July 1, 1876. Mr. Brecht married April 18,1876, Miss Mary A., daughter of George and Elizabeth (Lash) Shue, natives of France.

BRINK JOSEPH W., Bethlehem township; farmer ; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio; was born October 1,1830, in Knox county, Ohio. He was married January 15, 1857, to Mrs.. Annie N. Moffet, who was born December 22,1809, in Otsego county, New York. She was married May i4, 1829, to Mr. Samuel Moffet, of Tuscarawas county, Ohio. Mr. Moffet built the brick residence where Mr. and Mrs. Brink now reside, in 1846, It was the first brick residence built in Bethlehem township Mrs. Brink's maiden name was Stone She has been a member of the M. E. church for forty-six years. Mr. Brink is a member of the M. P. church.

BRILLHART DAVID, Monroe township; was born October 6,1816, in Buckingham county, Virginia. He was a son of Samuel and Susanah (Whitezel) Brillhart, and grandson of John Brillhart and of Anthony Whitezel. At the age of fifteen he came from Virginia to Coshocton county, Ohio, where he has spent the most of his time since in farming. As he always possessed a natural liking for tools, he learned several trades without an instructor, such as the cooper trade, wagonmaker, blacksmith, and house-joiner. He is a careful, well-to-do farmer, and is the owner of about 1,000 acres of good land in Monroe township. Mr. Brillhart was married to Miss Mary A. Drake, August 5, 1841. She was a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Swollams) Drake. Their children were, Phoebe, Samuel (deceased), Isaac (deceased), Martha, Tobitha, David W., Hamilton R. and William L. (deceased). After the death of Mrs. Brillhart, October 25, 1857, Mr.. Brillhart married Martha Drake, August 7, 1858. Their children by this marriage were, Louella (deceased), John C., Mary F., Milin E., Emma R., Laura L., Hanbie W. and Victor D.

BRILLHART HARRISON H., Jefferson township; postoffice, Warsaw; born April 9,.1841, in Monroe township, Coshocton county ; son of Samuel and Mary (Chambers) Brillhart, and grandson of Aden Chambers. His father was a Virginian. He remained with his father until the age of twenty-one, then enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G., and served his engagement of 100 days; came home to Monroe township and began farming, and remained until the fall of 1874, when he moved to his present location in Jefferson township. He married April 2, 1868, Miss Caroline Heaton, daughter of Aaron and Dorcas ( Welling) Heaton, and granddaughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Barrel) Heaton and Thomas Welling. Mrs. Brillhart was born in Bedford township, July 30, 1844. This union is blessed with one child-Charlie; born in Monroe township, May 9,1869:

BRILLHART WILLIAM R., Tiverton township; farmer; postoffice, Gann, Knox county; born January 1,1846, in this county. His father, John F., was born in 1818 in Virginia,. He came to this county while yet small, and was married in 1830 to Miss Julia A. Robinson, of Knox county. He died in 1860, and she died in 1870. They were the parents of eight children, William R., being the second. He was married in 1870 to Miss Milinda Burnes, of Knox county, who was born in 1849. They are the parents of four children-Charles O., Royal L, Sarah B. and Maggie.

BRILLHART B. F., Monroe township; born April 28,1849, on the farm where he now lives; son of Samuel and Mary (Chambers) Brillhart, Samuel Brillhart was brought up in Brookingham county, Virginia; born in 1795. Mary Chambers was born July 30, 1806, in Fayette county, Virginia. He is a grandson of William A. and Anna ( Smock ) Chambers, and great-grandson of Edward and Mary (Sissel) Chambers, and of John and Margaret Emock. Mr. Brillhart was born and bred a farmer. He is a good citizen and a good neighbor. He has a very fine farm near Spring Mountain, Monroe township, to which he devotes his entire attention. Mr. Brillhart was married to Miss Eliza A. Miller, November 27, 1873, daughter of Saul and Elizabeth Miller. (For ancestry, see the biography of her father, Samuel Miller, elsewhere in this book.)

BROADY WILLIAM J., tinner; postoffice, West Lafayette; born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1854, and was married in 1880, to Mary S. Shafer, who was born in this township, in 1858. Mr. Broady learned the tinner's trade in Steubenville; established business in West Lafayette, in the spring of 1881; successor to Frank Familton, and deals in heating and cooking stoves; manufactures all kinds of tin, copper and sheet iron ware. Tin roofing and spouting a specialy.

BROWER JOHN JACKSON, M. D., Coshocton, corner of Walnut street and Burt avenue; burn August 17, 1837, in Carroll county ; son of Joseph Brower, a native of America, whose parents were Highlanders. Mr. Brower was raised

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on the farm until twelve years of age, when he entered New Hagerstown academy, and remained four years. At sixteen he began teaching public school. At nineteen he entered Delaware college, at Delaware, and graduated when he was twenty years of age. He then entered Sterling medical college in 1859, and was graduated by that institution in 1860, and began the practice of his profession at Leesville, Carroll county, the same year. In 1861 he was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company I, Seventeenth O. V. I. (thirteen months' men), and reenlisted as surgeon of the Ninety-eighth O. V. I and served till the close of the war. Dr. Brower was graduated at Cincinnati eclectic medical institute in 1868-69. At the close of the wax he established a practice at West Lafayette, where he remained a short time, then came to Canal Lewisville, where he remained until December, 1875, when he came to this city and established a practice and has remained to the present time. Dr. Brower was married February 10, 1859, to Miss Susan E. Benedum, daughter of John Benedum, of Virginia. They had three children, two of whom (Carrie Orea and Burt Sherman Lincoln) have died. Lucy I. A. is their only living child.

BROWN JONAS, White Eyes township; farmer ; native of White Eyes, and was born in 1831, on the farm where he now resides. His father, Jones Brown, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1788 ; came to Tuscarawas county when but thirteen years old, and remained in that county until the spring of 1828, when he located in White Eyes. He was the father of nine children, and all are living. All have removed from the county, except Jones. Mr. Brown married Miss Margaret Hamilton, in 1857. She is the daughter of John Hamilton, and was born in 1840. They are the parents of six children, one deceased. Those living are, John L., Levi M., Lewellen, Mary D., Lizzie A. Mr. Brown has always resided in the township, and the people have given him offices of trust. He has been treasurer and trustee of his township, having several terms of each. Mr. and Mrs. Brown be long to the M. E. church at White Eyes. Mr. Brown's mother lives in Madison county, Iowa, and is in her eighty-first year.

BROWN JONAS, Crawford township, of the firm of Brown & Craft, hardware merchants; postoffice, New Bedford; born June 5, 1849, in White Eyes township; son of Henry and Rebecca (Snyder) Brown. At twenty years of age he began teaching school and taught and attended school about four years, after which he clerked in store in New Bedford until 7876, when the above firm was established. This firm does a good business in general hardware and farm implements. Mr. B. was elected justice of the peace of Crawford township, in the spring of 1880, and holds the office at the present time. He was married May 27, 1877 to Miss Catherine A., daughter of Nicholas and Jeremiah Fisher. Vernet Orwin, born May 20, 1878, is their only child. BROWN G. J., Bedford township ; real estate and insurance, agent; postoffice, West Bedford; born in 1825 in Jefferson county, Ohio, came to this county in 1851, and was married in 1853, to Miss Lorinda Parrott of this county, who was born in 1833, in New Brunswick: She came to this county with her parents in 1837. They are the parents of nine children, viz : Oswell C., Sara P., William P., Elmer E., Anna B., Dora, Hortense, Robert G., and Howard.

BROWNING JAMES, Tuscarawas township; postoffice, Coshocton; farmer; was born in Montgomery county, Maryland, March 12, 1813; son of James and Mary (Smith) Browning. Young Browning was raised a mechanic, and worked at wagon making until he was twenty-four years of age, when he engaged in farming which he has followed to the present time, with the exception of one year spent in Indiana, working. at mill building. Mr. Browning was first married July 13, 1837, to Miss Rebecca, daughter of John Elson, of this county. Their children were Oliver, Mary Jane, Samuel, killed at the battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, James Edward, and Hamilton. Mr. Browning was married to Mrs. Mary Jane Jennings, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Brown) Shrawyer.

BROWNING OLIVER, Franklin township; farmer; born in Franklin township, March 6, 1840; son of James Browning; enlisted October, 1861, in Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I, and was in service four years and two months; captured at Stone River, paroled at Murfreesboro, and exchanged about eight months afterward ; re-joined regiment November 12,1863; was in battles of Lookout Mountain, Franklin, Tennessee, Nashville, and all through the Georgia campaign; married in 1866 to Mary E. Gaumer, of Adamsville, Muskingum county, and has five children living, viz: Rebecca Anna, James L., Harvey Allen, Melinda Jane and Eleanor Olive.

BROWNING J. E., Franklin township; born in Franklin township, July 23, 1847 ; son of James and Rebecca (Elson) Browning. His father, a native of Maryland, moved from Virginia to thin township about 183. When seventeen years old, in October, 1864, he enlisted in Company E, Twenty-ninth O. V. I, and served nine months ; was with Sherman in his march from Atlanta, Georgia, to the sea. He was married February 4, 1873, to Josephine Conley, of this township, and has two children, viz: Charles H. and Edna.

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BRENNEMAN JAMES, Bedford township; farmer ; postoffice, Tunnel Hill ; born in 1833, in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. He went to Kansas, with a company of 100, in 1856, and came to this county from there in 1857. He went to California in 1849, and remained there eighteen months. He was in the 100~day service. He was married in 1864, to Miss S. S. English, of this county, who was born in 1842. They are the parents of four children, viz : Almira, Susan J., Josephine and Thomas S. David Brenneman, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1800, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and was married to Jane Pinkerton, of the same county, who was born in 1790. They came to this county in 1856. She died in 1868. They were the parents of three children.

BRYAN AMBROSE, Pike township; postoffice, West Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county, in 1827 ; son of John and Mary I. (Deyarman) Bryan. Mr. Bryan's father came to this county in 1816, from Maryland, died August 19, 1850. Mr. Bryan was married October 6, 1856, to Miss Mary A. Huff, daughter of Eleven and Louisa Huff They are the parents of five children, viz : Sarah L, Robert B., Elizabeth E., Louisa, Martha J.

BURCHFIELD EDWARD, Roscoe village.; blacksmith; postoffice, Roscoe; born March 21, 1835, in Jefferson county; son of Andrew Burchfield, a native of Ohio, of Scotch ancestry. Young Burchfield was raised on a farm until sixteen years of age, when he went to his trade and worked at it until August, 1861, when he enlisted in Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, and served to the close of the war. He was a prisoner about fifteen minutes at Kenesaw, Georgia. Mr. Burchfield came to this county in 1858 and worked journeyman work two years. In 1860 he established a shop and conducted it until his enlistment in the service of his country. At the close of the war Mr. Burchfield resumed his trade, and has followed it to the present writing. He was married first in March, 1860, to Miss Susan McNabb, daughter of Geo. McNabb, of Jefferson township. This union was blessed with six children-Mary, Charles, Martha, George (deceased), Ann and William. Mrs. Burchfield died February 14, 1872, and is buried at West Bedford. Mr. Burchfield was subsequently married to Mrs. Margaret J. Noble, daughter of Major Richard Landing (deceased), of Coshocton city. This marriage was blessed with three children-Ida May, Lottie, Fay and David.

BUCKLEW WILLIAM, Clark township; farmer postofiice, Helmick; born in Clark township, February 19, 1818; son of Park and Elizabeth (Methany) Bucklew, and grandson of Andrew Bucklew. He owns a farm of 231 acres, in the southwest corner of the township, where he has lived all his life. He was married, in April, 1848, to Miss Mary Maggs, daughter of Joseph and Eleanor (Stewart) Maggs, of English descent. She was born in Bethlehem .township, March 15, 1826. They are the parents of eight children, viz: Elizabeth, born March 10, 1850; Emeline, born October 20,1851; Francis M., born October 1, 1853; Howard M., born October 21, 1855; Lambert O., born April 19,1858; Joseph O., born January 27, 1860; Ida M., born December 26, 1861 (died May 7,1873), and Lemuel E., born January 9, 1864.

BUCKLEW JAMES, Clark township; farmer; postoffice, Clark's; born in Clark township, Coshocton count , April 7, 1844; son of George and Sarah (Purdy) Bucklew, and grandson of John Bucklew. He was married, December 28, 1865, to Miss Catharine Mullet, daughter of Benjamin and Barbara (Zimmermann) Mullet, and granddaughter of John and Catharine Mullet. She was born in Clark township, December 6, 1843, and was the mother of six children-Melinda, born January 6,1867 (died June 21,1879); Cordelia N., born lay 17,1868; Elizabeth M., born August 12, 1870; George A., born December 27, 1873; Edward, born September 25, 1875 (died June 17, 1876); Ella A., born March 3,1879 (died January 18, 1881).

BUNN & SON, grocers and confectioners, Main and Sixth streets, Coshocton, Ohio. Alfred Bunn, senior member of this firm, is a native of Sussex county, New Jersey, where he was born, March 13,1817, and emigrated to Ohio in 1845, locating in this county, in which he resided ten years. He then went to Knoxville, Marion county, Iowa, where he resided eight years. In 1864, he returned Coshocton county, and in 1877, he, in company with his son David H. Bunn, engaged in the grocery business, which they conducted until 1878, when they sold to Williams & Co., and in July, 1880, they bought back the stock, since which they have been conducting the business. They occupy pleasant and commodious rooms in Thompson s block, twenty by sixty feet, and have a first-class stock of staple and fancy groceries, confectionaries, tobaccos, cigars, stove and wooden wares, sugar-cured and pickled meats, fish, salt, flour, etc.

BURKMASTER PETER, Perry township; postoffice, New Gilford; farmer; born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, in 1807; settled in this county, in 1862; son of John and Rachel (Barns) Burkmaster, and grandson of Joshua Burkmaster and of Peter Barnes. Mr. Burkmaster has been married three times-first in 1830, to Miss Mary Nevill, daughter of John and Elizabeth Nevill. This union was blessed with seven children, viz: Rachel, Rebecca, Peter, Sarah, Mary E., Elizabeth

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(dead), Hester (dead). His first wife died in 1844. He married in 1847, Miss Jane Mattock, daughter of Henry and Jane Mattock. This union was blessed with two children, viz: John R. and S. J. His second wife died in 1858. He was married in 1861, to Sarah Shaw. Mr. Burkmaster's son, S. J., married Miss Martha J. Thorn. They• hove one child, viz : Anna M.

BURKLEW B. F., Monroe township; was born October 15, 1848, in Monroe township. He is a son of W, H. and Martha J. (McBride) Burklew, and grandson of Samuel and Hannah Burklew, and of William and Eliza (McKee) McBride. Mr. Burklew was born and bred a farmer, and educated at Spring Mountain academy and Danville high school, of Knox county. At the age of sixty he enlisted in Company I, Fifty-first O. V. I, and served fifteen months in the Atlanta campaign, and under General Thomas, at Franklin, Spring Hill, Columbia and Nashville, where he lost an arm. Since the war, he has spent his time in teaching, farming and selling patent washers. He was married to Miss Sophronia Thomas, in April, 1871, daughter of Uriah and Jane (Crawford) Thomas, and granddaughter of Eunice and Margaret (Cameron) Thomas. Their children are Emery T., born March 22, 1872; Howard L., May 6, 1874; William H., June 17,1876, and Clyde McBride January 20, 1878.

BURNS WILLIAM, Jr., jeweler, No. 402 Main street, Coshocton. Mr. Burns is a native of Coshocton; born June 29, 1859, and received his education in the public schools of this city. He engaged ,in the jewelry business in 1877, (having previously served the required time to qualify himself for this department of business), and now occupies a place in Compton's drug store, where he has a ;cell selected stock of first-class American watches, clocks, jewelry, solid and plated silver ware, gold pens, etc. General repairing a specialty.

BURNS & ROBINSON, proprietors of Miner's store, Main street, Coshocton. C. F. Burns, managing partner of this firm, is a native of Coshocton, where he received his preparatory education, after which he attended the O. W. U., at Delaware, Ohio. His first business engagement was with his father under the firm name of Burns 6c Son, which continued until his father's decease, after which the business was conducted in the name of C. F. Burns. In 1877 he engaged in the milling business, at the city mills, under the firm name of Balch & Burns, in which he continued until 1873, when he formed a partnership with L. W. Robinson, and engaged in the grocery business, at their present location, where they occupy commedias rooms, twenty-four by sixty-five feet, and carry a large first-class stock, of staple and fancy groceries, confectionaries, wooden and stone-ware, miners' supplies, and deals in all kinds of country produce.

BURRELL THOMAS H., Bethlehem township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio; son of S. C. Burrell ; was born in 1845. He was married in 1870, to Miss Amedia Darling of this county. They are the parents of five children, viz : Julia, Charles, Ernest, Bessie and Blanche G. Mr. Burrell owns a fine farm of 150 acres, in the Walhonding valley. He is trustee of the township. He is a member of the I O. O. F. and F. and A. M.

BURT JAMES M., retired; postoffice, New Comerstown. He was born in range county, New York, December 11, 1810; was married April 15,1834, to Mary Ann Bradner, who was born December 20, 1813, in the same county, and emigrated to Ohio in 1836. They left their home October 24, arrived in Coshocton county November 9; located first in Bedford township, and remained there till April, 183?, then bought in this township, and was a citizen here forty-one years. He was elected justice of the peace in 1844, and was elected representative in the State legislature in 1848, and re-elected, serving two terms. In 1850, he was elected associate fudge, and continued to hold this position till the constitution abolished the office. He was elected a member of the board of equalization from this and Tuscarawas counties, to 1859-60. He was elected a member of the senate in 1865, re-elected in 1871. They had twelve children, viz: Margaret, now Mrs. Carhart, of New Comerstown ; James B., of this township ; Martha A. (deceased, was married to Perry Keller, and died in Fredericktown, Knox county, on her twenty-ninth birthday; Daniel, (deceased); Caroline, (deceased); Harriet, now Mrs. Rodgers, of this township; Clara, (deceased); Louis., resident of this township; an infant son and daughter, (deceased); Mary, (deceased); William, now resident of New Comerstown, civil engineer and operator.

BURT J. B., Lafayette township; farmer; postoffice, West Lafayette; was born in 1837, on what is now the fair grounds; was married in 1865, to Miss Margaret Bell, of this township, and they have had five children : Perry E , Mary, Jennie, Carrie (deceased, in February, 1877,) and James R. Mr. Burt was elected justice of the peace, in 1876, his commission bearing date April 12. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church. Mr. Burt since 1856, and Mrs. Burt since 1866; he has been a deacon in said church since 1866. Mr. Burt owns 200 acres of land in this township, and is one of its representative men.

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born in this township, the 3d of February, 1856; son of Judge Burt; was married the 15th of October, 1870, to Miss Frances C. Conaway, of Adams township: They have had four children: an infant (deceased), Nellie Bell, James Lewis and Charley Conaway. Mr. Burt lives on his farm of 138 acres in this township, and owns 200 acres in Chase county, Kansas. He is supervisor in this township this year. Mr. Burt and his wife are members of the Baptist church.

BUSBY AARON, M. D., Crawford township; Chili; born in Caroll county, Ohio, 1844; son of John W. Busby and Ann (Murryman) Busby, both natives of this State. Dr. Busby was mar ried in 1866 to Rebecca B. Wallace. They have a family of five children; Earl W., Carrie, Grace, Clyde and Wade. The doctor began practicing at Tippecanoe, Harrison county, Ohio, remained there two years, and then located near Perrysville, Coral county, Olio, and came to Chili in 1878, where he is now practicing.

BUSH N. C., Perry township ; postoffice, Mohawk Village; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county in 1841; son of John and Anna (Cleget) Bush; married in 1861 to Miss Susanah R. Almac, daughter of John and Mary Almac. He married December 22,1866, Miss Louisa Cullison, daughter of Ephraim and Harriet Cullison. They have one chip viz : Alma. He enlisted in 1862 in Company A, Ninth Ohio Cavalry, (Captain Sims), Colonel Hamilton (commanding), Army of the Cumberland. Mr. Bush was engaged in the battle at Cumberland Gap, siege of Knoxville, Jonesborough and Aikin. This gallant regiment had the honor of fighting the last engagement prior to Johnston's surrender, which occurred near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Colonel Hamilton was promoted by General Grant for gallant conduct during this engagement.

BUTLER FELIX, New Castle township; was born in New Castle township, Coshocton county, Ohio, September 10, 1810; son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Severns) Butler, who came to Muskingum County in 1795, and remained there until the following year, when he came to Coshocton county and settled near the junction of the Tuscarawas and Walhonding rivers, where he remained three years, he then removed to New Castle township, where he remained until he died at the advanced age of eighty-four. years. He is a grandson of Joseph Butler, who came to Coshocton county in 1801, from Monongahela county, Virginia. The name of great grandfather Butler was either Joseph or Thomas; was a native of Ireland, and was killed in 1740, in Virginia, by the Indians, at which time his wife and son James were taken prisoners by the Indians. The wife escaped the second night, but. James was kept eighteen months, when he was released by treaty. Benjamin Butler, an uncle of the subject of this sketch, in coin any with Joseph Walker, laid out the town of Mt. Vernon, Knox county, in 1805. He was married in 1852 to Miss Nancy Farquahar, daughter of Enoch and Nancy (Moore) Farquahar, and granddaughter of Samuel Farquahar, who came to Mt. Vernon in 1807, from Frederick county, Maryland.

BUXTON LEONE, New Castle township; was born in New Castle township, January 1, 1859; daughter of Thomas and Mary (Butler) Buxton, granddaughter of Thomas and Frances Buxton and James and Elizabeth (Rodehaver) Butler, and great-granddaughter of Thomas Butler. Her grandfathers were both soldiers in the war of 1812. She has one brother and two sisters, viz: James, Constants and Mary.

BUXTON N. W., Perry township ; postoffice, West Bedford; born in this county in 1842; son of Noah and Katharine Buxton, grandson of Thomas and Frances Buxton. He was married in 1862, to Miss Hannah Mikisell. Mr. Buxton is the father of six children, viz: J. W., G. B. (deceased), N. D., Warner W., Mary V., Marion and Sarah H. Mr. Buxton's father was one of the early settlers of this county, and still lives, enjoying the fruits of his early toil.

BUXTON JAMES, Jefferson township; postoffice, Warsaw ; was born in Jefferson township, Coshocton county, August 13, 1844; son of Thomas and Mary (Butler) Buxton, and grandson of James and Elizabeth (Rodehaver) Butler, who settled in Tuscarawas county, in 1804. He lived on the farm until the age of twenty, then began clerking in a store in Walhonding, for N. W. Buxton, and continued two years. He then engaged as clerk with James Foster, of Warsaw, and remained with him two years; returning to Walhonding, he clerked a year and a half for J. S. McVey, after which he engaged in bridge building for three and a half years, then returned to James Foster's and clerked six months. He then engaged with Nickols & Gamble in merchandising in Warsaw, and has been there near three years. In 1864 he drove 1,200 sheep to Valparaiso, Indiana, and from there went to Cedar county, Iowa, remaining one year. He is a kind, genial young man, highly esteemed and well adapted to business.

BUXTON M. W., Jefferson township; born April 15, 1830, in Coshocton county , at East Union; son of John and Elizabeth (Todd) Buxton (distant relation of ex-governor Todd). Mr. Buxton lived in East Union till about the age of nine years, when his parents took him to the farm, where he lived till the age of eighteen, when he engaged in various kinds of work, grubbing, clearing and farming on the shares for three

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years, when he went into the grocery business with his uncle, Thomas Buxton, for two years; after that he followed farming in Union county awhile, then moved to Knox county, then back to Coshocton county; was butchering and merchandising some time; then began taking contracts for stone work for county bridges, etc., at which he was very successful. Mr. Buxton was married, in 1853, to Miss Lorinda Butler, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Rodehaver) Butler. Their children are James B: and John M. James married Miss Malinda Trout and resides in Knox county. John is reading medicine under Dr. Russell, in Mount Vernon. After the death of Mrs. Buxton, he married Miss Cadence C. Buxton, in 1862, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Butler) Buxton, and granddaughter of James and Elizabeth (Rodehaver) Butler, and great granddaughter of Thomas Butler. William T., Olive, Mary E., and Gertrude E., were the names of their children.

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CAMPBELL THOMAS, (deceased), was born May 21, 1816. in Steubenville, Ohio; attended school while a boy until fifteen years of age, when, with his father, he settled on a farm in Adams township, this county. In 1832 he entered Franklin college, and remained two years. In 1835 he came to this city,, and spent the first year clerking and teaching school. In 1838 he entered, as a student, the law office of James Matthews, and was admitted to the bar March 4, 1841, at Steubenville. In 1842 he commenced the practice of law in this city, and was elected the following year to the office of prosecuting attorney, and was re-elected for the two succeeding terms, serving six consecutive years. In 1852 he was elected probate judge, being the first judge under the new constitution, of the State, term of office, three years. In 1866 he was associated with R. M. Voorhes, firm name, Campbell & Voorhes, attorneys and counselors at law. Judge Campbell was married August 5, 1841, to Miss Martha Wallace, of Miffiin county, Pennsylvania. This union was blessed with six children, two of whom, John and Patrick Steel, died at Corinth, Mississippi. Those living are, Dr. James Campbell, married to Miss Maggie Crimm, of Dennison, Ohio, and now residing in Iowa county, Iowa; Mary Jane, married to Robert A. McKelley, of Upper Sandusky; Isabelle, married to Dr. Robert H. Bradley, now a resident of Marshal county, Illinois; and William F., residing in Iowa county, Illinois. Judge Campbell died very suddenly on Wednesday morning, July 6, 1881. Up to the time of his death he was in his usual health. He had been at work about his office table the same morning. A moment before the final summons he walked to a front window, looked out and remarked upon the probability of a rainfall during the day, and then turned and stretched out his hand in the direction of a chair, when he suddenly fell to the floor. Charlie Hunt, a law student, was the only person in the office. He hastily stepped into the hail and called to Mr. Bargar, who was in the next room. Mr. Bargar and Mr. Triplett in an instant were at the side of the prostrate form. His collar was loosened and the body straightened to an easy position, but by the time this momentary work was done there was no sign of life. The vital spark had fled with his fall to the floor, so quickly, perhaps, that no sensation of pain came to the body before the spirit had flown. Life went out as suddenly as the light of a candle is extinguished.

CARHART J. M., tanner and leather dealer, of the firm of J. & H. Carhart, Main street, Roscoe; born May 10, 1841, in Roscoe; son of John Carhart (deceased). J. M. was raided in his native village. At eighteen he went into the dry goods store of J.. G. Stewart as clerk, and remained until April, 1861, when he enlisted in Com any A, Sixteenth O. V. I. (three months' men) and served to the close of his enlistment. In September of the same year he enlisted as musician in Regimental Band Fifty-first O. V. I, in which he served about ten months. In July, 1863, he reenlisted in Company M, Ninth O. V. C., and was appointed first sergeant of the company, and, subsequently, commissioned second lieutenant, which office he resigned in March, 1865, on account of the lop of the left eye. He engaged in the present firm December 6, 1874, which does a general tanning business, and deals extensively in leather of all grades. Lieutenant Carhart was married February 8, 1864, to Miss Emily C. Taylor, of Roscoe. They are the parents of three children-Estella, Gertrude and John E. Carhart.

CARNAHAN WILLIAM, Coshocton; farmer; was born February 24, 1829, in White Eyes township; son of John and Sarah (Marshall) Carnahan. Sarah Marshall's grandparents (Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell), were killed by the Indians, in Washington county, Pennsylvania. Her sister was taken prisoner, by the savages, and kept four-teen years, but escaped, on an armed vessel, at Quebec, disguised as a soldier. John Carnahan, father of William, came to White Eyes township, in 1826, being one of the eight who were the only inhabitants of the township. He assisted to organize the township for official and election purposes, and also was one of the first justices of the peace. ace. Esquire William Carnahan owns the old homestead on which he lived forty-five years, but, in 1874, he built his present residence, corner of Orange and Eighth streets, which he has occupied to the present time He was elected justice of the peace, in 1864, and served until his

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removal from the township, having been elected four times. He was married May 22, 1850, to Miss Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Thomas Miller, of Holmes county. Mary Alma is their only child.

CARR MICHAEL B. (deceased), Linton township; born January 18, 1824, in Massachusetts; son of James and Hannah Carr; when about twenty-one years old, moved to Linton township; here married Jane Glenn, born January 4, 1830, in Jefferson county, daughter of John and Jane (Lamb) Glenn. Mr. Glenn was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and moved from Jefferson to this county in 1832. Mr. Carr was a shoemaker and followed his trade in Plainfield, except four years-1849-53 spent in Ottawa, until he moved to the farm where Mrs. Carr now resides, in 1866. He died March 13,1875. His children are John Calvin (deceased), James C., Sarah A., William B., Hannah J. (Jones), Thomas, Ward, Clark M., Sarah C., Mary Bell, Elizabeth A., Elias Glenn, George M., and Berths Alice. Four of his sons are school teachers. James C., the oldest has taught nine years; he was married April 3, 1872, to Eliza J. Tedrick, daughter of Reed and Amelia Tedrick, and has three children, Charlie Reed, Earnest M: and Mary Belle.

CARR E. C., M. D., Coshocton, Ohio, Main street. Dr. Carr was born April 17, 1850, in East Union, Coshocton county, Oho; son of Dr. James G. and Eliza (Bond) Carr, of English and Irish ancestors. He received his education in the public schools of the county, Newcomerstown high school and Mt. Union college. His first profession was school teaching, which he followed three years. In 1872 he began reading medicine with his father. He was graduated in the science of medicine in the spring of 1875. His first professional practice was at Millersburg, Holmes county, with Dr. Pomerene; after which he practiced at Holmesville until April, 1881, when he came to Coshocton, Ohio. Dr. E. C. Carr was married July 6, 1875, to Miss Anna M., daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Holmes) Jack, of Pitts burgh, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of three children, viz : Jas. G., Ehza H. and Emma P.

CARR J. S., M. D., Clark township; postoflice, Clark's; born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, March 19, 1825; son of Thomas and Orpha (Seaward) Carr, and grandson of John and Margaret (McGuire) Carr, and Eli and Ellen Seaward. His father's ancestors were from Ireland, and his mother's parents were Puritans. His father was a minister of the M. E. church; was admitted to conference in 1820, and remained in active service until 1848, then served as supernumerary until 1856, when he died. Mr. Carr began the study of medicine with Dr. A. E. Bassett, of Portage county, Ohio, in 1846, and, after reading three years, he attended lectures at the Western Reserve Medical College, of Cleveland, Ohio, and, in the spring of 1849, began practice in East Union, Coshocton county, where he remained five years, then moved to Bloomfield, where he has had a successful practice since. He enlisted during the war in Company I, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth O. N. G., in the capacity of assistant surgeon, and was also a pointed as assistant surgeon in Twenty-sixth O. V. V. I. He has been thrice married, the first marriage. hero on the 12th of April, 1849, to Miss Caroline E. Bond,. daughter of Jones and Elizabeth Bond, who was born July, 21, 1826, and died July 3, 1851. She was the mother of one child-Edmund C., born April 17, 1850, who is now a practitioner of medicine. Mr. Carr's second marriage was on the 8th of January, 1852, to Anna McCaughan, daughter of A. and Ann McCaughan, by whom he had one child-James Mc., born October 14,. 1852, died February 4, 1863. His last marriage occurred February 15, 1858, with Elizabeth B.. Stover, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Story) ) Stover, and granddaughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth Stover, and Ephraim and Jemimah (Clark) Story. She was born in November, 1824,. in Canterberry, Conneticut.

CARROLL RICHARD, Linton township; shoemaker; residence, Plainfield; born March 1,1820,. near Belfast, Ireland; son of Richard and Martha (Hobson) Carroll. His mother's parents were Quakers, but she was converted to Methodism when eleven years old. His father was weigh-master of the grain market at Belfast and land steward of the large estates of Stephen May. Mr. Carroll learned the shoemaker's trade in Belfast and conducted a large trade there. In 1856, he emigrated with his family to Plainfield, and has carried on his trade there since. He entered service, September 6, 1864, in company F, Fifteenth O. V. I, performing detailed duty in Sherman's eastern campaign, and was discharged June 8, 1865. In 1842, he was married to Jane Russell,. born at Port Adoun, Ireland, daughter of James Russell. Their children are Margaret Jane (Tedrick), John, Sophia C., Richard, Sarah Flora, Anna B. (deceased), and Thomas Benjamin (deceased).

CARROLL J. C., Lafayette township ; boot and shoe manufacturer; born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1847, and came to this country in 1856; was married, in 1872, to Miss Agnes McCune. They have had four children: Thomas, Maggie, an infant, and Charles. Mr. Carroll took an active part in the late war, going out in company H, Eightieth O. V. L, and served with that regiment fifteen months, and served three years in the regular army afterward; was census. enumerator of this township in 1880, and is an enterprising: and skillful workman.

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CARSON JAMES, Keens township; farmer; born in Steubenville. Ohio, December 11, 1818; son of John and Ann Carson; grandson of James and Esther (Reed) Carson and of James and Ann Swain. His father's family consisted of four children: Father, William (deceased), Sarah and James. .1t the age of three he was brought to Coshocton county, and remained here till 1854, and then went to California and spent five years in Bute and one year in Sierre county. He next moved to Virginia City, Nevada, where he engaged in the lumber business about two and a half years, then returned to Coshocton county and has followed farming here since.

CASSINGHAM J. W., county auditor ; was as born June 22, 1840, in Coshocton city; son of George F. and Elizabeth (Wilson) Cassingham. His paternal ancestry is English, and his maternal Irish. Mr. C. began business as clerk in the county treasurer's office, in 1857, where he remained until 1868, when he engaged in the grocery business, firm name of Cassingham & Crowley. This firm dissolved in 1874, when Mr. C. engaged in the coal business, firm name of Prosser & Cassingham. Mr. C. withdrew from this firm in the spring of 1881. From 1872 to the present time he has been partner in the Coshocton Paper Company. Mr. Cassingham was elected to his present office, auditor of the county, in the fall of 1881. He was married November 5, 1863, to Miss Caroline, daughter of Samuel and Julia (Crowly ) Lamberson. They are the parents of two children, viz : Charles L., and George W.

CASSINGHAM GEORGE F , was born April 19, 1872, in Kent county, Ireland; son of Thomas and Phebe (Ford) Cassingham ; came to America in the fall of 1818, and located in Muskingum county, Ohio, where they remained until the old gentleman's death. He had eight sons and four daughters, viz: Thomas, Richard, James, John P., Henry, William. Ford and George F., the subject of our sketch. The names of the four daughters are as follows: Phebe, Elizabeth, Sophia and Mary Jane. In 1833, George F. came to this city, and engaged in shoemaking. In 1345, he was elected justice of the peace, and, in 1846, recorder, and held both offices nine years, and, in 1879, was again elected justice of the peace, which office he now holds. Esquire Cassingham was married May 23, 1835, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Wilson. They became the parents of four children, viz: Julia (deceased), Sarah, Mary Jane and John W.

CASTEEL THOMAS, Perry township; postoffice, West Carlisle; born in. Pennsylvania, in 1796; son of Jesse and Sarah Casteel. Mr. Casteel has been twice married; fist, in 1816, to Miss Rutha Dickers. His fist wife died in September, 1836. They had ten children, viz: Amos, Darcus (deceased), Jessie, Eliza E., John W., Urias, Perry, Druzilla, Etha and Ruth. In 1836, he married Susannah Bottomfield, daughter of Henry and Rachel (Flagle) Bottomfield. They have seven children, viz: Rachel. Jackson, Jacob (deceased), James M. (deceased), Sarah, Susan and Thomas. Mrs. Casteel has lived n this county fifty-six years, and has been in the town of Coshocton only once in all that time.

CATON GEORGE R., White Eyes township; farmer; postoffice, Chili, Ohio; born December 18, 1831, in White Eyes township; son of Thomas and Mary (Ringer) Caton; a native of Pennsylvania, but came to White Eyes township among the first settlers of the township; George R. was brought up in the township. Mr. Caton was married in February, 1855, to Miss Lucinda, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hughes McCoIlum, formerly of Pennsylvania. They became the parents of nine children, viz: Franklin, Lafayette, Mary Alice, married to Michael Sherman, now residing in White Eyes township, Sarah Jane, Thomas J., Elsworth C., James L., George W., Solemma Bell and U. S. Grant. Mr. Caton has succeeded well as a farmer, having a good home for a large family.

CATON A. S., Roscoe postoffice; merchant, of the firm of Moore & Caton, White Woman street; born June 28, 1852, in Berrin county, Michigan ; son of Andrew Caton, American born, of German ancestry. When one year old he came to this State with his parents, and settled on a farm in Marrow county, and after a few removes, settled in Knox county. At seventeen years of age, he began teaching school and taught two years. He then entered the Ohio Wesleyan college, at Delaware, and attended three years. On leaving college, in company with his brother-in-law, settled on a farm in West Bedford township, where they remained one year, when they exchanged the farm for the building and stock of goods owned by A. Pettit, and continued the business at the place named above. This firm has been very successful, notwithstanding their having had no previous mercantile experience. Their business has increased largely in the last few years. Mr. Caton was married September 11, 1874, to Miss Dottie Moore, daughter of William Moore, of West Bedford township.

CHADWELL JAMES T., Linton township; farmer; born in Tuscarawas county, July 25, 1825; son of George and Ruth (Taylor) Chadwell, both grandfathers were English born. His grandfather, Thomas Taylor, was brought to America as an English sober, during the revolutionary war, but deserted the ship before he landed and swam ashore. He was the only one of three to reach the shore. His grandfather, John Chad-

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well, settled in Virginia. His father, born in Loudon county, Virginia, came to Jefferson county in 1814, when sixteen years old, and afterward moved to Tuscarawas county, where James was raised. In 1850, April 6, Mr. Chadwell married Miss Sarah, daughter of James and Magdalena (Minnick) Updegraff, born in Carroll county, and at five years of age was brought to Tuscarawas county by her parents. Their children are Mary (Welker), Jane (Marlatt), Samantha (Marlatt), Phoebe (deceased), Maria (deceased), and Ella May. In 1853 Mr. Chadwell moved to Ross county, and lived there eleven years. He spent the summer of 1865 in Tuscarawas county, and has resided in Linton township since. He entered military service in May, 1864; as a member of Company F, One Hundred and Forty-ninth O. N. G., serving four months.

CHAMBERLIN O. P., Linton township ; born in Lafayette township, May 1, 1842. His father, John G., emigrated from Vermont about 1838. His mother, Gertrude Shaffer, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Shaffer, was born at Albany, New York. He was married February 7,1861, to Miss E. J. Moore, daughter of Rev. John and Rosanna Moore ; born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. Her grand parents were Joseph and Eliza (Glenn) Moore, both of Irish nativity, and Henry and Jane (Lyle) Donnell, of Vir inia birth. Mr. Chamberlin has two children, live P. and Gertrude R. He enlisted February, 1862, in Company K, Eightieth O. V. I; mustered out September, 1865. He participated in the siege of Corinth, battles of Iuka and Corinth, siege of Vicksburg, battle of Mission Ridge, and Sherman's engagements in Georgia. In 1873 he moved to Linton township, and has lived here since.

CHALFANT H. M., farmer; Washington township; postoffice, Dresden; born in 1840, in this county. His father was born in 1807, in what is now Perry county, and came to this county with-his father in 1808. He was married in 1830 to Miss Delilah Hayes, of this county, who was born in 1813. They are the parents of eight children, five of whom are living. H. M. Chalfant, the subject of this sketch, was married in 1861 to Miss Elizabeth Mossman, of this county, who was born in 1840. They are the parents of seven children, viz: D. A., Lena L., Sybil J., John C., Mary L., George W, and Ins M.

CHANEY JONATHAN, Pike township; postoffice, Frazeysburgh, Muskingum county; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county in 1850; son of Emanuel and Margaret (Ashcraft) Chaney, and grandson of Joseph and Elizabeth Chaney. He was married in 1876, to Miss Mary E. Moran, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Moran. They are the parents of two children, viz: Flaura B. and Charles E.

CHANEY S. F., Pike township; merchant; born in 1854, in Muskingum county, Ohio; came to this county in 1860. He was married in 1879 to Nancy E. Forrest, of this county. She was born in 1842, in this county. They are the parents of one child-Otto Clay. He bought an Interest in the store of L. V. Cox, in 1878, who died in March, 1879. In the same year he purchased his interest of the heirs, and now continues the business alone, dealing in dry goods, groceries, hats and caps, boots and shoes, queensware and notions. Sole agent for Rambo's woolen goods.

CHAPMAN DR. BARZILLAI W., Adams township, Bakersvillie, Ohio; was born October 2, 1835, near Washington, Pennsylvania; son of Richard and Catherine (Updegraff) Chapman, who were the parents of thirteen children, nine sons and four daughters. The father was of Irish and the mother of German descent. Dr. Chapman was brought up in Washington county, Pennsylvania. At twenty years of age, he began reading medicine with Dr. Solomon Beers, of Newcomerstown, Ohio. He began the practice of his profession at New Albany, Ohio, in May, 1858. In 1862, he went to Morristown, where he remained until 1864, when he came to his present residence. He was first married, December 20,1855, to Miss Mary A., daughter of Samuel and Isabella (Major) Spencer. By this union he became the father of three children, viz: Alexander L., who died March 30,1859, Isabel C. and Lucinda B. Their mother died January 5, 18-. The doctor was married, April 10,1873, to his present wife, Miss Catherine, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Winger) Zimmerman, natives of Bern, Switzerland. They are the parents of one child, viz : Edwin B., born August 16,1874. The doctor's grandfathers, to the fifth generation, have all borne the name of "Richard:" He has a relict of his grandfather which is here given, verbatin: "That Richard Coppmann and his wife, Sarah Coppman, alias Patterson, are Protestants, regular members of this congregation; honest and sober and free from scandal or ground of church censure known to us, is, by order of session, certified at Castleblaney, county Monaghan, Ireland, September 12, 1783, by James M. Attley, District Minister."

CHASE LESLIE, Clark township; hardware merchant; postoffice, Clark's; born in Bloomfield, Coshocton county, June 22,1857 ; son of John and Rebecca (Lewis) Chase. He learned the tinner's trade with Mr. D. St: John, of Cardington, Monroe county, Ohio, and worked in his employ for three ears; then came to Bloomfield and engaged In the hardware business in the fall of 1876, in which he has been engaged since. In connection with his store he has a tin-shop, in which he carries on his trade, paying particular attention

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to roofing and spouting. He does a fair business, both in hardware and at his trade and is an accommodating, practical business man. He was married October 18,1878, to Miss Emma Duncan, daughter of William and Fannie (Elliott) Duncan. They have one child, Fannie, born May 30, 1880.

CHURCH JOHN R., Monroe township; was bore November, 1850, in Tiverton township; son of Benjamin S. and Margaret E. (Cox) Church; grandson of Lemuel and Elizabeth (Simmons) Church, who are natives of Fall River, Massachusetts. Mr. Church lived in Tiverton Center till the age of twelve years, when he went to farming and attended country school. His education was completed in the Spring Mountain academy. At the age of twenty-one he began teaching, which he has followed in the winter seasons ever since. Mr. Church is a thriving young farmer and resides at present in Monroe . township, Coshocton county. He was married to Miss Rachel A. Bantam, October 25, 1876, who was born in 1851, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Easter) Bantum, and granddaughter of John and Anna Bantum, and of George and Elizabeth Easter. She was educated at Warsaw and Spring Mountain, is a member of the Evangelical church. They have two children, Robert V., born December 10, 1877, and Nelly, born October 6, 1880.

CLARK JOHN, Tuscarawas township ; farmer; postoffice, Coshocton; was burn April 28, 1814, in Fawn township, York county, Pennsylvania. He came to his present farm residence about the year 1863. Mr. Clark was married January 1, 1866, to Miss Mary Ellen, daughter of John and Lucy (Swaringum) Morgan, of Lafayette township. This union was blessed with one child, John James, Loin October 29, 1868. Mr. Clark has by honest industry possessed himself of a good farm, from which he realizes a comfortable living for himself and family.

CLARK JOHN, Bethlehem township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio ; son of Samuel Clark was born in this county, in 1813. His father came to this county in 1510 or 1811, and was of Irish descent. He was one of the oldest citizens of Coshocton county. When he came to the county, he found it a wilderness, with here and there a cabin, surrounded by a small lot of cleared land. He was county commissioner two terms, and served as justice of the peace in his township for a number of years. John Clark was married February 3, 1842, to Miss Elizabeth N. Skillman, who was born in New Jersey, in 1819. They became the parents of eleven children, viz : James A , Nary W., Margaret J. (deceased), Thomas, Isaac M, John A., Anna C., Emma, Lizzie and Edward E. Lizzie follows the profession of teaching. Mr. Clark owns a fine farm in Bethlehem township, and is esteemed by all his neighbors. He and his wife are prominent members of the M. E. Church.

CLARK JAMES W., Franklin township; farmer; born in Linton township, November 17, 1829; son of James Clark, born in 1811, and grandson of William Clark, a pioneer of this county. He has always lived in Linton and Franklin townships, except a year spent just across the Muskingum: Taught school nine. years, beginning in 1850; then opened a store in Maysville, which he conducted for six years, then engaged in farming , married in 1853, to Mary Ann, daughter of Henry Piper, of Muskingum county. Of his eleven children, only four survive, viz: William Albert, Elizabeth Olive, Richard Oliver and Stella Ann. Walter, in 1877, at sixteen years of age, was drowned while bathing in the Muskingum river. Nancy Jane, died in 1878, of consumption, aged eighteen years. The other children died young.

CLARK WILLIAM W., Franklin township; farmer; born in Tuscarawas township, April 18, 1813; son of William and Nancy (Valentine) Clark. His father, born in 1775, came to Tuscarawas township from Virginia before 1809, was a soldier in 1812, and died May 11,1842. His family consisted of Margaret (McCleeary), Hugh, James, Nancy (Bainter), John, Elizabeth (Preston), William W. (the subject of this sketch), and Samuel. Only the youngest three now survive. Mr. Clark married Dorotha N., daughter of Sylvester and Hannah (Snyder) Preston. Her father emigrated with his family from New York in 1838. She was the youngest of eleven children, viz: Sarah (Bouton), Zerah, Robert W., Zachariah S., Lewis B., Otis A., Joseph W., Harriet ( Wilcox), Mary J. (Wilcox), Julia A. and Dorotha, Mr. Clark has had eight children, four of whom survive, viz: James P., Elizabeth P., Hannah, Jane (McCollough), of Guernsey county, Mary Catharine (Emler).

CLARK WILLIAM M., Franklin township; farmer; born in Linton township, June 2'7, 1825; son of James, and grandson of William Clark; one of the earliest settlers of the county; emigrated from Maryland, and moved to Franklin township in 1864; was married February 12,1850, to ,Rebecca A. Bryan, who was born in Franklin township, and is the daughter of Stephen K. Bryan. Their family consists of six -children, viz: Martha Jane, Mary, James, Stephen, John and Thomas.

CLARK BENTON, Jackson township; farmer; postoffice, Roscoe, Ohio; son of Archibald and , Sarah (Hogland) Clark; was born September 29; 1837, in this county. His father was of Irish de-

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scent, but was born and raised in this county. His mother was of English descent, and was also born and raised in this county. They were among the oldest pioneers of the county. Mr. Clark was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He was married to 1857, to Miss Elizabeth Thompkins, of this county. They became the parents of four children, viz : Henry, Archibald, James and Adam. Mr. Clark owns a fine farm in the Walhonding valley.

CLARK S. B , Jackson township; born in this county, in 1839; son of William and Hannah Clark, and grandson of Samuel and Rachel Clark; married, in 1863, to Nancy E. Boring, daughter of Kinzy and Margaret Boring: Mr. Clam is the father of five children, viz: William C., H. K., Marion, Wealthy and Milton. Postoffice, Rosco.

CLARK JOSHUA, New Castle township; farmer; postoffice, New Castle; was born February 10, 1808, in Harrison county, where the town of Harrisville now stands, and which was, at that time, in the woods. He is the son of John and Mary (Booths) Clark, who were the parents of ten children. His father was Welsh and his mother of English descent. They were Quakers, from the neighborhood of Philadelphia. He came to New Castle township, with his father, when he was eighteen years old, and settled on the land now occupied by the village of New Castle, and, about three yearn later, his father laid out the village of Liberty (now New Castle). At the age of twenty-one he married Miss Mary Given, daughter of William and Elisabeth (Bart) Given. She was raised on Wheeling creek, near Wheeling, West Virginia. They then moved to Morrow county, Ohio, and settled in the woods; but their stay here was short, on account of the scarcity of food and labor, being three miles from the nearest settlement where they could obtain the necessaries of life. While there they lived in a cabin with a fireplace in one end, the backwall and chimney being but six feet high, and were therefore in danger of attacks from wolves. They lined the first week in this cabin without its being daubed, and the snow fell about ankle deep. He attended eleven raisings and log-rollings during the first two weeks of his sojourn in that place. At the expiration of about six months they had consume about all the provisions the had brought with them, and then began to thin it time to move, so they returned to New Castle township, Coshocton county, where he is still living. "He is situated nearly two miles southwest of New Castle, at the headwaters of the Wakatomica on a well improved farm of about 500 acres. He has been twice married. His first wife bore him four children, viz : William, Love M., Allen and Elizabeth. William resides near East Union, Coshocton county; Love married William Warton, of Butler township, Knox county; Allen is a farmer of Jackson ,township, Knox county; Elizabeth is the wife of Jesse Mercer, of Jackson township, Knox county. He was married a second time to Miss Eleanor Wilson, on the twentieth of June, 1841, daughter of William and Rebecca (Melick) Wilson, granddaughter; of James and Rebecca (Jones) Wilson; also of John and Eleanor Melick . She was born January 28,1813, in Somerset county, Pennsylvania. This union resulted in eight children, viz Thomas (deceased), Rebecca., Joshua, Martha, Charles H., Robert H., Hannah S. and Samuel Mc. Mr. Clark relates that when his father was moving to this county, they came to Coshocton on Sunday, and had to cross the river on a ferry boat, and that the whole town came down to the river to help them across, and that in ferrying the cattle across they had a good deal of trouble, some of them jumping overboard and swimming back. Among those of the village that turned out to assist them, were Mr. Adam Johnson and Colonel Williams. He also relates, that on arriving in New Castle township, after two days heavy driving from Coshocton, they moved in a house with one or two other families, and lived two weeks there, until they could build one of their own, and that there were about twenty persons in all occupying the house during those two weeks. On the farm where he now hues stands the trunk of an apple tree, that measures ten feet, three inches in circumference, that the seed or sprout had been planted by Johnny Appleseed, who then lived upon the Mohican. The trunk is about seventy years old, and in one specially favorable season, bore 140 bushels of apples.

CLARK NATHAN, Pike township; postoffice, West Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county in 1839; son of Manley and Mary Clark. He