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BENNINGTON TOWNSHIP.
NEWBERRY, W. R., wagon-maker, born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1846; came to Granville, in this county, in 1855. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, company D, Colonel James A. Wilcox. He was at the battle of Chickamauga, and with Sherman on his famous march to the sea; received a wound in the right knee at Kenesaw Mountain; was at the battle of Goldsborough, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war in July, 1865. He. receives a pension on account of the wound; was married, in 1870, to Miss Cilia Milligan, of Newark. Mrs. Newberry died in the spring of 1877, and, in the fall of 1878, Mr. Newberry again married, uniting with Miss Martha Milligan, sister of his first wife. He is the father of two children by his first wife, and of two by the second; all living.
GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP.
NICHOLL, WILLIAM H., farmer, was born in Chittenden county, Vermont, October 10, 1812. His father deceased in 1813. He migrated to Granville, Licking county, Ohio, in 1816, with his mother, where they lived several years. He was brought up a farmer, and has made farming and stock raising his vocation. His education consists of what could be obtained in the schools of Granville in early days. In 1838 he went back to Vermont, married Miss Mary Partridge and then returned with his bride to his home in Granville township, Licking county, Ohio, making the journey there and :back in six weeks. They settled on the farm where they are now living, on Burg street, Granville township. They reared a family of four children: Alfred M., Sidney H., Edward A., and Albert P. They have a looking-glass in their house that has been among their ancestors about one hundred and seventy-five years. It was brought from Scotland to Massachusetts, from there to Vermont, and from Vermont to Licking county in a six-horse wagon with a load of goods in 1816. His grandfather, Robert Nicholl, was a paymaster, and also served as a captain in the War of 1776.
NEWARK TOWNSHIP.
NEIBARGER, P. J., farmer, was born in Madison township, April 11, 1825; has lived in Licking county all his life. He is the son of the late John Neibarger. April 15, 1859, he was married to Catharine Benner. They are the parents of seven children - Matilda. E., the wife of Alihu Warner, John, Hulda, who died in 1873, January 5th, aged eighteen years, Mary R., Martha A., Melceina and Albert. Mrs. Neibarger is the youngest child of the family of the nine children of David Benner, deceased.
CITY OF NEWARK.
MEHLS, FREDERICK, carpenter and joiner, learned his trade in Germany, after which he came to America, landing April 20, 1854, and settled in Buffalo, where he remained until 1859; then he removed to Newark, where he has resided ever since. He was born November 6, 1830, in Germany; was married before he came to America, to Paul Dorthe.. They have four children, two of whom are dead.
NEWKIRK, MATTHEW, dealer in staple and fancy dry goods, millinery goods; ladies' cloaks, etc., corner of Third and Main streets. His salesroom is twenty by one hundred feet, with an addition of an I, of seventeen feet, with a basement used for the storage of goods, and a room up-stairs, a part of which is used for storage, the remainder as a work shop, in which they do millinery work, dress and cloak making. His salesroom is well filled with the best quality of goods. Mr. Newkirk is a native of New Jersey, where he was born on the eighth day of March, 1814. In 1828 he went to Philadelphia, where he engaged as clerk in a dry goods house, remaining one year. Then, in 1829, he removed to Cincinnati, where he remained nine years as clerk in a drug and grocery store. In the fall of 1838 he came to Newark and engaged as
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salesman in the store of Seymour & Baldwin, with whom he remained ten years. In 1848 he entered the store of N. H. Seymore & Co. as salesman, where he remained four years. In 1852 he, in company with N. B. Hogg, purchased the entire stock of dry goods and groceries of Hammill & Co., of Newark, and engaged in the business. The firm name being known as M. Newkirk & Co., and remained as such about four years, when Mr. Hogg sold his interest in the goods to B. J. Wilson, who remained a partner of Mr. Newkirk until in 1857, then Mr. Newkirk purchased his partner's interest, and conducted the business alone, until in 1869, when his son, Charles H., became his partner, and remained as such until in 1875, when he withdrew from the firm, leaving Mr. Newkirk again alone in the business, who is now conducting one of the largest dry goods establishments in the county. He has in his employ eight gentlemen and five lady salesmen, and three lady workmen. He was united in marriage to Miss Nancy M. St. Clair, of Cincinnati in 1837. They became the parents of six children-three of whom are now living-Edward T., Charles H. and William. His companion died November 3, 1874. He married Miss Mary E. Fleek, April 3, 1878, of Newark, daughter of Adam Fleek.
NICHOLS, VOLNEY, son of Jonah and Nancy Nichols, was born December 25, 1835, in Belmont county, Ohio. He came to this county with his parents, April 11, 1850, and located on a farm in Madison township, remaining there about eight years, working for his father. He was married to Mary Albaugh, June 19, 1859; she was born in Newton township, in 1830. After their marriage, Mr. Nichols followed farming about nine years, when he turned his attention to the carpenter trade, and has been working at it ever since. They reside on East Main street.
NORMAN, JOHN H., barber, was born in the District of Columbia, July 4, 1829. He was married to Margaret A Berry, of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, August 11, 1848. They have seven children: Mary, born August 29, 1819; Maria, February 22, 1851; Eva, December 19, 1853 Frank B., February 28, 1856; Oliver W., May 26, 1858; John F., October 13, 1862 ; Lizzie, December 15, 1864. Mrs. Norman was born January 13, 1832. Mary was married to Charles P. Henry, of Coshocton, Olio; she died August 31, 1878; Maria is the wife of Lawyer N. R Harper, and now lives to Louisville, Kentucky; Eva is the wife of Charles P. Henry, of Coshocton, Ohio. Mr. Norman came to Newark in 186o, and the next year moved his family. His occupation is barber.
NUGENT, MRS. R M., was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1838. She was married to Samuel McNolty, February 16, 1853; he was born in 1835. They bad one son, Charles S., born May 18. 1854. Mr. McNolty died in October, 1854, and Mrs. McNolty married her second husband, George H. Huber, March 9, 1856. He was born September 1, 1835. They have nine children-Sarah A., born April 2, 185 7 ; Anna E. and Agnes O., born July 30, 1858 (Anna E. died August 9, 1859, and Agnes O. died August 15, 1859) ; Alice L. died May 11, 1861, .aged four months; Mary J., born May 30, 1861; James C.; May 5, 1863; George A, May 18, 1865; William Sherman, October 28, 1866 ; Rachel Catharine, April 30, 1868. Mr. Huber died May 5, 1868, and the widow married a third time, A. Nugent, January 25, 1870. By this marriage they have three children - George H. was born November 29, 1870; Walter H., November 3, 1872; Mary E., May 6, 1876. Mr. Huber was a member of company B, Fortieth Pennsylvania volunteer infantry; enlisted July 23, 1863, and was discharged July 16, 1865. In 1868 Mrs. Nugent lived in Mechanicsburgh and Allegheny, Pennsylvania, until 1875, when she moved to Uhrichsville, Ohio, then to Indianapolis and again to Uhrichsville, and, two years after, to Newark. Her father, Jacob Ehrgood, was a colonel in the Mexican war. He died in October, 1854, aged eighty-seven years.
PERRY TOWNSHIP.
NETHERS, NATHAN (deceased), was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, in 1807; he came to Ohio after he was married to Miss Jemima Berry, in the year 1831, October 6th; they had ten children; John W. was born November 12, 1832; Catharine E., February 15, 1834; George W., April 15, 1835; Henry Willis, December 17, 1836; Andrew Jackson, September 17, 1838; Lloyd Arnold, August 31, 1840, Sarah Ann, February 14, 1844; Calhoun, May 3, 1845; Mary Jane, January 25, 1849; Joseph Emmet, August 7, 1853; Mrs. Nethers was born in Virginia in 1814. When Mr. and Mrs. Nethers came to Ohio she walked the entire distance with the exception of one day, when she was sick. At the time of Mr. Nethers' death he was in good circumstances, owning three hundred and twenty acres of land, and was a progressive and respected citizen.
ST. ALBANS TOWNSHIP.
NICHOLS, THOMAS, miller, Alexandria, was born September 19, 1831, in St. Albans township. He remained with his parents until about 186o, and attended the district schools in his native township. He married -Esther P. Brown October 5, 1859. She was born in Jersey township December 6, 1838. They have three children : Frank, born
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October 8, 1860; Fannie B., Jennie M., twins, born October 27, 1861. Dr. Enos Nichols, father of the subject of this sketch, was born May 12, 1799. In Windsor county, Vermont, and emigrated to Granville, Licking county, about 1817. He married Percepta Ingham, of York State; she was born about 1804. To them were given nine children, only three of whom are living. Thomas Nichols, the subject of this sketch, ranks high as a miller, and is considered honorable and straightforward with his fellow man.
BOWLING GREEN TOWNSHIP.
OLDHAM, JOHN, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1814, son of Robert and Martha (Morrison) Oldham. In 1821 he came with his parents to North Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio, and completed an apprenticeship of four years in the saddle and harness making trade there to 1832, then worked at his trade two years in Zanesville. In 1834 Mr. Oldham came to Brownsville, where he has resided ever since, engaged in saddle and harness making. He has twice been postmaster at Brownsville during the administrations of Presidents Taylor and Johnson, and has been township treasurer for fifteen years. He was married to Miss Phoebe Dumm, November 4, 1836. Her father, Jacob Dumm, moved to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1806, from Bedford county, Pennsylvania. In 1832 she came to Brownsville with her mother. They taught a very popular and successful industrial school here in a church, having as many as fifty pupils in attendance at one time, some of them from quite a distance, Mrs. Oldham giving instruction in sewing, working samples, etc., and her mother teaching the common branches. Mr. Oldham has seven children living-Ellen T., wife of Thomas Tippet, of Delaware; Lide M., wife of Albert Robinson; of Albany, Ohio; C. A. Oldham, a druggist in Enfield, Illinois; B. T. Oldham, a tobacconist in Delaware, Ohio; Lizzie, Minnie, and Allion.
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP.
ORR, JOHN B.-Mr. Orr was born March 30, 1828, in Bowling Green township: His grandfather and family came to this county from Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1803, when his father, James Orr, was a small boy. They first lived on the place near Newark, where Thomas Taylor now resides. . In a short time,. however, they removed to the farm in Bowling Green township, upon which James Orr has ever since lived. Mr. Orr's mother, Elizabeth Dusthimer, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia. His parents were married in 1824. Mr. Orr is the second of nine children, three of whom have died. He was married September 18, 1851, to Eliza Ann Cooperider. By this marriage he had six children: Martha, Leroy, Harvey, Austin, Stephen and Millie Alice. Martha and Stephen are dead. Mr. and Mrs. Orr are members of the Lutheran church. He moved to his present residence in 1856, and has, during his whole life, pursued the quiet avocation of a farmer.
MADISON TOWNSHIP.
O'BANNON, P. N.-Mr. O'Bannon was born upon the farm on which he died, two miles below Newark, November 6, 1806, and was seventy-three years and ten months old. He was a man of considerable prominence and ability, and more than ordinary activity in affairs of public interest. He was a member of the State legislature in 1844-5, and had also been elected to the position of a member of the board of equalization, once or oftener, and was. also president of the Licking County Agricultural society in 1852, and since 1872 had been the president of the Licking County Pioneer Historical and Antiquarian society. Mr. O'Bannon had long been associated with the Masonic fraternity, and also with the various temperance organizations, and could always be counted to give the weight of his precept and example to the side of good order, sound morality and virtuous principles. His life was chiefly devoted to agricultural pursuits and general husbandry, although for perhaps thirty of the later years of his life he exercised his gifts in the ministry of the Lutheran church, as opportunity offered. Hon. P. N. O'Bannon was the eldest son of the late judge William O'Bannon, a prominent pioneer of Licking valley, who settled there on the banks of the Shawnee tun in 1803.
NEWARK TOWNSHIP.
O'BRIEN, MICHAEL, son of Clark and Ellen O'Brien, was born February 7, 1841, in Clare county, Ireland. He came with his parents. to America in 1849, and first settled in Hillsboro, Ohio; remaining about one year, when they .removed to Lancaster for another year, after which they located in Newark, where they have resided, principally, ever since. Mr. O'Brien lives about one mile north of the public square of Newark, on the Mt. Vernon road, where he is engaged in the gardening business. He was married to Martha McCarthy, November 5, 1861; she is. the daughter of Edward and Ann McCarthy, and was born March 4, 1846, in Ireland. Her parents emigrated to America when she was quite young, and settled in York State. Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien have six children: Ella, born August 26, 1865: Elizabeth, born February 11, 1869 ; Anna, born November 9, 1871; Maggie, born June 28, 1874; Mary, born February 14, 1877; Edward, born June 17, 1879.
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O'DEI,L, JAMES B., a farmer, located on the Sharon valley road, about four miles west of Newark. He is the son of Stanton B. and Syndica O'Dell, and was born March 27, 1844, in Granville township. He was married to Anna L. Gray, October 28, 1875; she is the daughter of William T. and Temperance Gray, and was born July 25, 1851, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. O'Dell have two children: Lura Belle, born October 28, 1876; Blanche R., born December 2, 1878. Mr. O'Dell enlisted in the service during the late war February I6, 1865, in company E, One Hundred and Ninety-first Ohio volunteer infantry, under Captain George E. Richards. He received his discharge August 27, 1865.
OWENS, JOHN R., farmer, a native of North Wales, was born March 31, 1811. He was brought up on a farm. After he reached his majority, in 1832, he migrated to America, and located in New York State, where he engaged as engineer in a distillery, and remained with the same firm about nine years. In 1841 he emigrated to Ohio, and located in Granville township, this county. He then turned his attention to farming, which business he has since been engaged in, and is counted one among the leading farmers in the county. His first purchase of land was fifty acres on Burg street, Granville township, on which he moved and lived for many years. He continued buying land until he had in his possession about two hundred and eighty acres of good land in Granville township. In 1842 he was united in marriage to Miss Ann Jones, born in Wales, in 1817, and came to this county with her parents in 1841. They . settled on his farm in Granville township, where they resided until in 1872, when they purchased and moved on the farm in Newark township where they now reside; farm containing one hundred and sixty-three acres. Their union resulted in four children: Robert J., David R., Thomas D., and John J.
CITY OF NEWARK.
OWENS, JAMES W, a lawyer by profession, actively engaged in the practice, with office on west side of public square, over Franklin's bank, Newark, Ohio. Mr. Owens was born October 24, 1837, in Franklin county, Indiana. He entered Miami university at Oxford, Ohio, in 1859, and graduated in 1862. He entered the army as a private in the Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served during the three months' service. He re-enlisted and was made first lieutenant of company A, Eighty-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and, on its re-organization, was made captain of company K. He attended law school at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1864-65, and in March of the latter year he located at Newark, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar the same year. July 23, 1867, he married Miss Martha, daughter of Elias Kumler, of Oxford, Ohio. By this union he has one child, Eva G. In 1867 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Licking county, and was re-elected in 1869. In 1875 he was elected to the senate by a majority of eight hundred and forty-four, and he was re-elected in 1877 by a majority of two thousand and sixty-five. When the senate was organized, there being no lieutenant governor, Mr. Owens was elected president of the senate, and as such appointed the committees. When Lieutenant Governor Fitch was inaugurated he became president pro tem. He is a fluent and forcible speaker, and a good parliamentarian.
NEWTON TOWNSHIP.
OSBURN, THOMPSON E., contractor and builder, post office, Vanatta, was born in Franklin township, this county, July 27, 1842. About 1835 his father, Richard Osburn, came from Virginia, settling on Clay lick, in Franklin township. Mary (Hurnphrey) Osburn, his mother, was also a native of Virginia, and came to Muskingum county when a child, and when that county was a wilderness. Thompson E. Osburn enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Thirteenth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, August 22, 1862, and was honorably discharged, July 7, 1865. He took part in the following battles: Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Buzzard Roost, Resaca, Rome, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain (where one half of the company was killed or wounded) Peach Tree Creek, New Hope Church, Front of Atlanta, Jonesborough, and many skirmishes. He was also with Sherman on his famous "march to the sea." During this march he was connected with the foragers, who fought a small battle by themselves, whipping the rebels at Sandersville, Georgia, driving them out of that place and capturing a good . dinner that had been prepared by the ladies of that village for the gray-coats. He was also with Sherman in his march through the Carolinas, and was engaged in the severe battle of Bentonville, and also that of Black River. He remained with Sherman until after the surrender of Johnson's army, and fired one of the last shots of the war on the tenth of April, 1865, the day following the surrender of Lee, he being at the time on the skirmish line near Smithfield, North Carolina. Sergeant Osburn also fired one of the. first and one of the last shots at the battle of Chickamauga. In this battle his company lost twenty-one out of thirty-five men in killed and wounded. At the battle of Kenesaw Mountain Sergeant Osburn rescued Andrew J. Shaw who fell, desperately wounded near the enemy's works. Shaw had been his friend at home; and afterward died in the hospital. Mr. Osburn rescued him by crawl-
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ing snake-like to the rebel works and taking him away unperceived. He was never unable to do duty, and never received a scratch, though in every engagement in which the regiment was engaged. At Jonesborough the regiment captured two pieces of artillery, and more prisoners than there were men in the regiment. The nearest he came to getting shot was at Kenesaw, where his gun stock was shattered by a ball. He was in the great review at Washington, at the close of the war.
ST. ALBANS TOWNSHIP.
OLDHAM, R D., pioneer farmer and miller, was born May 7, 1814, in Cambridge township, Guernsey county, Ohio, and migrated to Licking county about April 10, 1838. His parents are Thomas and Nancy Oldham. The former was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania; the latter in Washington county, Pennsylvania, within two miles of the Virginia line. Mrs. Oldham's maiden name was Davis. R. D. Oldham located in St. Albans township, purchasing ninety-eight acres, and continuing to add until he had four hundred and thirty acres. He married Commillar Brill, September 22, 1836. They had one child, Mary Elizabeth, born May 25, 1846, who graduated at the Granville college, June; 1867. She married George McLaughlin, January 10, 1871, and died May 17, 1873. Her mother died August 20, 1867. Mr. Oldham's second marriage took place October 14, 1868, to Sarah Carlock, who was born July 24, 1816, and died June 1, 1880. Mr. Oldham is one of the most enterprising citizens of this county. He has erected buildings in the township costing over eight thousand dollars. He has cleared and improved about two hundred acres. He has met with loss after loss, by death and fire. November, 1840, he contracted with Paul Roberts to run a grist-mill in Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, for three years, at twenty dollars per month. He remained there two and one-half years, making enough money to pay for his first purchase in the township. November, 1844, they took a little girl, Rachel Robert, to bring up, and gave her an excellent education. She was prevented from graduating on account of failing health. October, 25, 1866, she married W. T. Chambers, and now lives in West Virginia, five miles from Wheeling, at Elm Grove. They have five children - Harry, William, Samuel, Mary, and Sarah.
BOWLING GREEN TOWNSHIP.
PHERSON, JOHN R., farmer, born in Perry county, Ohio, December, 17, 1833, the son of Robert Pherson, who emigrated from Ireland .in 1793 when twenty years old, settled in Perry county in 1808; He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was at the siege of Fort Meigs. His mother, Margaret McCormick, was from Maryland. In 1851 he married Caroline Beall, a Virginian by birth, who emigrated to this township with her father, Ninian, about .1835. Nine children resulted from this union-Henry, Mary, Anna, William, Irvin, Frank, Hattie, Clara, and Laura. Mr. Pherson lived in Henry county, Ohio, one year1854-55 then returned to Burlington township, this county, where he remained until 1863, when he came to the farm where he now lives.
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP.
PATTON, THOMAS, farmer, born in 1846, in this county. His father, Joseph Patton, was born in 1795 near Derry, Ireland. He came to Philadelphia in 1821, and to this county in 1835. He was married in 1837 to Miss Jane Lusk, of Fairfield county, Ohio. She was born in 1808, in that comity. He died in 1875. They were the parents of four children. The subject of this sketch is the third child. He was married in 1879 to Miss Sarah Larimore, of this county. She was born in 1856, in this county.
PATTON, CLEMENT M., farmer, born in 1839, in this county. He was married in 1872 to Miss Caroline E. Boyd, of this county. She was born in 1854, in Coshocton county, Ohio: They are the parents of three children-Morton, Joseph, and Susannah.
PRESTON, W. N., miller, born in Newton township, September 22, 1845. His grandfather, Nathan Preston, was born in 1777, in Maryland. In 1794 he left home, coming to Chillicothe, this State, where he remained for several years without his parents knowing where he was. He went to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where his parents had moved to in the meantime, and was married in 1808 to Miss Mary Belt, of that county. He died in 1846, and she died in 1857. They were the parents of ten children. Jacob, the father. of the subject of this sketch, was the sixth child. .He was born in 1814, in Newton township. He was married in 1837 to Miss Elizabeth Harding, of this county. She was born in 1815, in Hagerstown, Maryland. He died in 1866. She is still living in Illinois. The subject of this sketch is the third child. He was married in 1873 to Miss Annie M. Sellers, of this county. She was born in 1850, in Knox county, Ohio.
FALLSBURY TOWNSHIP.
PAINTER, WILLIAM, farmer and stock raiser, a son of John and Margaret Painter, born in Muskingum county, October 12, 1827. He remained with his father and farmed on the shares for about five years, after he became of age, and during this time he married Julina S. Robinson, October 26, 1852. She was born in Fallsbury township,
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March 5, 1830. After his marriage he made a purchase of eighty acres of land in this township, to which he moved and began housekeeping. He carried on farming and carpentering in connection. This he continued till about the fall of 1861 or 1862, when he sold his farm to his brother John. He then purchased the farm known as the Robinson farm, near Robinson grove, or Painter run, where he moved the fall following, where he has since remained. He was a member of the home guards, and was called into service May 2, 1864. They were ordered to report at Newark, and from there they were taken to Camp Chase, where they were mustered into service May 11th. They left there for Martinburgh, West Virginia, landing there the fourteenth. There they were divided into squads to do guard duty. Companies F and B were sent to North Mountain, West Virginia. While there the subject of this sketch was taken prisoner, July 3, 1864, and was marched by the rebels from North Mountain to the pike; July 4th to Martinsburgh, where they halted till the morning of the fifth; from there to Winchester, a distance of twenty-two miles. On July 6th they marched to Middletown; next to Woodstock; from thence to Edinburgh, distance .twenty-two miles; then halted till the morning of July 8th; from thence to Newmarket. On the 9th they marched to Harrisonburgh, where he remained sick in the hospital till September 3rd; from there by stage to Staunton; September 4th by rail to Richmond, where he was put in Libby prison, and remained till September 23d. On the 24th he was paroled and took the boat for Akins, where they were met by Union soldiers. On the twenty-fifth they boarded the steamer New York, and headed for City Point; from there to Harrison's Landing and Fort Powhatan ; from there to Fortress Monroe; thence to Annapolis, Maryland; from there to parole camp; thence to Camp Chase, where he received his discharge October 1, 1864; from there he came home and assumed his old business, farming. Mr. and Mrs. Painter are the parents of eleven children, as follows: Thona V., born December 9, 1853; Florence 0., August 8, 1855 ; John W., February 16, 1857; Sarah M., September 18, 1858; David H., November 11, 1860; Jonathan E., November 29, 1862; William E., January 1, 1865; Ira C., March 22, 1867; Walter E., March 18, 1869; Myrtle S., January 4, 1872; Arthur B., September 12, 1874. John W. died March 25, 1857. Mr. Painter is a consistent member of the Baptist church of Fallsburgh.
PAINTER, JOHN W., farmer, born in Muskingum county, October 22, 1829; was brought to Licking county, when a boy, by his father, where he was reared, and became a man; shortly after that, he married Margaret Sperry, daughter of Ezra and Abigail Sperry. She was born in Muskingum county, January 24, 1834. After his-marriage Mr. Painter purchased a farm of eighty acres of .land to which he moved, and remained about two years. He then sold this, and rented a farm of William S. Brown, where he remained seven years. He then made a purchase of the farm known as the Walnut Grove farm, containing eighty acres, where he then moved, and now resides. About one year after moving on this place, he made a purchase of the Brown farm, of one hundred and sixty acres, which makes in all two hundred and forty acres. Mr. and Mrs. Painter are the parents of two children: Amanda C., born October 28, 1853, and now married to N. H. Tilton, residing in Martins. burgh, Knox county; Adda A., born June 4, 1858. Mr. Painter is a consistent member of the Predestinarian Baptist church.
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP.
PYLE, ROBERT.-Mr. Pyle was born in Bowling Green township February 22, 1839, his parents, John and Sarah Pyle, having removed to Licking county from Jefferson county, Virginia, in 1830. He is the fifth child of a family of seven children, and is the only one who resides in this county. His two brothers have established themselves in Stark county, Illinois. Two sisters live in Kansas, and the other two in the adjoining counties of Muskingum and Perry. At eighteen years of age, he left the place of his nativity for Stark county, Illinois, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits until the breaking out. of the war December 7, 1861, he enlisted in company K, Forty-seventh Illinois infantry, and remained in the service three years. During this time Mr. Pyle participated in seventeen battles, among which were those at Corinth, Iuka, Jackson, Mississippi; Pleasant Hill, Louisiana; Siege of Vicksburgh, etc. The regiment to which he belonged, was one of the brigade commanded by General Joseph Mower. At the close of the war Mr. Pyle returned to Licking county, and united in marriage with Mary J. McKelvey, the daughter of James and Anna McKelvey, March 16, 1865. His four children are: Clara A., James Edwin, Thomas H. and Anna Gertrude. He is engaged in farming. He and his wife are members of the. Evangelical Lutheran church.
GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP.
PAIGE, NATHANIEL,. deceased, was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, April 14, 1776. He received a good common school and business education. In 1795 he migrated to Rutland, Vermont, where he learned the clothier trade with his older brother. May 30, 1798, he married Pheba Smith, of Rutland, Vermont, born December 19, 1779, daugh-
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ter of John Smith. They settled in Rutland, Vermont, where he engaged at his trade carrying on the business himself, manufacturing and fulling all kinds of cloth. He continued in the business until in 1815; he with his wife and six children migrated to Licking county, Ohio, located in Centerville on T. Little's farm; remained until the spring of x816, he purchased and moved on a farm east of the D. M. Baker farm. He then turned his attention to farming, and followed that as his vocation. In 1820 he sold his farm, near D. M. Baker's, purchased and moved on the farm now owned by his son, L D. Paige, in the southwest corner of Granville township, where he passed the remainder of his days. His companion deceased September 13, 1867. He survived her until January 6, 1869. They lived together nearly seventy years, and reared a family of ten children: James, deceased, born in Vermont August 25, 1799; Eliza, deceased, born in Vermont June x5, 1801; Smith W., deceased, born in Vermont August 15, 1805 ; Marietta, born in Vermont September 20, 1807; Nathaniel M., deceased, born in Vermont, August 20, 1809; Lafayette, deceased, born in Vermont June 20, 1812; Pheba L., born in Vermont, January 31, 1815; Mercy A, born in Ohio August 25, 1817; Lucius D., born in Ohio August 21, 1821; Henry C., born in Ohio June 25, 1825. Five of the above named children are now living. Mr. Paige taught vocal music for a number of years in this vicinity.
PARSONS, RALPH, deceased, was born in Hartford county, Connecticut, October 12, 1807. He was a cabinet-maker by trade and followed that business as a vocation for a number of years. In 1831 he migrated to Ohio and located in the northern part of the State, where he, in company with H. K. Kendall, carried on the mercantile business about three years. In the spring of 1834 he came to Granville, this county, and established a general store, which .he conducted with success, dealing in dry goods, groceries, notions, boots, shoes, hats, caps, in fact, everything that was kept in a country store, until the time of his death, which occurred October 1, 1874. On the thirtieth day of April, 1835, he married Miss Laura O., daughter of George W. Case. Miss Case was born in East Hartford, Connecticut, December 11, 1816; came to this county with her parents in 1823, and located in Granville. Mr. and Mrs. Parsons settled in Granville, where she is now living. They reared a family of five children: George C., John F., Francis R., Caroline C., and Mary F. John F. and Mary F. are now deceased.
PARSONS, GEORGE C., eldest son of the aforesaid Ralph Parsons, was born in Granville, this county, March 30, 1838. He received his education in Denison university. In 1856 he engaged with A. P. Stone, of Columbus, as salesman in his dry goods store, with whom he remained about one year. In 1857 he returned to Granville, and entered his father's store as salesman, and remained as such about seven years. In 1864 he became a partner of his father to the business, the firm name then being R. Pasons & Son, who conducted the business with success until the death of his father in 1874. The son then took charge of the business, and the house is now known as George C. Parsons, dealer in dry goods, .notions,. boots and shoes, hats, caps, hosiery, etc. In fact his business room, twenty by thirty feet, is well filled with everything in his line of business.
PITTSFORD, DAVID, deceased, born in Wales, near the line between Wales and England, June, 1762. He was a Slater by trade, and followed that as his vocation forty-five years. In 1797 he married Ann Davis of Wales. In 1801 he, with wife and two children, Mary and William, migrated to America, and located in Chester county, Pennsylvania; remained there until 1816 when they migrated to Licking county, Ohio. They located in Granville township, on a farm now owned by their son, James Pittsford, where he engaged in clearing away the timber, and cultivating the soil as his vocation, which he followed until he died, September 30, 1842. His companion survived him until February 27, 1863, aged ninty-one years and six months. Their union resulted in six children: Mary, born in Wales, June 19, 1798; William (deceased), born in Wales, June 12, 1800; John (deceased), born in Pennsylvania, October 2, 1802; Elizabeth, born in Pennsylvania, June 9, 1804; Isaac (deceased), born in Pennsylvania, October 1, 1807: James, born in Chester county, June 15, 1812, came with his parents to Licking county, Ohio, in 1816. He was educated in the common schools of Granville township. The most of his schoolboy days were spent in the old stone school-house. He followed-teaching school as his vocation for fourteen winters, all his teaching being done 'in Granville and adjoining townships. He was reared a farmer, and he followed farming and stock raising as his principal vocation. He was elected infirmary director of Licking county, in 1860, and served until 1863; he was then elected county commissioner and served until 1869. Mr. Pittsford has also held .various township offices. He was married to Mary Jones, September 27, 1838; she was born in York State, August 16, 1816, and is, the daughter of David R Jones, who migrated to Licking county, Ohio, in 1837. They settled on the home farm, where they are now living, Their union resulted in seven children, Pheba A., Mary E., Susan, David
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B., John E., William H., and Franklin J., all of whom are living except Pheba A., who died March 4, 1864.
POND, AARON, was born in York State, October 1, 1808. He was brought to Licking county, Ohio, by his parents, in 1812, who settled in Granville township. He is a cooper by trade, and followed coopering as his vocation for twenty years. He has also been engaged in various other business. He married for his first wife Electa Biglow, March 20, 1831. They settled in Granville township, where they remained three years, then removed to Granville, where he is still living. Their union resulted in three children, one son and two daughters. His wife deceased 1837. He married for his second wife Lydia Handle. Their marriage resulted in two children, one son and one daughter.
HANOVER TOWNSHIP.
PHILLIPS, JOHN, post office, Clay Lick, a farmer by occupation in the southern part of Hanover township, on the Mt. Sterling road. He is the son of Simeon and Elizabeth Phillips, and was born March 12, 1827, in Green county, Pennsylvania. He with his parents came to this county in the fall of 1845, and settled on the farm now occupied by the subject of. this sketch Simeon Phillips died April 7, 1870. His widow lives with her son, William, at the old homestead. John was married November 30, 1851, to Jane Lake, the daughter of Elias and Charlotte Lake, and was born January 16, 1842, in Franklin township. Her mother came to this county at the age of fifteen, from Virginia, and her father was born in this county. As the result of this marriage Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have three children, two boys and one girl: William Henry, Benjamin Franklin, and Sarah Louisa. William Henry was born June 6, 1853; Benjamin Franklin born August 1, 1854; Sarah Louisa born, June 12, 1859. The latter died October 23, 1862.
HARTFORD TOWNSHIP.
PAYN, THOMAS M.; farmer, born in 1853, in this county. His grandfather, Jesse Payn, was born in 1790, in Virginia. He came to this county in 1804. He was married in 1815, to Miss Sarah Lair, of this county; she was born in 1796, in Virginia. He died in 1866. They were the parents of nine children. John S., father of Thomas M., was the sixth child; he was born in 1828. He was married in 1852, to Miss Annie M. Harris, of this county; she was born in 1834, in Knox county. They are the parents of six children. The subject of this sketch is the oldest. He was married in 1878, to Miss Luella Baker; she was born in 1853, in this county. They are the parents of one child, Clinton B.
POTTER, T. B., farmer, born in 1847, in this county. His father, William Potter, was born in Virginia in 1804; came to this county in 1818 with his father, William Potter, sr. William Potter, sr., died in 1853. His wife died in 1866. They were the parents of eight children. William Potter, jr., was the fourth child. He was married in 1828 to Miss Eliza Dewel, of this county. Shewasbornin1804, in New York. She died in1832. They were the parents of two children. Mr. Potter again married in 1834, Mrs. Julia Dewel, a widow. Mr. Potter died in 1849 ; she in 1876. They were the parents of seven children. The subject of this sketch was married in 1868 to Miss N. E. Morrison, of Delaware. She was born in Jefferson county in 1848. They are the parents of two children.
POST, E. J., farmer and sorghum maker, born in 1841, in Passaic county, New Jersey, cane to this county in 1863. He was married in 1863 to Miss Louisa Condit, of Delaware. She was born in 1843 in Delaware county. They are the parents of six children-Chauncy, Schuyler, Alice, Kelly, and Lula living, and Sarah D., the oldest, deceased. In connection with his farming he makes sorghum molasses, having all the necessary machinery to make a first-class article. He has a very large custom.
PUMPHREY, H. R, Hartford, Licking county, Ohio, breeder and shipper of thoroughbred Spanish merino sheep. He breeds only registered sheep, which are registered in the United States registry. His sheep are from the Atwood and Hammond families.
JERSEY TOWNSHIP.
PIERSON, ORVILLE A., born in this township, February 8, 1849. His father C. N. Pierson, was born in Caldwell, New Jersey, December 8, 1815; was a shoemaker by trade, and emigrated to Jersey about 1840; here became a member of the firm E. P. Pierson & Co., consisting of his brother, himself, and two Condits. The business of the firm was varied and extensive; besides a large stock of the gods generally carried in a country store, the company had a harness shop, a shoe shop, and an extensive tailoring establishment. He remained in the firm till his death, March 19, 1866. He had long been an elder in the Presbyterian church, and died respected by all, leaving seven children-Joseph, killed in the freight yard at Columbus by an engine in 1874; Maria (Condit), of Champaign county, Illinois; Janet (Crane), of Wayne county; Walter, who enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, was captured at North Mountain, and died in Millen prison, Georgia, November 15, 1864 ; O. A., whose name heads this sketch; Caleb, a house carpenter, of
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Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Julia (Notestein), of Wayne county; John, a young child, died in 1865. At his father's death O. A. took his place until the affairs of the firm were .settled up, then on February 14, 1867, while yet a mere youth, though a practical shoemaker, began business for himself, opening a shoe shop of his own the success of which is attested by the fact that he has constantly employed from one to five workmen; married June, 1874, to Angeline Anderson, of Indiana. Their children are Nelson, John, and a yet unnamed infant.
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP.
PRICE, JOSIAH W., pioneer farmer, was born February 4, 1829, in Newark township, where he remained with his parents until March, 1853. He married Hannah M. Davis, April 15, 1852. Mrs. Price was born April 11, 1832, in Granville township. In March, 1853, they moved to Liberty township, where they now live, previously purchasing one hundred and five acres of land, to which he has added sixty-one acres. They had six children, three boys and three girls, four of whom are living-Isaiah M., George W., Ida A., and Bertha M. Edward Price, father of the subject of this sketch, was born July 17, 1797, in South Wales. He was a weaver by trade, and married Mary Pittsford, July 26, 1825: She was born June 19, 1798, in South Wales, and emigrated in 1801 to the United States, locating in Chester county, Pennsylvania, where they remained until 1816, when they came to the Welsh Hills, in Granville township. They have two children-Thomas, living in Newark township, and the subject of this biography. Edward Price died December 26, 1878; his wife survives him and is living with her son. Mr. Price is one of the enterprising farmers of the township. The family belongs to the Welsh Hills Baptist church.
LICKING TOWNSHIP.
PANGLE, JAMES, son of . Joseph Pangle; was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, April 18, 1808. He remained with his parents until he was eighteen years of age, receiving a. limited education, then served. an apprenticeship of three years and six months in learning the tanner's trade with Martin Funkhouser, of Winchester, after which he followed various pursuits until the fall of 1831, when he came with his parents to this county, where he was married to Miss Mary Lanham, who was born in Page county, Virginia. She died in her eightieth year. The result of their marriage was two children-both girls: Elira Ann, born July 30, 1835; Matilda J., born January 25, 1837. Elira Ann was first married to William Gill, June 23, 1860; second marriage, to Isaac L Holmes. Result of said marriage, six children - Mary Frances, Elva V., Louisa J., James P., dead, Aurelia V. Matilda J. Pangle was married to George Wheeler, September 8, 187o, and has three children-Aura, Eva Irene, and Lillie Gay. Mr. Pangle commenced the business of farming on Peter Coffman's place in Newton township, then moved to Cherry Valley, remained there two years, then bought the place he now lives on in 1848 (in this township), all woods at that time. He worked his stone quarry twenty-six years, cleared and worked his farm also. Mr. Pangle says he never was sued, not did he ever sue any body. He has taken the Newark Advocate forty-five years; and expects to as long as he takes any paper. He is now in his seventy-third year, and is quite active, although his physical constitution is beginning to give way.
PRIEST, MARSHAL, post office, Hebron, was born in 1797, in Culpeper county, Virginia. He was the son of John and Dorcas Priest, and came with his parents to Fairfield county in 1812, and subsequently removed to this county. He was married to Jane Davis of Knox county. They had seven children-Frances, Darcus and John (twins), Elizabeth, Mariah, William and Mary Magdalene. They are all married except Mary M., who lived with her father until his death. Mrs. Priest died in 1876, aged sixty-three. Mr. priest died June 25, 1880, aged eighty-three years. He was always a farmer; was a straightforward man in all his business.
PRICE, JARETT, was born in Fairfield county, July 9, 1841, being the son of Nicholas and Celesta Price, who are natives of Maryland and New York. Nicholas was married in 1839 to Celesta Peas, of this county. They had seven children, five boys and two girls, and they are all living except James H., who died October 1, 1870. Jarett Price was married September 7, 1869, to Miss Mary Harter, of this county. Mrs. Price was born September 8, 1842, .being the. daughter of John and Marinda Harter. They have two-children-Celesta M. and Nicholas E. Celesta was born March 27, 1873, and Nicholas E. September 9, 1874; both are at home with their parents. Jarett Price enlisted November 9, 1861, in company G, Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, under Captain Stewart, Colonel Charles R. Woods commanding. Was in the battles of Fort Donelson and Pittsburgh Landing. He went as a private, was taken sick at Pittsburgh Landing; lay sick at that place four months and. then returned home. He had enlisted for three years.
LIMA TOWNSHIP.
PRESCOTT, BENJAMIN, post office, Columbia Center, was born in England in 1814, and was by trade a hatter until he left for the new world, in the
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year 1847. He married Sarah Vaughn, in England. They settled on the place they now occupy, in 1848, and have since resided there. They joined the Presbyterian church soon after settling in the county
MADISON TOWNSHIP.
PIGG, GEORGE, deceased, was born in Northumberland county, England, in 1798. In 1837 he married Miss Jane Knox, born in the same county in England in 1808. In a few months after their marriage they emigrated to America, and located in Madison township, Licking county, Ohio, on land now owned by George A Wilson; remained on the Wilson farm about fourteen years. In 1851 he purchased and moved on the. farm in the same township now owned by his son, Charles A Pigg, where he deceased September 16, 1862. He made farming his principal vocation. His companion is still 'surviving him, and is living on the home farm, with her son Charles. They reared a family of five children-Charles-A., Isabella, William, George T., and David H., all of whom are now married and living in Madison township.
PIGG, DAVID H., farmer, youngest son of George and Jane Pigg, was born in Madison township, this county, June 22, 1847. On the twenty-first day of June, 1876, he married Miss Eliza, daughter of James Avery, of Newark They settled on the farm where they now reside, in Madison township. They have one child, Mary K. At present he is filling the office of justice of the peace of Madison township.
MARY ANN TOWNSHIP.
PITZER, JAMES, ESQ.-This well known citizen was a son of Major Anthony Pitzer, once a leading man in military and political circles, and was born in the Hog Run settlement in 1809, and died at his residence on Rocky fork, December 28, 1875, aged sixty-six years. James, as well as his father, gave attention to military affairs, no .less than to civil and political matters, and had many friends. He attained to the rank of captain in military affairs, and as a politician had acquired considerable local popularity. He was repeatedly elected to the office of justice of the peace of Licking township, and largely enjoyed the confidence of his neighbors and acquaintances.
MCKEAN TOWNSHIP.
PIERSON, J. M., farmer, was born in 1839, in this county; was the son of Nathan and Abby Pierson, who came to this county about 1830, and located in Liberty township. He was married December, 1871, to Jane Cross, of this county, who was born in 1848, in McKean township. The results of this marriage were three children: Artie D., born January 27, 1873; Lella L., born March 11, 1874; Harry R., born September 10, 1877. Mr. Pierson located in McKean township in 1872. His parents both died in March, 1872, aged seventy-four and seventy-one years:
PRATT, MOSES L, was born June 13, 1801, in Rutland county, Vermont, was the son of Benjamin Pratt, who was born August 13, 1777. Benjamin Pratt was the son of Ebenezer Pratt, who was the son of Silas Pratt, who was born February 27, 1722, and who traced his ancestry back to the Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock. The grandfathers of Moses Pratt, Silas Pratt and Benjamin Whipple the last of whom. was born May 4, 1727, both served through the Revolutionary war. Silas Pratt was the .father of three sons: Ebenezer had three children, and Benjamin was the father of eleven children. Benjamin and family, except Moses L, came to this county in the year 1814, located in Granville township, making the journey by wagon. Moses L, the subject of this sketch, followed his father two years afterwards. He was married August 21, 1825, to Abigail Bigelow, of this county, who was born November 30, 1801, in Battleborough, Vermont, came to McKean township with her parents in 1824. The results of this marriage were six children: George B., born June 1, 1826, was married June 25, 1851, to Mary Smith, of this county, and is now living at Granville; is in the furniture and undertaking business; James Edwin, born November 17, 1827, was married September 25, 1850, to Maria L. Cross, of this county, and now lives in Bellefontaine, and is a physician; Jane Elizabeth, born August 29, 1829, was married March 21, 1854, to T. H. Odell, of this county, a miller. She died April 4, 1868 ; Moses L., jr., was born October 1, 1831, was married August 1, 1860, to Sarah Alstadt, Champaign county, lives at Quincy, Logan county, and is a physician. John W., born July 19, 1834, was married September 30, 1869, to Maria W. Bigelow, of this county. The results of this marriage were four boys: Edwin B., Ellis C., Benjamin W., and William A Redelia was born December 29, 1838; died April 18, 1870, aged thirty-two years. Moses L. Pratt cast his first vote in Ohio for John Quincy Adams, in 1824; has voted the Whig and Republican tickets ever since.
Mr. and Mrs. Pratt have been married fifty-five years, and both living at this time in their eightieth year.
PRESTON, BENEDICT, a farmer and stock raiser, was born January 18, 1829, in Newton township, and is the son of Jonathan and Harriet Preston. Jonathan came to this county in 1812, and his family, which numbered twelve in all, in 1815. All are living except one. Jonathan cut away the timber to build his first log cabin, which was in
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the southwest corner of Washington township, but in later years he built a log house just over the line in Newton township, where he lived, and where he died September, 1856, aged sixty-five years. He never changed his residence after his first location: Benedict, the subject of this sketch, went to Morrow county in 1853, to live with an older brother, remaining there about three years, then went to Iowa, and came back to this county in eighteen months. He was married October 8, 1857, to Rachel Fringer, of Morrow county, who was born July 10, 1836. The results of this marriage . were six children: Harry J., born September 30, 1858, is single and lives at home; Eugene Elwood, died at the age of eighteen months; Lonetta May, born May 26, 1863, is single and lives at home; Ruth Ann, born May 26, 1868; Sylverius S., born October 4, 1872; Zelora, born February 11, 1876. Benedict's mother is yet living. She was born in 1796, and is now in her eighty-fifth year. She retains her memory the same as 1n her younger days.
PRICE, WILLIAM W., farmer, was born September 20, 1838, in Muskingum county. He is the son of John and Jane Price, who came to this State about 1834. They emigrated from Wales, and located in McKean township in 1855, on the place where William now lives. John Price died October 23, 1878, aged sixty-eight years. Mrs. Jane Price died July 4, 186o, aged sixty years;. William was married March 29, 1860, to Catharine Eshelman, of this county, who was born October 25, 1833, in this county. They have three children, two girls and one boy. Thomas W., born February 7, 1863; Clara E., born October 3, 1865; Carrie J., born May 30, 1868, are all living at home. Mr. Price is a general farmer, stock and wool producer. He also has a choice variety of fruit.
MONROE TOWNSHIP.
PAIGE, WILLIAM, physician, deceased; he was born April 19, 1820, in Granville;. fourth Child of William and Rosetta M. Paige. He began reading medicine about 1842 or 1843, with Dr. Homer Thrall, of Gambier, attending lectures in New York city. He began the practice of medicine with the late Dr. Pratt, of Johnstown; he married Miss Sophronia Buxton, and to them were given three children, two of whom are living: Adel and William W. The former married Rev. Daniel Towney; the latter Miss Lucy Stevens, of Johnstown. They have one child: Frank Stevens. Dr. Paige died December 3, 1878, mourned by a large concourse of friends; his wife still survives him, residing in the village of Johnstown. Mr. Paige was one of these genial, pleasant men who make friends where ever they go, and are missed by the entire community. His son, William, read medicine under his father, and attended lectures at Cincinnati, where he received his diploma.
PECK, ISRAEL H., retired farmer and stock grower, post office, Johnstown, was born September 30, 1805, in Horton township, Kings county, Nova Scotia, and immigrated to Monroe township, where he now lives. In 1817 he left Nova Scotia and came overland by way of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, through Zanesville, Ohio, and landed where he now lives, in October, 1817. He received his education at the district schools. He states that the school-house in which he first attended school had paper windows in it. He has lived where he now lives more than sixty-two years; his father built the house in 1818, and it is still standing, Mr. Peck making it his home ever since he came here. The longest he has been absent at any one time, was six weeks when on a visit to his birth place in Nova Scotia He married Violet Smith, October 14, 1841; she is a daughter of John and Elizabeth Smith, deceased, who emigrated from Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, in the fall of 1832. Mr. and Mrs. Peck have had seven children: Eugene, born October 10, 1842; Charles L., September 19, 1844; Mary Alice, September 15, 1846; infant son, April 16, 1848; Jane, July 23, 1849; infant son, April 11, 1852; Israel Harris, April 20, 1856. Eugene and Charles enlisted in the late war, and both came home, receiving an honorable discharge; the latter on the fifteenth of July, 1865. Benjamin Peck and Mary Harding, the former born March 25, 1773, and the latter born in 1775, parents of the subject of this sketch were married July 6, 1794. They are of English parentage, the former settling in Nova Scotia during the Revolutionary war. Benjamin Peck died April 23, 1819; Mary, his wife, died October 10, 1856. Mr. Peck has a farm of two hundred and fifty-two acres of land in the immediate vicinity of Johnstown, and is spending his declining years in peace and plenty, respected by all who know him. Mr. Peck has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since he was twenty-one years of age, is a member of the Baptist church and a Republican politically.
PHILBRICK,, JOEL, farmer and stock grower, Johnstown, Ohio, was born in Gratton, Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, May 29, 1813. His father, Joel Philbrick, sr., was born in Ware, New Hampshire, in 1782. He married Sally Fox in 1809. She was born in. Center Harbor, New Hampshire, about 1789. They emigrated to Licking county in 1817. The subject of this sketch married Carrie E. Brown, daughter of Jonathan and Rozilla Brown, who emigrated to Licking county during 1835. Carrie was born July 31, 1824. Mr. Philbrick's father and mother died, the former during the year 1846, the latter February
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18, 1876. The subject of this sketch has had four children, all of whom died in infancy. He ranks very high as a farmer and possesses a large farm under a high state of cultivation. With him farming has proved a success.
PRATT, ELI, post office, Johnstown, was born July 18, 1798, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and came to Licking in the year 1814. The following year (1815), in March, he came to Monroe township, and has been a resident of the township ever since. He was married December 10, 1824, to Mrs. Susannah Munson knee Jewett), by whom he had four children-Israel, born August 22, 1825, died December 30, 1874; Hector, born February 3, 1827; John, born October 26, 1830; Lucy H., born September 28, 1832. "Major" Pratt, as his neighbors call him, is, in spite of his eighty-three years, yet a vigorous man, and bids fair to become a centennarian. He is foremost in all enterprises which tend to the material interests of Johnstown. Through his efforts the village has a splendid flouring-mill, which has all the latest improvements. The Baptist denomination has a church which cost four thousand five hundred dollars, built mainly by his contributions. To such men as he every community owes all of its material prosperity. He is a member of the Baptist Church and a Republican in politics. His wife, Mrs. Susannah Pratt, died November 23, 1871, and he now resides with his son-in-law, William Ashbrook, esq.
PRATT, BENJAMIN WALTER (deceased), was born in Rutland, Vermont, March 22, 1813; came with his parents to Granville, Ohio, in 1814; commenced the practice of medicine at the age of twenty-one, under tutilage of Dr. Homer Thrall; commenced practice in Johnstown, Ohio, in 1837. In the winter of 1839 '40. he attended lectures at the Medical college of Ohio, from which institution he received his diploma. He continued to practice in Johnstown until his sickness and death which took place August 21, 1879; was married twice-January, 1843, to Tamar Josephine Tuttle, of Franklin county, Pennsylvania, by whom he had two children; was married again in December, 1852, to Miss Jane M. Bean, of Bennington township, by whom he had four children-three living. The subject of the above sketch possessed a character in which was united two strong peculiarities, quick perception and firmness. This gave him a strong intuitive power that enabled him to grasp the truth of things without going over them in detail. He succeeded in all things, not so much because he knew more than his associates, but because his knowledge came to a focus his whole power to a cutting edge, and he could decide what to do, and have it half done before the average man could get ready to begin. Thus he gained victories in his profession, not because he was stronger, but because his power was quick. He was not adapted to foster slow interests. He belonged to the spirit of the ninteenth century at the head and front of it. He was accurate and scientific, ranking with the leaders of his profession. He was self-made, and became what he was solely by the force of his own ability and character. In the death of Dr. Pratt, Johnstown not only lost a useful man, but a power for good. He was quick to see and combat public wrongs, even at great cost to himself, and it will be a long time before there will be one that can fill his place. He was a man of original honesty and honor. He did not live a long life, but it was a useful, a worthy and even a great one. His system broke down through overwork, and manifested itself by an affection of the brain which produced paralysis.
NEWARK TOWNSHIP.
PRICE, THOMAS D., born May 19, 1826, on the farm on which he now lives, in Newark township. He was married to Sarah J., daughter of Maurice Jones, of Newton township, June 4, 1855: They have eight boys-Ira M., Asa E., Eber S. Mark E., Enoch J., Milo B., Orlo J., and Homer C. Mr. Price has followed farming, giving his attention more particularly to the raising of Merino sheep and fruit growing. His education was obtained mostly at the district school, with two terms at the academy; also by teaching several winter terms of district school. This was followed by close reading and study, which has made him a diligent student of nature in all its bearings on his calling and business. He is an earnest advocate of education, and has made provision to give each of his boys a liberal education. The eldest, Ira M., having completed' his course at Denison university, is now teaching in Des Moines (Iowa) university; Asa E., after attending university awhile, died December 4, 1877 ; Eber S. has been at school two years. Religiously, Mr. Price is a Baptist, belonging to the Welsh Hill Baptist church. He takes a decided interest in Sunday schools, and the moral and religious training of children. He is positively opposed to the use of liquors and tobacco, neither of which are ever allowed in his house. He believes in providing for his family plenty of good books and papers, and encourages his boys to spend their spare time in storing their minds with useful knowledge. Edward Price, his father, was born in Wales in 1797. He settled in Newark township in 1824. He was married to Mary Pittsford in 1825. They had two sons, Thomas D. and Josiah W. Edward Price died December 26, 1878.
PRICE, ISAAC.-He came to this country in 1833, and settled in Columbus for about eighteen months, when he removed to Newark, and remained about
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nine years, when he removed to the northern part of. Newark township and settled on a farm containing. one hundred and seventy-five acres, where he has since resided. He is the son of David and Margaret Price, and was born in Breckinshire, South Wales, in May, 1803. He was married to Ann. Jane Davis, June 26, 1841. She is the daughter of John and Jane Davis, and was born in Baltimore, August 10, 1825. Mr. Price has nine children; Mary, John, Martha and Mamie are dead; John D., William T., Frank I., Margaret A., and Martha J. are living. Margaret married Samuel A. Davis, of Newark township, May 5, 1870. They have three children-William, Milo and Maud.
CITY OF NEWARK.
PACK, MRS., MARY, Newark. She was born in Belmont county, Ohio, December 17, 1826. She is one of a family of five children; her father, Thomas Hyde, was born in Maryland, and died in Belmont county, Ohio, January 22, 1851, at the age of forty-five years; his wife died August 23, 1867, at the age of seventy-seven years. Mary Hyde was married to Shelton Pack, December 24, 1852: She is the mother of five children: John W., born April 1, 1853; Elida, February 22, 1855; Martin L. W., January 22, 1860; Lizzie, March 28, 1862; Rosa, December 11, 1866. Mrs. Pack's great-grandfather, William Hyde, came from England. when twenty-one years of age; he died February, 1828, at the age of sixty-five years; his wife died some three years previous to his death, at about the same age. Mrs. Pack lived on the farm formerly owned by her grandfather, near Fairview, Belmont county, until 1871, when she moved to Barnsville. Since April 13, 1880, she has lived with her son John, in Newark. Her father had one brother, John, and three sisters, Mary, Sarah, and Margaret. Her son, John W. Pack, followed farming until he was nineteen years of age; he then learned telegraphing in an office of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company. This. he followed some two years, but on account of ill health was compelled to give it up. He then learned printing, which he followed about the same length of time, and since then has been fireman on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He was married December 2, 1879, to Katie Linskey, of Bellair, Ohio. Her father, Patrick Linskey, was one of the early settlers of that place.
PAIGE, JOSEPH, was paper hanger and kalsominer; was born in Granville June 29, 1844. He is the son of Joseph Paige, sr., who died December 3, 1874, at the age of seventy-nine years. The subject of this sketch, at an early day of his life, learned the above business, which he yet follows. When the civil war broke out he enlisted July 28, 1863, in company E, Fifth United States colored troops, and he was in the battles of Petersburgh, Fort Fisher, Richmond, Wilmington, Deep Swamp, Virginia, and several other engagements; he has seen many hardships of soldier's life. He was married. October 26, 1862, to Sarah Berget, of Mt Vernon, Ohio. They are the parents of seven children: Mary, Clara, Wymon, Rosa, and three who died in infancy.
PARKINSON, JAMES C., carpenter; he was born in Reading, Perry county, Ohio, October 27, 1823. When he was thirty-one years old he was married to Miss Tamson P. .Mann. She was born in Chester county in 1829. Shortly after marriage they removed to Newark and located. They are the parents of eight children: Ida I., born January 20, 1855, married to Joseph A. Taylor; William H., born April 23, 1857; Charles E., September 20, 1867 (died at the age of twenty two months); Frank E., September 1, 1859; James A., April 12, 1864; Andrew J., July 2, 1866 (died September, 1866); John E., July 1869 (died March, 1870); Robert F., March 13, 1872. The subject of this sketch was first engaged in printing seven years; afterwards followed farming three years: he then worked for Daugherty twenty years as day laborer, but for the past five years he has been following carpentering and slating. He is an expert blacksmith; his son, William H., is a telegraph operator and is in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company. Ida I. is the wife of Joseph A. Tabler, an engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Mr. Parkinson's mother was a pioneer of this county and died September 12, 1877, aged seventy-eight years.
PARKINSON, WILLIAM M., stone mason, was born in Somerset, Perry county, Ohio, July 14, 1830. His occupation in early life was chair - making ; he next learned the carpenter trade; his eyesight failing, he then engaged in his present occupation. He was.a soldier in company.. H, Ohio volunteer infantry, Thirty-first regiment, and was in several hard battles; he was discharged June 29, 1865, on account of disability; has seen many of the hardships of army life. Mr. Parkinson was married to Miss Kate Steckel, October 30, 1877, who was born in Virginia in 1840. They have two children: John Webb, born November 28, 1878; Joseph Andrew, November 16, 1879. Mrs. Parkinson's mother is now living in Somerset at the age of seventy-nine.
PARSHALL, E. O., conductor Baltimore & Ohio railroad, son of David and Elizabeth Parshall, was born in Putnam, Muskingum county, October 10, 1845. He remained with his parents until his marriage to Lizzie W. Hagelbarger, September 24, 1874.She was born December 4, 1847, in Jeffer-
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son township, Coshocton county, and is the daughter of Jacob and Catharine B. Hagelbarger. Mr. Parshall removed to Newark December 4, 1874. He went to breaking on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad in 1873, and served in this capacity until November 1, 1876, when he was promoted to the position of conductor on a freight train. He has given entire satisfaction to the company ever since his first engagement with it. He resides in East Newark, on Grant avenue.
PHILLIPS, P. S., Newark, builder and contractor. He was born near Jolleytown, Green county, Pennsylvania, October 21, 1852, being the oldest child of Simeon Phillips. His mother, Elizabeth Phillips, died January 13, 1864. Mr. Phillips remained with his father on the farm until December 25, 1872, when he came to Newark, where he now resides. He learned the carpenter trade, and makes that his business during the summer season; while in the winter, he teaches school. He taught his first school in a log schoolhouse, near his old home, in 1871. He has been teaching since 1874, in Licking county, during the winter months. Mr. Phillips is highly esteemed by all who know him. He is a deacon in the Congregational church of Newark. By industry and economy he has succeeded in building for himself a. nice residence on West Church street, where he makes his home with his tenant, Mr. M. R. Scott, editor and proprietor of the Newark Banner.
PIERCE, ERMINA, residence Lockport, daughter of William and Lavina Francis, was born December 11, 1837, in Hanover township. Her parents came to this county in 1817, and were married in 1819. Mrs. Pierce's grandfather was in the Revolutionary war, her father was a soldier in the War of 1812, and her husband and brothers were in the late Rebellion. She was married to Stephen H. Pierce January 3, 1856. As before stated, Mr. Pierce was a soldier in the war. He enlisted in the service for three years in company I,, First Iowa cavalry. Before his term of enlistment expired he was discharged on account of ill health. He died in Linn county, Iowa, December 31, 1864, leaving Mrs. Pierce with two children: Franklin A., born November 13, 1856; John R., born November 2, 1860. Franklin was married. February 20, 1879, to Mary C. Henry. John is in the employ. of the American Union Telegraph company, and is located at Indianapolis, Indiana. He has been telegraphing since he was thirteen years of age.
PLUM, ISAIAH, railroader. He was born in Preston county, West .Virginia, January 6, 1856; lived near Kingwood tunnel on Cheat river. He came to Newark in May, 1876, engaged with the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company, and has been with them ever since. His father died in Preston, Virginia, December 27, 1863, aged fifty years. His mother is still living in Preston, with her second husband; her age is forty-three years. Mr. Plum is a member of the order. of United American Mechanics. He was married to Elvira Brooks, of Elizabethtown, July 9, 1877. They have two children.
POWELL,. LIEUTENANT A. J., cabinet-maker, West Main street; was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, October 14, 1837, and was married April 3, 1875, to Mary A. Pond, who was born in Granville, October 1, 1837. They have seven children: Carrie, born April 7, 1861, now the wife of A. Noble; Katie, who died March 10, 1859, at the age of eleven months; William A., born March 29, 1866; Franklin G., born May 11, 1868; Judie, born November 17, 1872, who died September 12, 1875; Nicholas B., born June 29, 1873; Myrtle May, born March 9, 1876; Jesse J., born November 9, 1878. When the war broke out Mr. Powell enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was promoted to first lieutenant. He was discharged before his time expired on account of ill health. Since the war he has been engaged in the sale of sewing machines, but has been working at his trade for the past three years.
NEWTON TOWNSHIP.
PRITCHARD, JOHN, minister of the Baptist church of St. Louisville. Elder Pritchard was born November 9, 1821, in Hopewell township. His parents, Guilford and Jane G. (Cook) Pritchard, were natives of Culpeper county, Virginia; they emigrated to Ohio, settling in Hopewell township, in 1817 ; they became the parents of sixteen children - nine sons and seven daughters. John was born in Hopewell township, and was the third child and oldest son. He obtained a hope in Christ in his nineteenth year, and a year later was baptized by Elder David E. Thomas. He was married to Mary Coffman (only surviving daughter of Peter and Rebecca Coffman) October 2, 1844. They became the parents of three daughters, two of whom are living, viz: Nancy R, now the wife of Thomas Wheeler, of St. Louisville, and Matilda Jane, now the wife of James C. Lee, also of St. Louisville. Mr. Pritchard united with the Lost Run Baptist church in August, 1843; in January, 1844, he was licensed to preach, and in June was ordained by this church. He has served as pastor of the following churches since his ordination: Lost Run church, St. Louisville, which he yet serves; Zore church, Muskingum county, five years; Beulah church, Muskingum county,
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twenty-one years (began these in December, 1859); Goshen church, Muskingum county, fifteen years; Pleasant - Hill church - twelve years; Mt. Pisga church, Monroe township, fifteen years. Some of these churches he is yet serving, while others have been resigned. Elder Pritchard owns and manages a good farm near St. Louisville, where he lives, but he devotes his time and labors to the ministry, believing that to be first in life with him.
PRYCE, OWEN, farmer, was born in England, November x, 1829, where he remained until the year 1857, when he emigrated to America, landing in New York, and coming from there to Licking county, locating near Centerville, where he remained about eight years, performing labor among the farmers. During that period he married Jane Owens, April 6, 1862. After his marriage he remained two years in Centerville, then moved up near Granville for one year, and from there to the Jones farm, in the same township, about 1868. He then made a purchase of the farm where he now resides, it being located in a beautiful valley. He and his wife are devoted members of the Evangelical Baptist church of the Welsh Hills.
PERRY TOWNSHIP.
PREDMORE, WILLIAM HARRISON, farmer and lawyer, post office, Hanover, was born in this township in 1830; his father was a native of New Jersey. He was married April 1, 1853, to Miss Elizabeth Ann Willey. He owns eighty acres of farming land and runs a portable saw-mill, and has the reputation of always giving entire satisfaction in his work. He is honest and a good, pleasant gentleman.
PORTER, SILAS B., teacher, post office, Perryton, was born April 19, 1851, in Tuscarawas county, Ohio. His father, Silas Porter, was born in Pennsylvania. His mother, Catharine Porter (maiden name Mitchel), was born in Harrison county, Ohio. His mother died soon after his birth; and his father being left with a large family of small children, and bereft of his companion, he felt unable to give his infant son the necessary care and attention. Under these circumstances he was taken into the family of George W. Bliss, of Harrison county, Ohio, where he was nursed and reared to manhood. He emigrated with them to Perry township, September 5, 1860, in which township he has resided ever since. At the age of twenty-two he was elected to the office of township clerk, which office he filled with honor to himself and constituents; also, he has been engaged in teaching school for ten years, and he stands among the peers in his profession. He was married to Elizabeth Alexander, the amiable and accomplished daughter of Benjamin and Hannah Alexander, October 23, 1879. He graduated at the "Utica Normal school," May 28, 1880. He and his wife are members of the Disciple church; he became a member at the age of seventeen and she at sixteen years.
ST. ALBAN'S TOWNSHIP.
PALMERTON, PETER, farmer, was born in Saratoga county, York State, November 15, 1826, where he remained until October, 1836, when he with his father, two brothers and one sister emigrated to Ohio, where he has remained ever since. He married Sarah Mannary, December 8, 1856; she was born in Manchester, England, July 8, 1827. She came to New York, August 30, 1837. They had two children: Jennie E., born February 18, 1858, who resides with her parents; and Ida, born December 17, 1859; Ida died December 31, 1862. William Palmerton, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Saratoga county, York State, September 30, 1784; married about August 29, 1806, and had a family of twelve children. He died April 7, 1869. Peter, the subject of this sketch, lives in a cozy cottage on the banks of Moots run, owning forty acres of land, on which is the noted artesian well, four hundred and fifty feet deep, in the boring of which a bed of coal was struck, about three hundred and fifty feet from the surface, said to be from ten to fifteen feet in thickness. One of the natural curiosities on his farm is a petrifying spring, located on a hill side, where the water continually dripping forms a petrification resembling moss. They are a benevolent and hospitable family, and members of the Baptist church at Alexandria, where they are regular attendants.
PENDLETON, J. J., farmer and fruit dealer, was born July 26, 1825, on the Pendleton homestead, where he has always made his home. He married Lavina Brown,. April 16, 1848. They had twelve children, eleven of whom are living. James G. Pendleton, father of the subject of this sketch, was born August 18, 1783, on Deer Island, Maine, and followed fishing along the banks of Newfoundland and Brown Banks, in pursuit of halibut, cod, and mackerel about twenty-five years. He married Elizabeth Philbrook, daughter of Joel Philbrook and Mary Leadbiter, his wife, who migrated to St Albans township, from Hancock,. now Waldo county, Maine. Gideon Pendleton married Miss Gilkey. They were grandparents of the subject of this sketch, and natives of New Brunswick. They were of Scotch birth. The parents of Mr. J. J. Pendleton had twelve children, the third son, Gideon was murdered about thirty miles. west of San Antonio, Texas, during the late war.
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UNION TOWNSHIP.
PARK, A., farmer, post office, Union Station.He was born in Union township. Since 184o he has been living on his present farm, consisting of two hundred and six acres. In the fall of 1837 he was married to Miss Elleanor Belt. They have five children-four daughters and one son-all living. Mr. Park is a man of cultivation, and held in high esteem by all.
PRICE, JOHN I., farmer, post office, Union Station, was born in the year 1815, in Breconshire, on the line between England and Wales, and was married to Catharine Baughan in 1840. The same year he moved to America, settling at Newark, Ohio. He removed from Newark to Newton township, and after living there seven years on the Benjamin Elliot farm, he moved to Union township, settling upon the same farm upon which he still lives. They have had six children, five having died with consumption. One son is still living to comfort the hearts of his aged father and mother in their declining days. Mr. Price and his wife are members of the Licking Baptist church. They were both converted at quite an early age in their native country, and there united with the Baptist church. After coming to this country they united with the same church in Newark. The subject of this sketch is still industriously engaged in his favorite pursuit of agriculture on a farm of one hundred and seventy acres.
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
PHILLIPS, JACOB, farmer, post office, Utica. He was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, February 4, 1823. His parents came to that county in 1816, from Pennsylvania, and settled on a farm of sixty acres, purchased of a Mr. Comstock, one and one quarter miles from West Carlisle. This land was all timber. His father had built for him a hewed log cabin. Jacob remained at home with his father until he was twenty-six years of age, attending school and assisting on the farm. There were ten boys and two girls in the family, of whom seven are living, scattered about the country. In 1849 his father purchased one hundred and twenty acres near Fallsburgh, Licking county, where he moved. He was married February 8, 1849, to Annie M. Painter. She was born November 2, 1831, in Licking County. Her parents came to Muskingum county from Virginia, in an early day. After his marriage he remained in Fallsbury township with the exception of one year (1854), when they lived in Eden township until 1877, when he moved to Utica; where he now resides. He sold eighty acres of land in Fallsbury, and purchased a house and lot in Utica, and fifteen acres of land near the lin of Licking and Knox counties, which he works. They have had. twelve children: Malinda Jane born June 14, 1851 ; David Thomas, April 13, 1853; Margaret E., July, 1854; Frances M., April 26, 1856, and died March 16, 1857; Rachel I., born January 24, 1857, and died June 9, 1858; John William, born April 28, 1859, and died August 15, 1859; Mary E., born May 25, 1860, and died September 5, 1860; Rebecca Mariah, born December 22, 1861; Charles Sherman, September 6, 1864; Estra M., November 4, 1866 ; Ora A., May 1, 1869; Jacob Grant, March 28, 1872, and died March 21, 1879. Malinda is married to Russell Harmon, and lives in Knox county. David Thomas is married to Clara Bagley, and lives in Uniontown, Muskingum county, and has two children. He is a blacksmith, and carries on his business at his place. Maggie is a school teacher, and the balance of the family reside at home. In 1863 Mr. Phillips joined the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth national guard, and on the second of May; 1864, they were called into service by order of Governor Brough. They were sent into Virginia; and participated in the battle of North Mountain, and were taken prisoners by General Early, and sent to Andersonville, where they arrived on the twenty-seventh of July, 1864, and were kept until November 2nd; then removed to Millen prison; kept about eighteen days, and from there to Savannah, where they were paroled November 25, 1864. During their imprisonment their treatment was very severe. Their food was not fit for any human being, and very short at that, their rations consisted of corn bread and beans, and were issued once a day, and if a prisoner became unruly, Wirtz would cut off his supply. It was not unfrequent that he was two days without anything to eat. Water was very scarce until the rebels, in digging a trench around the prison in order to discover tunnels, struck a vein of water which seemed providential; after that water was very plenty. At this time there were about thirty thousand prisoners on the island, and during this time he contracted a disease, from which he never will be free, and which troubles him considerably; otherwise he is in the prime of life, and enjoys life with his family as well as could be expected, from the hardships he has experienced.
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP.
ROBINSON, EDWARD, farmer, born in 1832, near Ottawa, Canada West, came to this county in 1856. He was married in 1858 to Miss Sarah . Ewing, of this county. She was born in 1833, in Perry county, Ohio. They are the parents of four children: Charles H., Eddie E., Lizzie B., and Emma L. He has lived in this county since 1856, with the exception of three years spent in Delaware county. He purchased the farm on which he now lives in the spring of 1879.
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FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP.
RUTLEDGE, WILLIAM D., is a descendant of the Virginia Rutledges, and was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, June 27, 1827. His father died when he was but six years old, and he was obliged in early life to depend chiefly upon his own resources. At sixteen he learned the blacksmith trade, and worked at it about sixteen months. Afterwards he read medicine awhile in the office of Dr. Green, of Gratiot, this county. Mr. Rutledge had acquired a good education by private study and extensive reading, and at twenty began teaching, a pursuit which he found congenial to his taste, so much so that he continued to teach many years, having taught about twenty-five terms in different districts in the southeastern part of this county. As an illustration of the advanced cost of living, Mr. Rutledge states that he could procure boarding for seventy-five cents per week when he first began to teach, but latterly paid three dollars for the same. He was married in 1853 to Rebecca A. Sigler, a native of Hopewell township. He located at Gratiot, but soon after came to this township, where he has since resided. In his early married life, when not engaged in teaching; he dealt extensively in sheep and cattle, having handled as many as three thousand head of sheep in one season. Of late he has given his attention more to general farming. In 1870 he was elected justice of the peace, and served his township creditably in this capacity for nine years. Mr. Rutledge has five children: Glenna F., Thomas V., Margaret E., Edward Sturges and James William, all of whom live with him at home.
GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP.
REED, SIMEON, deceased, was born in Rutland county, Vermont, January 1, 1792. He was a carder and fuller by trade, which he followed several years. In 1814 he married Miss Olive Cram; of Vermont, born May z, 1794. In August, 1819, he with his wife and two children migrated to Ohio and located in Granville. In 1824 he engaged in the mercantile trade in Johnstown, this county, where he conducted the business until in 1831, when he returned to Granville and purchased an interest in Cook's dry goods store, with whom he remained as partner about twelve years. In 1843 he moved on a farm in Granville township and followed farming about one year. In 1845 he moved to Newark and engaged in the commission business in company with George M. Young, with whom he continued about three years. In 1848 he engaged in the wholesale grocery trade in company with D. D. Jewett, of Newark, and conducted the business about two years. In 1850 he returned to Granville and engaged in the banking business, which ht followed until the time of his death, which occurred September 20, 1855. His wife survived him until March, 187o. He was the father of six children-Caroline, Evaline, William, Harrison, Maria, and Henry L., all of whom are now dead except Evaline and Henry L.
REED, HENRY L., was born in Johnstown, Licking county, Ohio, January 14, 1831. He remained in the store with his father until in 1849, when he began farming, which he followed until in 1880,when he moved to Granville and engaged in the grocery trade, which business he has since been conducting with success. He deals in groceries, provisions, queensware, glassware, etc. In April, 1852, he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Edwin Bancroft, of Granville. By this union he had two children-Charles H. and Edwin S. Charles H. died October 31, 1880.
ROSE, LEVI, deceased, was born in Granville, Massachusetts, in about 1777. He was reared a farmer and followed farming as his occupation. In 1805 he married Polly Stow, of Granville, Massachusetts, born in 178o. They migrated with the colony to Granville, Licking county, Ohio, the same year of their marriage, and located on land now owned by Henry Hobart, on North street, Granville township, remained six years, and in 1811 purchased and moved on the farm now owned by their son, William Rose, where they spent the remainder of their days. In 1863 he deceased; his wife in 1865. He served as captain of a company in the War of 1812. He was with Hull when he surrendered, and fell into the enemy's hands. For several years he filled the office of justice of the peace. They reared a family of five children: William Roland, Levi (deceased), George, Betsey and Polly. Some of the children died when they were very young; and after their death there was not a death among the children for a space of sixty years.
ROSE, WILLIAM, eldest son of Levi and Polly Rose, was born in Granville township, Licking county, Ohio, October 23, 1806. He is .said to be the second white male child born in Granville township. He was brought up a farmer, and has made farming his principal occupation. In 1827 he married Mary Atwood, born in 1809, daughter. of Jonathan Atwood. They settled on the farm where Henry Hobart now lives, remained a few years, then moved on the farm where he is now living. They reared a family of four children-Emeline, Mary, Albert and Frances. In 1876 his companion deceased. He held the office of captain of an independent company for five years. For forty-nine years he has been a constant member of the Baptist church, and held the office of deacon fifteen years.
ROSE, LEMUEL, deceased, born in Granville, Mas-
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sachusetts, July 28, 1793. In 1805 he migrated to Granville, Licking county, Ohio, with the Granville colony, then a boy of twelve years old. He was reared a farmer, and made farming his principal vocation. For his first wife he ma-ried Miss Ada Howe, in 1814. They settled on the farm in Granville township now owned by his son, Martin Rose, which Mr. Rose had purchased and made some improvements on prior to his marriage. Their union resulted in three children: Norval D., born November 3, 1815; William D., born October 10, 1817; Martha D., born October 19, 1819. All are now living. For his second wife he married Elizabeth; Grout, nee Chadwick, in 1822. This union resulted in eight children: Timothy H., deceased, born November 28, 1823; Julia A., deceased, born August 14, 1828; Almira, born August 1, 1830; Emma E., deceased, born February 1, 1832; Henry H., deceased, born October 2, 1833; Warren C., born July 30, 1836; Martin L., born June 28, 1838; Edward, born May 12, 1845. Four of the above named children are deceased. Henry H., served about one year in the war of 1861, and died on a boat in front of Vicksburgh. Warren C. and Edward each served three years in the war of 1861, and returned home. Mr. Rose served in the War of 1812. He lived on the farm where he made his first improvements and settled when first married until deceased, in April, 1873. His wife deceased in December. 1878.
ROSE, TIMOTHY M., retired; a native of Granville, Massachusetts, was born March 24, 1797. In 1805 he accompanied his parents, Timothy and Lydia Rose, who came with the first colony from Granville, Massachusetts, to this county, and settled in Granville township, where the village of Granville is now located, where Timothy Rose, father of the subject of this sketch, and a soldier of the Revolution, deceased, November 27, x813, at the age of fifty-one years. He was the principal agent sent by the colony to purchase the land, and was one among the first to make improvements on the land now occupied by the village of Granville. He was one of the first associate judges of this county, after its organization as a county. He was elected in 1808, and served as such until the time of his death. His companion, Lydia Rose, mother of Timothy M. survived him until February 27, 1855, aged eighty-seven years They reared a family of seven children, viz : Clarrissa, Samantha, Lavina, Lydia, Timothy M Samuel W., and Almeria. All are now deceased except Timothy M., who is still living in Granville. He was reared a farmer and has followed farming as his vocation through life. He has resided to Granville township and Granville village since 1805, never being out of the township over six weeks at any one time. He is the only one now living in the village that came with the first colony. He has been an active member of the Granville Presbyterian church since 1818. He has been married twice; first to Miss Matilda Mead, in 1819. Miss Mead was a native of Rutland, Vermont, and migrated to Granville, this county, in 1815. By this union he reared three children : Timothy, Matilda, and Clarrissa. All are now deceased. His companion deceased March 1, 1857. His second marriage was to Susan Little, of Liverpool, Illinois, April 28, 1858, who is still living with him, to take care of and comfort him in his old days. He is highly esteemed and respected by all who know him, and is looked to as one of Granville's pioneers. His son, Timothy Rose, was born February 14, 1821. He married for his first wife Miss Harriett Howe, October 8, 1844, by whom he had two children Timothy H. and Harriett M. His companion died in 1854. His second marriage was with Miss Fidelia Follett, October 10, 1855. By this marriage he had one son, Franklin F. He deceased July 29, 1877, leaving a wife and one son to mourn his loss. He was an active member of the Presbyterian church at Granville for many years, and was superintendent of the Sabbath-school for fourteen years.
HANOVER TOWNSHIP.
REDMAN, L. MAHLON, son of Thompson and Hannah M. Redman, was born July 1, 1852, in Hanover township, on what is known as the Samuel Francis farm. Here he remained until about eight years of age, when he moved with his parents to a farm about one mile west of his birthplace. He was married November 12, 1873, to Mary C. Esworthy. She is the daughter of John and Mary A. Esworthy, and was born in Muskingum county July 11, r, 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Redman have, by this union, three children: Hannah A., born August 16, 1874; Marion H., March 10, 1876, and Ora M., July 27, 1877. Mr. Redman is a member of the Nashport Independent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 487.
HARRISON TOWNSHIP.
ROOT, ALANSON, deceased, son of Noble Root, deceased, was born in Granville, Massachusetts, November 17, 1803. He was brought to this county by his parents, in 1807. They settled in Granville township, about two miles south of Granville village, where they passed the remainder of their days. Mr. A. Root was reared a farmer, and followed farming as his vocation through life. March 29, 1827, he married Miss Phebe T. Williams. daughter of Elias Williams. Miss Williams was born in Essex county, New Jersey, February 28, 1807, and came to this county with her father
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in the year 1818. Mr. and Mrs. Root settled on the old home farm in Granville township; and remained until 1857, when they moved on the farm in Harrison township, now owned by their son, Elias. N., where he died July 19, 1866. His wife still survives him, and is living on the home farm with her son, Elias N. Root. They reared a family of eight children: Moses B., Elias N., Emma, George, Martin L., Lucy A., Marcus and Elizabeth P., all of whom are now living except Martin L., who enlisted in company D, of the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Ohio national guards, May 2, 1864, and died at the Annapolis hospital, Maryland, August 9, 1864.
ROOT, ELIAS N., was born in Granville township, this county, December 13, 1829. He was reared on a farm, and has made farming his vocation. November 6, 1860, he married Miss Ann S. Williams, born January 2, 1832; daughter of John Williams, of this county. They settled on the farm where they now reside in Harrison township. They have three children-one son and two daughters. May 2, 1861, he enlisted in company D, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth . Ohio national guards, and served about four months in the late war. He filled the office of township trustee for five successive years. He is considered one among the enterprising farmers of Harrison township.
JERSEY TOWNSHIP.
RHODES, W. J., farmer and stock raiser, born in this township January 19, 1830; son of William and grandson of John Rhodes, who emigrated to this county from Maryland, with his family about 1812, settling first in Licking township, and afterwards, about 1824, coming to this township. His mother, Sarah Geiger, daughter of Anthony Geiger, an early settler , of this county, was born in East Liberty, Pennsylvania. Mr. Rhodes is the fourth of ten children, five of whom survive, as follows: Anthony G., deceased; Joseph, now of Marion county, Iowa; John, of Jackson county, Iowa; W. J., Philip, of this township; Rachel (Gilliland); Sarah, deceased; Henry, deceased; Marv Ann, deceased; and George, deceased. Mr. Rhodes was married in 1856 to Amanda, daughter of John Beem, and has three children-Ella, Sarah and George.
ROBINSON, MRS. REBECCA, born in Mount Rock, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, July 29, 1809. In Freeport, Pennsylvania, she married John Robinson, of New Jersey, and in 1835 they came to Ohio. In 1872 she moved to Jersey village, having previously lived in the country. She has had eight children: DeWitt Clinton, George W., John M., Matthias, David, Vienna, Alonzo, Wesley, and Sarah Jane. John M. died young. Of her six boys, five entered the army, and four of these five fell a sacrifice for their country's welfare. Matthias, David and Wesley enlisted in the three months' service, and all returned sick, reenlisting before full recovery. Matthias was taken sick at Camp Chase, brought home and died November 29, 1861. David also was brought home sick and died July 14, 1862. Wesley was wounded at Chickamauga, captured, and never heard from again. Alonzo, while vet a young boy, enlisted and died at the hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. In a letter home from one of the boys the following was enclosed:
"At my post I am standing, 'tis a dark, dreary, night,
The scenery around is shut out from my sight.
With a gun in my hand, I stand thus alone,
While my thoughts are wandering to the loved ones at home.
Perhaps in their slumbers, they are dreaming of me,
While I stand here on picket in old Tennessee.
With my cartridge box on, filled with powder and lead,
I stand winking and blinking and nodding my head.
Now I rouse up again and rub hard my eyes,
Peep out in the darkness to see rebel spies.
Not a sound can I hear, not a soul can I see,
There is nobody here but grim darkness and me.
So I lean on my gun, while my thoughts again roam
To that circle of loved ones I left at my home.
There's a father with locks that are growing quite gray,
Who is anxiously thinking of his son far away,
Not knowing how soon he may see that son's name,
Among those who in battle were wounded or slain.
Then there is mother, what a charm in that word!
What a thrill it creates whene'er it is heard;
The counsels she gave loom up from afar,
To shine in my pathway like some guiding star."
ROSS, HENRY H.; born on Shamony Hill centennial grounds, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 23, 1823, then the property of Judge Warner. In 1833 his father came to Muskingum county, Ohio, one and one-half miles below Zanesville. In 1837 they moved to Zanesville, living where the reservoir of the waterworks now is. Serving a three years apprenticeship to James Bishop, boatbuilder, he worked for him a short time; then as carpenter and watchman, spent two years on the boats Malta, Captain Dexter; and Zanesville, Captain Hurd, plying between Zanesville and Pittsburgh, and occasionally running down to Cincinnati. He once took a flat-boat trip to Memphis, Tennessee, conveying a load of crockery, then called "Putnam currency." While on the river cholera raged among the boatmen, and many died, but Mr. Ross escaped an attack, and this without resorting to brandy as a preventive, as he was urgently requested to do. From 1843 to 1851 he made ten trips over the mountains to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, working at his trade the. most of the time, in various places, one year in tramps' shipyards, Philadelphia. He was then employed. in the shops of the Central Ohio Railroad company, at West Zanesville, where he remained until the great strike occurred. Since then he has been
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chiefly engaged in portable saw-milling, at first in Bladensburgh, Knox county, then in various localities in this vicinity. Since 1875 he has turned his attention more to farming. Married July 20, 1862, to Amanda J. Yantis, by whom he has six children John William, Henry Albion, Mary Estella, and Amanda Luella, twins; George S. C., and Earnest Huntley. Mrs. Ross' father, William Yantis came from Maryland to Tarlton, Ohio, in 1815, and in 1817 to Plain township, Franklin county. He was one of the earliest settlers, and laid out the west half of New Albany, about 1830.
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP.
RICE, MARTHA M., widow of E. G. Rice, Appleton, was born in Marshall county, West Virginia, near where Moundsville now stands. She was born May 24, 1821. When she was about five years of age her widowed mother, with her three youngest children, immigrated to Green county, Pennsylvania, where she resided with her mother until her marriage with E. G. Rice, February 22, 1844. March 18, 1847, they immigrated to Ohio, locating and purchasing the present E. G. Rice homestead. Mr. Rice was born February 2, 1819, within seven miles of Cumberland Maryland. They had nine children-Hannah E., born April 28, 1845, married March 2, 1865, to William G. Lytle; she died December 11, 1870; Esther A, born May 3, 1846, was married June 4, 1869, to Alonzo Iles; Joshua A., born July 21, 1847, married to Mary Lake, May 24, 1868; Temperance, born January 11, 1849, married William Lytle, April 10, 1872, and died September 30, 1879; Josiah A, born March 24, 1850, living with his widowed mother, and has charge of the homestead; George L., born January 22, 1852, married Caroline Clark, November 7, 1877; Mary E., born October 31, 1853, married Perry L. Channell, May 26, 1878; Arvesta J., born December 6, 1856, married Orlando Dumbauld, December 24, 1879; Ella B., born September 24, 1859. Father died J January 3, 1880, regretted and lamented by all. He joined the Methodist church when at the age of thirteen; and was considered one of the pillars of the same to the close of his life. He died leaving his family in very comfortable circumstances. Politically he was a Democrat.
LICKING TOWNSHIP.
RICHESON, MARGRETT, was born January 11, 1794, in Washington county, Maryland. She was married to James Richeson, of the same county, December, 1812; came to this county in the year 1833; located in Licking township in the place where she now lives. She is the mother of fourteen children, ten of whom she raised to manhood and womanhood. She has at present a young lady living with her whom she took to raise when a child three years old, Mary C. Cleckner; she was born May, 1849. James Richeson died in 1857, aged seventy-one years. Mrs. Richeson is now in her eighty-seventh year, and is an Old School Baptist and a member of Friendship church. She has yet eight children living.
ROLEY, THOMAS, was born in 1796, in Fauquier county, Virginia. He was married to Hannah Gladstone, of the same county. They had eight children, five of whom are living. Mr. Roley came to Perry county in 1832; lived there six years; came to this county in the year 1838; located in Licking township, on the farm where his son, John, now lives. The subject of this sketch was born October 26, 1822, in West Virginia. He came to this county with his parents; married to Mariah Sprinkle, of this county. They had eight children: William Henry, Emma I., Sarah C., Thomas J., Franklin P., Ella, Hannah E. and Alfaretta. William Henry died October 28, 1856, aged eight years. Emma J. married Robert Meredith, of this county, and lives in Bowling Green township. Sarah C. married G. W. Handley, of this county, and lives near home. Thomas J. married Josie Smith, of this county; has one child, and lives on the farm of his father. Frank P. is single, and lives at home. Ella B. married Charles W. Allen, of this county, and lives in Licking township. Hannah E. and Alfa. E. are single, and live at home. Mrs. Hannah (Gladstone) Roley was born February 15, 1799, in Fauquier county, Virginia. She received only nine months schooling. She is able to read any kind of print; she is a very devoted bible reader, and has been a faithful member of the Old School Baptist church over thirty-seven years. She is at present living with her son, John, and is in her eighty-first year. Her memory is as good as it ever was, and she can tell of the trials and difficulties of this county in early days.
ROLEY, ELIZABETH,. was born September 17, 1829, in Fairfield county, and came to this county in 1835, with her parents. They located in Licking township. She was married to Jesse A. Roley, of this county, March 30, 1848. Results of this marriage five children : Levi W. was born May 28, 1850, and was married to Clara A. Bounds, of this county; Mary A was born August 6, 1852, and was married to John M. Stotler, of this county; Rebecca J. was born September 23, 1854, and was married to B. M. Irwin,. . of this county, a school teacher by profession; they had one child born March 7, 188o, and died July 7, 1880, aged four months; Hannah E. was born February 3, 1856, and was married to George Beery, of Fairfield county; they have one child. Mr. Beery is an artist, and resides at Amanda, Perry county; Ida
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V. was born November 1, 1865, and is at home with her mother. Jessa A. Roley died March 20, 1879, aged fifty-two years. He and Mrs. Roley have been members of the United Brethren church at Jacksontown over twenty-seven years.
LIMA TOWNSHIP.
RITCHIE, JOSEPH, farmer, post office, Columbia Center. He was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, October 12, 1816. He is a son of William and Elizabeth Ritchie, and is the third of a family of eight children. He remained home until he was thirteen years old when, on account of his parents death, he went to learn the blacksmith trade, which he followed about eleven years. In October, 1837, he was married to Susanna Stoolfire, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1819. After his marriage he carried on his trade until 1840, when he moved to Harrison township, and in 1843 he bought and moved to his present farm, which was principally woods at that time, and which he has highly improved. He has held the office of real estate appraiser two terms, and other minor offices in the township. Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie have eight chil. dren, two of whom are dead. Lucius entered the late war as a volunteer in the One Hundred and Thirteenth regiment, company B, Captain Taylor, and died at Nashville, Tennessee, in March, 1863.
MADISON TOWNSHIP.
REID, THOMAS W., farmer, was born in Licking county, Ohio, August, 1851, son of Joseph Reid. For many years he has worked at the trade of carpentering. Some seven years since he located on a little farm of twenty acres, some five miles east of Newark, where he now lives. He was married to Eliza Vermillian, born November 23, 1856, daughter of George Vermillian. They have three children: John Henry, Sarah Emily, Frances Ann.
ROWELL, .MRS. HANNAH.-Mrs. Rowell was a. native of Pennsylvania, and was born there in the summer of 1783. While quite young her parents removed to Parkersburgh, now in West Virginia, where, at the age of eighteen years, she married Mr. Wilson Rowell, who died about twenty years thereafter. She was the mother of a number of children, but out-lived them all except one. Mrs. Hannah Sargeant Rowell, to give her full name, lived during the last forty years in Licking county, and died in Madison township, August 12, 1880, at the great age of ninety-seven years. She had been a member of the Methodist church about sixty years.
MARY ANN TOWNSHIP.
REID, M. L., farmer, born in Warren county, Virginia, January 22, 1853. He moved with his father's family to Licking county in 1861, locating near Elizabethtown. In 1873 his parents moved to Danville, Knox county, where his mother died one year after, at the age of thirty-seven years. Two years after this his father moved to Missouri, where he is now living. Mr. Reid is one of ten children-three girls and seven boys. Soon after his mother's death the youngest brother died. Previous to this one sister had died during their stay at Elizabethtown. He was married on the twenty-second of March, 1877, to Mary Moats, daughter of Benjamin Moats, of this township. They have one child, Emily Ellen, born March 15, 1880. Mr. Reid is a carpenter by trade, as was also his father. He is now farming the eighty acres of land belonging to the Linn estate.
McKEAN TOWNSHIP.
RAMEY, ELIJAH, farmer, was born October 28, 1807, in Woodstock, near the Shenandoah river, eastern Virginia. He came to Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, with his parents, about 1808. He left home about 1828, and followed the life of a boatman about seven years, running on the Muskingum, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers. In the spring of 1835 he enlisted in company K,. of the Fourth regiment, engaged in the Seminole war, and participated in battles under Generals Gaines, Simmons, Hammuck and Worth, and the battle also of Okechobe, under General Taylor. He was engaged in a number of skirmishes, through the war, and at its close helped move the Creek nation of Indians to their reservation in the west. He went into the Mexican war, and engaged in the memorable battles of Paloalto and Resaca de la Palma; also at the siege of Monterey, Vera Cruz and Liengardo; from thence to Cherubusco, where he was wounded in the right hand by a lance. He was discharged at the city of Mexico, on account of his wound. He was engaged there about two years. From Mexico he returned to McKean township, where he now resides. He married Rosanna Harigale, October, 1846. They have nine children: David, Gifford, Winfield Scott, Alice, Belle, Martin, Ella May, John and Howard. He owns twenty-six acres of land, under a high state of cultivation.
RHODES, MARY, was born November 3, 1820, in Rockingham county, Virginia. She was the daughter of Henry and Hannah Carrier, and was married to Cassel Rhodes, of Virginia, who was born September 29, 1809. They were married on the evening of October 15, 1836, and started the next morning on horse-back across the Alleghany mountains on their wedding tour for Ohio. They located in Fairfield county, and came to this county in 1838, locating in Burlington township. They had fourteen children: Romantha, Francis,
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Milton N., Asbury W., George F., Henry J., Lucinda, Cyrus E., Hannah, Amanda, Mary, Elizabeth C., Jesse N., and Wilson C. Three are deceased and three are single, the others are all married. Elizabeth C. was born October 30, 1856, in this county, is single and lives at home; Wilson C. was born July 19, 1860, is single and lives at home with his another, and is the only boy left at home; Asbury and George are now living at Salt Lake city, Utah territory; Milton, Francis and Romantha, are living in Illinois; Amanda, Mary and Hannah are living in this county. Mr. Rhodes died August 5, 1875, aged sixty-six years. He was a well-to-do farmer, was honest in all his business transactions, and was highly esteemed by all his acquaintances.
MONROE TOWNSHIP.
REED, ALPHEUS (deceased), was born February 11, 1805, died January 17, 1874. He came to Johnstown in September, 1836, and engaged in the mercantile business, in which he continued uninterruptedly for thirty-seven years. He was married at Keesville, New York, to Miss Almira Allen, April 29, 1829, by whom he had two children: Mary L, born October 29, 1833; Helen M., born December 24, 1835. In his dealings Mr. Reed was honest and honorable. His only rule of action was "do right;" and it was-well said of him, "a good man has gone," when he was called to that "bourne from whence no traveler returns."
RUSLER, HENRY B., manufacturer of pumps, and dealer in agricultural implements, also has the general agency of the celebrated Corey's patent rubber bucket pump, Johnstown. He was born August 11, 1847, in Liberty township. He married Sarah E. James, of Granville township, January 25, 1870. They had one child, Ernest Dillon, born November 28, 1871, died September 12, 1878. Mr. Rusler is a Democrat in politics, and is at present clerk of Monroe township, which position he has held four years. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity; has been Master Mason of the lodge for three years; is also a member of Johnstown lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 422.
CITY OF NEWARK.
RICHARDSON, JOSEPH, son of J. and H. Richardson, was born November 1, 1842, in Putnam, Morgan county, Ohio. He remained with his parents until he was nineteen years of age, when he enlisted in the service of the late war, in company E, Twelfth Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years. He received his discharge in the spring of 1864. After coming from the war he went to braking on the Central Ohio railroad. He served in this capacity until the fall of 1865, when he removed to Montana, Iowa, where he was in the employ of the Northwestern railroad company. He remained with this company until the spring of 1867, when he removed to Charlestown, Illinois, where he engaged in farming, remaining until 1871, when he removed to Newark, and engaged himself with the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company, as brakeman. He served in this capacity until 1873, when he was promoted to the position of conductor of a freight. He has since been engaged in this business. He was married to Cora McComer, February 5, 1867; she is the daughter of Amos and Mattie McComer, and was born July 29, 1852. They have three children: Frank, born December 20, 1871; Maud, born November 1, 1874; Finn, born August 12, 1877.
RANK PERRY, livery and sale stable, located between Third and Fourth streets, near fire department. Mr. Rank was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, December 11, 1832. He received his education at Central college, Franklin county, Ohio, He followed teaching school as his vocation during the winter months, and dealing in stock during the summer months, for about ten years, when he gave up his profession as teacher and turned all his attention to stock dealing, which he followed for a number of years. On the twenty-seventh day of September, 1872, he came to Newark and engaged in the livery business in company with his brother, Phillip Rank, which business he has since been engaged in, keeping constantly on hand a large stock of first class buggies, carriages, and horses. The firm name is Rank & Rank, who also have a first class livery in Granville in connection with their Newark stables. They also run a carriage line between Newark and Granville, on which they make two trips per day, for the accommodation of the traveling public.
READHEAD, ELIZABETH, was born November 11, 1810, in Londonderry, Ireland; came to America in 1840, and settled in Albany, New York; married John Carson, of Londonderry, February, 1842. Mr. Carson died three years after their marriage, leaving her without any children. About one year after Mrs. Readhead was married to James Devlin. They had four children-James H., died when three years old; John, born January 17, 1847; Elizabeth, born February 9, 1849; Margaret J., born May 11, 1851.. Mr. Devlin died September 6, 1847. November 11, 1855, she married her third husband, Benjamin Readhead, of Newark, formerly of London, England. Mr. Readhead died May 20, 1862, thus leaving her a widow for the third time. Mrs. Readhead has lived her life without the personal knowledge of what sickness is. Her health at present is good, considering her age. She with her daughter Margaret lives at present on
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Valandigham street, to which place they removed in 1861.
RICHARDS, MRS. MARY E., was born in Frederick county, Virginia, July 14, 1808; in October, 1825, she was married to Henry Richards, of the same place; he was born in Virginia; in August, 1799. When a young man he learned the trade of carpenter and joiner with David Yost, of that place. In 1826 they moved to Newark, to the old frame house east of the river, on East Main street, now owned by Mr. William Hannet; he afterwards bought her present home, six acres of land, on Buena Vista street, in 1826, built their present house, and moved into it the same year. Mr. Richards continued his trade until his death. They have ten children - Ann Evaline, now the wife of John Thompson, living in Arkansas; she was born . May 30, 1827; Benjamin B., born March 11, 1831, now living in Kansas City, Missouri; Mary V., born April 6, 1833; she now is the wife of David Wooster; they now live in Jacksonville, Illinois; William born March 3, 1835, died in Jacksonville, Illinois, April, 1877; Jane, born February 21, 1837; she died December 17, 1839; Franklin, born May 5, 1839, now living with his mother; he was a member of company H, Third Ohio volunteer infantry; Jane B., born November 13, 1841, died April, 1857; Victoria J., born November 17, 1843; George A. in February 1846, died August 2, 1857; James B., died in infancy, September 7, 1852. Mr. Richards health failed him many years before his death; he died in August, 1878; his wife yet survives him. For the past twelve years she has been blind; she can only distinguish daylight from dark. Among the people of her acquaintance, when they first came to Newark, was Mr. Isaac Smucker, Mrs. Dr. Marble and Mrs. James Young. Mrs. Richards has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1817. When she came to Newark there were only three families living in East Newark.
ROWLAND, RICHARD, was born at Aberystwith, near Cardiganshire, South Wales, May 6, 1825. While in Wales he carried on the business of manufacturing English flannels. Was married to Ann Watkins October 10, 1851. They had three children: Mary Ann, born October 17, 1854; William W., born July 13, 1856, and Ella, born January 9, 1859. The subject of this sketch came to Newark December 12, 1868, where he he since resided, on West Main street. He invested capital in the Newark Rolling mills, but as they were not a success, he is not at present engaged in business. His son, William, belongs to the Newark fire department.
PERRY TOWNSHIP.
RECTOR, SAMUEL, farmer, post office, Cooksey, was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, in 1815; came to Ohio in the fall of 1838, in which year he was married to Miss Emily R Brown, a native of Virginia. They have had ten children: jacinth B., Samuel B., Joseph S., Adelia Ida, deceased, Jane E., Sadie A., George N., John B., Mary M., and Andrew J. Mr. Rector owns one hundred and eighty-three acres of land in this township.
ST. ALBANS TOWNSHIP.
REED, JOHN, retired merchant, was born in Wheeling about 1828, and with his parents emigrated to Racine, near Pomeroy, on the Ohio river, where his parents, Reuben and Hannah, died, leaving him to the charities of the world. He came to Alexandria when he was about fourteen years of age, where he has been connected with mercantile business ever since. February 14, 1850, he married Mary Davis, who was born December 25, 1832, in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. They have five children: three boys and two girls, only one of whom is living, John E., born July 26, 1859. Mr. Reed began life without a dollar, and by honesty and strict economy has made himself a competency.
UNION TOWNSHIP.
ROSEBRAUGH, S. H., harness manufacturer, post office, Hebron, was born in Hebron in 1854; his father was born in Virginia, and his mother in Vermont.. In 1878 Mr. Rosebraugh started his present business, and is at present enjoying a big trade, his success being brought about by skillful industry and honest goods at bottom prices. Although a young man, he is already recognized as one of Hebron's foremost. citizens; he also has' charge of the Western Union telegraph lines at Hebron, seven wires running into his shop.
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
ROBERTSON, WILLIAM ALEX., wool dealer, Utica. -The grandfathers of the subject of this sketch both bore the .name of . Robertson. His paternal grandfather lived arid died in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. His maternal grandfather lived near Philadelphia. William Robertson, the father of Alexander, was born December, 1786, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. He married his cousin, Sarah Robertson, who was born in 1791, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. They were married in January, 1813, and came to this county in March of the same year. They came all the way on horseback. On their arrival at Newark they staid over night at judge Wilson's, on the. North fork. The next morning they swam, their horses across the Licking river and pursued their perilous journey to their new home. Arriving in sight of the cabin which was to be their home they commenced crossing the creek, which was high and
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swift. When near the middle of the stream Mrs. Robertson's horse tripped and fell, throwing her into the rolling waters. Mr. Robertson, mutually resolving to die with her or rescue her, plunged in after her and, with almost superhuman effort, robbed the swift river of its prey, and brought his almost unconscious wife in safety to the shore. After all these perils the hardships of these pioneers were scarcely begun. Three years before, Mr. Robertson, with his youngest brother, James, had, almost in the midst of the wilderness, erected a log mill which was replaced in June, 1815, by the frame mill which is now standing and doing good work. Mr. Robertson, in digging his millrace, unearthed two or three ribs which measured about four feet in length; also a part of the vertebral column of the same animal. In 1814 he laid out the town of Utica, which was then named Wilmington. In November, 1840, he died of consumption, brought on by exposure in his efforts to develop the county. Mrs. Robertson died December 25, 1877, having during her life twice made the trip to Pennsylvania on horseback. In 1821 Mr. Robertson started a wool carding machine, which was operated until his death. William Alex. Robertson was born in Utica, December 15, 1817. In November, 1844, he married Elizabeth S. Chapman, whose father came from. Connecticut in 1837 and settled in Utica, in 1838, having lived one year in Granville. Her mother's maiden name was Susan Chapman, who was also a native of Connecticut. Mr. Robertson had been engaged for eight years in the dry goods business for his father, and four years for himself. After his marriage he engaged in the produce and shipping business, which he still continues. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson have a pleasant home in Utica, and are the parents of three children - Phonnie, Jennie, and Lizzie.
BENNINGTON TOWNSHIP.
SANGER, J. R., farmer and fine sheep raiser. James C. Sanger, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, and son of Nathaniel Sanger, was born in Ellington, Connecticut, June 17, 1786. Achsa Blodget, daughter of Abner Blodget, was born in East Windsor, Connecticut, February 4, 1789. They were married March 27, 1807. Olive, first daughter, was born May 19, 1808; James, first son, was born May 11, 1810; Barton, second son, was born July 8, 1812 ; Oliver W., third son, was born March 17, 1817 ; Sally, second daughter, was born June 27, 1821; Ralph B., fourth son, was born April 26, 1824; Ira, fifth son, was born December 27, 1826; James C. Sanger died July 20, 1832; Achsa Sanger died July 11, 1872; Ralph B. Sanger died March 6, 1829; Ira Sanger died November 26, 1828. Olive was married to John Vanfossen, April 3, 1831. James married Miss Ann Myer, daughter of John Myer, of Jersey township, February 2, 1845. James died June 27, 1849, and his wife died September 24, 1877. Barton is unmarried and living in this township. Oliver Walcot Sanger is living in Hamilton county, Indiana. He is very prominent where he lives. Sally was married to Luther Stone, of this county, September 12, 1842. James and Ann Sanger were the parents of two children, Clara C. and T. R. Clara C. was born in 1845; she married J. W. Coffman, of Liberty township, in 1867. Mr. Coffman died February 1, 1874. They were the parents of three children, one dead and two living at present. Mr. Coffman was a carpenter and farmer. J. R. Sanger, the subject of this sketch, was born in 1848, in this township. He has lived on the farm and given his attention to agriculture. He held the office of township clerk ten years, viz.: from 1870 to 1880; he is a justice of the peace at present, and gives his attention mostly to the breeding and raising of fine sheep, in which pursuit he is deeply interested. He is a genial, pleasant man to deal with, and has the confidence and respect of all who know him. The Sanger family came to this county in 1818.
SHIPLEY, HENRY, farmer and carpenter, born in Holmes county, this State, in 1830. His father, Josiah Shipley, was born in Pennsylvania in 1808. His mother, whose maiden name was Hoglan, was born in Virginia in 1816. Mr. Shipley, sr., on coming to this county in 1832, purchased what was known as the Parr mill. His wife dying, he was again married, in 1853, to Miss Rohrick, of this county, and in 1854 he removed to Iowa, where he now lives. He is the father of twenty-four children by the two marriages, thirteen living and eleve