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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

NOTE: All matter contained in these sketches has been obtained directly from families or individuals cognizant of the facts contained in them. Being thus written, those furnishing the information are alone responsible for the facts and dates written.

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ABBOTT, JOHN S., farmer, was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, June 18, 1826. In 1855 he emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, locating in Mt. Vernon. In the fall of the same year he purchased the farm on which he is now living, in Clinton township, located on the Granville road, two miles from Mt. Vernon, and has since made farming his occupation. February 15, 1863, he married Miss Mary E. Johnston, born in Clinton township, Knox county, Ohio, March 11, 18.12, daughter of ; James and Mary J. Johnson. They moved on his farm where they are now living. Their union resulted in one child, a daughter.

ACKERMAN, L. B., insurance agent, Fredericktown, was born in Knox county, Ohio, August 17, 1839, and was married September 20, 1871, to Ella Cook, who was born in Wayne county, June 12, 1848. They have four children, via: Ida C., born July 8, 1872; William A., December 26, 1873; Ernest Lee, March 13, 1875, and Edith E., March 31, 1879. Mr. Ackerman received a liberal education and has been engaged in teaching, having taught school twenty-three years. He was principal of the Fredericktown union schools during the years 1877 and 1878, and has the reputation of being one of the ablest instructors of Knox county. He is at present engaged in the insurance and collecting business. He has been a citizen of Fredericktown for three years, and is one of the intelligent and enterprising men of this township, and has done much to promote the standard of education in Knox county. He has also taken quite an active part in political matters.

ACKERMAN. HARVEY, Middlebury township, farmer. post office, Levering, born in Middlebury township. July 14, 1850; married in 1872 to Ara Smith, who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1852. They have two children-Blanche, born January to, 1874, and Carle, born July 2, 1877. Mrs. Ara Ackerman died April 2, 1878. Mr. Ackerman has been engaged in teaching school about ten years.

ADAM, JAMES, Monroe township, deceased, son of John and Ann Adams, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, :November 22, 1792. He accompanied his parents to this county in 1811, who located near Mt. Vernon, where they deceased Mrs. Adams in 1827 and Mr. Adams in 1829. James Adams was reared on a farm, and followed farming as his vocation through .life. October 10, 1815, he married Miss Eleanor Newell, daughter of Hugh and Margaret Newell, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1798, and came to Knox county with her sister Mary, wife of judge McGibeney, in 1820. Mr. and Mrs. Adams settled on a farm in Monroe township, known as the Hunt farm, and remained until 1836. They then moved on farm in the same township, located on Schenck's creek, now owned by their son, Allison Adams, where he deceased April 1, 1838. His companion survives him at the age of eighty-two years, and is living on the home farm with her son Allison. He served in the War of 1812. He filled the office of justice of the peace in Monroe township about ten years. He was the father of three children: John, born August 3, 1816: Allison, born. November 6, 1818; and Mary J., born November 12, 1820. John and Mary T. have deceased. Allison Adams married Miss Phebe A. Paige, of Monroe township, who deceased October 10, 1854. He was then united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth E. Dowds, in November, 1855; born December 27, 1834; daughter of Elijah Dowds, deceased. They settled on the Adams homestead, where they are now living. They have a family of six children-three sons and three daughters. He has made farming and stock raising his vocation. He owns a large farm in Monroe township. He enlisted in company H, of the Sixty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, anti served about ten months in the war of 1861. He was in the battle of Stone River December 31, 1862. He has served the people of Monroe township as justice of the peace since October, 1865.

ADAMS, GEORGE, deceased, was born in Redgrave, a village in Suffolk county, England, March 16, 1797. He came to America in 1853, first settling in Gambier, where he lived one year, and then removed to Mt. Vernon, where he resided up to the time of his death, which occurred about noon on Thursday, December .1, 1879, in the eighty-third year of his age. Mr. Adams was twice married. By his first wife he had thirteen children, seven of whom are still living-five sons and two daughters-Mr. Adam Adams, of the firm of Adams S Rogers, hardware merchants, being the eldest. Besides these, be leaves twenty-four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Mr. Adams' death was sudden. He had been engaged in wheeling tanbark from the street in to his lot, and at dinner time his wife found him in the front yard, lying on his back, dead. Apoplexy is supposed to have been the cause of his death.

ADAMS JACOB, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1822, came to Ohio when fourteen years of age, and was married in 1850 to Sabra Brown, who was born in this township in 1830. They have six children, via: Annetta, born in 1854; Alice M., in 1856; Sabie C., in 1858; Mary E., in 1860; Duddie, in 1863, and John E., in 1866. Mr. Adams is a prosperous farmer, and a careful, judicious financier.

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ADAMS, ARTHUR, blacksmith and horseshoer, Mulberry street, between High and Vine streets, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Arthur Adams is a native of Mt. Vernon, and was born November 6, 1848, and received his education in the public schools of the city. He learned his trade, blacksmithing, with his father, Mr. Adam Adams. Serving three years as an apprentice, he worked one year after instructions in his father's s establishment. He then opened a shop in Fredericktown and worked two years. He then returned to Mt. Vernon and entered into partnership with his father for some two years, and then took charge of the shop for himself, which he still conducts. The business amounts to about two thousand dollars per year. Horseshoeing is a specialty, he having a thorough knowledge of the theory of shoeing truck and draft horses, and of all departments of shoeing. He took the first premium at the Knox County Agricultural society's fair in 1873. His father, with whom he learned his trade, also took a first premium from the State Board of Agriculture at the fair held at Cleveland some years ago. He does all kinds of repairing on short notice, and for reasonable terms. All his work is warranted to be first class. Mr. Adams in 1863 enlisted in company R, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served until the close of the war. M. Adams has represented his ward in the city council.

ADAMS, REV. MORTON D., pastor of the Disciple church, was born at Vincennes, Indiana, May 24, 1856, and received his preparatory education there, and at Butler university, Indianpolis, and completed at Vincennes university, from which he graduated in 1875. In 1876 he entered upon pastoral duty at Vandalia, Illinois, where he remained one year, and then went to Massillion, Ohio, and served the church there one year. In 1879 he came to Mt. Vernon and took charge of the Disciple church of this place, in which he has served with acceptance to the present, and during which the church has been greatly revived and built up, having had forty additions during his pastorate.

ALER, CHARLES E., traveling agent, post office, Fredericktown. He was born in Virginia in 1850, and came to Ohio in 1877. He was married in 1875 to Eugenia B. Linfield, who was born in North Carolina in 1855. They have two children: Margaret V. was born in 1877, and Claudia I. in 1879. Mr. Aler has been a very successful book agent, and is still engaged at that business.

ALLEN, ASAHEL, farmer, was born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, November 18, 1803, In February, 1804, his parents, Asahel and Rhoda Allen, nee Fillson, moved to Benson, Rutland county, Vermont, where he was reared to manhood. In September, 1833, he, in company with two sisters, Salome C. and Rhoda A., and his father and mother, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, located in Mt. Vernon for the following winter, and in the spring of 1834 they purchased and moved on the farm now owned by him, one and a half miles southwest of Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road, in Clinton township. There was a log cabin on the farm, which served them as an abode until 1835, when he erected the brick dwelling, which is now used as a tenant house. Rhoda Allen deceased June 19, 1848 His father, Asahel Allen, died April 22, 1850, aged eighty years Rhoda, wife of Asahel Allen, and mother of Mr. Allen, jr, departed this life December 1, 1857, aged eighty-six years and six months.

On the eighteenth day of February, 1841, Asahel Allen, jr., married Miss Content Wing, daughter of John and Phebe Vying. Miss Wing was born in Queensbury, Warren county, New York, November to, 1812, and emigrated with her parents to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, in 1817. After the marriage of Mr. Allen to Miss Wing they settled on the Allen homestead, where they are now living. In 1843 he erected their present residence, which is a frame structure.

They reared a family of four children, Belinda E., Alice A., Charles R., and Henry A. who are all living. He has followed farming and stock-raising as his vocation. His sister, Salome C., Married, and is now living at Mt. Vernon.

ALLEN, W. P., was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1817, where he remained until twenty-three years old ; was reared on a farm and was educated at the district schools. In 1840 he came to Ohio and settled in Pleasant township, Knox county, where he followed farming for twelve years, when he traded his farm for another in Clay township, where he remained for five years. In the spring of 1857 he moved to Martinsburgh and dealt in stock until the fall of 1865. In the spring he commenced dealing in agricultural implements in which ire has since been engaged. He came from Martinsburgh to the spring of 1871 to Mt. Vernon, where he now- lives, and has been engaged in his present business for fifteen years, and has done a business of ten thousand dollars per year. He at present represents Whitely, Fassler, & Kelley, of Springfield, manufacturers of reapers and mowers; J. A. Case & Co., of Racine, Wisconsin, manufacturers of engines and separators, and a number of other prominent manufacturing firms in his line.

ALLEN, JAMES, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown ; born in Monroe county in 1832, married in 1833 to Mary E. Devore, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1836. They have the following family, viz: Josephine C:., born January 17, 1837; Adalaide V., June to, 1864; Jennie A.. February 7, 1867, and Lillie I., July 29, 1870. Mr. Allen came to Knox county in 1867, and located in Middlebury township. He owns a well improved farm, and is one of the active and energetic men of the township.

ALLEN, FRANCIS M., farmer and stock raiser, was born in Liberty township, August 26, 1852. He is the son of William and Joanna Allen Nee Coffing. He was raised on a farm, and attended the public schools of the district. He was married to Miss Carrie Coleville, daughter of William and Hannah Coleville, September, 1875. They have one child.

Mrs. Joanna Allen was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, 1810, where she was reared. Her maiden name was Coffing. In 1832 she married William Allen, who was born in England, November 10, 1805, and about 1819 came to the United States with his parents, who settled in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, About 1835 Mr. and Mrs. Allen came to Ohio and settled on the farm on which he died, February 20, 1877. They settled in the woods, and of course had almost the same experience as pioneers. Mr. Allen became one of the influential citizens of the township. He was regarded as an exemplary man. They had a family of seven children, six of whom are living. Mrs. Allen still occupies the old homestead.

AMOS, JOHN F., farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Perry township, Richland county, in 1850, and was married in 1874 to Mary E. McNutt, who was born in Stark county in 1856. He came to Middlebury township in 1867. Mr. Amos owns an improved farm, with good

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buildings thereon, and is one of the prominent citizens here.

AMOS, F. .A., farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown; born in Hartford county, Maryland, in 1809, came to Richland county, Ohio, in 1836, and removed to Knox county in 1867. He was married twice and had a family of six children, viz.: Joshua, John F., Freddie P., Amanda, Mary Elizabeth, and Albert (deceased). Mr. Amos owns one of the finest farms (with excellent buildings) in Middlebury township.

AMSBAUGH, CHRISTOPHER, C., farmer, Berlin township, post office, Shaler's Mills; born in Richland county, Madison township, Ohio, in 1835, and was married in 1867 to Sarah Adams, who was born in Berlin township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1840. They have the following children: Sheridan M., born March 22, 1868; John F., March 5, 1869; Wilson C., April 9, 1870; Nathan M., June 23, 1872; Mary A., February 18, 1874; .Mice L., November 5, 1877; and Sadie E., April 6, 1880. Mr. Amsburgh was a soldier in the late war, a member of company E, Sixty-fourth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in the following engagements: Stone River, Chickamauga, Peach Tree Creek, Jonesborough, Kennesaw Mountain, and Franklin. He was wounded at Chickamauga September 20, 1863, and was detained from service eight months and sixteen days. He was engaged in the service for three years and was honorably discharged. Mr. Amsburgh was elected justice of the peace in 1873, was reelected in 1876, and also in 1879, and has filled the position with credit to himself and satisfactorily to the people. He is identified with the Republican party and is always ready to promote every cause that is calculated to promote the welfare of the public. He came from Richland county to Knox county February 29, 1868.

ANDERS, WILLIAM P., Morris township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Ohio, and married to Martha M. (daughter of Joseph Ebersole), who was born in Knox county. They have one son -Webster J. Mr. Anders is a farmer, owns a beautiful farm on the Vernon road, with good buildings and under a good state of cultivation.

ANDERSON, W. B., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Pleasant township, Knox county, August 3, 1852; married June 2, 1877 to Mary F. Cory. They had one child born March 19, 1878. He built a fine little cottage on his farm in 1879, in which he now resides. His father was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1811; and became a widower March 24, 1875.

ANDREWS, LORIN, LL. D., deceased. The subject of this sketch was not an early settler, nor a long resident of Knox county, but holding the position of president of Kenyon college from 1854 until 1861, he naturally became prominent, and ranked as a man of commanding influence.

President Andrews was born in Uniontown, then a small village of Richland county, but its name was afterwards changed to Ashland, in compliment to Henry Clay, the great statesman of the West (whose country seat, near Lexington, Kentucky, bears that name), and is now the county seat of Ashland county, Ohio. The date of President Andrews' birth was April 1, 1819. Lorin attended the district schools of the village, says Dr. Hill's History of Ashland county, and made rapid progress in the branches taught at that period, giving evidence of that mental force and talent for which, in after years, he became so noted. He was much beloved by his schoolmates because of his amiable disposition, sprightliness of manner, and acuteness. His first public literary or oratorical effort, of which we have authentic information, was a fourth of July oration, delivered near Ashland in 1836. Dr. Hill says it was delivered with a coolness and self possession that astonished the assemblage. It had been carefully prepared, well studied, and delivered with an ease of manner and grace of gesticulation that was pronounced admirable, and its young and promising author was complimented with the publication of his highly creditable and rhetorical oration.

A bright future was predicted for the youthful orator, and his father was induced to send him where his ambition, as a student, could have a better field and be more fully gratified. He at once entered the grammar school of Kenyon college, where he commenced a thorough course of instruction. He remained in the grammar school about two years, and entered college, but during the junior year, in 1840, owing to financial embarrassments, was withdrawn from college. In a few months after his return to Ashland, he, by invitation of the trustees, took charge of the Ashland academy, as principal, aided by several able assistants, in the male and female departments. Under his superintendence, says Dr. Hill, the school was in a most flourishing condition; students from every part of this State, and from distant States, came in by the hundred and enrolled their names. Not having completed his collegiate course, Professor Andrews was compelled to continue his studies in advance of his students. Having applied himself with great industry he was enabled to keep well in advance of his most advanced classes, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the branches taught, and a readiness in recitation that was really surprising. His manner, as an instructor, was agreeable and well calculated to win the esteem of his students. He had a peculiar faculty of enlisting the sympathy, respect and confidence of all with whom he was brought in contact. He was frank and pleasing in his address, and his scholars honored and loved him. When compelled to enforce, with apparent severity, the rules governing the academy, it was done in such a way that the student respected him for his impartiality and evident intention to do justice. As an instructor Professor Andrews evinced his deep insight into human nature, and often succeeded in taming the ferocity of the worst students, and changed the whole current of their lives. With him " kind words can never die."

Professor Andrews was a fluent conversationalist, unselfish, and very kind and gentlemanly in his manners. It is therefore not at all surprising that he had a flourishing school, and was always popular among the students and the people. If he found a student struggling to obtain an education, teaching in the winter and attending the academy in the summer, he would not exact tuition, but insist that his pupil should go ahead, and pay him when he could.

As a speaker, Professor Andrews was not an orator, unless we define oratory to be the ability to please and hold an audience. His addresses at school institutes, and lectures before his classes, were all delivered, continues Dr. Hill, in a conversational style. He talked remarkably well, and could hold an audience or an institute for hours. There was a fascination about his manner that invariably made his audience feel friendly towards him, while the lucidness of his ideas enlisted their whole attention. As a lecturer before institutes, county and State school conventions and associations, societies and meetings convened to promote educational interests, Professor Andrews was widely known throughout the State, and probably exercised as much or more influence than any other teacher or educator in

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the west. Professor Andrews' preeminent success as a teacher secured the honorary degree of A. M. from Kenyon college, in 1846.

Between the years 1848 and 1852, many of the towns and cities of Ohio adopted the union school system, and established graded and high schools. Professor Andrews was largely instrumental in accomplishing that result. His lectures and addresses in many of the county seats of Ohio, in favor of the now popular union school system, were influential and effective, and well entitle their author to honorable mention.

Professor Andrews, in 1850, accepted the position of superintendent of the union schools of Massillon, tendered him by the board of education of that place. He remained at the head of the Massillon schools for about three years, during which time they were very efficient and popular. Professor Andrews was the agent and missionary of the Ohio Teachers association in 1851-52. In 1853 he received the endorsement of said association as a candidate for State school commissioner, and in 1854 he was its president.

At the height of his reputation and influence in the cause of general education, near the close of 1854, Professor Andrews was chosen to the presidency of Kenyon college. He was the first lay member of the Episcopal church, who had been incited to fill that position. To be selected to preside over such an institution was indeed a flattering compliment. His high educational attainments added to his purity as a man, made him the worthy recipient of such an honor. The condition of the college, said Bishop McIlvaine, demanded just the qualities for which he was so distinguished-the talent for administration, a very sound judgment, a prompt and firm decision, united with a special drawing of heart toward young men in the course of their education. All the highest expectations of his administration were more than fulfilled. "His presence in the college," says Dr, Hill, " acted like magic-his friends from every part of the State began to look toward Kenyon as an appropriate place to educate the young men of the country; the college received new life, and energy and prosperity were diffused through every department. Students began to fill the classes, and everything betokened a prosperous future for the institution."

Some months after Professor Andrews had been inaugurated president of Kenyon college, the honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Princeton college, New Jersey. This was a high distinction and well deserved, because of his remarkable success as an educator. President Andrews, A. M., LL. D., served Kenyon college as president, from 1864 to 1861, which embraced the period of its greatest prosperity-the intermediate years were those of its success, its achievements, its triumphs-and Lorin Andrews was entitled to the honor of securing those successes and triumphs.

In Whitelaw Reid's Ohio in the War, it is said of Lorin Andrews that he "was one of the earliest and costliest offerings of Ohio to the war. He was not permitted to develop fully his military ability, but there was no reason to doubt, from his known character, and his zeal in the distinguished positions he had filled, that as a soldier he would have reached as, high a rank as he had already won in civil life." Of his entrance into the military service Bishop McIlvaine says: "When the first call of the President of the United States for quotas of volunteer troops from the several States was made, he was the first man in Ohio whose name Governor Dennison received. He did it for an example. He sought no military distinction. He led to the camp a company of his neighbors, expecting only to be allowed to lead them in the war. But his talents and character were appreciated and he was placed in command of the regiment-the order and discipline of which soon became conspicuous, as also did his devotion to the interests and comfort of his men."

He was commissioned colonel of the three months' organization of the Fourth Ohio infantry. When, in June, the organization was changed to a three years' regiment, he was retained in the same command. His faithfulness in whatever position he was placed, united with his ability to master whatever he chose to learn, made him very soon an able and efficient commander and disciplinarian. He went with his command to western Virginia, where he soon fell a victim to-the exposure incident to camp life. In the beginning of his sickness he could not be prevailed on to leave the camp, saying, "my place is with my men" but as he grew worse he was at last removed to Gambier, Ohio, where, amid the scenes of his labors, in the best years of his life, and among his weeping friends, he breathed his last. September 18, 1861.

ANDREWS. JAMES M., grocer, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Mr. Andrews is a native of New Jersey, was born in Franklin, Warren county, on the thirteenth day of December, 1823, and there resided until the year 1846. His education, although derived from the common schools of that day, was thorough and complete. At the age of twenty the subject of this sketch ryas apprenticed to the blacksmithing and machine work, and as such served for three years, and for two years thereafter worked as a journeyman with his old employer. In the year 1846 his father and family, of which James was one, emigrated to Ohio, and 1ocated in Clinton township, Knox county, and continued there up to the time of his death, which occurred on the thirtieth day of October, 1867, aged seventy-eight years. The first year of his residence in Ohio, young Andrews spent in traveling, with the exception of a few months in which he worked at his trade with his old employer. From 1847 to 1853 Mr. Andrews was principally engaged in farming, working upon his father's farm. In 1853 he came to Mt. Vernon, and engaged in the grocery and provision business, in which he has continued up to the present day, making his the oldest continuous grocery house in the city. He is doing a successful business, and it is increasing daily. His present storeroom is one of the neatest in the place, and was erected by himself in 1876. His stock is always of the first class, consisting of family groceries, confectioneries, flour, feed, and choice liquors of the best brands.

On the tenth day of June, 1852, Mr. Andrews was united in marriage with Miss Harriet Wing, a daughter of Mr. John Wing, Mrs. Andrews being a native born of this county. From this marriage four children have been born-three fair daughters and one intelligent son-all of whom start out with a fair prospect of living useful lives.

ARMENTROUT, SIMON, Pike township, retired, post office Mr. Version ; born in Rockingham county, Virginia, December 16, 1810, and was married in 1833 to Rachel Phillips, who was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, June 5, 1816. They had the following: children-Rebecca P., born November 18, 1831; Sarah E., September 23, 1836; Lucinda P., December 12, 1838 ; George W., March 27, 1841; Lyman W. September 14, 1844; Samantha J., April 14, 1840; Mary O., May 29, 1852; William P., December 9, 1854; and Simon F. July 2, 1857. The deceased members are Martha J., James O., Rachel, and Rebecca. The married members are Rebecca P., married Feb-

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Mary 17, 1853,. to Lawrence Arnold who resides in Shelbyville, Shelby county, Missouri. Sarah. E. was married September 23, 1860, to Stephen Chapman, now resident of Mt. Vernon. Lucinda was married Feb. 20,1857, to John McGinley, who resides in Porter county, Indiana. George W. Married to Sarah E. Smith, February 20, 1868, now residents of jasper county, Iowa. Lyman W. was married Nov. 3, 1871, to Maria Tullis, now residents of Bellville, Ohio. Samantha J. was married in . September, 1867 to George Mahaffy, now residing in Shelbyville, Missouri. Mary O. was married in August, 1870, to Cyrus Hunter, and resides in this township.

Lyman W. studied medicine with Dr. Russell, of Mt. Vernon, attended medical college at Ann Arbor, Michigan, also at Detroit. He commenced the practice at Centerburgh, this county, remained there a short time then located in Bellville, Richland county, in 1870, and has an extensive practice. He is also a partner in a drug store.

Mr. Armentrout has resided on the same farm since his marriage, and all the children were born at the old home in this township. He sold his farm in 1880 and removed to Mt. Vernon. Mr. and Mrs. Armentrout have been worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1848. His father, Philip Armentrout. was born in 1770, in Rockingham county, Virginia, was married to Mary M. Flook, who was born in Maryland December 25, 1785. Philip Armentrout died January 15, 1858. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, serving as orderly sergeant.

ARMENTROUT, ROBERT M., Pike township, farmer, (post office Democracy), was born in Pike township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1853, and was married in 1878 to Eluetta Marshall, who was born in Brown township, this county, in 1859. They have one daughter, Julia Cleona, born November 18, 1879. Mr. Armentrout has always been identified with this township. He is a member of a pioneer family, and is a farmer by occupation.

ARMSTRONG, ELIPHLET, was born May 6, 1810, in Frederick county, Maryland, but when quite young his parents moved to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where they remained two years; then coming to Ohio they settled in Richland county, where they spent the remainder of their days. Mrs. Armstrong died in 1825; Mr. Armstrong died in 1850.

Our subject came to Mt. Vernon January 11, 1830, being twenty years old, and went to work with Richard House to complete learning his trade (carpenter). Mr. House had a contract to build the court house, on which Mr. Armstrong worked. He has been engaged at his trade ever since, mostly in Mt. Vernon, and built most of the best buildings in that city, many of which will be monuments of his mechanical skill for years to come. He was married March, 10, 1836, to Miss Tacy Irwin, by whom he had three children, one daughter and two sons, all living, and have families living in Knox county.

ARMSTRONG & MILLER, grocers, southeast corner of Slain and Gambier streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. J. M. Armstrong, senior member of the above firm. was born in Monroe township, Knox county, in 1839, where he resided until he had reached his thirteenth year. After that period his time was occupied in attending school and acting as salesman for different mercantile establishments in this city. His first engagement as salesman was with George M. Fay, grocer, and then with Messrs. Swettland & Bryant, dry goods house. In this employment he remained until the party with which he affiliated placed him in nomination for and elected him to the honorable position of sheriff of his native county. This was in the year 1873. After the expiration of his first term he was elected for the second, thus serving four years.

In 1877 Mr. Armstrong purchased the stock of Mr. John Ponting, and formed a partnership with Mr. J. M. Tompkins. In 1878 Mr. Tompkins sold his interest to Mr. Miller, since which time the name of the firm has been Armstrong & Miller. They commenced with a capital of about eighteen hundred dollars, and their stock was increased so that at present they carry a stock of goods to the value of about four thousand dollars, consisting of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries. Their stock is rapidly increasing in value. Their house is located on the southeast corner of Main and Gambier streets.

ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM A., Fredericktown, was born in Brown township, Knox county, in 1840. He was married to Nancy Ross, who was born in Knox county in 1842. She died October 1, 1860. Mr. Armstrong afterwards married Sophronia M. Hardgrove, who was born in Ohio in 1842. They had two children, viz ; Hema E. and Adella, both now dead. Mr. Armstrong has resided in Fredericktown since 1870. and is one of the leading men of the county.

ARNHOLD, ADAM, Jefferson township, farmer; son of Michael Amhold, born in France December 19, 1822; brought to America by his parents in 1840, landing in New York. From there they came to Loudonville, Ohio, where they remained a short time, when his father purchased a farm in Brown township. Knox county, about one mile northeast of Jelloway, where he then moved his family, and where Adam, the subject of this sketch, was raised and educated.

On the twenty-fifth of January, 1847, at the age of twenty-five years, he married Mary A. Heyd, daughter of Jacob H. Heyd, who was born in Wayne county November 17, 1828. After his marriage he located on a farm of eighty acres, east of Jelloway, which he had purchased previous to his marriage, and where he now resides. In 1851 he purchased a tract of fifty acres more, known as the Messmore farm. In 1856 he bought seventy acres more; in 1859, fifty acres; in 1868, eighty acres, making in all three hundred and thirty acres.

During that time he erected for. himself a fine frame house and barn, making a very pleasant home. Mr. and Mrs. Arnhold are the parents of twelve children, viz: Michael H., born April 27, 1848, (died December 3, 1851); Frederick, December 8, 1849; Mary E., June 17. 1852; Sarah C., April 12, 1854 (died September 1, 1856); Rosena, April 12, 1855; Sarah Catharine, March 4, 1858 (died August 30, 1860); Sarinda, March 31, 1860; John W., March 1, 1862; Henry J., January 20, 1864; William, April 12, 1866, (died December 21, 1879); Wallace, January 20, 1868; Charles A., July 31, 1871.

Mr. and Mrs. Amhold are members of the German Lutheran church of Brown township.

ASH, JAMES, Clinton, a native of Donegal county, Ireland, was born in January, 1777, and emigrated to America in 1784, and located first in Washington county, Maryland. About the year 1812 he moved to Jefferson county, Virginia, where he resided until the year 1833. During his stay here he went back to Ireland and was married to Jane Chambers, after which he returned to Maryland and resided there some time, when he brought his family to Ohio and located in Clinton township, where he followed agricultural pursuits the rest of his life. He died September 9, 1878, being at the extreme age of one hun-

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died years seven months and eleven days. Mrs. Ash died in 1878 in the seventy-fifth year of her age. They reared a family of six children, viz: Robert, Elizabeth, Maria, Chambers, Margaret, and James, all of whom lived to maturity, and at present all are deceased except Chambers, who resides in Clinton township, and is the fourth member of the family. He was married March 27, 1838, to Miss Louisa Resley, daughter of Jacob Resley, one of the early. pioneers of this county, by whom he has a family of eight children, seven of whom are living, viz: Jacob, Robert, Elizabeth, Margaret, Anna, Maria, and Russel.

ASHTON, MRS. ELIZABETH, deceased. At the time of the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Ashton, she was supposed to have been the oldest person within the bounds of Knox county. Though of small stature and frail, she was, up to the time of her great affliction, blindness, remarkably lithe and active in all her motions, and with a voice like Cordelia's, "ever soft, gentle and low," she made life pleasant to all within the sphere of her influence.

Mrs. Elisabeth Ashton, rice Miss Elizabeth Palmer, was born in Devonshire. England, on the twenty-seventh day of May, 1780. She married Mr. John Ashton in 1801. In 1847 she, with n part of her family, emigrated to the United States and took up her residence in the Fifth ward, Mt. Vernon, where she resided with her eldest son. Philip, up to the time of her death, which occurred on the twentieth of April, 1880, making her age one hundred years lacking one month and seven days, making her the oldest person in Mt. Vernon, and probably in Knox county.

Mrs. Ashton was the mother of ten children, four sons and six daughters. One of her daughters, the wife of William Tathwell, died a few years since to this city. Two of the four sons are dead. Two of her children reside in London, England; one in another part of England; one in the city of New York; one in Gambier, Ohio; one in Georgia, and Philip, her oldest son, in Mt. Vernon. The last named was born in England in the year 1802, and is now past his seventy-eighth year, and with his daughter, Mrs. Eliza Cooper, and her husband, have been interested in caring for their recently deceased relative during the last eight years of the closing part of her history, which to her was a memorable one, for those eight years were spent in darkness, her sight haying failed her. She was reconciled to the loss, and waited patiently for the great and final change to come. She was baptized and confirmed in the Church of England in early life, and lived the life of an earnest Christian woman.

ATHERTON, JOHN, Pike township; farmer; post office, Democracy; born in Pike township in 1836, and was married in 1838, to Mary Ann Spry, who was born in Monroe township in 1834. They had seven children: William W., born in 1837; Sarah, in 1859; Mary Ellen deceased; Julia, born in 1863; Margaret Alice, in 1866; Merinda Jane deceased, and Hallie May, born in 1873. Mr. Atherton has always resided in this township. He has been engaged in running a threshing machine for about thirty years. He is also a farmer. His father, Andrew Atherton, deceased, was born in Vermont. He was married to Sarah Sargeant, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had two children: John and an infant (deceased). Andrew Atherton and wife both died in this county.

ATWOOD, HARRISON, Mt. Vernon, was born December 22, 1815, in Plymouth county. Massachusetts, where he remained until twenty years of age, when he went with William Wright, of New York, to Mobile, Alabama, to clerk in the Starr hotel owned by Mr. Wright. He remained there about four years, and witnessed the great fire and yellow fever scourges of 1839. After leaving Mobile, he located in Orleans county, Vermont, on a farm where he remained about twelve years, then moving to Trumbull county, Ohio, and settled in Bristol in the mercantile trade, in which he remained but a short time, and then engaged in real estate business, speculating in western lands for twelve years. He came to Mt. Vernon in 1865, and went into the office of B. Grant, internal revenue assessor, where he remained a short time; then going to Cleveland, he entered the employ of N. O. Fauster, a queensware merchant, for whom he was general manager for over two years, when he returned to Mt. Vernon, and engaged in the boot and shoe trade with B. Grant under the firm name of B. Grant & Co. In 1867 Mr. Grant sold his interest in the business to Mr. Bowl land, and the firm name was changed to Atwood & Bowland, which association continued for about four years, when he sold his interest to his partner. He then established his son in the boot and shoe business at Canton, Ohio, under the firm name of H. W. Atwood-& Co., who are now doing a good business. Mr. Atwood employs his time in the real estate business. He was married in October, 1838, to Miss Washburn, and has reared a family of four children, all of whom are living. Mrs. Atwood died in May, 1862.

AUTEN, HENRY M., Berlin township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1816, came to Ohio in the Spring of 1836, and was married in Knox county in 1863, to Matilda Fink, who was born in Trumbull county, Ohio. They have the following children: Sarah Ann, married to John C. Williams, living in Crawford county. Ohio, Thomas B., Louisa lane, and Rebecca. Mrs. Auten died in Knox county January 23, 1854. Mr. Auten subsequently married Mary Ann Wood, who was born in Knox county, Ohio. They had one son, Charlie H., who still remains at home. Mrs. Mary Ann Auten died in Knox county in 1862. Mr. Autens third marriage was to Sarah Jane Masteller, who was born in Columbia county. Pennsylvania, in 1825. Mr. Henry Auten has been a resident of Knox county, most of the time in Berlin township.

AUTEN, WILLIAM A., Berlin township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Pike tow-ship, this county, in 1846, and was married in 1874 to Ida M. Steele, who was born in Wayne county in 1855. They have two children-Gracie R., born in 1876, and Emery C., in 1879

His father, Jacob C. Auten, was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1813, and was married in 1837 to Rebecca Colley, who was born in the same county in 1817. They had eleven children-Henry C., Alexander C., Mary E., Sarah L., Jacob W., William A., John S., Elmina M., Rebecca R., Emma L., and James F. The deceased members are Henry C., Sarah L., and James F. Mr. Auten emigrated from Pennsylvania in 1838 located in this township, and has since been a resident. He learned the carpenter trade when a young man, and that has been his principal occupation. He owns a good farm in this township, and is one of its enterprising citizens.

AUTEN, J. W., Berlin township. farmer, post office Fredericktown, was born in Berlin township in 1844, and was married to Mary Pealer, who was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1849. They had three children. viz, Myrtle Belle, Anna

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E., and George W. Mrs. Auten died in 1875, and he was married to Caroline Love. They had one child, Robert. Mrs. Caroline Auten died in March, 1880.

AUTEN, THOMAS B., Berlin township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Liberty township, this county, September 12, 1847, and was married October 11, 1877, to Lucretia L. Foote, who was born in this township September 12, 1858 They have one daughter, Eva Dell, who was born April 4, 1879. Mr. Auten came to this township with his parents at the age of four years, and has since lived here.

AUTEN, HENRY, deceased. He was born in Columbia count, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1837. His parents emigrated to Ohio when he was a child. He was married in 1864 to Mary J. Hasbin, who was born in Guernsey county, August 17, 1842. They had one son, Bryant E., born December 4, 1867. Mr. Auten died April, 1870. He was a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

AUSTIN, B. D., Fredericktown, ticket agent, was born in Knox county in 1857. He is now engaged at the Baltimore Ohio railroad office at Fredericktown.

AXTELL. J. M., Fredericktown, dealer in groceries and country produce of all kind, was born in this county September 12, 1832, and was married in 1857 to Almira J. Hellis, who was born in this county August 20, 1835, and died February 6, 1880. They had one daughter, Eliza Bell, who was born May 9, 1859, and died August 12, 1859. Mr. Axtell established his business in 1879. He is a practical business man, having been identified with business interests for many years in this county. Combined with experience he has superior qualifications, and is fully prepared to meet all competition. .all who wish anything in his line will do well to give him a call.

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BAILE, URIAH, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown; born in Frederick county, Maryland, October 11, 1812; came to Ohio in 1845, and was married July 15, 1838, to Susanna Nicodemas, who was born June 26, 1816; they have the following children, viz.: Sarah E., born September 1, 1839; Abraham O., Match 3, 1842; Augustus E., February 25, 1844; Emory R. September 7, 1845; Charles W., July 1, 1848; Martha C., November 18, 1851; Bascom C., September 21, 1854; Morgan, April 27, 1856; and Eugene E., July 1, 1860. The following have deceased: Sarah E., died August 22, 1840; Charles W., June 26, 1851; Abraham O., February 3, 1863. Abraham was a soldier of the late war, a member of the One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. His death occurred from sickness contracted in the, army. Augustus and Emory R. reside in Louisville, Kentucky. Martha was married to Albert Tobin, and lives in Republican county, Kansas. Bascom C. was married to Deborah Zolman; they reside in Morrow county, Ohio. Mr, Baile owns a well-improved farm with excellent buildings.

BAILEY, WILLIAM R., farmer, Jefferson township, post office, Jelloway; son of John R. and Mary A. Bailey, born in Jefferson township, Knox county, November 10, 1846. He was educated by his parents, and on the twenty-third of March, 1869, at the age of twenty-three years, he married Miss Lucy E. Whitney, third daughter of Ebenezer J., and Sarah A. Whitney, born in Brown township, Knox county, June 5, 1844. After his marriage he located on a farm in Jefferson township, owned by J. R. Bailey, his father, two and a quarter miles east of Jelloway, where he now resides. He has made farming a specialty all his life. He is now holding the office of trustee in said township. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey are the parents of four children, viz.: William A., born January 12, 1871; Whitney J., June 5, 1872; Henry C., February 10, 1875; Oliver E., July 5, 1879; all of whom are living. Mrs. Bailey is a consistent member of Wesley chapel, of Jefferson township.

BAKER, JAMES W., farmer and stock-raiser, Jefferson township, post office Greersville, son of Philip and Sarah Baker: born in Jefferson township, Knox county, December 7, 1841. was raised by his parents, and received a common - school education. Soon after he arrived at the age of twenty-one years he purchased a portion of the home place, where he now resides, and is the owner of four hundred and seventy-five acres of land-three hundred and seventy-five acres in the home place. Mr. Baker has held quite a number of township offices viz : Clerk, assessor, and land appraiser, and is now justice of the peace. He was also census enumerator for 1880.

BAKER, PHILIP, (deceased), Jefferson township; born in Pennsylvania, September 22, 1794. In 1808 he was brought re Ohio by his parents, who located near Danville, Knox county. where he was married July 19, 1821, to Miss Sarah Butler, a daughter of John Butler, born in Virginia, March 20, 1800. After his marriage he located in Jefferson township, one mile north of Greersville, on the farm now owned by James W., his son, where he raised his family, consisting of ten children, viz . Allen R., born July 6, 1822; Druzilla, August 5, 1824; Hester, April 29, 1826; Oliver, April 1, 1828; John, September 4, 1832: infant, a girl, June 22, 1834; Caroline, December 26, 1835; infant, a girl, September 19, 1838; Jackson, August 27, 1839 James W., December 7, 1841; four of whom, namely, Oliver, James W., Hester, and Caroline, are still living.

BAKER BROTHERS, druggists, Mt. Vernon. George R. and S. L. Baker, sons of Samuel Baker, were born near Uniontown, Muskingum county, and devoted the early years of life in working on their father's farm. George R. enlisted in the Ninth Ohio cavalry, and was in the service during the war, serving part of the time in the capacity of hospital steward. After his return from the army he engaged in the drug business at Tarlton, in which he continued until he came to Mt. Vernon. S. L. Baker enlisted in the Ohio National guard, and after the close of the war engaged in general mercantile business in Adamsville, in which he continued until he came to Mt. Vernon.

In 1874 they formed a partnership, and have ever since been doing business under the firm name of Baker Brothers. They carry a stock of from five to six thousand dollars, consisting of pure drugs, chemicals, toilet articles, and fancy goods.

BALCOM, ELISHA S., Gambier, retired, was born in Rhode Island on the third day of June, 1803. In 1824 he engaged in the mercantile business as clerk, and continued about two years: In 1826 he was engaged by Stanley Mann, in the counting room of his factory, and remained with him one year. In 1827 he commenced working at the cabinetmaking business, which he followed as his vocation about five years. In 1832 he engaged in farming, and continued in that business about twenty years. In 1852 he worked in a boot and shoe factory about four or five months, and then moved to Vermont, where he spent three years as clerk in an iron manufactory. In 1855 he emigrated to Ohio and located in Gambier, this county, where he at once

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commenced work again at his trade as cabinetmaker, and continued in the business until 1877, when he retired from business and is living a quiet life in Gambier.

He has been married twice; first in 1829, to Miss Lydia Jillson, of Cumberland county, Rhode Island, who was born January 13, 1808. Their union resulted in two children-one son and one daughter.

Mr's. Balcom died November 25, 1832. His little daughter died a few months prior to the death of its mother, and the son died a few months after. The death of his wife and two children occurred within the space of nine months' time.

Mr. Balcom consummated marriage with Miss Clarissa Blake, December 1, 1833, born June 3, 1806.

They remained in Vermont until 1855, when they emigrated to Gambier, this county, where she deceased November 8, 1879. Their union resulted in one son, Roger, who graduated at Kenyon college, and is now engaged as an Episcopal minister at Norwalk, Ohio.

BALDWIN, JOSEPH L., attorney and counselor at law, Fredericktown, Ohio.

BALL, DAVID, (deceased). He was a native of Essex county, New Jersey, a descendant of Timothy Ball, born in 1756, and came to Ohio in 1803; purchased a military section of land (one thousand acres), of Lemuel Cobb, for three shillings per acre. He came to Ohio in company with a Mr. Douglass on horseback and landed at Zanesville. The only road from Zanesville to Sandusky was an Indian trail. He met and conversed with the chief of the Wyandot Indians, and asked him if he would allow his boys to come here; he answered, "yes, if they behave themselves."

David Ball was married January 12, 1779, to Mary Baldwin. They had four sons, Hiram, Cyrus, Zenas and Timothy. Zenas Ball was born November 15, 1792, and was married March 16, 1820, to Sarah Taylor, who was born May 24, 1796. They had two sons, Aaron T., born December 19, 1820, and David, born July 5, 1829, and died June 25, 1830.

Zenas Ball came to Ohio in 1819, and made arrangements to have some land cleared, on the farm where his son, Aaron T., now resides. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, serving over three months.

Mr. Ball was a strong advocate for the cause of temperance, and had the first log rolling in the neighborhood where they dispensed with strong drink. Several of the neighbors became offended and returned home without supper, but Mr. Ball was temperance all the same.

The first Sabbath-school organized in Morris township was at his house, superintended by his sister Lydia, who was a great worker in church, and a pioneer missionary. She is yet living and resides in Newark, New Jersey, aged ninety years. There were two married women who learned to read at this Sabbath-school.

BALL, AARON T., farmer, post office, Fredericktown. He was born in Morris township, December 19, 1820, and has always resided here, on the same farm where he was born; he was married in 1846 to Miss Sydney Ann Clay, who was born at Newmarket, Frederick county, Maryland, April 2, 1820. They have nine children, all living and enjoying good health, viz: Webster C., Nellie S., Nettie A., Walter L., Anna M., Julia Z., Oliver T., Willard E. and F. Grant.

Aaron T. received a liberal education, attended the Martinsburgh academy, after which he attended Mt. Vernon academy, taught by Professor R. R. Sloan. After completing his education he engaged in teaching for five terms. Mr. Ball and family are active members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has been identified with the Republican party since its organization.

Webster C. resides in Cleveland, Ohio, and is engaged in the wholesale and retail jewelry business at No. 233 Superior street. He was married October 15, 1879, to Miss Florence I. Young, of Kenton, Ohio. They have one son, Sidney, born September 19, 1880.

Walter L. resides in Cleveland, is reading law, and expects to engage in that profession.

Nellie S. and Nettie A. have been engaged in teaching-the latter instrumental music.

Mr. Aaron T. Ball has always resided in this township, is a farmer by occupation, and owns a well improved farm, which was owned and improved by his father. His father, Zenas Ball, (deceased), was born in Essex county, New Jersey, November 15, 1792, and was married March 19, 1819, to Sarah Taylor, who was born May 24, 1796. They had two children: Aaron born December 19, 1820; David, born July 5, 1829 (died June 29, 1830.

Mr. Zenas Ball died October 3, 1860. Mrs. Sarah Ball died March 30, 1860.

BALL, UZZIEL, Morris township (deceased), was born May 8, 1790, in Morris county, New Jersey, and was married November 9, 1816, to Peninah Lyon, who was born January 10, 1797, in Morris county, New Jersey. She was a daughter of Simeon Lyon. Mr. Ball came to Knox county in 1814. Mrs. Ball came with her parents in 1806. They had the following children: Martha, Amanda, Eliza, Mahlon, Susan, Albert Judson. The following are dead: Amanda, Eliza, Mahlon. Uzziel Ball died in Morris township, Knox county. Mr. Ball was justice of the peace of Morris township about fourteen years ago. He was a worthy member of the Baptist church, and has done much for the general improvement of this county. He was an honest and upright man, through his industry, economy and frugality he acquired considerable property.

Mrs. Ball has a clear recollection of pioneer life. She remember quite distinctly of seeing Johnny Appleseed, also many Indians, and well understood their ancient customs. She remembers about the forts or block-houses, into which they would flee for refuge in time of danger. She also remembers the first Methodist, Baptist and Episcopal churches of this county.

BALL, ANDREW J., Morris township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon; born in Morris township, this county, in 1832, and was married in 1858, to Rebecca McFadden, who was born in Mt. Vernon, in 1831. They had six children: Henry; born January 19, 1860; Elmer E., October 16, 1861; William C., August 19, 1863; Minnie Blanche, July 13, 1865; Charles, September 5, 1867; Ida May. January 7, 1869; Fred. Clifton, August 25, 1870; and May Frances, February 5, 1874. The following are deceased: Elmer E., Charlie, Ida May, and William C.

Andrew J. Ball is the son of Silas Ball, who was born March 15, 1795, in New Jersey, and was married August 12, 1819, to Ann Broadwell, who was born in New Jersey, June 20, 1801. They had six children, viz: Elizabeth, born September 30, 1820; Sarah J., November 19, 1824; William B., February 16, 1826; Lydia A., August 25, 1827; Louisa M., December l0, 1829; Andrew J., February 20, 1832; Harriet N., September 9, 1835; and Alfred P., September 30, 1844.

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Silas Ball died January 8, 1864; Mrs. Ann Ball died June 3, 1873; William B. died August 1, 1826; Harriet N. died December 2, 1839; and Lydia, April 30, 1862.

John Ball, father of Silas, was born February 14, 1746, and had the following children: John, Uzziel, David, Daniel, Silas, Elias and Mahlon.

The Ball family were among the first settlers of Knox county.

BECHTEL, SIMON, farmer, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Berlin township in 1854, he was married in 1871, to Mary Ellen Swank, who was born in Pike township in 1856; they have one son living; Dora, born in 1878, and Sylvia B. (deceased). Dr. Bechtel has always been identified with this township; he is a model farmer.

BALL, SCHUYLER C., Wayne township, farmer, post office Fredericktown ; born in Knox county in 1840, and was married in 1865 to Diana Ink, who was born in Knox county in 1839. They have one daughter, Stella, who was born in September 1869.

Mr. Ball has always resided in this county, farming being his chief occupation. His parents are pioneers of this county.

BALL, THOMAS J, Fredericktown, brick-maker; was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1840. He came to Ohio with his parents in 1850, and was married in 1866 to Margaret Brawner, who was born in the same county in 1844. They have one daughter, Effie May, who was born in 1867.

Mr. Ball is engaged in burning brick, and supplies the brick that are used for building purposes in Fredericktown, owning the only brick yard in this vicinity. He was a soldier in the late war, being a member of company B, Ninety-sixth regiment O. V. I. under Colonel Vance, and continued in the service for three years, participating in the engagements at Arkansan Post, Vicksburgh, Jackson, Mississippi, Sabine Cross Roads, Grand Coteau, Louisiana, Fort Morgan, Fort Gaines, Fort Spanish, and Mobile and was honorably discharged.

BANBURY, RICHARD, deceased, Jefferson township; was born in Devonshire, England. in 1791. He married Miss Mary Cornish in 1814, who was born in Devonshire, England in 1795. He, with his wife and four children emigrated to America in 1832, and located in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio. His first purchase of land was from William Starner, June 26, 1832. The farm is now owned by his three sons, Charles, Richard and John C. By the new township line that was run a few years since, the farm is now in Union township. He lived on the same farm and followed farming and stock raising as his vocation until his death. Mr. Banbury and wife raised a family of six children, four born in England, viz: Charles, Mary A., Elizabeth and Richard. Two were born in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, John C. and Hannah. All are living, married and have families.

Mr: Banbury was father of six children, grandfather of forty-two children, and great-grandfather of forty-two children. He departed this life in 1875, aged eighty-four years. His companion survived until July 3, 1877, when she died, aged eighty-one years.

BANBURY, CHARLES, Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Danville, oldest son of the aforesaid Richard Banbury, was born in Devonshire, England, October 17, 1815. He emigrated with his parents to America in 1832, who located in Jefferson township, Knox county, September 16, 1841. He married Miss Barbara Robeson, born in Union township, Knox county, Ohio, January 18, 1819, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Robeson. They settled in Jefferson township on a forty acre tract of land, where they lived a few years, when Mr. Banbury purchased and moved on a seventy acre lot of land in the same township, remaining five years.

In 1853 he purchased and moved on the farm where he is now living. He has made farming and stock raising his vocation. They raised a family of nine children, viz.: Sarah A., Solomon, John R., Mary E., Richard, Martin F., Martha F., Charles F., and Albert L. All are living. Solomon served three years and three month in the civil war. He enlisted in company A, Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, in October, 1861, and was honorably discharged in January, 1865.

BANBURY, JOHN C., Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Danville, son of Richard and Mary Barnbury, was born in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, October 11, 1832. He lived with his parents, in said township, until 1852, when he married Miss Eliza Caldwell, who was born in Germany in the year 1831, and emigrated to America in the year 1843. Mr. and Mrs. Banbury became the father and mother of twelve children, all of whom yet survive. Mr. Banbury is now living about one mile north of where he was born.

BANNING, JAMES S., Morris township, deceased, was a son of the Rev. Anthony Banning, who emigrated from Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. He was born in 1800. In 1822 he returned to his native town, where he found the little girl, Eliza A. Blackstone (with whom he had played when a child at the foot of the mountain, on the banks of the river), grown to be a beautiful and accomplished woman. Mr. Banning, then only twenty-two years of age, wooed and won the heart of his early playmate, then only seventeen years of age. The were married on the morning of March 12, 1822. The same day they started on horseback for their new home in Mt. Vernon, distant more than two hundred miles. It was a novel wedding trip, far different indeed from the modem bridal trips. It was eight days' hard horseback riding, across a new country, with. such entertainment as the country tavern afforded in that early day; but it was bravely performed by this delicate and refined lady, who, with her true and noble husband, journeyed to their new home, where they lived a life of usefulness.

James S. Banning was a native of Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. He came to Mt. Vernon in 1812, and resided in that vicinity until his death. In former years he carried on the mercantile business, but latterly he attended to farming and milling, a short distance north of Mt. Vernon. He was a useful and enterprising citizen, a kind and peaceful neighbor, and an affectionate husband and father. His death occurred at an early hour Wednesday May 22, 1867, at his residence near Mt. Vernon.

Mrs. E. B. Banning died in 1878 in the seventy-ninth year of her age. She was born in Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania in 1804, and was married in 1822. She lived in Mt. Vernon fifty-six years, and was identified more or less with every interest in the growth of this city. She was a woman of fine culture and more than ordinary attainments. Her home was for many years the popular resort of the literary and musical people of the place. She was of a modest and retiring disposition; always ready to assist in every good work. She was specially devoted to her family, yet endeared herself to her neighbors, and was characterized by true Christian deportment. She was one of the early, if not one of the original members

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of St. Paul's church, but afterwards hearing and learning the gospel presented by the Disciples, she severed her connection wiih the Episcopal church and united with the Disciple church, and continued faithfully until her death She was the mother of ten children, all of whom are now living except Anna, who died in infancy. The others are as follows: Sarah, who resides at the old home; Blackstone, of Clinton; Anthony, of Pennsylvania; Priscilla, wife of J. D. Thompson, of Mt. Vernon; William D., a farmer north of town; Hon. Henry B., of Cincinnati; Eliza, wife of William Brown; ex-Mayor Thomas D., who resides on the old place; Mary, wife of Frank Watkins-all of whom are good and respected citizens, and owe much of their success in life to their excellent parental training.

BARBER, C. C., Pike township, merchant, post office Democracy, born in Monroe township, this county. in 1853, and was married in 1876 to Jennie C. Patten, who was born in Brown township, this county, in 1854. He has been engaged in the mercantile business from boyhood. Since the death of his father he has taken charge of the store, which compares favorably with those of larger towns. He keeps constantly in stock a complete line of goods, consisting of dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, etc. Mr. Barber was appointed postmaster of the Democracy post office in 1873. He is a popular man in this vicinity, and is transacting the business of the post office very satisfactorily. He is a young man, enterprising and ambitious, and is meeting with success in business.

His father, Thomas Barber, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, and was married in 1848 to Mary A. O'Bryan, who was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1828. They had five children: Frances L., deceased, born in 1850; Arminta B., deceased, born in 1851; Cornelius C., born in 1853; Eva E., deceased, born in 1860; and John T., born in 1864

Thomas S. Barber died in 1872. He came to Ohio in 1830, was engaged in farming till 1861. then moved to Amity and engaged in the mercantile business, in which he continued until his death. ,

BARKER, HENRY, Monroe township, farmer and stock-grower, born in Monroe county, New York, February 19, 1815. In 1837 he emigrated to Ohio with Asa Patterson and family, and located on the farm in Monroe township where is now living. In 1839 he married Lovina Pealer, born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1820, and came to this county with her parents, Jacob and Eleanor Pealer, in 1824, who located in Pike township, near Amity.

Mr. and Mrs. Barker settled on the farm where Mr. Barker had located when he came to this county, where they have since resided. In 1861 they erected their present frame residence. They reared a family of six children, five sons and one daughter. Their son, Patterson Barker, died during the late war at Memphis, Tennessee, July 31, 1863. He had served one year in company B, of the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry.

BARKER, JOHNSON A., Fredericktown, grocer, was born in Morris township in 1836, and was married in Mt. Vernon in 1857, to Sarah A. Little, who was born in Stark county in 1831 They had five children, all of whom have deceased.

Mr. Barker. learned the carriage trade and worked at that business for twenty-three years. He was for a time a member of the firm of White, Stephens & Co. His health became impaired and he was compelled to abandon the carriage business.

He then engaged in the grocery trade, continued for seven years, and then went to New York and attended the Eastern business college. In 1880 he returned to Fredericktown and resumed the grocery trade. He occupies a room in King's block, and has an entire new stock of every variety of goods in his line. His past experience and ability qualify him to make a success of business, and he is known in this community as an honest and upright man.

BARKER, JOSEPH N., city barber; shop, cigar rind news department, Peterman block, first floor, Main street, two doors north from Gambier street, Mt. Vernon.

Mr. Barker is a native of Delaware county, Ohio, born on the ninth day of October, 1841, and when eight years old his parents removed to Fredericktown, in this county. Joseph remained with his parents until 1861. When sixteen years of age he engaged in learning the blacksmith trade, which he followed until the commencement of the great Rebellion. On the nineteenth of October, 1861, he enlisted in company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, Colonel Lorin Andrews, in which he served for three years. At the close of his term of service be returned home and remained a short time, and then went to Nashville, Tennessee, and engaged in blacksmithing for the Government, but in consequence of his health failing, he quit the business and engaged in barbering for a short time, and then in cooking for the Planters hotel for a while, and then went to Atchison, Kansas, where he stopped about eight weeks, and then engaged with Howe & Byram, of Atchison, in hauling Government freight to Fort Union, New Mexico. He then engaged with the Government at blacksmithing for one year, when he returned home in 1867. In consequence of his mothers poor health, he started a barber shop in Fredericktown; and continued the business there a short time when he came to Mt. Vernon and bought out the business of Otto Martin, and continued it until 1872, when he went to Mansfield and engaged in the same business for one year. He then opened shop at Newark, one continued there two years and a half. In 1876 he returned to Mt. Vernon and established his present business. He runs four chairs, and makes hair cutting a speciality. He is also a dealer in fine tobacco, cigars, etc. He has lately added to his business a news department, in which he keeps all the leading daily papers as well as the city papers. His shop does an average business of forty dollars per week in barbering and hair dressing, and about ten dollars per week in tobacco and cigars, thus making his establishment the most extensive and complete in the city. All his appointments are first-class, and his business is rapidly increasing.

BARNES, HENRY, Mt. Vernon, retired, son of Henry Barnes, deceased, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1807, and was brought to Ohio by his father in 1817, who located in Coshocton county. He was. reared on a farm, and has made farming his principal vocation through life. In 1833 he came to Martinsburgh, this county, and made his home with an older brother for a few years. In October, 1837, he married Miss Grace A., daughter of Simon and Ann Sitzenberg, then of Morgan township, this county. Miss Sitzenberg was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1813, and came to this county with her parents in 1829. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes settled on a farm in Morgan township, this county, and remained on the same farm until 1873, when they sold it and moved to Mt. Vernon, where they are now living a retired life. Three children were born to them-Melissa A., Hiram P., and

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Charles E. Melissa A.-deceased July 23, 1872. Hiram P. married Miss Julia Huntington, of Cleveland, Ohio, and now resides in Portage county, Ohio. Charles E. married Miss Rose Robinson. of Akron, Ohio, and is now living in Plymouth, Ohio. He served about four months in the Ohio National Guard during the late: war.

BARRINGTON, JOSEPH, Middlebury township, (deceased) was born in Ireland in 1804, married to Elizabeth Sharp, who was corn in York county. Pennsylvania. He died in July, 1878, in Middlebury township.

George A. Palmer (born in 1844) from a child eighteen months old made his home with and was raised by Joseph Barrington. He was married to Mary Farquhar, and they had one child, Joseph, born in in October, 1867. Mrs. Mary Palmer died in in 1873. Mr. Palmer's second marriage was to Lavina Painter. They had three children-Rosa (deceased), George, born February, 1877., Louis, born February, 1879. Mr. Palmer was engaged in the late war in the One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National Guard.

BARRON, JAMES, Brown township, son of William and Elizabeth Barron, was born near Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, March 11, 1820. His father, a farmer. was born in Washington county, Pensylvania, 1784, and was of Scotch descent. His mother was born in Ireland in 1784, and emigrated to New York with leer parents when she was fifteen years old. The parents of the subject of this sketch being of the pioneers of Ohio, and his youthful years passing at a time when the school-houses were built of round, unhewed logs, seated with puncheons or slabs, his education was comprised of a fair knowledge of the three R's, "readin', 'ritin', and 'rithmetic." In 1835 he removed with his parents from Muskingum to Knox county, where they located on the farm on which he still resides known as Willow Spring farm. In 1850 he married Louisa Jane, daughter of William and Nancy Hall, the fruit of their married life being two daughters, Ella-now Mrs. R. S. Shipley, M. D. of Lindsey, Ohio, and Dora, and one son, John M. White, yet a young man. Mr. Barron spent several years as salesman in the mercantile houses of G. B. Potwin, and others, of Mt. Vernon, but has for the last thirty years engaged in farming. .stock-raising, anti shipping stock, at which he has been eminently successful. Mr. Barron has always taken an active part in politics. He identified himself with the Liberty party in 1841, and represented his county in the first Liberty State convention, held at Columbus in 1842. This party becoming the Freesoil party, Mr. Barron became an untiring worker in that party and since received the nomination for State treasurer at the convention held at Cincinnati. He continued in the party, frequently stumping his county when it took a man of nerve to be an Abolitionist, until the Freesoil party was merged into the Republican party in 1856, since which time he has been identified with that party. Mr. Barron's connection with the church dates from the organization of the True Wesleyan connection now the American Wesleyan-in 1843, since which time he has been an earnest worker in the church. Mr. Barron has always been an avowed temperance worker, and has identified himself with all the important reforms of the day. He has filled the office of treasurer of the Farmers' Insurance company, now of Howard, Ohio, and of the Farmers' Home Insurance company of Jelloway, Ohio, with credit to himself and profit to the companies.

BARTLETT, TIMOTHY M., proprietor of livery, feed, and sale stables, West Vine street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Bartlett was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1810, and when about eight years old his parents emigrated to Ohio, stopped awhile in Zanesville, and then located on a farm in Delaware county, where they resided ten years, and then came to Knox county and settled on a farm on Granny's creek, three miles from Mt. Vernon.

Mr. Bartlett came to this city in 1838. In his early life he followed farming, and then engaged in the carpenter and joiner trade, in which he continued for twenty-five years. He then took up peddling drugs, medicines, dry goods, and notions, which he followed with great success for seven years. In 1853 he engaged in the livery business in which he still continues. He carries an average stock of three thousand dollars, comprising twelve head of horses, and ten vehicles, consisting of single and double carriages, buggies, sleighs, etc.

BARTLETT, JOHN D., Fredericktown, carpenter; was born in Pennsylvania in 1813; came to Ohio with his parents in infancy, and to Knox county in 1831, locating in Mt. Vernon. In 1855 he removed to Fredericktown. He was married to Anna Conger, who was born in Knox county. They had three children, all of whom died in infancy. Mrs. Anna Bartlett died in 1854, in Mt. Vernon. Mr. Bartlett afterwards married Sophronia Page, who was born in Knox county.

Mr. Bartlett has been identified with this county for sixty-seven years. When he was a young man he learned the carpenter business, and has been engaged at that several years; he was also engaged in the drug business in Fredericktown seven years. He has always taken a great interest in hunting and Shooting, and makes an annual visit to the hunting grounds in northwestern Ohio. He is still a resident of Fredericktown, and is engaged in selling farming implements.

BARTLETT, E. H., Morris township; farmer; post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in this township in 1833, and married in 1860, to Anna Eliza Randolph, who was burn In Mt. Vernon in 1836. They have two children, namely, Jennie E, born in 1863, and Willie R., in 1868.

BARTLETT, WILLIAM, Monroe township; farmer; a native of Knox county, and son of David Bartlett, was born in Morris township on the twenty-seventh day of October, 1816. He has worked at several trades, viz : carpenter and joiner, and cabinetmaker, but the most of his mechanical work has been on threshing machines and plows. In 1848 he married Miss Evaline Evans, daughter of Thomas Evans, of Mt. Vernon. They settled in Mt. Vernon, and remained several years. In 1871 they purchased and moved upon the farm in Monroe township, where they are now living. He then turned his attention to farming, in which business he has since been engaged.

BARTON, CHARLES P., Berlin township; farmer; post office, Fredericktown, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1841; came to Ohio in 1850, locating in Richland county, and remained there till 1857, when he came to Knox county, and located in Morris township. He afterwards moved to Iowa, and remained four years. He then returned to Ohio, and carried on farming in Wayne township. In 1877 he purchased eleven acres of land in Morris township, and remained there three years; then sold it, and purchased twelve acres in the same township. He lived on that land two years.

In the spring of 1880 he purchased twenty-five acres of land in Berlin township, on which he now resides.

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Mr. Barton was married in 1868, to Jane Silliman, who was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1841. They have two children: Allie Belle, born January 4, 1877, and Ann Luella, January 24, 1880. He has also an adopted son-Samuel R. born June 15, 1870, and is a studious boy.

BAUGH, JACOB, farmer, Brown township. Among the early pioneers of Brown township, though not the earliest, was Jacob Baugh, yet living, and in his eighty-sixth year. He is a native of the Old Dominion, born in Fauquier county in the year 1795, and removed to eastern Ohio, and settled fifteen miles west of Wheeling, in the year 1810, and from thence to Knox county in 1834.

He is a genuine Virginian with western education, proud of his birthplace, jealous of her honor, and full of admiration "of her great name." At the time of his settlement here there were few better scholars (outside of Kenyon college) in the county, and perhaps with one exception, no person in it, who was his superior. Tall, active, muscular, and sinewy, he was equal to the requirements of western pioneer life, being a fearless hunter, a good woodsman and a crack shot.

For many winters he taught school in the rude log shanties with puncheon floors above and below, huge fireplace, with mud and stick chimney at one end, and oiled or greased writing paper for window glass.

In these primitive academies he soon raised the standard of acquirement in common schools from a very meager acquaintance with spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic, as far as the rule of three to a thorough acquaintance with Jess. Walsh, Daboll, Bonnycastle, Playfair, Morse, and Lindley Murray, and other authors of that day, in their respective fields, and soon no more was heard the school-boy's favorite and oft repeated doggerel:

The Rule of three, it pules me

And Practice makes me sad,

At Tare and Fret I swear and sweat,

And Fractions drives me mad."

Soon the counties and townships were districted under a new school law, and more commodious school-houses began to be built. Under the law every township had a board of school examiners, and a certificate of qualification from that board gave license to teach any school within the township. Mr. Baugh was a member of the board. In that capacity he accomplished much in building school-houses in the township, raising the qualifications of teachers, and awakening a healthy interest in schools among the people of the township.

Next to schools the opening of roads and bridging of streams were objects of his solicitude and concern, and to a certain extent continues still to be, though nearly four score and ten years have abated his ardor and tempered his zeal, but have not extinguished his desire for the success of the objects he so ably and earnestly championed in the vigor of his manhood.

BAUGHMAN, CHRISTIAN, farmer, Miller township, was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, April 27, 1807. His parents, Christian and Elizabeth Baughman nee Bair, emigrated from Pennsylvania about 1811, and came to Muskingum county, Ohio, settling about seven milea south of Zanesville, where they lived and died. They came to this county in a one horse wagon. They had thirteen children, eight of whom are living, one died in infancy. The children were named John (deceased), Jacob (murdered August 28, 1863, in Muskingum county), Christian, Joseph (deceased), Adam (deceased), Samuel, Elizabeth (married to Isaac Logan), Solomon, and Jesse. Mr. Baughman, the subject of this notice, was reared on a farm and commenced to assist his father when quite young to clear land. His schooling was limited as his parents needed his services and there was but three months' school taught in each year.

Mr. Baughman remained in Muskingum county and followed the occupation of farming until February, 1850, when he removed to Miller township, Knox county, where he purchased a farm of one hundred and seventy-six acres, and has resided on this farm to the present time. Previous to his coming to Knox county he had earned the money to pay for this farm. Since he has lived here he has purchased considerable more land, and is now one of the largest landowners in the township. He is a good farmer, and his farm shows the work of care and experience.

He was married three times. His first wife being Sarah Willis, his second was Mary France, and his third wife was Susan Groves. His family consisted of fourteen children, six by his first wife, namely: Lucinda (married Thomas Osborn), Elizabeth (married Thomas Tarman), David (died in infancy), Jane (married Clem Barber), William (died in infancy), and Caroline (married Adam Williams). By the second marriage there was one child. Mary C., who died in infancy. By the third marriage there were seven children, viz: Christy, Clare (married Henry Hildreth), Eunice I., Emma (died in infancy), Willie (died in youth), Melissa (married Frank Miller), Louisa (married Decatur Daily).

Mr. Baughman has always been a man of temperate and laborious habits, and now, at the age of seventy-four, he enjoys good health for a man of his years.

BAXTER, JOHN W., farmer, Miller township, was. born in New York city August 13, 1823. His father, John Baxter, was a native of Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied medicine, and subsequently practiced his profession in New York city. In 1834 he came to Miller township where he purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land. He continued in the practice of his profession when called upon in the community, and had a supervision of his farm. He was original in his ideas, a man of independent thought, and weighed all matters thoroughly before arriving at a conclusion. He was firm in his opinions, strictly temperate in his habits, not even using coffee or tea; in politics he was an Abolitionist of the most pronounced type. In business he was straightforward and reliable; he was quiet in his deportment and manners, and was esteemed for his kindness of heart and his liberality of views; he accorded to others the same right he claimed. He was three times married; his first wife was Miss Lucy Wainwright, by whom he bad two children, one of whom, J. W. Baxter, is living; the other died in infancy. Mrs, Baxter died in New York city. Mr. Baxter's second wife was Miss Ruth Hodges, who died without issue. His third wife was Miss Cassandra Hodges, by whom he had three children, viz.: Ruth (deceased), Thomas M. (produce dealer in Chicago), and Harris H., a practicing physician in Cleveland. He died on his farm in Miller township February 3, 1848. The subject of this notice, J. W. Baxter, remained in New York city until 1835, when he came to Miller township, and was with his father on the farm, and attended the schools of the district. He purchased the interests of the heirs in his father's farm, and subsequently purchased other property, until he is now one of the successful men of the township. He is a careful, conservative I man, of good judgment, and has the esteem and confidence of

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the community. He was married three times; his first wife was Anna E. Beech, with whom he had four children, viz.: Lucy W. (married to John M. Davis), Mary M., John, and Don Carlos; his second wife was Laura Rowley, daughter of Daniel Rowley, who had one child, which died in infancy; his third wife was Lorancy Gates, who was the mother of three children, viz.: Charles Chase, Harris M., an& Anna Laura.

BAXTER, J. B., farmer, Fredericktown; was born in Middlebury township in 1848. He was married in 1877 to Ollie Gleason, who was born in Morrow county in 1855. They have one daughter, Laura, born in 1878. Mr. Baxter is one of the leading citizens of Fredericktown.

BEACH, BENNETT, deceased, was born in Rutland, Connecticut, in 1774. He married Miss Sallie Sweet in 1796, of the same State, who was born in Rutland in 1774, and was the daughter of Bennett Sweet. They remained in Connecticut a few years then moved to Vermont, and in 1824 they emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, purchased and moved on a farm in Liberty township, now owned by Mr. Flack, where they passed the remainder of their days. He deceased May 25, 1850, aged seventy-six years. His companion survived him until February 3, 1853, when she died, aged seventy-nine years. They were constant members of the Presbyterian church for many years. He followed farming as his vocation. They reared nine children: Lauren, Abigail, Warren, Allen. Bennett, Esther, Sarah, Martin and Rollin, four of whom are now living, Esther, Bennett, Martin and Rollin.

BEACH, ROLLIN, farmer and gardner, youngest child of the aforesaid Bennett and Sally Beach, was born in Vermont, November 7, 1817, and came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1824. He married for his first wife Miss Mary Bricker, in 1840, born in Knox county in 1818, and daughter of Solomon Bricker. They settled on his father's home farm in Liberty township, which he purchased at his father's death. In 1861 he sold his farm and purchased the property where he is now living, near Mt. Vernon on the Columbus road. Formerly he followed farming as his vocation, but since living near Mt. Vernon, he makes gardening his principal business. They have had one son. John S. His wife deceased February 5, 1852. In 1853 he married Miss Sarah Graham, born in Liberty township, Knox county, in 1825. By this marriage he had six children, four sons and two daughter; one of the sons has deceased. His son John S., served four years in the Eleventh Ohio volunteer cavalry in the war of 1861.

BEACH, THOMAS, farmer, post office, Millwood, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, February 13, 1815, is a son of Joseph Beach, was brought to Coshocton county when a child, where he was raised, remaining at home farming on the shares, for his mother, until her death, which occurred in 1841. He then became the owner of the old homestead farm, where he remained until 1853, when he sold it and purchased a farm in Harrison township, Knox county, where he then moved, and at present resides. During the time he lived in Coshocton county he married Margaret J. Moar, October 12, 1858. She was a daughter of John Moar, and was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, December 22, 1822. They have nine children, as follows: Cannella, Elmer J., Charles H., Mary E., Milo, Gehiel, Jerusha, Ella and Alla, eight of whom are living. Jerusha died October 12, 1865.

BEACH, NANCY, MRS. was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, July, 1816. She is the fourth child of James and Mary Murphy, who came to Hilliar township about 1830, and settled near where the village of Centreburg is now located. When the Murphy family came there was no house within the limits of the present town. The first house which was built was by a Mr. Hendricks, and used for a number of years as a hotel. About the same time there was also another house built near the first one, and it was also used as a hotel. They were both frames, and are yet standing. The first not occupied. In this family were twelve persons-ten children and the two parents. The parents died where they first settled. Thus Mrs. Beach saw the site of Centreburgh when it was but little marred by the hand of the settler. Mrs. Beach has spent her days near where she now resides, and it was here that she was married to William Beach, May to, 1845, who was a native of Jersey City, New Jersey. As a result of this marriage they had two children, both of whom are living. Mrs. Beach is an early settler, having been in the vicinity a half century. Mr. Beach died some years ago.

BEACH, ALLEN J., Mt. Vernon, was born in Livingston county, New York, September 23, 1830, and is a son of Allen and Amanda Beach nee Root. He received his education in the common schools of Knox county, and was early trained in habits of industry. When twenty years of age he began business on his own account as a butcher and victualler, and carried it on very successfully for twenty years.

He has taken a great interest in political matters, and has been an unwavering and consistent Democrat, serving as a member of the county Democratic committee for a number of years, and has repeatedly been a delegate to various conventions of that party. In 1862 he was elected sheriff of Knox county on the Democratic ticket, and was renominated in 1864, but failed of an election. In 1868 he was again nominated, and received a majority of the votes cast, and was reelected in 1870, thus serving in that office for the period of six years in all. In 1873 he was elected to the lower branch of the State legislature, and during the sessions of that body served on the committee on Federal Relations, and also on that of the Penitentiary, being chairman of the latter. His earnest manner and sterling honesty gained him many friends, and he had a decided influence in the House while he was a member. In the winter of 1876 he was elected sergeant-at-arms of the house of representatives, and served for two years.

He was married January 1, 1850, to Matilda Buckland, of Knox county, by whom he has had five children, all of whom have died.

BEAL, MICHAEL, farmer, Butler township, post office address Zucks; born in Southampton township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1821. He was married February 5, 1842, to Margaret Albright, who was born in Londonderry township, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1823. He came to Butler township in 1842. Their children were Edward, born July 22, 1845; Charles H., born July 2, 1847; Levi, born February 22, 1849; George, born July 29, 1850; Mary M., born October 12, 1832; Martha E., born August 31, 1854; Lucy, born April 12, 1856; Christian, born July 6, 1860; Sarah J. born February 20, 1863; Michael, born February 12, 1865, and two children still-born. Edward died March 29, 1851; George died March 12, 1852.

BEAL, DANIEL, farmer, Pike township, post office North Liberty; born in Jefferson township, Richland county, in 1831,

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and was married in 1854 to Leah Rhodes, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1832. They have seven children Jacob, Asa R., Charles, Harvey, Ellen, Ida, and John. Mr. Beal is a farmer, who came to Knox county in 1870.

BEAL, JACOB R., merchant, post office, Shalers Mills. He was born in Richland county in 1854, he was married in 1876 to Mary E., daughter of Rev. H. Keller, of Pike township; she was born in 1856. They have two children: Linney Viola, born August 9, 1877, and Howard M., born May 3. 1879.

Mr. Beal received a liberal education, engaged in teaching school in Richland county. In 1876 he came to North Liberty, engaged in the mercantile business, continued till 1879, then came to Ankenytown, and opened a new store. He is doing a successful business. He is ticket, express, and freight agent for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at this station.

BEAM, WILLIAM, Mt. Vernon. His father, John Beam, came from Green county, Pennsylvania, to this county in 1807, locating in what is now Morgan township, where he resided several years, and where his son, William, was born. When he was about eight months old his father moved to a farm he had purchased in Clinton township, about three miles south of Mt. Vernon

When the War of 1812 came Mr. Beam served in the army under General Harrison, as a teamster. William received as good an education as the schools of that date afforded; but by diligent study fitted himself for teaching. He assisted his father on the farm, and followed the same occupation until 1838, when he was elected sheriff, and served two terms. He then engaged in the wholesale grocery business, establishing the first wholesale house in Mt. Vernon. When he sold his interest in this business, he went to Buffalo and Oswego in the interest of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Quitting this, he engaged in the dry goods trade several years; then in the business of patent-rights, and in various pursuits until the present.

William Beam was married in 1836, to Miss Emeline Willett. They are the parents of eight children, six of whom (four daughter, and two sons) are now living.

BEAM J. W., manufacturer of tinware and dealer in glassware, West High street, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, is a native of this city, born February 28, 1847, and was educated in the city public schools. He enlisted in August, 1862, in company A, Ninety sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, Captain Mitchell, being but fifteen years old when he enlisted; served until February, 1863, when he was honorably discharged. He again enlisted in May, 1864, in the Ohio National guard, where he served during the full term of service, after which he came home and engaged to learn the tinning business with Byers & Bird, and completed the trade with H. Everett, after which he engaged in business for himself, in which he continued a short time, when he traveled and did' journeymen work for different firms in various is parts of this State. In the spring of 1877 he established his present business, in which he has been successful. He manufactures all kinds of tinware in his line, also deals in table glassware, which is sold from wagons, four of which he keeps oil the road. He trades his goods for scraps and produce, doing a business of from four to six thousand dollars a year.

BEAM, FRANK L. queensware goods, South Main street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Beam is young man of promise: although scarcely. past his majority he has manfully started out in the race of life, and at an age, too, that is usually frittered away in seeking bubbles. Mr. Beam is a native of this city, born November 14, 1858, and has not yet reached his twenty-second birthday. From our efficient public schools he received a thorough education. His first business engagement was with Bogardus & Co., hardware dealers, with whom he served six years. On the twenty-second of March, 1880, he opened the business he is now engaged in. He caries a complete stock of crockery, chinaware, glassware, lanterns, lamps, looking glasses, house furnishing goods, wall paper, window shades and fixtures, pocket and table cutlery, plated ware, etc., etc. He is located in a part of the old Woodbridge property, now Rogers' Arcade, South Main street, east side.

BEARDSLEY, JOHN, pioneer of Milford township, was born September 26, 1792, in Fairfield county, Connecticut. He came of Revolutionary stock, his father having served during the war, and was at the Battle of Stony Point. While in the service he received an injury which caused the loss of his hearing. His mother's father, Burns by name, was a marine during the war. His parents had seven children, and so far as is known he is the only one living. He was raised on a farm. At .about the age of fifteen he learned cabinetmaking, and worked at it while in Connecticut. In 1812, he was a member of a militia company and stood guard along the shore of Long Island. In 1818 he started for Ohio, came by boat to New York, thence on foot to Bristol, Pennsylvania, thence to Philadelphia by boat on the Delaware river, from thence to Pittsburgh on foot; from thence by way of Wheeling to Knox county, where he entered one hundred and sixty acres of land in what is now Milford township. He paid the balance, or one-half on another piece of one hundred and sixty acres of land which another man had entered, which gave him two hundred and forty acres. In the spring of 1819 he returned to Connecticut, and in September, 1822 he was united in marriage to Miss Fitch in Connecticut, and shortly started for Ohio in a one horse wagon, coming by the way of New York city, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Wheeling and Zanesville. In coming over the Allegheny mountains he was upset and came near losing his horse and effects. After six weeks' journey he arrived at his destination. He remained with his brother William Beardsley, who came some time previously, until he built his cabin. He cleared up the land and made for himself and family a pleasant home. He was one of the organizers of Milford township. He worked at cabinetmaking considerably, and there are many pieces of his handiwork in the county yet. He is spending the evening of his life in his comfortable home, respected and esteemed for his many good qualities. By his marriage they had six children; of these Elizabeth and Malissa are deceased, George is in Illinois, Charles is in the Treasury department of the United States, Henry in Nebraska, Mary A. lives at home. Mrs. Beardsley was born October 9, 1800; died August 13, 1879.

BEARDSLEY, PLATT G., Milford township, pioneer farmer, was born in Massachusetts, August 6, 1806. He is the son of William Beardsley, who was born March 20, 1783, at Old Stratford, Connecticut. He married Miss Eunice Gardner, a native of Massachusetts, who was born July 18, 1786. They had nine children-Platt G., Mary G., born March 3, 1808; Job G., September 10, 1810; Betsey M., August 12, 1812, died July 21, 1813, William B., born September 3, 1814; Betsey, July 20. 1818; Catharine M., July 24, 1820; Adaline, January 11, 1823, John B„ February 20, 1825; Mary G. (deceased,

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married to W. Hildreth); Betsey, married to George Benedict; Catharine M. (widow of Erastus Rouse); Adaline, wife of A, Bostwick.

The Beardsley family are of English origin. Three brothers came from England at an early date, whose descendants are scattered over many of the States and territories, Mr. Beardsley the elder learned the shoemaking trade while in Connecticut. About two years after his marriage he moved to New York, where he resided until about 1814, when he came to Granville, Ohio, where he remained until 1818, then moved to Homer, where he remained for a short time. He purchased a forty-acre tract of land in what is now Milford township. He then cut a road from Homer to this tract, on which he lived for many years. He was one of the organizers of the township and always took an active interest in public affairs. He was an influential and leading member of society, a leading member of the Masonic fraternity, and a representative to the Grand lodge in 1817; and at his death was the oldest living member in the State. He lived to see his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to the number of eighty. Twelve of his descendants entered the army for the suppression of the Rebellion, seven of them losing their lives. His father was a soldier of the Revolution. He always followed his trade, and by it made considerable property. About five years before his death he removed to Brandon. He died January 28, 1863, and was interred with Masonic honors. His wife survived him until July 8, 1876.

The subject of this notice (P. G. Beardsley) being the oldest child, it naturally devolved upon him to assist his father in clearing up their new home. He worked at the cooper trade for a short time, but preferred the farm. His education was that of the schools of those days. He has always taken an active interest in the affairs of the county, and was a leading citizen of the township and county. He was a justice of the peace for nine years, during which time he married over thirty couples. He was infirmary director six years and always took an active interest in military affairs. He was elected lieutenant of militia and was successively captain, major and colonel, and at one time knew most of the men in the county. He was successful in acquiring for himself a very pleasant and comfortable home. He was social, hospitable and pleasant in his manners. He was married twice, first to Miss Mary M. Miller, June 1, 1837, daughter of James Miller, a pioneer of Miller township. They had four children, two of whom are living. The children were Emily N. (married to L. H. Burgess); Charles S., who was killed July 22, 1865, at Atlanta while serving in the army; James M., died young, and Mary M., who married W. V. Wright. His last wife. was Elizabeth Burns. He died January 30, 1881, aged seventy-four years.

BEAVER, WILLIAM, Miller township, farmer, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, November 30, 1830. His parents came to Ohio about 1835, and lived for a short time in Knox county, and then moved to Licking county, where Mr. Beaver died. Mrs. Beaver still survives him. They had eight children, seven of whom are yet living. The subject of this notice is the second of the family. His youth was spent on the farm with his mother until he was about twenty-three years of age. His father died when Mr. Beaver was about fifteen years of age, so that considerable of the management fell upon him at an early age. This was perhaps the foundation of Mr. Beaver's after success. It gave him self-reliance and a knowledge of that which is necessary to success. Mr. Beaver started poor in life, but has secured a competency by industry and good management. He is a systematic farmer, and his farm bears the marks of good cultivation. He married 'Miss Elizabeth Weller, daughter of Philip Weller, December, 1853, and commenced housekeeping on the farm on which he now resides, and where he has resided ever since, except seven years while out of the county. They had twelve children, four of whom died in infancy. The living are Sarah Ann, Mary, Ellen, George W., Isabella, William, Evaline, Ida K., and Abram Franklin.

BEBOUT, ENOCH, Pleasant township; deceased; a native of Holland; was born July 24, 1801. He was brought to America in 1805, by his parents who located in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he grew to manhood. November 1, 1832, he married Miss Eliza Boggs, of Washington county, Pennsylvania; born December 27, 1808. They emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Harrison township, where he remained until March, 1845, when he purchased and moved on a farm near Martinsburgh, this county. He remained there five years; then in, 1850 he bought and moved on the farm in Pleasant township, now owned by his son-in-law, David B. Kerr. He died October 27, 1879. His wife is still living on the home farm. They raised a family of seven children: William, Rebecca, Hannah, James, Eliza, Enoch and Mary J., all living except William, who died at Fortress Monroe July 25, 1864, while serving as a Union soldier in the war of the great Rebellion.

BEBOUT, WILLIAM, deceased, was born July 12, 1834, in Knox county, and was married to Miss Malinda Pipes January 19, 1860. When a young man, he taught school for some years, and afterwards engaged in farming up to the time of his decease, July 25, 1864. Their children were James Wilber, Eva May and William Grant. Mr. Bebout was a soldier of the Union army, and lost his life in the service, dying of typhoid fever in Virginia.

BECHTEL, MARTIN, deceased, Pleasant township, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1802. He was raised a farmer, and was considered one of the best in Knox county. In 1829 he married Miss Sophia Fetter, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1806. They remained two years in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and in 1831 emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located on the farm in Pleasant township, now known as the Bechtel homestead, on the Martinsburgh road, five miles from Mt. Vernon, where they passed the 'remainder of their days. He deceased March 4, 1875. His wife died September 16, 1875. They had a family of six children: Malinda, Barbara, Jonas, Catharine, Jacob, Cornelia A. and Frances J.

BECHTEL, JACOB J., farmer, Pleasant township; son of Martin and Sophia Bechtel, was born in Pleasant township, this county, July 30, 1839. On the twenty-eighth day of January, 18-, he married Miss Kesiah J. Eley, born in Knox county, Ohio, November 1, 1840, daughter of Peter and Sabinah Eley. They settled on his father's home farm where they are now living. They have a family of five children-four sons and one daughter. Farming and stock raising is his vocation.

BECHTEL, ANDREW, farmer, Berlin township, post office, Shafer's Mills; born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, raised in Bedford county, and was married to Elizabeth Brumbaugh, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1828; they had four children, viz.: Simon, Jackson, Mary Ann

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(deceased;, and Nancy Jane. Mrs. Elizabeth Bechtel died in Knox county. Mr. Bechtel was afterward married to Elizabeth Frederick, who was born in this county. They had four children, viz.: Isaac (deceased, Lewis, Sarah E., and Minnie C. Mr. Betchel came to Ohio in 1853, located in Berlin township, and owns the old Frederick farm. He has erected one of the finest residences in this township.

BECK, JOHN, farmer, Union township, post office, Danville, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1818, and lived there until 1829, when he came to Union township, Knox county. In 1844 he was married to E. J. McDonald, and settled on a portion of the old homestead where he has since remained. They have the following children, viz.: Sarah, born in 1846, Mary, in 1848, Newton, in 1850, Theresa Ann, in 1853, Eliza Ellen, in 1856, and Nancy Jane, in 1860. They have lost three children: Sarah, Grant, and Rebecca.

BEDELL, SYLVESTER, farmer,- Liberty township, was born in Niagara county, New York, April 23, 1823; his parents, Michael and Mary Willis, were married in New York, and about 1836, and emigrated to Ohio, settling in Liberty township some four miles west of Mt. Vernon, on the Delaware road, where he purchased a farm in the woods and cleared it up. He was an estimable citizen and was highly respected in the community. Mr. and Mrs. Bedell lived to a good old age. They died in Mt. Vernon, where they resided some years previous to their death. They had a family of nine children, all living and doing well. The subject of this sketch is the oldest child; he assisted his parents until he was twenty-one years old, attending school in the winter until he acquired the necessary qualification to teach. His first certificate was granted by Joseph S. Days, of Mt. Vernon. He taught his first term in 1844, and taught thirteen terms thereafter. He was twice married; his first wife was Matilda Tucker, to whom he was married February 18, 1848; they had three children, two living. He was married to Mrs. Mary Hobbs in April, 1876. Mr. Bedell is a pleasant, social gentleman, and an influential citizen.

BEDELL, ISRAEL, M. D., Mt. Vernon, was born in New York, October 19, 1834. He spent his youth on a farm. His father was born in Massachusetts, and his mother in Connecticut, and emigrated to Ohio about 1848. He commenced reading medicine with Dr. V McCarther, of Circleville, and finished his course of reading with Drs. Russell and Thompson, of Mt. Vernon. The first course of lectures he attended was at Ann Arbor. He finished his course at the University of New York, to New York city, March 3, 1863. He taught school for some nine terms prior to entering his course of reading medicine. About six weeks after his graduation he was examined at Columbus and appointed first assistant surgeon of the Sixth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, formerly the Guthrie Grays of Cincinnati, Ohio, and reported to his regiment in the field at Bridgeport, Alabama, and remained with it until the regiment was discharged.

On his return home he was appointed contract surgeon, and was stationed at Camp Dennison, and had charge of it about eight months. He received a commission as first assistant surgeon of the One Hundred and Fourth Ohio regiment, but was not mustered into service. He came home and located in Cardington, Ohio, where he remained about two years, and then came to Mt. Vernon, where he has since been practicing. He associated himself with Dr. Bryant, and continued with him two years, when the health of Dr. Bryant gave way, and the partnership was dissolved.

Dr. Bedell married Miss Lydia L. Saelts, of Mt. Vernon, in 1863. They have had four children born unto them--three sons and one daughter, only two of whom are living.

BEERS, JOSEPH, Fredericktown, farmer, was born in this county December 15, 1811. He was married December 14, 1841, to Jane Douglass, who was born in this county in September, 1822. They have two children: Theodore, who is now married and resides in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; and Aaron, who is now engaged in farming the home place.

Mr. Beers has been identified with this county from infancy, and through his industry, economy and frugality, has succeeded in securing a good property. He owns a beautiful farm near Fredericktown.

BEEMAN, SAMUEL, of Brown township, chairman of the county board of commissioners, was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, June 6, 1820. He received his education in the common schools of the day. His youth was spent on the farm of his father, William Beeman. His father, with his family, came to Ohio in 1820, settling in Wayne county, where he resided until 1833, when he removed to Knox county, and located in Jefferson township, remaining there up to the time of his death, in 1872.

Samuel Beeman, the subject of this sketch, in 1855, married Miss Mary Withrow, daughter of Hon. James Withrow, of Jefferson township, unto whom five children were born-three sons and two daughters-two of whom are dead, one son and one daughter. The names of the living children are, James, Mary A., and Chester F. James married Miss Lovina Gardner of Brown township. In 1851 Mr. Beeman engaged in the mercantile business in Brownsville, this county, and conducted it successfully up to 1867, a period of sixteen years, when he gave up the business and retired to the farm, where he and his family live a happy and contented life, with all the comforts within their reach. In 1875 Mr. Beeman was elected county commissioner, and was in 1878 reelected to the same position. As a merchant, as a farmer, as a county official, and as a citizen, Mr. Beeman has occupied a high and prominent position.

BEERS, ASHER L., stone mason, Fredericktown, was born in Wayne township, Knox county, in 1830, and married in 1852 to Mary E. Coleman, who was born in Knox county in 1832. They have the following children, viz: Lawrence A., born in 1856; Clio M., in 1862. Mr. Beers is a stone mason by trade, and has worked at this business over fourteen years. He is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, being a very efficient worker, especially in Sabbath-school.

BELL, BENJAMIN, Morgan township, is one of the largest land owners in Morgan township, and, in fact, in tire county. He is a native of Green county, Pennsylvania, where he was born, May 17, 1813. His father was a well-to-do farmer of the same county. The Bell family were early settlers of that part of Pennsylvania.

The subject of this notice was raised on a farm, and received such schooling as was customary in those days. He remained in Pennsylvania until about 1843, when he came to Ohio and purchased a part of the farm on which he now resides, and settled upon it. For this one hundred acres he paid one thousand four hundred dollars, but having no money, he went in debt for it. He succeeded by hard work and economy in pay-

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ing for this farm, and was soon enabled to buy more. He thus was fairly started in life, having laid a foundation for his future success, before he received any portion coming from his father's estate. He now owns one thousand and twenty-nine acres of land. Mr. Bell has always been punctual in the payment of all contracts made by him. He is engaged quite extensively in sheep raising. He was married to Miss Mary Woodruff a native of Knox county, in 1844. They had a family of seven children: John, Ella, (deceased, who was married to L. B. Mantouya), two infants, Lucilla, (who married D. W. Archer), Morgan and Edison.

BELL, JAMES, Pleasant township, deceased, a native of Green county, Pennsylvania, born on, the fifteenth day of April, 1818. He was brought to this country by his parents, Benjamin and Elizabeth Bell, when but a small boy, who located in Morgan township, where he grew to manhood. On the twenty-second day of November, 1838, he was united in marriage with Miss Rowena Robinson, of Coshocton county, Ohio. By this marriage he bad six children, only two of whom are now living, viz, Edwin W. and Benjamin T. They settled on a farm in Coshocton county, where his companion deceased March 12, 1856. On the sixteenth day of August, 1857, he was married to Phoebe J. Wright, of Coshocton county, born August 24, 1832, daughter of Willis and Anna E. Wright. They settled on his farm in Coshocton county, remained until January 23, 1863, when he purchased and moved on his farm in Pleasant township, this county, now owned and occupied by his heirs, where he deceased April 9, 1879. His last marriage resulted in four children, one son and three daughters. Farming was his vocation.

BELL, HIRAM, Hilliar township, farmer, born in Knox county, October 16, 1833. He spent his youth in Licking county on a farm, receiving a common school education. In 1858 he moved to Clay township, Knox county, and in 1864, he purchased the farm on which he now lives, and moved on it the same spring. His principal business is the raising of sheep. Mr. Bell is a quiet and influential citizen; has been elected several times to fill the different offices of the township, and has the confidence of the community and the esteem of all who know him. He was married to Miss Mary A. Hughes, of Clay township, December 17, 1856. She was born January 1, 1836. As a result of this union they had three children, two of whom are living, viz, Florence E., married to Augustus M. Wolf, and resides near them; John E. at home.

BELL, JAMES, farmer, post office Bladensburgh, is a native of Clay township, born here September 20, 1839, and has lived in Clay most of the time since his birth. He was married to Sarah Paul, May 14, 1866, two children being the fruits of this union, viz., Iva Olive, and Ottie S. Mr. Bell is in very comfortable circumstances, financially, and is a highly respected citizen.

BELL, JAMES W., farmer, Pike township; post office North Liberty; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1848, and was married in 1874 to Bessie Price, who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1850. They have one son, Edward Austin, born in 1875. Mr. Bell came to Knox county in 1875. He is a farmer by occupation. He has been engaged in some interesting and lively debates in this county-the first an Advent question, " Will the wicked be eternally punished?" Affirmative, Mr. Bell and Mr. Scarbrough; negative, Jesse Nichols and William Romine. They had five judges. Universal decision for affirmative. He was engaged in a second debate with the Dunkard question, "Is the bread and wine the Lord's supper." .affirmative, James W. Bell and Levi Marshall; negative, Joseph Barnard and Mr. Workman. Decision in favor of affirmative.

BELL, MORGAN, farmer, Morgan township; was born in Morgan township, May 6, 1852: He is a son of Benjamin Bell, of this township, and of whom mention is made elsewhere. He was raised on a farm and received a common-school education. He was married to Miss Jennie E. Horn, daughter of Jacob Horn, July 8, 1875.

BELT, JEREMIAH, farmer, Pike township; post office Democracy; born to Monroe township in 1850, and was married in 1875 to Permelia Fields, who was born in Pike township in 1856. They had two children-Clara Belt, in 1876; Permelia (deceased). Mrs. Permelia Belt died in 1877. Mr. Belt was subsequently married to Ellen Fields, who was born in Pike township in 1852. They have one daughter, Izom Blanche, born in 1880. Mr. Belt is a farmer of this township.

BENEDICT, ZIBA, Morris township, deceased, was born in Danbury, Connecticut, in 1784. He came to Ohio in 1818, settled in Mt. Vernon, and remained there until 1820, when he located in Fredericktown. He was married in 1815 to Hannah Keeler, who was born in Brookfield, Connecticut, in 1787. They had three children: Nancy Jane, born in 1816; Clarinda, born in 1818; Lucian, born May 15, 1820. Mr. Ziba Benedict died May 6, 1833, in this county. Mrs. Hannah Benedict died June 11, 1850. Clarinda died July 21, 1840.

Mr. Benedict was one of the earliest settlers of Knox county. He came here when it was in its wild state and all in timber. He cleared the farm where his son Lucian now resides. Mr. Benedict was a hatter by trade and worked at that business in Mt. Vernon two years, and also in Fredericktown.

Nancy Jane Benedict was married July 4, 1833, to Joseph Barker. They had nine children.

Lucian Benedict was married in 1847 to Sarah Trimble, who was born in Morris township in 1815. They had three children: L. G. Benedict, born September 12, 1851; Orien, born December 19, 1852; Charles, born October 6, 1856.

L. G. Benedict was married February 21, 1878, to Arabella Randolph. They reside in Fredericktown.

Charles Benedict graduated from the Business college at Poughkeepsie, New York, in July, 1880. He is a young man of promise, and is well educated.

Mrs. Sarah Benedict died October 21, 1878.

Orien Benedict died March 10, 1879.

Mr. Benedict has always been identified with this county. He is a farmer by occupation, and is one of the leading men of the township.

BENEDICT, TRUMAN, a native of Vermont, and son of .Solomon and Laura Benedict, was born in Bennington county, on the twenty-ninth day of April. 1823. In 1837 he accompanied his parents to this county, who located in Pleasant township, near the Hurford mills, remained until 1851, then moved to Clinton, one mile north of Mt. Vernon, where, in 1868, Solomon Benedict died. His companion survives him, at the advanced age of eighty-nine years.

In 1852 Truman Benedict married Miss Lorrain, daughter of Samuel B. Bassett, born in Bennington county, Vermont,

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February 10, 1821. She came to this county in 1851. They settled in Clinton, remained about seven years. In 1859 moved to Monroe township, this county, remained until 1873. then moved upon the farm where they now reside, in College township, north of Gambier. Farming has been his principal vocation through life.

BENNETT, CLARK L., livery, feed and sale stable, West Gambier street, near Main street, Mt. Vernon. Clark L. Bennext was born in the State of Vermont in the year 1804. When less than a year old his father moved to Ticonderoga, Essex county, New York. In 1824 he came to Ohio and located in Licking county. In 1825 he removed to Knox county. In 1832 Mr. Bennett came to Mt. Vernon, where he has resided ever since. Prior to settling in this city he followed the occupation of farming. His first occupation in Mt. Vernon was brick making, which he followed several years. In 1849 he opened a livery establishment, in which he still continues, assisted by his son, George S. Bennett, who was born in this city, and was educated in our public schools.

George read medicine with the late Dr. Matthew Thompson, and then attended the university at Cleveland, where he graduated. After graduating, young Bennett located at Chesterville, Morrow county, where he practiced for four years. In consequence of his father's failing health he gave up his practice and returned to Mt. Vernon, and assumed the management of his father's establishment. This establishment is a large and complete one, comprising horses, single and double carriages, barouches, phaetons, and sleighs. Here the traveling public find first-class accommodations at all hours, as the horses are in fine condition and the vehicles all in good order.

BENNETT, JOHN, Monroe township, farmer, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Bennett, nee Stratton, was born near Steubenville, Jefferson county, Ohio, April 7, 1826.

Thomas Bennett, late of Gambier, and father of John, was born in Maryland, January 20, 1805, and emigrated to Jefferson county, Ohio, where he married Miss Elizabeth Stratton, born in June, 1805. In 1828 they came to this county, located in Danville and remained until 1832, then moved to Gambier, where he deceased in May, 1880. For several years after their settlement in the village he was engaged in clearing on the college land, then turned his attention to farming, which he made his principal vocation until 1858, when he engaged in running a hack line and carrying the mail front Gambier to Mt. Vernon, which he continued until the completion of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad. He then turned his attention to farming again, which he followed until his death.

John Bennett, the subject of this sketch, was reared on a farm, and has made farming his principal vocation. On the twenty-ninth day of March, 1853, he married Miss Eliza Conley, a native of Ireland, born April 19, 1830, and came to this county in 1852, settling in Monroe township. In 1873 they purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Monroe township. They raised a family of four children: Thomas, George W., Emma J., and Isabella.

BENSON, GEORGE, Monroe township, farmer and stock raiser, post office, Mt. Vernon, son of Lyman and Emery Benson, was born in New Millford, Connecticut, on the twenty-fifth day of June, 1815. In 1831, at the age of sixteen years, he commenced working at the cabinet-maker's trade, and served as an apprentice about four years. In 1835 he accompanied his parents to this county and located in Monroe township, on a farm now owned by John Hardesty, where his father and mother remained until 1851, when they moved to Illinois, where they passed the remainder of their days. His father died at the age of eighty-five years. His mother deceased when eighty-four years of age. He continued at his trade for about three or four years after his settlement in Monroe township, and then turned his attention to farming and stock raising, which business he has since been engaged in. He owns a farm of one hundred and sixty and one-half acres in Monroe township, which is in a good state of cultivation.

In 1836 he married Miss Rebecca Spry, of Monroe township, daughter of William and Sarah Spry, who was born in Pennsylvania, October 20, 1816, and came to this county with her parents in 1820, who located in Monroe township, on a farm now owned by Edwin Scott. Shortly after the marriage of Mr. Benson they settled in Monroe. They have lived on three different farms in the same township. They moved on the farm where they now reside in 1855, and have raised a family of eight children, three sons and five daughters, one son and three daughters have deceased..

BEENY JOSEPH, farmer, a native of England, was born October 8, 1802. He came with his parents, James and Sarah Beeny, to America in 1822, and located in Knox county. Ohio, in Clinton, a small village one and a half miles north of Mt. Vernon. Just before sailing from England he married Miss Hannah Wright in 1822, who came with him to America. They lived in Clinton about three years, then his father, James Beeny, purchased and moved on, a farm in Clinton township, three miles from Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road, where he lived until about 1855, when he moved to Licking- county, Ohio, where he deceased in November, 1860, aged seventy-two years. His companion survived him until 1870, when she died, aged eighty years. They reared a family of ten children, six sons and four daughters. He and his family lived with his father until 1825, when he moved to Liberty township, Knox county, and located on a farm, where they lived several years, then bought several other farms, and finally, in 1850, he purchased and moved on the farm where he is now living. three miles from Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road. He has followed farming as his vocation. They reared a family of ten children, six sons and four daughters. His companion deceased July, 1871. He then married Mrs. Jane G. Maxwell, nee Ryan, in 1872, born in Pennsylvania in 1816, who is still living, to take care of him in his old age.

BEST FAMILY, The, Hilliar township. Peter Best, the father of this family, was born in New Jersey, May, 1797. In 1823 he married Miss Mary Trimmer, who was born in New Jersey in 1802. They remained in New Jersey until 1839, when they immigrated to Hilliar township, Knox county, Ohio, settling on a farm. They lived and died in this township being much esteemed. They had eleven children, nine born in New Jersey, an two in Ohio; nine are vet living.

John Best, born in New Jersey October 3, 1823, was married to Mare Jane Yeocom, in Champaign county, Ohio, November 27, 1849. He is a plasterer by trade, which he followed for a number of years, and then settled on a farm on which he is yet living. William was born in New Jersey, June 9, 1825, married November 18, 1846, to Sophia Huock, a daughter of one of the pioneers of this township. After his marriage he settled on a part of the Houck farm in Hilliar

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township, where he closed his days. He died September 12, 1877. His wife still resides on the farm. Jesse was born in New Jersey January 7, 1827, and was married to Mary Spaur in Butler county, Iowa, November 30, 1856. He was a wagon-maker by trade, but now owns a farm in Woodson county, Kansas, and is engaged in agriculture. Jacob was born in New Jersey January 14, 1829. When a young man he emigrated to , Illinois, where he dealt in stock for many years. He married a lady in Lexington, McLean county, Illinois, and settled down in the lumber business, at which he is still engaged. Mary E., born in New Jersey, October 25, 1830, married Lemon Chadwick, with whom he still lives in Kansas an a farm. David T. born in New Jersey, January 5, 1832, married Susannah, Addleman January 4, 1855, in Hilliar township. By trade he is a plasterer. After his marriage he purchased a farm in Hilliar township, where he still resides, engaged in farming and breeding Aresican Merino sheep, of which he has a fine flock. He has three children, John T., born September 23, 1855; Lydia Ellen, born December 9, 1857, and Wilbert Irvine, born July 21, 1868. Mr. Best is an estimable citizen. Lydia Ellen, born May 20, 1834, in New Jersey, married October, 1880, to John McGuier, a plasterer, residing at Centreburgh, Ohio. Ananias, born in New Jersey July 10, 1836, married in Iowa to Miss Kate McCrary. He is a wagon-maker, but is now engaged in farming in Butler, county, Iowa. Peter, born in New Jersey, September 3, 1838, lived until fifteen years of age, dying in Hilliar township. James, born October 25, 1840, in Knox county, Ohio. He obtained a collegiate education at Waynesburgh, Pennsylvania, and took a theological course at Cincinnati, Ohio, and is now a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church at Bradford, Ohio. He married Narcissa M. Conner of Cumberland, Ohio. Sylvester was born in Hilliar township, January 30, 1843„ remained on the farm until September 22, 1862, when he enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment O. V. I. He participated in the battles of Perryville, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, and Kennesaw Mountain, where he received a gunshot wound in the left hand June 27, 1863. He was discharged October 10, 1864 by reason of disability caused by his wound. after his return home he finished his education at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. He was married to Miss Martha Annett, of Centreburgh, Ohio, May 19, 1866. He followed photography for seven years,. after which he engaged in farming near Centreburgh, Ohio, at which occupation he is still engaged. They are the parents of the following children: Carne Bernice, born at Centreburgh March 29, 1869, died at Lock, Ohio, October 24, 1870; Sylvester Robert, born at Lock, Ohio April 5, 1872 ; Jesse Taylor, born at Sunbury, Ohio, May 1, 1874; Charlie Sherman, born at Sunbury, Ohio, February 10, 1876.

BEST, MRS. SOPHIA, Hilliar township, was born in Hilliar township in 1823. She is the daughter of Henry and Rhoda Houck, nee Jennings. Her parents were among the first settlers of Hilliar township. They came in 1811. She spent her youth at home. She was married to William Best November 10, 1846. They had a family of five children, two of whom are living. Mr. Best died September 12, 1877.

BIGGS, JAMES, Howard township, farmer, post office Howard, was born in Jefferson township, Knox county. His mother died when he was a small child, and he was given to his uncle with whom he lived fourteen years. He then went to Coshocton county, Ohio, and learned the shoemaking trade, and followed it five years. Then after two years of farming life he married and settled on his present farm, where he has lived twenty-one years. He has four children: Carne, Maggie, Jackson, and Olive. His wife died in 1877, and was buried in the Millwood cemetery.

BINGHAM, L. O.. Middlebury township, mason, post office Levering, born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1849, and was married in 1874 to Amanda Gaumer, who was born in Knox county in 1850. They have two children: Bessie O., born in 1876, and Henry L., born in 1877.

BIRD, MRS, KEZIAH, Liberty township, born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, November, 1802, being the daughter of Abner and Abigail Johnston, who had a family of nine children, seven daughters and two sons. The sons died when young. The daughters all grew up and were married. The parents died in Pennsylvania. The subject of this notice was marred to John Bird, August 11, 1824. He was a native of New Jersey, and was born January 16, 1801. Shortly after their marriage they settled upon the farm on which she still resides. Mr. Bird had been here two years previous, having come with his father, Sylvanus Bird, who emigrated with his family about 1822, and settled on this farm. Here John Bird died September 11, 1878. He was a good citizen and an exemplary man.

There were born to them nine children, viz: Oliver P., died in Delaware county; left a family of ten children; Johnson A., farmer, in Delaware county; Ellen S. resides with her mother on the old homestead; Milton, farmer, a resident of Liberty township; Charlotte H., wife or Henry Strickler deceased, and resides in Iowa; Esther Ann, wife of John McAllister, in Union county, Ohio; Corinda, wife of John D. Higgins, of Liberty township; Mary E., wife of George Hull, of Morrow county, Ohio; and John, a farmer, and resident of Liberty township.

Mrs. Bird is spending the evening of her life on the old homestead, where she and her husband settled fifty-seven years ago.

Their children are all doing well. and have the esteem of the community in which they live.

BIRD, GEORGE W., firmer, Hilliar township, was born in Liberty township, Knox county, December 18, 1828. He is the seventh child of Elisha and Susan Bird (nee Haggerty), who emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio.

The youth of Mr. Bird was spent on a farm, and like boys of his day, he attended school during the winter. He was married to Miss Lucinda Abbott, in June, 1853, She was born in Licking county. The following sprang they moved to Hilliar township, on the farm on which he now resides. and began the improvement of their fixture home. He has succeeded in beautifying his home and adding considerable land to his first purchase. He is a careful farmer, a good citizen, and has the confidence of the community. He is hospitable and agreeable in his manners. The raising of cattle is his principal business. The marriage of Mr. Bird was blessed with six children, three sons and three daughters, four of whom are living, viz: Joel A. (farmer, Wyandot county, Ohio), Sarah E., Dora M., and George M.

BIRD, MILTON, farmer, Liberty township, born there November 14, 1831, and is the son of John and Keziah Bird, of whom mention is made in this volume. He spent his youth on the farm and attended the common schools, and has always

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followed farming as his occupation. He married Sarah M. Robertson, daughter of Hezekiah K. Robertson, of Liberty township, November, 1855, and has a family of five children, viz: Eva M. (wife of Dr. W. Merriman, of Centreburgh, Ohio), Elmer M., Flora M., Alfrata M., and Orville M.

Mr. and Mrs. Bird are much esteemed by their acquaintances.

BIRD, WILLIAM, JR., hardware dealer, Mt. Vernon, son of William Bird, sr., was born at Catawissa, Columbia county, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1835, where he resided until March 28, 1859. He then emigrated to Ohio and located at Mt. Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, where he resided seven years, during which he was in the boot, shoe, and leather business, after which he came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the hardware, stove, and tinware business, in which he still continues, and has been successful in. He conies a stock of from eight to twelve thousand dollars.

He married Miss Matie E. Kreigh, February 4, 1854, and has a family of five children: Charles A., Daniel K., Kate S., Annie E., and Bessie M.

BIRD, JOHN H., Liberty township, farmer, born in Liberty township February 23, 1843, being the son of John and Keziah Bird, of whom mention is made in this work. He was raised on the old homestead farm, doing the ordinary work of a farmer's son. He enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in the battle of Perrysville, Kentucky; taken prisoner, and paroled on the field. In May, 1864, he returned to his regiment and participated in the battles of Kennesaw Mountain and Mission Ridge, and marched with Sherman to Savannah, thence to North Carolina and Washington, and was discharged with his company at Columbus, Ohio. After his return home he engaged in farming, which be has since followed. On September 7, 1865, he was united in marriage to Miss Carrie A. Brokaw, daughter of John A. Brokaw, and of whom mention is elsewhere made. They have one child, Edith W., born November 25, 1870.

BIRD, MORGAN, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Morris township, this county, in 1849, and was married in 1871 to Sarah McCutchen, who was born in Morrow county in July 1849. They have the following children: Leroy. born in 1872; Etta, 1875; Daisy, 1878, and George, in 1880. Mr. Bird has always resided in this county. He is one of the intelligent and active farmers of Wayne township.

BISHOP, ARNOLD, Milford township, farmer, was born in Milford township February 1828; is the son of Gardner and Millie Bishop, net Young, who were natives of Rhode Island, and early settlers of Milford township. Mention is made of the Bishop settlement of Milford in the general history of the township.

The subject of this notice was raised on a farm. He enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry; was second sargeant of the company at its organization, and about a year after commissioned orderly which he held until he was discharged He participated in most of the battles in which his company and regiment was engaged. He did not participate in the campaign from Atlanta to Savannah on account of disability. He joined his regiment at Savannah. and was with it from that time until the discharge of the company. After his return home he resumed farming, at which he has since been engaged. Politically he is a zealous Republican; is a good citizen; was married to Miss Sarah A. McClelland December, 1854. They had two children (one of whom died in infancy), Luella, is the wife of Aaron W. Gearhart.

BLACK, WILLIAM B., farmer, Pike township; post office Corning, Adams county, Iowa; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1823, and was married to Margaret Cornell, who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1827. They had eight children - Ransom B., John L., Mary E., (deceased), Alvin S., Sarah R., (deceased), Martha A., Irena M., and Harriet.

Mr. Black came to Ohio with his parents at the age of four years, who located in Union township, this county. His father, George Black, remained on the same farm they purchased until his death. After marriage W. B. Black located in Danville, and engaged in manufacturing wagons and buggies for some years, after which he moved to Gann, this county, and continued in the same business till 1869, when he moved to Iowa, where he still resides, engaged in farming in that State.

BLACK, JOHN L., physician, Pike township; post office Democracy; born in Union township, this county, in 1846, and was married in 1869 to Dora J. Sapp, who was born in this county in 1850. They have three children-Aurilla, Robert R. and Eva A. Dr. Black attended school at the academy at Spring Mountain, Coshocton county, and studied medicine with Dr. C. Sapp, of Danville. He attended lectures at Cleveland, in the medical department of the University of Wooster, (formerly called Charity Hospital Medical college). He graduated in the spring of 1869, and commenced the practice of medicine the same year in Amity, where he still remains.

Dr. Black has been successful as a physician, has accumulated considerable property, and stands high in his profession in this county. He was a soldier in the late war, a member of company K, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth regiment, independent volunteer infantry, continuing in the service for about six months.

BLACKBURN, WILBUR, farmer, Middlebury township; post office Fredericktown; born in Middlebury township, July 19, 1842, and was married February 6, 1866, to Elvina Keyes, who was born in Middlebury township, July 15, 1849. They have one daughter, Effie, who was born March 26, 1879. Mr. W. Blackburn was a soldier in the war, a member of company A, Twentieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was engaged in the service over three years.

BLAKE, WILLIAM, born in Ireland in the year 1761, and at an early day emigrated to America. He married Miss Hannah Sprague; born in Connecticut in 1778. They came to Knox county and settled in Clinton township in 1812, on the farm now owned by John Grey. He died in 1848, aged eighty-seven years, and his companion in 1850, aged seventy-two years and five months.

BLAKELEY, HUGH, Pike township, farmer, post office North Liberty, born in Clinton township, this county, in 1809, and was married in 1827 to Catharine Wallace, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1803. They had the following children: James W. born in 1828; Zephaniah and Joel, born in 1830; Isabella in 1832; Hugh H. in 1836; Rachel in 1834; Thomas C., born August 19, 1839; Margaret A. in 1841; Lyman P. in 1844; and Mary C. in 1848.

Mrs. Catharine Blakeley died April 21, 1866. James Blake-

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John Sellers Braddock, dealer in land warrants and real estate, Mount Vernon, Ohio. The name of Braddock (Saxon Broad-Oak) at once suggests a chapter in colonial history inseparably connected with that of the country, and to trace the history of that family, connecting the past with the present, is the object of this sketch.

Major General Edward Braddock was born in England about 1650, served with distinction under George II, and won for himself the name of an "honest, brave old gentleman." He died at Bath, June 15, 1725, and left one son, then about thirty years of age.

Edward Braddock, jr., was born in England about 1695. On the eleventh day of October, 1710, he entered the army with the rank of ensign in the grenadier company of the Cold Stream guards, "the flower of the British army." Promotion followed rapidly, until, on the twenty-ninth of March, 1754, he was made major general, and in the September following was appointed to the command of all the troops to be sent against the French in America. On the twenty-first of December he sailed for Hampton Roads, in Virginia, where he arrived February 20, 1755. His military career in America, and especially his unfortunate defeat at Braddock's Field, on the ninth of July, 1755, and his tragic death four days later, are too well known to require repetition here.

His cousins, John and Raphael Braddock, came to America about the same time, located in Baltimore county, Maryland, served in the Revolution, and after the close of the war, or in 1789, they moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania. Raphael Braddock had four sons--Frank, David, Cyrus, and Harvey. David was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, and moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1814. Joshua Braddock, son of David and grandson of Raphael, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1781, married Susanna Sellers (born October 15, 1783) in 1807, by whom he had ten children-Elizabeth, Sarah, Margaret, David, Susanna, Joshua, Mary, Arena, Anna, and Robert M. Braddock. He moved to Knox county, Ohio, in 1814, and located temporarily in Morgan township, on the Jacob Sellers farm, where he remained until, 1816, when he entered six hundred and forty acres of Government kind on Schenck's creek, in Morris township. He was one of the early settlers in that section of country.

Possessed of Christian character and high moral worth, he was greatly beloved by his neighbors and friends; he was fond of sport and enjoyed hunting, having killed during his residence in Morris township fifty-four bears, and deer in numbers. He died January 9, 1837.

David, the fourth child and oldest son of Joshua and Susanna Sellers Braddock, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, November 8, 1813; and Catharine Headington was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, March 6, 1817, and they were married on the. twenty-fourth day of March, 1836. David Braddock and Catharine H. Braddock had twelve children, six sons and six daughters. Joshua C. and David W. reside in Sacramento, California; J. Thomas, Rebecca H., Eliza .A., Arena E., and Ruth A. reside near Charleston, Illinois. Two sons and two daughters died in infancy.

John S., the sixth child and second son is the only member of David Braddock's family residing in Ohio. He was born at the old homestead in Morris township, Knox county, Ohio, December 13, 1844, and received a common school and practical education. He was sent by his father, at the age of nineteen, to Illinois, where he farmed two years. Upon attaining his majority he returned to Knox county, Ohio, and engaged in teaching school during the winters of 1866-7-8-9 and 1870, and traveling the summer months, hunting up, purchasing and selling land warrants. In July, 1870, he went to Nebraska and entered three thousand five hundred acres of land, and in October of the same year located in Mt. Vernon, and engaged in the purchase and sale of real estate, together with the land warrant and scrip business; where, by industry, integrity and promptness he has built up a successful and prosperous business On the fourth of March, 1869, he married Miss Maggie Burson, daughter of Edward Burson, esq., of Morris township, Knox county, Ohio, who was born January 16, 1851, in Parke county, Indiana.

John S. and Maggie B. Braddock have six children: Orrinda Kate, born September 19, 1870; Edward Burson, born December 3, 1872; Walter David, born March 6, 1875; Maggie May, born May 8, 1877; John Sellers, born June 17, 1879; Alice Anna, born February 23, 1881.

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ley is dead. Joel died in jasper county, Iowa, in 1875. Catharine E. died in 1871. Thomas C. and Lyman P. have deceased. Mr. Blakeley moved to Pike township in 1871, and has since been engaged in farming. He is numbered among the pioneers: is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and one of the good citizens of this township.

BLAIR, Z., son of Joseph Blair, who was a native of Monmouth county, New Jersey, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania October 1, 1811. He came with his parents to Knox county in 1820, and located in Middleberry township, where the family have ever since resided, except about two years in Delaware county, Ohio. Mr. Blair, sr., was a soldier in the War of 1812; was a musician. He died in 1873, in the ninety-second year of his age. He is one of a family of eleven children, of whom seven are now living. He received an education such as that day afforded in the country. Early in life he learned the trade of a millwright, did his first work on the Norton mill, then on the red mill owned by Gillman Bryant, and has been engaged in the business ever since. He has been engaged with J. C. & G. Cooper, and John Cooper, for the last twenty years, in putting up mill works in different States for them; he was married July 7, 1835, to Miss Jane, daughter of William Petigrew, of Mt. Vernon, by whom he had two children, both of whom are dead. Mrs. Blair died in 1842. He married. Miss Ann Hanlan in 1847, by whom he had five children, two of whom are living. Mrs. Blair died June 15, 1860.

BLAIR, ISAAC G., Jefferson township. farmer, post office Greenville, the sixth son of William Blair, born in Jefferson township, Knox county, September 16, 1853, where he was raised by his parents and received a common school education. At the age of twenty-two years, November 28, 1875, he married Miss Victoria Critchfield, a daughter of Robert and Emily Critchfield, born in Danville, Knox county, May 10, 1857. Soon after his marriage he located in Greersville, where he remained eighteen months, and then removed to Rosstown, where he performed labor in a flouring-mill for about eight months, when he moved to Brown township, and from there to Jefferson, locating on a part of his father's farm, where he now resides. Their union resulted in one child, Olive Blanche, born July 21, 1878. Farming is his vocation at present.

BLAIR, WILLIAM H., Jefferson township, farmer, post office Greersville; son of Thomas and Phebe Blair, born in Alleghany county, Maryland, October 7, 1808, and received a common school education. He remained at home till he arrived at the age of twenty-three years, when he married Levinia Shaw (September 24., 1833), daughter of John Shaw, born in Maryland, June 20, 1814. After his marriage he moved to Knox county with his family, locating in Danville, and remained about three years, then moved into the neighborhood of Greersville, where he purchased a farm of eighty acres; remaining about two years and a half; he then sold and bought fifty acres in Milford township, where he removed and remained eighteen months, then sold and bought fifty acres in Jefferson township, four miles northwest of Greersville, where he then moved and now resides. In 1877 he bought sixty-six acres adjoining him on the west, making one hundred sixteen acres. By their marriage they became the parents of eight children, viz: Thomas H., born December 29, 1834; James F., June 2, 1836, died November 17, 1860; John F., September 27, 1838, died March 25, 1865; Emily M., April 12, 1841, died November 20, 1841; William B., November 12, 1842; Phebe B., February 16, 1845; Rollin N., August 11, 1847; Walter S., May 2, 1849. Five children are living.

Levinia Blair, his companion, died March 21, 1850, in her thirty-sixth year. November 5, 1850, he married Olive Simpson, widow of Samuel Simpson, born November it, in Jefferson township, Knox county, 1819. Their marriage resulted in five children, viz: Sarah E., born September 1, 1851; Isaac F., September 16, 1853; Mary F., December 30, 1855; Calvin S., March 18, 1858; Leroy, July 6, 1860; all of whom are living.

Mr. and Mrs. Blair are members of the Wesleyan church of Greersville.

BLUBAUGH, MRS. SARAH, post office Rosstown, was born in Jefferson township Knox county, December 9, 1839, and was married January 1, 1860, to H. Blubaugh; settled on a farm, lived there one year, and then moved to their present farm. In 1874 Mr. Blubaugh was killed by falling from a tree. They had three children; Henry, born October 22, 1864; Clinton, born August 20, 1867 ; and Charles, born July 3, 1870.

BLUE, PETER (deceased), was born near Columbus, Ohio, January 1, 1825, and removed to Jackson township, Knox county, Ohio, at an early age, residing there until his demise, May 8, 1868. He was married August 2, 1849, to Mary McCamment, who was born in Jackson township, February 3, 1829. They had nine children: Laura J., Henrietta E., Ella M., Alice E., Susan M., Wilbur M., James O., Emma B., and Maggie L. Alice died March 7, 1863; Henrietta died May 21, 1879; Laura was married September 16, 1869, to Franklin Giffin, and resides in Coshocton county.

BOGARDUS & CO., hardware dealers, Southwestern quarter, Public Square, Mt. Vernon. Mr. William P. Bogardus, the managing partner, was born in Huntsville, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, August 26, 1841. When seven years of age his parents moved to Wilkesbarre, where he attended Wyoming academy. In 1856 he, in company with his parents, removed to Huron county, Ohio. In 1863 he enlisted in the United States service, and was enrolled as a member of the Seventh Independent cavalry, which served as Lincoln's body guard. In April, 1865, he received a commission as second lieutenant in the Twenty-fourth regiment United States colored troops. In this position he served until October 1, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. He returned to his home in Huron county and engaged in farming, which he followed for three years. He then entered the service of the United States express company as messenger, and continued in that capacity until 1870, when he was transferred to Mt. Vernon, to take charge of the express office at that place, where he remained for two years. In May, 1872, he engaged in the hardware business. In this business he remains. The firm has met with good success from the commencement to the present day. They carry a stock valued from five to six thousand dollars. Their stock comprises mechanics' and builders' hardware, and sash, doors, blinds, and carpenters' supplies.

Mr. Bogardus was married June 1, 1871, to Miss Elizabeth Sperry, daughter of Mr. Jared Sperry, merchant of this city. The issue of this marriage is four children, viz: Anna L.. Belinda M., Everett J., and Ruth.

Mr. Bogardus served six years as a member of the city board of Education.

BOGK, EVERHART, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Hesson, in Europe, in 1804. He

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lived in the old country until 1822, when he came to New York. He came to Maryland in 1832, and then went to California in 1860, and remained there fourteen years. He then came to Knox county. He came from California poor and worked on the canal from Rosco to Rochester two years, made some money and bought a farm. He married his first wife in the old country, but she died the first year of their marriage. He married his second wife in Knox county. He has five children. His wife died in 1860.

BONAR, WILLIAM, a resident on the east side of North Main street, Mt. Vernon, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, May 2, 1805. In the year 1812 his parents came to Ohio, and located in Morris township, this county, where they resided the balance of their lives. His father died May 22, 1844, aged eighty-one years, and his mother died April 18, 1857, in the eighty-eighth year of her age. After their death Mr. Bonar remained on the home farm, having had charge of it some years previous, where he gave his time and attention principally to farming. In the year 1859 he was elected to the Ohio State legislature, in which he served one term, after which, in 1874, he became a resident of Mt. Vernon, where he has since resided. He was married to Abigail L. Case, daughter of Aaron Case, of Morris county, New Jersey, by whom he had a family of six children, viz: Elizabeth, wife of Rev. J. W. White, of Long Mont, Colorado; Isabella, Caroline and David (deceased); Sarah J., wife of C. W. Vanakin, who is a merchant in Mt. Vernon, on the west side of Main street near public square, and one who died in infancy.

Mrs. Bonar died December 16, 1879, in the seventieth year of her age.

Mr. Bonar has always been an aggressive and progressive man, believing all good improvements should be utilized even if popular opinion did not always sanction them. His speeches in the legislature show an earnestness of purpose and a determination to stand for progress and the right.

BONAR, JOSIAH, Morris township; farmer; post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in 1826, in Morris township, Knox county, Ohio. He was married in 1854, to Margaret A. Swan, who was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1836. They hall two daughters: Anna B. and Ada. Ada died in 1865.

Mr. Bonar has always been identified with this county, and owns one of the best improved farms in the county with modern style buildings. He is a model and enterprising farmer, and has done much to promote the general interest of schools and public enterprise of the township.

BONAR, JOHN, deceased, Morris township, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1803, and was married in 1826, to Lucinda Cooper, who was born in 1805, in Washington county, Pennsylvania. They had three children: Josiah, born in 1827; Catharine, in 1829, and Belle, in 1837.

Mr. John Bonar died in 1860, in Morris township, Knox county, Ohio. He emigrated with his parents, to Knox county, in 1812, who located in Morris township, on a farm that was all in timber, and the country was in its infancy. He was a member of the Congregational church.

BONE, MOSES C., Miller township, farmer, was born in the county of Cornwall, England, about 1832, and was reared on a farm. In 1852 he emigrated to America and worked at wagon making for some time. He then worked by the month for some time until he had earned enough to set himself up on a rented farm. On account of failure in crops he lost all his previous earnings; but being determined to succed he struggled on until he succeeded in being able to make a purchase of six acres of land. A few years after, he purchased the farm of one hundred and forty-seven acres on which he now resides, and subsequently purchased adjoining land until he now has two hundred and seventy-three acres, and is one of the leading farmers of Miller township. His farm is improved, having a commodinus, new, and substantial dwelling, with all oti.er necessary farm buildings. Mr. Bone is a leading citizen, and is highly esteemed for his many good qualities. He was married March 18, 1858, to Miss Martha White, a native of Pennsylvania. They had nine children, eight of whom are living, viz.; John H., Lovilla C., Mary lane, Frank E., Alta Amelia, Charley C., Anna Dell, and Martha M. Burnella has deceased.

BONER, MATTHEW, Wayne township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Knox county in 1831, and was married in 1854 to Hannah Dalrymple, who was born in Knox county in 1831. They have one daughter, Avarilla, who still resides with her parents. Mr. Boner is one of the leading and enterprising men of this township, and one of the official members of the Baptist church.

BONER, F. P., Wayne township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Morrow county, Ohio, in 1853, and was married in 1877 to Amanda Cooper who was born in Knox county in 1855. They have two children - Mary, born in 1878, and Olla, born in 1880. Mr. Boner has been a resident of Wayne township about fifteen years.

BONNETT, Simon L., retired, Gambier, a son of John and Eva Bennett, was born in Virginia, October 22, 1814; his father died in 1817, from disease contracted while serving in the War of 1812; his mother married Daniel Blue in 1818. Mr. Bonnett was brought to Franklin county, Ohio, in 1819, by his mother and stepfather. In 1824 they moved to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Jackson township, where his mother is now living at the advanced age of eighty-nine years. In 1828 he returned to his native county in Virginia, where he remained five years, then in 1833; he emigrated to Coshocton county, Ohio, April 14. 1837, where he married Miss Marinda Boggs, born October 30, 1817. They settled on a farm in Coshocton county, and remained fourteen years. In 1851 he sold his Coshocton farm and purchased one in Harrison township, this county, on which he moved and lived until 1877, when he came to Gambier, where he is now living a retired life. Their union resulted in six children, three sons and three daughters. One of the sons has deceased. His companion departed this life on the twenty-third day of January, 1877. His second wife was Miss Jane Kelley, of Gambier, to whom he was married June 30, 1877. Two of his sons, Benjamin L., and Henry W., served in the war of 1861.

BORDEN. ANDREW T., Hilliar township, proprietor of livery and sale stable, was born in Knox county, March, 1843. His youth was spent on his father's farm and attending the district schools. In 1861, when about seventeen years of age, he enlisted in company F, Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteers. He was with his regiment until the battle of Stone River, where he was taken prisoner and parolled on the field. He was sent to Nashville, Tennessee, where he was taken sick and was discharged on account of physical disability. He returned home, but being in ill health, he took a journey to the west. His first point was Helena, Montana territory. He was engaged there

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in the mines for about one year. He then went to Hamilton City, Nevada, where he remained for some time.- From Nevada he went to Idaho territory. He returned to Nevada, thence to California, and then returned again to Nevada. He came home from Nevada after spending about two years and a half in the various places named. After his return home he clerked in a store in Bellville, Richland county, for about two years. He then went into the livery business in Mt. Vernon, and was engaged in that for a year. He then went to Sunbury, Delaware county, Ohio, where he engaged in the livery and hotel business, in which he was successful. He sold his business in Sunbury and in April, 1880, moved to Centreburgh and opened the livery business. He keeps the latest and best style of rigs, and his teams are above the average. He is affable and pleasant and always ready to wait on his customers. Mr. Borden was married to Miss Agnes C. White, of Belleville, Richland county, Ohio, September 12, 1872.

BELL FAMILY. This family originally came from Pennsylvania to Ohio. James Bell, James Hayes, his brother-in-law, and Benjamin Bell came from Green county, Pennsylvania, and settled in Knox county. Benjamin Bell and lames Haves in the spring of 1813, and James Bell in the fall of 1815, bringing with them their families. They settled in what was then an unbroken forest and still the happy hunting ground of the natives, where they lived for near half a century, and by their industry, economy, and frugality, they cleared up large farms and acquired for themselves a competence of this world's good. In religion they were Disciples of Christ; in politics Democrats, to which party their numerous descendants, consisting of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, in all numbering three hundred and three, of whom two hundred and sixty-seven now survive, a large part of whom adhere most tenaciously to the faith of their fathers. September 19, 1878, this family had a reunion near Martinsburgh, Ohio. Rev. Benjamin Bell was president, and Leman A. Bell secretary. There was present a great number of friends and relatives of the family. Hon. William Bell, Professor Harris, Rev. Mitchell, and several others made suitable speeches. The following is a brief history of the family now in Morgan township:

Isaac Bell, son of James Bell, was born in Pennsylvania in 1802; came to Ohio in 1815 with his parents. In I820 he married Miss Catharine Hanger. They had a family of six children: Amelia, James, Elizabeth, Robinson, Alexander, and Harriet M. Of these Elizabeth and Alexander are dead. Mr. Bell still resides on the farm on which he has lived for many years. Robinsbn Bell, son of Isaac Bell, is a farmer in this township, and is a worthy and esteemed citizen.

L. A. Bell, son of Samuel Bell and Elizabeth (Hanger) Bell, was born in Licking county, March 30, 1838.

Samuel Bell was born in Pennsylvania December 10, 1800; came with his father, James Bell, to Ohio in 1815. By his marriage he had twelve children, as follows: Nancy, Betsey, Jacob H., William, Julia, Rachael, Orrin W., Lee A., David P., and Letty.

Leman A. Bell was married to Miss C. A. McClelland December 31, 1861. They had two children, Edwin and Ida R. He was reared on a farm and educated at the common schools. He is a leading citizen. He was nominated in the fall of 1877 for county auditor, but was defeated at the ensuing election.

Carey Bell was born November 1, 1830. His paternal grandfather was Benjamin Bell. His father, Jacob Bell, was born in 1807; came to Ohio with his parents in 1813. In 1828 he married Rachel Letts. They had a family of nine children. Three . died in infancy. The living are Carey, Emily, wife of Charles Vanausdall; Elizabeth, wife of George H. Moore; Carrie, . wife of Dr. Garrison, of Utica, Ohio; Dr. R, L., of Springfield, Ohio, and Willis R., of Cass county, Iowa.

Carey Bell spent his youth on a farm. He attended school two years at Granville, Ohio. He married Miss Mary E. Hughes, daughter of George Hughes, March 10, 1854. They had three children. One died in infancy, and the other two were Clara E., wife of Orrin S. Gilbert, of Alexandria, and Hugh C. Mr. Bell is a leading member of the Baptist church. Politically a Republican, which in the Bell family is rare. He was first lieutenant of company I, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio National guards.

BOTTENFIELD, WILLIAM L., Milford township, farmer, was born May 2, 1839, in Green county, Pennsylvania. The Bottenfield family were very early settlers in Washington county, Pennsylvania, but at what time they settled there is not definitely known. There was quite a numerous family there, but their descendants are now mostly scattered over the western States, and but few of the family remain in Pennsylvania. John Bottenfield, the father of William L., was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 21, 1788, and married Mary Woodruff, born April 13, 1794, who was a native of New Jersey, born near Elizabethtown. While quite young her parents emigrated to Washington county, Pennsylvania.

Mr. and Mrs. Bottenfield came to Ohio in October, 1839, and located in Milford township, where they remained until their death. John Bottenfield died August 7, 1866; his wife died December, 1871. They had ten children, all of whom are living, and all were born in Pennsylvania: Sarah, widow of Peter Wolff; Joseph, farmer, in Crawford county, Illinois; Barbara, widow of Job Sutton; Meaker, farmer, in Mason county; Esther, wife of William Bishop; Phebe, wife of James McClellan, in Warren county, Iowa; Jane, wife of .William Williams, in Warren county, Iowa; Elizabeth, wife of David Martin, in Morris county, Kansas; Nehemiah, farmer in Crawford county, Illinois; and William L., who has always resided in Milford township. He was raised on the farm and has followed farming as his occupation. He is one of Milford's best citizens, and is a strong advocate of any cause which he espouses and which he believes to be right. He is a man of generous impulses and is always ready to further any enterprize which bas for its object the elevation of the community. In politics he is a Democrat of the Jacksonian type, and is one of the leaders ofhis party in the county. On the eleventh of September, 1872, he was united in marriage to Clamana L. Stevens, who was born in Milford township, September 27, 1846. They have one child, Lee Malcolm, born October 24, 1873.

Mrs. Emeline Stevens, nee Ferrell. mother of Mrs. Bottenfield, was born in Milford township, March 15, 1818. Her parents came from Litchfield county, Connecticut, about 1816, and settled in what is now Milford township, where they both died. She was joined in marriage to John Stevens in 1843. They had a family of six children, all living. Mr. Stevens died April, 1862.

BOUTON, HENRY, Wayne township (deceased), born in Tompkins county, New York, in 1801, came to Ohio at the age of sixteen years, and was married to Phebe Rood, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1804. Their children are Jane, Amanda, James M., and Eliza.

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Mr. Bouton located in Knox county in 1816, bought timberland, cleared, and improved it, and has at present one of the most beautiful farms of this township. He died April 18, 1877, and was buried at Fredericktown. Mrs. Bouton died August 18, 1878. They were known by many of the earliest settlers of this county.

BOWERS, WILLIAM, farmer, Morris township, post office Mount Vernon, was born in New Jersey in 1814, went to New York with his parents in 1827, and married Sarah Cosgrove, who was born in New Jersey in 1811. They have two children: Charles, born in 1840, and Louisa, born in 1845.

Mr. Bowers went to Ashland county in 1853, and remained there till 1861, then came to Knox county. He first resided in Mt. Vernon, after which he located on a farm in Morris township, in 1872. Mr. Bowers is a farmer by occupation. Charles Bowers enlisted in company A, Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and died at Memphis, Tennessee, July 6, 1863.

BOWLAND, R. M., boot and shoe dealer, Banning block, corner of Main and Vine streets, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, was born September 27, 1832, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he resided until fifteen years old. He then came to Ohio and located at Martinsburgh and made his first business engagement as salesman, in which he continued until 1852. He then came to Mt. Vernon and engaged with the firm of Miller & Browning, dry goods merchants, for a short time, after which he entered the employ of J. E. Woodbridge, whom he served four years, he then engaged with the firm of Beam S Mead, where he served six years, the firm then dissolved, and he remained with D. W. Mead, one of the firm, until 1869, when he bought out Mr. Grant, of the firm of Grant & Atwood, and did business under the firm name of Atwood & Bowland until 1876, since which Mr. Bowland has been sole proprietor. He carrys a stock of about four thousand dollars, consisting of boots and shoes, and has one of the largest and most complete stocks in this line in the city, doing a business of from twenty to twenty-five thousand dollars per year.

BOYD, JOHN, Mt. Vernon, was born January 20, 1808, is a native of Allegheny City, where he received his education, and when seventeen years old engaged with James Taylor, of Pittsburgh, to learn the baking business, at which he served four years; he then engaged in business for himself, in which he continued about one and a half years, when he went to Louisville, Kentucky, where he worked at the business for some time; he next went to St. Louis and remained in business there until 1836, when he returned to Pittsburgh and remained there until December of that year; he then came to this State, locating in Mt. Vernon, where he engaged in the grocery and baking business, in which he continued until 1866, when he engaged in the business at Smith's Ferry, Pennsylvania, where he remained fonr years (during which his family remained in Mt. Vernon), after which he returned in 1870, since which he has been engaged in various ways. He was collector in 1872-3, and from 1873 to 1875 was first clerk in the pension office at Washington, District Columbia. He was elected township trustee in 1875 in which office he still continues. He was married April 22, 1830, to Miss Margaret O'Hanlan, daughter of Michael O'Hanlan, of Pittsburgh, by whom he had a family of eight children, viz.: John C., William, Robert A., Maggie A., George W., and W. H. (twins), Mary, and Sadie; four are living, viz.. William, Maggie A., George W., and Sadie. Mr. Boyd enlisted in 1864 and served in the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio National guard, and his sons, John C., and William, were in the Eighty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, and George was in the Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry.

BOYD, SAMUEL, of Fredericktown, deceased, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1811; came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1864, and was married to Matilda Hastings, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1820. They had the following children, viz.: Sarah J., now Mrs. John W. Leedy; and William, who married Anna B. Mane; they reside on the home place. Mr. Samuel Boyd died in 1874. He was a farmer by occupation. Mrs. Boyd still resides on the home place.

BOYD, THOMAS, farmer and wool-grower, Brown township, post office, Jelloway, son of James and Nancy Boyd, born in Leesville, Carroll county, Ohio, January 13, 1828. At the age of six months his parents died, and he lived with Archibald Elliott until he was thirteen years old. Thomas then worked among the farmers until he arrived at the age of sixteen, when he entered into a contract with David Copper to work for five years for the sum of one hundred dollars and a freedom suit. After that he followed farming and dealing in stock. On the twentieth of March, 1850, at the age of twenty-two years, he married Miss Mahala, a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth, Norrick, born in Harrison county, January 13, 1828; after his marriage he moved to Brown township, Knox county, where he purchased forty acres of land, and there located and reared his family. In 1851 he bought fifty-three acresof woodland adjoining him; and in about three years bought thirty-three acres more. In addition to that, he in 1862 bought seventy-five acres, and in 1871 fifty acres more, making in all two hundred and forty-eight acres. In 1871 Mr. Boyd erected a very fine dwelling, which, with other buildings to correspond, make a very desirable and comfortable home. Formerly Mr. Boyd followed buying and shipping stock in connection with farming, but is at present giving his attention to raising fine sheep. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are the parents of eleven children, viz,: James W., Hezekiah F., Elizabeth J., Emelia U., Daniel W., Jemima A., Thomas M. (died August 27, 1867), Olive B., Ettie P.; one died in infancy, leaving nine living. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are consistent members of the Wesleyan Methodist church of Shadley Valley.

BOYD, WILLIAM, farmer, was born in Clay township, where he has always resided. He was married to Henrietta McWilliams; they have two children, viz.: Charles and Lorena.

BOYLE, MICHAEL,. is a native of Londonderry, Ireland, where he was born Christmas eve of 1797 and resided until his nineteenth year, when he came to this country and settled in Baltimore, Maryland, where he worked at his trade (learned the trade of house plasterer in Ireland) for about four years, after which he worked in Pennsylvania, Buffalo, New York, and several other places for a aumber of years. He then engaged in the real estate business in Buffalo, in which he was at first very successful, but finally met with reverses, when he concluded to move to St. Louis, Missouri, but when he got as far as Newark, Ohio, he concluded to settle in Ohio. He settled in Mt. Vernon in 1837, where he has ever since remained, working at his trade until his age warned him it was about-time to retire. He was married December 11, 1836, to Miss M. Boyle of Buffalo, New York, by whom he has had a family of seven children, of whom onlv three are living: John, Michael, and. Edward.

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BOYLE, EDWARD, dealer in tobacco, cigars, etc., was born in Mt. Vernon, June 14, 1859,. and was educated in the public schools. When seventeen years of age he commenced selling papers as a newsboy, which he followed until he was twenty years old, when by economy and industry he had enough money to buy out J. M. Roberts' cigar store. He now carries a large stock of cigars, tobacco, confectionery, daily papers, etc.

BRADDOCK, JAMES A., Fredericktown, butcher, was born in Knox county, December 22, 1848, was married in 1870, to Nora A. Phillips, who was born in Knox county, November 22, 1851. They reside in Fredericktown. His father, Joshua Braddock, (deceased) was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1828,. He was married in 1839, to Margaret Durbin, who was born in Knox county, in 1819. They had the following family: Emeline, born March 10, 1840; Jefferson, October 30, 1841; Levi, July 10, 1844; Elizabeth, October 30, 1846; John D. and James D. December 2, 1848; Rebecca, February 9, 1851.

Joshua Braddock came to his death by being kicked by a horse, December 5, 1874, m Morris township. His occupation was farming and dealing in stock. He was one of the leading men of this county.

BRADDOCK, LEVI S., Morris township, farmer, post office Mt. Vernon, was born in this county in 1844, and married in 1866 to Elizabeth J. Brumbaugh, who was born in this county in 1848. They have one daughter, viz, Stella M. Braddock.

The father of Mrs. Braddock, Daniel Brumbaugh, deceased, was a native of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, who came to Knox county at a very early day, with a small pack. He was a shoemaker of very small means, but by industry and economy he succeeded in accumulating wealth. He made his first purchase in Monroe township of fifty-five acres of land, for two hundred and twenty-five dollars, and finally became the owner of three hundred and thirty acres, and at the time of his death was worth over thirty thousand dollars.

BRADDOCK, JOHN D., Pleasant township, son of Joshua and Margaret Braddock, was born in Knox county, Ohio, December 2, 1848. On the tenth day of October, 1875, he married Miss Minerva McIntire, born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1852, daughter of John and Mary McIntire. They settled in Morris township, this county, remained until the spring of 1878, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township, where they are now living, located on the Martinsburgh road, five miles from Mt. Vernon. His business is farming and stock raising.

BRADFIELD, JAMES W., Union township, farmer, son of John and Amy Bradfield, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, December 6, 1819. His father died in 1820, leaving him without paternal care. In 1836 he, in company with his mother, his uncle, James P. Bradfield, and wife, his. sister and her husband, Ferdinand Bolon, emigrated to Knox county, and located on a farm now owned by Mr. J. W. Bradfield, adjacent to Danville, where his brother-in-law, Mr. Bolon, died August 28, 1837. His uncle, James P. Bradfield, died on the same farm, in the winter of 1845. During the winter of 1837, the subject of this sketch, and his mother and sister, moved on a farm in Brown township, this county, where his sister married Robert D. Barr, of the same township, and he and his mother made their home with Mr. and Mrs. Barr several years. Mr. J. W. Bradfield married Miss Sarah A. Sapp, July 6, 1845. She was born in Union township; Knox county, November 6, 1824, and is the daughter of Levi and Mary Sapp. They settled in Brown township, and remained until 1850. He purchased and moved on a farm in Howard township, near the Catholic church, where they lived ten years, and in 1860 he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Union township, near Danville. They have five sons and four daughters. He was a millwright by trade, and made that his principal vocation until he was about forty years of age, when he turned his attention to farming, and is at present farming and stock-raising, making fine sheet a specialty. He filled the office of county commissioner from 1861 to 1867. He held the office of justice of the peace from 1860 to 1866, and was internal revenue assessor from 1862 to 1869. He is a man that is well known in the county, and highly esteemed by all his acquaintances. After the death of his sister, Mrs. Barr, which occurred April 7, 1848, his mother made her home with him until she died, February 8, 1867, aged seventy-eight years.

BRADFIELD, CHARLES ROBERT, Liberty township, physician, Mt. Liberty post office. He was born in Union township, May, 1846. His youth was spent on the farm and attending district school. He attended school at Hayesville and Danville. While on the farm he read anatomy during his leisure time. When about seventeen years of age he went to read medicine with Dr. L. W. Sapp, a Homeopathic physician of Cleveland, but changed his purpose and read with Drs. Sapp and Balmer of Danville, physicians of the regular school. He read with them three years and attended lectures in Cleveland, and finished his course at Detroit, Michigan, in 1870.

His first practice was with his preceptors at Danville, where he remained until 1872, when he came to Mt. Liberty. He soon secured a large practice and has been successful in retaining it. He is social in his manners and liberal in his views.

He was married to Miss Sarah Dunlap, daughter of Salathiel Dunlap, of Butler township, January, 1868. They have three children-Stella, born December 14, 1869, died July, 1871; Lizzie A., born May 3, 1871; Dale, born January 10, 1870.

BRADRICK, JOHN, Berlin township, farmer and carpenter, post office, Fredericktown, born in Belmont county in 1818, and was married in Richland county to Elizabeth Jane Beans, who was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1822. They had five children, viz: Mortimer, born in 1849; Wilson, in 1851; Harrison, in 1854; Paul A. (deceased), in 1856; and Jonathan, jr. (deceased), in 1858. Mrs. Elizabeth J. Bradrick died in 1874.

His second marriage was to Mariam Gibson (Tavenner), who was born in Loudoun county; Virginia, in 1836. Mr. Bradrick came to Richland county in 1833, and remained there till 1849, when he located in Berlin township, this county.

When a young man he learned the carpenter trade; he built a barn on the farm of James Trayer in 1836, and in 1876 he built a barn on the same. location for Isaac Leedy, and has worked at his trade in different localities.

Elizabeth was married to Daniel Fallen, now living in Perry township, Richland county. Catharine died in 1879. George died in 1852. Margaret was married to A. C. Huntsman, now of Richland county. Lorain is engaged in the study of medicine with Dr. Hall, of Fredericktown, and attending lectures at Chicago. Leroy is residing with his parents.

BRANYAN, J. HARVEY, Mt. Vernon, general blacksmithing, corner Front and Gay streets. Mr. Branyan is a native of

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Richland county. Ohio; born July 3, 1831. When about seven years old his father moved to Knox county and located about one mile west of Mt. Vernon. There he resided three years when he returned to Richland county and located three-fourths of a mile east of Shelby. After residing there three years he again moved, making a home in Crawford county. Mr. Branyan, senior, died July 5, 1845.

After the death of his father young Branyan returned to Richland county and resided there for some three years, and then went to Gambier and engaged in learning the blacksmith trade with Mr. F. Penhorwood, and served three years. At the expiration of his apprenticeship he opened a shop for himself, and conducted it for two years. The four following years were spent in travelling and working as a journeyman in different places in Ohio and Indiana. After thus travelling he came to Mt. Vernon and for two years worked as a journeyman, after which he opened a shop for himself. He does a business of about two thousand dollars per year, and makes horseshoeing a specialty, having a thorough knowledge of the theory of shoeing track and draft horses, and all other departments of shoeing. He does also all kinds of job work and repairing on short notice. All work first class and warranted. Mr. Branyan has represented his ward in the city council.

BREECE, EDSON J., Fredericktown, painter; was born in Fredericktown in 1829, and married in 1852 to Ruth Snow, who was born in Lake county in 1828. They have three children, viz: Elva I., born in 1853; Etta M., in 1855, and Ellsworth W., in 1866. Mr. Breece enlisted in company H, O. N. G„ during the late war and served out the time of his enlistment, receiving an honorable discharge. He is engaged in house and carriage painting; and is a skilful mechanic.

BREECE, ADAM, Pleasant township, farmer; son of Adam and Eliza Breece ; was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, May 29, 1832. He was brought to Coshocton county, Ohio, by his parents in 1836, where he was brought up on a farm, and has followed farming as his principal vocation. In 1855 he came to Knox county and located in Harrison township, where he married Miss Elizabeth Biggs in 1859, born in 1836 and daughter of Levi Biggs. They settled in the same township, and remained until 1869, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township, where he is now living. They have a family of seven children, four sons and three daughters.

BRENT, REV. JULIUS, deceased, former pastor of St. Vincent De Paul's Catholic church, Mt. Vernon, and of St. Luke's, near Danville, Ohio, was born in the city of London, on the twentieth of February, 1827. He was the youngest of six children of Samuel and Anne Virtue Brent. His father and grandfather were ship-builders, who at one time had a large interest in the London and Greenwich docks, and had during the "thirty years war " amassed a considerable fortune in building menof-war vessels for the British Government. After the close of the war by the treaty of Ghent the business of ship building declined, and little was done in that line except in remodelling war vessels into merchantmen. This the Brents refused to engage in as being out of the province of the business proper. Reverse of fortune caused Mr. Brent to turn his eyes to America in the hope of retrieving his losses, and in 1829 he settled with his family in Brooklyn, Long Island, New York. In 1835 the family immigrated to Knox county, locating in Brown township, on the farm that the elder sons Edmund (Judge Brent of this city) and Edgar (the father of Samuel J. Brent, the present clerk of the court), had commenced clearing of the primitive forest the year before. Change .of circumstances and of habit told severely upon Mr. Brent, and after a lingering illness he died in the autumn following his arrival. The eastern portion of Knox county was largely settled by immigrants from Maryland, who brought with them the faith that their fathers had learned from the pious missionary fathers of Lord Baltimore's Catholic colony. The sincere and earnest lives of these good people attracted the attention of the " English folks," and when the good priests came to administer to the religious needs of the " settlement " they sought them out, obtained Catholic books, made themselves acquainted with the doctrines of the church, and when Father John Lamy, note archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, was sent by the bishop of Cincinnati to take charge of St. Luke's mission, near Danville, the entire family, one member after the other, were received into the fold of :he Catholic church.

Young Julius at once resolved to devote himself to the ministry, and his good mother, at no little sacrifice and effort, advised by Father Lamy, placed him at the age of thirteen, under the care of the learned and saintly Father Amick, then prefect and professor of St. Xavier's college at Cincinnati. From his mother and sisters he had obtained the rudiments of an education so that he at once entered upon the college course. His conduct here was in even respect unexceptionable. An assiduous student, an agreeable comrade, he won the love and respect of both professors and fellow-students, and at the end of each year fete carried off more, if as many, of the college prizes. The venerable archbishop of Cincinnati, learning of his desire to enter the ministry of the priesthood, and pleased with the good account of his abilities and deportment that he had received from the Jesuit fathers at St. Xavier's, sent him to the seminary of St. Sulpice. Paris, to study theology. He made the arduous curriculum in four years, and at the age of twenty-four was ordained priest, June, 1851. On his return home he visited the family relatives in England, arriving at Cincinnati, and reporting to the archbishop for duty in September of the same year. While at the archbishop's house, he learned the sad news of his brother Edgar's death from Asiatic cholera, tile week previous. The archbishop gave him the choice of the mission at Chillicothe or of returning to the scenes of his early boyhood in Knox county. He chose the latter, and when in later years better places in point of numbers and prominence were offered him, his invariable answer was that he preferred his first love. For over twenty-three years he was pastor of St. Vincent de Paul's at Mt. Vernon, and of St. Luke's near Danville, attending each place, week and week about, besides giving a monthly mission at St. Michael's chapel, among the German Catholics of Jefferson township, Knox county, and the south part of Ashland county. No weather, indisposition, pleasure or engagement, except the order of his ecclesiatical superior, prevented him from making these weekly trips. In all these years, but two who had sent for him in their dying moments were reached by him too late to receive at his hands the last rites of the church. At Danville his saintly mother assisted by his sister Emma, presided over his household up to the time of her death in April, 1854. Emma continued his housekeeper till her death in April, 1873. At Mt. Vernon his sister Frances, "Aunt Fanny" as she is so well and lovingly known, not only among the relatives of the family and entire congregation, but to many outside, has continuously kept house for him. To the orphan children of his brother Edgar and of his sister Isabella (Mrs. Tardeville),

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he took the place of a father and his house or houses became, much of their time, their home. The old homestead in Brown township has been sold. and the proceeds invested in property in Covington, Kentucky, while Father Brent was in France. This was sold at an advance after he returned and became located in Knox county, and the proceeds again invested in real estate, near the church property at Danville. In improving and farming this land, Father Brent spent much of the leisure time not occupied in his clerical duties. At the same time it was earnest work with him and hard; it was not in his nature to do anything slightingly. " If anything is worth doing at all it is worth doing well" was a motto that he practiced as well as endeavored to impress upon the young men with whom he often labored.

In 1874 the ordinary of the Columbus diocese determined to separate the Mt. Vernon and Danville charges and give each a pastor. Since then Father Brent has given this congregation his undivided attention. In 1863 he had a very severe attack of rheumatism, which he bore with the greatest resignation, but from the effects of which he never recovered. This fact, and the death of his sister Emma, doubtless had much to do with his selecting Mt. Vernon rather than the country congregation at Danville, for country life and its labors and pleasures were naturally dear to him. The land near St. Luke's was sold at a handsome advance and the proceeds invested in a farm near Mt. Vernon, its a provision for himself and sister in old age and the decrepitude, that he feared was overtaking him prematurely. For the last year or two before his death he was an intense sufferer, but never complained, and seldom spoke of his trouble; so much was this the case that his most intimate friends did not anticipate the danger he was in. By the advice of his physician he had resolved upon taking a trip for the benefit of his health, but the resolution was too late. Father Brent died at his late residence in Mt. Version, July 22, 1880.

BRENT, SAMUEL J., Mount Vernon, clerk of the court, was born in Brown township, Knox county, Ohio, September 25, 1839. His father, Edgar Brent, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, when Samuel was about twelve years of age. His father, dying, left him to be educated by his mother. Samuel attended St. Mary's of the Barrens, in Missouri, and at Bardstown, Kentucky. He graduated at St. Mary's college at Cincinnati, (Bishop Rosecrans, president), in the class of 1861. December 31, 1861, he enlisted in company B, Fiftieth Ohio volunteer infantry for three years. His regiment consolidated with the Sixty-first, and he was then discharged from the Sixty-first to take a commission as second lieutenant in the Fifty-second Ohio volunteer infantry. He was detailed as a signal officer, and commissioned by the President, with the consent of the United States Senate. He remained with the corps until the general order of discharge, August 22, 1865. After his discharge from the signal corps, he completed his law studies and was admitted to the bar in June, 1866. In the fall of 1869 he was nominated and elected clerk of the courts, and again reelected in 1872. He remained out of office for three years, and was, in 1878, reelected for the third time, which office he still holds. He was married to Miss Mary A. Zimmerman, daughter of the late F. J Zimmerman, of Mt. Vernon, September 27, 1864. By this union, four children, all daughters, were born.

Mr. Brent's father was English by birth. His mother, whose maiden name was Magers, was a descendant of Lord Baltimore, of the Maryland colony.

BRENT, C. F., Mount Vernon; was born October 27, 1848, in Covington, Kentucky, but when about two years of age his parents came to Knox county, Ohio, and settled near Danville, where they remained until 1860, when they moved several times in the next two years; came to Mt. Vernon in November, 1862, where they have since resided. In April, 1864, he engaged in the printing business, at which he worked until 1867, when he came back to Mt. Vernon; he then went to work for Mr. Kendrick at cigar making, with whom he served until 1875, when he went to Columbus and worked until December 8, 1877, on the Catholic Columbian, when he returned to Mt. Vernon and opened tip a cigar factory, wholesaleing exclusively until May 1880, when he moved to a new place of business, and now is engaged in manufacturing and retailing cigars, tobacco and smokers articles.

BRICKER FAMILY, Liberty township. Ludwig Bricker, the grandfather of the original Brickers of Liberty township, was a soldier of the Revolution. He entered two thousand acres of land in what is now the northeast corner of Liberty township. He was a resident of Washington county, Pennsylvania. where he lived and died. Banning Norton, in his History of Knox county, says that Lewis Bricker came to Liberty township about 1810; but David Bricker says he came prior to that time, as Lewis Bricker, his brother, was born in this township in 1807. Ludwig or Lewis Bricker induced his son, Peter, and George Lewis, a relative of the family, to come out and settle the land he had entered. Accordingly they brought their families. They remaind one night, and by noon the next day they were on their way back to Pennsylvania. They saw many Indians, heard the wolves howling, and the owls hooting. They agreed with their wives to let the laud go to the devil and they would return to Pennsylvania, as they thought no one would or could ever live in the Owl Creek country. He however induced some of his tribe to settle this land. He finally got Peter, George, Jacob, David, Solomon, Lewis, Catherine, Rachel, and Mrs. Lewis to come here. From these have descended the Brickers of this county, mostly. David went to Morgan township. All the original Brickers remained in this township but David.

The Bricker family became quite numerous, and it is not our purpose to write or follow up the family of each, but give such an outline of the family that it wilt be preserved to their descend, ants. Among these is David Bricker, grandson of Peter Bricker, and son of Peter Bricker, one of the first of the family who came to Ohio. He was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 30, 1805. His parents came, April, 1806, to Ohio. David was raised as were pioneer children, with but few educational advantages; he, however, acquired sufficient I to transact business. On the twelfth day of October 1830, he married Sarah Beam. They had nine children, five living-Malinda, Jacob, Wilson, Marshal, and Jerome. Lewis P. Bricker, one of this family, was born November 5, 1807, in what is now Liberty township. It is said he was the first white child born in this township. December 6, 1832, he was married to Sarah White. She was born July 7, 1809. They had a family of eight children-Abigail, born November 24, 1833, married Nelson Bidwell; Margaret E., born July 6, 1836, married Nicholas Darling; Ann Rebecca, born April 19, 1839, married Mortimer Hayatt; Mary Sophia, born June 5, 1841, married William Gray; Sarah E., born March 24, 1844, married John Creamer; Viola M., born July 21, 1846, married L. B. Lewis; Peter, born December 28, 1848; Alexander, born November 29, 1852.

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We might go on and follow up this family, tracing the different branches, but it will suffice to say that our work does not admit of so much space being occupied by one family. The Bricker family are good citizens, industrious and well-to-do people.

BRICKER, HIRAM, Morgan township. The name Bricker is of Dutch origin. Tradition says there were three brothers came from Europe, but at what date is not exactly known. They settled in Maryland. One of the branches of the family went to eastern Pennsylvania, where quite a numerous progeny sprang up; and subsequently a number of their descendants settled in Richland county, Ohio, near Shelby, Lewis, or Ludwig Bricker, the paternal grandfather of Hiram Bricker, moved from Maryland to western Pennsylvania shortly after the Revolutionary war, in which he was a soldier. He raised a large family.

Some time in the early part of 1800 he came to what is now Liberty township, Knox county, and located two thousand acres of land, and subsequently induced a number of his children to become settlers on it, although he never moved upon it.

David Bricker, father of Hiram, and son of Peter, was born in Pennsylvania in 1799. He mamed Indiana Cox, in 1818, who was born March 8, 1798, and is yet living. Soon after their marriage they came to Liberty township, but did not remain long. About 1821 they located and settled on the farm in Morgan township, which he cleared up, and became one of the well-to-do citizens of the community. He died September 14, 1878, in Utica, where he had resided some time prior to his decease. By his marriage they had six children, viz: Elizabeth, (deceased); she was the wife of Jesse Bell; Christopher and Emelrne, (deceased); Anna B., wife of Samuel Elliott; Hiram and Demas are living.

Hiram was raised on the farts, was educated at the commonschools, and has farmed and dealt in stock as his occupation. In April, 1853, he moved to Licking county, where he remained for twenty years. He was lieutenant of company A, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth regiment Ohio National guard, and subsequently was captain of the same. February 17, 1853, he marred Melissa Bell, daughter of Isaac Bell, of Morgan township. They had a family of twelve children, viz: David A., Isaac, (deceased when about seven years old), Catharine, (wife of R. McWilliams), Anna B., Elizabeth, (wife of Hugh Harrison), Jennie, James F., Emeline, Cary F., Laura, Charley C., and Nellie M. Mr. Bricker is well informed upon general matters, is a good farmer, and one of the substantial men of Morgan township.

BRICKER, DEMAS, Hilliar township, retired farmer, was born in Morgan township, Knox county, March 7, 1828. His youth was spent on the farm, and he attended the district schools, and spend about two years at an academy at Martinsburgh, where he was a classmate of William Windom, Secretary of the Treasury, from Minnesota. Mr. Bricker taught school for several terms. His principal business, however, has been farming and the raising of stock. He gave up farming in 1875, and removed to his present home in Rich Hill. He is, a man who is well informed; has a remarkably retentive memory; is a ready and interesting talker, and takes an interest in the questions of the day. He was married to Miss Cinderella Miller April 1, 1857. They have a family of two children.

BRICKER, MARSHALL, Milford township, thresher, son of David Bricker, a pioneer of Liberty township. He was born June 13, 1844, was raised on a farm, and remained at home until he enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He participated in the engagements at Perryville, Duck river, and Franklin, after which he was taken sick and was in the hospital for some time. He spent about eleven months at Indianapolis. He endeavored, with several others, to return to his regiment, but was retained. After his discharge he returned home, and has been engaged at farming and running a separator. Mr. Bricker is social and pleasant in his manners. and has the reputation of a good fellow. He married Miss Amanda Lewis, of Liberty township, November 29, 1866, and they have one child-Clara, born April 10, 1868.

BRICKER, WILLIAM M. Mr. Bricker was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, December 12, 1844. When about nine years old his parents emigrated to Ohio and located in Wayne county, where he resided until January 26, 1880. His first business was in the dry goods and grocery line, under the firm name of Paul Bricker & Co. In this he remained two years, when he sold out. his interest and continued as a salesman in the same house for one year more. He then engaged in the hotel business, and became proprietor of the American house, in Shreve, Wayne county, in which he continued four years. In January, 1880, he removed to Mt. Vernon, and became proprietor of the Philo House, in which he did a successful business for one year, since which he has been engaged with a nursery, selling all kinds of fruit and ornamental trees.

BRICKER, DOUGLASS, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Clinton township. Knox county, and was married in 1874 to Hannah Bmchling, who was born in Ireland. They have three child ren-Fannie, born in 1875; Edward, born in 1876; and Olive, torn in 1878. Mr. Bricker came to Wavne township in 1877, and is a farmer by occupation.

BRIGGLE. ANDREW C., Berlin township, railroad employe, post office Fredericktown, born in Pennsylvania, March 22, 1845, and was married to Rebecca Furcell, who was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, May 11, 1844. They had five children-Ella C., born August 4, 1869; Ehua L., June 3, 1873; Jessie W., February 16, 1876; Lenora, October 3, 1878; and Thomas (deceased).

They emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio when children, were married in Morrow county, and moved to Richland, remained there there till 1870, when they moved to Knox county, where they have since remained. Mr. Briggle is now engaged in working on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Louisa H. Purcell was born in Knox county, Ohio, November 26, 1856, and is now residing with her sister, Mrs. Briggle.

BRIGGS, ELISHA H., is a descendant in a direct line from a Mr. Briggs, from Wales, who settled in this county shortly after the landing of the Pilgrims. His father was a native of Staunton, Massachusetts. Mr. E. H. Briggs was born June 13, 1803, in Worcester county, Massachusetts, where he resided and worked upon a farm until seventeen years of age, then he worked at the carpenter trade for two years, not liking which he commenced work in machine shops, at which he remained until he came to Ohio in 1834, located at Mt. Vernon and commenced work for C. & E. Cooper, in their pattern shops, with whom he remained until a few years since, when old age placed him upon

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the retired list, but even yet he does some work for the firm and feels more at home among the din of machinery than in the parlor. He was married January 6, 1851, to Miss Lydia B. Norton, daughter of Silas Norton, of Worcester county. Massachusetts, and has reared a family of six children, three sons and three daughters, all of whom are living except his two youngest sons.

A. Judson enlisted in the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and died at Vicksburgh of fever. J. A. died of consumption in 1870.

BRODRICK, HARRISON, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Ohio, and married Martha J. Smith, who was born in this county in 1851. They have four children, viz: Cora May, born in 1875; Jesse Belle, in 1877; Nellie G., in 1879; and Lulu, in 1880.

BROKAW, JOHN A., Liberty township, retired shoemaker and farmer, Mt. Liberty, Ohio, was born in Somerset county, New Jersey, July 4, 1804. The Brokaw family are of French extraction. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Caleb Brokaw, had two brothers, Abram and Isaac, who married in New Jersey. Isaac had a family. Abram was twice married, but had no issue. There are quite a number of this family still residing in New Jersey, Caleb Brokaw married a lady of the same name, lane Brokaw. They had a family of three sons and two daughters. The sons names were Isaac, Abram, and Caleb; the daughters were Ann and Polly.

Abram, the father of tire subject of this sketch, was born in New Jersey in 1773. He married Mariah Striker, a native of New Jersey, about 1791. She was born March 12, 1775. They bad a family of fifteen children: Mariah, born August 8, 1792, married James Dehart, and raised a family ; both are now dead; Jane, born June 8, 1794, died August 17, 1794; Peter, born August 6, 1795, deceased; Caleb, born December 11, 1797. He came to Ohio when a young man, and yet resides in North Liberty, this county. He has a family: Simon, born February 22, 1799, emigrated to Ohio, thence to Nebraska, where he died in 1880. He left a family: Abram, born March 24, 1801, married in New Jersey, emigrated to Ohio, and died in Morrow county in 1870. He left a family: John A., born July 4, 1804; he is the subject of this sketch; Jane N., born October 5, 1806, married Gabriel Devaul, and died near Mt. Liberty, February 24, 1881. He left a family: Cornelia and Elizabeth, born March 15, 1809. Cornelia married Henry Stillwell and resides in New Jersey; Elizabeth, deceased. She married George Maloney and died in Bethany, Virginia.. A son, born August 23, 1810, deceased September 2, 1810.

Isaac, born September 20, 1818; he resides at Centreburgh, Ohio; Henry, born February 10, 1816, resides at Centreburgh, Ohio; Peter, born March 31, 1818, died in Indiana; William C., born January 16, 1820, deceased April 21, 1821.

Caleb Brokaw, grandfather of this subject, and Isaac, his brother, were soldiers of the Revolution, Caleb holding a lieutenant's commission. They both served during the war.

Abram Brokaw, father of the subject of this sketch, came to Ohio about 1822 or 1823, with his family and settled in Jefferson county, Ohio, where he died about 1826. His wife returned to New Jersey, where she lived and died.

John A. was raised on a farm. At about the age of seven teen he began to learn the shoemaker trade. He came to Ohio with his parents, remained about eighteen months, and returned to New. Jersey; remained about a year and again came to Ohio, and remained until after the death of his father, when he returned with his mother to New Jersey, and married Caroline Bush, October 22, 1827. She was born June 20, 1809. They remained until the spring of 1831, came to Ohio and remained one year in Jefferson county, and then came to Morris township, this county; thence to Liberty township; thence to Bloomfield township; thence to Chester township (now Morrow county), where he remained until 1876, when he came to Mt. Liberty, where he has since resided. He followed farming and shoemaking, by which he gained a competence for his old age. Mr. and Mrs. Brokaw started poor in life. When they arrived in Knox county he had a horse and wagon, with a few household effects and three dollars twelve and one-half cents in cash. They had thirteen children, all of whom did well, thus-showing that they were carefully and judicially trained:

Sarah, was born in 1829; married Henry Slack and died in 1852; Maria, born February 21, 1831; marred Peter Spracklen in 1851, and deceased in 1855; Effa, born February 26, 1833, married George Barr in 1853, and resides in Shelby county, Iowa; Elizabeth, born November 22, 1834, married D. L. Brackenridge in 1855, and died in Tama county, Iowa, December 23, 1872; a daughter, born January 25, 1837; Phoebe A., born June 17, 1838, married Frank Lambert, May 10, 1859, resides in Jasper county, Iowa; Caroline, born January 27, 1842, married John Bird September 7, 1865, resides in Liberty township; Mary L., born February 11, 1843, married Smith Gearhart, of Milford township, June 10, 1865; Andrew J., born June 6, 1845, farmer in Jasper county, Iowa; William B., born August 8, 1847, is a farmer near Richwood, Ohio; Abraham G., born February 4, 1850, farmer, Shelby county, Iowa; John B., born July 25, 1852, dealer in buggies; he is a good salesman, and a young man of good qualities; Marcus, born July 8, 1855.

BROOKS, SYLVANUS P., Wayne township (deceased), was born in Tompkins county, New York, June 15, 1817, and was married to Amarilla Hewett. They had five children, viz: Phylena (deceased), Cyrena Jane, Cyrus Hewett, John Wesley, and Sarah Amarilla. Mrs. Anarilla Brooks died April 8, 1867. He was married in 1841 to Mary Angeline Cocharan, who was born m Newark, Ohio. Their children are: Squire Sylvanus, born April 5, 1861; William Emlus, September 14, 1866 ; Carrte, October 15, 1868; Waitie; Orphy; Rosa, June 24, 1873 Streby Deso, November 28, 1875. Sylvanus P. died in Liberty township. April 15, 1879, aged sixty-one years and ten months.

BROWN, CAPTAIN RICHARD, Montgomery (deceased), was born in Concord county, Maine in 1789, and descended from good parentage, his father being a captain in the Revolutionary war, who fought gallantly at the battle of Bunker Hill. He removed to Brooke county, Virginia, in 1802, and located in Mt. Vernon in the fall of 1811, where he resided up to the time of his death-a period of over fifty-eight years. He was therefore one of the early pioneers of Ohio, coming here shortly after the county of Knox was organized and the county seat established. In the warm contest between Mt. Vernon and Clinton for the location of the seat of justice, Mr. Brown took a decided stand in favor of the former, and was gratified to know that his efforts were crowned with success.

In the War of 1812 Captain Brown took an active and an honorable part. He received a lieutenant's commission from Colonel (afterwards General) Cass, authorizing him to raise a company of volunteers in this vicinity, which he proceeded to do without delay. He was afterwards promoted to a captaincy for

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meritorious conduct. He marched his men through the wilderness from Mt. Vernon to Detroit, sometimes being compelled to cut bushes and small trees in order to accomplish the journey. His company had frequent sharp skirmishes with the British and redskins, although they had no general engagement, and at one time he was taken prisoner by the enemy.

For about forty years Mr. Brown was engaged in the mercantile business in Mt. Vernon, and during all that time he sustained the reputation of being an upright, honest, and honorable man. He was prompt and correct in all his dealings, and was kindhearted and benevolent to a fault.

He was married in 1814 to Miss Mary Hahn, of this county, by whom he had ten children, eight of whom are still living, He died January 6, 1870, in the eighty-first year of his age, and in his death the community sustained a severe loss. He was al ways identified with and took a lively interest in every measure that was conducive to the growth and prosperity of the community in which he lived. He was a good citizen in every sense of the word, a kind neighbor and an affectionate husband and father. Mrs. Brown died February 28, 1867.

BROWN, THOMAS, Liberty township, deceased, was born in Montgomery county, Maryland, August 11, 1796, died July 16, 1877. This exemplary man spent his youth on a farm in Maryland, where he remained until 1832, when he came to Ohio, and in 1838, married Miss Jemima Harvey, a native of Frederick county, Maryland, born December 18, 1811, and came to Knox county in 1836. Mr. Brown spent his life farming. He was a member of the Methodist church for many years, and in his walk through life was always consistent with his profession. He was much esteemed for his many Christian virtues, and was a leading citizen of the township. He was possessed of a fine farm. His, wife still survives him, and resides on the old homestead. They had four children, two sons and two daughters.

BROWN, JONATHAN, (deceased) was born in New Jersey, May 22, 1800. His parents died when he was young and he was bound out to Abram Day, a farmer. In 1816 Mr. Day came to Ohio, as he could not hold young Brown out of New Jersey withont his consent, which, however, was obtained, and he came to Ohio with Mr. Day, and remained with him until he became of age, at which time he went to work for himself. The first work he did was to make rails at twenty-five cents per hundred, to obtain money with which to buy clothes. He was married to Miss Mary Larason, daughter of Sylvester Larason, a pioneer of this county. She had fifty acres of land, and this was the beginning of Mr. Brown's future success. He afterwards purchased a farm in the northeast part of the township, which, by the aid of his sons, he cleared up. He died November 16, 1879; his wife died December 5, 1867, aged sixty-four years. They had a family of nine children, seven of whom are living, two died when young. The living are: Thomas R., in Morrow county; Joel F., in Morrow county; James S.; Ann Eliza, married to Samuel Clutter, in Morgan; Jonathan H., in Morgan township; Mary J., wife of Leander Buxton, of Fulton county, Ohio; Phoebe S., wife of Thomas Bodle, Clay township; and James S., was born September 7. 1831. He was reared on the farm, and has always continued farming as his occupation. He was twice married. He married Catharine Chipp November 3, 1859. They had two children, viz: William, born December 12, 1860; and James 1f., born October 9, 1867. His wife died in November, 1867.His second wife, Catharine Stocdale, was born in Knox county, in 1837. She is the daughter of William Stocdale, of Fulton county. Ohio.

BROWN, REV. M. M. (deceased), Morris township, was born in Martinsburgh, this county, in 1817; educated at Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, and graduated to the Allegheny Theological seminary. He preached in Buffalo, Cumberland, and Chandlersville. He was married in 1844 to Eliza Ebersole, who was born in Wayne township in 1817. They had two sons, viz.: Theodore and Chalmers. Rev. Brown died February 16, 1853, in Cumberland, Guernsey county, Ohio.

BROWN, MRS. JENNIE, M. D., is the the third daughter of Gilman Bryant, the first merchant in Mt. Vernon. She was born May 18, 1819, and was married to Dr. Joseph Brown February 25, 1851, who was a professor of the Eclectic Medical college of Cincinnati. She read medicine with her husband, attended lectures at Cincinnati, also at Syracuse, New York, where she graduated in 1854. She assisted her husband in his practiceuntil her graduation, making female diseases a speciality. Shortly after she graduated her husband moved to Lyons, Iowa, where they erected a health institute, which they conducted with success for two years, when they sold out and went to Chicago, where they practiced for years, during which time her husband died (June 20, 1874). She was so unfortunate as to be burned out twice, which left her in limited circumstances. In April, 1873, she returned to Mt. Vernon and has been engaged in her profession since. She was the fourth lady graduate in medicine in the United States.

BROWN, WILLIAM B., jeweler, Main street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Brown is a native of the city; he was born January 17, 1832, and received his education in the public schools of the place. At the age of eighteen he commenced learning the jewelry business with his father, who was the pioneer jeweler of the city having opened his- establistment in 1826, and carried it on up to the time of his death which occurred in 1854. Mr. J. B. Brown (the father filled the office of mayor for two terms, and had entered upon his third just previous to his death. Mr. Brown was one of the associate judges of this county for five years. This was in 1848. The constitution of 1850 abolished this office.

After the death of the Hon. Jacob B. Brown, his son, William B., took charge of the business, in which he still continues. He has faithfully followed in the footsteps of his father. He has served one term as mayor of the city, and is now serving the first year of his second term.

Mr. J. B. Brown and his son, William B., have carried on successfully the jewelry business for fifty-four years, and for forty years in the same room. Mr. Brown's is a first class stock, consisting of watches, clocks, jewelry, etc.

BROWN. JOHNATHAN H., Morgan township, farmer: was born December 19, 1834. He is the son of Johnathan and Mary (Larison) Brown, of whom mention is made in the biography of J. S. Brown of Morgan township. The subject of this sketch was reared on the farm on which he now resides and where he was born. He married Miss Sarah Bebout November 16, 1860. She was bony April 15, 1836. They had two children, viz: Ada A., born October 10, 1861, and Mary E., born May 15, 1866, died June 18, 1869.

BROWN, OHIO, Berlin township, deceased, the son of Thomas D., sr., and Rachael Brown. He was born in Berlin township April 18, 1846. He enlisted in the late war December

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9, 1861, as a member of company 1, Twentieth regiment O. V. I. He was appointed sergeant of company I July 22, 1864. He was wounded by a shell from the enemy's works, from the effects of which he died the same day, December 13, 1864. By his death the Union lost a noble, fearless soldier, a true patriot, and his comrades a man whose virtues endeared him to all. His patient endurance of the fatigues and privations of the campaign, his modesty and his gentle nature won for him the respect and admiration of his brother soldiers. His remains were interred on southern soil near Savannah, Georgia.

BROWN, WILLIAM, farmer, Hilliar .township, was born in Clinton township, October 19, 1849. His father, Garrett Brown, was born in Maryland in the year 1800. He married Mary Holland, a native of West Virginia, about 1827, and subsequently moved to Knox county, living for a short time in Liberty township, when they moved to Clinton township, where Mr. Brown died in 1865. His wife now resides in Mt. Vernon. They had ten children, viz : James W. died while m the army; Ann E., wife of Caleb Burdett, a resident of Maryland; Resin H., deceased, left a family in Mt. Vernon; Joanna V., wife of Robert G. White, of Mt. Version; a son died in infancy; Mary L. in Mt. Vernon; Amanda, wife of George W. Newell, farmer, Jasper county, Iowa; William M.; Henry M., a resident of Des Moine, Iowa; Frank C., Des Moine, Iowa, carpenter.

The subject of this notice was raised on a farm in Clinton township, and has always followed farming. He was married to Miss Nancy J. Mills, September 12, 1876, who is the daughter of Henry and Mary J. Mills, nee Beckley, of Clinton township. They have three children, viz: Henry C., born October 15, 1877; Ettie and Nettie, twins, born February 23, 1880.

BROWN, J. R., Gambier, son of Joseph and Ann Brown, was born in Ireland September 24, 1849. He was brought to America by his parents in December, 1849, who located near Milford, Clermont county, Ohio, where they remained four rears. In 1853 they moved to this county and located in Gambier, where they now reside.

Mr. Brown commenced work at shoemaking in 1870, with W. E. Wootton, of Gambier, remaining with him two years as an apprentice, then finished his trade in 1873 with Mr. A. Jacobs. In May of the same year he began business for himself, and has since been manufacturing all kinds of boots and shoes, gaiters, slippers, and in fact everything in his line. He keeps constantly on hand a good supply of his own manufacture of boots and shoes, and is always ready to fill all orders for work on short notice. All of his goods are warranted to give satisfaction.

BROWN, THOMAS D., farmer and stock raiser, Berlin township, post office Shaler's Mills, was born in Berlin township, on the farm where he now resides, in 1850. He was married in 1872, to Lavina Grubb (daughter of Daniel H. Grubb), who was born in 1853, in Pike township. They have three children, viz: Pauline Della (born in 1872), Irena Belle (born in 1874), and Bernice Maude (in 1880).

Mr. Brown resided in Independence in 1877 engaged in dealing in stock. He spent one year in the west, the remainder of his life was spent in Knox county. His residence was destroyed by fire in 1879, and he lost all his goods and provisions.

BROWN, ANDREW, Wayne township (deceased), born in Scotland in April, 1811, came to Knox county December 29, 1854, and was married in 1843 to Catharine Dexter, who was born in 1821. They had the following children : John Brown (born June 17, 1844), Elizabeth (born in 1845), William (born August 27, 1847), Robert (born June 17, 1849), Andrew, jr. (born February 22, 1852), James (born April 2, 1854), Thomas (born May 31, 1856), Sarah (born July 5, 1860), and Kittie (born April 25, 1862). Andrew Brown died February 9, 1876 ; Elizabeth died October 16, 1846; Andrew, jr., died September 17, 1858; John Brown was married to Amanda A. Heskett in 1874, they reside in Vernon county, Missouri; William married in September, 1871, Elizabeth E. Cornman, they reside in Mt. Gilead, Ohio; Robert was married, in 1874, to Julia Steinmetz, they reside in Fredericktown, Ohio; James married, September 28, 1876, Ella M. Bruce, they reside on the old homestead; Sarah E. married, in 1879, to Harvey Hunter, they live in Fredericktown; Thomas resides in Vernon county, Missouri; Kittie resides at the old home.

John Brown was a soldier in the late war, in the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, served his term of enlistment and received an honorable discharge.

BRUBAKER, LUTHER M., Berlin township, carpenter, post office, Shaler' s Mills, was born in Hanover township, Ashland county, Ohio, in 1853; learned the trade of carpenter with his father; works at his trade in this county, and is a first-class mechanic. He has filled the offices of constable, clerk, and trustee, and is an enterprising and industrious man.

BRYAN, WILLIAM. Liberty township, farmer, was born in the County Farmaugh, Ireland, in 1822. His father was a farmer and store-keeper, and William assisted him on the farm and in the store until 1848, when he emigrated to America, coming to Mt. Vernon, thence to Pike township, where he subsequently bought a farm and remained until 1855, when he came to Liberty township and purchased his present farm, and where he has remained ever since. In 1850 he married Miss t Jane Dudley, of Pike township. They had nine children, eight of whom are living.

Mr. Bryan began life poor, but by his industry he has acquired sufficient of this world's goods to make him independent in life. He is a good farmer. He brought many recommendations of a high order from his native county, being from lawyers, ministers, and business men, thus showing that he stood well in the community where he lived. This reputation he still maintains. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. His parents, Thomas and Ann Bryan, came to the United States in 1850, bringing four daughters with them. The parents died in Philadelphia, and the remainder of the family still reside there.

BRYANT, GILMAN, Mt. Vernon, deceased, was born in Peacham Vermont, July 27, 1784. and died in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, June 10, 1859. The history of Knox county would be incomplete without a record of the good and extensive influence yielded by this pioneer in its early settlement and prosperity. He was also a remarkably early pioneer in the settlement of the State, having emigrated with his father, Lieutenant David Bryant, in 1797, to the Northwest Territory. He was engaged in boating on Lake Erie until 1799, and visited the sight of the large and populous city of Cleveland when containing but two or three inhabitants. His father purchased and cleared five acres of ground at two dollars and fifty cents per acre and made a corn field on a spot which is now in the heart of the city. It is believed that Lieutenant Bryant never parted with the title of this land. Years afterwards the papers were lost which would have

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proved his claim, and at that early day its value was so little the claim was lost sight of and fell into other hands. This ground at the present day, now covered with magnificent buildings, is worth millions. He was also engaged with his father in getting out grind-stones near Newburgh, and they made the first pair of millstones used in Northern Ohio, which are to-day kept as relics in the Cleveland park. In 1799 Mr. Bryant left the Lake region and made journey to Marietta, by way of Erie, French creek and the Alleghany river, in a canoe or flat-boat. Marietta was settled by many of the old Revolutionary officers and soldiers. In December, 1799, news came of the death of General Washington, when a solemn procession took place composed of his old companions in arms. Mr. Bryant was a witness of that impressive scene, and listened to the funeral oration pronounced by Return J. Meigs. While in that region, Mr. Bryant assisted in making the brick used in the construction of the celebrated mansion on Blennerhassets' Island, around which Wirt has thrown the charm of enchantment by his eloquence. In 1800 Mr. Bryant returned to Cleveland and spent five years along the lake between that point, Detroit and the river Raisin, from whence he went to Lanesville in a canoe by the Cuyahoga river, hauling his canoe across the portage from Akron to the Tuscarawas, by oxen, and arrived at Lanesville in April, 1805. Here he was taken with the ambition of becoming a merchant; and upon the recommendation of James Loveridge, concluded to settle in Mt. Vernon. He accordingly procured a scanty outfit and with a cargo of goods, consisting principally of whiskey and salt set sail in a canoe up the Muskingum and its branches. He navigated Owl creek and landed in Mt. Vernon March 4, 1807. In these days of railroads it would seem a novel mode of transportation to go by river from Lanesville to Mt. Vernon, but at that tine when the wild forests were almost impenetrable except through narrow bridle paths, and the streams presented a larger volume of water than at the present time, it may, after all, have been the best route of travel, and this enterprising first merchant of Mt. Vernon took advantage of the spring freshet and successfully steered his vessel into the new and inviting haven.

He found but three families within the boundaries of this embryo city. The village of Clinton was then of more importance; and it is surmised that Mr. Loveridge was anxious that the young merchant would add to its population, but Clinton was not situated on a navigable stream. Mr. Bryant, having been somewhat of a sailor, could not be induced to go so far from as good a harbor as Mt. Vernon presented. However, his foresight must have been almost prophetic, as the sequel proved. He lived to see his chosen settlement grow to the dimensions of a city, and Clinton go to decay.

No citizen contributed more to the early growth and prosperity of Mt. Vernon than did Gilman Bryant. It was not expected that a dozen families of whites in and about the settlement would contribute much to his traffic. The settlers' wants were few, and with the exception of whiskey and salt the forest and small patches of corn ground provided them with the necessaries of life-luxuries they knew not nor desired-but the Indians came in great numbers from long distances with their furs, pelts, cranberries, ginseng, and maple sugar, and returned with the wares of the merchant.

The Indians had their peculiarities in their mode of trading which Mr. Bryant respected and adhered to. They came in bands of ten to fifty, their numbers greater in proportion to the distance traveled. They would encamp for several days on the bank of the Kokosing, and when they had disposed of their produce and provided their wants departed in peace to their hunting grounds. A number would file into Mr. Bryant's little log store-as many as the benches would seat-and one at a time commence trading, the others waiting their turn. As soon as one article was purchased it was paid for before another was offered. If the price did not suit, the Indian passed it by and did not parley for a better bargain. When the cranberries were measured which were carried in bark baskets-the Indian's squaw received in her hand a berry for every measure until all was done. The maple sugar was also measured in bark baskets, and Mr. Bryant returned cornmeal, measure for measure, to the entire satisfaction of his customer. The furs and pelts were valued by the standard of a buckskin, which represented the dollar. Mr. Bryant's customers were mostly of the tribes of Wyandots, Shawnees, and Delawares, and he soon became familiar with their different languages. His success, however, may be more attributed to the knowledge he obtained of their peculiarities, which he so thoroughly respected, together with his honesty and fairness which attracted towards him a large traffic from great distances. Mr. Bryant commanded the respect and love of a large portion of the tribes and chiefs who then occupied the . northwestern part of the State. Knox county was remarkably free at that time from the outrages perpetrated in other parts of the State by the savages, and the peaceful demeanor of these red men towards the early settlers may be attributed in a large measure to Mr. Bryant's influence. His kindness and honesty warded off, many times, any hostile intention that may have lingered in the breasts of the natural enemies of the whites.

As time passed and the flood of emigration rapidly filled up the new county, the Indians grew less in numbers. Mr. Bryant then bent his whole energy towards the development of the county, and finding an outlet for its products. At his death n writer of his biography says of him:

"His history shows him to be a man of great coolness and fortitude. The scenes of his latter days bring those truly great characteristics out in striking and impressive luster. Few fully realize how large and extensive was Mr. Bryant's influence upon the prosperity which marked the early settlement of Knox county. He was the first, and long maintained the position of the prominent merchant in the county. His unaffected simplicity of manners, his frankness and urbanity made him a common centre for counsel and advice, to the most humble as well as to the most exalted; and to his sound judgment may be attributed, to a considerable degree, the sober, steady and substantial cast which so clearly marked the character and operations of that noble race of men, the pioneer settlers of Knox county.

Mr. Bryant never initiated any novel or wild speculations to dissipate and destroy the energy and labor of our people. His influence always went to promote the practical and useful pursuits of life. Industry and economy were the great virtues he ever practiced and strove to foster and encourage. Three great and unestimable virtues flourished in strength and beauty among that remarkable people, to whom he for a long time sustained the relation of coworker, friend and adviser.

He also, for a long time, aided the people in securing a market for the surplus produce of the county. In this he was distinguished for most valuable peculiarities. His efforts seemed ever to be to keep the market steady, not to speculate by either inflating or depressing it, but to secure to the people the best market they could have, after paying to him a reasonable reward, by way of profit, for his agency in the matter.

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The value of such a man can hardly be fully estimated in any producing community, much less can it be in a community such as that in which he had chosen his lot. Many a gray-headed veteran in those arduous but interesting scenes of our past history have alluded to these excellencies of Mr. Bryant's life with feelings of undisguised emotion.

He was not what, in this flashy age, is called a brilliant man. Yet he was possessed of qualities of mind and heart which much more justly and deservedly gave him distinction. Plain good sense, and sound judgment, unbending integrity, and sincere kindness, traits now too lightly esteemed, constitute the sole foundation on which his excellent character rests. Few men ever carried on so large and promiscuous a business as he did with so few differences with his fellow-men, and still fewer without more litigation. If the legal profession esteem him, as in truth they do, it is for something better than creating business for them. Such was his reputation for integrity and veracity that those well acquainted with him, never thought of caviling at his word.

Such was his universal kindness, too, that he seems to have been regarded as a kind of common ancestor to the early settlers. This is strikingly manifest from the large number of children throughout the county, by worthy and grateful parents, honored with his name. His own family and friends, however, know best and most highly appreciate this crowning virtue of his character.

His religious views, though somewhat peculiar, he never obtruded upon others, but quietly acted out the sterling virtues which he considered the great and good Creator of man required of him as a condition of his being. And it must be confessed by those who knew him well, that in the ordering of his moral conduct Mr. Bryant set an example worthy the imitation of all, and one from which most Christians might find suggestions for their own improvement.

In his political views he was also conciliatory; while he adhered very decidedly to one party he was never known to proscribe a man for mere difference of opinion on these matters. In early life he belonged to what was known as the Democratic party. In 1828, when the contest arose between President Adams and General Jackson, he espoused the side of Mr. Adams. To the party then organized he adhered, in the main, till his death.

Gilman Bryant was the first postmaster of Mt. Vernon, and the first recorder of deeds in the county of Knox. He built the first frame and brick dwelling house in Mt. Vernon, the former on Main street, and the latter on the corner of Vine and Gay streets, which last is still standing, and at present occupied by Mr. Byers as a residence.

Mr. Bryant continued in business in Mt. Vernon until about the year 1850, and accumulated a large estate. He was the owner of two flouring and saw-mills. one located on Centre run just east of Mt. Vernon, and the other on Dry creek, where he also owned the-farm now occupied by the county infirmary. He moved his family to the latter place in 1819, and returned to Mt. Vernon in 1822. He established a large tobacco warehouse in the rear of his building on Main street, where he packed and shipped large quantities of leaf tobacco-a considerable product of Knox county at that day. He shipped principally to the Baltimore market, the only mode of transportation then being wagons. He owned at one time considerable of the property on and near Main street, which has since become very valuable, among which may be mentioned the corner of Main and Vine streets, now occupied by the First National bank and post office, running back to Gay street. He also owned and built upon the lot upon which now stands the Curtis house, also the hill in the rear and the ground east of Gay street to the alley; also the hill which was cut down and now occupied by the Kremlin block; also owned property on the west side of Main below Vine street. He built the large market house on the southwest corner of the square for a ground lease of forty years which was granted by the town.

Later in life he owned a farm two miles east of Mt. Vernon on the old Gambier road. The large brick residence he built on the hill, now standing in the rear of the Curtis house, was the finest mansion at that time in the county. Here. Mr. Bryant, for many years, extended the most generous hospitality to friends at home and abroad which his wealth enabled him to do in a manner quite beyond the means of the average pioneer. It became quite a resort for New York merchants and the students and professors of Kenyon college, many of whom have become distinguished in later days.

Mrs. Bryant was of an old Virginia family, and dispensed the hospitalities of her house with a dignity and courteousness of manner characteristic of southern people.

On the second day of March, 1809, Mr. Bryant married Elizabeth Thrift, who was a daughter of the Rev. William Thrift, of Fairfax, Virginia, the first minister of the Gospel who settled in Knox County. Mrs. Bryant was born November 18, 1792, in Leesburgh, Virginia, and came to Mt. Vernon with her father in 1807. She died at Sparta, December 17, 1865.

Twelve children were born to this worthy couple, three died in infancy and nine were reared to manhood and womanhood. Seven of the number are living at this day. Their descendants number ninety, of which sixty-eight are living, but scattered in four States. The following is their family record:

Nancy, born October 18, 1810, married George Browning, and had eight children and seventeen grandchildren. She died July 23, 1860.

Timothy Burr, born July 17, 1812, married Elizabeth C. Reeve. He died July 23, 1855.

Mary Gilman, born June 24, 1814, married James Warner Miller, and had ten children and twenty-nine grandchildren. They now reside in Newark.

William Thrift, born December 1, 1816, died March 8, 1817.

David, born April 19, 1818. died August 16, 1818.

Hannah Jane, born May 18, 1819, married Dr. Joseph Brown and had four children and one grandchild. She now resides in Mt. Vernon.

Cassondra, born October 18, 1821, died December 12, 1821.

James Gilman, born September 8, 1823, married Mary P. Swetland, and has one son. They reside in New York city.

Charles Grandison, born March 22, 1826, married, first, Elizabeth D. Smith; second, Louisa Harrison, and had six children and two grandchildren. He resides in Rock Island, Illinois:

Hamilton Thrift, born August 27, 1829, married Mary E. Cornell. They reside in Richland county.

Edwin Douglass, born December 26, 1831, married Lucy V. Inscho. They reside in Sunbury.

Elizabeth Ellen, born September 30, 1834, resides in Mt. Vernon.

Of the many descendants of Gilman Bryant, there only remain living now in Mt. Vernon, Mrs. Dr. Brown and son Charles, William Dudley Browning, Mrs. Emma Sperry (with one child), Bessie and Lawrence, children of Elizabeth (Browning) Taylor,

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and Frank W. Miller, son of Mary (Bryant) Miller, with two children.

The following is a record of the paternal and maternal ancestors of Gilman Bryant. His father, Lieutenant David Bryant, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, about the year 1755, and is supposed to be a descendant in the fifth generation of Stephen Bryant, of the Plymouth colony, who lived about the year 1620-90. David was a cousin of William Cullen Bryant, the poet. The mother of Gilman Bryant was Mary Gilman, daughter of Colonel Jeremiah Gilman, who commanded a regiment of the New Hampshire line during the Revolution. Lieutenant David Bryant served in his father-in-law's regiment.

The history of the Gilmans is thus narrated "In May, 1638, Edward Gilman, with his wife, three sons, two daughters and three servants, came from Norfolk county, England, in the ship called the Delight, of Ipswich, and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts. Moses, the third son of Edward Gilman, lived in New Market, New Hampshire, and had six sons-Captain Jeremiah, born in 1660, had Thomas, Andrew, Joseph and others. The last two sons were captured by the Indians, in 1709, and taken to Canada. At a war dance, Joseph was burnt. Andrew was sold to the French, and imprisoned, but obtained favor of the governor and was permitted to work for wages until he earned a sum sufficient to purchase his freedom. . He returned to his old home, married, and had one son, Jeremiah, and three daughters. Jeremiah was born about the year 1721. When the Revolutionary war broke out he was commissioned a colonel and commanded a regiment in the New Hampshire line. His daughter, Mary Gilman, married Lieutenant David Bryant, who served in his father-in-law's regiment during the war. Lieutenant Bryant was the father of the subject of this sketch.

The genealogical successions of the seven generations in this line, therefore, stand as follows: First, Edward Gilman, born in Norfolk, England, about 1600; second, Moses Gilman, born in Norfolk, England, about 1630; third, Jeremiah Gilman, born in New Market, New Hampshire, 1660; fourth, Andrew Gi1man. born in New Market, New Hampshire, 1690; fifth, Jeremiah Gilman (second), born in New Market, New Hampshire, 1720; sixth, Mary Gilman, born in Vermont, about 1760; seventh, Gilman Bryant, born in Vermont, 1784.

Mr. and Mrs. Gilman Bryant lived to celebrate their golden wedding, which proved to be a rare and interesting occasion. It was celebrated in Mt. Vernon, at the residence of their son-in-law, Mr. James W. Miller, March 2, 1859. The following, as taken from the published account of the affair at that time, will be interesting to their descendants and friends:

"The occasion was the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of our old, well known, and esteemed fellow citizen, Gilman Bryant, and his respected lady, as it was also the thirtieth anniversary of the marriage of their eldest daughter, Mrs. George Browning, the oldest native of this city now living within the county. The highly interesting and affecting ceremonies were heralded to the guests by the following card:

Married: March 2, 1809.

GILMAN BRYANT,

ELIZABETH THRIFT.

Golden Wedding.

J. W. Miller and Lady, Compliments.

Wednesday Evening, March 2, 1859."

The party was composed almost exclusively of relatives, numbering some seventy persons, and embracing five generations, viz: The remarkable mother of Mrs. Bryant, Mrs. Coleman, a spirited old lady of eighty-seven years; the bride, Mrs. G. Browning; Mrs. S. L. Taylor, daughter of Mrs. Browning, and the four children of Mrs. Taylor, Emma, Fannie, Georgie, and Eddie.

At a giving signal the company repaired to the dining-room to partake of the wedding supper, which was rich, rare, and abundant. Upon several cakes were beautifully iced names, devices, and dates, and on the bride's cake a pair of delicate little doves in the act of billing. The company being seated the Rev. Charles Hartley, of Utica, chaplain of the occasion, arose and pronounced a beautiful and appropriate blessing.

After feasting upon the good things, all returned to the parlors, where the parties directly participating were grouped in a semi-circle as follows: The bride and groom in the centre, Mr. and Mrs. Browning and Mrs. Coleman on the right, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor and their daughter Emma on their left; thus presenting in the eldest born of each family an unbroken chain of five generations, the eldest and youngest occupying the extremes of the figure. Thus placed, and with the guests standing around them, the Rev. Mr. Hartley presented himself to the centre of the group and invoked the blessing of heaven upon all present in a very impressive prayer, after which, in a most eloquent and feeling manner, delivered an appropriate address. The address closed, Mr. Hartley advanced to Mr. and Mrs. Bryant and requested them to join hands, when the marriage ceremony was re-enacted in a most solemn and beautiful manner, the parties renewed their pledges of love made fifty years ago, and the gallant groom placed upon the finger of his bride the golden ring as an emblem of the unending duration of his affection. Then followed the congratulations and a general kissing of the happy pair, in which ancient custom the whole company participated with a zest that smacked loudly of the olden time.

Hannah Moffett, the great-great-grandmother, was born in Leeshurgh, Virginia, February 27, 1772, four years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and at the time of the golden wedding it was ascertained by an enumeration that her lineal descendants reached the extraordinary number of one hundred and sixty, of whom only twenty-nine had deceased, and of these but four adults.

Quite a host of other relatives, husbands and wives, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, were present, including five generations in another line of descent through Mrs. J. W. Miller, her son, J. B. Miller, and his little daughter, Jennie May.

Mr. Bryant did not long survive the golden wedding. There seemed to have settled upon. his heretofore jovial disposition an air of sadness. To the solicitous enquiry of family and friends he expressed the strange belief that the event just celebrated had some connection with the close of his earthly career. The frailties of age reminded him of an inability for further usefulness, and on the tenth day of June, the same year, he passed away, greatly lamented by all who knew him.

BRYANT, SAMUEL, was born in Morris county, New Jersey, October 15, 1799. His father, James Bryant, moved with his family to Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1800, and remained there until 1804, when he came to Ohio and located in Wayne township, this county, bringing only a part

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of his family with him, but the same fall he returned and brought the younger members of his family. Mr. N. M. Young, Mr. Bryant's brother-in-lacy, came with him. At that time the country was very thinly settled. They located on a farm in the west part of Wayne, where they attacked the forest and cleared up a home on which they lived four years. They then purchased a farm near Fredericktown where they began anew. Mr. Bryant went to the district schools and received an education such as that day afforded. His time was mostly spent in converting the forest into a harvest field. When about twenty years old he taught school some, and practiced surveying for a number of years. He resided on the home farm until 1866, when he came to Mt. Vernon where he still resides. He was married April 4, 1822, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Samuel Potter, by whom he had a family of three children, Ellen B. Headley, now dead; Cassander E., a physician and surgeon of Mt. Vernon, and Orlando, a farmer, two and one-half miles east of Mt. Vernon. Mr. Bryant is now in his eighty-first year, and is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, settlers in the county.

BRADDOCK, JOHN SELLERS, dealer in land warrants and real estate, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, The. name of Braddock (Saxon Broad-Oak) at once suggests a chapter in colonial history inseparably connected with that of the country, and to trace the history of that family, connecting the past with the present, is the object of this sketch.

Major General Edward Braddock was born in England about 1650, served with distinction under George II, and won for himself the name of an "honest, brave old gentleman." He died at Bath, June 15, 1725, and left one son, then about thirty years of age.

Edward Braddock, jr., was born to England about 1695. On the eleventh day of October, 1710, he entered the army with the rank of ensign in the grenadier company of the Cold Stream guards, "the flower of the British army." Promotion followed rapidly, until, on the twenty-nitith of March, 1754, he was made major general, and in the September following was appointed to the command of all the troops to be sent against the French in America. On the twenty-first of December he sailed for Hampton Roads, in Virginia, where he arrived February 20, 1755. His military career in .America, and especially his unfortunate defeat at Braddock's Field, July 9, 1755 and his tragic death four days later, are too well known to require repetition here.

His cousins, John and Raphael Braddock came to .America about the same time, located in Baltimore county, Maryland. served in the Revolution, and, after the close of the war, or in 1789, they moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania. Raphael Braddock had four sons-Frank, David, Cyrus and Harvey. David was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, and moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1814. Joshua Braddock, son of David and grandson of Frank, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1781, married Susanna Sellers (born October 15, 1783) in 1807, by whom he had ten children-Elizabeth, Sarah, Margaret, David, Susanna, Joshua, Mary, Arena, Anna, and Robert M. Braddock. He moved to Knox county, Ohio, in 1814, and located temporarily in Morgan township, on the Jacob Sellers farm, where he remained until 1816, when he entered six hundred and forty acres of Government land on Schenck's creek in Morris township. He was one of the early settlers in that section of country.

Possessed of Christian character and high moral worth, he was greatly beloved by his neighbors and friends; he was fond of sport and enjoyed hunting, having killed during his residence in Morris township fifty-four bears, and deer in numbers. He died January 9, 1837.

David, the fourth child and oldest son of Joshua and Susannah Sellers Braddock, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, November 8, 1813; and Catharine Headington was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, March 6, 1817, and they were married on the twenty-fourth day of March, 1836. David Braddock and Catharine H. Braddock had twelve children, six sons and six daughters. Joshua C. and David W. reside in Sacramento, California; J. Thomas, Rebecca H., Eliza A„ Arena E., and Ruth A. reside near Charleston, Illinois. Two sons and two daughters died in infancy.

John S., the sixth child and second son is the only member of David Braddock's family residing in Ohio. He was born at the old homestead in Morris township, Knox county, Ohio, December 13, 1844, and received a common school and practical education. He was sent by his father, at the age of nineteen, to Illinois, where he farmed two years. Upon attaining his majority he returned to Knox county, Ohio, and engaged in teaching school during the winters of 1866-7-8-9 and 1870, and traveling the summer months, hunting up, purchasing and selling land warrants. In July, 1870, he went to Nebraska and entered three thousand five hundred acres of land, and in October of the same year located in Mt. Vernon, and engaged in the purchase and sale of real estate, together with the land warrant and scrip business; where, by industry, integrity and promptness he has built up a successful and prosperous business. On the fourth of March, 1869, he married Miss Maggie Burson, daughter of Edward Burson, esq., of Morris township, Knox county, Ohio, who was born January 16, 1851, in Parke county, Indiana.

John S. and Maggie B. Braddock have six children: Orrinda Kate, born September 19, 1870; Edward Burson, born December 3, 1872; Walter David, born March 6, 1875; Maggie May, born May 8, 1877: John Sellers, born June 17, 1879; Alice Anna, born February 23, 1881.

BRYANT, WILLIAM, Wayne township, deceased; born in New Jersey in 1795, came to Ohio in 1810, and was married to Elizabeth Norton. They had three children, Anna, born in 1819, James in 1821, and William to 1830. Mrs. Elizabeth Bryant died.

Mr. Bryant afterwards married Maria McGinis, who was born in 1810. They had three children, David, born in 1832; Jacob, born in 1837, and Rebecca, in 1839. Anna Bryant is dead; William died in 1877.

Mr. Bryant located in this county at an early day, when the county was mostly in timber and the howl of the wolf, panther and wild-cat could be heard in the forests. He assisted in clearing up the county and building up society and establishing churches. Jacob Bryant was in the Io late war, a member of the Twentieth O. V. I., remained in the service three years and received an honorable discharge.

BRYANT DAVID, farmer, post office Lucerne. He was born in Knox county in 1832 ; married to Abigail Struble in 1858. They had three children, Naomi Maud, William, and Samuel. Mrs. Abigail Bryant died in 1875. Mr. David Bryant subsequently married Abigail Foote, who was born in Knox county in 1847. Mr. Bryant is a farmer by occupation.

BRYANT, CASSANDER E., M. D., Mt. Vernon, was born in Knox county, Ohio, March 3, 1826. He spent his youth

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on a farm, attending school in the winter at the country schools, and at the schools at Fredericktown. When about twenty-one years of age he commenced reading medicine with Dr. Lewis Dyer, of Fredericktown, and with Dr. T. R. Potter, his uncle, of the same place. He attended two courses of lectures at Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, graduating in the spring of 1850, and began practice the same year in Fredericktown, with his preceptor, Dr. Potter. He remained there one year and then came to Mt. Vernon. He practiced with Dr. W. F. McClelland about five years, and with Dr. J. N. Burr for some four years, being in partnership with them. In the spring of 1868, on account of failing health, and in order to get out of practice, he went to Europe, and traveled extensively, remaining there during the summer. He has given up practice.

June 2, 1857, he married Miss Caroline L. Scott, daughter of the late A. G. Scott, of Gambler, Ohio. They have two children, both daughters, and at home. His parents are both living.

BRYANT, GEORGE M., proprietor livery, feed, and sale stables, South Main street, adjoining the Philo house, Mt. Vernon, was born in Windsor county, Vermont, June 12, 1825. Up to the year 1853 he followed farming and contracting on railroads. In 1853 he came to Ohio and engaged in railroading in Cincinnati and neighborhood, which he followed eighteen months. He then came to Mt. Vernon and went into building and contracting. This business he continued in up to 1875. His next venture was the establishment of a livery and feed store, in which he is still engaged. His stock in trade is valued at two thousand dollars, consisting of twelve horses and fourteen vehicles, among which may be found single and double carriages, barouches, phaetons, and all in good order ready for instant use. His establishment affords first class accommodations for the traveling public.

BUCKMASTER, CORBIN W., Liberty township, was born in Charlestown, Jefferson county, Virginia, April 24, 1798. His father died about a year after, and his mother, who married again, died about six years after. He was then taken by his grandfather, with whom he remained until the sixteenth year of his age, when he went to learn the trade of hatter with his uncle, with whom he remained about two years. In 1816 he came to Zanesville, Ohio, and remained three years, being then twenty-one years of age. He then travelled as a journeyman in Kentucky, thence to St. Louis. In the spring of 1821 he went to New Orleans, took passage thence to Baltimore, and thence to his old home in Virginia, where he married Miss Catherine Davis, November 28, 1822. She was a native of Reading, Pennsylvania, born July 29, 1803. He remained in Virginia until 1827, when he came to Zanesville, where he followed his trade for a number of years. He held the office of constable for seven years and justice of the peace for twelve years. While justice of the peace he filled nine civil dockets and one State docket. He was considered by all a man of sound judgment. They had a family of nine children, three of whom are living - William, in Nebraska; Henrietta, wife of J. P. Wintermute; and Catherine, wife of Hiram Fisher.

Mr. and Mrs. Buckmaster are spending the evening of their lives at the residence of their son-in-law, J. P. Wintermute, lit. Liberty.

BUCKWALTER, JOSHUA, farmer, Berlin township; post office Fredericktown; was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1823, and came to Wayne county, Ohio, with his parents at the age of ten years. He was married to Rachel Nelson, who was born in Ohio. They had five children: Jehiel, Benjamin, Ann (deceased), Mahala, and J. C. Mrs. Rachel Buckwalter died in Knox county, Ohio, in 1864.

Mr. Buckwalter's s second marriage was to Rachel Buckholder, who was born in Knox county in 1834. They have four children-Herman, William B. (deceased), Rachel, and Philip. Mr. Buckwalter located in Berlin township in 1856, is engaged in fanning, and is one of the leading men of the township.

BULYER, ANDREW, carpenter, Pike township; post office North Liberty; born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1832, and was married in 1854 to Martha Grice, who was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1830. They have two children, Samantha and Byron, both living with their parents. Mr. Bulyer learned the carpenter trade in this county, and has been working at it in different pans of the county.

BULYER, DAVID, farmer, Middlebury township; post office Fredericktown; was born in Pike township February 4, 1836; married in 1864, to Amanda Reep, who was born March 2, 1846. They have two children: Henry Wairy, born January 7, 1865, and Lucy, born January 1, 1866. Mr. Bulyer is engaged in farming in Middlebury township. He has lived in this township for nine years, and is one of its active and energetic citizens.

BUNN, GEORGE W., Mt. Vernon; was born in Mt. Vernon on the seventh of July, 1839, and attended R. R. Sloan's academy, where he received a good English education. When but eleven years old he commenced to learn the painter trade, working during the summer and going to school during the winter. In this way he served nine years at the trade, after which he engaged in business for himself, in which he has continued ever since, and in which he has been highly successful. His business, like his trade, has, been ascending the ladder round by round until it has become quite extensive. He employs from twelve to twenty hands per year. He was married to Miss R. M. Crandell, daughter of Russel Crandall, of this city, and had a family of four children, three of whom are living.

BURGER, LEVI S., farmer, Pike township, post office North Liberty, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1833, and was married, in 1858, to Catherine Wohlford, who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1837. They had eleven children : Allison P. (born in 1859), George W. (in 1860), James L. (in 1861), Priscilla A. (in 1864), John E. (in 1865), Catherine L. (in 1867), Jacob A. (in 1869), Joseph H. (in 1871), William A. (in 1873), Edward F. (in 1876), and Lomorie Blanche (in 1878). The deceased members of the family are George W., Joseph H., and John E.

Mr. and Mrs. Burger are worthy members of the German Baptist church. His father, Jacob Burger, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1796, and was married to Susannah Rush, who was born in Center county, Pennsylvania, in 1798. They had ten children: Rebecca, Elizabeth, Mary, Susan (deceased), Catherine (deceased), Levi S., Hannah, Joseph, Abraham, and Maria (deceased). Mrs. Susannah Burger departed this life in 1848, Jacob Burger in 1880.

Mr. Burger emigrated to Knox county in 1835, and located in this township on the same farm where his son Levi now resides. He was a very industrious man, and by his industry, economy, and perseverance, he succeeded in clearing and improving one of the most beautiful farms of this township.

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He was a deacon of the German Baptist church, of which he was a member for- many years, and remained firm in his religious faith until his death.

BURGESS, MRS. LYDIA GRIFFITH, Milford township, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, May 31, 1798. Her parents, Jesse and Ruth Plummet, nee Griffith, were natives of Maryland, and of English extraction. Mr. Plummet was a Quaker in religion, end his wife a member of the Episcopal church.

They remained in Maryland until about 1825, when they came to Ohio, and settled in Morris township, where Mr. Plummer purchased a farm, and where they lived and died, being highly respected citizens. They had a family of ten children, three of whom, only, are yet living.

The subject of this sketch was married to William P. Burgess, a native of Maryland, in 1816. they remained in Maryland until about 1825. Mr. Burgess was engaged in the drug business, and settled in Mt. Vernon, where he opened a dry goods store, and was successful, and became possessed of considerable property in Mt. Vernon and other parts of the county. He died in 1845. They had a family of ten children, viz: Oliver, a minister in the Methodist church; Louisa, married to W. T. Bristow; John, a Methodist minister; Lafayette, deceased; Jane P., deceased; Lydia J., deceased; Sarah W., married William Reinick, a Methodist minister, now deceased; William C., postmaster, Fairfield, Iowa; Ella and Leonidas.

Mrs. Burgess is an active lady fur one of her age, and retains the use of her mental faculties to a marked degree.

BURGOON, DAVID J., farmer, Milford township, was born in Licking county March 21, 1832; his father, David, and his mother, Rachel, nee Coe, were born in Frederick county, Maryland, and were reared and married there, and about 1824 acme to Ohio and settled in Licking county, where he lived in various places until about 1836, when he moved to Morgan township, Knox county, and in 1845 purchased a fifty acre tract of land, slightly improved, in Milford township, and the same spring moved on it, inhere they lived and died. Mr. Burgoon died August, 1856, aged about seventy-four; his wife survived until 1863. They had four children who grew up, viz.: Darius (deceased), Catharine (married to Calvin Milburn), Ann E. (deceased), and David J., the subject of this notice, who was raised in a farm, and had the same means of schooling as the boys of his day. He has always followed farming. He was a member of company B, One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio National guard. Mr. Burgoon was married to Miss May J. Speilman, daughter of William Speilman, in 1859; they had six children, three of whom are living-two died in infancy, Emma L, died when two years old. The living are: Sarah E. (married James E. Beech), Clyde E., and Ann E. Mr. Burgoon is a good citizen. a successful farmer, and has the esteem of the community.

BURKE, THOMAS, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Levering; born in Waterford May 13, 1846, and was married August 14, 1870, to Lizzie W. Martin, who was born in this township; they have two children, viz.: Hannah M., born March 7, 1871; Furney F., July 30, 1873. Mrs. Burke died October 25, 1878, in this township.

BURKHOLDER, JOHN, Hilliar township, patentee of the celebrated Acme wheat steamer, Centreburgh, Ohio, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, December 15, 1815. His parents were born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and went to Virginia, where they remained until 1833, when they came to Ohio and settled near Martinsburgh, Knox county, where they remained until about 1858, being engaged in farming and the manufacturing of lumber.

The subject of this notice removed to Rich Hill, Hilliar township, about 1857. When he first started out he worked for some time at cabinet making, but subsequently engaged in the saw-mill business for a number of years, and also in the milling business. From his knowledge of the milling business, he conceived the idea of making a more perfect wheat steamer than was ever before used; so after many months of study he produced his Acme steamer, on which he received a patent, January 29, 1878. 1t is acknowledged by all millers who have used it to he the most perfect and complete separator of the wheat and condensed steam extant. The great advantage of the Acme is that it toughens the bran, thereby admitting a perfect separation and producing a much finer grade of flour than could be otherwise produced. The steamer is now being used in some of the best mills of. the country, and to the entire satisfaction of the parties using them. Mr. Burkholder has also in course of construction a scourer and separator, which is intended to make wheat in a perfect condition for the manufacturing of flour. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Dudgeon, of Harrison township. They had a family of five children, three of whom are living.

BURKHOLDER, WILLIAM, farmer, Middlebury township, post office Fredericktown, born in this county in July, 1831, and was married in 1858, to Samantha Murphy, who was born in this county in 1836. They have the following family, Frances E., born in 1862; George in 1870; Anna in 1874, and Ethel in 1876. His father, Jacob Burkholder, was born in Pennsylvania, came to Ohio in 1842, and reared a family of six children, Sarah, Henry, Elizabeth, Catharine, George and Mary. Jacob Burkholder died in 1853; Mrs. Elizabeth Burkholder died in 1864.

BURR, JONATHAN N., M. D.. Mt. Vernon, was born in Fairfield county, Connecticut, November 15, 1800. Dr. Burr's family are of English extraction. His ancestor was Jehu Burr, who came to America with Winthrop's fleet in 1630, and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts. They belong to the Puritan branch. Ozias Burr, the father of the subject of this sketch, was twice married. His first wife was a Miss Lois Jennings, and his second wife was Miss Elizabeth A. Couch. One child was the issue of the first marriage-a daughter-who married Mr. Charles Sherwood, and resides near Bridgeport, Connecticut. By the second wife eight children were born in Connecticut and one in Ohio, making in all ten children by the two marriages.

Dr. Burr is the second son by the second marriage. His parents immigrated to Ohio in 1818, and settled in Franklin county, near Worthington. They brought with them a family of eight children. Seven of the ten children are living-six sons and one daughter. Young Burr taught school his first winter in Ohio, and the following spring began reading medicine with Dr. Daniel Upson, of Worthington, with whom he studied one year. In 1820 he went to Columbus and entered the office of Dr. Samuel Parsons, with whom he read medicine until the fall of 1822, when he went to Transylvania Medical college, Lexington, Kentucky, and attended the winter's course of lectures.

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fession with him until the spring of 1825, when he came to Mt. Vernon, May 6th, nearly fifty-six years ago. Dr. Burr is the oldest physician in the city. He soon had an extensive practice, and retains it up to the present time. When he located in Mt. Vernon he found only two physicians in practice here, one of whom shortly after left the place, leaving the field to Dr. Burr and his one competitor. The faculty of Sterling Medical college at an early day conferred the honorary degree of M. D. on Dr. Burr.

May 6, 1830, Dr. Burr was united in marriage with Miss Eliza Ann Thomas, daughter of the Hon. Richard S. Thomas. Miss Thomas was born in Lebanon, Ohio. March 11, 1809. Her father moved to Missouri in 1811, where he died about 1826. Miss Thomas came to Mt. Vernon in 1828, and resided with her uncle, the late Hon. Jesse B. Thomas. As a result of their union three children were born-two daughters and one son. Frances Elizabeth died in infancy; Jesse Thomas Burr was born August 22, 1841, and Jessie Rebecca Burr, May 16, 1863. Jessie married Francis C. Crawford, of Terre Haute, where she now resides. The son, Thomas, commenced reading law, but when the late Colonel Vance's regiment entered the field in 1862, he went with it in the capacity of a non-commissioned officer, and served with credit until mustered out of service, in consequence of sickness contracted while the army was before Vicksburgh.

Dr. Burr was one of the members that established St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church at Mt. Vernon, and has been an active member and officer thereof for more than fifty years. He has been a trustee of the Theological seminary and Kenyon college, located at Gambier, Ohio. He also has been for more than fifty years an active member of the Masonic fraternity. He served as master of Mount Zion Lodge No. 9 many years; has filled the office of high priest of Clinton Chapter No. 26; has been commander of Clinton commandery navy years, was deputy grand master of the Grand lodge of Ohio; deputy grand high priest of the Grand chapter; aided and assisted in the formation of the Grand commandery of Ohio, and was its first captain general. The doctor has often attended the meetings of the Grand Masonic bodies, and has been elected to posts of honor therein, such as deputy grand master of the Grand lodge, and deputy high priest of the Grand chapter.

BURSON, EDWARD, farmer, Morris township, post office, Fredeficktown, was born in Jefferson county in 1824; he was married in 1848. to Patience A. Me Burney, who was born in Belmont county in 1823; they had five children: Isabella, Margaret, Rachel, May, and Elizabeth. Margaret married John S. Braddock, and resides in Mt. Vernon; Rachel married Joseph B. Martin, and resides south of Mt. Vernon; May married James Wynkoop, and resides south of Mt. Vernon; Elizabeth married Frank Lafever, and resides on the Columbus road, south of Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Patience Burson died June 16, 1860, in noble county, Ohio. Mr. Burson was subsequently married to Lydia A. Armstrong, who was born in Guernsey county, Ohio. Mr. Burson went to Guernsey county in 1826, remained until 1848, then moved to Park county, Indiana, remained there four years, then returned to Noble county, Ohio, remained there until 1866, when he came to Morris township. He has been engaged in farming and dealing in stock. He was elected justice of the peace in Morris township April 10, 1869; he served the term and was reelected April 12, 1878. He is one of the leading men of the township.

BUTLER, GEORGE W., son of Benjamin Butler, who was one of the noted pioneers of Knox county, was born in Butler township September 16, 1823; he was married to Lydia Lydick March 4, 1845; they had six children, viz.: Frances Ellen, William R., Benjamin B., Franklin Pierre, George Elmer Ellsworth, and Ida May; all dead but William R.

BUTLER S. J., Union township, farmer, post office, Danville. He was born in Union township August 12, 1821. His father, Benjamin, came from Virginia to Mt. Vernon in 1801. He was the first white man to use the axe to clear the ground where stands the city of Mt. Vernon. He built the first cabin, and in a few years he enlarged it, giving it the name Travellers' Inn. He continued this business for a long time and was keeping this house at the time of the location of the county seat. B. Butler was previously appointed by the people of Mt. Vernon, to go in advance of the commissioners to Clinton. After they had visited Mt. Vernon they started for Clinton. When they arrived there the people rushed out of the tavern, stores and other places, and commenced drinking, fighting and committing all sorts of depredations. The commissioners seeing this, would not dismount and so they started for the spot when Fredericktown now stands. Previous arrangements being made the same sort of drunkenness and fighting took place here as did at Clinton. But the commissioners dismounted here to look around and investigate the location. Here Mr. Butler wished to leave them, but they would not submit to this. He remained with them, but they insisted on going home with him to Mt. Vernon, for they said they were pleased with his hospitality. This they did and remained that night. The papers were made out and Mt. Vernon was chosen the county seat.

Mr. Butler's father had thirteen children, viz: Elizabeth, Benjamin, Reason, Hiram, Joseph (who was the first white child born at Mt. Vernon), Matilda, Hulda, Palla, Mariah, Laben, Hattie, Squire (the subject of this sketch) and George. Squire was marred September 9, 1848, to Mary Jane Workman' and settled east of Millwood where they remained along time. They then moved to Ashland and lived there four years and then moved to Danville. His wife died March 10, 1870, and left two children. His daughter is Mrs. J. k. Pain. The other one is in Delaware county. Mr. Ruder remains on the old farm alone. .

BUTLER, WILLIAM R., Union township, farmer, post office, Millwood; born July 2, 1847, in Union township, lived here with his parents four years, and then went to Millwood and remained until his fifteenth year. He was married January 14, 1869, to Miss Martha E. Walker. They have two children: Lydia C., born May 16, 1870, and Mary W., February 18, 1873. The farm where he now resides is known as the old homestead of B. Butler, his grandfather, who died in his ninety-fifth year.

BUTLER, JOHN, Brown township, grocer, post office, Jelloway, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1838. He came with his parents to Ohio in 1844, and located in Wayne county. In 1861 he commenced teaching school, and followed that professor for fourteen years, spending most of his time in Ashland and Knox counties. In 1864 he married Miss Susan Weirick, of Ashland county, daughter of George Weirick. They lived in several neighborhoods, he teaching in the schools. In 1878, they moved to Jelloway where they are now living. In August of the same year he

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was engaged in the grocery business, dealing in groceries, notions and produce.

BYERS, ELIZABETH OGLESBY, of Mt. Vernon, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1788, and died at her late residence, corner of Gay and Vine streets, Wednesday morning, August 4, 1880, aged surety-two years five months and twenty-four days. Her husband, the late Samuel Byers, died in 1832. Her son, Joseph M. Byers, came to Ohio, and located in Newark, in 1841, and in 1842 went back to Pennsylvania and brought his mother to his Ohio home. In 1854 the family came to Mt. Vernon, and located in the house at the corner of Gay and Vine streets, where they have remained up to the present time. The deceased was the mother of seven children. Four children, Mr. Joseph M. Byers, of this city, Mr. James D. Byers and Mr. John H. Byers, both of California, and Miss Margaret Byers, of this city, survive her. Some sixty years ago Mrs. Byers associated herself with the Presbyterian church, and up to 1838 retained her membership with that organization, but on account of being removed from church privileges by a change of residence, she joined the Methodist Episcopal church by letter, and remained a member to the close of her life. Besides her four surviving children, deceased leaves sixteen grandchildren and numerous greatgrandchildren, with a large circle of friends and acquaintances to mourn her departure. An intimate acquaintance with Mother Byers for nearly thirty-five years enables the writer to say that the beauty of a blameless life has been shown in her every act, as a wife, as a mourning widow, and as a mother mourning for the loss of her children; and the cheerfulness with which she patiently waited for long years the call to meet those members of her family who had gone before her, evidenced a life free from guile.

"Who seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands, who riseth while it is eight, and giveth meat to her household."

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CAIN, ELIAS, deceased.-He was born in Harrison county, Virginia, in 1798. He came to Ohio in 1802, and located in Muskingurn, county. He remained there until 1810. He then came to Knox county; he was married to Ann Eliza Britten, who was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1802. They had five children, namely, John, James, Nancy Ann, Sarah E., and R. W. Its. Cain died in 1859. Mr. Cain afterward married Margaret Latta, who was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1822. Mr. Cain was a pioneer of this county. He left his farm and moved to Amity in 1823. He died at his residence November 16, 1880.

CAIN, JOHN, Pike township, shoemaker, post office, Democracy, was born in Amity in 1823, and married in 1858 to Sarah E. Kesler, who was born in Columbus in 1833. They had four children, viz.: Elias (deceased) Francis S., Elias H., and Allen. Mr. Cain has been engaged in manufacturing of boots and shoes for many years in Amity.

CAMPBELL, RICHARD, Union township, farmer, post office, Millwood, born in Virginia, September 10, 1814; emigrated with his parents to Ohio in 1816, and settled in Butler township. He lived there until 1838, when he bought a farm. In 1841 he was married to Sarah A. Huddle, and settled on his farm in Union township, where he still remains.

He had four children, viz: John, who was born November 3, 1855, and manages the farm for his father. The other three children have decease. John married Miss Siza Lyle, in 1877, and located on the farm. Richard Campbell's father died in 1870, and his mother three months previous. 'they had ten children, all living except Abner and Elizabeth G.

CAMPBELL, JOHN, Miller township, farmer, was born in Washington township, Licking county, February 28, 1815. His father was a native of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, where he married Mary McDonald. Shortly utter their marriage they came to Ohio and settled in Washington township, Licking county, Ohio, where they lived and died.

The subject of this notice was born on the farm and continued to reside on it until he moved to Miller township, where he has since resided on the farm situated on the southeast corner of the township. he is an estimable citizen, and a consistent member of the Reformed Presbyterian church. He is one of the leading farmers of Miller township. Honest and conscientious in his dealings, and ever ready to lend a helping hand to the poor. In 1844 he married Margaret Magill, a native of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. They had a family of eight children; three of whom are living, viz: William G. and Joseph O. R., druggists in Kansas city, Missouri; William Boyd, at home. James R., served three years in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. He to died at home.

CAMPBELL, JOHN, farmer, was born in Butler township in November, 1817, and was married to Phebe Babcock January, 1841. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have had no children, but their niece, Miss Marietta Campbell, resides with them. Although quite young, Miss Campbell is an accomplished artist, and has painted many very fine pictures. Politically, Or. Campbell is a Republican, and a much esteemed citizen.

CAMPBELL, JAMES, farmer, Morgan township, was born in Butler township March 14, 1818. His parents, David and Mariah Campbell, nee Vance, were natives of Virginia, and came to Ohio prior to 1817, but at what time is not definitely known. Mr. Campbell came to Butler township some time before he was married, and entered a tract of land, and returned to Virginia where he marred Miss Vance, and then returned to his land. He lived for some time in a wagon until he roofed his log house. He resided there until the spring of 1824, when he moved to Morgan township, where he purchased the farm on which John Campbell yet resides, and where he died in 1825. His widow married Samuel Coe, and has deceased. They had a family of six children-three deceased. The living are James, Mrs. Buckingham, and Margaret, wife of Rev. Benjamin Tulloss.

The subject of this notice was raised on a farm and received a common school education. He has always followed farming as his chief occupation, and has been successful in acquiring considerable of this world's goods. He is an upright man, a close observer, and well informed, and a leading member of the Baptist church. January 29, 1844, he married Miss Eliza A. Sperry, daughter of Jacob and Mary Sperry. They have a family of seven children, viz: David P., of Utica, Ohio; Mary A., wife of E. W. Bell; Mattie M., wife of Rev. W. E. Stevens, of Dayton, Ohio; Elizabeth J., wife of W. H. Sellers; H. S., E. J., and Clyde E.

CARPENTER, THOMAS, was born in Butler township, March 17, 1817. He was married to Miss Mary Weisel, about

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the year 1839. They have had nine children, viz: William, Margaret, Sarah, John, Thomas, Thomas, Jacob, Susan and George M.

CARSON, ROBERT, farmer, Wayne township, post office, Mt. Vernon; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1825, came to Ohio with his parents in infancy, and was married in 1856 to Sarah A. Masteller, who was both in Pennsylvania in 1825. They have one son, William Carson, who was born November 25, 1862. Mr. Carson resided in Coshocton till he was twenty-three years old, then came to Liberty township, and in 1869 moved to Wayne township. He owns a well improved farm with good buildings.

CARY, JOSEPH, deceased, Pleasant township, was born in Morris county, New Jersey, October 17, 1778. In 1800 he married Miss Susan Morris of same State, and in 1822, he, with wife and family, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located on a farm in Morgan township, on which they lived until 1829, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township, this county, now owned by his son, George L. Cary, and where he died in 1839. His companion survived him until 1865, when she died at the age of eighty years. Their union resulted in eight children, viz.: Mahala, born in New Jersey December 15, 1801; James B., born in New Jersey April 10, 1804; Daniel M., born in New Jersey June 17, 1806; Joanna, born in New Jersey October 12, 1808; Aaron, born in New Jersey July 19, 1811; Martha. born in New Jersey May 6, 1816; Nancy, born in New Jersey September 9, 1819; George L., born in Knox county, Ohio, May 5, 1823, who married Margaret J. Turner, daughter of John B. and Ruth J. Turner, October 16, 1861. They settled on his father's home farm where they are now living. He is following farming and stock-raising as his vocation.

CARSON. JAMES, Pike township, farmer, post office, Frederick-town, born in Coshoction county, Ohio, in 1834, and was married to Susan Bird, who was born in Liberty township, this county, in 1835. They had three children: Clarrissa E., born in 1856; Martha A., in 1862, and Hugh, November 21, 1867, who died September 28, 1868.

Mr. Carson resided in Wayne township for some years. In 1878 he purchased a farm in Pike township, and has since lived here.

Mrs. Susan Carson's father, Elisha Bird, was born in 1791 in Pennsylvania, and was married to Susan Haggerty, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1794. They had the following children: Samuel H., born in 1818; Julia A., in 1821; Amada, in 1823; Simon, in 1825; Sarah A., in 1826; George Washington, in 1829, and Susan, in 1835. Mr. Elisha Bird died in 1850, and Mrs. Susan Bird in 1853. They were among the first settlers in this county. .

CARY FAMILY.-The family of Cary in England is one of the oldest, as it has been one of the roost illustrious and honored in the kingdom. Those of the family who wish to learn particularly of their English ancestry can consult Burk's History of the Landed Gentry of England.

In 1198, according to Sir William Pole, Adam De Karry was Lord of Castle Karry or Kari, in the county of Somerset. This castle now only exists in history. The tillage situated in that locality is known as Castle Cary. As early as the reign of Edward I, the name was spelled C-a-r-y. William and John Cary represented the county of Devon in the English Parliament in the thirty-sixth and forty-second of Edward III. John Cary was made a baron of the exchequer by Richard II. Sir Robert, his son succeeded to his honors and estates. Sir William Cary, a grandson of Sir Robert, fell in the battle of Tewsbury, 1471. Lucius Cary was chancellor of the exchequer under Charles I, and his marble statue stands at the entrance of the Parliament house. He was regarded in England as the greatest man of his day. Sir William Cary married May Boleyn, a sister of Anne, the unhappy wife of Henry VIII. Henry Cary was orated by his cousin, Queen Elizabeth, Baron Hunsdon.

The Carys of Ireland are very numerous. Although descedded from a common ancestor they spell the name C-a-r-e-y. These few fragments are only given to show the antiquity and distinction of the name, and not to give a connected history of the family in the old country. The family is still numerous in England, and traces back its history through many centuries with pride.

The name Cary is quite common in almost every one of the United States. They are doubtless descendants of DeKarry, of the Domesday book of William the Conqueror, whether of English, Irish or Scotch extraction. Most of those who spell the name with an a are of Irish extraction, but this rule is not universal, as persons not remotely connected spell the name both ways.

Those of the descendants of John Cary, of Plymouth colony, who spell the name with an a do so without authority, as he spelled the name C-a-r-y. John Cary joined the Plymouth colony, about 1634. He came from Sometshire, England, near Bristol.

He is the progenitor of the families of whom we intend to speak. We find his name among the original proprietors and settlers of Duxbury and Bridgewater. Some of his descendants of the eighth generation still occupy a portion of Bridgewater land.

In 1656 he was elected a constable of Bridgewater. He was elected first town clerk and held the office consecutively until 1681. He was prominent among his fellows, well educated and public spirited.

He married Elizabeth Godfrey in 1644, a daughter of one of the first settlers of Bridgewater. The year of his birth is not known. He died in 1681. They had a family of eleven children. Joseph Gary, his son, born in Bridgewater in 1663, was twice married, had six children, and died in 1722. John Carey, son of Joseph Carey, was born in Windham, Connecticut, in 1695, married Hannah Thurston in 1716, and died in 1776. He had nine children. John Cary, son of last named John Cary, was born in Windham, Connecticut, in 1717, married Rebecca Rudd, and died in 1788, having eight children.

Jonathan Cary, son of last named John Cary, was born in Scotland, Connecticut, in 1749, married Martha Hurlbut, and removed to Norwich, Connecticut, where he died, having had seven children.

Frederick Cary, son of Jonathan, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, February 14, 1786, married Ama Savage, in Norwich, Connecticut, June 22, 1817, and emigrated to Ohio the same year, and serried in Liberty township. He died in 1873. His wife died November 13, 1863. Prior to his marriage he had been in Ohio trading with the Indians and the white settlers for furs, which he took east and sold. He had nine children: Thomas, born July 31, 1818, married Cynthia Marriman in 1853. They had one daughter, born March 18, 1855. He engaged in farming in Liberty township. Emily, born August 8, 1820, married James Merriman, who has deceased. She

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resides in Liberty township, they had two sons of whom mention is made. William L., born September 25, 1822, he was reared on a farm in Liberty township. His education was obtained at the common schools and the high schools at Mt. Vernon. He taught school for sixteen terms. He married Eveline Graham October 29, 1851. They yet reside in the township and had seven children. Ralph W., born July 2, 1852. He is a physician located in Mt. Vernon; was elected coroner of the county in the fall of 1880. Henry Y., born January 4, 1854. Samuel F., born October 11, 1855. John W., born October 9, 1858. Evaline E., born August 24, 1860. William, born November, 1862. Grant has deceased. Caroline, born November 15, 1824, died unmarried December 2, 1863. George W., born January 23, 1827; he was reared on the farm, and resides in Liberty township; he was married to Sarah Chambers in 1861; no issue by this marriage. Frederick W., born July 18, 1829; died unmarried January 2, 1853. John, born January 22, 1832, died unmarried, August 5, 1856. Charles, born March 10, 1834; he married Martha A. Frazier, December, 1865; they had five children, only one of whom (Rose Ella, born February 23, 1874) is living. James was born May 4, 1838; he was reared on a farm, and enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twentyfirst regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, August, 1862. He participated in the battle of Perrysville, Kentucky; was taken sick at Nashville, Tennessee, rejoined his regiment in Georgia, was with the regiment until it was mustered out, participating in the different campaigns. He was married to Miss Rebecca Phillips, September 26, 1871; they have three children and reside on the old homestead.

The Cary family are all well-to-do citizens and much esteemed

CASH, E. D., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Wayne county, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1831. He came to Ohio, when he was six months old. His father settled in Knox county, and he remained with him until he was fifteen years old, when he left to learn the saddler trade which he followed fifteen nears. He was married in 1866, to Susan Buchanin, and settled on his present farm. He has two children: William J., born January 15, 1868; and Walter A., April 2, 1875; Walter died January 27, 1879.

CASSELL & LEWIS, merchants. They established business in 1876, and have enjoyed a lively trade. They keep a well selected stock of foreign and domestic dry goods, ladies' dress-goods, hosiery and gloves, queensware glassware, groceries and provisions. Mr. Cassell was born in Maryland. L. H. Lewis is a native Buckeye and now serving his second term as treasurer of the corporation of Fredericktown.

CASSEL, HENRY, Fredericktown, merchant. He was born in Maryland in 1823. He came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1830. He was married in 1851 to Viola Jane Beers. They had two children, Ida and Louella.

Mrs. Viola Cassel died in 1861. Mr. Cassel was married again in 1863, to Carrie Hyatt. Mr. Cassel has been a resident of Wayne township since coming to this county. In 1861 he moved to Fredericktown. During the war he took a position in the hardware store (which was done to accommodate a friend that went to the aunty) of William Rodgers, who went as a soldier and was promoted captain. Mr. Cassel finally became proprietor of the Cassel hardware store. He carries a full and complete line of hardware in every department. He has built up a very extensive trade through his honest dealing and enterprising spirit. All who want anything in his line will do well to call on him, as he is always obliging and pleased to show goods.

CASTEEL, OTHO, Gambler, a son of Mishick and Mary Casteel, was born in Howard township, this county, on the fourth day of March, 1836. Mishick Casteel, a native of Maryland, was born in in 1798, emigrated to ,this county in about 1820, and located near Greersville, in Jefferson township. In 1823 he married Miss Mary Critchfirld, daughter of Nathaniel and Christina Critchfield, who was born in Virginia in 1804, and was brought to this county by her parents in 1806, who located in Howard township, where they passed the remainder of their days. Shortly after their marriage they settled in Howard township and remained until 1842, when they moved to Union township, where he deceased in a few months after their settlement in the township. Mrs. Casteel is now living in Gambler, with her son Otho, aged seventy-six tears. They reared a family of five children, viz.: Benjamin, Appleton, Pierce, Sarah C., and Otho. Only two of the number are non: living, viz.: Benjamin and Otho. Otho Casteel was reared a farmer, and followed farming as his principal vocation until 1871, when he engaged in butchering, and has since been following that business. In June, 1860, he married Miss Sarah. E. Hutcheson, born in Gambier, May 14, 1836, daughter of A. B. Hutcheson. They settled in Gambler, where they now reside. They have had two children, a son and a daughter.

CHALFANT, JAMES, Wayne township, retired farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1827, and was married in 1849 to Margaret Statler, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. They came to Knox county in 1856. They have the following children: John S., born January 22, 1851; Charles A., January 5, 1853; William B., July 10, 1858; Ellen, November 3, 1860; Walter I., May 18, 1864; Emery W., September 21, 1866; Joseph G.. April 5, 1875 and Mary B., July 24, 1855. who died November 11, 1862.

CHANNELL, HENRY, Miller township, farmer, post office, Homer, was born in Randolph county, Virginia, January 22, 1824. The Channell family, of which he is a descendant, emigrated from Ireland to South Carolina, but at what date is not known. The parents died in South Carolina. They left four sons, viz: Baron, John, Joseph, and Jerry. Aaron went to sea as a sailor and was never heard of afterward by the family.

The three brothers came to Randolph county, Virginia, and subsequently John and Joseph, with their families, came to Ohio and settled in Licking county, being among the first settlers. Jerry remained in Virginia. His descendants are now quite numerous in that State.

Joseph, grandfather of the subject of this notice, married Judith Hodge, a native of Scotland. They had a family of sixteen children, twelve of whom reached maturity. The descendants of these children are now numerous and are scattered throughout the West.

Isom, the father of the subject of this notice, was one of the sixteen children. He enlisted three times in the War of 1812.. His first and second terms of service were of short duration. He served seven months in the last enlistment. He went to Virginia and there married Eve Harper, and in 1829 returned to Ohio and settled in Burlingham township, where he died in 1845, His wife survived him until March, 1877. She died with her children in Missouri They had nine children, five of whom are living.

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Mr. Channell spent his youth on a farm in Licking county. In 1858 he came to Miller township, where he has since resided, being among the most influential and esteemed citizens. In 1843 he married Miss Jane Crusen, a native of Licking county, Ohio. They had five children, three of whom died young. The living are Aaron and Hattie, the wife of Greenbury Sherman.

CHANCEY, JAMES B., Fredericktown, was born in New York in 1834, was brought to Ohio when three years old, and was married to Martha A. Brown, who was born in this county in 1837. They have six children, viz: Corn B., burn February 23, 1859; Mary D., November 10, 1861; Joseph H., November 8, 1863; Ellen R., December 10, 1865: Carne B., November 13, 1867, and Adda F., December 28, 1869. Mr. Chancey is a painter by trade, and has been engaged in that business for twenty years.

James B. Chancey was a soldier in the late war, and a member of company H, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio national guard. He served out the time of his enlistment, and received an honorable discharge. Mrs. J. B. Chancey's father, Samuel Brown, deceased, was born in Virginia in 1798, and was married to Nancy Carter, who was born in Virginia in 1800.

They came to Ohio in 1831, and located in Berlin township. They had the following children, viz: Mary I:., born in 1829; James, in 1831; Daniel, in 1833; Jefferson, deceased; Martha, born in 1837; Joseph, in 1838; George, in 1842, and Susan, in 1845.

Samuel Brown died in 1847, in Berlin township. He was a farmer by occupation, and a worthy member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and an honored citizen. Mrs. Nancy Brown is now residing w with her son, James H. Brown, in Michigan.

CHANDLER, HENRY, deceased, Clay township, was born in Essex county, New Jersey, January 9, 1806. He was married at an early age. His wife, Susan C. Chandler, was born September 18, 1799. Their children were Sarah E., born December 9, 1830; Mary B., January, 9,1832; Elmira V., May 27, 1833; Henry M., October 21, 1834; William H., May 25, 1836; Maria F., June 26, 1838; Henrietta W., November 9, 1839; David J., May 30, 1841; John W., May 13, 1843. All are living except Mary B., Henry M, Maria F., and John W.

CHANDLER, DAVID J., shoemaker, was born in Clay township, August 30, 1841, was married December 5, 1865, to Margaret Finney. They have five children, viz: Susan M., Charles H., Edward F., William M., and James B. He was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, being a private in company C, Fifty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and the only Knox county man in the regiment.

CHAPIN, L. H., mechanic, Howard township, post office, Howard. He was born in Union township, August 19, 1844. His mother died in 1854, and at this time he went to B. Simmons' in Coshocton county, and farmed there four years. He then returned to Millwood and remained there two years. In 1861 he enlisted under Captain Walker in the Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in the battle of Corinth in 1862, and at Iuka, Mississippi. They made a charge, called the endways charge, on the rebels where a portion of the troops crossed the river on pontoons.

He served his time and received an honorable discharge. In 1869 he was married to Sarah Baker and lived at Spring Mountain a year, then removed to Union township, remained there tour years, and then came to Howard. They have five children, Fenton, Elmer, Oliver, Salona, and James.

CHAPMAN, JUDGE STEPHEN, Mt. Vernon, deceased. Among the early settlers of this county, was Stephen Chapman, who in after years became a man of note, and was honored and trusted by his fellow citizens. He was born in Saybrook, Connecticut, on the twenty-fourth of April, 1783. His parents came to Ohio and located at Marietta in 1794, when Stephen wantonly eleven years of age. Grandfather Chapman was an old and intimate friend of General Rufus Putnam, who induced hint to take that step. He was to erect a block-house at Marietta, and was to keep within it nine soldiers for the protection of the settlers in the neighborhood, for which the Government was to reward him by two large tracts of land lying within what is now Washington county. Mr. Chapman complied with the wishes of the general in every respect. For the soldiers he substituted his own sons, nine in. number, Stephen making one. The Government compensated him with two tracts of land situated one on Duck and one on Bear creek. In 1806 Mr. Chapman, the subject of this sketch, came to and settled in Mt. Vernon, and opened what was then called a "trading station," keeping a little of everything that could be bartered for a little money, deer skins and furs. The currency at that time was "mined." He was a friend of the red man, and considerable trading was carried on with them. This station was continued for some time.

December 25, 1808, he married Mary Walker, a sister of Mr. Joseph Walker, one of the proprietors of Mt. Vernon. In 1811 he purchased and moved on the farm on Dry creek, where he resided up to the time of his death, making a continued residence of fifty-eight years. During a part of the War of 1812 he was engaged in collecting and wagoning provisions for the sustenance of the soldiers stationed at Milan and Sandusky.

In 1813 the people of the county became alarmed at rumored Indian raids, and several block-horses were erected in the county. Mr. Chapman aided his neighbors to erect one on Dry creek, on the Hardesty farm, better known in latter days as the Carey farm, to which his family was removed, where they remained a short time for safety and protection.

Judge Chapman was a man of more than ordinary ability and sound judgment, and was honored and respected by his neighbors and acquaintances throughout the county. In 1817 he was elected a justice of the peace for his township, as his commission, signed by Governor Thomas Worthington, and dated February 15, 1817, shows. A vacancy occurring on the associate judges bench of the county, Governor Ethan Allen Brown appointed him to fill that vacancy, and on the thirtieth of October, 1819, signed his commission as associate judge. During the session of the legislature in the winter of 1819-20, he was elected associate judge for a full teen, Governor Brown signing his commission on the twenty-sixth of February, 1820. These three old commissions are in a good state of preservation, and are kept as relics of the past by the family. Although by no means a robust man, yet he was a person of strong nerves and athletic, and enjoyed the best of health. He died full of honor and full of years, October 4, 1869, in the eighty-seventh year of his age.

CHAPMAN, DAVID, Milford township, farmer and carpenter; was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1822. His fattier 's name was Martin; was a native of New York, his

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mother (Henrietta. Wright) was a native of Connecticut, both being of English descent. They were married in Ashtabula count', Ohio, and remained there six or eight years. They went to Upper Canada, remained about eight tears and then returned to Ashtabula county, and thereafter successively lived in Holmes, Tuscarawas, and Coshocton counties, both parents dying in the latter county. They had a family of twelve children, six yet living. The subject of this notice is the third child. When about nineteen years of age he went to the carpenter trade, and followed it until 1877. In 1844 he married Miss Margaret King, a native of Pennsylvania. .\t the time of his marriage he was poor, and, as he says, "his wife no better off." He had also to support his parents principally front the time of his marriage until their deaths. Thus he had to struggle against adverse circumstances. In 1858 he moved to Miller township, and resided there until 1868, when he purchased the farm of one hundred and forty-six acres in Milford township on which he now resides. He went in debt on this farm four thousand five hundred dollars, but by industry and good management he has paid this amount. Mr. Chapman is a hard working man, a good citizen and neighbor.

By his marriage they had seven children, six of whom are wing, viz.: Alonzo, a carpenter by trade, who enlisted in company-C, Forty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, February. 1864, and was with Sherman from Chattanooga to Savannah, participating in all the conflicts in which his company was engaged until their discharge; William B., was a member of the same company, enlisting at the same time, and was also with the company and regiment until its discharge; Julia, married Benjamin Hunter; lane, married Robert McCune; Mina, and Belle, live at home; Malissa died young.

CHASE, PHILANDER, D.D., deceased. Rev. Philander Chase, D. D., first bishop of the diocese of Ohio, was for a number of years one of the most prominent men of Knox county, He was born in Cornish, New Hampshire, December 14, 1775. He was descended front Aquila Chase, who came from Cornwall, England, in 1640, and settled at Newbury. His grandson, Dudley, father of the bishop, settled on the Connecticut river and founded the town of Cornish, New Hampshire, where the bishop was born. His parents were plain, pious people, living on a farm, devoted members of the Congregational church, and young Philander adopted their religious views early in life. Philander intended to chose his father's vocation, but the course of events, says his biographer in the "American Cyclopedia," seemed plainly to indicate that a different career was before him. A severe injury to one of his limbs confined him for a long time to the house, and after much reflection upon his position and prospects, he resolved to prepare himself for college and the ministry of the gospel. He entered Dartmouth college in 1791, and was graduated in 1795. At the time of his graduation Philander Chase was a Congregationalist, but having met with a prayer book of the Episcopal church, he examined and studied it with great care, and was led w the conviction that he ought to enter the ministry of that church, Leaving his home in New Hampshire, he set out for Albany, New York, where he was kindly received by the resident Episcopal minister; and after a course of study in theology, he was ordained in St. George's church, New fork, in May, 1798. For several years he devoted himself, amid many privations, to missionary labors in western yew York.

Rev. Philander Chase, in 1805, with wife and children, removed to New Orleans, where, for six years, he was zealously engaged in organizing the Protestant Episcopal church, in which he was successful. In 1811 he returned to the north, and for six years was rector of Christ church, in Hartford, Connecticut. Deeply interested in the religious condition and prospects of the great west, and being full of missionary zeal and enterprise, he, in 1817, went to Ohio, and set about planting and enlarging the Episcopal church in that then young and rapidly growing State. After a year's labor in Ohio a diocese was formed embracing the entire Mate, and he was elected its bishop, and was consecrated in St. James' church, Philadelphia, February 11, 1819. Amid many and peculiarly severe trials, says his biographer, Bishop Chase persevered in his work. He established a classical school at Worthington soon after coming to Ohio, and conducted it personally until 1822, when he moved to Cincinnati to take charge of the college then recently established there, and remained about two years, sewing as president of said institution.

It soon became evident to Bishop Chase that in order to the successful and permanent establishment of the Protestant Episcopal church in Ohio, and in the west, measures must be taken promptly to educate men on the ground for the service of the ministry. Accordingly, with the approbation of the Protestant Episcopal convention of Ohio, although opposed by many Episcopalians in the older States, he resolved to visit England and solicit donations toward founding a college and theological seminary in Ohio. He embarked in October, 1823, arrived safely in England, and, although he at first met with opposition, soon overcame it, and was unusually successful, collecting about thirty thousand dollars for his object. After his return in 1824, the Bishop purchased eight thousand acres of land situated in Knox county, took the initial steps to establish the projected college and seminary upon it, and perpetuated the names of the two generous Englishmen (Kenyon and Gambler), whose munificent donations so largely aided the bishop in his grand enterprise, by giving the name of the former to the college, and that of the latter to the site of the seminary and college, and which also became the name of the prospective village established there.

For a time, says the authority heretofore quoted, everything went on prosperously; but difficulties and disputes having risen between the bishop and some of the clergy about the disposal of the funds received from England, and other matters connected with his administration of the college and the diocese, he resigned his jurisdiction in September, 1831, and the general convention the next year gave their assent to this step, and Bishop Mcllvaine became his successor.

Bishop Chase, now removed to Michigan. seemingly intent upon the life of a pioneer missionary bishop. There he remained until 1835, when he was elected bishop of the recently formed diocese of Illinois. Again he visited England in behalf of Christian education in the west, and collected about ten thousand dollars towards purchasing land and founding a college. Jubilee college, at Robin's Nest. Peoria county, Illinois, owes its foundation, in 1838, to this second effort, and here the venerable prelate spent the remainder of his life. The first commencement of jubilee college took place in July 1847, and its subsequent career has evinced the perspicacity of Bishop Chase in providing for the future needs of the Episcopal church in the west.

Bishop Chase was an exceedingly active and laborious man, and, though not very learned, had great diplomatic talents, and

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intuitive knowledge of human nature, great shrewdness, and accomplished an amount of good ten fold greater than many incomparably his superiors in scholastic knowledge. Keenly sagacious in reading character, quick to avail himself of opportunities, full of zeal and determination, unwearied in laboring for the cause of religion and the interests of the Protestant Episcopal church, Bishop Chase left his impress upon the western country, and deserves honorable mention as the pioneer bishop. Republished in two volumes "Reminiscences of his life and labors," "Plea for the West," "Defense of Kenyon College," and other works.

Bishop Chase was one of fourteen children, eight sons and six daughters. Dudley Chase, one of his brothers, was long a member and sometimes speaker of the legislature of Vermont; also chief justice of that State, and United States Senator. Another of his brothers was the father of the late Salmon P. Chase. Four of the brothers were graduates of Dartmouth college.

Bishop Chase's first wife was Miss Fay of Bethel, Vermont, who became the mother of two sons (George and Philander) both dead. The latter married a daughter of Hon. Bazaleel Wells, of Steubenville, Ohio, and died young, of consumption. Mrs. Chase died at Worthington, Ohio, in 1818.

Bishop Chase married his second wife, Miss Sophia May Ingraham, of Kingston, New York, at Zanesville, July 19, 1819, Rev. Dr. Morse officiating. Four children were born to them, viz: Dudley, a clergyman of Philadelphia; Henry, in business in Chicago; Philander, deceased, and Mary, wife of Rev. J. S. Chamberlain.

A severe injury, caused by being thrown from his carriage, hastened the aged bishop's decease, and a few days, after he sank quietly to rest. His death occurred at jubilee college, in Peoria county, Illinois, September 20, 1852, in the seventy-seventh year of his age.

CHAUNCEY, CORYDON, Fredericktown, barber, was born in Berlin township, Knox county, in 1837. He was married in 1865 to Mary Roberts, who was born in Mt. Vernon in 1838. They have three sons, viz.: Frederick E., born in 1866; Charles N., born in 1870; Burr Roberts, born in 1874. Mr. Chauncey is the leading barber of Fredericktown. He keeps everything very neat, and is a type of the perfect gentleman.

CHRISMAN, HARVEY, Milford township, farmer and farrier, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, February 24, 1828. His father, Benoni Chrisman, came to Knox county with his family, in 1837. He located in Milford township, where he had previously purchased a quarter section of land, and remained there until 1879. when he went to reside in Homer, Ohio. He married Annie Kratzer in Virginia, who died in 1879. Mr. Chrisman died in the winter of 1880. They had ten children. Those living are are Harvey, Joseph, Burtley, George, Reuben, Catharine (wife of Lemuel Buxton), and Sarah. The deceased are Benoni, Martha, and Susan. The subject of this nonce was the oldest son, and it therefore devolved upon him to assist his father to clear up the farm, and in consequence his educational advantages were limited; but he acquired sufficient to enable him to transact business. He remained at home until be was about twenty-three years of age. Mr. Chrisman began life with but little aid. He determined to obtain for himself and family a home. About 1851 he came to his present home, and has succeeded in obtaining two hundred and fifty acres of good land, and is one of the leading farmers of Milford township. His farm is under good cultivation. He was married twice. His first wife was Miss C. Hall. His second wife was Miss Sarah E. Daggers, daughter of Silas Daggers. They have eleven children, and as they get married he assists each one by giving him one thousand dollars. Their names are Ellen A. (wife of N. J. Coe), Flora P. (wife of Marcus Riley), Josephine, Oscar Caroline, Emma, Elizabeth, Martha, Frank, Edith, and Mary

CLARK, ABEL, deceased, Jefferson township, born in Green county, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1792, where he lived until he arrived at the age of eighteen years, when, in company with his brother, came to Ohio, locating in Carroll county about 1810. During the time he remained there, he married Mary E. Burtnett, which event occured in 1815, who was born in Green county Pennsylvania, July 21, 1792. In 1822 he moved with his family to Knox county, locating in Harrison township, where he remained until 1836, when he moved to Jefferson township and there entered a farm of one hundred acres, upon which he erected a hewed log house. He carried on farming for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Clark became the parents of nine children, four of whom died in infancy. The other five children were: Michael Clark, born June 17, 1818, killed at Fort Donelson; Priscilla, born December 3, 1821, died August 24, 1880; Josiah, June 14, 1823, died in 1868; Nancy, January 2, 1825; Amos, January 31, 1834, all of whom have died except Nancy and Amos. Mrs. Abel Clark died August 27, 1851, aged fifty-nine years. He married again in 1853, and his second wife died in 1872. Mr. Clark became the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Jefferson township and died in January, 1870, in the seventy-eighth year of his age.

CLARK, AMOS, Jefferson township; farmer and stockraiser; son of Abel and Mary E. Clark, was born in Harrison township, Knox county, January 31, 1834. In 1836 his father moved to Jefferson township, locating on Military Land lot No. 2, four miles east of Jelloway, where the subject of this sketch was reared and received a common school education. He remained with his father, farming until 1858, when he bought sixty acres of the home place, and continued to farm the balance of his father's farm in connection with his own. This he continued until 1860, and then purchased the balance of the home farm, making to all one hundred and sixty acres. In 1866 he bought one hundred and nine acres of land in Jefferson township, adjoining Ashland county, for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, which he owned for three years, and then sold it to Conrad Snider for the sum of twenty-four hundred dollars.

October 5, 1856, he married Sarah C. Heyet, a daughter of Jacob H. and Mary E. Heyet, born in Ashland county, December 3, 1839. After his marriage he located on the old farm, which he had purchased of his father, where he remained until 1871, and then moved on a farm of one hundred and forty acres adjoining him, on the southwest, which he purchased in the same year, where he at present resides. May 13, 1864, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, in company F, under Captain Cummings, and served until the second day of September of the same year, when he was honorably discharged and mustered out at Columbus, Ohio. He then returned home, where he remained until the twelfth day of October of the same year, when he enlisted in the Ninth Ohio cavalry under the command of Killpatrick, where he sewed until June 7, 1865, when he was honorably discharged and mustered out of service at the United States hospital near

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Columbus, Ohio. He then returned home, and proceeded to business as usual. Mr. Clark is at present engaged in the insurance business in connection with farming, being a stockholder in the Jelloway Insurance company, and president of the same. Mr. and Mrs. Clark are the parents of six children, viz: Mary E.,, born September 30, 1857, married J. W. Rice September, 1877, and resides one mile west of Greersville; Jesse E., September 12, 1859, and died August 31, 1864; Emma F., June 10, 1862, and died September 6, 1864; William W., August 16, 1866, and died September 26, 1867; Henry W., August 16, 1868; John B., February 21, 1870. Only three children are living,

Mr. and Mrs. Clark are members of Wesley chapel of Jefferson township.

CLARK, T. L., Mount Vernon, a native of Stuben now Yates county, New York, where he received his education in the district schools, was bore June 11, 1811, and when fourteen years old engaged with his brother to learn the millwright trade with whom he sewed seven years, after which he served four years as a mechinist, and was one of tire partners of the firm under the firm name of Clark & Huston, manufacturers of engines and milt machinery in which he continued until 1836 after this he engaged at the millwright business, which he followed until 1841. He then came to Mt. Vernon where he engaged with the firm of C. & E. Cooper as draftsman and machinist. He remained in this capacity until 1848 when he became a partner under the firm name of Coopers & Clark, in which he remained until 1858, when he took charge of the Kokosing Iron Works for C. P. Buckingham for one year, when he went to Detroit and engaged in building grain elevators for Dr. Clark and continued with him until the summer of 1864, when he returned to Mt. Vernon and took charge of the mechanical department of Coopers' establishment in which he remained until 1868. He then went to Kansas City to superintend the State Line machine shops, but not finding things as he expected and as was represented, he returned after a stay of three months. He then engaged with H. & F. Blandy, of Zanesville, as superintendent of their works in Newark where he remained until the spring of 1876, when he leased the Kokosing Iron Works and conducted them two years, since which he has operated in patent grain shovels for unloading cars of bulk grain in elevators. This invention relates to machinery for unloading grain in bulk from cars, and consists of a shaft which extends parallel with the line of cars to be unloaded, and is automatically reversed in its revolutions and to which scoops are attached by means of ropes for drawing the grain from the cars as the shaft revolves in one direction and allowing the scoops to be returned as it revolves in the opposite direction. This is a great labor-saving invention, and does its work more expiditiously and successfully than any former invention.

Mr. Clark was married July 20 1836, to Miss Amanda Blair, daughter of Luther and Emblem Blair, of Massachusetts, by whom he had a family of five children, viz: T. Eugene, infant son, died; Jerome, Alonzo, and John, two of whom, T. Eugene and John, survive, and both are married and reside in Mt. Vernon. T. Eugene received his preparatory education at Kenyon college and Otterbein university and read medicine with Dr. E. M. Clark, of Detroit, and graduated at the medical university at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and entered upon the practice of his profession at Middletown, Ohio. In 1863 he entered the United States naval service as surgeon, in which he served two years, after which he engaged in practice in this city in which he continued until recently when in consequence of ill health he retired. John is engaged with his father and is a practical draftsman, proficient in his profession and a successful business man.

CLARK. SAMUEL, harness and saddle manufacturer, West Vine street, near Main, Mt. Vernon, a native of Chatauqua county, New York, born September 5, 1821, where he resided until 1838, during which time he received his education, and learned the harness and saddler trade. His first trip was to Michigan, where he travelled, working as a journeyman, in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. He opened a shop at Coldwater, Michigan, and continued in it for one year. In consequence of inflammation of the eyes, he was compelled to retire from business for about two years; after which, in 1842, he went to Mansfield, Ohio, and worked for the firm of Smith & Robinson about eighteen months. He then went to Wooster and engaged with a Mr. Dyerman, and worked about two years. He then travelled for about one year with Mr. Dyerman, after which he enlisted in the United States service for twelve months, joining company A, Third Ohio volunteer infantry, Captain McLaughlin. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Samuel R. Curtis.

With this regiment Mr. Clark went to Mexico. sewing some eighteen months. After quitting the service he went to Newark and engaged with Captain Owens. Here he remained only a short time, when he came to Mt. Vernon, and commenced working for the late George W. Hank. He continued with Mr. Hank until 1852. He then went to Warrentown, Mississippi, and engaged with his brother, where he worked one year. In consequence of the prevalence of the yellow fever. Mr. Clark came back to Mt. Vernon and was engaged again by Mr. Hank, with whom he remained till 1858, when his health gave way. From Mt. Vernon he went to McDonough county, Illinois, and engaged in farming: In 1862 he returned to Mt. Vernon, and for a third time was employed by Mr. Hank, and in 1863 he bought out his employer and commenced business on his own account, and has continued it up to the present time. During part of this time his business has been quite extensive, requiring from three to five hands. At this time he does all the work himself, and has the gratification of warranting all work manufactured in his shop. His work embraces heavy and light single and double harness. Repairing is done on short notice, and on reasonable terms.

CLARK, BOYD, farmer, Wayne township, post office Mt. Vernon, born in Washington county. Pennsylvania, July 31, 1825, and was married February 15, 1855, to Ann McKee, who was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, April 11, 1837. They had the following children: Sarah M., born December 29, 1855; John C. Fremont, May 15, 1857; Eliza J. and Mary Eva, (twins), October 26, 1858; Nancy M., June 22, 1860; Wilmetta, February 22, 1862; Thomas H., August 11, 1864; James W., June 10, 1866; Ida May, May 10, 1868; Steward E., May 17, 1870; Samuel P., August 8, 1872, and Nellie Myrtle, April 16, 1875. Sarah M. died July 16, 1875, and Nancy June 26, 1875. Mr. Clark settled in Wayne township in 1854, and has resided here since that time. '

CLARK, JOSIAH, farmer, Middlebury township, post office Fredericktown, was born in Connecticut, and came to Ohio in 1850, and was married in 1871 to Mary A. Wagoman, who was born in Morrow county. They have two children, Sarah May, and Charlie Russell.

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His sister, Belly Clark, was born in Fairfield county, Connecticut, came to Knox county in 1852, and now resides with her brother, Josiah Clark.

Salina Clark, the mother of Josiah and Betsy, was born in Connecticut in 1778, and came to Ohio in 1852. She remained here till her death, December 29, 1875.

CLAYTON, JACOB, deceased, died at his late residence in Mt. Vernon, February 1, 1881, aged sixty years. The deceased was a native of Maryland, was both at Rising Sun, in that State on the twentyninth of December, 1821. He came to Ohio in 1851, and settled in this city, where he has resided ever since. Mr. Clayton was at his work as usual Monday, in the carpenter shop of his brother-in-law, Mr. W. B. Bounds. He went home after work, and complained some of pain about the heart, and at fifteen minutes of twelve o'clock died, it is supposed, of heart disease. He was a kind neighbor, a good citizen, and an industrious man. He was a member of the masonic fraternity, and held a certificate of membership in the Knights Templar and Masonic Mutual Aid association of Cincinnati, Ohio.

CLEMENTS, HENRY (deceased), a native of Virginia, was born February 17, 1807. His father died when he was but a small child. In 1821 he came with his mother, Anna Clements, to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Clinton township.

On the sixth day of March, 1836, he married Miss Eliza A. Hammond, born in Maryland, September 17, 1816, and daughter of Francis S. and Mary Hammond. They settled in Gambier, remained there three years, and in 1839 he purchased and moved on the farm in Clinton township, now owned and occupied by his heirs, located three miles southwest of Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road. He deceased January 5, 1867. They reared a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters. Four of the children are dead, two sons and two daughters. Their son James died in the war of 1861, from a wound received at the battle at the mouth of White river.

CLEMENTS, WILLIAM H., Monroe township, travelling salesman and collector for C. C. Cooper & Co., of Mt. Vernon. Mr. Clements was born in Howard township, this county, January 25, 1829. He is a machinist by trade, having commenced with C. C. Cooper & Co. as an apprentice, in 1852, and remained in the shop as a mechanic about eight years, then in 1860 became their travelling agent, which position he has since filled, travelling over, and doing business for them, in more than half the States in the Union.

In 1847 he married Miss Elizabeth French, a native of Cornwall, England, born in 1826; and emigrated to America in 1845, and located in Mt. Vernon. After Mr. Clements marriage to Miss French they settled in Mt. Vernon, remained until 1874 when he purchased and moved on the farm in Monroe township, where they are now living. They reared two children, viz: John W. and Ada Blanche. John W. Clements was born in Mt. Vernon in 1848, married Miss Didama R. Fresh, of Wayne county, Ohio, in 1870. They settled in Mt. Vernon, where he operated a door, sash, and blind factory about seven years. In 1878 he sold his establishment and moved on the farm with his father, in Monroe township, and is now engaged in the saw-mill business. They have one child, Ada B.

CLINE, JOSEPH, farmer, Union township, post office Millwood, born in Germany in 1840 and came to this country in 1845. He moved to Knox county in 1858. In 1867 he was married to Miss S. M. Winterringer, and moved to a farm where he still remains. He has four children: Mary Jane, Sarah C., Joseph, and Manning.

CLOW, ANDREW J., Pike township, farmer, post office forth Liberty, born in Holmes county, Ohio, m 1828, and was married in 1854 to Mary Rhodes, who was born in Perry county, Ohio, in 1831. They have three children. Ellen S., born in 1898; Joseph C., in 1865; Gertrude M., in 1869. Mr. Clow came to this county in 1867, located in Brown township, and remained there for eighteen months, then removed to Pike township. In 1862, Mr. Clow fell from a load of hay, and after falling was kicked by a horse in the team, and has not been able to do any labor since. He has suffered a great deal, but is enduring it patiently; is a good citizen, and highly respected.

CLUTTER, JOHN, Morgan township, farmer, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, September 13, 1804. The name Clutter is German, but at what time the ancestors emigrated to America is not known. The father of the subject of this sketch was born in New Jersey; his parents dying. a few years after his birth, he was raised by his uncle. Samuel Clutter, the father of the subject of this notice, married Rachel Denman in New Jersey, and a few years after emigrated to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he remained, being engaged in farming, until April, 1818, when he came to Knox county, and located near the centre of Morgan township. He lived here until 1853, when he died, aged eighty-eight years and seven months. His wife died in 1855, aged about eighty years. They had a family of ten children. The living are Mary McCollum, living in Washington county, Pennsylvania; William, a farmer of Marion county, Ohio; John James, of Milford township, and Samuel Jackson, of Kansas. The deceased are Joseph, Jane, Ecclecta, David B., and Cornelia.

Mr. Clutter was reared on a farm, and has continued farming all his life. He was twice married, his first wife being Sarah Sellers, to whom he was marred in 1831. They had ten children, viz: Elvira, now the wife of Daniel Newton, of Wood county; Sarah Jane married David Noffsinger, and died in Iowa. His first wife dying, he in 1835 married Miss Rachel Marlin, a native of Morgan township. They had twelve children, viz: Celesta, married to William Ewart, has deceased; Zebina Ann, married to William Ewart, has deceased; Van Buren, deceased; Waldon D.; Lucy, married to John Euart, of Morgan township; Samuel Judson, deceased; John A.; Hugh, of Clay township; Nancy Alice; Nora Belle, married to David Bell, and William O. Mr. Clutter is a member of the Baptist church, and has the respect and esteem of the community.

CLUTTER, JAMES, Milford township, farmer, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, September 29, 1806. In 1818 he came to Morgan township, with his parents, Samuel and Rachel, nee Denman. His paternal grandfather, William Clutter. was a native of Germany, and some time during the eighteenth century emigrated to New Jersey with his parents, and served in the war of the Revolution. He married in New Jersey and died there. They had three children; two of whom grew up: Samuel and Jane, the last of whom married Mr. Karl, and remained in New Jersey. Samuel married Rachel Denman, and about the year 1800 moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1818, when he emigrated to Morgan township, Knox county, Ohio, with the family, and both died there. They had ten children, viz.: Mary, widow of Moses McCollum, who resides in Washington county, Pennsylvania;

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William, a resident of Marion county, Ohio; Joseph, deceased; Jane (deceased), married Thomas Harris; John, a resident of Morgan township; James, the subject of this sketch; Electa (deceased), married Joseph Green; David (deceased); Cornelia (deceased), married to John Miller, of Morgan township; and Samuel J., living in Kansas.

The subject of this notice remained in Morgan township until he was about twenty-eight years of age. He then went to Bennington township, Licking county, thence to Clay township, Knox county, and thence to Hartford township, Licking county, and in 1865 he removed to his present farm in Milford township. His first wife was Elizabeth Larason, daughter of Sylvester Larason, to whom he was married November 12, 1831. They had six children. Orlando, two infants, Sylvester W., and Elizabeth have deceased. Amanda, wife of William Reynolds, resides in jasper county, Iowa. His wife died July 21, 1841. He was married to Rhoda Myers August 18, 1842, who was born August 3, 1846, in Licking county. They had nine children, eight of whom are living: Troubadour, born July 12, 1845 in Iowa; Emanuel, December 3, 1846, in Iowa; William O. and Lames A., twins, born August 9, 1848; Orilla Z., December 7, 1850; Mary E., July 23, 1852, died June 22, 1855; Phila, October 4. 1856; Manceleta, November 17, 1837; Art, September 10, 1859.

Mr. Clutter's first purchase of land was a tract of one hundred and four acres in Bennington township, on which he paid two hundred and seventy-five dollars, all he had. He now owns a comfortable home and has gained a competency.

CLUTTER, SAMUEL, Morgan township, farmer, was born in Knox county, January 3, 1827. His father, William Clutter, was born in New Jersey in 1798 moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania, and in 1817 to Ohio. He married Miss Eda McKeown. They had ten children, seven of whom are yet living.

Samuel was reared on a farm. He married Miss Ann Eliza, daughter of Jonathan Brown, in March, 1853, a pioneer of whom mention is made. She was born in March, 1833. in Morgan township. They had six children, viz; Wary A., wife of Lewis C. Rose, Davis county, Kansas; Anis and Alice (twins); Alice died when four years old; Anis married Abram Mason, and resides in Marion county, Ohio; William J., and David.

Mr. and Mrs. Clutter reside on the old homestead, where Jonathan Brown, father of Mrs. Clutter, first settled.

COCANOWER, SAMUEL, Fredericktown, foreman in planing mills, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, emigrated with his parents to this county when a boy, and was married in 1868, to Rachel Pinkley, who was born in this county in 1842. They have one daughter, Mary Ellen, born in 1869. He is foreman in the planing mills of S. S. Turtle & Co., in Fredericktown.

COCHRAN, MATTHEW, residence West High street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Cochran was born April 8, 1794, in Straven, Scotland, and in 1798 his parents emigrated to America and located in Philadelphia, where they resided until 1810, and during which Mr. Cochran received his education, and learned the baking business. In the year 1814 he went to Baltimore, where he worked at his trade about one and a half years, when he emigrated to Ohio and located in Liberty township, five miles southwest of Mt. Vernon, in the year 1816. He here took a squatter's claim in the woods, and erected himself a cabin and commenced to fell the forest. He resided here about seven years, during which he cleared up about twenty acres, and after which he moved about one mile and erected another cabin and commenced a second time in the woods; and by indomitable energy and perseverance he succeeded in changing the gigantic and unbroken forest into beautiful and productive fields, which yielded him an abundant recompense for his labors, and he was thereby enabled to change his cabin for better improvements. He has an excellent farm house and barn and all the necessary out buildings, a good orchard, and one hundred and and fifty acres of finely improved fields, and fifty acres of excellent timber The timber of this farm was unusually good. He resided on the farm place until 1869, when he felt that he had fought the good fight as a pioneer and farmer, and that declining years would compel him to resign his place to younger hands. He then came to Mt. Vernon and located on West Vine street, where he resided until April, 1876. He then came to his present location on West High street, where, in his eighty-sixth year, he is enjoying the fruits of his labors and the comforts of a .pleasant home. Mr. Cochran has been twice married. He was first married to Nancy Slemmons, by whom he he had three children, one of whom is living-Alexander (deceased), John S.. who resides on and manages the home farm, and James (deceased). His second wife was Mary E. Brown, daughter of Matthias Brown, of New York city, who is now his companion in his declining years.

COCHRAN, JOHN, deceased, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1804, and married Mary Oram January 28, 1830. They had eight children: Mary A., born December 1, 1830; Henry O., in 1831; Frances P., in 1832; Albert C., in 1833; Levi C., in 1835; John C., in 1837; Louisa, in 1839; and Esther, in 1840. The deceased members are: John Cochran, died April 10, 1875; Henry O., June 20, 1848; John C., July 20, 1840; Louisa, July 19, 1839; and Esther, February 4, 1842. The following are married: Mary A., married Jesse Penrose; they have eight children: John C., Eli, Mary Elizabeth, Isaac, Benjamin, Frances, William, and Laura; they reside in Marshall, Indiana. Albert C., married Amanda, daughter of Rev. Scoles; they have one daughter: Olive A. Albert received a liberal education, studied medicine and practiced for some time. Being impressed with a higher responsibility, he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is still engaged in that calling. Francis P. Cochran was born in Pike township, and married Jane Reed, who was born in this county in 1833. They have seven children: Florence G., was born in 1857; John B., 1859; Mary N., 1867; Charlie B., 1864; Sarah A., 1866; Amanda J., 1871; and Walter R., in 1875. Mr. Cochran is a resident of Monroe township, and a prominent member o the Methodist Episcopal church. His son, John B., is attending the theological institution at Berea, Ohio, preparing for the ministry. The Cochran family are all identified with the Methodist Episcopal church. The father united with the church in 1833, was an official classleader for many years, and an exemplary Christian. Mrs. Mary Cochran is a resident of Fredericktown, and is also a worthy member of the church, and highly respected,

COE, CAPTAIN, CHARLES HENRY, farmer, Hilliar township. He was born near Fredericktown, Maryland, November 5, 1823. His father, Joshua Coe, was born December 21, 1783, in Frederick county, Maryland. He was married to Mary Bergoon, a native of the same county. She was born

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June 7, 1790. They remained in Maryland until 1826, when they emigrated to Licking county and settled near Utica, bringing with them a family of five children. They remained in Licking county a few years, and moved to Milford township, Knox county, where they purchased a farm. They lived and died here. They had a family of eight children, viz: Ephriam; Keturah married Thomas Wells; Mary E.. married James Conrad; Francis, David, Charles H., Thomas D., William J. D. F.; of these Ephriam, Keturah, Mary E. and Francis, are deceased.

Captain Coe, the subject of our notice, remained with his father until be was seventeen years of age, when he went to learn the trade of tanner and currier. He served three years and then set up for himself, and carried it on successfully until 1858. December to, 1844, he was married to Eliza Ann Conrad, youngest daughter of Joseph Conrad, who came to Ohio in 1805 from Fredericktown, Virginia, and settled in Morgan township. The first building he put up was a hewed log dwelling, which is yet standing. His nearest mill was near where Fredericktown now stands. While at mill waiting for his grist, the inhabitants were suggesting names for the village, but it seems could not agree, so Mr. Conrad suggested the name of Fredericktown, after his native town in Virginia. This name was adopted. Mr. Conrad died on the farm on which he afterwards settled near Utica, at the age of eighty-eight years.

From 1858 to 1860 Mr. Coe was improving and stocking a farm in Kansas and driving sheep to the west. In May, 1861, he was commissioned captain, with orders to be ready to go into camp. July 27th, of same year, he was ordered into Camp Chase, near Columbus. When the men came to be examined there was quite a number rejected, and on account of the rejection there was a consolidation of the different companies, thus requiring less officers. Consequently he was detailed to recruit for the First and Tenth Ohio cavalry. In August, 1862, he was ordered by the department to recruit a company of First Independent Ohio volunteer sharp-shooters at Zanesville, Ohio. On account of the burning of their camp, they were ordered to report to Camp Cleveland, where, by requirement, they were tested by target shooting.

Each man before he was mustered into service as a sharpshooter was required to make a string of twenty-four inches at two hundred yards range. Those failing were rejected. The captain had the honor of making the best string out of six hundred men. He made a string of seven inches, four of the shots not making over one and a half inches, the last shot making five and a half inches. The company was mustered into service December 20, 1862, and ordered immediately to the front for duty. The captain reported to General Rosecrans at Murfreesborough, Tennessee, and was placed upon his body guard, and was with him at Franklin, Tennessee, Crooked Creek, Tennessee, Liberty Gap, Hoover's Gap, and all the marches and campaigns that his company participated in until December 17, 1864, when he resigned on account of physical disability. After his return home he moved on the farm on which he now resides, which he has improved until it is now one of the best farms in Hilliar township. December 7, 1873, he lost his wife, she dying with consumption. December 13, 1875, he was married to Sarah E. Mills, youngest daughter of Samuel Mills. The captain spends considerable of his time at the hot spring of Arkansas. He has an interest in silver mining in Arkansas.

COE, THOMAS D., farmer, Milford township, was born in Licking county May, 1825, and is the son of Joshua and Mary Coe, of whom mention is made in the sketch of Captain Coe, of Hilliar township. When he was about fourteen his father died and in his will he expressed a wish to have his two youngest children (the subject of this notice and William J.) to learn trades, so when about sixteen years of age he contracted with Phillip Pierce, of Homer, to learn the carriage and wagonmaking trade. On the fourth day of March, 1842, he commenced his apprenticeship at Homer, and remained there until his trade was learned, receiving as compensation his board and clothes. Mr. Coe next went to Utica, in the same county, and commenced business fur himself and remained there six years and six months. Being successful, he purchased a tract of seventy-five acres of land in Monroe county, where he was engaged in farming and fruit-growing. He then purchased a farm in Milford township, upon which he is now living. He thus started in life under discouraging circumstances, but by hard work and economy he has succeeded. He married Miss Mary E. Scribner, daughter of Asa Scribner, a native of Connecticut, who was born in Newark, New Jersey, December, 1830. He had four children, two of whom are living-Norton J., farmer, resides in Milford Sylvia J., wife of Sprague Hawkins, of Centreburgh, Ohio. The deceased are Ellis W. and Clifton T.

Mr. Coe is engaged in the cultivation of choice fruits, consisting of grapes, peaches, apples, and small fruits. He understands fruit growing, and has most excellent orchards.

COE, W. J. D. F., farmer, Milford township, was born in Morgan township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1829; is the son of Joshua and Mary Coe, nee Burgoon, and of whom mention is made in this work. He remained on a farm until about fourteen yeas of age, when he went to learn the trade of carriage blacksmith in Utica, Ohio. After learning his trade he continued working at it until he was twenty-four years of age. He then farmed for a few years, when by his economy he had saved enough of money to purchase a home. He purchased a farm of sixty-five acres in Licking county, and remained there until the spring of 1863, when he moved to the old homestead where his father settled in 1833, and has resided there ever since. He is a leading citizen of the township, a good farmer, and takes an interest in public affairs.

The Coe family of which Mr. Coe is a member are among the most successful ones of the county. They all started poor in life, and have, by their industry, acquired considerable property, and are among the influential men of the county. Mr. Coe was married in 1856 to Miss Emily Truman, of Licking county. They had four children, one of whom died in infancy. The living are Eddie, Charles Sumner, and Cyntha Ann. Mr. Coe was a member of company A, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth regiment Ohio National guard, and served his term of enlistment.

COGGINS, JONATHAN, Pleasant township, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1813. He commenced working at the carpenter trade when sixteen years of age, and has made that his principal vocation during life. In the fall of 1835 he emigrated to Ohio and located in Knox county. In September, 1838,. he married Miss Louisa Marquand, of Coshocton county, Ohio, born in 1818.

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the property where they are now living, in Pleasant township, about two miles southeast of Mt. Vernon. They have six children, one son and five daughters. Two of the Later are dead.

COLE, THOMAS F., Liberty township. An ancient and very extensive family of British origin, to be distinguished from the German name Kohl by the method of spelling.

As far back as Edward's time one named Cole appears to have been employed by that monarch to communicate with the Scots.

Henry Cole, D. D., dean of St. Paul's, preached the condemnation sermon when Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, suffered martyrdom under Queen Mary, 1555.

To the female side of this family was allied Nicholas Ridley, bishop of London, burned for his religion at Smithfield, London, 1555 a full-sized portrait of whom, in a sitting position is preserved in the family homestead of a branch of the family in Downham, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. This homestead, intimately connected with the branch of the family now in the United States, was built some five centuries ago. Its massive dining-table of princely proportions has been an object of curiosity fur menu years and is suggestive of

"The banquet waits our presence, festal joy

Laughs in the mantling goblet, and the night.

Illumined by the taper's dazzling beam,

Rivals departed day-"

The designs of the tapestries hung upon the walls of its dining hall have long puzzled visitors from all parts of the kingdom, some believing them to represent the pains of purgatory, and others, the torments of the damned. The portraits of the mistresses of the house in due succession (among them a fairhaired Hollander), for a period of neatly three hundred years, still (or did a few years ago) adorn its walls.

Inseparably associated with the history of this family is a tree known in the annals of Downham as the "Old Oak," which, until 1833, stood a few paces from the homestead door. Such was its ale and proportions that an extensive ball-room had once been erected among its branches. Its fall will probably be best illustrated by a quotation from a letter written July 22, 1833, by Francis Cole to his brother Michael, in this State: "Our dear old father is in good health as ever I saw him. A serious accident, however, had like to have befallen him at the fell of the Old Oak Tree, which had liked to have killed him. We employed John Wall to take it down. Its fall was sudden, owing to the decay of its roots. At the time of its fall there were several children playing about it; three met with instant death, and Robert Walsham had his thigh broken, and several others were slightly hurt." The history of this tree and other curiosities of the Isle of Ely, were found in a book owned by C. Baely, M. D., of Brownsville. Fayette county, Pennsylvania.

There is one character connected with the family of Michael Cole, late of this county, which we would faro notice, i. e., Miss Jennie Hancock, having been present at his birth, and at the birth of each of his brothers and of his sister, and continually interesting herself in their welfare, they learned to regard her almost as one of themselves. In her tatter years she was called the wise woman of England, and was accounted a witch. One pious cottager averring that he saw her and the knobbed cane she carried pass through the key hole of his street door. Another ascribed the shower of pins and needles which fell upon his table while the family were at breakfast to her malignancy. In other cases, well vouched for, the milk became sour and even curdled before reaching the house after milking. Strange sicknesses came upon those who dared to anger her, and all the absurdities usually ascribed to witchcraft were imputed to her. A gratuity, however, appeased her wrath, and an apron full of cabbage, or a donation of half a crown, was presumed to hate averted many calamities. Her death, which occurred at an extreme old age about the year 1841, was extensively noticed, and her life and sayings commented upon by the newspapers of the United States, as well as by those of England and the continent.

Thomas Cole, who died about the year 1760, left two sons, Thomas and Ridley. Ridley died young. Thomas inherited the ancestral home at Downham, and married Ann Stubbins. His death occurred March 8, 1836. His wife, Ann Stubbins Core, died upon the birth of their seventh child, Michael, December 12, 1794. Seven children were born to them: Thomas, Ridley, Francis, Ann, Robert, and Michael, of whom four. Thomas, Robert, Ridley, and Michael, emigrated to America and settled in New York State. To Thomas were born two daughters, who are still living near Ithaca, New York.

Two of Ridley's sons, Ridley and Thomas, and two of Robert's sons, James and Thomas, went to Iowa and settled Colesburgh, in Delaware county.

Of Francis, John, and Ann, who remained in England, Francis became engaged in government works, and purchased the old homestead. He reared a family of four children, three of whom, daughters, remain in England. His son, Michael, is now in Colesburgh, Iowa.

Francis died August 29, 1849.

Ann, when very young, married James Luddington, of Littleport, England, and became the mother of a family distinguished for their wealth and culture.

John reared a family of eight children, four of whom, James, Thomas, Ridley, and Joseph, are now in Iowa.

Michael was born December 12, 1794. His schoolmaster was John Aspland, grandfather of the winner of the international belt, 1880. He was married to Mary Utteridge May -, 1815, with whom he embarked for America on Good Friday, April 17, 1832, settling in Chautauqua county, New York, where he invested all his means in a farm, the title to which proving imperfect he found himself penniless. In 1835, with wife and child, he removed to Butler county, Pennsylvania; thence, in 1836, to Allegheny City, now a part of Pittsburgh. During the following sixteen years the family removed twelve times, finally starting from Brownsville, Fayette courtly, they left the Keystone State and arrived in Knox county, Ohio, in March, 1852, settling in Green Valley, on the farm now owned by G. L. Cochran, esq.; after one more remove they rested upon the farm in Liberty township, which they called Mt. Airy, and on which they now reside.

On the thirteenth day of October, 1867, in her sixty-seventh year, the mother was called to her eternal rest, and on the eleventh day of February, 1879, Michael Cole, having been counted among the people of God for more than seventy-five years, and successfully braving every vicissitude of fortune, calmly slept the sleep of death, leaving one son.

Thomas Francis, the subject of the present sketch, who was born October 1, 1834, in Chautauqua county, New York, was partially educated in Allegheny City. Pennsylvania; removed with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1852; was married to Charity, daughter of W. O. Phillips, Esq., July 4, 1855. Six children were the result of this union:

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Michael Francis, born March 24, 1856, married to Sadie, daughter of J. L. Jackson, esq., May 24, 1876, to whom a daughter, Maud, was born March 10, 1877. He is now farming near Mt. Vernon.

S. P. Chase, born September 24, 1857, married Etta Hull, daughter of James Hull, esq., July 3, 1878, to whom was born, April 16, 1879, a son, Thomas Francis Cole. Chase is now living at Bangs engaged in teaching.

W. Utteridge, born April 13, 1861, attending school at Lebanon.

Robert, born September 7, 1865; Mary, February 28, 1870; Alice, March 24, 1873. The last three we found with their parents at Mt. Airy in 1880.

COLE, WILBERT E., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Connecticut in 1811. He came to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1815, and to Berlin township in 1819, where he still resides. He is the oldest settler of Berlin township now living. He was married in 1839 to Mary A. Woodruff who was born is Knox county. She died in 1875 after a protracted illness of four years, with a cancer. Mr. Cole's second marriage was to Sarah Pritchard, who was born in Maine in 1833, and came to Ohio in 1838.

COLE, SILAS, was born February 5, 1836, in Devonshire, England, where he remained until 1867, learning the trade of ship blacksmithing. In 1867 he came to America and settled at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, where he engaged with the firm of Buckingham, Gutherie, Taylor & Hupton, whom he served about one year; afterwards worked a short time in Newark and in Cincinnati, when he established himself in Mt. Vernon in the blacksmith trade, which he has carried on successfully ever since. In 1879 he added to his shops and commenced making iron bridges, the first ever made in Knox county. He is doing a good business in every department at this tune. He was married to Miss Mary Ann May, daughter of Thomas May, April 5, 1867, and is the father of eleven children, three of whom are living.

COLE, WILLIAM M., farmer, post office, Council Grove, Morris county, Kansas. He was born in Berlin township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1840; was married in 1861 to Elizabeth M. Hunter, who was born in Pike township, this county, in 1840. They have eight children, namely: Lydia E. born in 1862; Mary E., in 1864; Laving A., in 1866; Frank E., in 1868; Charlie E., in 1870; John H., in 1872; Martha A., in 1874; and William A. in 1879. Mr. Cole and wife were identified with this county till the spring of 1881. They sold their farm and have emigrated to Morris county, Council Grove, Kansas.

COLE, RACHEL, widow, Berlin township, post office, Shalers Mills, was married first to Hugh McBride and had one son, Ambrose, now a resident of Richland county. Mr. McBride died in Pike township in 1842. Mrs. Rachael McBride was afterward married to Thomas D. Brown, and had a sonThomas D., a resident of Berlin township. Mr. Thomas D. Brown died in Knox county. Mrs. Rachael Brown's third marriage was to Isaac B. Cole, of Berlin township. They had one daughter, Hannah, who was born in 1854, and was married in 1872 to Levi Grubb. They have two daughters, Nettie A., born November 25, 1872, and Bertie A., December 17, 1875. Mr. Grubb is a carpenter and farmer.

COLE, WHEELER W., farmer, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Berlin township, this county, in 1852, married in 1877, to Alice R. Auten, who was born in this township in 1854. They have one son who was born May 19, 1879. Mr. Cole is engaged in farming, and is a quiet and good citizen.

COLOPY, JOSEPH, farmer, Union township, post office, Gann, born in Maryland, June 3, 1802. In 1804 he was taken to Virginia, and remained there until 1813, when he came to Knox county and settled south of Mt. Vernon. In 1825 he married Delila Sapp, and settled on the farm which he now owns and occupies. When they came here it was all timber land, but they cleared it up and now he owns a good little farm. His wife died in 1861, and left nine children. The oldest son died in California, and two oft he daughters died later. He was married afterward to Mrs. E. Divers in 1868. She was a daughter of Mr. Chase, who is a second cousin of Governor S. P. Chase. She was the first white girl born in Massillon. Joseph and Levi Colopy remain at home on the farm. Joseph was married to Jennie Durbin in 1871. They have one child, Bessie, born in 1878.

COLOPY, JACOB, Union township; retired farmer, was born near Baltimore, Maryland, June 3, 1802. With his father, Timothy Colopy, he came to Knox county in 1812. He first settled in Miller township, fire miles south of Mt. Vernon, and resided there until he was twenty-two years of age, when he removed to the southern part of Jefferson township, now ineluded in Union. He was married September 18, 1825, to Delila Sapp, who was bore August 23, 1804, Their children were: Timothy W., born October 31, 1826; Jonathan A., July 17, 1828; Sarah C., February 27, 1830; George E., March 12, 1832; Joseph H., December 1, 1834; Levi F., December 31, 1838; Delila A., July 7, 1841; Mary M., July 29, 1844, and Sarah C., April 29, 1849. Timothy died in California in about 1851. First Sarah C. died in about 1849, and second Sarah C died June 5, 1855. Mrs. Colopy died May 19, 1861.

Mr. Colopy was married second time, September 15, 1867, to Mrs. Emily V. Myers, who was born in Massillon, Ohio, September 20, 1822. When he removed to Jefferson. it was almost a wilderness. Deer, wolves and wild animals were numerous. Possessing an indomitable spirit, he went to work with a determination to succeed, and by dint of perseverance and hard work he was at one time the owner of seventeen hundred acres of excellent farming land lying in Jefferson and Union townships. Owing to his advancing years and loss of health and strength, he divided this among his children some years since. He voted at the first election held in Jefferson township, and is the only one living of those who voted at that election. He has been a life long member of the Catholic church, and has always voted the Democratic ticket.

COLOPY, MRS. HULDA, Miller township, was-born in this township February 12, 1817, and was daughter of Alpheus Chapman, who was born in Vermont in 1786, served in the War of 1812, was taken prisoner at Malone, New York, and was confined in Montreal, Canada, during the winter. His father was a soldier of the Revolutionary war. After Mr. Chapman was discharged from the army, he went to Vermont, where he remained for some time, and then came to Miller township, where he married Emma Ward, daughter of Rufus Ward, a pioneer of Miller township, about 1816. 'they remained some time in Miller township, and then went to Licking county (Homer), where Mr. Chapman died in 1832. His wife survived until 1839. They had a family of fire children, viz: Hulda, the subject of this notice; Lucinda, married to James Stone; Julia, married to

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Royal V. Hickox; Henry C.; Fannie, married to George Wykman.

Hulda married John Colopy October, 1842, He was a native of Virginia, born in 1812, and died in 1871. Farming and raising sheep was his principal business. He kept hotel in Brandon for a number of years, and was widely known. They had three children, viz: Albina, married to Charles J. O'Rourke; William C., and Emma C., wife of Shelton R. Butcher. Albina and William C. have deceased.

Mrs. Colopy taught school for a number of terms, and is a woman above the average in intelligence. Her father, A. Chapman, was a commissioned colonel, and took an active interest in military affairs.

COLOPY, TIMOTHY, Miller township, farmer, was born in Miller township, March 8, 1823. His father, William Colopy, was a native of Ireland, who emigrated to America a few years prior to the War of 1812. He married Mary Fitzpatrick, in Baltimore, Maryland, a native of county Limenck, Ireland, and in the spring of 1813, the young couple came as far west as Wheeling, Virginia, where they remained a few years and then came to Miller township. Mr. Colopy died on the farm now owned by his son, on the Granville road. His wife still survives him (December, 1880). They had seven children; the living are: Catharine, widow of Elijah Colony; Mary Ann, wife of Oliver Squires; Timothy; Ellen, widow of Jacob Row; and Sarah J., wife of T. L. Marquand; John, and .Thomas have. died.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm, and has followed farming as his occupation. He enlisted in company F, First battalion, Eighteenth United States infantry, October, 1861, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and served with the armies under Generals Buell, Rosecrans, and Thomas. He was in the battles of Chickamauga, Mission Ridge arid, Buzzard's Roost, besides a number of skirmishes. He was taken sick and discharged on account of physical disability, after serving about two years and eight months. He was slightly wounded at Mission Ridge, on the chin. He married Miss Theresa Doyle, daughter of James Doyle, deceased, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. They have five children, viz: Mary A., James W., Francis T., Nellie M., and John P.

COLOPY, JONATHAN, farmer and stock-riser, Brown township; post office, Democracy; son of Jacob and Delila Colopy; born July 17, 1828, in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, where he was reared, receiving a common-school education, after which he remained with his father until the nineteenth of February, 1856, when, at the age of twenty-eight years, he was united in marriage with Sarah J. Berry, daughter of James and Lucy Berry, born in Guernsey county, October 1, 1832. He afterwards located in Brown township, Knox county, on a farm of eighty acres, given him by his father-in-law, James Berry. Three years afterward, in the spring of 1859, he bought, adjoining him on the west, forty acres; and in 1861, two hundred and seventy-five acres adjoining on the south and southwest; in 1868, ten acres on the west; in 1871, eighty-two acres on the north; in 1872, twenty more on the north; in 1878 and 1880, forty-five acres on the southeast, making in all five hundred and ninety-two acres, where he now resides. He is also the owner of three hundred and eighty acres in Union township, Knox county, making a total of one thousand acres. Mr. Colopy also owns a share in the woollen mills at Gann; is also the owner of a portable saw-mill. He is considered an energetic and shrewd farmer.

Notwithstanding all his losses, he has accumulated a large amount of property. From 1877 to 1880 he paid ten thousand dollars security money, but is nevertheless at present erecting a very fine dwelling house at a cost of five thousand dollars. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Colopy resulted in three children, viz: James E., born December 6, 1856; Lucy B., born October 13, 1858; who, on the seventh day of October, 1879, married Louis G. Welker, of Howard township, Knox county, where she at present resides on a farm given her by her father; Mary A., born May 3, 1864, all of whom are living. Mrs. Colopy died September 17, 1864, aged thirty-two years. Mr. Colopy at present remains a widower. He and his family are members of the Catholic church, located near Danville.

COLOPY, JOSEPH H., farmer, Union township; post office, Gann; was born in Jefferson township, Knox county, in 1837, and married in February, 1871, to Jennie Durbin, and settled on the old homestead. He has one child, Bessie, born August 29, 1873. His business is farming and raising stock.

COLVILLE, JAMES (deceased), Pleasant township. He was born near Winchester, Virginia, in 1767. When a young man he emigrated to Washington county, Pennsylvania, remained there until 1803, when he came to Knox county, Ohio, and located on land now owned by his sons in Pleasant township, a short distance from Mt. Vernon. He at once commenced to improve his land by clearing away the forest, erecting a cabin, and tilling the soil. His cabin was erected as early as 1805. in which he and another man lived, for some months prior to November, 1806. He assisted on the survey of the military land of Knox county. In the fall of 1806 he returned to Washington county, Pennsylvania, and on the twentyseventh day of November, of same year, he married Miss Mary Jackson, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1781, daughter of James and Nancy Jackson. In a short time after his marriage he returned with his wife to his forest home in Knox county. His log cabin served them as an abode until about 1824, when he erected a hewed log house, which, with an addition of a frame, erected in a few years, served them as a residence until his death. He filled the office of associate judge, in Knox county, for a short time. He deceased February 7, 1837. His companion survived him until May 17, 1851. Thus ended the lives of two of Knox county's earliest pioneers. They reared a family of eight children, viz: Martha, Joseph, Nancy, James. John, Thomas, Robert M., and Mary J. Two of the number (Martha and Mary J.) have died. Joseph is now living in Iowa; Nancy is in Wisconsin, and the other. Our brothers are living on the home farm. James and John are not married. Thomas was born in Knox county, Ohio. November 9, 1818; he married Miss Sarah Patrick in 1847, born in Mt. Vernon in March, 1825, daughter of Uriah and Delilah Patrick.

They settled on his father's home farm, where they are now living. They have five children, three sons and two daughters. He has filled the office of justice of the peace in Pleasant township since April, 1875. Robert M. was born in Pleasant township, Knox county, Ohio. July 16, 1821. He married Miss Hannah J. Patrick in 1854, daughter of Uriah Patrick, born in Pleasant township, Knox county, February 3, 1831. They I settled on a part of his father's home farm, where they are now living. They have four children, three sons and one daughter.

COLVILLE, JAMES, was born in Frederick county, near Winchester, Virginia, in 1767. In 1803 he came to Knox

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county, Ohio, and settled on a farm in Pleasant township (now owned by his sons), a short distance east of Mt. Vernon. His log cabin was built as early as 1805. November 27, 1806, he married Miss Mary Jackson, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1781. He aided in surveying the Military lands in Knox county. He was one of the associate judges of the county in 1808. Mr. Colville died February 7, 1837, aged seventy years, and Mrs. Colville on the seventeenth day of May, 1851, also aged seventy years.

COLWILL, SIMON, retired, Monroe township; a native of England, and son of Thomas Colwill, was born in September, 1810. He began working at the wagon making trade as an apprentice in 1826; sewed three years as such, then worked six years as a journeyman at his trade in England. On the twenty-ninth day of March, 1835, he married Miss Ann Heard, of England, born May 28, 1812, daughter of John Heard. On the third day after their marriage, April 1st, they sailed for America, landing in few York, on the sixteenth day of May, and from thence to Gambler, this county, arriving at the end of their journey June 7th. He at once engaged at his trade, and carried on a wagon shop in Gambier for twenty pears. In 1848 he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Monroe township, one mile north of Gambler. He continued in his business in Gambler until 1855, when he erected a shop on his farm, in which he carried on his trade until 1874, when, on account of bad health, he quit business and is now living a retired life. They reared a family of nine children, viz.: Mary J., William H., Daniel, Elizabeth, John T., Emma L., Frances E., Simon A., and Charles G. William H. Colwill served one year in the war of 1861, and died at Vicksburgh July 30, 1863. Daniel Colwill, served about eighteen months in the war of 1861, and was wounded at the battle of stone River December 26, 1862, and died from the effects of his wounds January 3, 1863.

COLWILL, WILLIAM Liberty township, farmer, was born in county Cornwall, England, December 27, 1831. His parents, William and Harriet Colwill, net Harris, came to the United States about 1842, settling in Jefferson township, and purchased a tract of two hundred and eighty acres of land, and were among the best citizens of that section. They have both deceased, Mr. Colwill died on the farm, and his wife survived him some time, and died at Gambler. They had seven children, William being the only son. He was reared on the farm, attended the district schools and select school, and also an academy at Loudonville. He taught school and worked on the farm until the death of his father. He sold his property in Jefferson township, and in 1865 removed to Liberty, where he purchased a farm, and where he has continued to reside. He was superintendent of the building of the Rossville flouring mill, and was secretary of the company, and one of the partners. He is a director of the Farmers' Insurance company, of Jelloway, and collecting agent, which position he has held since the organization of the company. Mr. Colwill is a man of general information, an accurate and good business man, and is one of the leading men of the township. He was married to Miss Hannah Danbury, of Jefferson township. They had seven children -two sons and five daughters.

CONDON, D. W., Fredericktown, shoe merchant, was born in Frederick county, Maryland. 1831. He emigrated with his parents to this county in 1851, and was married in 1862 to Melinda Jane Royce, who was born in this county they had three children, Flank, Jennie and Mary. Mr. London learned the shoe trade with his father, and has since worked at that business. He is a member of the firm of D. W. London & Co., boot and shoe dealers. He was a soldier in the late Rebellion, was brave, rendered good service, and was honorably discharged.

CONGER, DANIEL, deceased, Wayne township, born to New Jersey. December 24, 1787, and was married to Mary Butch, who was born in Brooke county. Virginia, in May 1802. They had the following children: Elizabeth, born October 28, 1826; Catherine, January 8, 1828; Jane, October 31, 1829; Mary D., January 31, 1832; Daniel L., September 27, 1833; Hannah, December 27, 1835; Martha E.--------. Mr. Daniel Conger died November 4, 1845, and Catherine, September 28, 1835. They came to Knox county in 1825. Mrs. Conger is still residing in this township.

CONKEL, JOHN, farmer, Howard township, post office Howard. He was born June 6, 1844 in Union township. In 1866 he was married to Miss Charlotte Hammon and settled on the farm where he now resides. They had three children, Laura, Charles and Birchfield.

His father was born in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio at an early day. His mother came from the old country His father has been dead twenty-five years. His mother is still living on the old homestead.

COOK, SAMUEL N., painter, Fredericktown, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1846, and was married in 1872, to Alary E. Johnston. who was born in 1849. He was a soldier in the late war, in the Ninth Ohio volunteer cavalry, and sewed three years. Mr. Cook received a liberal education. He has been correspondent for several popular daily newspapers, such as the Cincinnati Times-Star, New York Dramatic News, and Mt. Vernon Republican. He has written and produced a number of dramatic pieces. The Mayor's Daughter, has been tendered publicly in this city, and highly commented and applauded. Two other of his productions, entitled The Wanderers Return, and Paul Black, (a war drama), are popular. Mr. Cook is engaged in the carriage factory of Stephens & Scott, as painter.

COOK, STEVEN, deceased, was born August 19, 1789, in Washington county, Pennsylvania; removed to Knox county about 1814, was married to Susanna Elston October 29, 1810. Their children were Elston, Elizabeth. Sarah, Phebe, Isaac Newton, Oliver Cromwell, Emeline- four, Sarah, Phebe, Isaac and Emeline, still living. At the time of Mr. Cook's coming to Knox county wild animals of all kinds abounded, and he found it necessary at times to keep fires burning in order to protect his flocks from the ravages of the wolves. Mr. Cook was a hard working pioneer, partially clearing up three farms in the forests of Morgan and Clay townships in those early times. He was elder in the Presbyterian church many years, when becoming dissatisfied with the attitude of the church on the slavery question joined the Free Presbyterians. He died at his home in Martinsburgh May 20, 1870. Phebe, daughter of Mr. Cook, was married May 3, 1853, to Joseph Moore, two children being born unto them, Susan and Edmund L., the son dying April 3, 1863. Mrs. Moore was born on the farm on which she resides and has resided for the past sixty-two years, and is a very intelligent Christian lady, being with her husband a member of the Presbyterian church.

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COOPER, MRS. REBECCA, Hilliar township, was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, December 20, 1808. Her parents came to Ohio in 1810, and settled in Morgan township on the farm now owned by the brother of Mrs. Cooper ( John Roberts). They settled in the woods and cleared up the farm. There were nine children in the family, five of whom are yet living. The parents both died on their favorite spot, the old farm. They were among the early settlers of this county. Rebecca was married to John Cooper June 4, 1842. As a result of this union they had a family of children, two of whom are living: Adaline, at home, Sarah B., married to Alonzo R. Hubbell and resides on the farm. Mr. Cooper died November 23, 1855. Mrs. Cooper recollects many of the early events of the county. Her mind is unimpaired and she can recollect dates with distinctness. She has the esteem of alt who know her.

COOPER, CHARLES, the senior member of the firm of C. & G. Cooper & Company, is the son of Carey Cooper, who emigrated from Butler county, Pennsylvania, and located in Knox county about the year 1806. Charles and John are the only living sons of this early settler. Charles Cooper was born on a farm a few miles south of Mt. Vernon, January 2, 1811. He received such an education as the schools of that day could give. He was employed during the early part of his life on the horrid farm. In 1818 his parents moved on a farm three miles northwest of Mt. Vernon, where his father died in 1831. He remained on this farm until he moved to the Hamline farm, near Zanesville (now a part of that city, and engaged in the coal trade and dairy business, in company with his brother Elias. In this business the brothers continued for two and a half years. In 1834 they gave up their Zanesville farm and returned to Mt. Vernon. Shortly after their return to this county they engaged in the foundry business on a scale suitable to their finances. Their first efforts were devoted mainly to manufacturing plows and hollow-ware, and such castings as were mostly in demand in that day. In 1840 they commenced to manufacture threshing machines. In 1842 they added to their business the manufacturing of engines and saw-mills, and in 1850 they added to their list of specialties the manufacture of boilers.

Mr. Elias Cooper died in 1848. The business was conducted by Charles Cooper alone until 1849, when he sold a one-third interest to Mr. Thaddeus L. Clark, and the business was conducted under the firm name of Cooper & Clark until 1851. when Charles sold a one-third interest to his brother, John Cooper, when the firm was changed to that of Coopers & Clark. Under this last name the business was conducted until 1857, when the brothers bought the interest of Mr. Clark, changing the name of the firm to C. & J. Cooper, which remained intact up to 1866, when they sold a small interest to Mr. Frank L. Fairchild, and also a small interest to Mr. I. Douglass Maxwell. The firm name was then C. end J. Cooper & Company. In the spring of 1869 the firm of Coopers & Rogers, proprietors of the Kokosing Iron Works was consolidated with the firm of C. and J. Cooper & Company, by which action Colonel George Rogers and Mr. C. Grey Cooper became members of the firm. Messrs. C. & E. Cooper established this firm on a capital of about eight hundred dollars, and their business amounted to between eight thousand and ten thousand dollars per year. The firm of C. and G. Cooper & Company, the successors to C. & E. Cooper, now do an annual business amounting to four hundred thousand dollars.

Their buildings are extensive. The moulding house is seventy by eighty feet. The machine shop is two-story, thirty by sixty feet, built in 1842. In 1850 the firm erected a three-story building in the form of an L, eighty-eight feet on Sugar street, one hundred and thirty-two feet on Sandusky street, and forty feet in width. In 1852 they built on the west side of Sandusky street a blacksmith shop forty by one hundred and twenty feet, a wood shop, forty-two by one hundred and twenty feet, a boiler shop, thirty-eight by one hundred and twenty feet. In 1866 they built an engine house thirty by thirty-five feet. In 1868 they built an erecting room thirty by eighty feet. In 1872 the firm added a two-story warehouse forty-eight by one hundred and twenty feet. In 1879 they built another warehouse, sixty by one hundred and thirty-six feet, on the corner of Sugar and West streets, and rebuilt their boiler shop, changing it from thirty-eight by one hundred and twenty feet to forty-five by one hundred and twenty-five feet, and also enlarged the engine house from thirty by thirty-five feet, to forty-five by sixty-five feet.

The motive power employed in this immense establishment now, and that used in its pioneer days, shows a remarkable improvement, from a mere shed in 1834, to its present palatial appearance in 1881, alter forty-six years of changeful existence. In 1834 the original proprietors performed their work with an old horse and wooden gearing. In 1842 they put in an eight-horse engine; in 1846 an upright engine with a capacity of sixteenhorse power; in 1852 the motive power of an upright engine of twenty-horse power was required; m 1866 a forty-horse power was demanded; and now, in 1881, their immense business requires an engine of ninety-horse power. Such is the result of perseverance and tact.

At present the force employed is two hundred men in the various departments, as follows: Four clerks, ten foremen, forty in moulding room, forty-five in boiler room, twenty in blacksmith shop, twenty-five in paint shop, thirty-one in wood shop, twenty-five in pattern shop.

COOPER. COLONEL WILLIAM C., Mt. Vernon, lawyer, was born December 18, 1832, in Mt. Vernon, of American parentage, and of Scotch-Irish lineage. His parents were from Washington county, Pennsylvania. His father followed agricultural pursuits through life, and was a man of influence in the county, and filled the office of mayor of the city.

William attended the Mt. Vernon academy and other private schools until he was nineteen years of age, working on the farm during vacation. He then commenced the study of law with Colonel Joseph W. Vance and James Smith, jr., and was admitted to the bar when twenty-two years old. He afterwards became associated with one of his preceptors, Colonel Vance, and practiced his profession in that connection until 1864; when the firm was dissolved by the death of Colonel Vance on the battlefield. During the continuance of this copartnership they had the largest practice in Mt. Vernon. At the outbreak of the war the junior partner had enlisted in the Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was elected first lieutenant of company B. He served with that command until January, 1862, when he resigned and returned home to take charge of his business. In 1864 he was appointed colonel of the One Hundred and Fortysecond regiment, Ohio volunteers, and served at Petersburgh during the period of one hundred days' service; this was immediately after the death of Colonel Vance. He then returned to Mt. Vernon, where he passed a year in real estate operations, and then resumed the practice of law for another year, alone.

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He afterwards associated himself with Henry T. Porter, with whom he practiced two years, when Lewis H. Mitchell was added to the firm, the name and style of which became Cooper, Porter & Mitchell. This copartnership was dissolved in June, 1875, since which time he has practiced alone, and enjoys an extensive and lucrative practice. He has filled several offices, having been elected prosecuting attorney in 1858 and reelected in 1860, his term expiring in 1862. In 1860 he was also elected mayor of Mt, Vernon, and reelected in 1862, his official team expiring in 1864. In 1871 he was elected a member of the Ohio legislature, where he served two years, but declined a reelection. In political views he is a Republican, and was chairman of the Republican State central committee for the years 1876, 1877, and 1878. He is now a member of the National Republican executive committee, a position he has held since 1876. He was a delegate to the National Republican convention at Philadelphia in 1872, also Chicago in 1880. In February, 1877, he was appointed judge advocate general of the State of Ohio, with the rank of brigadier general, which position he held until January, 1878, when he was succeeded by General Samuel F. Hunt, of Cincinnati. In January, 1880, he in turn succeeded General Hunt in the same office, which he now holds. He has been repeatedly importuned by his political friends to be a candidate for Congress, but has refused to abandon his large business, which has for years been the leading practice in the county.

Mr. Cooper was married January 8, 1864, to Eliza, only daughter of Dr. John W. Russell, of Mt. They have two children: Eliza R. and Sarah C.

COOPER, C. GREY, Mount Vernon, of the firm of C. & G. Cooper & Co., son of Elias Cooper, one of the founders of this firm, was born December 11, 1846, in the city of Mt. Vernon, and received his education in the public schools of the place. His first business employment was with the firm of Coopers S Rogers in the management of the Kokosing iron works, originally established by General C. P. Buckingham, which the firm of Coopers R Rogers conducted three years. Mr. C. G. Cooper became connected with the firm of Coopers & Rogers in the fall of 1866, in which he continued until the two firms were consolidated in 1869.

COOPER, AARON, farmer, Wayne township, post office Fredericktown, was born in this township December 27, 1825, and was married in 1851. to Jane B. Morrison, who was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1821. They had two children: Hattie, born in 1853, and Phebe, in 1861. Phebe died in 1862. Mr. Cooper has always resided in this township, and owns an improved farm, with good buildings. Their daughter. Hattie Cooper, was married to Raymond G. McClenland, and resides in Andover, Massachusetts.

CORCORAN. DENNIS, wholesale and retail dealer in malt liquors, cigars and tobacco, Corcoran block, West Vine street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Corcoran was born in Kings county, Ireland, August 4, 1822. When nine years of age his parents emigrated to America and located at Columbus, Ohio, where they resided until 1848. Young Corcoran, during his residence, obtained his education and learnt the carriage business. In 1848 he settled in Mt. Vernon and commenced the carriage business, in which he continued until 1870. He then engaged in the liquor business, which he still continues, as a wholesale and retail dealer in malt liquors, cigars and tobacco. He is also sole agent for Wainwright's ale, and Born S Company's lager beer, and proprietor of the Excelsior bottling works, stone front, West Vine street. This is the only first-class house in this line in the city.

CORNELL, JOHN T., carpenter.-He was born in Clark county, Virginia, February 8, 1839. He was married in Knox county, January 1, 1868, to Margaret J. Davis, who was born in Berlin township. They have five children. Edwin was born April 5, 1869; Nettie B., May 21, 1871; Willie C., April 5, 1875; Charlie, October 31, 1878, and Jane, November 5, 1879. Mr. Cornell came to Knox county in 1859. He was a soldier in the late war, a member of company G; One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, afterward a member of the Ohio National guard.

COSFORD, DAVID, was born in Ireland, August 15, 1831, where he grew into manhood. In 1851 he emigrated to America, and located in the northern part of Ohio, where he remained until 1857, when he came to Gambier, this count', where he engaged at work on a farm. In August, 1861, he enlisted in company A of the Thirtieth Ohio volunteer infantry, and sewed until March, 1864, when he reenlisted as a veteran in company A of the Thirtieth Ohio volunteer infantry. On receiving a furlough of one month to enable him to visit his friends, he married hiss Mary Troutman, April 21, 1864, daughter of John and Elizabeth Troutman. On the first day of May he left home again for his regiment which was at Kingston, Georgia. In a few weeks after his return to the regiment they were marched to Kennesaw Mountain, where while engaged in battle on the twenty-seventh day of June, 1864, he received three musket balls-one in his thigh, and two in his left arm which caused his arm to be amputated. He was taken to the hospital, and remained until discharged from the service in June, 1865, reaching home on the nineteenth day of the same month. While in the service, he fought in several fierce engagements, viz: Carnifex Ferry, 'Vest Virginia; Antietam, Maryland; South Mountain, the Beige of Vicksburgh, Jackson, Mississippi, and Kennesaw mountain, which put an end to his soldiering. .after his return home from the army, he moved upon the farm in College township, where he is now living, and is engaged in farming.

COTTON, EMMETT, W., was born in Mt. Vernon, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1808, and is a son of Harris Cotton, a native of Virginia. Mr. Cotton, sr., settled in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, about 1804 or 1805, and died there in 1815. E. W. Cotton, and his brother, Harris Cotton, settled in Bloomfield township, Knox county, in 1823, bringing their mother and three unmarried sisters with them. The balance of the family were married and remained in Pennsylvania. He worked for different persons at clearing land, chopping wood, etc., for about eight years. His mother died in 1848, in her eighty-fourth year. He continued to support his sisters until their marriage. In 1833 he commenced teaching school ; taught select schools in Mt. Vernon about five years, during which time he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1836, but finding law did not suit him, after practicing five years, he quit. In 1842 he was elected justice of the peace, in which office he sewed for fifteen years, and during this time he read medicine, but never attended lectures. In 1846 he was elected to the legislature and returned for a second term, after which, in consequence of bad health, he retired from politics. He has been an amateur surveyor for forty-seven years, and deputy of every county surveyor since 1833, except the present

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one. In 1870 and 1871 he was assistant engineer of the Cleveland Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad. He cast his. first and last vote in Knox county, and has been a voter of this township for forty-seven and one-half years ; was married to Miss Sarah Merrill, daughter of Thomas Merrill, of Massachusetts, who came to Ohio in 1807 or 1808. Mrs. Cotton was born February 11, 1811. They were married January 21, 1830, and have had ten children, five of whom are living. All of his father's family came to Ohio, and three are living at this time.

COTTON, J. BENT, is a son of Hon. Emmett W. Cotton, one of the pioneers of Knox county, was born in Mt. Vernon, November 21, 1841, and received his preparatory education at the public schools of the city. When about sixteen years of age he served an apprenticeship to a carnage blacksmith, and followed this trade until 1862, when he enlisted in the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and went into camp at Delaware. Upon his arrival at Columbus, Ohio, he was appointed recruiting agent, with commission of second lieutenant, after which he helped recruit a company and was assigned to the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, in Which he sewed as second lieutenant until 1863, when he received wounds at Perryville, Kentucky, which disabled him, and he was discharged. Upon returning home he worked at his trade until 1874, during which all his leisure moments were spent in reading medicine. He is now practicing as veterinary surgeon with success, and continues to read medicine, having been a student of Dr. Gordon since 1875.

COTTON, EMMETT S., farmer, Liberty township, was born in Bloomfield township, Knox county, now Morrow, July 3, 1828. His father, Harris W. Cotton, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, emigrated to Ohio and married Abigail Craig, daughter of James Craig, a pioneer of Mt. Vernon , Ohio. They had a family of four children. He died in 1836. His wife married Jeremiah Debolt. She is now deceased. The subject of this sketch (E. S. Cotton) was raised on a farm and has always followed farming as his vocation. His schooling was that of the district schools. Mr. Cotton is one of Liberty township's best citizens, and is highly esteemed for his many good qualities. He married Miss Martha Ewalt, December, 1869, daughter of Isaac Ewalt, by his second wife. They have two interesting children: Frank E., born May 9, 1871, and Alice, January 19, 1876.

CONDON, J. T., farmer, Wayne township, post office, Fredericktown; born m Maryland, October 16, 1842, and was married in 1866 to Rosalia Berry, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, July 24, 1844. They have one son: Freddie B., born in Morrow county, June 25, 1870. Mr. London is a resident of Wayne township, and emigrated with his parents from Indiana to Ohio in 1851. He was a soldier in the late war; he enlisted August 19, 1861, in the Twentieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in the Sherman march and rendered faithful service until the close of the war, and received an honorable discharge.

COUTER, JACOB, carpenter, Berlin township, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1839, and came to Ohio with his parents when he was young. He was married in 1861 to Sarah E. Davis, who was born in Virginia in 1837. They have five children: William Franklin, born in 1866; Charles Edgar, in 1868; Winfield Scott, in 1872; James Finney, in 1874; and Robert Alexander, in 1880. Mr. Couter was a soldier in the late war, a member of Company A, twentieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; he served four years and received an honorable discharge. He is a carpenter by trade, a skillful mechanic, and a rood citizen.

COVER, W, H„ farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Levering; born in Richland county, Ohio, in 1841, and was married in 1865 to Mary E. Courson, who was born in Richland county. He enlisted in the late war; was a member of company B, One Hundred and Sixty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; was engaged about four months. Mr. Cover owns an improved, farm with excellent buildings. He is a dealer in stock and is a very prominent citizen of this township.

COY, WILLIAM, (deceased), was born in Hartford county, Maryland, in the year 1776; of English parents. At the age of twenty-five years he moved to Frederick county, Maryland, and engaged in mercantile business. While there he married Hannah, daughter of Solomon and Susannah Shepherd, and reared a family of three children, Charles, William Baines and Ann Elizabeth.

In 1812 he made his first visit to Knox county, Ohio. Finding the country new and very heavily timbered, and feeling that it would not amount to much in his day, he returned home without having entered land, which was the principal object of his visit. After being at home a while, and not feeling satisfied with the result of his first trip to Knox county, he again made it a visit in 1816, after the close of the war, and found the country looking more home-like, with an occasional person with whom he was acquainted. He liked the appearance of things much better than on his first visit, but returned home without accomplishing anything in the way of land purchase.

At Wheeling, Virginia, he had a stock of goods, having shipped them to that point with the intention of taking them to Knox county and trading them for land. On returning to Wheeling, he reshipped his goods for home. On his way back he traded them for land in Pennsylvania, which in a few years became quite valuable, in consequence of having large quantities of coal and iron ore in it. The discovery, however, was not made until after he had sold the land at a very small advance.

His attachment to Knox county was very strong, and notwithstanding the fact that he had twice turned his back upon it, he again, with his family, in 1823, wended his way over the mountains to its attracting borders, and settled down in a log cabin on a farm in Berlin township, now owned by Butt Roberts, and generally known as "Maple Grove." His attachments were now so firmly fixed to Knox county, that he would gladly have become the owner of some of it; but fortune had so turned with him that he had not the wherewith to do it, and after a sojourn of five years in the land of his choice, he again left it and moved back to his old home in Maryland.

During his stay of about five years in that country he fell heir to several thousand dollars, through the death of a relative, and in 1833 he and his family again headed for Knox county. This was the fourth and last move over the Alleghanies. He now bought two hundred acres of the Ellicott land, lying near Fredericktown, which had just come into market, giving an average of about eighteen dollars per acre, for land no better than be could have bad at Government price on his first and second visits. He was now settled for life, and after living many years in the enjoyment of good health, he departed this life at the mature age of eighty-six years.

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During his last sojourn in Maryland his oldest son, Charles, learned the house-joiner trade, and worked many years at that business in Knox county. He was never married, but lived a quiet, Christian life, and died in the city of Delaware, Ohio, at the age of sixty-three years.

His second son, William B., while living in Maryland learned the shoemaking trade, and for about six years after coming to Fredericktown worked as a journeyman, after which for several years he carried on the boot and shoe manufacturing business. On the tenth day of October, 1844, he married Sarah Ann, oldest daughter of James and Elizabeth Rigby, of Fredericktown. Ohio, having a family of three children, viz: Sarah Elisabeth, Otho Rigby, and William Lee. About the year 1856, he quit the manufacturing business, and commenced the sale of ready-made work, and has for many years been successfully keeping a shoe store in Fredericktown, Ohio.

While a youth he displayed quite a taste for mechanism, and was noted for skill in manufacturing miniature mills, etc. His first pair of scales was made by himself. The first musical instrument that he owned was a violin manufactured by himself. His first speculation was in an old watch, which he purchased at a cost of three shillings and sold for six dollars, after having repaired it by putting in four new wheels, and making it act something like a time-keeper.

In addition to dose attention to business he was fond of books, and during the time that he worked on the shoe-bench he bought and read quite a number of useful books; and has at this time a well selected family library. He had more than ordinary liking for debate and lyceum exercises, and will be remembered by many of his lyceum friends whom he so often met in debate.

While he was not an enthusiastic politician, he was not destitute of an interest in home political matters, and was several times elected to township and municipal offices. Has been a member of the board of education between thirty and forty years consecutively; was elected to the Ohio legislature in 1857, and served two terms; was reelected in 1859, and served two terms, his fourth term ending in 1861, at the commencement of the War of the Rebellion.

His military career during the progress of the Rebellion was very brief and soon told. On March 4, 1863, when Kirby Smith attempted to raid Cincinnati, he, with many others from Knox, county, responded to the call issued by Governor Tod for aid to defend our southern border against rebel incursion; and after aiding to guard the Ohio river at Anderson's ferry, below Cincinnati, for several days, received a lieutenant's discharge from service, by C. W. Hill, adjutant general of Ohio.

Sarah Elizabeth, oldest child of W. B. and Sarah Ann Cox, died while an infant. Otho Rigby, their oldest son, is thirty years of age, lives in Galion, Ohio, having a wholesale and retail hardware store; married Hallie J. Boland, of Martinsburgh, Ohio, November 19, 1874; has one child, William Ralph, who is now in his sixth year. William Lee is rot married, lives in Mansfield, Ohio, and is a partner in a shoe store with W. R. Rigby, his uncle.

James Rigby, deceased, was born in the State of Virginia on the third of May, 1788, and came with his parents at an early day to this country and settled near Lancaster, in Fairfield county.

At the age of twenty-eight he came to Newark, Licking county, and engaged in mercantile business in company with P. M. Weddell, with whom he continued as partner sixteen years. In October, 1820, he married Elizabeth Smith, near Newark, and reared a family of six children, four boys and two girls. In 1821 he left Newark and came to Fredericktown. After a short stay in Fredericktown he moved to Wooster, Wayne county, Ohio, and after remaining there about two years went back to Newark, having continued in the dry goods business at each stopping place. 1n the fall of 1832 he again came to Fredericktown, where he remained in the mercantile business between thirty and forty years.

In the early pan of his business history in Knox county he hear a large trade. with the Indians, and was the leading merchant of the town for many years. Mr. Rigby was a great reader, and having an unusually retentive memory, he rendered himself very interesting in conversation. His political creed was Republican, and the antecedents of that patty were his political antecedents; while he was an earnest partizan politician, be never sought, and seldom held office, which may be accounted for more on the ground of his business engagements than to a repugnance to office.

Mr. Rigby, after living a great many years in Knox county, died in the year 1867, at the age of seventy-nine years. William Henry, oldest son of James Rigby, lives in Mansfield, Richland county, Ohio, and is the senior partner of the boot and shoe firm of Rigby & Cox.

Otho Weddell, second son of Mr. Rigby, clerked for many years for P. M. Weddell, of Cleveland, Ohio. (his father's former partner), in the dry goods business in the city of Cleveland. In 1865 he went to Iowa and bought land, intending to follow stock raising, but died in a few years. Sarah Ann, oldest daughter of Mr. Rigby, married W. B. Cox, of Fredericktown, Ohio; his second daughter, Laura Jane, married William Wensell, who now lives in Gabon, Ohio. Lucian, third son of Mr. Rigby, is now living in Fredericktown, and is carrying on the saddle and harness business. Philanthropist, his fourth son, lives in Gabon, Ohio, and is a machinist by trade.

COX, HARVEY, is a son of William Cox, and is a native of Green county, Pennsylvania, where he resided until coming to Knox county in 1836. He commenced life for himself working on a farm for his uncle, where he stayed two years, when he worked for Stephen Ulery, another farmer, for fifty dollars for the first year, one hundred dollars for the next, two hundred dollars for the next, and the fourth year he got two dollars per day, and was then token into partnership in the stock business, and continued in the business six years, when the partnership was dissolved and he went into partnership with John Bell in the same business, with whom he did business about three years, since which he has been farming and dealing in stock.

Mr. Cox, by his diligence and economy, has been successful, notwithstanding his small beginning. He now owns a farm of about two hundred acres, within one mile of Mt. Vernon, on the Fredericktown road. He came to Mt. Vernon to live in 1862, where he has since remained.

He was married to Emeline, daughter of David Bricker, by whom he had four children. Losing his wife, he was married, the second time, to Catherine, the daughter of Eliphalet Towbridge, by whom he has had eight children, three of whom are living.

Mr. Cox bets lived thirty-six years in Knox county, and has always enjoyed the esteem of his neighbors.

COX, WILLIAM D., farmer, Morris township, post office Mt. Vernon; was born in Knox county in 1851, and was married

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in 1874 to Vary A. Alters, who was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1851. They have two children: Harvey Earl, born in 1875; and William Adam, born in 1877. Mr. Cox is engaged in farming in this township.

COX, DAVID JAMES, farmer, Pike township, post office Democracy; was born in Richland county, in 1854, and was married August 2, 1875, to Elizabeth Shultz, who was born in this county.

When Mr. Cox was one year old his parents moved to Fayette county, Illinois, where they remained six years, then returned to Knox county, Brown township. In 1879 David Cox located in Amity. He owns a pleasant home, and is a good citizen.

CRAFT, ALBERT L., millwright, Middlebury township, post office Fredericktown; born in Morris township, February 1, 1844, and was married December 30, 1875, to Susannah Zolman, who was born in Morris township, December 14, 1845. They have two children-Levi, born October 12, 1876; and Carne. born June 14, 1878.

Mr. Craft is one of the members of the firm in the Craft mill, and is an energetic man.

CRAFT, HEADLY, miller, Middlebury township, post office Fredencktown; was born in Morris township in 1841, and was married in 1868 to Ellen Baxter, who was born in Middlebury township, in 1846. They have two sons-Gaylord, born July 22, 1872; and William, April 11, 1877.

Mr. Craft engaged in the milling business in 1867 with John Boggs, and is still engaged in that business.

CRAIG, JONATHAN, Monroe township, deceased, a native of New Hamphsire, was born in 1780, and learned the shoemaker's trade when a young man, which business he followed as his principal vocation for many years. For a number of years prior to his death he turned his attention to farming to some extent, and still worked some at his trade.

In 1805 he migrated to Knox county and located in Clinton township, near the Sully farm. While living in Clinton township he supplied the settlers with boots and shoes for several miles around.

He was the first coroner in Knox county, elected in 1808. In 1812 he married Miss Polly Kyser, daughter of John and Mary Kyser, born in Virginia in 1793. Miss Kyser came to this county in 1810 with her mother and brother, John Kyser, her father having previously deceased.

Mr. and Mrs. Craig settled in Clinton township, remained some years; then, in 1816, they purchased and moved on the farm in Monroe township, now known, as the Craig homestead. There had been a small cabin built upon the land on which they moved and lived several years, when he erected a frame dwelling, which served them as an abode until he deceased May 5, 1850, at the age of seventy years:

His companion survives him at the age of eighty-seven years, and is living on the home farm, where she has resided since 1816. She is a pensioner of the War of 1812, her husband having been a soldier in that war. They reared a family of eight children, viz.: Priscilla, Ann, Sarah, John, Nancy, Clark N., James S., and Stephen. Three of the number have deceased-Priscilla, Sarah and John.

Clark N., served about tour months in the late war in the One Hundred and Forty-second, Ohio volunteer infantry.

Stephen served about nine months in the Sixty-fifth, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was discharged on account of disability. He then reenlisted and served about four months in the One Hundred and Forty-second, Ohio volunteer infantry.

CRAIG & BLACK, proprietors carriage shops, Gambler. These shops are located on South Acland street, Gambler. They were established by F. Penhorwood about 1850, who conducted them successfully for a number of years. William T. Hart became a partner in the firm, and retrained as such until 1873,

In 1874 Mr. Craig became a partner with Mr. Penhorwood and remained as such until the death of Mr. Penhorwood July 2, 1880. After the death of the original proprietor, Mr. Craig associated with him Mr. G. A. Black, and the firm name is now Craig & Black. They manufacture all kinds of carriages, spring wagons, road and farm wagons, and everything in that line of business. All work is finished under roof, wood work, ironing, trimming, and painting. They also give special attention to horseshoeing. They are good workmen, and worthy of patronage. All work leaving their shops is warranted to be such as represented.

Mr. Black also carries on the harness business in their trimming rooms. He manufactures all kinds of harness, both light and heavy, and saddlery in all its branches.

CRANE, JOSEPH, farmer, post office, Shaler's s Mills, was born in New Jersey in 1823, came to Ohio in 1840, and located with his parents in Mt. Vernon. In 1850 he marred Ruth E. Gibson, who was born in Berlin township, Knox county, in 1823. They had three children, Samuel, born in 1854; Henry, 1861, and Mary, 1856. Mrs. Ruth Crane died in 1867. Mr. Crane has resided in this county since 1840. He owns the old homestead where his wife was born. He is engaged in farming.

His father, William P. Crane, was born in New Jersey in 1795, and emigrated to Ohio in 1840. He was first married in New Jersey to Mary Haines who was born in 1792. They had five children, Susan, (deceased), Joseph, Henry, Lizzie, and Charles, who is a resident of Iowa.

Lizzie was marred to Edward Prouty, and had one daughter. Emma. Mr. Prouty died in Iowa. The mother, Mrs. Mary Crane, died in Knox county, in 1850 Mr. Crane then married Lucinda Walker, and now lives in Richland county.

CRAVEN, HIGHLEN, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredencktown, born in Virginia June 5, 1805, and was married in 1828 to Eliza Wynn, who was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1809. They emigrated to Knox county in 1837, and have the following family: Susan Margaret, born November 12, 1829; Harriet Ann, July 5, 1831; John Henry,

December 2, 1833; Mary Ellen, May 26, 1836; Mahlon Taylor, May 22, 1840; James W.. September 10, 1842; Francina Caroline, March 22, 1845; Thomas Quigley,. February 28, 1848; Ulysses Edgar, October 10, 1850; Cynthia E., March :8, 1853, and Walter H., September 15, 1855. The following have deceased: Mary Ellen, February 1, 1847; Harriet Ann, February 1875; Ulysses E.. May 11, 1877, in Colorado, with small-pox. Mahlon K., was in the late war, having been a member of company B. Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was killed at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia, May 18, 1864.

James was also in the war in the same company with his brother. John Henry was in the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and a member of company B. John H. was married to Francis Lynd, and now resides in McPherson county, Kansas. Thomas Q. was married to May Stealer, and resides in the same

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place. James W. resides in Clear Creek county, Colorado. Francina was married to Evander Stevens and now lives in De Kalb county, Missouri. Harriet Ann married Isaac Lyon, but has deceased.

Mr. Craven settled in Middlebury township, bought hand, mostly in the woods; he cleared and improved it, and now has one of the most beautiful farms in the county.

CRAVEN, LEANDER, Wayne township; farmer; post office, Fredericktown; born in Virginia in 1818, came to Ohio at the age of fifteen years, and married in 1842, Leonora Ewers, who was born in Virginia in 1824. They have three daughters: Marcilla, now Mrs. Elias Cooper, who resides in this county; Lililias, now Mrs. Milton Grove, who resides in Morrow county, and Linna Craven resides with her parents. Mr. Craven has lived in this township about twenty-four years, and is a good and respected citizen.

CRITCHFIELD, BENJAMIN, deceased, Howard township, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1797. He came to Knox county in about 1807, settling in this township, near where the village of Howard is now located. He was married September 11, 1820, to Miss Mary Welker. Their children were: Sabry, born May 3, 1822; Horace, January 9, 1824; Calvin, August 2, 1827; Marvin, January 20, 1829; Christie Ann, April 28, 1833; Nathaniel, February 25, 1835; Mary, April 27, 1838, and Roland, March 24, 1840. Mary died March 9, 1847. Benjamin Critchfield died February 16, 1878.

CREVELING, MARTIN, Pleasant township; farmer; son of Samuel and Elizabeth Creveling, was born in Iowa October 9, 1851. 1n 1853 his parents returned to Knox county, where they they had been living. He was brought up on a farm, and has followed farming as his vocation. In August, 1877, he married Miss Etta Moninger, born in Pennsylvania in 1856; daughter of Henry Moninger. They settled on the farm in Pleasant township, which they purchased shortly after their marriage, and where they are now living.

CRIDER, WILLIAM, SR., farmer, Miller township, was born in Virginia January 19, 1810. He came of patriotic and heroic stock, his grandfather having been a soldier in the War of Independence, and his father, Martin Crider, a soldier in the War of 1812. Mr. Crider has yet in his possession the old powder horn his grandfather carried in the war. Martin Crider married Mary Nieswanger, a native of Virginia. In 1820 they came to Ohio and settled in Harrison county, where they remained three years, when they moved to Knox county, Ohio, and lived for some time in Pleasant township, and thence to Miller township, and from thence to Union county, where they died. They had ten children. The subject of this notice was reared on a farm, or rather was reared to clearing up the land for farming. He attended school but little but acquired sufficient knowledge of the rudiments to be able to transact business. He is a man who reads considerable, and has always been industrious. He married Miss Sarah Crottinger, a native of Pennsylvania, and in 1838 moved on the farm on which he now resides. They had a family of fifteen children, five of whom are yet living, viz.: Madison, Christina (married to Henry Rine), Phidelia (married to Fletcher Frost), Abigail (married to Charles Hooker), and William. Mr. Crider is a good farmer as is seen in his improvements, and the taste generally displayed on his farm.

CURTIS, WILLIAM, deceased, Mt. Vernon, was born in New York city April 11, 1784. He was taken to Northampton, Massachusetts, by his parents when yet very young, and from thence to Vermont in 1794. About 1808 he went to Lower Canada and engaged in teaching, where he met and married Miss Sally, daughter of Zarah and Phalley Curbs, and sister of Henry B. Curtis, in 1809. Miss Curtis was born in Vermont April 30, 1791, and moved to Canada with her parents about 1798. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis emigrated to Ohio shortly after their marriage and located in Licking county, where they remained until 1827, when they moved to this county and located in Mortis township, near Mt. Vernon. In 1835 they moved to Mt. Vernon where he passed the remainder of his days. He died August 15, 1858. Mrs. Curbs is still living at the good old age of eighty-nine years. They reared a family of ten children, viz.: Christopher C., Leonora, Julius C., Aldulia, Helen M., M. Hicks, Lydia P., Angeline E., William W., and Clarinda A. Three of the above named are now deceased: Christopher C., Leonora, and Aldulia. Helen M., followed teaching school as a profession about twenty-five years, eighteen of which were passed in the public schools of Mt. Vernon. In 1877 she retired from teaching and is now residing in Mt. Vernon taking care of her mother in her declining days.

CRITCHFIELD, ALEXANDER, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born September 11, 1845. His father came from Pennsylvania in 1806, and commenced life on the old farm. He died September 16, 1854. His mother still remains on the old farm. She is seventy-four years of age. Alexander Critchfield was married to Matilda Humbert January 12, 1867. They have one child-Emma, born August 22, 1868. Alexander Critchfield enlisted in the On Hundred and Twentyfirst regiment Ohio volunteer infantry in 1863. He went from Mt. Vernon to Chattanooga and remained at this point until the army started on the Atlanta campaign. After this he went to Florence, Alabama, as a scout, then to Gailesville and to Rome, Georgia, then to Kingston, and remained there until the army went with Sherman to the sea. From there they went through North and South Carolina, then to Richmond, Virginia, then to Alexandria, and from there to Louisville, Kentucky, and were there mustered out of the United States service. They then went to Camp benison and were mustered out of the State service, and then went home.

CRITCHFIELD, CHARLES EDWARDS, lawyer and probate judge, Mt. Vernon, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, November 25, 1836. He spent his youthful days on a farm and teaching school. When seventeen years of age he went to California via Nicaraugua, and remained there seven years. He was engaged in mining about two years, and two years teaching, and three years on a ranche near San Jose. He returned to Ohio and settled in Mt. Vernon in March, 1862, and commenced reading lave with Major W. R. Sapp, and read law two years. He was admitted to the bar in 1864. He was in practice about four years. In 1869 he was elected probate judge on the Democratic ticket by a majority of one hundred and seventy-four, although the county was Republican. He was reelected in 1872. His majority was four hundred and twenty-five. He served to February, 1876. He then went to the practice of the law, and was thus engaged until the fall of 1878, when he was again elected probate judge by a majority of nine hundred, and which office he now holds. He was married to Miss Amanda Vincent, October 2, 1862, by whom he had two children-a son and a daughter.

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CRITCHFIELD, MARTIN, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Howard township, March 10, 1840. He remained at home until 1868, when he went to Union township and worked on a farm. He was married to Mary Bradish July 4, 1870, and came to Howard township, where he has remained. His business has been farming, the greater part of the time.

CRITCHFIELD, LEWIS, Howard township, farmer, post office Howard. He was born August 17, 1812, in Howard township. In 1827 he moved to Brown township, remained there five years and then removed to Howard township. In 1838 he was married to Mary Jane Dawson and immediately settled on his present home, where he has lived forty-two years. They had the following children: Joseph, John. Eleanor, and Mary Jane.

Joseph enlisted in the Sixty-fifth regiment, O. V. I, in 1861, for three years; served his time, then reenlisted and was known as one of the old veterans. At the close of the late war he went to Texas with a number of other members of the Sixty-fifth regiment, remained there until the following January when he received an honorable discharge.

John married Mary E. Hammond in March, 1864, and settled in Union township on a farm only a short distance from the old home. They have two children, Lulu and Keturah.

Eleanor married M. Welch in 1868 and moved to a farm near Howard township. They had two children, Lewis and Charles.

Mary Jane married Thornton Whitworth in 1869, and settled in Howard township. They have two children, Abraham and Sarah E.

Mr. Lewis Critchfield has lived in Howard township sixty-three years.

CRITCHFIELD. CHARLES, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Pennsylvania in 1804, moved to Knox county in 1806, and settled on what is now known as the Upper Prairie Indian lands, in Union township, near Owl creek. He remained with his father at this place until he was twenty-three years of age. He was married in 1829 and moved to Coshocton county, Ohio, where he remained seventeen years, and then removed to Knox county and settled on the old homestead, where he lived until 1878, and then moved to the farm known as the Indian Fields, on which he now lives. His father moved from the Upper Prairie, Union township, to Howard in 1809, and remained nn the old homestead until his death, March 23, 1865. The day of his burial was his eighty-fifth birth-day.

Charles Critchfield buried his first wife in Union township in 1848 and married again in 1850. . He had three children by his first wife. Amanda, who died in 1848 in her seventeenth year; George, who moved to California, and Charles Edward, for some tune a probate judge. He had three children by his second marriage-Albert Judson (who died September 15, 1851, in his sixth year) and Ellen, who still remains at home.

CRITCHFIELD, HARRIS, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Howard township, Knox county, January 9, 1820. He married in 1851, and commenced business on his farm in Harrison township, where he lived fourteen years. On the fourth of April, 1868, he moved to the farm which he now owns. They have four children-Dora, Emma, Ellen, and Rosa. Dory was married to Clark Stow, December 19, 1872; Ellen to Legrand Britton, August 24, 1876; Emma to O. C. Farmer, January 1, 1879; Rosa to W. T. Horn, January 1, 1880.

CROUCH, JOHNSON. Pleasant township, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, January 10, 1819. He moved to Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1836, with his parents, Robert and Mary Crouch. In 1842 he married Miss Hannah Gault, born in Coshocton county, in 1826, daughter of Adam and Margaret Gault. They settled on a farm in Coshocton county, remained there until 1867, when they moved to Knox county, purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township, on which they are now; living. He has followed farming and stock raising as his vocation. Their union resulted in six children, only one of the number is now living, viz: Margaret, who married John Warman, and is living in Pleasant township.

CROWELL, FRED S., photographer, Ward's block, corner Main and Vine streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Crowell was born April 26, 1844, in Huron county, Ohio, where he resided until 1856, when his parents came with their family to Mt. Vernon. His first business engagement was with Moses White, bookseller and stationer, as salesman, with whom he continued two years. He then engaged with Hyde & Young, jewelers, where he remained two years, when he engaged in the photograph business in Payne's gallery, where he worked one year. He then went to Norwalk and engaged with Mr. Benham, with whom he remained only a short time. He went into Week's gallery at Sandusky city and operated there some eighteen months. In the galleries at Cleveland, and at Erie, Pennsylvania, where he operated a short time in each city. In 1866 Mr. Crowell went to Fredericktown and bought a gallery there, and run it for three years. In 1869 he sold out and came to Mt. Vernon and opened out an establishment, which he still continues. He carries a stock of about five thousand dollars, consisting of a general supply of photo material, picture frames, art goods and cards. His establishment is the largest in the city, and the past productions of this gallery establishes the abilities of Mr. Crowell as an artist, and assures all patrons of obtaining first-class work.

CRUNKELTON, M. L., Pike township, retired, post office, North Liberty, born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1816, and came to Ohio when seven years of age. He was married in 1845 to Caroline Roch, who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1819. They had three children: Daniel (deceased), born in 1846, Sophia, in 1849, and James in 1851.

Mrs. Caroline Crunkelton died in Knox county. Ohio, in September, 1879.

Mr. Crunkelton came to Knox in 1854. He is a farmer by occupation, has always been in that business until his recent retirement.

CRUNKELTON JAMES, Pike township; farmer; post office, North Liberty; born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1851, was married in 1870, to Catharine L. Allen, who was born in Richland county in 1851. They have four children: Curtis O., born in 1873; Harry L., in 1876; Lucinda E., in 1878, and Daniel, in 1880. They came to this county in 1854, and have lived here since that time.

CULBERTSON, WILLIAM CRAIG, Mt. Vernon, attorney, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1847. He spent his youth on the farm, and attending the schools of the district during the winter. He is the second son of Franklin and Narcissa Culbertson nee Craig. In

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1865 be attended the academy at Elder's ridge for two years, and then in 1867 he entered the junior class in Washington and Jefferson college at Cannonsburgh, Washington county, Pennsylvania, from which college he graduated in the fall of 1869. He came to Wooster, Ohio, and entered the law office of General Aquilla Wiley. He read law until 1871, when he was admitted to the bar in the fall of that year. In January, 1872, Mr. Culbertson came to Mt. Vernon, and formed a partnership with Mr. McClellan under the firm name of McClellan & Culbertson, which firm still exists.

CULP, ROWLAND D., farmer, is a native of Clay, was born September 9, 1848, and has lived on the farm of his birth ever since. He was married to Miss Mollie F. Harrington, of Martinsburgh, February 8, 1872. Mr. Culp engaged in firming for several years, but owing to ill health he procured a printing press and material, and is engaged in the job and card printing business at present.

CUMINGS, ANSON D. Brown township (deceased), only son of Gilbert and Betsey Cumings, was born in Oneida county, New York, August 25, 1828. His father was a farmer, and emigrated to Summit county, Ohio, near Akron, in 1838. His parents being unable to send their son to college, he received his education in the country schools of his day; attended Abe union schools of the city of Akron for a short time, and finished his education at the Haskell academy in Loudonville. He early developed a disposition to take care of himself, and engaged in teaching and other enterprises, among which the-insurance agency seemed to afford a field for which he was peculiarly adapted.

November 10, 1852, while a clerk in the American house - then the principal hotel of Cleveland-he married Clam R. daughter of Erastus and Julia Eldridge. Alter his marriage he engaged for some time in furnishing large contracts of timber for ship-building on the lake shore, and also in taking and filling contracts for timber for railroad purposes. In 1853 be moved upon a farm three miles south of Loudonville, in Ashland county, where he remained with his family six years, engaged in teaching, farming, and lumbering, filling the office justice of the peace and other township offices, and acting as an insurance agent.

In 1859 he removed to Jelloway, in Knox county, where he remained until his death. After removing to Jelloway fie engaged more earnestly in the insurance work, and in 1864 organized the Farmers' Insurance company, of Jelloway, a mutual company, of which he was for several years the secretary and general manager. In 1868 he reorganized the company, changing it from a mutual to a joint stock company, with a paid up capital of one hundred thousand dollars.

In 1863-during the Rebellion-he organized a company of the Ohio National guards, of which he was elected captain. In the spring of 1864 his company was called into the hundred days' service, and on the Knox county companies reporting at Columbus it was discovered that there were not positions for all the commissioned officers, and it being known that Captain Cumings was interested in the new insurance company just organized, and from which he could filly be spared, he was offered three hundred dollars to resign in favor of some other officer. To this proposition he answered: " Not a cent of your money, but if my company is willing I will resign." The matter was laid before the company and a vote taken, resulting in an unanimous vote to retain Captain Cumings. That he went to the front and won the respect and confidence of the entire regiment for bravery on the field and kindness to his men, will be attested by many of the old One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio National guard.

In 1869 a cancer developed itself in his lower jaw and necessitated an appeal to the surgeon, and at Good Samaritan hospital, Cincinnati, he had the entire bone of the lower jaw removed. The operation, however, was not successful, the disease causing his death June 26, 1870, after months of the greatest misery, but of which he was never heard to complain.

During his residence in Jelloway he was for a time deputy revenue assessor, and held a recruiting officer's commission under Governor Brough. He also held the office of postmaster for a number of years, and at his death his wife succeeded him to the office, which she slip retains.

After his death the insurance company of which he was the founder was removed to Howard, Ohio.

Cut down by disease in the prime of vigorous manhood many of his cherished aims for the future were frustrated.

The fruit of his marriage was seven children, viz: Three sons Frank A., Edgar L., and Anson B.; and four daughtersJulia D., M. Ella, Emma J.. and Ansonette A.

The following, written by a friend at the time of his death, deserves a place in this sketch

"Died at his residence at Jelloway, Knox county, Ohio, on Sunday, the twenty-sixth inst., of cancer. A. B. Cummings, aged foray-two years. Anson B. Cummings was born in Oneida county, New York, and has resided at Jelloway for twelve years. He leaves a wife, seven children, and many friends to mourn his loss. No one in this community enjoyed a more extensive acquaintance. Possessed of an honest, moral, genial, and pleasant character, with him to form acquaintance was to enhst a friend.

"The Farmers' Insurance company, of Jelloway, owes its existence to the vigorous and fertile mind of Mr. Cummings, as he conceived the idea of its organization, and held an important office in the company from its beginning, until disease compelled him to resign.

"In 1864, when Governor Brough called on the National Guard of Ohio, Mr. Cummings took command of company F, of the One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, and spent the summer in the service. That he was an acceptable officer, kind, pleasant, and agreeable to his command, every member of the regiment will attest. During his early life a cancer developed itself on his lower lip ; this was treated with the knife by a surgeon in Cleveland, with apparent success, as no signs appeared of its return until some four years since it began to develop itself on his chin. In November, 1868, he went to Cincinnati, where Professor Blackman removed his entire lower jaw, back to the angle, or behind the teeth, but without success, as the dread disease remained, and gradually grew and increased in effect. To undertake to describe his sufferings . would be vain. A faint idea of his sufferings could only be conveyed by having been with him. But through all he was not known to murmur or complain. That he died the death of a Christian, we think we have abundant evidence. Thus passed away one dear to his family, beloved by his friends, and respected by all.

"At a meeting of the directors of the Farmers' Insurance Company, at Jelloway, Ohio, on the second inst., E. L. Waltz, E. A. Pealer, and James Barron, were appointed a committee on resolutions expressive of the feelings of the company, on the decease of one of its members. The following was read and adopted

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"' WHEREAS, In the events of His providence, it has seemed well for the Great Dispenser of all good to remove from our midst our friend and brother, A. B. Cummings, and

"' WHEREAS, The deceased was one to whom we were wont to look for counsel, as a corporate body, whose instructions were wise, and one whose society was always pleasant, therefore

"' Resolved, That in his death we feel deeply humiliated, and recognize in his decease the divine workings of the Ruler of nations and of men, and that in his death we greatly sympathize with his bereaved family.

"'Resolved, That in his death the community has lost a valued citizen, the poor a friend, and his family a husband and father, marked for his kindness and affection.

"'Revolved, That these resolutions be recorded on the company's journal, and that a copy thereof be presented to the family of the deceased as a token of our appreciation of his loss to the community, this company, and his family, and that a copy be furnished each of the county papers for publication. E. L. WALTZ, Secretary.

JAMES BARRON, Treasurer."

CUMMINS, WILLIAM, farmer, Milford township, was born in Reckingham county, Virginia, December 1, 1823, and is the son of Thomas and Christian Cummins nee Fogle, both born, reared, married, and died in Virginia. They had a family of ten children, seven of whom are living: Catharine, Nancy M., Amanda, Elizabeth, Edmund, Joseph, and the subject of this notice, who spent his youth on the farm until 1852, when ire went to Texas, but remained only a short time. While in Galveston he had an attack of cholera. He shortly after went to Licking county, Ohio, and in 1855 married Miss L. Butcher. He remained in Licking county until 1858, when he came to Knox county, where he has since lived.

Mr. Cummins is a self-made man. While a resident of Licking county he borrowed five dollars out, of which he has made a competency. He is one of the leading men of the township and county, and is a zealous advocate of the doctrines of the Democratic party, which honored him in 1871, by electing him infirmary director, which office he filled with credit. At the expiration of his term he refused a second nomination. Ha has held many of the different township offices. He is social and affable in his manners.

CUMMINS, JOSEPH, Milford township, farmer, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, March 19, 1833, son of Thomas and Christina Cummins, nee Fogle, of whom mention is made in the biography of William Cummins. The subject of this notice spent his youth on a farm. In 1854 he went to Licking county, Ohio, and remained there until about 1862, when he came to Knox county and located in Mt. Liberty, where he remained for some time. He was married to Miss Ann Eliza Vankirk in September, 1864. They have three children: Carne Virginia, born July 12, 1865; Thomas, June 17, 1867; William, May 11, 1871. Mr. Cummins is a good citizen, quiet in his manners and hospitable to those who call on him.

Mrs. Cumnmins' father, Asher Vankirk, was a native of Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Stephenson. They came to Ohio in 1862, and have had six children, four of whom are living. The parents are both dead. The living are Thomas, a physician in Delaware county, Ohio; Rachel, Adie, and Mrs. Cummins.

CUNNINGHAM, JAMES J., Wayne township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Greene township, Ashland county, April 19, 1817; married in 1845 to Nancy J. McGibbin, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had four children: Isabella, born January 26, 1847; Margaret, October 26, 1854; Alonzo, February 2, 1861; and James, July 19, 1857. Mrs. Nancy Cunningham died October 29, 1861.

Mr. Cunningham's second marriage was on March 1, 1866, to Sarah Jane Taylor, who was born August 9, 1839, in Richland county. They have the following children: Eliza May, born January 9, 1867; David, September 10, 1868; Lou Verta, July 29, 1870; William, September 3, 1872; Mary Ellen. April 11, 1875; and Catharine, April 14, 1877.

Mr. Cunningham came to Knox county August 28, 1866, and was engaged in the mercantile business in Fredericktown for over eight years. He afterwards moved to his farm in Wayne township, and resides there still.

CUNNINGHAM, JOHN, ESQ., College township, son of Alexander and Mary Cunningham nee Thompson, was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, near Steubenville. February 2, 1820. His parents were natives of Ireland. His father born August 1, 1784, his mother January 4, 1797. His paternal grandfather and grandmother came with their families to America and located in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1804. His mother came with her parents to America in 1807. The parents of the subject of this sketch were married in March, 1819, and moved into their little log cabin in the woods, in Jefferson county, Ohio, where they lived thirteen years. The old log cabin disappeared long years ago. Mr. Cunningham was reared a farmer, and has followed farming as his vocation to the present time. In 1841 he married Miss Isabella Foster, of Coshocton county, Ohio, who was born July 22, A. D. 1817, in Jefferson county, Ohio, daughter of James and Nancy Foster. They settled in Harrison, county, Ohio, where she, died July 22, 1844. He was on the twenty-seventh of June, 1847, united in marriage with Miss Sarah A. Bone, of Harrison county, Ohio, who was born in England December 11, 1824, daughter of James and Mary Ann Bone, nee Hillyer, and came to America in 1836 with her mother, her father having died. They remained in Harrison county until September 1, 1852, when they started for Knox county, reached College township on September 4th and located on the farm on which they have since resided. They reared two children, viz: Robert Pittis and Isabella. Three of their children died in infancy. He filled the office of justice of the peace for twelve years in College township.

CUNNINGHAM, MILTON M., Pike township, farmer, post office Democracy; born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1835, and was married in 1862 to Jane Armstrong, who was born in Canada in 1837. They have one daughter, Arminta, born July 18, 1863. Mrs. Cunningham came to Knox county in 1838. They own a well improved farm with good buildings.

CUNNINGHAM, ELI S., Pike township, farmer, post office North Liberty; born in Wayne county, Ohio, September 18, 1833, and was married May 17, 1855, to Sarah A. Oberholtzer, who was born in Holmes county, Ohio, June 12, 1837. They have six children: Marrietta, born July 9, 1857; Milton J., February 22, 1860; Alvin H., March 16, 1862; Dillman F., January 25, 1866; Matthew E., August 2, 1868, and William, March 27, 1872. Mr. Cunningham carne to this county about 1862, and owns a well improved farm with all the modern improvements. He is engaged in farming, also owns a threshing machine, threshing all kinds of grain, and is an active and enterprising citizen.

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CURTIS, HENRY B., Mt. Vernon, retired. His father, Zarah Curtis, was born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, in 1762. At an early age he entered the Continental army, in which he served five years, to the end of the war of the Revolution; first under his father, Jotham Curtis, of Watertown, Connecticut; subsequently joining Captain Webb's company, in which command he remained till the close of the war, when he received an honorable discharge with the rank of a sergeant.

In 1785 Zarah Curtis married Phally Yale, eldest daughter of Aaron and Anna (Hosmer) Yale. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1762. Her family was quite prominent in its day in New England, and descended from a distinguished family in the Old World.

The first remove of the parents of the subject of this sketch was from Connecticut to Charlotte, Vermont, where some of his oldest sisters were born. His oldest brother, the late Hon. Hosmer Curtis, whose death occurred at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1874, was born at Litchfield, Connecticut. The family subsequently removed to and settled upon a farm on the west side of Lake Champlain, near the village of that name, where they resided until 1809, when they removed to Newark, Licking county, Ohio.

His father, a few years later, purchased a small farm on the South fork of Licking river, where the family resided at the time Henry B. left home. This faun was subsequently sold and another purchased on the North fork, in Washington township, in the same county, where the father died, beloved and respected as a Christian minister, in 1849, in the eighty-eighth year of his age.

Henry B. was born near the village of Champlain, New York, November 28, 1799 and was nine years old when his father removed to Ohio. Many of the events of that long journey are still vivid in his memory.

At that time (1809), Newark was but a small hamlet of about fifty or sixty rude homes, mostly log houses. He can recall but two frame houses in the place, both very small tenements.

The opportunities of a thorough education were somewhat limited at this time. Henry was sent to the private school of Roswell Mills, and at a later period to that of Amos H. Caffee. To their faithful teaching, and that of some prorate instructors in a partial classical course, and his own hard study, he is indebted for an education, liberal under the circumstances, though falling far short of the plane to which his ambition inclined. During the whole course of his school studies he also assisted his father in his farm work, and after he left his boyhood's home, though contrary to his indulgent parents' wishes, he continued to pay to them all his wages and earnings, except his necessary expenses, until he was twenty years of .age, when his father remarked to him that he had nothing to give him as an outset in life but his education, and he therefore peremptorily insisted that he should retain all his earnings of the ensuing year. This constituted all the advancement young Curbs ever received from his parents, except a small patrimony at the sale of the homestead after his father's death.

At the age of seventeen young Curtis left his father's farm to make a home for himself. On the invitation of his brother, Hosmer, then a practicing lawyer in Mt. Vernon, he came to this place.

On the twenty-eighth day of April, 1817, young Curtis crossed the Kokosing, and paying the boy who ferried him across the river a silver sixpence, he found himself in Mt. Vernon, walking up Main street with the sum of twenty-five cents.

With the recommendation and assistance of his brother Hosmer, he obtained a situation in the clerk's office, where his assiduity to business and ready skill soon secured him the appointment of deputy clerk. As he progressed in knowledge, nearly all the duties of that responsible position tell upon him. Elder James Smith was then clerk of the court, but being somewhat advanced in years, he removed to a farm, leaving the office and its duties almost wholly to Mr. Curbs.

This official connection with the business and records of the court brought him into immediate contact and personal acquaintance with the principal lawyers of that period, who were then regular and constant practitioners at the court. Among them were Charles P. Sherman, Thomas Ewing, William Stanberry, Wyllys Silliman, William W. Irwin, Charles B. Goddard, Samuel W. Culbertson, Alexander Harper, and several others, all of whom resided in other counties, but, as was the custom then, traveled on the circuit. These distinguished men of the bar, nearly all of whom then or subsequently held high political stations in the State, and who are .identified with its history, constituted the bar of Knox county, for the foreign lawyers were as much a part of the court as the resident judges and lawyers.

As an evidence of the kindly estimation in which the judges of the court held young Curbs, after he had retired from the clerk's office and while studying for the bar, the court, then composed of four judges, unanimously appointed him to the responsible office of recorder for the county, a situation which he held seven years. This appointment, in the outset of life was a material aid, and its fruits enabled him to supply himself with a good law library, which soon became one of the best in the country.

He entered the office of his brother, Hosmer, early in the fall of 1820, and December 9, 1822, he presented himself with his credentials before judges Hitchcock and Pease of the supreme court, for examination and admission to the bar. The examination took place at the Franklin house, in Newark, in presence of several resident lawyers. The oath was administered to him by judge Peter Hitchcock.

When Mr. Curtis entered upon the practice of the law there were but two other resident lawyers in the county, his senior brother, Hosmer, and an older man, Samuel Mott esq., who soon after withdrew from the profession, to engage in other pursuits. But the field was soon further occupied by the advent of others who were fellow students, but v, ho came in a little later. Among these were John W. Warden, Benjamin S. Brown, Columbus Delano, Rollin C. Hurd, and John K. Miller. All of them were able and successful lawyers. Mr. Warden and Mr. Brown died early, and Mr. Miller and Mr. Hurd some time later. To the foreign members of the bar still practising at the court, were added henry Stanberry and the late H. H. Hunter, who entered practice about the same date as Mr. Curtis.

In the earlier years of his practice Mr. Curtis' professional "circuit" embraced the counties of Licking, Richland, Delaware and Coshocton; with frequent extensions, in special cases, to the courts in Lancaster, Zanesville, Wooster, Canton, Norwalk, and Sandusky. In addition to these regular terms of the supreme court, and the United States circuit and district courts at Columbus, were embraced in his practice.

Mr. Curbs was admitted to the bar of the United States supreme court, Washington city, January 9, 1863. After a successful practice before the courts of his country for half a century, in December, 1872, Mr. Curtis concluded to withdraw from the

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legal field, and devote his remaining life to the care and protection of his large and increasing possessions, which had been somewhat neglected. This anniversary was held at his beautiful homestead, " Round hill" (a cut of which appears elsewhere), and was in the form of a supper given to the resident members of the bar, with invitations to, and attended by many, old time friends, front adjacent counties and more distant parts of the State. It was a cheerful and happy occasion, bringing up pleasant reminiscences of the past, and the mutual interchange of kind greetings. On that occasion Mr. Curtis announced to his brethren that he declined all new retainers hereafter, and left the field for his younger brethren.

On the subject of politics Mr. Curtis wrote:

"In politics I am a Republican, and was present and took part in the convention in which that party was organized. I was of the Whig school, and united in the recommendation for the reorganization of the party under the new name of Republican. Although I have ever preserved my identity with my party and acted with them in all their political movements, yet I never, except in one instance, allowed myself to become a candidate for a political office. I do not, of course, include city offices, of mayor and councilman, whose duties I have been called to fulfil, nor the candidacy for the Constitutional convention in the spring of 1873, to which I was pressingly urged by many of both parties, and which election lost by reason of the Prohibition party having a third candidate in the field. The exception to which I refer was in 1840, when the Whig party selected me as their candidate for Congress from this district, then composed of Knox, Coshocton, Holmes, and Tuscarawas counties. My district was one hundred miles long and terribly Democratic. I stumped the district considerably during the campaign, as I did also other counties in the State the same season. I made a good run, cutting down my opponent's majority about one thousand votes but not quite enough to defeat him. It was pleasant enough to go out and make political speeches for the principles of the party with which I acted, but I had no taste to run for office, or to make public speeches in my own interest. Twice after this I was designated by our county conventions as Knox county's choice as candidate for governor, but in both instances I prevented my name going before the general convention. My name has also, on several occasions, been presented by my friends and members of the bar for the judgeship."

In the winter of 1840-41 Mr. Curtis represented Knox county in the State board of equalization. For twelve years he held the office of trustee of the Central Ohio Lunatic asylum, and was the acting president of the board. Mr. Curtis was influential in leading Bishop Chase to establish Kenyon college in its present location, as will be seen by reference to the chapter devoted to that institution. Mr. Curtis was for many years one of the trustees of the college, and while on the board, inaugurated the policy of the survey and sale of the college lands, thus substituting for an irresponsible tenantry a class of proprietary farmers in the immediate neighborhood of the college.

When Mr. Curtis came to the bar the court docket was full of cases against the "Owl Creek bank, of Mt. Vernon," or rather against its members, for it had no corporate existence. The subject was finally referred to a special commissioner and receiver, to which honorable position Mr. Curtis was appoint by the supreme court. Alter years of investigation and arduous labor, the intricate affairs of the bank were brought to a satisfactory conclusion. Every dollar of an outstanding liability was paid, and the losses adjusted and equalized among the several members of the unfortunate association on acknowledged principles of equity and justice. Mr. Curtis' proceedings, and their results, were fully approved and confirmed by the court, with flattering commendation.

In 1848 Mr. Curtis organized the Knox County bank, and has been connected with that institution as its president ever since.

When aid and action were called for to obtain railroads, Mr. Curtis' services were required and freely given. He was the director of the first railroad that entered Mt. Vernon, and also of several embryo schemes that failed after large expenditures. He is now a director of the Lake Erie division of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He was also a large contributor and advocate of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad. In the spring of 1873 Mr. Curtis received from President Grant the appointment and commission of a member of the beard of visitors at West Point, to attend and report upon the examination of the graduating class, and to examine into the condition and administration of the affairs of the institution generally.

While in this service he teamed that some eighty youths, children of professors, officers and employes of West Point, were destitute of the usual means of common school education, except as to a few that had the advantages of private instruction. Being on a military reserve, the jurisdiction of which was in the Government, it was held that the residents were not included within the provisions for the benefits of the common school system of the State of New York. He therefore introduced a resolution recommending that Congress make provision by a suitable appropriation for maintaining, at West Point, a common school for the benefit of the children of that station. The resolution was also supported by Senator Sherman and Judge Thayer, of Philadelphia, and finally unanimously adopted, and its recommendations incorporated in the report of the board.

July 2, 1823, Mr. Curtis was married to Miss Elizabeth Hogg, daughter of Percival and Elizabeth Hogg, of Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio. She was a niece of William Hogg, esq., of Brownsville, Pennsylvania, an old and successful merchant. His family had but recently arrived in this country. They were from Chester-le-street, Durham county, England, where Miss Hogg was born June 22, 1803. By this marriage Mr. and Mrs. Curtis became the parents of eight children-six daughters and two sons-three only of whom survive-two daughters and one son. Their eldest daughter and child, Elizabeth, was married to Mr. John Gershom Plimpton, a merchant of New York city, February 19, 1845. Mc Plimpton died in Mt. Vernon April 18, 1869, leaving three children-the eldest is now married to George C. Clark, esq., of New York, and a second daughter recently married to Mr. John B. Beardsley, a prominent druggist of Mt. Vernon. Mr. Curtis' daughter, Ella, is married to the Hon. Joseph C. Devin, late senator from Knox county in the State legislature, and a practicing lawyer, residing in Mt. Vernon. They also have three children. Mr. Curtis' son, Henry Lambton Curtis, is a graduate of Kenyon college, of the class of 1862. He was married to Miss Lucia Chittenden, of Keokuk, Iowa, October 28, 1868. He is a lawyer, and a partner with Mr. Devin. Mr. Curtis has also a grandchild, Emma Bridge, only child of a deceased daughter (Ada), who was married to Mr. Louis K. Bridge, of New York, also since deceased. Miss Bridge made her home since the death of her parents with her grandparent until the time of her marriage with Mr. Charles

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D. Seebarger, of Chicago, October 15, 1879, Mrs. Curtis died on the seventeenth day of July, 1878, aged seventy-five years, honored and respected by all.

Mr. Curtis' pecuniary means have constantly kept growing from his memorable quarter, until to-day he is classed among the county's wealthiest citizens. Notwithstanding all this rapid accumulation, he has responded in a liberal manner to every benevolent and public enterprise that has been brought to his attention.

His time and money were freely given during the late Rebellion in raising volunteers.

Holding, at the period of the war, as now, the appointment of United States commissioner for the northern district of Ohio, his judicial services were often required in disposing of cases connected with the military movements of that time.

CURTIS, HOSMER, lawyer, born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, on the twenty-ninth of July, 1788, was the eldest son of Zara Curtis, a Revolutionary soldier and officer in Colonel Sheldon's regiment of dragoons of the Connecticut line. On his mother's side he was allied to the Hosmers and Pales of Connecticut. In 1809 his father's family removed to Ohio, and settled in Newark; while he himself, then about twenty years old, removed with the family, and after a few years spent in school teaching, during which tune he read law under the preceptorship of Edward Herrick and Jeremiah Munson, then eminent lawyers of Newark, was admitted to tire bar in 1813, and prepared his first briefs 'in a little office that stood where the Newark market house now stands. The next year he served in the campaign for the relief of Fort Meigs, under General Harrison, and in the fall o f 1814 married Miss Eleanor Melick, of Turkey Foot, Pennsylvania, a lady of distinguished excellence of character, and the mother of all his children except the youngest, Samuel P. Curtis, late of Washington city, now deceased, who was a son by a second marriage. In 1815 he removed to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, where he regularly attended the courts from the commencement of his practice. The first prosecuting attorney for the county, an office that he filled for many years, he became the leading resident lawyer; and as nearly all the younger members of the profession in the county, who were admitted to the bar for the first fifteen or twenty years, were pupils from his office, he became generally known as "the father of the bar." He continued in full practice in Knox county foray-two years, and for a considerable part of that time, as was then the custom, he also regularly attended the courts of the adjoining counties, and the United States court at Columbus, Ohio. His great industry and indefatigable labor in the preparation of his cases, more than the power of his oratory or quick perception of his points, established his reputation for a clear knowledge of the principles of the common law; while his probity of character always insured him earnest attention and the highest confidence and respect of both court and jury. In 1822-3 he represented his county in the Ohio legislature, and held several other important offices and public trusts, in all of which, as also in the large interests of his clients, which, in so long a period of practice, came under his care, his character for honesty and fidelity was ever preeminent. In 1857 Mr. Curbs removed to Keokuk, where several of his children had previously settled, and there resumed the-practice of law in connection with Mr. Gilmore, and which he continued to pursue several years, when finding a nervous infirmity growing upon him, about 1867 he retired from all professional engagements, while continuing to give personal attention to all his own private business. Naturally of strong mental powers, cultivated by philosophic research and study, he was distinguished in the days of his best vigor for his capacity in obtruse speculation and close analytical investigation of every subject presented to him for consideration. He accepted no conclusion without duly weighing all the facts for or against the proposition or theory. These traits marked his character throughout all his professional career, and the aspiration inscribed on the fly-leaf of his first law book: " God preserve my mental vigor,". seemed to be mercifully and certainly granted him to the close of his life. He died at Keokuk, Iowa, on the fourteenth of May, 1874, ripe in years, and the honors of a well spent life. Of his surviving children, .Henry H. Curtis resides in St. Louis; J. L. Curtis, banker, at Chicago; Charles Curtis physician, at Quincy, Illinois, and his daughter, Eleanor, widow of Uzziel Stevens, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio.

CURTIS, GENERAL SAMUEL R., was born February 3, 1807, spent his childhood years in Newark, Ohio; applied himself diligently to his studies, made a good scholar; sometimes was a clerk in the clerk's office of the courts of Licking county, Amos H. Caffee, esq., being the clerk; and in 1827 entered the West Point academy as a cadet, and graduated in 1831, with the appointment of brevet second lieutenant in the Seventh United States infantry, in which he sewed until June 30, 1832, when he resigned. He then studied law in Ohio, and was admitted to the bar, but left that profession to devote himself to engineering, and from April, 1837, to May, 1839, was the chief engineer of the Muskingum river improvement. At the beginning of the Mexican war he was chosen colonel of the Third Ohio volunteers, serving under Zachary Taylor on the Rio Grande line, and was successively Governor of Matamora, Camargo, Monterey, and Saltillo. At the expiration, in 1847, of the term of service of his regiment, he remained as acting assistant adjutant general to General Wool.

Sometime after the close of the Mexican war General Curtis moved to Keokuk, Iowa, and was elected in 1856 a representative in Congress, and was reelected in 1858, and again in 1860. He was also a member of the peace congress in 1861. In Congress he strongly urged the building of a railroad to the Pacific ocean, and all other Republican measures.

In June, 1861, General Curtis was commissioned colonel of the Second Iowa regiment, and ordered to duty in Northern Missouri, but soon went to Washington to attend the extra session of Congress. Resigning his seat in Congress in 1861, he entered zealously into the military service to preserve the Union. He served under General Fremont, and subsequently was appointed to command the army destined to operate against the confederates in southwestern Missouri and Arkansas. General Curtis fought and won the important battle of Pea Ridge, March 6, 7, and 8, 1862, upon which he received a major general's commission, establishing his headquarters at St. Louis, December, 1862.

General Curtis was in command at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, during the Price raid in October, 1864, and cooperated in the pursuit and defeat of General Price's army. From August to November, 1865, he served as United States Commissioner to treat with the Sioux, Cheyennes, and other Indian tribes. He was examiner of the Union Pacific railroad from November, 1865, to April, 1866. His death occurred at Council Bluffs, Iowa, December 25, 1866. General Samuel R. Curtis rendered

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valuable civil and military services to his country, and was an elegant, high-toned, honorable gentleman, of intelligence and probity. He was a brother of Hon. Henry B. Curtis. of Mt. Vernon.

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DALLY, LANE, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Hilliar township, February, 1842. He is the youngest son of John and Mary A. Dally, nee Walters, who were married in Richland county. Ohio, and in 1834 came to Hilliar and settled in the woods. They had a family of ten children. Mr. Dally died in 1869. His wife still survives him. The subject of this notice was reared on his father's farm. He was married to Miss Cypha Cumpston, of Licking county, Ohio, December 6, 1866. They have a family of five children.

DALRYMPLE, JACOB, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in New Jersey in 1797, came to Ohio in 1809, and was married in 1821 to Phebe Lewis, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1802. They had the following children: Roda, born December 4, 1822; Aaron, August 18, 1824; William, April 7, 1827; Mitchell Y., January 17, 1830; Robert M, June 28, 1833; Sarah S., April 1, 1837; Lafayette, June 16, 1841; Mary E., October 16, 1844.

Lafayette Dalrymple was a soldier in the late war, a member of the One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, but was soon discharged on account of sickness.

Robert M. Dalrymple was married to Nancy S. Strubble. They have two sons-Lorain E. and Lew M. Robert is engaged in farming the home place.

DALRYMPLE, WILLIAM BRICE, Liberty township, farmer, was born January 22, 1852, in Liberty township. He is the son of Andrew Dalrymple, deceased, who was born in Sussex county. New Jersey, in March, 1810, where he remained until he was about twenty-three years of age. He then came to Ohio and resided near Fredericktown for some years. On April 12, 1838, he was joined in marriage to Mary A. Wolfe, who was born in February, 1821. She is a daughter of Christopher and Phebe Wolfe, nee Rhinehart, pioneers of Knox county, and whose history appears in this work. They had six children, four daughters and two sons, viz: Phebe, wife of Alexander Jackson; Susan, deceased, who married William H. Scarborough; Eliza J., wife of Thomas J. Scarborough; Ella, wife of Winfield Coe; and Squire and William Brice. Mr. Dalrymple died in October, 1871, in Liberty township, where he had resided about forty-three years. Hr, was much esteemed for his many good traits of character. He was a leading citizen, and by his death the community lost a useful man. Mrs. Dalrymple resides on the homestead.

William B. Dalrymple was reared on the farm on which he yet resides. He is a rising young man of the township. He married Miss H. Coleville, of Liberty township, February 18, 1875. They have two children.

DALRYMPLE, SQUIRE D., Liberty township, farmer, was born in Liberty township, April 9, 1854, and is the son of Andrew and Mary A. Dalrymple, of whom mention is made in the biography of William B. Dalrymple. He was reared on the farm, and like the rest of the family, had the advantages of the schools and the instruction of kind and excellent parents. He is a good farmer, and a young man who is much esteemed. He married Miss Sarah L. Allen December 17, 1874, daughter of William and Joanna Allen, of whom mention is made. They have three children.

DARLING, WILLIAM, farmer, was born April 9, 1814, in Hampshire county, Virginia. He moved to Butler township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1820, and to Jackson township in 1835. He was married to Eliza Melick April 6, 1841. They have had ten children, viz.: Lacy A., James K., Morgan, Louisa, Cyrus, Nan, Sarah E., Avilda, Otto, and Louis. Mr. Darling is an old and respected citizen of Jackson; has served several terms as justice of the peace.

DARLING, JOHN, Berlin township (deceased), was born in New York in 1817; came to Ohio when a young man, and was married in 1842 to Mary Ann Rundle. They had three children -Richard L., Charles T., and James E. Mrs. Mary Ann Darling died in 1852. Mr. John Darling married Lydia Ann Kinney in 1854, who was born in Knox county in 1820. They had three children James E., born in 1855, Henry M. in 1857, and Alva B. in 1861. The father, John Darling, died July 26, 1876. James E. died in 1843, and James Edson in 1856. Henry Daring was married in 1877 to Mary Vore, who was born in Mt. Vernon in 1857. They have one son, George W., who was born July 26, 1878.

DARLING, WILLIAM, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown; born in Coshocton county in 1825, came with his parents to Knox county in 1829, and was married October 15, 1857, to Saprona Willis, who was born June 11, 1835, in New York. She came with her parents to Knox county in 1839. They have one son, Herbert Stanton, born January 17, 1862. He is now engaged in the study of medicine in Fredericktown with Dr. S. B. Potter. Mr. William Darling is one of the leading men of this township, and owns a beautiful farm with excellent buildings.

DARLING, NICHOLAS R., Morris township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown; was born in Wayne township in 1830 and married in 1864 to Margaret Ellen Bricker, who was born in Clinton township in 1830. An infant child was left on the porch of their house in a basket (warmly dressed), on the morning of October 7, 1880 (a mystery). They cared for and became attached to it, framed. it Eddie V., and were making arrangements to have it adopted, but it died in January, 1881.

Mr. Darling purchased the first threshing machine manufactured by Altman Taylor & Co., Mansfield. They attribute much credit to Mr. Darling for his ingenuity, skill and patience in making many improvements so that the machine became a success. He used this machine for fifteen years. In 1864 they made him a very liberal donation on a new machine.

DARLING, GEORGE W., Hilliar township, clothier, Centreburgh, Ohio, was born near Newville, Richland county, Ohio, January 18, 1845. He was reared on a farm. He enlisted in the Sixty-fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, company C, in 1861; he participated in the battle of Shiloh and all the battles in which his regiment and company were engaged until after the battle of Stone River. Tennessee, .when he wars taken with typhoid fever and rendered unable to do service, and was discharged. He returned home and after regaining his health he went to Bloomington, Illinois, where he enlisted in company D, Third Illinois cavalry, and served with them six months; he was then detached on General Saul Meredith's staff as private orderly, and remained as orderly until the war was over, at Paducha, Kentucky, after which he joined his regiment, and

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was with the expedition to Devil's lake, and thence to Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and there mustered out of service October 10, 1865, having served in the two regiments about four years.

His business life commenced in 1868, in Independence, Richland county, Ohio, in a country store. He bought a half interest in the business of William Severns, his father-in-law. The firm bought produce of all kinds. He was for a time agent of the railroad at that point. In 1873 the firm lost about all their property by fire. After the fire he travelled tot some time for a woolen-mill and powder factory. In 1875 he commenced clerking for Mr. Severns, his former partner, and he remained with him until August, 1879, when he purchased a stock of clothing and came to Centreburgh, where he carries a full line of all kinds of ready made clothing, hats, caps and gentlemen's furnishing goods. He has a growing trade and carries about three thousand five hundred dollars worth of stock. He is a good business man and his customers never find a reason to complain from any misrepresentation, as he confines himself to business principles, truth and veracity. He was married to Miss Delnorta S. Severns, of Richland county. Ohio, January, 1868, and by this union they had four children, three of whom are living.

DARLING, ROBERT D., Wayne township, post office, Fredencktown; born in Wayne township, this county, in 1845, and was married in 1870 to Clotilda Lyon, who was born in Wayne township, this county, in 1846. They have four children, Nellie. born in 1871; Frank, in 1875; Nina, in 1877; and Willie, in 1879. Mr. Darling is a farmer by occupation, and has always lived in this county.

DAVIS, JACOB, Monroe township, was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, April 4, 1800, and came to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, with his father, Henry Davis, in 1815. He married Elizabeth Downs, daughter of George Downs, of Knox county, April 3, 1827, and moved to Monroe township, where he purchased land and erected a saw-mill on Schenck's creek in 1828. Shortly afterward he erected a grist-mill and added a fullingmill and carding machine. Being an enterprising business man he not only ran his own mill but owned an interest in the Monroe mills, Gilcrest's mills, and Shamon's mills. Mr. Davis died September 12, 1837, and was buried in St. John's Evangelical Lutheran cemetery, the ground for which was donated by him. He was the father of nine children, of whom James Woodbridge Davis was the youngest. He was born June 9, 1849, at the old homestead on Schenck's creek, and reared on the farm. He married Jennie Daymude, daughter of William Daymude, of Monroe township, December 14, 1876, and has two children, Elmer S. and Herman.

DAVIS, THOMAS, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1809 was married to Jane Jenkins, who was born in 1815 in Loudoun county, Virginia. They had six children: Sarah, born 1838; John, in 1840; Martha, in 1841; Eliza, in 1844; Margaret, in 1847; Stephen Taylor, in 1859.

Mrs. Jane Davis died in 1850. Mr. Thomas Davis married again, his second marriage being to Elizabeth Baker, who was born in Wayne township, Knox county, in 1820. They had two children, W. Scott, born in 1852, and Charlotte Ellen, in 1855.

John Davis was a soldier to the late war. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Twentieth regiment, and continued in the service until his health failed. After his health was restored he again enlisted, but was again discharged on account of ill health. His health improved again, and he again enlisted, and received an honorable discharge at the close of the service.

Mr. Davis came to Ohio in 1838, and located on a farm in Berlin township, Knox county. He owns a well improved farm and has been identified with this county for forty-eight years. He has been a Methodist for fifteen years, and has been a Republican since the organization of the patty.

DAVIS, W. SCOTT, tanner, Berlin township; post office, Fredericktown; born in Berlin township in 1852, and was married in 1874 to Mary Morristown, who was born in Wayne township, in 1854. They have three children: Robertie Bell, born in 1875; Steward, in 1877; Daisy Dell, in 1878. Mr. Davis is a farmer, and resides on the old home farm.

DAVIS, JESSE, tanner, Liberty township, was burn in Cecil county, Maryland, October 16, 1812. His father, a native of Ireland, emigrated to the United States when quite young. He served in the War of 1812 under Commodore McDonough, and received a wound. He was n man of considerable attainments, taught a select school for some years, and married a Miss Mary Nebb, a native of fork county, Pennsylvania. They had nine sons and one daughter, all of whom are believed to be dead except Jesse Davis, who learned the blacksmith trade, which he followed for some years.

When about twenty years of age he went to Ohio county, Virginia, where, in April, 1835, he married Rosanna Frazier, who was born in Ohio county, West Virginia, January 9, 1808. They remained in Virginia until 1850, when they came-to their present home. There were burn to these parents four children in Virginia, viz: Samuel H., Robert F., Mary, and James W. Samuel H. and Robert F. enlisted in company G, Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry. Samuel H. was taken sick and died May 30, 1862. While sick he was commissioned second lieutenant, but was never mustered. Robert F, was discharged in the fall of 1863, on account of physical disability. He is now bookkeeper in the First National bank, of Canton, Illinois. Alary and James V6'. are on the farm.

Mr. Davis was captain of company D, One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio National guard. When the regiment was called out some of the companies were consolidated. Mr. Davis was transferred to company A, which company he commanded during his enlistment.

DAVIS, MRS. JOANNA, Liberty township, was born in Milford township, November 30, 1829. She is the daughter of Smith Bishop and Alary Ann Jeffries, of whom mention is made in the history of Milford township. They had a family of eight children, six sons and two daughters, viz: John J., Joanna, the subject of this notice; Henry A., Benjamin F., Gilford D., Allen S., Clark N., and Adaline L., wife of James Ray, who resides near Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. Bishop died in 1866. His wife survives him. Joanna was married to Joseph P. Davis, November 18, 1861. He was a native of the State of New York, and died in 1877. They had three children, viz: Anna Alary, born July 10, 1862; Cora Estelle, born January 10, 1866, and Ellen Adaline, born September 26, 1868. Mrs. Davis is an estimable lady.

DAVIS, JOHN M., farmer, Miller township. was born in Clinton township, September 28, 1853, is the son of George W. and Margaret Davis, nee Morton. Mr. Davis spent his youth on his father's farm, and, like farmers' sons generally, he worked during the summer, when old enough, and attended

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school during the winter. On the twelfth of January, 1876, he married Miss Lucy W. Baxter, daughter of J. W. Baxter.

Mr. Davis is an energetic and enterprising farmer and an estimable citizen. They have two children, viz: George W. and Daisy M.

DAVIS, JOSEPH SLOCUM, Attorney at law and secretary of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Delaware railroad company, Mt. Vernon, was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, November 21, 1812. He is the third child of Henry and Avice Davis. nee Towne. His father was born in Cornish. New Hampshire, his mother in Wilkesbarre, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, where they were married, and came to Ohio in the year 1808, settling in Ross county. After a residence there of three years they moved into Pickaway county, remained there about four years, and then removed to Hillsborough, Highland county, Ohio, where they lived until they died. The father was engaged in mercantile pursuits.

The subject of this notice, when not at school, assisted his father in the store. In 1829 he entered the preparatory school at Gambler and continued two years in that department. He then entered the freshman class in Kenyon college, passed regularly through the several college classes and graduated in 1835. He read law with the late Benjamin S. Brown, of Mt. Vernon, and in the winter of 1836-37 attended the Cincinnati law school, and was admitted to the bar in 1837. He commenced the practice of law in company-with the Hon. C. Delano, and continued for several years, but after a severe attack of pleurisy his health failed to such an extent that he was compelled to retire.

He was twice elected probate judge of Knox county on the Republican ticket, this last term expiring in 1861.

In 1849-50-51 he was elected mayor of Mt. Vernon, and again in 1866-68-70 and 71.

He was the first editor of the True Whig, a newspaper established at Mt. Vernon in 1848, to advocate the election of General Zachariah Taylor to the Presidency of the United States.

In 1850 he was appointed deputy United States marshal and took the Federal census of Knox county.

In the winter of 1864-5 he was appointed by President Lincoln paymaster in the United States army-was ordered to Washington city, mustered into the service, and remained there until July after the close of the Rebellion.

He has always taken a lively interest in the public schools, and has been connected with the city board of education twenty-five years, or since its organization in 1856, is now and has been for the last nine years president of said board.

In 1869 the directors of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon R Delaware Railroad company elected him secretary of said company, which position he still holds.

Mr. Davis is esteemed as a frank, candid man, of scrupulous integrity, modest and retiring in disposition, affable in his manners, reserved in speech, honorable in his dealings, and a reliable friend, but firm and decided in his opinions, prompt and conscientious in the proper discharge of every public or private trust committed to his care.

Mr. Davis was married to Miss Sarah B. Moore, who was born in Connellsville. Fayette county, Pennsylvania, March, 1813, the only daughter of Doctor Robert D. Moore. They have had four children, two sons and' two daughters, all of whom are living. Captain Henry M. Davis resides at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Anna C., married to John W. Hall, lives in Washington city. Mary A. and Rorlin H. are at home.

Mrs. Davis died May 3, 1879-a Christian woman highly respected by all who had the pleasure of her acquaintance.

DAWSON, JAMES, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard. He was born in Howard township, November 1, 1849. His father, John Dawson, died in July, 1858. His grandfather died at the same place just one week precious. James Dawson was married to Etta Critchfield in January, 1875, and commenced business on the old farm. He has two children: Philip, born February 10, 1870; Catura. May 21, 1878. His mother lives with them.

DAY, STEPHEN, Union township, merchant, post office, Gann. He was born in New Jersey in 1815, and came to Ohio in 1830, and was engaged in farming on what is called the George Freshwater farm, where he remained until his twenty-first year; then removed to Rochester, Ohio; engaged in the grocery business for one year. He was then engaged in a flouring-mill at Roscoe, in Coshocton county, for one year. He then moved back to the farm and remained there for five years; then to Rochester; then to Oxford, Ohio; then back to the old home, where he purchased the Miller farm, and remained there for about five years. From there he went to Oxford and engaged in the mercantile business for two years, and then to the old home again, where he remained until he sold it. He then went to Mt. Holly, and bought the Hast farm. He then sold the farm and went to Spring mountain, then returned to Mt. Holly and lived there for a year. Then he purchased the Draper farm, and lived there for five years, and then returned for the last time to Mt. Holly, remained for one year, and then went to Cambridge. April 25, 1870, he started for California in company with his father, mother and wife; remained there for three months. Then he removed to Bloomfield, Davis county, Iowa, his wife remaining in California where his sons had settled. After going to a number of places he finally settled in Gann, where he is at present doing business with his younger son, selling dry goods, groceries, clothing, and doing a general mercantile business.

DEAN, BENJAMIN, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Washington township, Richland county, in 1851, and was married in 1873 to Amanda Rowe, who was born in this township in 1848. Their children are James L., born April 2, 1875, and Charlie, October 23, 1878. Mr. Dean came to this county in 1868. He is one of the leading farmers of this township.

DEBOLT, REUBEN, Morgan township, farmer, born in Morgan township. January 19, 1812. His father, .Abraham Debolt, was born and reared in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. The family came from Germany, near the river Rhine, but at what time they came to America is not known. They settled in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, whence a large connection has sprung up. As a class they are industrious and well-to-do, being mostly farmers. The father of the subject of this sketch married Christiana Craiger, of Fayette county, Pennsylvania. About 1805 they came to what is the southeast part of Morgan township, where they lived and died.

The farm on which they first settled is owned by their son, Washington Debolt. They had a family of eleven children, one of whom died in infancy. The names were Isaac, Jacob, Daniel, Mary, Samuel-the above have deceased. The living are Michael, Reuben, Elizabeth, wife of George Clark, Washington, John, Rachel, wife of A. J. Hoten.

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The subject of this notice was reared in Morgan township, and has always resided in the community, except nine years, when a resident of Licking county. December 7, 1837, he married Sarah French, who was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, in 1817, and came to Ohio with her parents. They had a family of nine children, viz: , Mary, wife of James Vanvoris; William, Margaret E., Rachel, wife of Joseph Herrington; Christians. Emma H., wife of Samuel Hall, and Dells. Sarah J. and David have died.

Mr. Debolt is a man of social qualities and an estimable citizen, a good farmer, and has the esteem of the community.

DELANO, HON. COLUMBUS, Mt. Vernon. Very few, if any persons in Knox county have been so long and .so intimately connected with the various business enterprises, the diversified secular interests, the educational, moral, benevolent and religious institutions, or who were more effective in movements that tended to give shape and direction to the affairs of social life, and form the customs, manners, and habits of the people, than Hon. Columbus Delano. For fifty years he has been prominent in the politics of Knox county. Fifty years ago he was admitted to the bar, and soon attained to the position of an able lawyer and a popular politician.

Columbus Delano was a native of Shoreham, Vermont; burn there in 1809. In 1817, when a lad of only eight years, he was brought to Mt. Vernon, where his home has since been, a period of sixty-four years. He became a law student before reaching full manhood, having preciously been indefatigable at his studies, and diligent in the acquisition of knowledge, and in storing his mind with useful information. In 1831, just half a century ago, he was admitted to the bar, and as his friends predicted, soon became an eminently successful lawyer. His ambition, talents, excellent habits and exemplary deportment gave assurance of success and distinction in his chosen profession, and his early promise as a lawyer was fully realized in after years. He became eminent as an advocate and criminal lawyer, and no less so as a criminal prosecutor, for he became by popular election, soon after he was admitted to the bar, the prosecuting attorney of Knox county. The prosecuting attorney became an elective officer by act of the legislature in 1832, and Mr. Delano, although a Whig, or rather a National Republican, was elected to that office, in a county then decidedly and strongly Democratic, which shows that he was then very popular with both parties.

Success continued to crown Mr. Delano's career as a lawyer until 1844, when he became a candidate for Congress in the district composed of the counties of Knox, Licking, and Franklin. The Whig party had nominated Hon. Samuel White, of Licking, as their candidate, who had accepted the candidacy and canvassed a portion of the district, before his death occurred. After due deliberation and consultation among the leaders of the Whig party, it was decided to place Columbus Delano on their ticket in place of their deceased candidate, Samuel White, who had been regarded as the most popular Whig, as well as the ablest, in the district, which was generally conceded to be Democratic by a few hundred majority. Colonel Caleb ). McNulty was the candidate of the Democratic party, and was considered the ablest political campaigner of his party in the district. He and his competitor, White, were well matched as orators before promiscuous assemblies. They were, indeed, both men of remarkable force and ability as stump orators, and the Whigs regarded it of paramount importance to select the ablest man they had in the district to conduct the campaign against McNulty. The canvas was fierce and of doubtful issue, as was natural enough in so close a district, and the result was not known until after the last township in the district was heard from. Colonel McNulty, it turned out, did not carry the entire vote of his party, and Mr. Delano received, by some hundreds, more than the full Whig vote of the district. and was elected a member of the Twenty-ninth Congress by the central or capital district of Ohio, by a majority of twelve votes. The popularity of Mr. Delano will appear more fully in the' light of the fact that the district, at the same election gave to Governor Tod, the Democratic candidate, nine thousand six hundred and six votes; to Governor Bartley. the Whig candidate, eight thousand, nine hundred and ninety votes, and to L. King, the Abolition candidate, five hundred and twentyseven votes; giving Tod six hundred and sixteen majority over Bartley, and eighty-seven majority over both the Whig and Abolition candidates.

Hon. Columbus Delano served on the committee on invalid pensions, and made a vigorous speech against the Mexican war, which was widely circulated.

In 1846 Mr. Delano came within two votes of receiving the nomination of the Whigs for Governor or Ohio, William Bebb being his successful competitor in the convention, and who was also successful by a small majority.

Hon. Columbus Delano was a delegate to the National Convention at Chicago in 1860, which nominated Abraham Lincoln for President, and in that memorable campaign rendered yeoman's service in behalf of the martyr President and the Republican party generally.

In 1861 Mr. Delano was appointed commissary, general of Ohio, and filled the office with great success until the General Government assumed the subsistence of all State troops. In 1862 he was a candidate for United States Senator, and on one of the ballots in caucus lacked only two votes of the nomination. In 1863 he was elected to the house of representatives of Ohio, and was a prominent member of that body, taking a leading part in shaping the important legislation of the State during the last two years of the war.

Hon. Columbus Delano was a member of the National Republican convention held in Baltimore in the year 1864, sewing as chairman of the Ohio delegation, and zealously supporting President Lincoln's renomination, and the nomination of Andrew Johnson for Vice-President. In the same year he was elected a member of the Thirty-ninth Congress, and served as chairman of the committee on claims. In 1866 Mr. Delano was a delegate to the Loyalists' convention, held in Philadelphia. He was also a member of the Fortieth Congress, taking his seat after a successful contest before the House of Representatives.

After his election to Congress in 1864 Mr. Delano relinquished the practice of his profession, and became extensively engaged in sheep husbandry, agricultural pursuits, and in the business of banking.

Mr. Delano, after the close of his service as a member of the Fortieth Congress, was appointed by President Grant commissioner of internal revenue, and in 1870 he received the appointment of Secretary of the Interior, succeeding Governor J. D. Cox, thereby becoming one of President Grant's cabinet. He tendered his resignation of this office in 1875, after a service of five years, which was accepted by the President with expressions of satisfaction with the manner in which he performed the duties

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that had devolved upon him, and with manifestations of regret in view of his desire to retire from public life.

Since Mr. Delano's resignation of the honorable position of Secretary of the Interior, he has lived in comparative retirement among his early friends in Mt. Vernon, which for sixty-four years he has called his home. There, amidst the elegance, the quiet, the contentment of a well ordered home, among cherished friends of earlier and later times, he enjoys the philosophic composure, the otium cum dignitate, the sage like dignity, the leisure, the retirement becoming one whose years of activity, of success, of honor, have so largely outnumbered those of mankind generally; whose "ways of life" have been such as that his retrospections would be pleasurable, be recalled with delight, and cherished with complacency.

Mr. Delano has led an active, useful, busy, laborious life, and has merited and enjoyed success and prosperity in a large measure. In peace and in war he has been patriotic; especially was he the friend of his country in the perilous years of the great Rebellion. Always the friend of Freedom and the enemy of slavery, none more zealously supported emancipation. Temperate, and the friend of temperance; the supporter of education and good morals; the schools, colleges and churches always found in him an advocate. His recent large gift to Kenyon college was the liberal act of a noble man.

DENNIS, ABRAHAM, deceased, Berlin township, was born in New York; came to Knox county in 1865; he died in 1874. He had four children: William H., Martha, Laura E., and Philip H. Dennis. William died in Guernsey county, and left a family of eight children. Martha died in Knox county in 1875. Laura E. Dennis and her nephew, Willard, are living on the home place.

DENNY, JAMES A., was born in Jackson township April 4, 1840; he was married February 3, 1865, to Mary Ann Dugan. They have had eight children, viz.: Leona, Leota, Maude, Guy, Edith E., Downey E., Leroy, one infant not named. Leona, born November 22, 1865; Leota, November 22, 1866, Maude, January 15, 1867; Guy, July 2, 1870; Leroy. July 23, 1876; Edith E., June 26, 1878; Downey E., April 2, 1880; infant not named, April 21, 1874. Mr. Denny was a member of company I, Eighty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, and company F, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry.

DEVER, BENJAMIN F., retired, Fredericktown, was born in Knox county April 17, 1833. and was married November 20, 1859 to Sarah Pollock, who was born in Washington county, Virginia, July 4, 1837. They have the following children, viz.: Franklin H., born February 2, 1858; Alfred D., July 17, 1860; Eddie, August 19, 1862; and Robert R., April 9, 1865. Mr. Dever has resided in Fredericktown for twenty-four years, and has been engaged in buying and selling horses, he has also been a drayman. Franklin H., has been engaged in the drug business for about six years, and is a good practical druggist. He has been elected marshal of the town two terms and is now constable of Morris township.

DEVOE, SAMUEL J., Pleasant township, son of Samuel and Mariam Devoe, was born in Richland county, Ohio, November 20, 1817. He came to Mt. Vernon in 1837, and commenced working at the carpenter and joiner trade, with Blake S Armstrong, and continued at his trade until 1856 or 1857; he then engaged in the manufacture of doors, sash and blinds, at Shannon's old buggy factory, which he operated successfully by horse power, until about 1866, when he attached an engine to his machinery and continued in the business until 1870 when his factory was destroyed by fire, and since that date he has been engaged in farming. On the twenty-sixth of February, 1842, he married Miss Hannah Files, of Richland county, Ohio, who was born in 1821. In the spring of 1843, they settled in Mt. Vernon where they remained until 1866, when he purchased and moved on the farm, where they are now living, situated on the Gambier road, about one and one-half miles from Mt. Vernon. They have a family of seven children, three sons and four daughters.

DEWITT, BENJAMIN W., farmer, Brown township, post office, Jelloway, son of Jonathan and Mary Dewitt,, born in Richland township, Holmes county, where he was reared and received a part of his education. He graduated in Madison college, Guernsey county, in his nineteenth year; he then commenced the teaching of school, which he continued for twenty-ne quarters, teaching seven quarters in one district. He also taught vocal music in connection. On the eleventh day of November, 1847, in his twenty-fifth year, he married Sarah A. Workman, of Knox county, James S. Blair officiating. She was the first daughter of S. C. and Mary Workman, born September 6, 1828. After his marriage he moved upon a fault of his father's in Holmes county, where he remained about one year. While there he taught one term of school in the town of Millersburgh during the winter season; he then moved back to Knox county, Brown township, locating on the farm where he now resides, which was then known as the McCall and Stokley lands. By their marriage they became the parents of fifteen children: Normanda E., born February 5, 1849; Squire E., August 11, 1850; James H., January 31, 1852; Jonathan C., April 1, 1853, and died August 4, 1853; Mary E., October 17, 1854; Solomon H., March 27, 1856; Sarah J., March 27, 1857, and died August 28, 1858; Priscilla S., August 8, 1859; Channing C., October 20, 1860; Benjamin F., July 18, 1862, died August 28, 1862; Osmer B., July 18, 1863; Elma F., September 3, 1865; Harriet L., April 3, 1867; Susannah B., March 8, 1869. now dead; William F., December 8, 1870, died April 15, 1871, Mr. and ,Mrs. Dewitt and family are members of the German Baptist church.

DEWITT, SQUIRE E., Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Jelloway, was born in Brown township in 1850. He was married in 1873 to Melinda Shambaugh, who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1848. They had three children-Charles Alpheus, born in 1874; Iva May, born in 1876; John H. O., born in 1879. Mrs. Melinda Dewitt died in 1879, in Jefferson county. Mr. Dewitt is a farmer by occupation and an active and enterprising man.

DETWILER, GEORGE W.. Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Richland county, Ohio, in 1845, and was married in 1869, to Lydia Cassell, who was born in Knox county. Mr. Detwiler has been a resident of this township ever since he came from Richland county, and is one of its active men. He was a soldier in the war, served out his time of enlistment and received an honorable discharge.

DIAL ISAAC, retired farmer, a resident of Monroe township, this county, and a native of Pennsylvania, was born on the twelfth day of October, 1797, and came with his parents, George and Elizabeth Dial, to Ohio m 1800, who located near Coshocton, and remained about two years. In 1802 they moved to the Shrimplon prairies, near Millwood, this county.

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They were living on the prairies when the first assessor came around assessing the property, after Ohio became a State in 1803, where they lived about five years. In 1807 they moved to Howard township, this county, on the land owned by William Hays, remained about one year, then, in 1808, moved on land now owned by T. K. Head, in Harrison township, where they lived during the War of 1812, and for several years afterwards. In about 1817 the father of Mr. Dial moved to Holmes county; Ohio, and remained about two years; in 1820 he returned to this county, and remained a number of years, and then emigrated to Illinois, where he deceased.

Mr. Dial was reared on a farm and has made farming his principal vocation during his life. When he came to this county a small boy, he spent many days at play with Indian boys. He says many a wrestle he has had with the sons of the red man. There were no white boys in the neighborhood that he could have for playmates. Their neighbors were few and far apart. Their nearest mill was at Zanesville, for several years, then the Banning mill was erected.

He was deprived of the privilege of obtaining an education in his forest home, as schools were very scarce in those days.

In 1818, he cut wheat off of the ground where the Theological seminary now stands. Around the building where you now see the trees standing, was at that time a cleared field. He helped to erect the first house for Bishop Chase, which was a hewed log structure, in which Warner Terry lived for several years.

January 20, 1818, he married Nancy Durbin. born in 1794. They settled in College township, where they remained about nine years. In 1827 they moved on the T. R. Head farm, in Harrison township, and remained five years. On March 14, 1832, he purchased the land on which he is now living, in Monroe township, erected a cabin, into which he moved his family the same year. This sewed them as an abode for many years. He then erected his present frame residence on his farm. His companion deceased May 24, 1873. They reared a family of nine children: Maria, Lewis, William Elizabeth, Miranda, Benjamin, Matilda, George, and Rhode E. William and Elizabeth have deceased. Mr. Dial is still living and enjoying good health for a man of his age.

DIAL, JAMES, College township, miller and farmer, son of William and Rebecca Dial, was born in Knox county, Ohio, March 26, 1834. He was reared to manhood on a farm. In November, 1861, he enlisted in company K, of the Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, under Captain William Walker. He served three years and nine months and was discharged in August, 1865; after the close of the war, and returned home. In September, 1865, he commenced working in the Gain's grist mill, and remained with them about two years; then, in 1868, he purchased a one-fourth interest in the mill property, and continued in that way about three years. In 1871 he became a one-third partner, and in 1875 he bought a half interest in it, which he retains. October 18, 1868, he married Miss Catherine Lauderbaugh, born in College township in 1847, daughter of John and Catherine Lauderbaugh, and settled where they are now living. They have a family of three children, two sons and one daughter. He followed farming in connection with milling.

DICKESON, ALFRED J., Gambler, son of Wells and Lucinda Dickeson; was born in Monroe township, this county, on the twenty-eighth day of February, 1842. In August, 1862, he married Miss Mary O. Fobes, born in Newcastle, Coshocton county, Ohio, February 13, 1842, daughter of the Rev. D. L. Fobes. They settled in Gambler, where they now reside. They have! three children: Francis H., Luella A. and Maria G.

In 1862 he enlisted in company B, of the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served three years and was discharged in 1865, after the close of the war. He was in the Thirteenth army corps. He is a blacksmith by trade, and is carrying on the business in Gambler. He is the partner in the Hart S. Dickeson carriage shops, and has charge of the ironing department. He also gives special attention to horse shoeing, and is a first-class shoer.

DICKSON, JAMES, Wayne township, farmer, post office Fredericktown, born in Knox county in 1846, and was married in 1871 to Mary Bricker, who was born in Knox county in 1850. They have one son, Ray B., born September 14, 1879. His father, Samuel Dickson, was married to Elizabeth Rood. They had a family of six children. They were among the earlier settlers of this county. Mr. Dickson died in this county in 1870. Mrs. Elizabeth Dickson died in 1875.

DISNEY, MRS. HARRIET, was born July 14, 1806, in Anne Arundel county, Maryland. Her father's name was Jacob Barry, a licensed local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was reared on South River, Maryland. His father, Basil Barry, reared four children-Sally, Mordecai, Jacob and Basil.

Jacob and Basil, aged respectively twenty-one and eighteen, went into the arms of the United Colonies and were in the first battles fought for American independence. Basil died of the bloody flue while in the Northern army. Jacob was in the army during the whole war, and for a while was a captain. He received a wound in the under jaw, and about twenty-seven small pieces of bone came out. At the close of the war he returned to South River, Maryland, and in 1786 Rev. Jacob Barry married Miss Mary, daughter of William Disney. They moved up to the Pine Woods and there they reared a family of seven children-Elisha, Basil, Caleb, Mordecai, Jacob, Anna Maria, and Harriet.

Elisha, Caleb, and Mordecai, were in the War of 1812, and in the camp at Annapolis when Washington was burned by the British August 14, 1814. Basil and Mordecai were ordained ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church, and were members of the Baltimore conference.

Rev. Jacob Barry, sr., died in March, 1830, and was buried in the cemetery at the Sulphur Spring meetinghouse, Maryland.

In the fall of 1831 Jacob Barry, jr., with his family, his mother and sister Harriet, moved to Utica, Licking county, Ohio. He had his wife and three little children, and this left Harriet to care for herself and leer now aged mother. She rented a house of Mr. Cornelius Vanausdal, where she and her mother lived. April 25, 1833, she was married to Mr. Frederick J. J. Disney, by the Rev. Alfred Loraine, of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Frederick was born in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, January 20, 1808. His father was William I. Disney; his mother was Amelison, daughter of Jacob Elliott, and his grandfather was James Disney.

William and Amelison were married in 1806, and reared thirteen children, of whom Frederick was the oldest. In 1826 they, with their family, moved to Utica, Licking county, Ohio.

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At this time but six of this large family are living, representing Ohio, Iowa and Kansas.

After Harriet Barry moved to Utica. Ohio, in 1831, she and Frederick were married. In April, 1834, they moved to the eighty acres of land in Milford township, which Frederick had bought, and on which he had cleared about two acres. The log cabin which they moved into was about sixteen by sixteen feet.

They were the first to organize a Methodist class in the settlement, and in their log cabin they had regular preaching, and sometimes had a two days' meeting.

In 1840 they moved into the brick house now standing on the northwest comer of the farm, near where the cabin stood. Mr. Disney was a great lover of education and very zealous in pushing forward the educational interests in the settlement and among the first to organize a school and to raise money for the teacher. He was a strong Democrat and took an active part in politics. For seven years in succession he was elected treasurer of Milford township. F. J. J. Disney died May 17, 1854, leaving a wife and nine children, the oldest not yet twenty. It was his object to give his children a good education and make of them useful men and women.

The oldest child, Alfred W., was born in the fall of 1834, was educated at Chesterville, Ohio. At the age of twenty-two he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. William Haves, sr. After completing his studies he went to Amity, Knox county, Ohio, where he opened an office and practiced medicine about one year. At the age of twenty-seven he married Miss Mary A., daughter of Thomas Brown, of Liberty township. Immediately after his marriage he went to LaRue, Marion county, Ohio, where he practiced medicine with Dr. J. Copeland awhile, and then opened an office of his own. He was a graduate of the Starling Medical college, Columbus, Ohio. In the summer of 1875 he was taken sick, and on the twentieth of September he died of typhoid fever, leaving a wife and three little boys.

The second child, Larkin E., was born in 1836. He received a good education in the district school, and also in the Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, Ohio. He studied dentistry with Dr. McBriar, formerly of Mt. Vernon, now of Columbus, Ohio, and in 1862 he went to Coshocton, Ohio, where he commenced practicing his profession. In 1867 he married Miss Anna Spangler, of that place. At the present time he and his wife are in Peabody, Kansas. He is practicing dentistry.

The third child, Basil A„ received a fair education at home, and also attended the school at Delaware, Ohio. He joined the Methodist Episcopal church when very young, and at the age of eighteen he received license to preach. He is a member of the North Ohio conference, and now. is stationed at Lorain, Ohio. In 1869 he married Miss Hannah M. Hardee. They have lost two children. He is now translating the New Testament from the Greek to-the English. George R. is the fourth child. His education, in the common branches, is good. At the age of twenty-one he married Miss Clamanda E., daughter of Mr. William H. Hawkins, of Milford township. By birth and practice he is a farmer; by occupation, a carpenter. He has one child. His home is in Milford township.

The next child is Mary A. She attended the district school and received a liberal education. After she was grown she fitted herself for teaching, and taught several terms of school. In October, 1880, she was married to Mr. W. H. Orme, of Hawleyville, Page county, Iowa, where she now resides.

Dorson V. was born in July, 1844. He has a good education. For some time he was a traveling agent for the American Bible society. He canvassed Knox and Coshocton counties, and found many families without even a Testament. In 1874 he married Miss Mary C., daughter of Rev. C. C. Craven, of the North Ohio conference. They have a small family, and are living in Homer, Licking county, Ohio.

The seventh child, Henry B., received some education in the district school. In August, 1867, he went to Baldwin university, Berea, Ohio, where he stayed one year. In the winter of 1868-69 he taught his first school in the district where he once attended. He taught school the next winter, and in the spring of 1870 returned to college. At the close of the year he graduated in the seminary course of the Sunday-school Normal department, besides keeping up with his classes in other studies. He is teaching his eighth term of school in Brandon, Ohio. His home is with his mother.

Emily L, is the next child and the second daughter. She received some education in the district school, and for awhile attended the Union school in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. When young she was the pet of the family. She is now at home.

The ninth child, Finley, attended the district school; for nearly a year he attended the normal school under Professor John Ogden, in Worthing, Ohio. In the summer of 1879 he went to the Musical Normal school in Youngstown, Ohio, under the direction of Professor N. Coe Stewart, of Cleveland, Ohio. For a number of years he has made the study of music a speciality. He is the author of "Willie's Farewell," published in 1877, and by it he has the honor of being the first resident of Knox county who composed the words and music of a song and had it published. At present he is with his mother in Milfordton.

Mrs. Harriet Disney is residing on the farm to which she and her husband came in 1834. She joined the Methodist Episcopal church when fourteen years of age, and has ever lived an exemplary life. Her children are all members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

DISNEY, WILLIAM A., farmer, Milford township, was born in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, February 11, 1813. His parents, William I. and A. Disney race Elliott, came to Ohio with a family of nine children and settled in Miller township, in 1825, where they remained about a year, then moved to Milford, where they both lived and died. Six of their children are living.

The subject of this sketch spent his early life on the farm, assisting his parents. When about eighteen years of age he was apprenticed to learn the trade of blacksmithing, and worked at his trade for a number of years, after which he engaged in farming, and which he yet follows. Mr. Disney's reading has taken a wide range, he is therefore a man of extensive information. He was an ardent advocate of the principles of the Abolition party. In 1836 he cast his vote for James G. Birney, the Abolition candidate for President, and it was the only ballot cast for him in the township. He acted with this party until the forming of the Republican party, when be helped organize that political party, since which time he has acted with it. He married Miss Mary Jane Lampson, October 6, 1836, a daughter of Judson Lampson, a pioneer of Knox county, of whom mention is made elsewhere. She was born October b, 1818. They had four children: Judson L. was a member of company A, Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and died May 24, 1864, at New Orleans, while in the

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service; Angeline, wife of Charles O. Poland; Louisa R., wife of John R. Poland; Ada, married to John W. Walter.

DODD, STEVEN B., deceased, was born June 20, 1820, in Washington county, Pennsylvania. He removed to Knox county, Ohio, at an early age, and commenced the practice of medicine in Martinsburgh in 1853. He was a very successful physician. He was a graduate of the Physio-Medical college of Cincinnati, and was married to Miss Sarah Ann Sinkey September 7, 1841. Their children were: Abraham N., Stephen B., Alfred M. and James F., all living except Abraham N. James F. is agent for the Singer Sewing Machine company, and does a good business.

Dr. Dodd died June 30, 1863. He had lived a consistent Christian life, being a member of the Free Presbyterian church, and elder for many years. Abraham Sinkey, father of Mrs. Dodd, was born in Pennsylvania, and was married to Ann Boyd Foster, of Maryland, who .vas aunt of President James Buchanan and the celebrated poet, Stephen Foster. Mrs. Sinkey died at Maitinsburgh at the advanced age of ninety-eight years.

DONAHEY, P. N., Jackson township, merchant; post office, Bladensburgh, was born in Jackson township June 4, 1843. He was married to Miss Sophia M. Houck in August, 1869. They have two children: William, born May 11, 1871, and Lotta, May 31, 1878. Mr. Donahey has resided in Jackson township the principal part of his life. He went to Illinois in August, 1874, where he was engaged both in school teaching and the mercantile business. He returned to Ohio in July, 1880, locating in Bladensburgh, where he is now engaged in the grocery business, keeping a good stock of groceries and provisions on hand for his many patrons.

DOOLITTLE, S. R., merchant, and son of Philo Doolittle, was born in Fredericktown, this county, in 1838. In 1865 he came to Gambier, engaged in the mercantile business, and has been actively engaged in that business since that time. He constantly keeps on hand a full assortment of every thing in his line, such as dry goods, groceries, notions, hardware, agricultural implements, etc.

DOTY, CHARLES, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Stark county, Ohio, in 1823, and was married in 1854 to Ann Tharp, who was born in W Wayne county in 1834. They have two children-Elizabeth and Stanton W. Mr. Doty came to this county in 1841, first located in Jefferson township, and in 1872 came to this township. He is a farmer, owning a good farm in this township.

DOUP, CONRAD, Pike township, blacksmith, post office, Democracy, born in Union township, Knox county, in 1839, and was married in 1866 to Margaret Kirkpatrick, who was born in this township in 1847. They had six children: John Sherman, born in 1867; Frank W., born in 1869; Ada G., born in 1871, died in 1872; Ava I., born in 1873; Zara Clifton. born in 1876, and Altha M. in 1879. He commenced the blacksmithing business in 1856, with his brother George, and has been engaged in that trade ever since, except during. the late war. He enlisted in Captain James Drake's company H, Twenty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, continued in the service for over three years, and was honorably discharged. He is now a resident of Amity, and is one of the leading men of the place.

DOUP, LOUIS, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Union township, this county, in 1843, and was married in 1866 to Lenah F. Smith, who was born in Johnson county, Iowa, in 1847. They have six children-Martha (deceased), Byron, Elmer, Clara, Nancy, and Laura. Mr. Doup was a soldier in the late war, a member of company H, Twenty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was engaged with this company for three years, when it was consolidated with company G. He was in the war four years and three months, and was a valiant soldier. His father, Conrad Doup, was born in Germany in 1805, came to America in 1830, located in Knox county in 1832. He w:1s married to Catharine Best, who died in 1832. His second marriage was to Catharine Hager, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1809. They had nine children: George, Daniel, Solomon, Conrad, Elizabeth (deceased), Louis, Joseph, Barbara (deceased), William (deceased).

DOUP, FREDERICK, Butler township, was born in Germany, and Came to America about forty years ago. He served in the Mexican war and in the war of the Rebellion, proving a gallant soldier. He is now a prosperous farmer of Butler township.

DOWDS, ELIJAH, Pike township, deceased; was born in Virginia in 1807. His parents emigrated to Ohio when he was a child. He was first married to Nancy Wilson who was born in 1808. They had nine children, viz: Samuel N., Margaret, Martha A., Elizabeth E., William B., Nancy J., Elijah P., Lucy E., Sophia C., and Mary A. Mrs. Nancy Dowds died in 1835. Mr. Dowds afterwards married Mary Ellen Barber, who was born in this county in 1833. They had seven children, viz: Wilson B., Joseph S., John H., Sheridan G., Charles C., Cornelius K., and Alva A. Two of the sons were in the late war. William B. was a member of the Sixty-fifth O. V. I. Elijah P. was a soldier in the Twentieth regiment O. V. I., and was killed in the battle of Raymond, Mississippi, May 12, 1863.

Mr. Dowds was an early settler of this county ; industrious, economical, and succeeded in accumulating a good property. He died June 7, 1879.

DOWDS, SAMUEL N., Monroe township, farmer and stock grower, son of Elijah and Nancy Dowds, nee Wilson, was born in Monroe township, this county, November 4, 1829; was reared on a farm, and has made farming his vocation through life. October 22, 1855, he married Miss Eliza A. Popham, of Pike township, this county, born in 1841, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth J. Popham. They settled in Monroe township on a farm where they now reside. They have a family of nine children, three sons and six daughters.

DOWDS WILLIAM B., Monroe township, farmer, son of Elijah W. and Nancy Dowds, nee Wilson, was born in Monroe township, this county, July 4, 1837. He was reared on a farm and has made farming his vocation. In 1859 be married Miss Julia A. Hersh, born in November, 1835, daughter of John and Rebecca Hersh. They settled in Monroe township, remained until in 1863, when they moved to Pike township, this county, where they remained until 1875 or 1876, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Monroe township, where they are now living. They have a family of eight children, two sons and six daughters. He served about thirteen months in the war of 1861, having enlisted August 11, 1862, in company B, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served until April 3, 1863, when he was honorably discharged from the service, on account of sickness, and returned home. In 1864 he enlisted in company F, of the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio volunteer

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infantry, for one hundred days, served out his time and was discharged, and returned home again.

DOWLER, B. F., St. Louis, Missouri, dealer in horses, Nos. 20 and 21 Market street; born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1830, and was married in 1860 to Miss Hannah Rodgers, who was born in Wayne township, this county, in 1830. They have two children, Adelpha and Freddie. Mr. Dowler has been quite extensively engaged in buying and shipping horses from this county to eastern States and cities. He has moved to St. Louis, owns two farms near the city, and still continues shipping horses.

DOYLE, JAMES, Mt. Vernon, deceased, a native of Ireland, was born in the spring of 1806, in the parish of Ferries, town and county of Wexford. In 1833 he entered the Government employ under contracts for building Government wharfs and piers in the different harbors along the Irish coast. On the first day of January, 1836, while in Liverpool, England, he entered the British navy as a volunteer, and was transferred to the royal mail service as a boatman, and stationed at Kingstown, Ireland. A great amount of the work required of him while in the mail service was necessarily performed during the night time. The mail ships that carried the great mail between London and Dublin, made no stop at Kingstown, where he was stationed, and the boat service was sometimes one of great danger. It was often with great difficulty that the boat, in darkness and amidst mountain waves, was enabled to reach the shore. Twice while in this service he received slight bodily injuries. He was discharged from the mail service by the board of admiralty, after serving faithfully for fifteen years, February 20, 1851. The reason assigned for the discharge was that the mail service was transferred by the Government to that of a private company. In all making about eighteen years of his life spent in the service of the British Government.

In 1851 he with wife and family emigrated to America and located in Massillon, Stark county, Ohio, remained about six years, then, in April, 1857, he came to this county and settled in Mt. Vernon, where he passed the remainder of his days. About thirty-three years of his life were spent in performing night duty, including naval and civil life. After his coming to Ohio he was employed as a night watchman, both while living in Massillon and in Mt. Vernon. As a night watchman at the Buckingham foundry he remained for many years. He married Miss Mary Harney, of Ireland, born in 1817. They had nine children, five of whom were born in Ireland and four in America. The first born died and was buried in Ireland, and two others breathed their last in America. The other six are still living. Two of their sons. John M. and Philip E. Doyle, served as private soldiers in the late war; John M. was in the Sixty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, served until the close of the war, returned home and is now residing in Mt. Vernon; by trade he is a machinist in the shops of the John Cooper's manufacturing company. Philip E. served about three years in the Eighteenth United States regulars. He returned home at the expiration of his term of service, and now resides in Leadville, Colorado.

Patrick, their youngest, is a moulder by trade and is now living in Mansfield, Ohio, having been employed by Aultman & Taylor several years. Mr. Doyle departed this life April 12, 1880. Mrs. Doyle is still living in rigorous old age.

Of the parents of Mr. Doyle but little can, at this late date be learned. He is a son of Philip Doyle, who married a Miss Brennon, of Wexford, Ireland, about the year 1798, just after the suppression of the great Irish rebellion.

Seven children were born to them, one of which was .James, the subject of this sketch.

DUNBAR, WILLIAM, attorney, Mt. Vernon, was born in Mifflinsburgh, Northumberland, now Union, county, Pennsylvania, January 31, 1806. He came of revolutionary stock. His grandfather was commissary to General Washington at Valley Forge. His parents, with a family of nine children, came to Ohio in 1814, and settled in Columbiana county, where they remained some two years, and then moved to Stark county, Canton, where they lived and died. He is of Scotch and German extraction, his father being Scotch and his grandmother German. He learned the trade of carpenter, at which he worked for some years. He taught school for several terms. He was appointed postmaster at Canton during the administration of Amos Kendall, postmaster general, December 24, 1835. He resigned the office about 1837.

At about that time, 1834, he purchased the Stark County Democrat, and from lice work bench he became editor and postmaster. .after he resigned the post office he threw his whole energy into the work, and in a short time the circulation of his paper was largely increased. The majority of his party was also increased from one hundred and fifty to nine hundred. He met with exceedingly bitter opposition, but wielded his pen with such force as to rout his enemies. He was elected county treasurer in the fall of 1839, after one of the fiercest struggles in the politics of the county, coming out with eleven of a majority. He was again elected at the expiration of his first term, without opposition. He sold his paper in the winter of 1839. He commenced reading law while in the treasurer's office, and was admitted to practice in the courts of Ohio in 1842, and in August, 1847, was admitted to practice in the United States courts. In November, 1847, Mr. Dunbar moved to Knox county and located in Mt. Vernon, and has since practiced his profession. In 1854, during the Know-Nothing epidemic, he was nominated for Congress, but was defeated.

Mr. Dunbar purchased the Mt. Vernon Banner office November, 1847, and was editor and proprietor of the same until the fall of 1852, when he sold the paper to Mr. E. J. Ellis.

When he first came to Mt. Vernon he entered into law partnership with Hon. John K. Miller, which continued until the failing health of Mr. Miller caused him to retire from business. A partnership was also formed with judge John Adams, and also a law partnership with General H. B. Banning, which continued until the general went into the army.

October 2, 1827, Mr. Dunbar was married to Miss Harriet Tofler, of Canton. They have had eleven children, seven of whom are living, five sons and two daughters. The living are: Caroline, William B., (assistant treasurer of Knox county); Homer J., at Fremont, Ohio; Edward L., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Robert P., Fremont, Ohio; George M., Mt. Vernon, and Hattie, teaching in blind asylum, Columbus, Ohio. The deceased are: Albina, died in 1862; John E., Limerick, and Julia, died when young.

DUDGEON, SIMON (deceased). The subject of this sketch was born in Ireland, county Donegal, June 3, 1776, where he was reared, and lived until 1802 (being twenty-six years of age), when he sailed for America, landing in the city of New York, he having but one English shilling left, which he soon parted with to have his shirt washed. From New York

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city he went to the State of Connecticut, where he remained and worked a short time. From there he came back to Delaware county, New York, and hired to perform labor by the month, on a farm, where he remained but a short time, afterwards engaging in the lumbering business, continuing at it until the year 1810, when he came to what is known. as Harrison township, Knox county, where he entered three quarter sections of land, and afterwards sold one quarter-section to his brother Moses, in order to get money to improve the balance. After this he went to Washington county, Pennsylvania, and there, in September, 1811, he married Nancy Elliott, daughter of Charles and Jane Elliott, born in Ireland in 1791. After his marriage (in October, 1811) he returned to Knox county and moved upon his land, which was all a dense forest at that time, and erected himself a small tent, covering the same with sheets, to shelter himself and wife from the storm and the wild animals that infested the country at that time. He then proceeded to cut logs and build a cabin, which he and his wife soon occupied. He then proceeded to clearing his land and getting it ready for cultivation. In this labor he was engaged from year to year until he became the owner of a fine farm. In the meantime he kept purchasing land until he was the owner of seven hundred and twelve acres, which at his death was divided among his sons and daughters. There were born to Simon Dudgeon and Nancy Elliott ten children as follows: Jane, Thomas, Charles, Moses, David, William, Simon, Mary, John, and Andrew, eight of whom are now living.

The subject of this sketch died June 2, 1845, in his sixty-ninth year; his companion survived him till December 14, 1859. when she died, aged nearly sixty-nine years.

DUDGEON, MOSES, farmer and stock-miser, post office Gambier; fourth son of Simon and Nancy Dudgeon, born in Harrison township, Knox county, January 31, 1818, where he was reared and enured to the hardships of a pioneer life.

The subject of this sketch remained with his father until the age of twenty-six years, when his father gave him a quarter section of land in Allen county, which he owned about three years, when he exchanged it for an interest in the old homestead in Knox county, where he at present resides.

December 26, 1844, he was united in marriage with Hannah, a daughter of Benjamin and Mary Devare, born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, where she was reared until at the age of eight years, when her parents both died. She was then brought to Knox county by Daniel Sawyers, with whom she lived.

Mr. Dudgeon is at present the owner of two hundred and forty acres of land, and has also held quite a number of offices of trust in said county and township, being county commissioner, justice of the peace, and treasurer.

The union of Mr. and Mrs. Dudgeon resulted in five children, as follows: Margin, Lyman, Mary, Simon, and Angie, who are all living.

DUDGEON, DAVID, farmer and wool-grower, post office Gambier; fourth son of Simon and Nancy Dudgeon, born in Harrison township, Knox county, April 11, 1820. He received an education, and at the age of twenty-one years he went to Allen county, and remained about five years, In 1845, when in Allen county, he purchased two hundred acres of land, then came back to Knox county, and then went to farming for his mother. About a year after returning home he sold his land in Allen county to his brother Thomas, for the sum of nine hundred dollars, and then purchased a share in the home-place, where he continued to remain and farm, purchasing shares in the home-farm. This be continued about eight years, by which time he had become the owner of three hundred and fifty acres. On February 10, 1848, he was united in marriage with Mary J., a daughter of Asa and Catharine Freeman, born in Knox county, Butler township, August 2, 1831. Their union resulted in eleven children, viz: Martha, Eunice, Ann, Lydia, William, Jessie (died May 21, 1863), Andrew, Caroline, Lee, Reuben, and Jane.

In April, 1880, he purchased seventy-four acres in Pleasant township, Knox county, at a cost of three thousand seven hundred dollars, which he deeded to his daughter, and which she now occupies.

DUKE, WILLIAM, marble cutter, Fredericktown, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1849. He came to Ohio in 1863. He commenced the manufacture of gun stocks with Hoover & Fisher, and worked at that business till 1865. In 1871 he went to Newark, Licking county, and engaged in the manufacture of tombstones. He was married in Newark in 1874 to Emma J. Sasser, who was born in St. Louis. They have two children, viz.: Luther James, born November 22, 1874; Cora Mabel, March 17, 1877. Mr. Duke came to Fredericktown April 1, 1879, and is engaged with John Getz in the manufacture of monuments and tombstones. He is a good mechanic, and an active citizen of the county.

DUN, J., farmer, Howard township, post office, Howard was born in Wheeling, Virginia. His father came to this county in the early days of his son's life, and died shortly after. Mr. Dun has lived all his life in Knox county. He was married in 1865 and settled in Howard township. he had five children, two of whom died in infancy, and the other three are still living.

DUNCAN, JAMES, JR., teacher, Fredericktown, wasborn in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1846; came to Ohio in 1857, and was married in 1871 to Lucy A. Mitchell, who was born in Richland county, Ohio, in 1848. They have two children: Cloyd, born in 1873, and Bessie, born in 1875. Mr. Duncan was educated at Washington and Jefferson college. He is now superintendent of the union schools, of Fredericktown. He enlisted in the late war as a member of One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio National guard, and served out his time and received an honorable discharge.

DUNCAN, WILLIAM H., mechanic, Union township; post office, Gann. He was born March 7, 1829, in Baltimore, Maryland. At twelve years of age he enlisted in the United States navy, remained five years, and then went to Cincinnati and remained five years. .He then went to the Mexican war and was gone two years. After being discharged, he went to Cincinnati, and then to Baltimore, then to Mt. Vernon, and worked at his trade eighteen months. In 1855 he was married to Miss Swats, and settled in Mt. Holly, and remained there until the Rebellion, when he went out with Colonel H. B. Banning, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and remained until the close of the war. Since that time he has paid strict attention to the boot and shoe business. He was married to Miss E. Johnson in 1865, and she only lived about ten years after. In 1877 he married Miss H. Comstock.

He has the following children: William, Margaret, Louisa, Margaret, Benjamin. Ira M., Cora Lee, and Lucy Fisher. His grandchild, Viola 'Minnie, is living with him.

DUNCAN, JAMES SR., Fredericktown, retired farmer, was

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born in Washington county,- Pennsylvania, January 6, 1806, and came to. Ohio in 1837. He was married, in 1841, to Mary McKowen, who was born in Virginia in 1814. They had the following family, viz.: Thomas, born July, 3, 1842; George, ; born April 3, 1844; James, jr., born May 5, 1846; .Albert, born April 19, 1848; Charles, born November 11, 1849; Mary, born May 26, 1851; Charles Albert, born June 26, 1854; Norris, born November 11, 1856.

George died November, 1862; Thomas died in Wayne township January 11, 1861; Albert Charles and Charles Albert died in Pennsylvania; Norris in Ohio.

Mary Duncan was married to W. H. Lane, and resides at Lindsey. Mr. Lane is engaged in the practice of medicine at that place.

Mr. James Duncan, sr., was a farmer by occupation, and has lived in this township since 1857. In 1868 he moved to Fredericktown, and has always been one of its enterprising citizens.

DUNHAM, WILLIAM E., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in Clinton township in 1831, and was married to Martha King, who was born in Knox county. They have the following family: Clarence, born December 25, 1853; Clara, born in 1856; Jefferson, February, 1862; Della, October, 1863, and Alna, January, 1875.

Clarence died May 25, 1854; Clara died May 10, 1872.

Mr. Dunham came to this township with his parents in 1832, and since then has been a resident of this county. He has accumulated by industry and frugality, a very handsome property, consisting of a fine residence with a well improved farm. He was elected treasurer of Knox county in the fall of 1871 by a large majority, and filled the position with honor and credit to himself and to his party. The vote of his own township, which is Republican by about one hundred majority, gave Mr. Dunham a majority of one hundred and ten.

DUNHAM, JACOB, deceased, a native of New Jersey, and a soldier of the Revolution, was born on the ninth day of October, 1757. He married Miss Sarah Outcelt in 1787, born in New Jersey August 21, 1767. They settled in New Jersey, where they remained until 1820, when he, with his wife and family, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Morris township; where they lived about seven years, and then moved on a farm in Clinton township in 1827. In 1829 he purchased and moved on the farm now known as the Dunham homestead, and owned by their son, Jacob Dunham, in the same township, where he deceased July 6, 1839. His wife died in 1859, aged ninety-two years and some months. They reared a family of eight children: Lydia, born in New Jersey July 11, 1791; Jemima, in New Jersey May 6, 1795; John, in New Jersey August 9, 1797; Hiram, in New Jersey March 3, 1798; Jacob, in New Jersey November 6, 1802; Jehu, September 10, 1803; Frederick, in New Jersey February 15, 1807, and Margaret, in New Jersey November 14, 1810.

All of the above named are deceased except Jacob, who is living on the old home farm, at the age of seventy-eight years, highly esteemed by all that know him.

DUNN, JOHN, Brown township, farmer, and a son of George and Alice Dunn, was born in Licking county, Ohio, March 26, 1834. His early life was spent on a farm. In 1857 he married Miss Elizabeth Divan. of Licking county, and settled there. Their union resulted in one child-a daughter. His companion deceased in 1859.

In 1864 he came to Jelloway, this county, where he married Miss Mary E. Tilton, of Jefferson township, in. October, 1864, daughter of Josephus and Sabina Tilton, born in 1842., They settled near Jelloway, and remained until 1864, when he purchased and moved on the farm, where they now reside in Brown township, about three-fourths of a mile northeast of Jelloway. They have a family of five children-three sons and two daughters. He has made farming his vocation through his life.

DURBIN, SAMUEL, Fredericktown, deceased; was born in Pennsylvania about the year 1780, and married to Rebecca Collins, who was born in 1783. They had the following children, viz: John, Thomas, Elizabeth, Clemency, James, Sarah, Charity, Margaret, and Samuel. He came to Fairfield county at a very early day and afterwards to Morris township, this county, in 1808. He was the fourth settler in this township, and cut his road from Mt Vernon and cleared and improved the farm (now the Grant farm) in this township. Mr. Durbin died April 22, 1822.

DURBIN HENRY P., Morris township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon; was born in Clinton township in 1842, and married in 1864 to Mary Chilcoat, who was born in Pennsylvania, Huntingdon county, December 4, 1837. They have the following children: Thomas E., born January 23, 1866; Jessie A., born September 9, 1870; Rhoda E., born April 9, 1873; Willie R., born November 28, 1874; Miles S., born November 26, 1878. Mr. Durbin has resided on his present farm in Morris township fifteen years.

DURBIN, BAPTIST, deceased, Union township, was born in Maryland in February 1816. He emigrated to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1825, where he married Miss Catharine King, in November, 1825. She was born in Belmont county, Ohio, and is the daughter of John King. They settled in Belmont county; remained until 1832, when they moved to Knox county, and located in Howard township, on a farm two miles north of Howard village, where they passed the remainder of their days.

His wife died in August 1854. He survived her until July 26, 1878. They reared a family of eleven children: John, Benjamin, Jane, William, Mary Trecy, Sarah C., Margaret, Baptist, Alexander, and Emma C. All are now living except Baptist who died in 1874.

DURBIN JOHN, farmer, Union township, the oldest son of Baptist and Catharine Durbin, was born in Belmont county. Ohio, August 26, 1862, and came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1832.

He was reared a farmer and has made farming and stock raising his principal vocation. He commenced working at the carpenter and joiner trade, at the age of twenty-one years, and has followed that business to some extent in connection with farming. In April, 1852, he married Miss Lucinda Sapp, born in Union township, Knox county, May 11, 1831, daughter of Levi and Mary Sapp, nee Colopy. They settled in Union township on the Sapp homestead, where the lived a few years, and after living on several farms in Union township, he purchased, in 1860, and moved on the farm where they are now living, one-half mile north of Danville. At this time he owns three farms, one in Jefferson township, one in Howard, and the one he is living on in Union township. They have ten children, five sorts and five daughters. He filled the office of township treasurer four years.

DURBIN, BENJAMIN, Union township, farmer, second son of Baptist and Catharine Durbin, was born in Belmont

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county, Ohio, May 8, 1828. On the nineteenth day of January, 1858, he married Miss Margaret, daughter of William and Bridget McNamara, born October 20, 1833. They settled in Howard township, Knox county; remained until 1864, when he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Union township, one-half mile north of Danville. They have four children, one son and three daughters. He was brought up a farmer, and has followed farming and stock raising. At present he owns two farms, one in Jefferson, besides the one he is living on in Union township.

DURBIN, RAPHAEL, Howard township, farmer, post office Howard. he was born October 26, 1834, in Bcdford county, Pennsylvania. In 1845 he moved to Knox county and settled in Howard township. He was married April 16, 1861, and a short time afterwards settled on his farm. His father died in 1852 and his mother in 1873. They have nine children, Mary, Anna, Charles, Joseph, John, Margaret, William, Frances and Leo.

DURBIN, PETER, Howard township, farmer, post office Howard. He was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, January 31, 1835. His father came to Ohio in 1843 and died in 1852. His mother died in 1873.

They raised ten children, who are settled in Howard township: Marion, Susan, Rachel, Peter, Simeon, John, Margaret, George Benedict, and Pius. They now own six hundred acres of good farming land.

DURBIN (DAWSON), MRS. RACHAEL, post office, Howard, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1822, and came to Knox county in 1836 with her father, and settled on the L. Pealer farm. She was married to John Dawson April 1 1846. Mrs. Dawson and her husband remained on the old farm until 1859 when they came to their present farm. Mr. Dawson died July 1, 1855, and left Mrs. Dawson with two children, James and Louisa, who still remain with her. Mrs. Dawson's father died in 1838, and her mother lived with her until 1869, when she too passed away.

DYE, VINCENT E., blacksmith, Middlebury township, post office, Levering; born in Richland county, June 15, 1841, and was married November 13, 1874 to Ellen M. Smith, who was born September 3, 1848, in Coshocton county, Ohio. They have two children, viz.: Clyde L., born January 30, 1875; Earl W., January 14, 1878. Mr. Dye learned blacksmithing with David Paxton, and has been engaged in that business ever since he came to Waterford in 1874. He does custom work and is a first class workman, as all can testify that have employed him.

DURBIN, THOMAS, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born March 29, 1849, in Howard township. His father, Basil Durbin, was born in Pennsylvania, and came to Knox county in 1830, and moved to the farm where his son now lives, in 1850. He died July 5, 1865, and left his little home to his son Thomas Durbin, who was married to Hattie Porter, October 27, 1879. Thomas Durbin's mother was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, in 1806, and came here in 1826. She still remains with her son, but is very feeble.

DUSENBERRY, WILLIAM, was born in Bethlehem township, Coshocton county, Ohio, November 2, 1840. In 1867 he removed to Butler township. April 4, A. D. 1867, he was married to Matilda A. Schrimplin. They have had eight children, viz: Jackson, born February 24, 1860; Ida Annis, January 24, 1870; Fannie Alice, August 9, 1871; Rose Ellen, October 9, 1872; Romaine, November 24, 1876; Sarah L., March, 1879. Two dead not named.

Mr. Dusenberry was a member of company K, Thirty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, Colonel Thomas H. Ford commanding, during the war of the late rebellion.

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EBERSOLE, JOHN, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, June 10, 1786. He made a visit to Knox county, Ohio, in 1812, to see his parents, who were living here on a farm north of town, in Middlebury township. He then returned to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in milling. He was married in the fall of 1824 to Miss Mary Ann Johnson, and removed to Ohio in the fall of 1825, and lived in the house with his parents that winter. In the spring of 1826 he removed to his farm in Morris township, containing two hundred acres that his father had purchased for him. He erected a cabin to live in, and a log barn and smoke-house; the latter is still standing. In 1834 his wife died, leaving him with three small children, the eldest eight years of age, viz.: Elizabeth, Matilda, and Rebecca. Elizabeth was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He never married again after his wife died, but removed to his mother's, north of town, and lived there one year, and then returned to his farm, where he spent the remainder of his days. He was industrious, economical and frugal in his habits.

A friend contributes the following memorial sketch of Mr. Ebersole:

John Ebersole (Uncle John, or Dutch Johnny, as he was called by us boys since about 1840) was a very peculiar man. His greatest peculiarity was his being strictly honest and considering everybody so until he found them otherwise. He was an easy man to do business with as long as there was no deception practiced on him; but the man who would deceive him once never would have an opportunity to do so again, as he would never do business with him again on any terms. If he was a man's friend he was a firm one; if he was not his friend, he would have nothing to do with him. He was a man of few words. We venture to say that no man ever lived in Morris township as many years as he did, who had the power of speech, who talked less than he did. The writer has been to his company for hours that he did not speak. We remember going to see him once on business, and seeing him in a field near the road whetting his old Jerusalem-bladed scythe, we hastened on to get there before he started in. We accosted him-"Good morning, Uncle John; I came down to see about -." He said not a word; stuck his whetstone into its place and swung his broad bladed scythe into grass, and all we had to do was to wait patiently until he mowed across the field and back, when he attended to the business without further ceremony. Another time we visited him on business and addressed him as usual and told him our business just as he laid up a sheep to shear it; as soon as that sheep was sheared we got an answer, and a favorable one, as no man granted favors more readily than he did to those who treated him as he deserved.

EBERSOLE, WILLIAM, farmer, Morris township; post office, Fredericktown; was born in Knox county in 1831, and married in 1866 to Matilda Ebersole, who was born in this county in 1827. Mr. Ebersole owns an improved farm, with good buildings. He enlisted September 11, 1862; was a member of company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment,

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Ohio volunteer infantry, and was honorably discharged January 8, 1865.

His father, John Ebersole, deceased, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1786, and was married to Mary A. Johnson, who was born in the same county, same State. They had three children - Elizabeth, Matilda, and Rebecca. John Ebersole died in 1873. His wife, Mary, died in 1832. They located in this county in 1812.

EBERSOLE, JACOB C., farmer, Fredericktown, was born in Wayne township, this county, June 1815; was married November 23, 1837, to Harriet Worthington, who was born in Virginia. They had four children to-wit: Elizabeth, born September 8, 1838; George W. March 7, 1840; John D., February 10, 1844, and Sheridan O. Mrs. Harriet Ebersole died August 15, 1850. Mr. Ebersole was afterwards married to Caroline M. Stevens, who was born in New York. 'they have two daughters, viz: Sarah E., born November 29, 1851, and Harriet B., February 16, 1855.

Mr. Ebersole settled on an improved farm where W. Coursen now resides, in Middlebury township. He moved to Fredericktown in 1854; has, been street commissioner in this place twenty-two years, and is a member of one of the pioneer families of the county.

EBERSOLE, DAVID, farmer, Wayne township; post office, Fredericktown; born in Knox county in 1834, and was married in 1863 to Elizabeth Kreider, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1828. They have the following children: Rosalia E., born November 19, 1865, and Charles D., June 23, 1873.

His father, John Ebersole, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1788 and came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1814. He was married May 5, 1812. to Elizabeth S. Kreider, who was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, in 1796. They had the following family: Jacob C., born June 18, 1815; Eliza, December 14, 1818; John E., July 12, 1820; Joseph D., February 15, 1823; Emily, December 11, 1826; Jefferson, May 14, 1828; William, July 26, 1831; David, August 19, 1834, and Henry, November 19, 1837. William Ebersole was a soldier in the late war-a member of company G, Ohio volunteer infantry, and received an honorable discharge.

EDWARDS WILLIAM E., physician. He is the son of Moses and Catharine Edwards, he was born near the town of Union Bridge, Carroll county, Maryland, in 1827, came to Ohio with his father's family in 1832, lived in Coshocton county four years, came to Knox county in 1836. He was married to Sarah Paulina Heath, of Richland county. His father died when he was young. He supported the family until twenty-five years of age; he then engaged in the study of medicine with Dr. Aaron Edwards and attended lectures at the University of Michigan, commenced practice in Putman, Muskingum county, in the spring of 1855, came to Fredericktown in the fall of 1859, removed to Amity, this county, remained there twelve years, then returned to this place with his family, two sons and one daughter. He joined the Methodist Protestant church, afterwards united with the Methodist Episcopal church and is still a member; also a member of the Independence Division Sons of Temperance, also Ellicott Lodge 267, I. O. O. F., also No. 170 F. & A. M.

EDWARDS, McKENDRE TREMONT, deceased, son of W. E. and Sarah P. Edwards, was born in this place on the thirteenth day of March, 1856; removed to Amity, this county, with his father's family, when in his third year, in 1859; remained tbere twelve years and returned to this place in 1871. In the spring of 1872 he went into the office of the Fredericktown Independent to learn the printing business, under the direction of W. S. Ensign, now of the Cardington Independent. He continued in that office when it passed into the possession of Dr. C. W. Townsend, and until the paper suspended, when he went to Cincinnati, where he remained a few months, and in 1875 he returned to this place, purchased the material of the Independent office, and on the twelfth day of June, 1875, he issued the first number of the Fredericktown Free Press, starting in business in his nineteenth year, a poor boy, without influence, money, or more than a common school education. As a journalist he was complimented by his patrons and brother journalists as a success. He continued to issue his paper until September 24, 1880.

On the twenty-eighth day of September, 1876, he was married to Ada J., daughter of Abram and Mary Stephens, of this place. On the twelfth day of June, 1877, they were given a son, William Morris Edwards. On the nineteenth day of March, 1878, his wife died of consumption. In 1876 be was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal church, under the labors of Rev. J. A. Kellam, but he wandered from his father's house and fell among thieves, and they stripped him and left him for dead; when he "came to himself," and discovered his destitution, he started back, and the father met him while yet a great way off, and he fell on his neck and kissed him, and his end was peace.

He was a member of Ellicott Lodge No. 267, I. O. O. F., and Washington Camp No. 33, P. O. S. of A.

EDGAR, J. K., deceased, Pike township; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1818, and was married in 1846 to Elenor Chiddister, who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1826. They had five children: Orlando P., born in 1847; William M., in 1848; Auretta J., in 1851; Miranda O., in 1856, deceased; and Frank C., in 1860.

Mr. J. K. Edgar was a soldier in the late war, a member of company B, Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and remained in the service until his health became impaired. While in the war he contracted a disease of which he died at his home in Amity, January 18, 1865, at the age of forty-six. years and six months. He was a brave soldier and a Christian, and was highly respected by all who knew him. He was a member and an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal church, but afterward joined the Disciple church, and was an official member of that church until his death. His widow, with her son. Frank C., lives in Amity.

EDWARDS, C. W., Fredencktown, dealer in stoves, tinware, and job work, was born in Fredericktown, Ohio, in 1838, and was married in 1869, to Emma Rinehart, who was born in Knox county. They have two children, viz: Clemmie, born 1871; Willie E., in 1877.

Mr. Edwards has always been identified with this county. He was a soldier in the late war, a member of One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guards. He served out his time of enlistment and received an honorable discharge. He established his business in 1874, and has built up quite an extensive trade. Mr. Edwards is a practical mechanic, and a live businessman. He is taking the lead in this branch of trade, and all who wish anything in his line will do well to call and get

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his prices, as he keeps in stock a complete and extensive line of goods at all times.

EGGLESTON, EUGENIO R., M.D., Mt. Vernon, was born in Portage county, Ohio, July 28, 1838. He is of English descent. When about fifteen years of age, young Eggleston began clerking in a store in Munson, Ohio, and continued there until September, 1861, when he enlisted in company G, Forty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and was with the army of the Cumberland. He was appointed orderly sergeant of the company, and sergeant major, and in June, 1862, he received a second lieutenant's commission in the same regiment, and in 1863 he was commissioned first lieutenant, and appointed adjutant of the regiment, and in 1864 he was breveted captain, with others, for meritorious conduct. He resigned in October, 1864, and returned home. He commenced reading medicine with Dr. T. H. Sweeney, of Chardon, Ohio, and graduated in February, 1874, at the Cleveland Homoeopathic college. He came to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, in the fall of 1875, and has since been practicing with eminent success.

Dr. Eggleston was twice married. His first wife was Anna M. Davis, of Geauga county, to whom he was married in September, 1862. They had one child, now living. His wife dying, he married, June 17, 1876, Mrs. Abbie A. Darby, me Thompson. His wife is also a physician of the same school, having graduated at the same college in 1876.

EGGLESTON, BYRON, M.D., was born near Chicago, Illinois, September 29, 1836, in an Indian tent of the Cherokee tribe; received his education at Utica, Ohio, and read medicine with his father, Hiram Eggleston, M.D and attended lectures at Springfield, Illinois, after which he commenced practicing, and has been located at several different places, but now at Mt. Vernon, where he expects to remain; was married May 27, 1860, to Miss Elizabeth Ann, daughter of John Hearns, of Mt. Vernon, by whom he has had four children, three of whom are living. Amanda Ann, born November 21, 1862; John Hiram, January 7, 1865; Carey Evan, August 9, 1868; Adella, October 10, 1872. Amanda Ann died May 15, 1870.

ELLIOTT, JOEL (deceased), Berlin township, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1775, and was married in 1807 to Hannah Gibson, who was born in Maryland in 1779. They have the following children, viz: Gideon, Amos, and May. Mr. Elliott died in 1849, and his wife, Hannah, died in 1852.

Mr. Elliott came to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1827, and in 1828 came to this county, settled in the woods in this township, built a cabin and lived in pioneer style. Amos and Mary are living on the home place.

ELLIOTT, MRS MARTHA, one of Mt. Vernon's early settlers, died at her late residence on East High street, December 3, 1879, in the eighty-first year of her age. Mrs. Elliott, whose maiden name was Miller, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1799. Her father, the late Reuben Miller, sr., wishing to better the condition of himself and family, concluded to remove to the western country. With his wife and children he started from Philadelphia in the fall of 1805, and after a tedious journey of twenty-two days, he arrived at Pittsburgh, then a town of less than four thousand inhabitants. Here Mrs. Elliott was reared, and received a good education, and April 11, 1816, she was united in marriage to Samuel Elliott. They remained in Pittsburgh until April, 1829, when her husband concluded to remove to Mt. Vernon, where he formed a partnership with his brother, Alexander Elliott, in the mercantile business. Mrs. Elliott was the mother of ten children, of whom four were born in Pittsburgh and six in Mt. Vernon.

ELLIOTT, JAMES, of Monroe township, a retired farmer, was born in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1808. He was the second child of William and Elizabeth Elliott, nee Eaton. His parents immigrated to Ohio in 1816, with a family of five children. They settled in Mt. Vernon. Being a miller by trade required him to change residence from place to place, wherever he could procure employment. He died near Fredericktown in June, 1840. His wife survived him for some years.

The subject of this notice learned the milling trade with his father; he also learned the carding business, and followed carding and milling for some years. He has been principally engaged in farming since 1835. He has been successful in all his undertakings, making his own way in the world, until he now has a competency in life. He was married to Miss Hannah B. Perry November 11, 1830, who was born in Knox county March, 1811. By this union they had eleven children, six sons and five daughters, eight of whom are living. His wife died in April, 1875. He was afterward married to Miss Mary E. Martin, in April, 1877. Of the children of Mr. Elliott, Joseph, a farmer, resides in Liberty township; William, farmer, in Monroe township; Rose, married to Jacob Young, farmer, Monroe township; Orange H., farmer, Monroe township; Elizabeth; James B.; Alice May, married to Leander Farquhar, Gambier.

ELLIOTT, GIDEON, Fredericktown, mayor, was born in New Market, Frederick county, Maryland, March 9, 1811, came to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1827, and in 1828 located in Berlin township; remained there fifty years and then removed to Fredericktown, where he has remained ever since. He was married in 1835 to Rebecca Roberts, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1815. They had a family of four children, viz.: Henry R., born in December, 1835; Ellen, born in 1837; Charles, now deceased; Edwin, in July, 1844, who was a soldier in the late war, a member of the Ohio National guard, died during the service in Virginia, July 15, 1864.

Mrs. Rebecca Elliott died in January, 1858, in Berlin township.

Mr. Elliott was married in 1860 to Cordelia A. Shafer, daughter of Henry Markley.

Mr. Elliott was elected mayor of Fredericktown in 1879, and reelected in 1880.

Henry Elliott resides in Berlin township and is engaged in farming.

Ellen was married to Levi Cassell, who is engaged in the dry goods business in Fredericktown.

ELLIOTT, HENRY R., Berlin township, farmer, post office. Fredericktown, born in this township in 1835, and was married in 1859 to Elma Willits, who was born in this township in 1837. They have two daughters, Lamvra W., born in 1860, and Mary E., in 1862. Mr. Elliott is one of leading and enterprising farmers of this township. He owns a beautiful farm, a part of the Elliott section, and has tile best buildings in this township, built after the modern style. He has done much to promote the general interest of the county; is enterprising, liberal and honest in all his dealings.

ELLIOTT, ANDREW, Liberty township, superintendent of the county infirmary, Bangs post office, was born in Coshoc-

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ton county, Ohio, January 13, 1842. He was born and raised on a farm, attended the public schools, anal has followed farming as his occupation.

In 1872 he moved to Harrison township, Knox county, and subsequently to Jackson township. In the spring of 1880 the directors of the county infirmary appointed him as a competent and trustworthy man to take charge of that institution. He makes a worthy officer, being kind but firm to the inmates, and judiciously manages the affairs of the farm and institution to general satisfaction. He was twice married, his first. wife being Miss Theresa Blue, of Coshocton county, to whom he was married in 1865. They had one child, Milton. In 1872 his wife died. In 1877 he married Miss Olive Myers, of Perry township, Coshocton county. She is an efficient governess.

EMERSON, J. W., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1823, and was married to Charlotte McCaron, who was born in Columbiana county, Ohio. They had the following family-Ida and Frank W. Ida Emerson was married to Noble Gray. They have one daughter, Stella May, who was born in 1878. They reside on the homestead.

Mr. Emerson came to Ohio in 1846, and located in Wayne township, this county. For thirty-four years he has lived on the same farm. Thomas Emerson, his father (deceased), was born in Ireland in 1760, and came to America in 1800. He was married in the United States to Margaret Craven, who was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They had two sons: James, born in 1821; John W., 1823. Thomas Emerson died in 1866 at the age of one hundred and one years. Mrs. Margaret Emerson died in 1861.

They emigrated to this county in 1846, located on a farm in Wayne township, now the residence of John.

Mr. Emerson was engaged in the Revolutionary war, and was one of the pioneers of this county.

ENGLE, MARTIN, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard. He was born January 21, 1823, in Howard township. His father, Elias Engle, came from Pennsylvania in 1805, settled in Butler township, remained there a few years and then removed to Howard and built and conducted a distillery twenty years. He was married in 1853 and settled in Howard township, where he still lives. He has had the following family of children: Rosa, John, Mary, William, and Artance. Rosa died when six months old, John early in life, and Mary in the seventeenth year of her age, in 1873.

ENGLISH, A. U., Fredericktown, painter; was born in Coshocton county in 1854, and was married in 1877 to Elizabeth E. Shaffner, who was born in Knox county in 1857. Mr. English learned the carriage painting in Fredericktown; commenced in 1870. He is a skillful workman, and is now engaged with the firm of Stephens & Scott.

EVANS, THOMAS, Mt. Vernon, is a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, where he was born July 24, 1797. When about fifteen years old his parents moved to Catawissa, where he resided until 1818, when he went to Milta to learn the trade of plasterer, and there he remained until 1841 working at his trade. He married Miss Martha Doubler, by whom he had two children, one son and one daughter. Mrs. Evans died April 15, 1825. He married his second wife, Phebe Nevins, in 1826, by whom be had three children who died in infancy and five who are still living. In 1841 he came to Knox county and settled three miles northwest of Mt. Vernon in Morris township, and engaged in farming. On November 25, 1843, he last his wife and married his third wife, Mrs. Ann Rogers, nee Cooper, by whom he had one son. His third wife died October 25, 1854, and the following year he married his fourth wife. Mrs. A. Young, nee Mitchell, who is still living. She is a daughter of William Mitchell, one of the earliest settlers. Mr. Evans came to Mt. Vernon to live in 1849, and remained about four years. He then bought a farm one mile west of town where he lived twenty years, and then moved back to Mt. Vernon to spend the balance of his days in retirement.

EVANS, DAVID (deceased), Hilliar township, was born June 10, 1813, died March 11, 1873. He was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until about the near 1845, when he emigrated to Ohio and settled in Hilliar township, on the Columbus road, where he remained until his death. He married Miss Elizabeth Lemley, of the same county. She died January 19, 1873. They had ten children, via: Harriet, wife of M. B. Weaver, of Milford township; Ruhamah married Jacob Annett, and died in Illinois; Barzillai was a member of company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, died while in service; Martha Ann (deceased), wife of Russell Bird; James L., deceased; George L., deceased; Oliver C., farmer, resides on the homestead; Emma V., wife of Timothy Squires, of Miller township; Sarah M., deceased; Louisa E. resides on the homestead. Five members of this family died during the winter of 1872 and 1873, via: Martha A., George L, James L., and Mr. and Mrs. Evans. Those who died previous were Ruhamah and Barzillai, and Sarah M., leaving four of the original family yet living.

EVANS, OLIVER, farmer, Hilliar township, was born in Knox county, March, 1854; is a son of David and Elizabeth Evans, nee Lemley, who were born in Green county, Pennsylvania, June 10, 1813, and October 12, 1816. They were married in Pennsylvania, and about 1848 came to Ohio, settling in Hilliar township. They had a family of ten children, four of whom are living, via : Harriet, married to B. Weaver; Annie, married to Timothy Squires; Oliver and Louise, who live at home.

Four of the family died within a few months of each other; the first to he taken was the mother, who died January, 1873 ; death soon after claimed James and George, and March 11, 1873, the father followed those who had "gone before." One of the family, Barzillai, died while in the army, and Ruhamah, wife of Jacob Annett, died in the west, thus leaving but four remaining. Oliver, at the age of nineteen, was left in charge of the farm, and has succeeded in carrying it on successfully.

EWALT, JOHN, deceased, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in 1760, About 1790 he married Miss Elizabeth Bonnett. They emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, in 1815, and located on land now owned by their son Isaac, in Clinton township, about two miles west of Mt. Vernon.

The erection of a brick dwelling house had been commenced on the land prior to his purchasing it, which he completed, and used as a residence during the remainder of his days. August 19, 1828, he deceased, his companion surviving him until in February, 1844.

They reared a family of eleven children: John, Sophia, Henry, Anna, Richard, Sarah, Isaac, James, Samuel, Robert, and Eliza; all have died except Sarah, Isaac, and Samuel.

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EWALT, ISAAC, farmer, fourth son of John and Elizabeth Ewalt, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-third day of February, 1806. In 1815 he came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Clinton township.. He was reared on a farm, and has followed farming and stock raising as his vocation.

In 1829 he married for his first wife Miss Margaret Rinehart, born in 1807, daughter of Christian and Mary Rinehart. They settled on the old homestead, where he is now living. They reared one child, a son, John, who is married and lives in Hilliar township, this county. In 1834 his wife died. In April, 1836, he married Miss Eunice Rush, by whom he had eight children; four sons, Samuel, Benjamin, Joseph, and Robert, and four daughters, Martha, Margaret, Eunice, and Alice. In :869 he erected and moved into his present residence on his father's home farm, where he and his wife are now living.

EWALT, SAMUEL, farmer, sixth son of John and Elizabeth Ewalt, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, October 18, 1810, and was brought to Knox county by his parents in 1815. He was reared a farmer and has made .farming his avocation through life.

On the sixth day of January, 1836, he married Miss Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of Nathaniel and Isabella Johnson, nee Adams. Miss Johnson was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, August 2, 1809.

They settled on the Ewalt homestead, Clinton township, remained about five years and moved to Mt. Vernon, where they lived three years, then returned to the home farm again, remained one year, then, in 1846, they moved on a part of the Johnson homestead, in same township, where they are now living. They reared a family of five children, viz: Isabella A., Isaac N., Manley J., Emma J., and William B., all living.

EWALT, MRS. ELIZA, nee Ridell, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, December 25, 1819, where her father had located in 1813. She was married to Robert Ewalt, August 4, 1836.

Mr. Ewalt was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1813, and came to Knox county, Ohio, with his parents, in 1815.

After their marriage they located on a farm about two miles west of town, upon which they lived until 1869, when they moved to Mt. Vernon and located on East Gambier street, where she still lives. They had four children, two of whom are living: Rebecca, who lives at Valparaiso, Indiana, and Anna E., who lives in Chicago.

Mrs. Ewalt still owns the home farm; Mr. Ewalt has passed to the better world.

EWALT, WILLIAM D., farmer, and a leading citizen of Liberty township, was born in Morris township, February 21, 1828, and is the son of Richard D. and Phebe Douglass. Mr. Ewalt was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. The Douglass family came to Ohio in 1805; the Ewalt family in 1816.

The subject of this notice spent his youth on the farm and had the advantages of the common schools of those days. In 1850 he went to California by way of the Isthmus, and remained there about eleven months, but on account of sickness he returned to Ohio and resumed farming. He has resided in Liberty township about forty-five years. He is well situated, owning a well-improved farm which he has made by his industry. He has held the office of township clerk for seventeen years and has made an acceptable officer. Politically Mr. Ewalt is a Democrat, and takes a great interest in the success of the principles that are advocated by his party. He is well known by the leading men of his party all over the county, for his great zeal in what he consider to be right. He is an esteemed citizen, and has the confidence of the public.

He married Rispah Moxley, a native of Maryland. They had thirteen children, ten of whom are living, viz: Cassius R., Stepen D., Frank L., Dallas R., Clement V., Allen W., Columbus, Flora Ellen, Cora E., and Hattie M.

EWALT, JOHN, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Clinton township January 8, 1830. His grandparents were among the early settlers of Knox county. His grandfather, John Ewalt, came from Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1815, and settled in Clinton township, purchasing about one thousand acres of land. He was married to Miss Bonnett, and by her had a family of eleven children. Three are yet living: Isaac, father of the subject of this notice, who lives about one and a half miles from Mt. Vernon, and Sarah Kenton, who resides in Wayne county, Ohio.

Isaac Ewalt was born in Pennsylvania. He was married to Margaret Rhinehart, who died about 1834. He was again married to Eunice Rush.

The subject of this sketch spent his young days on a farm in Clinton township, with his father. In 1854 he came to Hilliar township. He was married in August of the same year, to Miss Elizabeth Henry, and the young couple began life in a log cabin on the farm, on which he now. resides. The cabin was so open that, to use his own words, he could throw a cat through the openings. Things went well, and in this cabin they lived until 1856, when they erected their present pleasant dwelling. The old log cabin is no more, but memory still gives it a pleasant place in life's voyage.

When Mr. Ewalt first came to his farm, there was but little improvement. Those who see the farm now, and saw it twenty-six years ago, can truthfully say: " What a great change!" Industry did it.

Mr. Ewalt is a social and pleasant gentleman. He has the esteem of those who know him, and the confidence of those with whom he deals. His marriage has been blessed with two children: Aaron O., at home, and Ids Mary, married to James Huddleson, farmer, of Delaware county.

EWALT, J. M., was born May 7, 1840, in Clinton township, Knox county. After finishing his education he taught school until the opening of the war in 1861. He enlisted in August, 1862, in company A, Ninety-sixth, Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served about eight months, when he returned home and worked on the farm until 1871, when he was elected to the office of county auditor, and reelected in 1873. In 1875 he took his present position-cashier in the bank.

EWERS, JOHN G., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born January 22, 1815, and was married August 7, 1845, to Amanda Fidler, who was born November 5, 1826. They have the following family of children: Rebecca Jane, born September 19, 1846; Lafayette, March 19, 1850; Abner, September 12, 1852; James Fenton, February 16, 1856.

Deaths-Rebecca J., September 12, 1850; Lafayette, March 19, 1861; Abner, January 18, 1855; Arminda. August 4, 18---; Martha, mother of John Ewers, March 2, 1836, aged forty-seven years five months and two days.

James F. Ewers was married March 24, 1880, to Alice E. Armstrong, who was born in Richland county, Ohio, November 15, 1857.

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EWERS, WILLIAM, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in this county in 1817. His father, Robert, was born in Pennsylvania; came to Ohio in 1812 and entered land in this township, and returned to Pennsylvania. In 1815 he came back to Ohio aiid located on his land. They had twelve children, six of whom are now living.

EWERS, DAVID, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Middlebury township, December 23, 1819, was married in 1842, to Almina Johnson, who was born in Wayne township, March 19, 1819. They have one daughter, Frank, born November 23, 1848, and was married to Leander Caywood, and at present resides in this township. Mr. Ewers is the owner of a well improved farm in this township, with good buildings. Mr. and Mrs. Ewers are both members of pioneer families.

EWERS, GEORGE J., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Knox county, in 1848, and was married in 1877, to Annetta Adams, who was born in Berlin township. They have one son, Frank, born August 31, 1878.

EWERS, ROBERT S., Middlebury township, carpenter, post office. Fredericktown, born in Middlebury township. He is a son of Thomas Ewers, and is engaged at the carpenter trade, and is a skilful mechanic.

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FADELY, L., farmer, Milford township, was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, March 3, 1815. His parents came to Ohio in the fall of 1823, and settled in the northeast part of Morgan township, where the father died, his wife surviving him a number of years. The subject of this notice remained at home until he was twenty years of age. He then began life for himself. He worked at whatever was offered; was saving, laying up a little at a time, until he had earned two hundred dollars. He then bought a forty-acre tract of land, leaving a balance of four hundred dollars to be paid. He succeeded in paying this amount; was industrious and economical, and has succeeded in obtaining his first object, a farm. He is now a leading farmer of the township, and for his industry and integrity has the esteem of the people of the community. In 1835 he was married to Miss Catharine Warrick. They have six children living, viz: Mary Jane, married John W. Myers; Thomas P., druggist in Richwood, Ohio; Elizabeth, Matilda married A. Moreland. His second wife was Angeline Atherton, and have one child, Charles R.

FAIRCHILD, JOHN L., retired, Fredericktown, was born in Woodbury, Litchfield county, Connecticut, in 1818; came to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and was married in 1849 to Lucinda B. Runnian, who was born in Mt. Vernon in 1823. They had two children, Mary, born in 1851; John, 1853.

Mrs. Fairchild died in Mt. Vernon in 1877. Mr. Fairchild's occupation has been a tinner, and sheet-iron smith He was engaged in Mt. Vernon in this business for some years, has lived in this county for over forty years, and at present is residing with his son in Fredericktown.

John was married to Sabra E. Talmage, who was born in Morrow county, Ohio. They have one daughter, Stella S., born 1879. Mr. John Fairchild is engaged in the insurance business.

FAIRCHILD, FRANK L., of the firm of C. & G. Cooper & Company, Mt. Vernon, was born in Lorain county, Ohio, December 4, 1843, where he resided until 1865. During the earlier part of his life he was engaged on the home farm and attending school at Oberlin. For two years after leaving school he was engaged as book-keeper in a dry goods house in Oberlin. At the expiration of those two years, 1865, he came to Mt. Vernon, and was engaged by the firm of C. &. J. Cooper & Co., as book-keeper, where he remained until January 1, 1868, when he was admitted as a member of the firm, in which he still remains.

FARMER, VAN B., farmer, post office, Millwood, was born in Harrison township, Knox county, July 5, 1828, a son of Nathan and Esther Farmer, by whom he was reared and educated. On the twentieth of November, 1850, at the age of twenty-two years, he married Catharine Staats, a daughter of Joseph and Catharine Slants, who was born in Butler township, Knox county, July 11, 1829. After his marriage he remained one year on the home place with his father. He then moved to Butler township, on a farm owned by his mother-in-law, where he lived one year. He then moved back to Harrison township, and soon after purchased a farm of forty acres in Brown township, where he then moved and remained four years. He then sold said farm and bought a small farm near Millwood, and at the same time bought a share in the home place, located in Harrison township. He lived on the farm near Millwood about six years, and then sold it and moved on a part of the home farm, where he at present resides. Mr. Farmer made a business of teaching school during the intermission for eight winters.

In 1862 he was drafted for nine months, and was the only one that went into the service out of thirty-two that were drafted at the same time. He served his time, got an honorable discharge, and came home. Mr. Farmer is the owner of one hundred and eighty acres of land, all under good cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Farmer are the parents of nine children-six sons and three daughters-seven of whom are living.

FARQUHAR, MOSES, Berlin township (deceased), born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1789, and was married to Massey Pusey, who was born in the same county. They had the following children: William H., George (deceased), Edwin, Ruth P., Mary B., Francis P., and Sarah Ann. They emigrated to Ohio in 1822, located in Berlin township, bought a part of quarter section ten, range thirteen, township eighteen. There was a cabin erected and a small patch cleared. They built the first saw and chopping mill in this township. The first mill stones (buhrs) that were used in this county was in this mill, and can still be seen at the old home farm, where Edwin ' resides. Moses Farquhar assisted in organizing Berlin township, and was the first clerk, and fenceviewer of this township as long as this office continued.

He was an active member of the Society of Friends or Quakers. He assisted in erecting the present brick church in Middlebury township (Owl creek quarterly meeting).

In early life he was a prominent and active member of the Free Masons; he assisted to organize a number of societies and build halls for their meetings. He was a member of the joint stock company, known as the Fourier Phlanp, in Clermont county, Ohio. Through this enterprise he lost one thousand dollars. November 1, 1878, he departed this life at his home after a short illness.

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books and papers were burned, which accounts for lack of dates and history. Mrs. Massey Farquhar died in 1881.

FARQUHAR, EDWIN, Berlin township, was married to Margaret E. Gibson, daughter of Hiram E. and Elizabeth Gibson. They had three children-Flora L. Laura E. and Emma. The mother departed this life in 1866. He is a millwright and worked at this trade for many years.

FARQUHAR, BASIL, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in December, 1796, and came to Knox county in 1807, locating in this township. In 1824 he was married to Susan Wright, who died in 1843. In 1852 he was married the second time to Eimer M. Farquhar.

Amos Farquhar, father of Basil, was born in 1775, and was married to Jane Moor. They had a family of five children: Basil, Mary, Phebe, Elizabeth, and Abraham. Amos Farquhar died in 1851, Jane Farquhar in 1856, and Phebe in 1836. Abraham resides in Missouri. The Farquhar family are among the earlier settlers, pioneers who came when the country was all new, and cleared up and improved several farms, among them being the Burkholder farm. They were prominent pioneers of Knox county.

FERENBAUGH, JOSEPH, farmer, post office, Millwood, was born in Union township, Knox county, February 17, 1836 -a son of Fidel and Eliza Ferenbaugh. He was educated by his father, and remained with him until he was thirty-five years old. On the third of January, 1874, he was united in marriage with Susanna Stillinger, a daughter of John Stillinger, of Union township, born October 8, 1834. After his marriage he located in Howard township, where he remained two years; he then moved to Union township, where he remained a short time; from there to Harrison township, Knox county, where he purchased a farm, and at present resides. Mr. Ferenbaugh served as land appraiser in 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Ferenbaugh are the parents of two children, one of whom only is living-a son, George H., born November 20, 1875. In 1877 Mr. Ferenbaugh purchased a hardware store in Rossville, where he did business for about eighteen months.

FERENBAUGH, MRS. ELIZA, post office, Rossville, was born September 6, 1813, in Knox county, Ohio. Her father was born in Virginia, and came to Knox county in 1805 with a wife and one child. Not long after his wife died, and he was again married. In 1866 he died, in his eighty-eighth year. Eliza Ferenbaugh married F. Ferenbaugh May 14, 1835, and bought her present farm. June 29, 1875, her husband died and left five children-Joseph, born February 17, 1836; Mary, born October 28, 1840; Leo, torn October 20, 1843; Edman, born November 25, 1848; and Franklin, born September 20, 1856. Edman died September 8, 1878, Leo and Joseph are married and settled in Knox county.

FERENBAUGH, PETER, Union township, farmer, post office Rossville, was born in Germany, January 1, 1810. He came to America in September, 1831, with his brother, his father being dead. He came to New York, then to Buffalo, then to Cleveland; he then settled in Fairfield county for a few years, then came to Knox county, Ohio, and settled on his present farm.

In 1845 he was married to Lena Whehond. They have five children: Rosinda, born December, 1848; Priscilla, August 24, 1851; Eliza Ellen, October 24, 1855; Manvilla, July 7, 1858; and Mary Frances, April 12, 1862. All are married except Mary and Manville.

Peter Ferenbaugh learned to make clocks in Germany, and after coming here he sold them all through the country, especially in the Scioto valley and Kentucky, and all over the State of Ohio. After they had established a good trade in this sort of merchandise, they shipped their clocks from Germany in large lots. One day a vessel was about to land which contained about eight thousand dollars worth of clocks for them. it struck a barge which stove in the bottom of the ship, and all sunk-ship, cargo, clocks, and all. The clocks were under a partial insurance, and after a long litigation they managed to obtain a portion of the value of their goods. But this crippled them in such a way as to destroy their clock trade, and they lost about three-fourths of their capital, and could not fulfill their engagements. After this disaster Peter Ferenbaugh was compelled to preempt his piece of land which he had cleared for a home.

FERRISS, HARRISON, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Wayne township, and was married in 1867 to Sarah Darling, who was born in Knox county in 1843. They have five children: Willie, born November 28, 1868; Minnie, March 28, 1871; Norma, October 7, 1873; Jennie, deceased, and Emery, March 26, 1880.

Mr. Ferriss was in the late war, being a member of the One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and continued in that service two years and ten months. He is now a citizen of Wayne township.

FIDLER, DANIEL, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in this county in 1832, and was married in 1862 to Mary J. Cross, who was born in Richland county in 1843. They had the following family: Willie, born in 1863; Bertha D., in 1866; Ida R., in 1868; E Elmina, in 1872; Minte E., in 1874, and Walter D., in 1878.

Mr. Fidler was in the late war, a member of the One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio National guard, and served out the time of his enlistment. He is one of the active and prominent men of this township.

FIDLER, CHARLES, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Middlebury township in 1833, and married in 1864 to Melisse Needham, who was born in Guernsey county January 20, 1832. They have the following family, namely: Milo E., born November 12, 1865; Lovilla, born June 30, 1867; Howard, born January 22, 1877, and died February 21, 1877.

FIELDS, THOMAS, Pike township, deceased, born in 1826, and was married in 1851 to Sally Gooddale, who was born in Monroe township in 1830. They had the following children: Ellen, born in 1852; Joseph, in 1853; George, in 1854; Permelia, in 1856; Thomas, in 1857; Robert, in 1858; Mary, in 1859, and Charlotte, in 1861.

The following have deceased: Thomas, 1802; Sarah, 1866; George, 1856; Mary, 1861, and Charlotte, 1862.

FISH, JOSEPH A., Middlebury township; farmer; post office, Fredericktown; born in Morrow county September 29, 1838, and married October 13, 1859, to Mary Finfrock, who was born in Richland county June 11, 1840. They have two children, viz: John F., born October 23, 1860, and Miles J., August 30, 1864.

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proved farm with excellent buildings, and is one of the active men of this county.

FISH, CHARLES H., Brown township, farmer, was born in Beverly, New Jersey, on the twenty-second day of February, 1851, and was reared by his mother till he arrived at the age of twelve years, when he was brought to Cleveland by his uncle. While there, he attended school one year. He then left his uncle, and commenced working at whatever he could get to do. This he continued until he arrived at the age of nineteen years, when he enlisted in the regular army for the term of five years, where he remained one year, when he was discharged. He then came back to Cleveland, where he remained but a short time. He came to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, and then went to Howard, where he was engaged to clerk for John McFarland in a grocery store, remaining about eight months. On December 25, 1872, he was united in marriage with Catharine Arnold, born in Brown township, Knox county, March 24, 1851. After his marriage he moved to Loudonville, Ashland county. While there, he performed labor for deacon Taylor, but remained only a short time, soon entering into the service as brakeman for the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Western railroad company. He remained about three years, during which time he moved his family to Crestline. From there he moved back to Knox county, near Jelloway, where he has since remained.

In August, 1880, he purchased a small home in Jefferson township, Knox county. Their union resulted in five children, four of whom are living.

FINK, W. H., Mt. Vernon, was born in 1836 in Seneca county, Ohio. He was married in 1856 to Miss Mary J. Tryon, of Ottawa county, Ohio, by whom he had a daughter, Ida, and a son, Frank. Mr. Fink was married a second time to Miss Angeline Conley, of this city, in 1879.

Mr. Fink came to this city about three years since, and entered the sash, door and blind factory of C. Mitchell, as foreman where he remained one year, when he went to the shop of White & Simpson, where he remained until the close o f the firm in 1879.

Mr. Fink is a fancier of rare birds, of which he has an extensive and beautiful aviary. He is now employed with C. Mitchell, his former employer, in the planing mills.

FIRST NATIONAL BANK northeast corner of Main and Vine streets, Mt. Vernon. This bank is one of the solid monetary institutions of Ohio, and the foremost of the county, and as such is recognized by the best business men of the State. It was first organized and established as a private bank by Russel, Sturges & Co. in 1853, J. W. Russel, M. D., president, and Fred D. Sturges cashier, and continued to do business under that firm name until 1862, when it was reorganized under the name of the Mt. Vernon Bank, and had for its officers, J. W. Russel president; Fred D. Sturges cashier, and for directors Hon. Columbus Delano, J. W. Russel, M.D., Fred D. Sturges, Mathew Thompson, and W. H. Smith. This firm continued until 1865, when it was reorganized under the banking law of the United States and took the name of the First National bank, with Hon. Columbus Delano president, J. W. Russel vice president, Fred D. Sturges cashier; and as directors, Hon. C. Delano, J. W. Russel, M. D., F. D. Sturges, D. W. Lambert, and H. H. Greer. It has a capital of fifty thousand dollars, with a surplus of ten thousand dollars. Its average deposits for the past year were one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, and the volume of business for the same year was about five million or six million dollars. There has been but one sale of stock in this bank since it was organized, and it does a straight general banking business, has always loaned, and continues to loan all its moneys at the legal rate of six per cent. Its officers are among the most respected and wealthy gentlemen of the county, against whom the breath of suspicion has never blown; consequently this is one of the most solid, safe, and reliable organizations of this county, and where everything in the banking line will receive prompt and faithful attention.

FISHER, REUBEN M., retired, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown; born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1816; came to Ohio with his parents when a child, who located in Richland county. He was married to Mary Carey, who was born in Sandusky, Ohio. They have one son, H. W., who was born in Palmyra. He has been engaged in farming and working at the cooper business, but has retired from labor, and is enjoying the fruit of his labor. He has in his possession twenty-six rattles that came from one rattlesnake, which was killed by him and his father in their house. He also has four pieces of continental money, and three silver dollars-one piece handed down from his great-grandfather, dated 1735; another dated 1791, and the third dated 1807. They have been carefully preserved. He is now the oldest living citizen of Palmyra.

FISHBURN, HIRAM, Milford township, farmer, was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1843. His father, Samuel Fishburn, was a native of the same county, born September 5, 1803. Lewis Fishburn, father of Lewis, and grandfather of Hiram, was a soldier of the Revolution. He married Catharine Grimm. They had ten children, Samuel being the only one living. He married Elizabeth Muma in 1825. She died in September, 1876. They remained in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, until 1852, then emigrated to Ohio, and settled in Miller township. Mr. Fishburn now resides in Dauphin. He married Mrs. Margaret Brackbill. By his marriage they had ten childten: David, Attics, Catharine (married Henry Shupe), Jacob, Daniel, Elizabeth (married Peter, Beinhour) Mary (married James Chambers), Josiah and Hiram. Samuel has deceased.

The subject of this notice, Hiram Fishburn, was raised on a farm, and remained with his father on the home farm until he was about twenty-seven years of age. He married Miss Nancy E. Smoots, daughter of H. K. Smoots, of Miller township, October, 1868. In 1870 he removed to Milford township. He is a good farmer, and a good citizen. They have two children: Mary Estell, born January 17, 1871, and Olive Odell, born January 1, 1875.

FLAGG, WILLIAM C., Wayne township, fanner, post office Fredericktown, born in Washington county, Ohio, April 8, 1842, and was married to Dora Littimer, who was born in Indiana, October 31, 1850. They have the following children: Eva L., born February 21, 1869; Jennie C., October 13, 1871; Dora V., September 29, 1872; Minnie M., March 12, 1873; Charlie C., June 14, 1876; and James L., June 18, 1879. Mr. Flagg was a soldier in the late war, being a member of company G., Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; was in a number of engagements, and was taken prisoner and kept three months, when he was exchanged. He was in the service three years, and received an honorable discharge.

FLETCHER, SYLVESTER, Pike township, (deceased),

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was born in this township in 1826, and was married in 1847 to Mary M. Frizzell, who was born in this township in 1829. They had three children: Ephraim (deceased), born in 1850; John, in 1852; and Joel E., in 1856, now deceased.

Sylvester Fletcher died July 10, 1875, at home in this township. He was a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal church, also a member of the Odd Fellows' lodge in Bellville. He was buried by the members of that lodge, the procession at his funeral being the largest that was ever witnessed in this vicinity. In his death this county lost a good citizen, his wife an affectionate companion, and his children a kind father. He died in the triumphs of living faith, giving evidence of the power of religion in death.

FLETCHER, CHARLES, tanner, Pike township, post office Democracy; born in Brown township, this county, in 1847, was married in 1875 to Clara B. Ridenhour, who was born in Washington county, Maryland in 1852. They have one son-Clarence C., who was born in 1877. Mr. Fletcher is a tanner by trade, and resides in Amity, where he has established a good trade.

FOOTE, GEORGE W., farmer, Berlin township, post office Fredericktown; was born in this township in 1848, and was married in 1876 to Harriet E. Willits, who was born in Berlin township in 1857. They have two children-Herbert W., born in 1878, and Lucy R., in 1880.

Mr. Foote has always been in this county, with the exception of the time when he was attending school in Oberlin.

FOOT, HENRY R., farmer, post office, Fredericktown. He was born in New York in 1834. He came to Ohio with his parents in 1838, and was married in 1854 to Sarah A. Rowley, who was born in Michigan in 1837. They have three children, Abigail R., born in 1855; Ephraim, in 1848, and James H. in 1860. Mr. Foot was a soldier in the late war, a member of company H, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment O. N. G., and was honorably discharged.

FORSYTHE, JAMES S., Morgan township, farmer; was born in Licking county, Ohio, January 1, 1817. His grandfather, John Forsythe, emigrated from Ireland with his family prior to the Revolutionary war, and upon the breaking out of the war he enlisted and served four years. He died in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. His family moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania. Thomas Forsythe, father of the subject of this sketch, married Mary Hardy in Harrison county, Ohio, and in 1809 settled near Utica, where he resided until 1844, when he moved to where his son now- resides and where they both died. They had four children, all dead except the subject of this sketch. He was reared on a farin, and has always followed farming as his occupation, July 7, 1842, he married Mary J. McCullough. They had eleven children, three of whom died in infancy-the living are .George W., in Iowa; Lovina, wife of James Lahman; Thomas A., James L., William M., Lena, wife of Manly W. Johnson; John Wesley, and Samuel C. Mr. Forsythe is an estimable citizen.

FOWLER. JAMES, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard; was born in Green township, Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1812. In 1827 he moved to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, remained there until 1853, when he moved to Knox county and settled in Jefferson township. He then moved to Pike township in 1863 and remained there five years. He then came to Howard where he has remained until the present time. He was married in Harrison county, Ohio, February 11, 1830. He has twelve children: Maria, Andrew, William, Hammer, Elizabeth, Margaret, John, Charles, Winfield, Mary, Florence and Laura. Charles graduated in medicine at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1879 and is doing well. Maria died January 15, 1831, Mary died August 12, 1853. In 1839 Mr. Fowler's services were engaged to build the Holmes church in Tuscarawas county. In 1845 his services were engaged to build another church called Rababetta. On February 11, 1880, Mr. and Mrs. Fowler gathered a number of their friends together and celebrated their fiftieth anniversary of married life.

FRAZIER, THOMAS J., farmer, post office,. Fredericktown, was born in Muskingum county, in 1849, and was married in 1874, to Sarah McKee, who was born in this county. They have three children, viz: Robert E., born in 1875; Edie E., in 1877, and Louis G., in 1879.

FRAZIER, JOSEPH P., farmer, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown; was born in Muskingum county, in 1852, and was married in 1879 to Mary J. McKee, who was born in this county in 1841. They have one daughter (Dessie Belle), born in 1880.

FRENCH, R. S., a native of New York city, was born in 1827. His father, Robert French, a native of Maryland, was sergeant in the United States army for twenty-five years. His mother, Hellen French, was a native of New York city. Mr. R. S. French came to Gambier, this county, entered Kenyon college in 1845, and graduated in 1849. He studied medicine three years, then purchased two hundred and fifty acres of the college land, and conducted a stock-farm for three years. He was tae first man to bring a mowing machine into Knox county. In 1855 he engaged in the mercantile business in Gambier, and was actively engaged at the business for fifteen years. He then left his store in the care of a clerk and became agent for J. H. Gauter & Co., of Jersey City, and continued as their agent for four years, traveling over twenty-six States and territories. In 1878 he retired from all business and has passed his time at his residence in Gambier. November 13, 1851, he married Mrs. Sarah A. Evans, nee Hobb, and sister of Profess son Alexander Hobb, late of Kenyon college. The union resulted in four children, two sons and two daughters. One son and one daughter are deceased.

In 1876 he was succeeded by his son, H. H. French, who is still engaged at the business in Gambier, dealing in drugs of all kinds, patent medicines, stationery, etc.

FRIZZELL, EPHRAIM, Brown township, farmer, post office Democracy, son of John M. and Elizabeth Frizzell, born in Baltimore county, Maryland, September 16, 1816, and was brought by his parents to Ohio in 1826, when a boy often years of age. His father located in Pike township, Knox county, where he reared his family. At the age of twenty-three years Ephraim Frizzell, the subject of this sketch, married Miss Mary Muntis in 1859, daughter of John and Susan Muntis, born in York county, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1816. After his marriage he remained in Pike township a short time, and purchased a farm in Brown township, where he moved in 1849, and remained until 1853, when he exchanged said farm for a farm and tannery in Amity, Pike township, where he then moved, operating said tannery and farmed in connection with it until 1857. He then sold his property in Pike township, and purchased a farm of one hundred and seventy acres in Brown township, where he then moved and now resides. While living

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in Pike township he held the office of trustee for four years. By their marriage they became the parents of nine children - George, Allen, Eleorah, Sarah C., Mary A., Susan, John M., Elizabeth. Norrnanda died May 2, 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Frizzell are members of the German Baptist church of Danville.

Allen Frizzell, son of Ephraim Frizzell, served four years in the late Rebellion, under Captain A. Cassil in the Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, company E.

FROST, JOSIAH, Union township, deceased, was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, July 15, 1790. He married Miss Peggy McNair in 1812, born in Frederick county, Maryland, February, 1795. They settled in Maryland, where they remained ten years, and in 1822 he, with his wife and five children, emigrated to this county, located in Jefferson township on a farm now owned by J. C. Banbury, two miles northwest of Danville. The land at that time was a dense forest, no woodman's axe had been there except an occasional trespasser. His first work was the erection of a log cabin, which served them as an abode for five years. In 1825 he erected a hewed log barn. In 1827 he built a hewed log dwelling house. These served them several years, when larger and more commodious buildings were erected. He continued improving his land until, by persistent toil he made his farm to rank among the best improved ones in Jefferson township. His farm contains about three hundred acres. He also owned several hundred acres of land in Jefferson and adjoining townships. He lived on his first purchase of land until 1864, when he sold it and moved to Millwood, Union township, and lived a retired life until he died, January, 1866.

They reared eleven children, viz: Elizabeth, Ann (deceased), Joseph, Enoch (deceased), Levi William, Nelson, Maria, Josiah (deceased), Susan and Otho, They married and reared families.

In March, 1846, his wife departed this life. In October, 1846, he married Hannah Harris. By this marriage he had one child, Francis A. In 1856 his wife died.

In the latter part of the year of 1856 he was united in marriage to Mrs. Lucy Workman, nee Holts, who survives him.

FROST, LEVI, Union township, third son of the above Josiah Frost, was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, July 25, 1821. He was brought to Knox county by his parents in October, 1822. He was a farmer and followed farming as his vocation many years. In September 1843, he married Miss Keziah Harris, born March 20, 1824, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Harris.

They settled on land given him by his father, in Jefferson township, three miles north of the home farm, on which he made improvements. and lived until 1854. He then sold his land and purchased a part of the Harris. farm, located in the same township, one mile north of his father's farm, where they lived until 1868, when he sold his farm: moved to Danville in the fall of 1868, and engaged in the mercantile business, which business he has since followed. They reared a family of five children, via: Thomas J., Madison H., John W., Parmenas T., and K. Flora. His companion died October 8, 1874. In September, 1876, he married Elizabeth Butler for his second wife.

He enlisted in company A of the Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, October, 1861, served until January, 1865, when he was honorably discharged from the service, his time having expired; thus having given three years and three months of his time to the service of his country. In 1874, his sorts became his partners in the mercantile business, and the firm is now known as L. Frost & Sons, dealers in dry goods, groceries. in fact everything kept in a village store.

FROST, MADISON H., Hilliar township, merchant, Centerburgh, Ohio, was born in Knox county in 1849. His father, Levi Frost, came to Ohio from Frostburgh, Maryland, with his parents about fifty-six years ago and settled in Jefferson township, where Mr. Frost spent his youth, and where he married Keziah Harris, and had a family of twelve children, five of whom are living and doing well.

The subject of this notice clerked for about two years in Gambler. He then assisted his father in the store at Danville, and in 1875, he associated himself with his father, and in 1877 he opened a store at Hartford, Licking county, and succeeded in establishing a good trade. In the spring of 1880 he purchased the store of R. I. Pumphrey, in Centreburgh, which is now known as the store of I. H. Frost & Co. Thus they control three stores, which gives them a special advantage in the purchasing of goods, as they make large contracts and have the advantage of close prices, and can afford to do well by their customers. Their stock is selected with special care, and from the long experience which Mr. Frost has had he is well calculated to carry on a successful business. He is affable and pleasant, always ready to answer all questions relating to his business. He does not misrepresent and will not allow an employe to do so. System is apparent in all departments of his business. He carries a full line of all goods usually kept in a first-class general store. Mr. Frost was married to Miss Arminta Shaw, August 30, 1873. They have a family of three children.

FRY, JACOB, Pleasant township, deceased, was born near Strasburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1796. He was a tanner, and followed tanning as his vocation for many years. He then engaged in farming which he made his business during the remainder of his life. He married Miss Catharine Bowers,. born near Strasburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1795. They remained in Pennsylvania until 1836, when he, with his wife and seven children, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located on a farm in Monroe township, which he owned until his death. September 19, 1877, his companion departed this life, aged eighty-two years. December 31, 1877, he deceased in his eighty-first year. They had eight children: John, Jacob, Wesley, Maria, Eliza, William, Simon, and Philip, only four of whom, John, Simon, Maria, and Philip, are living.

FRY, PHILIP, Pleasant township, farmer, son of the aforesaid Jacob and Catharine Fry, was born in Knox county, Ohio, June 18, 1838. On the eleventh day of October, 1859, he married Miss Minerva Taylor, born in Knox county, December 6, 1847, daughter of John G. and Nancy Taylor. They settled in Monroe township, where they lived six years, then, in 1865, he purchased a farm in College township, and remained upon it until 1877, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township, where they are now living. They have a family of eight children. three sons and five daughters.

FRY, HENRY, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-sixth day of March, 1801. At the age of fifteen he emigrated with his. father, John Fry, to Ohio; was married to Darcy Huffman, January 20, 1830. They had nine children, via: Amarian, Samuel, Christopher, Charlotte, William, Eliza. beth, Priscilla, Jane, and Mary. Mr. Fry died in the winter of 1880-1.

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FULLER, DANIEL, Wayne township, retired farmer, post office Mt. Vernon, was born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1790, was brought to Ohio at the age of thirteen years, and has been a resident of this county for seventy-eight years. September 29, 1814, he was married to Margaret Rose, who was born July 3, 1795. They had the following children: David, born March 7, 1816; Elizabeth H., December 15, 1818; Hannah, March 6, 1820; Ruth M., August 25, 1824;-John, April 25, 1826; Job J., June 26, 1829; Maria, March 6, 1831; Miriam J., September 22, 1833; and Sarah A., August 21, 1838. Mr. Fuller died September 22, 1838. Mrs. Margaret Fuller died August 7, 1867, at the age of seventy-two years. John Fuller and Job J. were in the late war. Mr. Fuller resided in Harrison township, and has been identified with this- county about seventy-eight years. He is one of the pioneers of this county, having come here when it was a howling wilderness, infested by wolves, bears, wildcats and Indians. He has done much to improve it, and to advance every good cause and work.

FULTZ, JOSEPH J., now of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, born April 26, A. D. 1845, on the banks of the Schuylkill, near Morristown,, in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, is the oldest of five childrenJoseph Jackson, George Washington, Jacob Pierce, Albert Buchanan, and Elizabeth A.-all living. His parents, Joseph E. and Mary A. Fultz, nee Millington are descendants of the earliest pioneer settlers of Pennsylvania; emigrated to Ohio in the year 1850, locating on the banks of the Ohio below Pomeroy, now Middleport, in Meigs county, where they now reside, and where their eldest children secured their early education, trudging some two miles or more, winter and summer, to an old log school-house of ye olden kind, where split logs, with sticks for legs, constituted the seating capacity of the backwoods structure dedicated to the cause of education, and where the domine's teaching qualities were best shown in his ability to handle the rod-in fact, his best hold-upon the boys, J. J. coming in for his full share of said ability, if not more. Anon, and during the years 1859-60, he attended a normal school for teachers under the management of H. C. Watterman, at Middleport, and in the winter of 1860 began his first term of many as a country school-teacher, at Carr's run, in said county of Meigs, where, among the big boys, he was the smallest among several, luckily getting through the term without being ducked in the stream running near by, as was his predecessor of the winter before.

After the close of the late war, and during the fall of 1865, he went south, visiting the States bordering on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, crossing over into Texas, making the trip in a little more than one year. Returning home he engaged with and took charge of the mathematical department of a commercial school then located at Pomeroy, Ohio. From there he went to Tiffin, Ohio, engaging with the same parties in the management of a branch school. During the winter of 1869 he came to Mt. Vernon, where he has since resided, and where, with J. W. Oldham, he opened a commercial college, of which, by the departure of his said partner, he was soon in entire control. This school was successfully managed until 1871, when it was disposed of to R. G. Dildine and W. P. Harrison, and soon closed for repairs.

In May, 1871, he was married to Mary E. Calkins, (whose grandfather, Lewis Young, built the first frame house in Knox county), only child of Edward and Sarah M. Calkins, nee Young. During the same year he engaged with Judge C. E. Critchfield as deputy probate clerk, and securing a contract under the judge compiled and arranged an alphabetical abstract of the probate court records from the origin of said court, which, for accuracy and completeness, has not its superior in the State.

Leaving Judge Critchfield he engaged for a time with Max Leopold, in the clothing trade, until the year 1875, when he was a candidate for, and received the nomination, for clerk of the court of common pleas, at a Democratic delegate convention, receiving the nomination on the first ballot, with four competitors in the field, a compliment of which he was deservedly proud. Owing, however, to the strong anti-temperance feeling that had been created by the women's crusade that had raged throughout the country the previous winter, as also the fact that he had ever been recognized as an advocate of temperance (although not radical), he was defeated by the Republican candidate.

After his defeat he turned his attention to, and made a specialty of, insurance, in which field he has been more than successful. In 1879 he organized a company, associating with him such well known men as Hon. John D. Thompson, Colonel W. C. Cooper, General George W. Morgan, and David C. Montgomery. And almost alone in the working thereof, he (in four months) organized the Eagle Mutual Fire Insurance company, with a capital of over fifty thousand dollars in premium notes, which has already grown to a net capital of over two hundred thousand dollars.

Later and during the same year, he originated, and, with the same association of gentlemen, organized the Ohio Mutual Aid, an association already widely known throughout the State, destined to be far reaching in its benefits, and already numbering its members by the thousands, and represented in several States of the Union.

As secretary and general manager of both companies, he has shown much executive ability, and, without clerical assistance, has labored early and late to bring both to their present solid.

fast-growing condition, ---------- A. D. 1881.