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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
BY TOWNSHIPS-ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED.
FALLSBURY TOWNSHIP.
ARNOLD, WILLIAM L., farmer, post office, Perryton. He was born in the State of Virginia, June 25, 1828, was brought by his parents to Perry county when about four years old, where he remained until he became a man; he then came to Licking county, making a purchase of land in Perry township. December 28, 1854, he married Frances A. Jones, daughter of William and Sarah Jones; she was born January 23, 1834. After his marriage he moved on the place spoken of, where they set up housekeeping and remained about six years; he then sold this farm and purchased a farm in Fallsbury township, where he moved, and now resides. It is a very desirable and pleasant home. While living in Perry township he was elected constable for the term of two years. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold are the parents of six children: Louisa L., born March 31, 1856 (died April 1, 1859); Mary A., born April, 1858; Louisa R., July 3, 1860; Amanda A., August 30, 1862 (died December, of the same year). Mr. Arnold and wife are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of Pleasant Valley.
GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP.
ABBOTT, JUDGE ELIZUR, a prominent pioneer of Granville, died October 4, 1878, at the ripe age of seventy-eight years. During most .of .his life he took an active part in political, social and religious matters, and was a highly esteemed citizen. He served as associate judge from 1850 to 1852.
ASHLEY, JOHN, farmer, post office, Granville Licking county, Ohio., Mr. Ashley was born in the county of Montgomeryshire, parish of Beat House, in North Wales, on the fourteenth day of June, 1814. His education was that obtained in the common schools of his native country. He was reared. a farmer and has made farming his vocation through life. In I84o he migrated to Am-
NOTE-All matter contained in these sketches has been obtained directly from families or individuals cognizant of the facts contained in them. Being thus written, those furnishing the information are alone responsible for the facts and dates written.
erica, and located near Newark, Licking county, Ohio. On the thirtieth day of September, 1842, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Elizabeth Blaney, nee Phillips. Miss Phillips was born in Montgomeryshire county, Fregunnan parish, North Wales, on the twenty-fourth day of August, 1811, and migrated to America in 1840, located in York State, remained one year, then, in 1841, came to Ohio, and located 1n Granville township, this county. The marriage ceremony was performed by- Rev. Duncan, a Presbyterian minister of Newark. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley settled in Granville township, on a farm. They lived on rented farms for three years. In 1845 he purchased thirty-five acres of land, a part of the farm which he now owns, in Granville township, - three miles from Granville, on the Newark road, on which they moved and have since resided. At present he owns a farm of one hundred and sixty acres of good land in Granville township, joining his first purchase. They reared a family of five children, viz: Mary, Edward, George, Martha, and William.
AVERY, ALFRED, deceased, was born near-New London, Connecticut, on the ninth of March, 1797 He was descended from an ancient and honorable family that settled early with the Massachusetts colony. From the early settlement of New. London and Groton, his ancestors, the Averys, and the Allyns on the mother's side, have held a prominent place in society until the present time. The first thirteen names on the Groton monument of those murdered at Fort Griswold, were those of his immediate relatives. His father was one of the few picked men whom Anthony Wayne led that dark night to take Stony Point. In 1805 his father, with his family, formed a part of a colony which migrated from Granville and Granby,. in Massachusetts, to central Ohio, carrying with them into the depths of a primeval forest the civilization and refinement of New England homes. In building up their institutions Mr. Avery took a prominent part, his sound judgment and liberal hand always being in requisition. When he was but nine years of age his father died, and he was
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thrown upon his own resources, and when only twelve engaged to chop and clear a piece of land. He was but a mere lad when he supported his mother and two sisters. A youth of fifteen, he served in the War of 1812. After the war he engaged in the mercantile business, driving the cattle and hogs which he took for pay over the mountains to Baltimore, and carrying provisions to New Orleans on flat-boats. Before the advent of railroads he had crossed the Alleghany mountains eighty times, and when there were twenty-six States in the Union he had visited all of them on his own business. He help:-d build the Ohio and Maumee canals; established one of the first iron foundries in the State; was president of the first bank in Granville, and was foremost in nearly all the leading enterprises of the county. He removed to New York in 1846, and engaged in the wholesale dry goods business, in which he continued till 1854, when, having established his two oldest sons in the same business, he ceased to be an active partner. These two sons died within a few years, and he gradually severed his business connections in New York, and twelve years ago re- moved to Wisconsin, following his remaining children to their western home. Mr. Avery was a man of decided character, and the basis of that character was a strong will and strict probity. Everywhere he was known to possess a high sense of honor in all his business relations. This led him to be prompt and honorable, even in matters of comparatively small importance. His knowledge of trade and commerce was varied and extensive, and the soundness of his judgment and the prudence of his counsel were well known to his friends. His love of his country and his hatred of wrong were both intense, and led him to take a decided stand upon every question affecting the welfare of his native' land. Hz had a profound respect for the Bible, and the civilization built upon it. Mr. Avery married Jane Mower in 1823, by whom he had four sons and two daughters. In 1836 he became a widower, and in 1843 he married Lavina Dexter, by whom he had one daughter. To his family he was always kind and thoughtful, watching for their good even to the close of his life with tender solicitude. His widow and children, and grandchildren, will lovingly cherish his memory. He died at Baraboo, Wisconsin, April 11, 1880, in. the eighty fourth year of his age.
HARRISON TOWNSHIP.
ALWARD, SAMUEL, deceased, was born in Morris county, New Jersey, July 7, 1767. He was a shoemaker by trade, which he followed as his vocation for a number of years, when he turned his attention to farming, which he made his vocation during the remainder of his days. October 16, 1794, he married Miss Martha Parkhurst, of New Jersey, born April 30, 1775. They remained in their native State until in 1818, when he, with wife and family, migrated to Ohio and located in what is now family, township, this county, on land now owned by his son, John C. Alward, where they passed the remainder of their days. He died December 3, 1842. His wife survived him until March 15, 1861. He was one among the largest land owners in the county, owning about two thousand acres of land at one time. He was the father of eight children: Benjamin P., born January 3, 1779, came to this county with his parents in 1818. He was, by profession, a teacher and surveyor, and was well known among the early teachers and surveyors in the county. He died March 15, 1823, Samuel D., born March 22, 1799, married Miss Maria Buckland, and is now living in Lima township, this county. Zephaniah H., born December to, 1801, married Catharine Wells, and is living in Harrison township, this county. Ezra H. was born December 6, 1803. He has been twice married; first to Rose S. Williams. He married for his second wife Nancy .Eastman, and is now living in Michigan. Stephen H., born March 2, 1806, married Miss Elizabeth Wells. He died May 5, 1840. James L., born December 18, 1808, married first to Mary Nichols. His second marriage was to Catharine Doty. He is now living in Harrison township, this county. Martha M., born November 25, 1814, died September 18, 1830. John C. Alward, born December 21, 1811; came to this county with his parents in 1818. October 19, 1837, he married Miss Margaret Youmans. Miss Youmans was born in New Jersey, February 19, 1817, and came to this county with her parents, Thomas and Caturah Youmans, about 1825. Mr. and Mrs. Alward settled on his father's home farm, where they now reside. They have six children - four sons and two daughters. In 1850 he was nominated for State senator, by the Democracy of Licking county, and was elected by a majority of about four hundred, and served a term of one year. In 1851 he was reelected to the senate under the present constitution and served a term of two years. He served as captain of a militia company one year, lieutenant colonel two years, and was then promoted to colonel of the regiment, which he commanded about two years, in all making about five years service in the militia of the State. He has made farming and stock raising his principal vocation, making thoroughbred sheep a specialty.
LIMA TOWNSHIP.
ALWARD, S. D., farmer, post office, Columbia Center. He was born in Sussex county, New York, May 22, 1799, and is a son of Samuel and Martha Alward, who came from Holland. The subject of
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this sketch came with his parents, when quite small, to Morris county, New Jersey, and in the fall of 18ig they emigrated to this county, and settled in Harrison township, on a tract of land containing four hundred acres, which they had entered some time before; and he has done a great amount of hard work in clearing up the country. He helped to carry the chains to mark out the grounds for the big wolf hunt of Licking county, in an early day. Mr. Alward is a breeder of fine-wool sheep, short-horn cattle, and Poland China hogs. He remained at home until he was married, in the winter of 1825, to Maria Buckland, who was born in Rutland county, Vermont, October 10, 1804, and who removed with her parents to this county in the fall of 1817. After Mr. Alward's marriage he settled on his present farm in Lima township. They have raised seven children. He has held some of the minor offices in the township.
McKEAN TOWNSHIP.
DAVID, ALANDER, a farmer, was born November 15, 1798, in Pennsylvania; he was left an orphan in 1800; was brought to this county in 1802 by Nathan Preston, who reared him from childhood. He was married December 29, 1823, to Elizabeth Boyd of this county, who was born April 17, 1802, She came to this county with her parents in 1812. They had four children: Hiram, born April 8, 1824; John B., born March 1, 1827 ; died in 1855, aged twenty-eight years; Mary Ann, born January 2, 1831; was married April 21, 1859, to Edward Simson of this county. Results of this marriage, two children: the first, an infant child with no name; William A., born June, 1861, is single and lives with his mother. David Alander died August 2, 1826. He was a member of the Christian church at Chatham. Elizabeth, his wife, died May 3, 1872, aged seventy-two years; she was a member of the same church.
SIMPSON, EDWARD, enlisted in company C, Seventy-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry in 1861. He was heard from for about fifteen months after going into service, but from that time he has not been heard from, and it is supposed he was killed. Mrs. Simson was married again September 12, 1874, to Calvin Dush of this county. They have adopted Alice R. Roland. Eli Alander was born September 21, 1835; died in 1844.
MONROE TOWNSHIP.
ASHBROOK, REV. ELI.-"Elder" Ashbrook, as h was familiarly called, was one of the oldest residents of the county. He was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, September 23, 1781; became citizen of Licking county in 1823, settling in Johnstown, where Mrs. Ashbrook died January 1, 1871, at the age of eighty-seven years, after a married life of sixty-nine years. Elder Ashbrook was a minister of the gospel, as understood by the Old School Baptist church, sixty-two years. They raised a family of twelve children, and lived to see them all heads of families. Elder Ashbrook died at Johnstown, January 24, 1877, at the great age of ninety-five years, four months and one day.
ASHBROOK, WILLIAM;-farmer, post office, Johnstown, was born in Monroe township February r9, 1824, on the farm on which he now resides; was married February 29, 1852, to Lucy H. Platt, of Monroe township; has six children- Milan P., born March 12, 1853 ; Abbie E, April 5, 1855 ; Byron B., February 16, 1857; Aura, September 15, 1859; Burton G., January 11, 1862; William A., July 1, 1867. Mr. Ashbrook has been a township trustee for a number of terms, and has held other local offices. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church.
ASHBROOK, HIRAM M., farmer and stock dealer, Johnstown, was born in Licking county May 18, 1850. He married Anna W. Bishop October 5, 1871. She was born September 20, 1849. To them have been given five children as follows: Perry W., Charles A., Hector D., Mary A., and Abbie E. Hiram Ashbrook, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Fairfield county, March 16, 1820, and has been a resident of Licking county since 1822 until his death. He married Sarah A. Jewett December 21, 1843. She was born July 16, 1821. As a result of their union they had seven children: Helen I.., Albert P., Hiram M., Omer D., Emma A., David G., and Minnie. Only four of the above are now living: Helen L., Hiram M. (the subject of--this sketch), Omer D., and Minnie. Their father died September 17, 1879. Their mother survives him. The subject of this sketch is one of these active, determined men who never say fail,. and always meet with success.
NEWARK TOWNSHIP.
ATHERTON, WARREN, Son of Augustine and Syntha Atherton, was born January 18, 1856, in Newark township, two miles north of Newark. He is a d farmer, being engaged upon his father's farm. He was married to Cecillia Webb, June 22, 1878. She is the daughter of Henry and Eliza Webb, and was born in 1859, in Illinois. They have one child, born April 23, 1879.
AVERY, THOMAS, was born in Newark, and is the e son of Henry Avery who died when the. subject of a this sketch was quite young. This left to him the
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care of his mother and family of nine children. His mother, Nancy Avery, is now living in Newark. The subject of this sketch was married to Elizabeth Krouse, daughter of Levi and Catharine Krouse, of Baltimore, Fairfield county. She was born August 13, 1845. Her mother died when she was quite small; her father is yet living at Baltimore. In early life Mr. Avery worked in Newark. For the past four years he has been farming.
CITY OF NEWARK.
ADAMS, JOHN W., laundryman, South Fifth street, was born in Newark October 14, 1845. He was married to Louisa Bitting, who was born in Newark in July, 1846, and is the daughter of Joseph and Rebecca Bitting. Mrs. Bitting now makes her home with Mr. Adams; she is now seventy-three years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Adams have five children: Charles, born March 29, 1865; Louisa, June 2, 1867; Sadie E., April 10, 1869; Grace T., December 4, 1875; John W., jr., April 15, 1879. In his early years he learned photographing with Z. P. McMillen, of Newark. He worked at this trade six years, and on account of chemicals and the exceeding appetite for strong drink, he was compelled to give up this business. He then learned tanning with Davis & O'Donnel, and worked at this for some time. Then he went to manufacturing soap with Mr. Simpson, of Newark. For the past three years he has been running the Newark city laundry. In April, 1876, upon his own resolution, he quit the use of intoxicating drink, and in March, 1877, he joined the Murphy union, of which society he was elected vice-president in April, 1877; at the next election he was chosen president, in which capacity he has served ever since. Mr. Adams deserves great credit for his manly determination and valuable aid in this noble work.
AGNEW, ISAAC, manufacturer of boots and shoes, was born in Newark, November 5, 1825. At the age of twenty-one years he learned the boot and shoe trade, which has always been his occupation, with the exception of eighteen months service in the war of the Rebellion, enlisting March 15, 1864, in company A, Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry. He was married to Carinda Glover, May 2, 1852, who was born in Licking county, October 4, 1831. They are the parents of eigh children. William Wallace died August 9, 1872, aged nineteen years and two months; infant die November 18, 1855 ; Jennie, born May 26, 1856 Alfred, born May 19, 1859; Henry was born May 23, 1861; Frank was born April 12, 1862; Katie P. was born January 30, 1867; Ellie O. was born April 30, 1873. Mrs. Agnew was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Glover. Mr. Glover died January 2, 1874, aged seventy-two years and three mouths. Mrs. Glover died September 16, 1864, seventy-six years of age. Mr. Agnew's father, Abraham, died in 1856, aged seventy-six years. He came to Newark in the year 1811. Mrs. Abraham Agnew died March 15, 1864, sixty-five years of age.
ALLEN, CHARLES, son of Homer and Louisa Allen, was born August 22, 1849, in Niagara county, New York, and lived there four years. Then with his parents he removed to Canada, remaining with. them until he was fifteen years of age, when he left home and traveled through thirteen different States, and finally settled in Newark in December, 1877. He was married to Nancy Cunningham April 10, 1876. She is the daughter of John and Rosanna Cunningham, and was born February 5, 1850, in Independence, Richland county. Air. Allen is a painter by trade, and is employed in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad shops at Newark.
ANDERSON, W. A., locomotive engineer. He is. at the present time in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Mr. Anderson has served in this capacity since May, 1873. Previous to his engagement with the Baltimore & Ohio company he was in the employ of the Panhandle railroad company as engineer from 1861. He was born in Putnam, Muskingum county, March 2, 1842. Mr. Anderson was married April 19, 1872, to Rachel Armstrong, of Licking county. They have three children-Joseph, Russell and Jessie. Joseph died when a babe.
ANKELE, JACOB, born March 30, 1842, in Wurttemberg, Germany. He emigrated to America May 8, 1864, and settled is the city of Newark,, where he has resided ever since. He is a machinist by trade, and, after his arrival here, he worked at his trade until 1878, when he engaged in the grocery and provision business. He was married to Mary Smith, of Newark, April 2, 1866. They have three children-Katy, born December 31, 1870; Fred, born October 31, 1873; Ernma, born April 4, 1878. They now reside on the corner of Vallandigham and Second street.
ARMSTRONG, JOHN, carriage maker and general workman. He was born in Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, November 2, 1832. In 1846 he commenced working at the carriage making trade, which he has made his vocation through life. In 1853, he married Miss Sarah E. Taylor, of Zanesville. They settled in Zanesville, remained until 1850, when they returned to Newark, where they are now residing. Their union resulted in three children, George L. Harry B., and Clifton. W. February 6, 1864, he enlisted in com-
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pany H, Thirty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and served until July 26, 1865, when he was mustered out of the service, and returned home.
ATHERTON, GIBSON, attorney, son of John Atherton, was born in Newark township, this county, January 19, 1831. After passing his boyhood days on a farm, he attended the Denison university, at Granville, from 1849 to 1851. He then went to Oxford Ohio, where he graduated in the Miami university in 1853. He then commenced the study of law. In September, 1853, he went to Osceola, Missouri, and took charge of an academy, which he conducted one year. In 1854 he returned to Newark, completed his course in law with the Hon. Lucius Case, and was admitted to the bar in the supreme court of Ohio, in 1855. He at once began the practice of law in the courts of Licking county, and has since been engaged in the profession. He was married November 18, 1856, to Miss Margaret A. E. Kumler, of Butler county, Ohio. They have four children, one son and three daughters. In 1857 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Licking county, re-elected in 1859-61, and filled the office three terms. He filled the office of mayor of Newark two terms-elected in 1860 and re-elected in 1862. He was the nominee for State senator, in 186 3, by the Democracy of the Sixteenth senatorial district, comprising the counties of Licking and Delaware, and was defeated by the Hon. James R. Stanbery. In 1866 he was nominated by the Democracy of Licking, Knox, and Delaware counties for common pleas judge, and was again defeated. He was a member of the city council of Newark two years, and president of the council one year. He ryas a member of the Newark school board about thirteen years. From the time he ceased to be prosecuting attorney of the county until 1879, he was entrusted with the defence of nearly all of the important criminal cases in Licking county, and was known as a very successful criminal lawyer. In 1878 he was nominated for Congress by the Democracy of the Fourteenth congressional district of Ohio, comprised of the counties of Licking, Muskingum, Perry, and Guernsey, and was elected over the Hon. I. Morton by a majority of two thousand two hundred and eighty-seven. In 1880 he was re-nominated for Congress by the Democracy of the Thirteenth congressional district of Ohio, comprising the counties of Licking, Muskingum, Coshocton, and Tuscarawas, and was elected by a majority of two thousand four hundred and seventy-five over the Hon. A. B. Clark. During the period that Mr. Atherton has already served in Congress, he has served on the committee of public buildings and grounds, and as a member of the committee on war claims. He has been earnest and conscientious in his efforts to protect the public treasury against the payment of fraudulent and improper claims. As a member of the committee on war claims, he has been very active and industrious in examining and reporting upon the numerous claims referred to that committee. His adverse reports would already fill quite a volume, while the favorable reports submitted by hint from that committee, amount to very few. He is very attentive to the interests of his constituents and visits the departments almost daily in behalf of some of them. While he has not attempted to be a noisy member, he has been faithful in his attendance upon the sessions of Congress, and has taken diligent pains in every thing that relates to the interest of the people of his district.
AVERY, JOSEPH, railroad conductor. He was born in Newark August 24, 1842. When the war broke out, he enlisted June 21, 1861, in company H, Third Ohio volunteer infantry, and served in the army three years. He was married October 15, 1865, to Anna Shafer, who was born in Hamburg, Germany. She came to Newark with her mother; her father came to Newark. some two years previous. Her mother died shortly after arriving; her father is yet living in New York city. Mr. and Mrs. Avery are the parents of seven children: James Albert, Joseph, George W., Anna May, Robert L., Lulu Grace, and Eleanor C. Since the war Mr. Avery has been in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company, and for the last seven years has been conductor.
AYERS, WILLIAM H., Newark, Ohio; carpenter. He was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, June 4, 1820. In youth he moved with his father's family to New Jersey, and in 1837 to Newark, Ohio. He was married to Eliza A. Search in March, 1840, who was born in New Jersey January 23, 1820. By this marriage they have eleven children: James J., William Riley, Sarah A:, Charles, George, Frank, Edwin (who died an infant in 1855), Martin, Adelbert E. (infant-died in 1858), and Elsworth. Mr. Avers learned the carpenter trade early in life, which occupation he yet follows. When the war broke out, he enlisted in company E, Sixth United States cavalry, and after serving one year was discharged on account of disability. Shortly after his return home, he enlisted again and served until the close of the war. William Riley was also a member of the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and served one year. Sarah A. is the wife of W. Hathway, of Newark.
ST. ALBANS TOWNSHIP.
AVERY FAMILY.-Christopher Avery, a native of Salisbury, England, came to America in the ship
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Anabella, in the year 1630, and located in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He was ancestor to all the Avery family in America. He died March, 1679. George Avery was born in Norwich, Connecticut, and married Mary Allyn, of Groton, Connecticut. In 1801 he removed to Westfield, Massachusetts, and came to Granville with the colony in 1805. He died in August, 1806, and was interred in the old cemetery at Granville. His children were, George, Christopher, Simeon, Mary, Alfred, and Cynthia Of these two are deceased. Christopher was killed by falling into a well, and Alfred, who died April 11, 1880, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. George Avery, jr., married Eliza Paige. He was killed by falling from a tree in McKean township in 1832. They had a family of four children-Christopher, Harriet, George and William. Christopher was born December 10, 1818, and was married in December, 1829, to Susan Lane She died in 1832. They had one son, W. H. Avery, who served as a captain in the late war. He married his second wife, Achsah Hayes, in May, 1835. :She died in 1870. They had a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters, Hellen, Hattie, Allen, Sylvester, Rosa, Thomas, Cora and Frank. His third wife was Cynthia Gilbert, to whom he was married in 1875.
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
ALSDORF, WILLIAM, shipping merchant, Utica. Lawrence Alsdorf came from Holland at an early day, and settled on North river, between New York city and Albany, where Sylvester Alsdorf, the father of William Alsdorf, was born. He married Lydia Brown. They spent their lives in Schenectady and Saratoga counties, and it was in the former that William Alsdorf was born, in 1814. In 1836 he married Sarah Reed, a native of Ireland. Her father, Jams Reed, lived in Donegal county, Ireland, in which place he died. His wife and children came to New York in 1834. His wife's maiden name was Susanna Buchannon. Their daughter, Sarah Reed, now Mrs. William Alsdorf, was born in 1815. Three years after the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Alsdorf they came to this county and settled on a farm of one hundred and fifty acres, two miles south of Utica. For five years their home was a log cabin, after which time they erected a neat and substantial building, which is still standing. Mr. Alsdorf soon built a saw-mill, which he ran for about eight years. Mr. John Reed was a partner for some time, but sold out to Mr. Alsdorf, who remained there until the spring of 1859, when he came to Utica, and in the spring of 1861 he took charge of the ware-house, as a lease, one year after which he bought the house of his brother's heirs. He did a general shipping business in grain, live stock, etc. Mr. Alsdorf still owns and runs a farm in addition to the railroad business, in which he is assisted by his youngest son. He has had charge of the railroad business at Utica for the last twenty years. The shipping business is continued by the three eldest sons of William Alsdorf. The firm is known as the Alsdorf Brothers. Mr. and Mrs. William Alsdorf have six children living, and two dead. Five are living in Utica, while one daughter lives in Erie, Pennsylvania.
BENNINGTON TOWNSHIP.
BENTON, THOMAS K., farmer and fine sheepraiser, Bennington township. Born in Quincy, Illinois, in 1847 ; came to this county in 187 5; married Miss Helena Postlewait, daughter of George Postlewait, in March, 1875. Mrs. Benton was born in 1846, in this county. Her father, George Postlewait, was born in Monongehala county, Virginia, in 1804; came to this county in 1845. He married Miss Betsey Kerr of this county. She was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1808. She died in 1859. They were the parents of four children. Mr. Benton is the owner and breeder of fine sheep. He has twelve registered, and some as fine grades as can be seen in the county.
BOWMAN JOHN, farmer, Bennington township. Born in this county in 1835. His father was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1808. His mother was born in the same county in 1807. After coming to this county they were married. They were the parents of three children: Angeline married Mr. Simpson of Illinois, and died there in 1878; Isabella married Charles Hildreth of this county, and died in 1867, and John, the subject of this sketch, was married in 1854 to Miss M. J. Lees, daughter of William Lees, of Madison township. Mrs. Bowman was born in 1836, in this county. They have ten children. One, Henry C., of Appleton, is married. Mr. John Bowman deals in very fine sheep, and takes pride in his business.
BOWLING GREEN TOWNSHIP.
BOZMAN, JAMES, born in Perry county, Ohio, November 29, 1844; the son of William and Eliza Bozman. When about a year old, his father and family came to this county, residing first in Brownsville, then Jacksontown. His father went to California in 1850, where he soon after died. His mother subsequently married James Fairley, and Mr. Bozman lived with them on the Brubaker farm, about three miles south of Newark, till 1859, then moved with them to Marion county; remaining with them till the fall of 1862. He returned to this county, but shortly after he went again to Marion county for the purpose of attending school
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February 26, 1864, he enlisted in the Fourth Ohio infantry, company H. When the Fourth and Eighth regiments were consolidated in June, 1864, he became a member of company C. As a soldier he was engaged in some of the severest battles which witnessed the closing period of the war; participating. in the seven days fighting in the Wilderness, where he was wounded on the last day, the battles of Hatcher's Run, Petersburgh, etc.; was mustered out at Jefferson, Indiana, July 13, 1865; returned to this county in 1866; in 1867 lived in Hardin county; 1868-1873 in Licking county; then four years in Effingham, Illinois, since when he has lived in Amsterdam. Married in 1870 to Lucinda Tracy, of Linnville, and has had four children; George Francis, Mattie, Anna Mary, and James. Of these, only one, Anna Mary, survives.
BURGE, JOHN.-Mr. Burge was born in this township June 11, 1876; the son of John and Margaret Burge, early pioneers of this county. His father was from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and died when John was eight or nine years old. Mr. Burge took charge of the farm for his mother and managed it till he attained his majority. He was the sixth of nine children, and bought the homestead from the heirs. At this early time it was only partially cleared, with rude buildings upon it. By his ceaseless industry he has brought it to the highest state of improvement, and by the purchase of an adjoining farm 1)e now has one of the largest and finest places in the township. He has bestowed considerable attention to stock-feeding, in connection with general farming, and in this his success has been marked. He was married February 26, 1837, to Lydia Richards, whose parents were early settlers in this township from Maryland. Ten children blessed the marriage, seven of whom survive at this writing: Matilda Mooney, Drucilla Clark, Arrylla Courson, Louisa Orr, Anderson, Lucinda Gutridge, and Parker. His oldest .son, Theodore, died March 7, 1879, at St. Louis, Missouri, where he had been practicing law. His two sons, Anderson and Parker are farmers, the former in Licking township, the latter at home with his father.
BIXLER, GEORGE W., was born in Belmont county, Ohio, August 5, 1830. In 1836 he moved with his parents, John and Eliza, to Brownsville. There he learned the shoemaker trade with his father, and worked at the trade until 1861, when he enlisted in company C, Twenty-seventh Ohio volunteer infantry, serving two years. Since his return he has farmed in this township. He was married in 1863 to Anna M., daughter of Emanuel Cooperider, born May 5, 1831. His children are John, William, George Luther, Anna Loretta and Lizzie Bell.
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP.
BURNER, D. E., cabinet-maker, and justice of the peace, was born in 1847 in this county. His lather, J. H. Burner, was born in Virginia in 1818; came to this county in 1833. In 7845 he was . married to Miss Elizabeth Condon, of this county, who was born in Baltimore in 1823. They are the parents of seven children. The subject of this sketch is the oldest; he was married in 1869 to Miss Hannah M. Conard, who was born in 1847 in this county. They are the parents of three children: Nathan L, Everett (deceased), and Mary E.
FALLSBURY TOWNSHIP.
BRADFIELD, JOSEPH, farmer, stock dealer and shipper; post office, Perryton. He was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1812 ; he emigrated to Ohio in 1832 in company with his mother, and settled on eighty acres of land in Pike township, about two miles west of West Carlisle, having thirty dollars, a horse, saddle and bridle. He then proceeded to farm and deal in stock, being quite successful. In a few years he purchased other tracts of land adjoining, to the amount of nearly three hundred acres; also bought four hundred acres in Knox county. In 1863 he purchased his present home in Fallsbury township. Mr. Bradfeld has always dealt very heavily in stock, having in 1864 nine thousand head of sheep purchased at one time before shipping. July 10, 1834, he married Nancy Horner, who was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1871. She died September 6, 1873, aged sixty-two years. By this union they had seven children, three sons and four daughters: Elizabeth, born April 18, 1835; Harriet, November 2, 1836; Francis M., September 27, 1839; Rebecca E., May 7, 1844, died June to, 1872; James E., January 30, 1842; Sarah A., May 2, 1846; William E., April 13, 1850. October 6, 1874, he married Mrs. Julia L. Evans, widow of Captain J. P. Evans, of the Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry. She is a daughter of B. Lemert, and was born October 27, 1838. Her children by her first husband are: Fred Evans, born June 5, 1866; Herbert; March 12, 1868; . Leroy, May 18, 1869, all of whom are living. Captain J. P. Evans died February 21, 1870. Mr. Bradfield and his companion are consistent members of the Fallsbury Christian church.
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP.
BROWNFIELD, JACOB, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1819, and a brother to Benjamin Brownfield. He came to Licking county in 1844. He was married to Susan Brown, of
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Fayette county, October 17, 1841. By this marriage he had the following children: Calvin, a resident of Newark; Elmer, who lives in Fleatown; Elizabeth, wife of John Eskew, of Newark, and Benjamin, at present, living in Jacksontown. His wife having died, he married Rebecca Adair, daughter of George and Isabel Adair, of Guernsey county, April 2 7, 1854. His three children by this marriage are: Josephine, wife of Charles Moore; Liewreston W., and Francis J. Mr. Brownfield is .a farmer by occupation.
BROWNFIELD, BENJAMIN, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, April 18, 1826, and is the son of Benjamin and Ruth Brownfield. His marriage to Mary J. Lawhead, the daughter of Benjamin and Mary Lawhead, of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, occurred January 22, 1852. Leaving Pennsylvania in the spring of 1855, he made the place of his present residence his home, building his house in the midst of a thick growth of forest trees. In 1862 he served as colonel of the home militia. He has been justice of the peace in Franklin township seventeen years. Mr. Brownfield is the present State representative from Licking county. His children are: 'Punic, William J., Mary A., Anna W., Joe E., and Margaret H. His occupation is farming and stock raising. His father died lately, at the age of one hundred and three years, at his home in Fayette county, Pennsylvania.
GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP.
BAKER, CAPTAIN, father of Colonel D. M. Baker, was born in Enfield, Connecticut, October 8, 1763. He yeas a carpenter and joiner by trade, and was captain of a military company in his native State. April 2, 1778, he married Jerusha Parsons, of Enfield, born April 7, 1767, by whom he had four children, Jerusha, born August 7, 1789; Fanny, born May 1, 1792, died March 1, 17-; Sophia, born December 13, 1793, died December 14, 1862; Daniel M., born February 23, 1805. Mr. Baker joined the colony which came from Massachusetts in 1805, but came himself in 1806, on horseback, swimming the streams. He purchased four hundred acres of land in Licking county, and, in 1810, brought on his family, as already noticed. He was the original owner of the University hill, and cleared off the land now occupied by the Upper seminary buildings. For several years Captain Baker was justice of the peace, also, fur a time, postmaster, likewise township trustee. About the year 1820 Captain Baker built, one and a half miles southwest of Granville village, the frame house now occupied by his son, Colonel Baker. The captain possessed an excellent judgment, was very correct in his dealings and very uniform in his disposition. He attended closely to his business, and was an influential and highly respected citizen. He died December 19, 1836, and his wife, March 1, 1848; and both were members of the Baptist church. The oldest child, Jerusha, taught the first school in St. Albans township, and was for many years a teacher. She died March 1, 1848.
BAKER, COLONEL D. M., farmer, was born in Massachusetts, February 23, 1805. In the fall of 1810 his father's- family came to Ohio and located in Granville, unloading their goods on the spot now occupied by the Presbyterian church. There were at that time but two frame buildings in the village. November 29, 1826, he married Lydia, daughter of Theodore and Dorotha B. Gaylord. Miss Gaylord was born in Vermont, December 26, 1806. By this union he reared eight children, viz.: Almena, Lorenzo, Dorotha, Anna, Parsons W., Lydia, Martha, and Theodore. Lorenzo died August 24, 1851. Mr. Baker has given his children excellent facilities for education Almeria attended school at Granville Female college, and for quite a number of years engaged in teaching. Dorotha graduated at Granville Female college, under Professor W. D. Moore, and for some twenty years was engaged as teacher in six different States. Anna was also educated at the above-mentioned school, and, like her sisters, became a teacher, in which capacity she was employed for quite a number of years, five of which were spent among the Indians in Dakota. She was subsequently employed as teacher in Alabama, among the freedmen. The second son, Parsons Baker, attended school at Granville college, was a teacher for a few winters, and, in October, 1859, he married Harriet Ashton. He died November 19, 1864, leaving a wife and one daughter. Lydia was educated at Granville Female college, and taught school for a number of years. Martha received her education at the Granville Female college, and for several years was employed by the Government as a teacher among the Indians in Dakota. Theodore married Lucy Page, and now resides in this county. The death of Mrs. Colonel Baker occurred December 23, 1853. She was a woman much attached to her home, took a deep interest in the education of her children, and was very agreeable in society. She was a faithful wife and an affectionate mother. His second wife was Mrs. Charlotte R. Morrison nee Varnum to whom he was married November 24, 1855. By this marriage he has one daughter, Mary J. Baker. She was educated at the Female college in Granville. Mr. Baker's wife deceased January 21, 1878. His third wife was Mrs. Margaret Rose nee Stewart-to whom he was married June 9, 1880. When fourteen years old, Colonel Baker was a drummer in a military company; at sixteen
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he entered the ranks as private, and soon became commander of the company, and went through the various grades -of promotion--until, at eighteen, he was placed upon the staff of General Jonathan Taylor, where he remained some three years. At the time of the Wolverine difficulty, Mr. Baker was made colonel of the Second regiment, Fourth brigade, Ohio Volunteer militia. The colonel has resided in this county for nearly three-quarters of a century, and both county and his wife are highly esteemed citizens of the community. They are members of the Granville Presbyterian church. Mr. Baker is now president of Granville Farmers' club.
BAILY, REV. SILAS, D. D. Mr Baily was, for many years, president of Denison university, Granville. He died in Paris, France, June 11, 1874, having attained to the age of three score and ten years. He was scholarly, dignified and successful in the management of the college. He had a massive intellect, and his sermons were highly appreciated by the more intelligent portion of his hearers. After leaving Granville he was connected with one or more institutions of learning in the west. He was in Europe in search of health when death overtook him.
BANCROFT, JUDGE SAMUEL. - He was born in Granville, Massachusetts, September 16, 1778; was well educated, and spent the earlier years of his manhood in teaching. In the spring of 1806, he came to Licking county, where he resided until his death, which occurred at Granville, January 27, 1870. On May 28, 1807, he married Clarissa Rose, oldest daughter of judge Rose, this marriage being the first among the Granville colonists after their arrival in their western home. They lived happily together fifty years, and he survived her thirteen years.
During the great revival of 1808, he became a member of .the church, and was ever after faithful in. Christian duty, prompt and -liberal -in his contributions to benevolence.
In the War of 1812, he was a private soldier, and was surrendered by General Hull. He was a justice of the peace- eighteen years, associate judge twenty-one years, and town clerk many years, and always faithful to public trusts.
BANCROFT, LEVI E., eldest son of Ethan and Lucy Bancroft, was born in Granville, Licking county, Ohio, May 22, 1807. His parents migrated from Granville, Massachusetts, to Granville, Licking county, Ohio, In 1805, and settled on land near Granville village, .where he deceaspd April 18, 1815, leaving his wife with four small children to. provide for in their forest home, viz. our subject, Levi E., Lyman, Malissa and Lucy. Levi E. is the only one now living. He is a carpenter and joiner by trade; served his apprenticeship with Gerrard Bancroft, beginning at the age of fifteen years, he followed the business of carpenter and joiner in Granville and vicinity from 1822 to 1866, then he turned his attention to farming; continued farming as his vocation until in 1871, he sold his farm and moved to Granville, where he is now living a retired life. He married for his first wife Hannah M. Copeland, by whom he reared five children. Elizabeth, born .April 10, 1832; Lucy W., born November 9, 1836; Mary M., born September 24, 1838; Martha S., born January 3, 1842; Julia A., born March 8, 1844. All are married, have large families, and are living in Granville and vicinity. His wife deceased May 13, 1859. He married, for his second wife, Susan H. Bushnell, in 1860, daughter of Thomas and Charlotte Bushnell, with whom he is now living.
BEAN, ABNER, farmer; was born in York county, Maine, May 5, 1796. He was brought up on a farm, and has made farming and stock-growing his vocation. In 1815 he migrated from York county, Maine, to Rochester, New York State, traveling the whole distance, five hundred and fifty miles, on foot, making the journey in fourteen days. He purchased and made improvements in a piece of land in Monroe county, New York, eight miles from Rochester, which he selected for his future home. In 18x0 he married Cynthia Collier, of Monroe county, New York. He had erected a cabin on his land, in which they moved, this serving them for a dwelling house, until in 1849 or 1850, he built a frame residence, in which they lived until in. 1855; he, with wife and seven children, James C., Eliza C., Margaret C., Mary E., David, Edwin, and Amelia S., migrated to Licking county, Ohio, and settled on the farm where he is now living in Granville township, two and a half miles west of Granville. He owns a large and productive farm. The children are all living at this writing. His wife deceased June 3, 1868. He is still living and enjoying good health for a man of his years.
BRAGG, H. W., was born in Stafford, Connecticut, May 22, 1798. He received his education in the village where he was born. He was a hatter by trade. He migrated to Granville, Licking county, Ohio, in 1817 ; worked at his trade about three years, then engaged in the marble or tombstone business, which he continued in until about 1865, when he quit the business and lived a retired life. He married Amelia E. Gavitt, December r4, 1820, born December 30, 1798, daughter of the Hon. William Gavitt, who migrated from Granville, Massachusetts, and settled in Granville, Licking
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county, Ohio, in 1805. They settled in Granville, where they remained until deceased. He died June 8, 1875. His wife died August 22, 1879. Their union resulted in one son and one daughter-George H. and Mary A.
BRAGG, GEORGE H., was born in Granville, Licking county, Ohio, April 8, 1825. He was educated in the Granville schools. He worked for a number of years with his father at the marble or tombstone business, then changed his vocation to that of a grocer, which he continued in until 1873, when he retired from the business. On April 1, 1866, he married Lucretia, daughter of Lloyd and Margaret Bishop, born in Zanesville, Ohio, October 24, 1843, and migrated to Granville, Licking county, with her parents in 1855. They settled in Granville, where they. are now living.
HANOVER TOWNSHIP.
BAIRD, AARON, post office, Toboso, son of Joseph and Margaret Baird, was born February 15, 1836, near Dresden, Ohio. He is by occupation a farmer, and lives in the southeast part of Hanover township. He was married to Martha Stump, the daughter of Isaac Thomas and Mary Stump, March 24, 1863. She was born September 14, 1845, in Muskingum county. By this marriage they had five children. Thomas J., born April 19, 1864; Emma R., born January 4, 1866; Mary O., born June 22, 1869; Etta V., born June 20, 1871; Edgar H., born January 23, 1876.
BOUNDS, Amy, post office, Toboso, daughter of David and Sarah Palmer, was born in 1815. She was married in 1833 to Allen Bounds, of this county. Shortly after their marriage they settled in Hanover township, on the farm now occupied by Mrs. Bounds. By this marriage they have three children, Absalom A. and Leroy L. twins born September 15, 1840; Millard F., born January 21, 1852. Millard was married December 4, 1874, to Jennie E. Siler. She is the daughter of Stephen and Clara C. Siler, and was born July 25, 1855, in Madison township. By this marriage they have two children, Virgil C., and Oren C. Virgil was .born February 4, 1876; Oren was born December 4, 1877. Absalom Bounds married Mary Johnston, of Clay Lick, August 3, 1873. Leroy married Patience Davidson in 1865.
BUKEY, JAMES, M.D., post office, H Hanover, was the son of Joseph and Terrissa Bukey, was born in 1847. After receiving a college education he entered the university of medicine at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Here He remained five year,, when he finished his course and received his diploma. He commenced the practice of medicine in Mary Ann township, near Dudgeon's corners. Here he remained two years, when he settled at Hanover, in 1871. Here he has since been located. He was married to Martha Camp, October 30, 1873. By this union they have two children, Terrissa, born May 9, 1875; Netta Vetura, born January 10, 1878. Mrs. Bukey is the daughter of Isaac and Acinda Camp. She was born June 16, 1849. Her father was born in Coshocton county, and her mother in Virginia. They came to this county in 1845, and settled in Hanover township. Here they reared a family of seven, consisting of two sons and five daughters. Mr. Camp died in 1862. Mrs. Camp is living in Hanover.
HARTFORD TOWNSHIP.
BLUE, JAMES, laborer, was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, in 1837; came to this county in 1852 with his parents. In 1860 he married Miss Franklebury, who was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1840, and came to this county in 1854 with her parents. Air. Blue has resided in this county for twenty years, and is a worthy and respected citizen.
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP.
BROOKS, JOSEPH P., farmer, New Way, was born September to, 1807, in Castine, Hancock county, Maine. In October, 1828, his father, john Brooks, with his family of thirteen children, emigrated to Ohio, locating in Columbus. Joseph married Miss Sarah D. Brooks September 5, 1830, who was born in Lincolnville, now Waldo county, Maine, November 30, 1807. They have had six children, four of whom are living: Joseph P., born May 29, 1831; Sarah A., born December 15, 1833; Edward H., born February 8, 1838. Phebe J., born January 21, 1842; Solomon H., born July 20, 1843; Rufus P., born March 29, 1846. Mother died February 28, 1880; Sarah A. died July 28, 1834; Edward H. died October 18, 1843. Directly after the marriage of the subject of this sketch, he settled in Liberty township, in the wilderness. He says that there were wild deer and wolves, but the red man of the forest had gone. He was engaged in the mercantile trade for about eight or ten years, as cleik and doing business for himself. He has traveled through portions of England, Ireland, France, East Indies, and the West India islands, as a sailor, in which capacity he engaged when a mere boy and continued for about six years. Mr. Brooks stands - second to none in natural intellect in Liberty, and has always taken a great interest. in the general affairs of the country.
BROWN ROBERT, farmer, Johnstown; was born December 3, 1853, near Taylorsville, Muskingum county. When he was three years of age, his father died and he was taken by his uncle, Robert
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Brown, with whom he lived until he was twenty-three years of age, when his uncle died. Robert Brown, sr., was born March 4, 1808, in the southeastern part of the State, about 1833. He married Eliza Palmer, who was born about 1812, and died September 15, 1875, her husband following be- January to, 1877, giving by will to the subject of this sketch fifty aces of land, and to two nieces twenty-five acres each, he dying without family. He was a Methodist in faith, and was lamented by the whole community. John V. Brown, father of the subject of this sketch, was born about 1810, and married Miss Dorcas Dutro, in April, 1846, There were four. children given to them: Eliza P., born in 1847; Martha Alice, born November 1, 1851; Robert, born December 3, 1853; John V., born June 6, 1857. John V. Brown, sr., died February 13, 1857, in Muskingum county. John V., jr., died April, 1848; Eliza died about 18.19. Mrs. Brown married Daniel Swarts September 9, 1867. He died August 28, 1876. Mrs. Swarts now lives with her son, the subject of this sketch.
LICKING TOWNSHIP.
BORING, MARY M., was born January 1, 1847, in Franklin township. She was the daughter of Alva and Sarah (Franks) Swisher, whose parents were born in Licking county. Mary M. married William A. Boring, of this county. Result of this marriage, three children: Bertram A., Ora L., and Nettie ;all are at home with their mother. Mr. Boring died July 20, 1876, at the age of thirty-seven years; was a farmer, wool grower, and stock raiser; leaving his widow some one hundred and eighty acres of good land in Licking township. Mr. and Mrs. Boring were members of the Lutheran church of Swamp run, over twenty-one years.
LIMA TOWNSHIP.
BEALS, ENOCH, post office, Summit. The son of Nathan and Elmira Beals, born March 5, 1818, in Etna township. - Nathan was born -in Massachusetts, his wife in Vermont. They came to Ohio in 1815, and settled in Licking county. Enoch married Catharine Beem, at the age of twenty-two, and lived in Lima twenty-four years, then went to Indiana for one year, when he returned to Lima, where he has since resided.
BEEM, G. W., post office, Summit Station, was born in 1820, November 17th, in Jersey township. Remained at home until the age of twenty-one, then came to Lima and lived with John R. Beem one year. He married Margaret Myer, by whom he had five children, she dying June 25, 1854. July 1, 1855, he married Julia Myer, by whom he had one child; his second wife died June 30, 1857. March 18, 1858, he married Elizabeth Tharp, daughter of Isaac and Magdalena Tharp. G. W. is a descendent of Michael Beem, who was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, about the year 1751. He was of German extraction. At the age of twenty he married Elizabeth Green, daughter of Benjamin Green. He served in the Revolutionary war, with the rank of sergeant, and up to the . time of his death had a dear recollection of both . General Washington and Lafayette. He first settled at Hog run, and then went to Jersey township, where he lived until he died, at Michael Bem's, at the age of ninety-five years ten months and fourteen days.
BEEM, R. D., post office, Summit, was born in Jersey township, in 1822, July 19th, the son of William and Catharine Beern. William Beem was born in Alleghany county, Maryland; he came to Ohio about 1812, and settled in Jersey township, where he lived the remainder of his life; he died in 1857. R. D. Beem married Miss Chrisltva Myer, daughter of John and Fannie Myer , of Maryland. Mr. Myer came to Ohio about 1818.
BROCK, S. C. D., post office, Summit Station, was born in Belmont county, in the year 1822, on March 11th. He was the son of Jesse and Mary Brock, who were among the the earliest settlers of Belmont county, and were farmers by occupation. In 1868 he left Belmont county, coming directly to his present home. In 1841 he married Miss Catharine Doney, daughter of Isaac and Mary Doney. In early life Mr. Brock fitted himself for the practice of medicine, and had he chosen to follow the profession, eras amply qualified to have made his mark in the same, but chose to give his exclusive attention to farming. His farm consists of some two hundred acres, with large house, barns, stables, etc. The Union church and a fine schoolhouse are also located on this farm.
MARY ANN TOWNSHIP.
BARNES, CHARLES, JR., was born in Frederick county, Virginia, in April, 1797, and came with his father to Newark, in 1811. In 1814 the family removed to a farm in Mary Ann township, where Mr. Barnes died December 21, 1873, in his seventy-seventh year. His father, whose name was also Charles, made himself acquainted with this country while a soldier under Lord Dunmore, in the expedition against the Indians on the Scioto. He died in Mary Ann township in' 1815, and was the first person buried in Mary Ann cemetery. Charles Barnes, jr., was a member of the Presbyterian church during the last twenty years of his life, and was an upright, honest citizen.
BARNES, STEWART, a farmer, was born in this township March 5, 1834. His parents carne from
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Virginia to this township in 1811, and settled on the place where Mr. Barnes is now living. He is one of nine children-three boys and six girls, seven of whom are now living. He was married in 1861, to Virginia Jones. Her father was a native of Wales, but came to this county when a boy. Her mother was of German descent. They had five children-four boys and one girl: Charlie S., William H. (dead), Mary C., Edward H., and Oren J. Mr. Barnes is living upon a farm of one hundred acres, which he owns, and which shows evidences of the industry and careful attention that are characteristic of the man.
McKEAN TOWNSHIP.
BISHOP, NAOMI, was-born in 1823, in this county; was the daughter of Adam and Naoma Croan, who came to this county in 1802, locating in McKean township in 1809. Naomi Croan (now Bishop) was married in 1844 to D. W. Willard, of this county, who was born in 1813, in Massachusetts. They had three children. William D., born in 1845, was married to Mary J. Jourdon of this county, died in 1867, aged twenty-two years. They had one child-Ida May. George W. was born July 29, 1847. Mitchel was born in 1851; was married to Seville Smith, of this county July 22, 1880 who was born in 1860, in McKean township. He is a farmer, and is now living on the old homestead north of Fredonia. Mr. Willard died in 1853. Mrs. Willard was married again in 1855 to John J. Bishop of this county, who was born in 1802, in Washington county, New York. Results of this marriage, one child, Albion, who was born in 1867. He was married to Nealey Williams, of this county, and is now living in McKean township. Mr. Bishop died in 1879, aged seventy-seven years.
BOWERS, JACOB, was born February 9, 1794, in Green county, Pennsylvania; was married to Margaret Bechinbaugh, of the same county who was born in 1797, and came to this county, in the autumn of 1826, locating in McKean township. They were the parents of thirteen children, ten living at present. Jacob bought three hundred acres of land when he came to the township, which was all in woods, he clearing it all up himself. Mrs. Bower. died October 27, 1878, aged eighty-two years. Jacob was in the battle on Lake Erie in the War of 1812. He died August 17, 1880, aged eighty-seven years. William Bowers was born October 12, 1831, in McKean township, on the old homestead, where h at present lives. He was married December 18, 1859, to Mary E. Warner, of this county, who was born January l0, 1840. Results of this marriage three children, Lilly Arabell, born November 10, 1860, Clement W., born January 18, 1863, Corra D., born February 15, 1865. Mrs. Mary Bowers died February 18, 1872, aged thirty-two years. William was married again August 13, 1874, to Mary J. Furgeson, of this county, who was born July 16, 1844. Results of this marriage two children, Jacob W., born May 25, 1876, Mary E., born October 9, 1878.
BROOKS, DIANTHA M., was born September 8, 1829, in Granville township; was the daughter of Thomas B. and Permelia Blanchard, who came to this county in 1820, from Sutton, Massachusetts. Thomas and Permelia Blanchard had seven children. Thomas died in 1868, aged seventy-one years. Permelia died October 10, 1865, aged sixty-three years. Diantha Brooks, the subject of this sketch, was married to Martin Brooks, of this county, who was born March 21, 1830, in this county. They had five children. Nancy P. was born October 27, 1854; was married December 25, 1872, to William Owens, a farmer, of this county, and is now living in Granville township. Laura D. was born November 14, 1856; was married October 12, 1876, to John W. Fulton, a farmer, of this county. Thomas M. was born November 22, 1858; was married to Hannah Lind, of this county, and is now living at home with his mother. Sarah E. was born November 19, 1860; was married October, 1878, to William Lake, a farmer, of this county. Charles M. was born January 30, 1863; is single, and lives with his mother. Mr. Brooks died in 1874, abed forty-four years.
BROOKS FRANCIS M., was born October, 1835, in this county; was the son of Martin and Lucy Brooks, who came to this county in 1811, and located in McKean township. They were the parents of four children. Francis M., the subject of this sketch, was married in 1856, to Hannah Wilson, of this county. They had eight children Lucy, Angeline, Atta, Wilson, Nancy, Oscar, John M. and Samuel, who are all at home. Mrs. Brooks died May 20, 1877, aged thirty-six years. Mr. Brooks was married again in 1878, to Alice Wilson, of this county. They have one child, Francis M. Mr. Brooks was born in McKean township, and has always lived in it. He is a farmer, and is esteemed by all his acquaintances.
MONROE TOWNSHIP.
BARNUM, T. M.,.wagon-maker, post office, Johnstown, was born in Johnstown, Licking county, Ohio, February 2, 1840. Enlisted in the Fifth Iowa volunteer infantry in Marshalltown, Iowa, June 8, 1861, and served four years and forty days; s was discharged at Nashville, Tennessee, August, 1865. Was married January 20, 1870, to Delia Kasson, of Monroe township, Licking county, Ohio. Has three children: Byron, born February 14, 1871; Harry, born September 7, 1874; May, born
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April 7, 1878. Mr. Barnum is a Democrat in politics, and is a member of Johnstown Lodge, No. 422, Independent Order Odd Fellows.
BELL, STEPHAN E., farmer, Johnstown, was born in Liberty township, November 29, 1838. Enlisted in company B, of the Seventy-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, October 9, 1861, and served three years. Was wounded at the battle of Arkansas Post, January 11, 1863, in the left shoulder by a piece of shell. Was mustered out at Rome, Georgia, October 9, 1864. Was married to Miss Lucinda Bush, of Monroe township, November 19, 1865, by whom he has three children: Ulysses W., born February 24, 1868; Oscar C., born December 8, 1870; Ida L., born December 6, 1875. Mr. Bell is a Republican in politics, and believes a soldier should vote as he shot.
BIEDLER, H. S., postmaster, Johnstown, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, July 11, 1832. Settled in McKean township in 1858. Married August 8, 1855, to Sarah Pile, of Liberty township. Have had four children: Alice Cary, born October 29, 1856, died May 23, 1863; Clara Belle, born January 24, 1858 ; Elida May, December 5, 1859; Austin, January 18, 1861, died March 20, 1861. Biedler enlisted in company A, Third Ohio volunteer infantry, April 19, 1861, and served during the three months service. He again enlisted, October 9, 1861, in company C, Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served in the capacity of corporal during the siege of Vicksburgh, and participated in all engagements that the Seventy-sixth regiment was in up to that time. He then was commissioned second lieutenant of company C, Fifty-first United States colored volunteer regiment, in which capacity he served nearly a year, and then was promoted to first lieutenant and transferred to company D., where he served until March 1, 1866. Upon his return home he removed to Johnstown and engaged in mercantile business. Was appointed postmaster November 15, 1878, which position he still holds. From the time of his first enlistment until he returned home, was nine days short of five years he spent in the United States service. During the time he never was wounded, taken prisoner, nor received any bounty.
BLAMER, JOHN, deceased, farmer, Johnstown, was born in Monroe township, April r, 1829. He married Miss Catharine Oiler, July 4, 1851. She was born in Delaware county, July 4, 1833. They had six children: Samuel Sherwood, born November 1, 1853; Alsephene, born June 8, 1856; Emma A., born March 13, 1858; Hazel Oller, born May 6, 1860; Lucy Fredonia, born April 13, 1862, died September 22, 1862; Dora A., born October 20, 1864. John Blamer, the subject of this sketch, died February 16, 1866. He was one of thirteen children, and the only one who has passed from this sphere of action. He was a moral man, liked and missed by all who knew him.
BOTTENFIELD, LINLEY, farmer, Johnstown, was born October 25, 1846, near Lock, Knox county. In 1863 he came to Monroe township, worked on a farm, then attended three terms of school at Sunbury, and in the winter of 1868 he began teaching school. He married Emma Johnson, October 4, 1871. She was born June 30, 1852, in Monroe township. They have two children: Charles B., born May 26; 1874; Paul; born May 13, 1877. Joseph and Sarah Jane Bottenfield, parents of the subject of this sketch, were born in Pennsylvania. James Johnson, father of Mrs. Bottenfield, was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, December 1, 1805, and died January 30, 1859. His wife, Eliza Cole, was born in Pickaway county, October 24, 1810, and is still living. Politically, Mr. Bottenfield is a Democrat.
BUTT, MAHALA, farmer, post office, Johnstown, eldest daughter of George and Diadema Green, was born in Monroe township, September 15, 1807. Mrs. Butt is the first white child born in Monroe township, her father and mother being among the very earliest settlers in this section of the country. The family of which she is a member is a remarkable one in the history of the county, her father and mother having had seventeen children; fourteen of whom lived to be fathers and mothers. Mahala, the subject of this sketch, was married, May 25, 1826, to Basil Butt, of Monroe township, who was born in Berkeley county, Virginia, March 13, 1797, and as a result of their union had a family of eleven children, all living to have families except one. Leroy Hamilton, born May 2, 1827; Charlotte G., born October 17, 1828; Mariah Jane, born October 25, 1830, and died July 2, 1858; Reszen M., born September 15, 1832; Noah Fassett, born December 25, .1834; Caroline S., born December 12, 1835; Hazel Rignal, born January 25, 1840; Morgan Green, born January 19, 1842; Henry S. W., born November 1, 1844 ; Addis Porter, born March 30, 1847, died April 16, 1849; Abi Adelia, born March 30, 1853. Mr. Butt died November 16, 1854, leaving Mrs. Butt with seven children, all of whom she brought up and lived to see settled in life, prosperous men and women. Mr. Butt was a soldier in the War of 1812, serving in a Captain Conn's company of Virginia militia, and, although Mr. Butt never drew a pension, Mrs. Butt applied under the law passed during the winter of 1878 for the relief of widows and surviving relatives of soldiers of the War of 1812, and was granted a pension, herself and one other being the only pensioners of said war in Monroe township.
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CITY OF NEWARK.
BADER, ALIES, coal dealer, No. 115, Fifth street, near the canal. Mr. Bader was born in Germany, June 7, 1830. He migrated to America. in 1851, and located in Newark, this aunty, where he engaged as coal deliverer in the town, and continued as such until 1860, when he commenced the coal business for himself, buying his coal at Coshocton, and boating it to this city and retailing it out over the town. He has been conducting the business with success over twenty years, and has gained for himself a large trade, causing him to handle on an average of about one hundred thousand bushels annually. In 186o he married Miss Annie Hines, of Somerset, Perry county, Ohio. They settled in Newark, where they are now residing. They are the parents of six sons and two daughters.
BAILEY, Amos, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, August 9, 1837. He worked on a farm until he was thirty years of age. He was married to Francis King, July 1, 1858, who was born in Monroe county, April 10, 1840. They have had four children: Marion S., born March 17, 1859; Isadore, who died December 12, 1865, aged five years; Florence A., born December 22, 1862; Mary Theisa, born February 15, 1865. In 1865 Mr. Bailey moved to Grundy county, Illinois, and remained there some six years, then moved to Will county, where he remained about eight years, then moved to Newark, where he now lives. He is now in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company. During the war he was a member of the Ohio national guards.
BAKER, M. Q., successor to Sears & Baker, dealers in dry goods, notions, hosiery, oil cloths, carpets, etc., No. 127 Third street, northwest corner of Park. Mr. Baker was born near Danville, Knox county, Ohio, August 25, 1849. He received his education in the Danville schools. In 1867 he entered a dry goods store in Delaware, Ohio, as salesman, where he remained until November, 1869. He came to Newark and engaged in partnership with J. E. Sears, in the dry goods business, which business he has since been conducting successfully. The firm name was known as Sears & Baker, until in September, 1880, when Mr. Baker purchased his partner's interest, and has since been carrying on the business alone. He occupies two rooms, the lower one, which is eighteen by one hundred and thirty feet, is used as a salesroom, and is well filled with everything in his line of business. The upper room is eighteen by one hundred feet in size, and is used as the carpet department, where you can find everything in the carpet line from the cheapest hemp to the best Brussels. He also carries a full line of notions, hosiery, underwear, and is sole agent for the Dresden wool goods and Butterick's patterns.
BALLOU, DR. L. T., deceased, was born in Muskingum county, and died November 2, 1874, in Newark, aged fifty-three years. He lived in Newark during the last twenty years of his life, and had attained to a very large practice in his profession. As a physician he was industrious, attentive, and always rendered a liberal share of gratuitous service among the poor, which causes his memory to be cherished among that class. His benevolence in this. direction seemed to know no bounds, except his endurance. He was also very patriotic, and gave largely of his time and means during the perilous years of the great rebellion. His death was regarded as a public calamity.
BANE, JOHN F., was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1812. When he arrived at the age of fourteen years he commenced working at the tailor trade as an apprentice in Waynesburgh, Pennsylvania. After completing his trade, he traveled and worked at his trade as a journeyman about six years. In 1835 he came to Ohio and located in Brownsville, this county, where he engaged at his trade as merchant tailor. In a few months after his settlement in Brownsville, he was united in marriage with Miss A. E. Broke, eldest daughter of Dr. William L. Brooke, of Zanesville. This union resulted in six children, five of whom are now living, two sons and three daughters. He continued at his business as merchant tailor in Brownsville until in 1853, when he gave up his trade and engaged in the mercantile business, which he conducted about four years. He was appointed postmaster at Brownsville in 1845, and held the office about nine years. In 1852 he was elected justice of the peace, and se-ved as such two and one-half years, and then resigned the office. In 1857 he moved to Newark, and in 1858 he again opened his merchant tailor rooms, which he has since been conducting. On March 15, 1878, he moved to his present location, No. 130 Third street, three doors south of First National bank. In May, 1879, his son, Frank T. Bane, a practical cutter, became his partner, and the firm name is now known as J. F. Bane & Son, merchant tailors. They constantly keep on hand a good assortment of Beaverdam, Riverside, Harris & Globe cassimeres; as also English and French goods in the same texture-broadcloths, doeskins, hairlines, Meltons, Cheviots and plaids, with heavier grades in pilots, cheviots, Whitney's chinchillas, and substantial beavers. No garment is allowed to leave the house without giving entire satisfaction. In trimming suits they use the best material. By fair
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dealing, good work and close application to business, they have gained for themselves a large trade.
BARBER, JAMES, carriage painter. He was born in London, England, December 25, 1819; came with his father's family to Newark in 1840; was married August 27, 1844, to Sarah W. Williams, of Newark, daughter of Robert Williams, of Newark, who died in Cincinnati October 3, 1847, aged fifty-three years. Mrs. Williams died October 30, 1850, aged fifty-three years. Mr. and Mrs. Barber are the parents of ten children: Anna, died in infancy; Anna W. died aged nine years; Mary C., born December 7, 1846; Henrietta E., died May 14, 1877, aged thirty-one years; Ellen E., died April14, 1875, aged two years; Frank A., died September 14, 1875, aged twenty-one years; Charles J., born March 20, 1856; Joseph P. born April 2, 1858; William H., burn May 5, 1866. Mr. Barber for many years has followed ornamental painting, and for the past ten years has followed carriage painting. He has a comfortable home at No. 37 West Main street, Newark.
BARRICK and O'BANNON, the popular merchant tailors, and dealers in gents' furnishing goods, 346 Lansing House block, Newark, Ohio. Mr. Barrick can safely be called the pioneer merchant tailor in this city, having commenced the business in Newark in 1847. He was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, November 22, 1813, He commenced at the tailoring trade in 1827; after completing his apprenticeship in 1830, he continued at the business as journeyman a few years. In 1834 he came to Newark, where he carried on a tailor shop until 1847, when he engaged in merchant tailoring, which he conducted until .1870. He then went to Philadelphia, where he carried on the business over two years. In 1872 he returned to Newark and again engaged in his former business, which he has since been conducting. He moved to his present location in the Lansing House-block in 1876. His. son-in-law, W. W. O'Bannon, became his partner in 1878, and the firm name has since been known as Barrick & O'Bannon. In the merchant tailoring department they carry a general variety of cloths, cassimeres, doe-skins, basket suitings, diagonals, English, French, German and American goods, all of the highest grades. In the gents' furnishing line they carry a large assortment of stylish scarfs, ties, gloves, half-hose, silk or cotton handkerchiefs, pins, cuff-bottons, and everything new, novel and fancy. The ready-made clothing department is well stocked, and lacks nothing for men, youth's or boy's fine suits or working clothes; everything in the line of ready made clothing.
BARROWS, ALBERT, M. D., born in Manchester, Bennington county, Vermont, on the thirtieth day of January, 1815. He was educated at the Castleton college, located at Castleton, Vermont. In 1834 he commenced the study of medicine, and graduated in the .Castleton Medical academy in 1837. He began the practice of medicine October' 1837, in Manchester, Vermont, a partner of Dr. Tuttle. In 1840 he came to Newark, where he married Miss Charlotte B. Williams, July 28, 1840, formerly of Manchester, Vermont; she came to Newark in 1830, with her father's family, Hazen Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Barrows returned to Manchester,-where he continued in his profession until 1846, when they removed to Newark, where they have since been living. Shortly after their settlement in this city, Mr. Barrows began the practice of medicine in Newark and vicinity, where he has been a practitioner in his profession for the past thirty-four years, in all making forty-two years of his life that he has given to the practice of medicine. They have two children, Clark D. and Annie G.
BAUGHMAN, EMANUEL, born in Virginia, April 8, 1814, came to Fairfield county, Ohio, in 1816, was married to Polly Soles when about twenty-two years of age, and lived in Fairfield county until the death of his wife. Mr. Baughman then came to Newark, Ohio, and there married his second wife, Mary Swank, of Knox county, Ohio, January 8, 1854. They have no children of their own, but have living with them an adopted daughter, Elizabeth.
BEACH, T. A., photographer, west side park. Mr. Beach is a native of Thomastown, Georgia, where he was born August 18, 1840. His father died when he was quite young and when he was about three years old his mother returned to Long Island, his native place, where he remained until 1857. He then came to Delaware, Ohio, and .engaged in the Daguerrian art which he followed until photography came into use, after which he turned his attention to that . department of art and to which he has devoted his entire attention and labors until the present. In 1876, he came to this city, where he has since plied his profession with success and he now numbers amongst his patrons, the elite and most refined of this city and surrounding country. He occupies a large and elegant suite of rooms, consisting of a reception room 17x30, operating 20x30, and printing and work room on third floor; in these rooms he has first class cameras and facilities for operating his . profession. He produces photos of all sizes and of the latest and most tasty styles , also large photos and portraits in crayon, india ink, water colors, rembrant photos and porcelain pictures. He is a thorough student
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of his profession and by his diligence has achieved a high degree of excellence in the different branches of the art: He was married April 3, 1865, to Miss Sarah Brewer, daughter of the late Charles Brewer, of Plymouth, Ohio.
BEARD, JAMES, was born near Jacktown July 22, 1827. During his youth and early manhood he followed farming. About fifteen years ago he joined the police force of Newark. In 1870, he moved to Dresden and took the management of the Central house of that place. He remained at this business five years, then went to Granville and kept a boarding house two years; he then moved to Newark, where his family now resides. He is managing the Stump house at the Reservoir. He was married to Ann Etnier, February 30, 1852. She was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, November 1, 1830. They have four children, Frank, who died August 30, 1853, at the age of eleven months; Leota, born June 2, 1854, now the wife of Edmond Cowley, telegraph operator, Newark ; Delbert W was born February 6, 1863 ; Cora B. November 28, 1865. Mrs. Beard is the daughter of David Etnier, of Jacktown, who died April, 184o, at the age of forty years. Her mother died September 3, 1874, aged eighty eight years. Her brother Simeon now lives on their old home place, near Jacktown.
BENTLEY & MILLER, druggists, Nos. 101, Third street and 404, Main street, corner of Main and Third. Mr. Bentley, senior, member of this firm, is formerly of Canton, where he was engaged in the drug business for twenty years. In 1877, he came to Newark and engaged in the business here in company with Miller, under the present firm name. Mr. E. Miller, junior, member of the firm, is a native of Newark and was born March 12, 1856, and was educated in the public schools of this city. His first business engagement was with Dr. Wing, druggist, as clerk, with whom he remained until 1877 when in company with Mr. Bentley they became his successors and have since conducted the business under the firm name of Bentley & Miller. They have an excellent location in the building known as Patton's corner, where they occupy pleasant and commodious rooms twenty-two by sixty with cellar of the same size, in which they carry a large first-class stock of pure drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, toilet articles, fancy goods, dye stuffs, trusses, shoulder braces and supporters. Also are proprietors of the celebrated White Lily catarrh cure which has become exceedingly popular and has been introduced in the majority of the wholesale houses in the United States and has already a very extensive sale throughout the entire country.
BOLLWINE, PETER, was born in Licking county, Ohio, January 16, 1824, He was brought up on a farm. In 1844 he commenced at the blacksmith trade and followed that as his vocation for a number of years. In 186o he engaged in the .grocery business in Utica, this county. In 1865 he sold his grocery and moved on his farm, near Utica, and' followed farming about two years; then in in 1867 he purchased and moved into the property on the corner of Second and Canal streets, Newark, where he has since been carrying on a restaurant and boarding house with success. June 25, 1846, he married Miss Marie Duffield, of this county--born in 1819. By this union he had six children, four of whom are now living, two sons and two daughters. In May, 1864, he enlisted in company A, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Ohio national guard. On the morning of the sixth of July he was taken prisoner near Maryland Heights.
BIERLEY, JOHN, was born in Newark, March 27, 1838. He was educated in the schools of this city. In 1854 he commenced as an apprentice to the tinner's trade with A. Zimmerman of Newark, with whom he remained about eighteen months. He then went to Columbus, where he completed his trade with Mr. E. Doddridge in December, 1858. During the years 1859-6o he traveled through some of the southern States, and worked at his trade in different cities, as journeyman. In 1861 he returned to Columbus. When the first call came for men from the government, he responded on the eighteenth day of April, by enlisting in the Second Ohio volunteer infantry for a term of three months. At the expiration of his time of enlistment he was discharged from the service and returned to Columbus. He again resumed his trade, which he made his vocation until in 1864, when he re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Eightieth Ohio volunteer infantry and served until the close of the war. In 1867 he returned to his native city and engaged in dealing in tinware, stoves and house furnishing goods, which he conducted several years. In 1876 he erected the building and commenced business in his present location, No 111, Fourth street, opposite city hall, where he has since been conducting the business of dealing in cook and heating stoves, Japan and house-furnishing goods and table cutlery. He manufactures everything in the line of tin, sheet iron, and copper ware, also makes spouting and tin roofing a specialty.
BOSTWICK, NATHAN, was born November 2,1819, in Pike township, Bradford county, Pennsylvania; emigrated to Ohio with his parents in 1830, landing at Newark, and living the first winter in McKean township, this county. In the spring of
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1831 the family moved into Milford township, Knox county, and settled upon a farm. He was married in 1840, to Adaline A. Beardslee; they had seven children, all boys, as follows: Julius C., George F., Henry C., William W., Burr W., Harmon R., and John A., all living but Julius C., who died of hemorrhage of the lungs, while in the army, at Shiloh, April 9, 1862. Nathan Bostwick went into the army at the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion, in 1861, taking with him two of his boys, Julius C. and George F. The latter was desperately wounded at Atlanta, July 22, 1864, by a cannister shot through the thigh, and with his father, fell into the hands of the enemy, and was taken to Andersonville prison pen. He had before been a prisoner for a month, and had been ex- , changed at Vicksburgh, having been captured in a fight with Wheeler's cavalry, near Middleburgh, Tennessee. He made his escape from Andersonville in October, and hiding in swamps, or bayous was pursued with bloodhounds, but finally secured a skirl' and paddling down the Ocomulgee river, reached the Federal gunboats in safety. This young man suffered terribly from his wounds and prison life, a complete history of which would make an interesting volume. Nathan Bostwick went into the army as recruiting officer October 18, 1861, at Columbus, Ohio, with the rank of second lieutenant; was attached to company G, which was sent, with three other companies of the same regiment, to Warsaw, Kentucky, in January, 1862, where they settled some trouble between the Union men and rebels of that place. Company G remained in Warsaw until in February, when they returned to Cincinnati, and soon after joined the expedition against Fort Donelson, and was in the last day's battle at that place. After the battle company G„ Lieutenant Bostwick being then in command, escorted eleven hundred rebel prisoners to St. Louis, from which place, in company with a portion of company C, of the same regiment, they escorted all the officers captured at Fort Donelson to Camp Chase, at Columbus. Lieutenant Bostwick came home from this place, sick with typhoid fever, but his company went on to Boston with the field and staff' of that capture. Upon his recovery from his very severe illness, he rejoined his company at Bolivar, Tennessee, in June, 1862, and in September took command of company C, Twentieth regiment; with rank of first lieutenant. He continued in command of this company through the Vicksburgh campaign, the captain of company C having resigned. He was commissioned first lieutenant May 9, 1862, and was with Grant during all the operations of the army for the capture of Vicksburgh ; the first battle of that campaign in which the regiment was engaged being at Thompson's Hill, fought immediately after the battle of Grand Gulf. He was also in the battle of Raymond and that of Jackson immediately following it; also the battle of Champion Hill, where he received a sun stroke, from which he yet suffers. The siege of Vicksburgh lasted forty-seven days, during which he was on duty almost incessantly, day and night, fighting and working in the trenches. After the surrender the Twentieth remained in camp until Sherman marched to Meridian Mississippi, in February, 1864. Lieutenant Bostwick was promoted to captain, January 30, 1864, and transferred to the command of his old company, G, accompanying Sherman to .Meridian. After that campaign, the regiment re-enlisted as veterans, and Captain Bostwick came home on veteran furlough. The furlough having expired, the regiment rendezvoused at Cairo, Illinois, marching thence up the Tennessee river to Clifton, Tennessee, and over the Sand mountains, a distance of three hundred miles, joining Sherman at Ackworth, Georgia, shortly after engaging in the siege and battle of Kenesaw Mountain. Captain Bostwick was in the charge made by his division at this. place. The next desperate battle in which he was engaged was that before Atlanta, July 22, 1864, where his division, under General Leggett, surrounded by Hood's forces was attacked in front and rear, and engaged in some of the hardest fighting of the war. Captain Bostwick says their division moved across their breastworks five times during the day, fighting first on one side, then on the other. He was wounded twice in this action-with a sliver from a ball in the left eye, and a piece of shell in the left knee-and fell into the hands of the enemy. The brigade lost about one-half of its number in this bloody battle, in which it was frequently engaged in a hand-to-hand conflict. After his capture, Captain Bostwick was robbed of two hundred and thirty dollars in money, and most of his outer clothing, except his boots, which, being a fine, heavy pair, he refused to give up except with his life, and when a rebel captain approached for the purpose of taking them, he received such a kick in a vital part as sent him several feet distant, and nearly ended his life. Captain Bostwick expected to be riddled with rebel bullets for this act, as the guards were all around him, but, probably from admiration of his pluck, they did not molest him. The rebel officer, however, after regaining his breath and his feet, again approached him, with the intention, no doubt, of running him through with his sabre, but just before attempting the cowardly act, he discovered a small Masonic emblem attached to the captain's waistcoat. This stopped him and turning to the guards he ordered them to take the belligerent captain away. There is no doubt but that this mystic sign of Masonry saved his life at that time. He was taken to the stockade
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at Macon, Georgia, and subsequently to Charleston, South Carolina, and placed in prison. He was again taken sick and remained for some time in the hospital, being treated by Dr. Todd, a rebel and brother of Mrs. Lincoln. From there he was taken to Columbia, South Carolina, October 6, 1864. Here he was outrageously treated, being sick with chills and fever and compelled to lie on the ground, without shelter or medical attention for three weeks, and came near dying, being reduced to a skeleton. He was then put into a tent hospital, and treated by a doctor named LaGrone, a Frenchman, from whom he received much attention: December 1, 1864, he made his escape in company with Captain McFadden, of the Fifty-seventh New York, and H. C. Payne, a sergeant of the Twentieth Illinois. They traveled twenty-seven nights through the smoky mountains of North Carolina, traveling only in the dead of night, aided, fed and piloted on their way by the negroes, and reached our lines at Knoxville, Tennessee, December 27, 1864. Here he reported to General Carter, provost marshal at that place, who ordered clothing for the starved and ragged prisoners, forwarding them to Chattanooga, and from thence to Nashville. After being ordered to various places Captain Bostwick obtained a leave of absence and came home, remaining, however, only a short time, when he went by way of New York to join Sherman, then on the march to the sea He was promoted major January 11, 1865, and joined Sherman and the Twentieth regiment at Goldsborough, North Carolina. After Lee's surrender he asked permission of his brigade commander, General R. K. Scott, afterward governor of South Carolina, to resign, believing the war over; and his health being poor he wished to return home. His resignation being accepted, he came to Washington, settled with the Government, and was there at the time of the assassination of President Lincoln, after which he came home to his farm in Knox county. He subsequently sold his farm and spent some time traveling in the west; living a short time near Fredericktown, Ohio, Charleston, Illinois, and Mount Vernon, Ohio. In April, 1873, he settled in Newark, engaging in the drug business, where he yet remains. This brief biography, merely touches upon the military life of this gallant soldier. The story of his capture, prison life, sufferings, and subsequent escape, would make a very readable volume of many pages, and would verify the fact that "truth is stranger than fiction." He tell, of his continual but many times unsuccessful efforts to escape; of sickness, exposure, hunger, and the horrors of prison life; of his escape in a strange manner with two confederates; of their hiding in the swamps and mountains; of exposure and starvation; of being tracked by bloodhounds, who came suddenly upon them in a dark gorge in the mountains, compelling them to fight for their lives, which they did, and came off victorious; of capturing a rebel picket that was in their way, killing one man and taking two others prisoner; of continual hairbreadth escapes, and incessant danger, and above all, of the faithfulness of the blacks, who never once betrayed them, but fed and guided them on their way at the peril of their own lives. People scarcely realize that they have in their midst living, walking heroes, before whose deeds of daring and suffering the most intricate combinations of fiction pale and become commonplace.
BOWER, CHARLES D., railroad employee. He was born in Wurttemburg, Germany, April 21, 1857; moved to Delaware, Ohio, in 1861, and came to Newark in 1870. He was married to Miss Emma Undernaher, of Newark, in 1875. They have two children: Lulu M., born March 17, 1876; Charles Frederic, February, 1878. Mrs. Bower is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Undernaher who now live in Newark. Mr. Bower was formerly engaged in the bakery business, and at times followed market gardening, but for past three years, has been in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
BRADY, CORRINGTON S., late auditor. Mr. Brady, a native of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, Brady was born April 16, 1849; son of Dr. Gilbert of Irish parents. He came to this county .while a young man, and engaged in teaching school, after which he was engaged in the drug business and the manufacturing of oil, and subsequently engaged in farming, in which business he was engaged at the time of his death. Dr. Brady was appointed clerk of the court in 1844, and served eight years, having been elected county recorder in 1842, and served two years. Corrington S. Brady was educated in the public schools of this city. In 1867 he entered as clerk the office of county auditor, and remained in the office in this capacity until 1875, when he was elected county auditor, and re-elected in 1877, serving two years the first, and three the second term. Mr. Brady was married February 22, 1872, to Miss Malissa Showman, daughter of Jacob Showman, of this city; three children: Mattie A., Minnie B. and James T.
BROOKE, SAMUEL W., inventor and manufacturer of a patent flour and meal chest, was born May 15, 1833, in Gratiot, Licking county; moved with his parents to Brownsville in this county; from there to Danville, Knox county; from there to Zanesville, Muskingum county. His father died in Danville in 1838. He came to Newark when he
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was sixteen years old, and learned cabinet-making with his oldest brother. Of his father's family there were eleven children-nine still living. His father was Dr. William L. Brooke. He was married to Maria Whitehead August 9, 1853, who was born December 6, 1834. Her parents were pioneers of this county. Her mother died at the age of eighty-one years. Her father died in the year 1868, when seventy years of age. They have seven children: Mattie E., born April 9, 1854; Edwin F., September 19, 1855; Sylvia L., September 13. 1857; Jessie B., February 21, 1860; Samuel W., jr., November 23, 1862; Frank B., November 28, 1868, and Lizzie C., November 21, 1870. Edwin is married to Rosa Jennings; is a machinist, and is living in Newark. Sylvia is married to Albert Cunningham, formerly of Union county, a printer by trade, and is living in Newark. Jessie is married to William J. Francis; is living in Newark; a carpenter by trade. Mr. Brooke carried on the cabinet and undertaking business until recently. He invented the flour and meal chest, and is now engaged in its manufacture, and in selling territory. It is an article of great merit and utility. He enlisted in the late war in the fall of 1861, as drum major of the Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was transferred to the regimental band; served eleven months, and was mustered out of service by a governmental act, as he says, to abolish bands in the army; returned to Newark, and recruited a company for the six months' service, and served as first lieutenant company I, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Ohio volunteer infantry ; at the expiration of his term of service he returned to Newark, and enlisted in company C, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry one hundred days' men, :and went out as second lieutenant.
BROWN, ALEXANDER, retired farmer, Newark. He was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, March 25, 1811: He came to Morgan county, Ohio, in 1843, and the next year moved to near Asbury, Perry county; here he taught vocal music about six years, and here was married to Mary McCracken, May 6, 1848. She was married in the same house in which she was born, April 19, 1824. About a month after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Brown moved to Flint ridge in this county, where he bought a farm of thirty-four acres, on which they lived until the death of. Mrs. Brown, July 4, 1877. After this sad event, Mr. Brown travelled through the east a few months; then . returned, and attended Mr. Hammond's tabernacle meetings in Zanesville about a month. Mr. Brown has been an active member of the Associate Reformed church forty-seven years, and still, at his advanced age, is a regular and constant attendant upon all the church services. He is also an ardent advocate of temperance. He is passionately fond of music, and has used his talent to a good purpose. Mr. Brown has three children: John, Margaret Viola and Mary Elizabeth. John is a schoolteacher, is married, and lives on Flint ridge; the two daughters also reside in the same locality.
BROWN, S. M., was born in New Concord, Muskingum county, Ohio, June 2, 1854. He is the son of Alexander Brown of the same place, a carpenter, who died July 2, 187 r, at the age of sixty years. His mother, Margaret, died August 25, 1863, aged forty-five years: The subject of this sketch, when a young man, learned the carpenter trade, at which he worked four years, when he was employed by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. from September 14, 1873, to March 16, 1877, when he returned to his former home and remained until October, 1878. He came to Newark September 11th, and commenced work with H. & C. F. . Blandy in the foundry business. He continued with them one year and four months. At the age of twenty-four years he became a member of the United Presbyterian church of New Concord, Ohio. In July, 1879, he took his letter from that church and joined the Second Presbyterian, of Newark. His home, at present, is with Mr. T. G. Speers, of Newark.
BROWN, SARAH MRS., was born in Zanesville, June 25, 1834, daughter of James Graig, of that city. She was married to Robert Brown, October 2, 1855. By this marriage she had five children: Harry F., born July 4, 1856; Asa T., born March 25, 1858; Smith T., born December 13, 1860; Charles H., born February 28, 1862; Anna E., born January 11, 1864. At an early day of Mr. Brown's life he learned the milling trade with his father, and later went with the Central Ohio railroad company as baggage-master, afterward as fireman on a locomotive, and later as an engineer. He followed railroading sixteen .years. He was killed by an explosion of a locomotive November 2, 1869. Harry Brown is a baker by occupation, and now lives in Dennison, Ohio; Asa is a cigarmaker, and lives in Mansfield, Ohio; Smith is a dealer in stock at Zanesville, Ohio; Charles is clerking in the blind asylum in Columbus, Ohio; Miss Anna is learning dressmaking with Miss Prompter, of Newark.
BROWN, MRS. ELLA, was born in Coshocton, Ohio, February 9, 1843; moved to Knox county with her parents, and remained there until she was fourteen years old. She was married to John Brown, and is the mother of one child, Joseph, born April 9. 1860, who is now running on the Hocking . Valley railroad. Mrs. Brown is the
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daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Shock, of Coshocton. Her father died when she was six years old; her mother is living in Newark in the Seventy-eighth year of her age. Mr. John Brown was a member of company C, Thirty-second regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was killed at Champion Hills.
BROWN, ISAIAH M., engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He has served in this capacity about six years. He is the son of Henry and Caroline M. Brown, and was born January 19, 1850, in Perry county, Ohio. He lived there until he was twenty years of age, when he removed to Indiana, remaining there about three years, when he removed to Newark, where he has since resided. He was married to Anna Reams, of Columbus, October 10, 1878. She was born June 6, 1857, in Franklin county. Mr. Brown's mother, a widow, lives with him. His father died November 22, 1862, in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a soldier in the late war, in company A, Thirty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, from Perry county. Mr. Brown is the old oldest son of H. and Caroline Brown. He had but one brother, George W. He died in Kansas, November 30, 1879, at the age of twenty-seven, having been absent from home four years.
BRUBAKER, MRS. ARABELLA, born in Licking township, January 6, 1818. She was the daughter of William C. Young, who came from Virginia to Licking county in the fall of 1817. The customary way' of traveling in those days was on horseback, and in this way Mr. Young brought his wife and all that he had, making two trips for that purpose. He located on the farm now owned by H. Ronan, purchasing fifty acres of land. By industry and economy he had increased his farm to one hundred acres, at the time of his death, which occurred April 12, 1838, at the age o forty-four years. His wife died in August, 1877 aged eighty-four. The subject of this sketch was married to Abram P. Brubaker, April 7, 1836 They have six children: Elizabeth E., born Feb ruary, 1837; Dorothea, who died August 22, 1845 aged two years and ten months; Peter W., born March 20, 1846; Rebecca, born March 19, 1851 died August 23, 1877. Abram P. Brubaker was born in Page county, Virginia, August 5, 1811 moved to Licking county in the fall of 1829 with his mother, and located on the farm now owned by William Smith, on the Hebron road in Union township. He now lives in South Newark, where he has a very pleasant home, in addition to which he owns a faun of three hundred acres in Union township.
BROWNE, JAMES M.-Mr. Browne's great-grandfather, Peter Browne, owned a farm upon which a part of the city of Camden, New Jersey, is now located. He was a shipwright by trade, and latterly lived in Philadelphia. His grandfather, William Browne, was born in Philadelphia, September 10, 1734. The indenture of apprenticeship, dated May 1, 1748, by which he was bound to a shipwright for seven years, is still in the possession of Mr. Browne. During the Revolution he was a member of General Washington's staff, and served his country with distinction. Liberty Browne, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Philadelphia about half past three o'clock in the afternoon of July 4, 1776; probably the first born free American citizen. He was a merchant and manufacturer of gold and silver-ware, and began business with money borrowed from the Franklin loan, a fund set apart by Benjamin Franklin to assist worthy and faithful apprentices in starting in business for themselves upon the completion of their apprenticeship. He was paymaster in the War of 1812, was president of the council of Philadelphia for nine years, justice of the peace, and a political orator of note. The names of a few of the members of hi. household indicate a great change during the past century. His name was Liberty, Patience a nurse, justice a ward, Comfort a servant, and Peace and Plenty that of two dogs. Mr. Browne was born in Philadelphia November 5, 1809, the sixth of a family of ten children, and is a patternmaker by trade. He came from Philadelphia to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1839, and remained there seven years, then moved to Newark, where he has resided ever since, except two years spent in Louisiana. For twenty-five years he was a member of the volunteer fire department of this city, and was chief engineer for fifteen years. He also served five years in the fire department of Zanesville. In 1859 he was city marshal, in 1869-70 member of the city council, and in 1878 was elected city weight master and market master which position he has retained since. He was married in 1833 to Harriet Bradley, of Philadelphia, and has six children living; Nesbitt Liberty, Mary Elizabeth, Franklin Henry, James Madison, jr., Albert B. and Lawrence H.
BRICE, DR. JOHN J., was one of the early settlers of Newark, and for many years was one of the best known citizens of our county and of central Ohio. His father (William Brice) was a native of Maryland, who, however, removed to Alexandria, Virginia, where he was engaged in the milling business and in merchandising at the time of his death, on which occurred about the year 1786. He left a widow and five children, of which the subject of this sketch (born in'781) was the youngest. Some at- years after the death of William Brice, his widow,
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with her five children, removed to western Pennsylvania, where her three daughters were married, and where she died to 1817. Her oldest son, Benjamin J. Brice removed to Harrison county, western Virginia, where he married Sarah, daughter of Colonel Benjamin Wilson, reared a large family, and closed an unusually long, active and useful life. John J. Brice, by the judicious use of his patrimony, was enabled to acquire a good education, professional and otherwise. He studied medicine with Dr. Mowry of Pittsburgh, and it is said was a medical student, for a time in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He also attended a 'course of medical lectures in Philadelphia, and was afterward associated in the practice of his profession with Dr. Mowry, his preceptor, who was a physician of much repute.
Dr. Brice, however, soon decided to make a permanent location in the west, and with that view, travelled in that direction as far as Lawrenceburg, a small town on the banks of the Ohio river, below the mouth of the Big Miami, in the then Indiana territory. On his way back he traveled on horseback through Ohio, and took Newark in his route, where, tarrying for a short time, a great demand existed for his professional services, and he did not leave until the sickness which then prevailed both in town and country had, in a great measure, subsided. This was in the autumn of 1805 (although it is elsewhere stated on the authority of Dr. J. N. Wilson, that it was probably in 1803), and about the beginning of winter he returned to Harrison county, Virginia, where he, in January, 1806, consummated a previously existing matrimonial engagement with Anne, daughter of Colonel Benjamin Wilson, of said locality. He still intended to locate at Lawrenceburg, and came here shortly after his marriage, to close up his business, by collecting his accounts, and getting ready for the removal. But not being very successful in making collections, he, while thus engaged, was again drawn into practice, and it is quite likely that the longer he remained the less probable it became that he would ever become a citizen of Indiana territory.
Thus the summer of 1806 wore away, also the autumn and a portion of the winter succeeding, when in February, 1807, he brought his wife to Newark, she having until this time remained at her father's, where, on the thirtieth of November, she had given birth to her only son, Benjamin W. Brice, now a resident of Baltimore. The first house, or rather cabin, they occupied.. stood on the west side of First street, between Main and Church. Dr. Brice practiced his profession in Newark for nearly half a century, and his methods and merits as a physician are presented much at length in liberal quotations from the essay of the late Dr. J. N. Wilson on the diseases and mode of treatment, in early times in Newark and the Licking valley. It may be well to say in addition, that he was a faithful, careful, judicious and successful practitioner that in the .vigor of life he possessed and exercised remarkable skill, care and judgment in his profession, backed by the accumulating and constantly, increasing acquirements of a careful student, as well as rigid analysis and judicious deductions from all the notable cases coming under his treatment. His talents, attainments and skill were recognized in high ,quarters, professional and nonprofessional. Dr. Brice was an eminently practical man in the management of business matters; and it is not surprising that one so energetic, industrious, and frugal, and of such sound judgment should have accumulated a large estate, so that at his death he was one of the wealthiest men in Licking county. During the last twenty years of his life he was a member of the Presbyterian church, and died in December, 1853, aged seventy-two years.
BRICE, MRS. ANNE, wife of Dr. Brice, was a daughter of Colonel Benjamin Wilson, a gentleman of wealth and distinction of Harrison county, Virginia, and was born there January 17, 1786. She was married to Dr. John J. Brice in January, 1806, and became a resident of Newark, Ohio, in February, 1807. The beginning of her career here was specially marked by the cheerful resignation and almost heroic fortitude with which she embraced the new life in the .west. Reared at her father's home in Virginia, in the midst of abundance, surrounded with every necessary comfort, including a superfluity of house and other servants, never subjected to cares or drudgery of any kind, she was transplanted from that comfortable home in mid-winter, with an infant child in arms, a distance of one hundred and seventy miles, for the most part on horseback, through an almost utter wilderness country, to Newark, which was then but the mere beginning of a frontier village. Here she was domiciled in the crudest. of log cabins, where the accustomed comforts to .which she was used were an impossibility, the means to supply the commonest wants and necessities, not always available. She had to assume the duties and cares of housekeeping under all their embarrassments without the help of a single servant, and with little else to make her situation tolerable. Still, though sorely exercised and grieved in mind by the prospect before her, she never thought of yielding to discouragement, never .indulged in repinings, but nerved herself to a cheerful acceptance of the situation, sustained by an unfaltering confidence that the ability, energy and industry of her young husband would : command success, and that their many privations and hardships would be but short lived. That hope n was not disappointed. Throughout her life she de-
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voted herself religiously to all her duties as wife, mother and friend, abounding always in sympathetic interest for her neighbors, and ever beneficently open-handed to help those about her who needed help. Mrs. Brice became a member of the Presbyterian church in 1833, and died in July, 1849, in the sixty-fourth year of her age.
BRICE, GENERAL BENJAMIN W.-General Brice was born in Harrison county, Virginia, November 30, 1806; and is the son of Dr. John J. Brice and Mrs. Anne Brice, who brought him to Newark in February, 1807. He attended the common schools of Newark, also the classical school taught by Rev. Thomas D. Baird, where he had for his associate pupils, Dr. J. N. Wilson, John Cunningham, Elijah Stadden, James R Stanbery and others. He and the last named were also fellow-students at Bishop Chase's school at Worthington, Ohio, as well as that of Philander Chase, jr., at Zanesville. Both entered the Ohio university, at Athens, Ohio, where the subject of this sketch was a sophomore, when, July 1, 1825, he was appointed a cadet at the United States military school at West Point, and where he was graduated July 1, 1829, and promoted in the army brevet second lieutenant Third infantry. Cadet Brice, as appears from "Cullom's Biographical Register of the officers and graduates of the United States military academy," (to which we are indebted for the military history of General Brice), served on frontier duty at Jefferson barracks in 1829-30, at Fort Armstrong, upper Mississippi, 1830-31, and on an expedition against the Sac and Fox Indians in 1831 this being the first Black Hawk campaign under General Gaines. He resigned in 1832 and engaged in merchandising in Newark. He served as brigade major of Ohio militia from 1835 to 1839; was admitted to the bar in 1845, and elected associate judge of the common pleas court of Licking county in the same year, serving two years; at the beginning of the Mexican war in 1846 he was appointed adjutant general. On the third of March, 1847, General Brice was reappointed in the United States army major of staff paymaster, and placed on duty in pay department at Cincinnati the same year; and in service in the Mexican war at Carmago in 1847, and at Monterey, Saltillo and Brazos Island in 1848, also at Fort Brown, Texas, in 1848-49; disbanded March 4, 1849, by limitation of law. General Brice was re-appointed in the United States army with rank of major staff' paymaster February 9, 1852, and served in the pay department in the southern district of New Mexico, with headquarters at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico, from 1852 to 1854. During 1854, '55 '56 his headquarters were at New Orleans, Louisiana, and from 1856 to 1859 at Fort Bliss (El Paso), in the southern district of New Mexico. He was also on special duty a portion of 1859 in Florida. From 1859 to 1861 he served in the district of "Kansas and the territories," his headquarters being Fort Leavenworth. General Brice remained in the service during the first year of the great Rebellion, serving as chief of the pay district of Kansas and the territories, and in 1862 was transferred to the district of Pennsylvania, embracing New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia, with headquarters at Baltimore, Maryland, where he served as chief until 1864. On the fourth of October, 1864, he was placed at the head of the pay department of the army at Washington city, District Columbia remaining in that position until January 1, 1872, when he was retired from active service at his own request, under the law of July 17, 1862, having passed the age of sixty-two years. General Brice was promoted paymaster-general, with rank of colonel, November 29, 1864; breveted brigadier general United States army, December 2, 1864; also brigadier general staff paymaster general July 28, 1866. General B. W. Brice was brevetted March 13, 1865, major general of United States army for "faithful, meritorious and distinguished services in the pay department during the Rebellion." General B. W. Brice has entered his seventy-fifth year, and with his accomplished and kindly remembered wife, is living leisurely in dignified retirement (otium cum digenitate), in Baltimore, Maryland, not forgetting, however, to make occasional visits to Newark, Ohio, which he now regards, and has ever regarded, as his home, and where he is always certain of a cordial greeting by his many old-time congenial friends, and to which his urbanity, geniality, intelligence and fine conversational powers justly entitle him.
BONAR, FREDERICK A., cigar maker, was born in Newark February 9, 1851, learning the cigarmaking trade with Fred Burrel. He learned telegraphing at Newark and was employed by the Baltimore & Ohio company, at Lexington, Richland county ; taught school at Johnstown, Licking county, in 1872, and in 1873, taught school in Liberty township, Mercer county, Ohio. He returned to Newark and started the cigar making business for himself in 1876. He was married to Osena Monroe, May 24; 1877, who was born November 1, 1860 ; his father is one of the old settlers of Licking county, coming to this county in 1825, and is now seventy-three years old. He has forty acres of land inside the corporation of South Newark. The subject of this sketch carries on his business and is living on his father's place.
BUCKINGHAM, REV. EBENEZER, D. D.-Rev. Dr. Buckingham was a son of Hon. Bradley Buck-
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ingham (an early pioneer settler in Newark, and once a leading merchant), and was born in Newark in 1816, and died at his residence, in Zanesville, March 29, 1876, at the age of 60 years. He was a well educated. gentleman and entered the Presbyterian ministry in early life, and remained in it until his death. Dr. Buckingham was a man of amiable temper and disposition, of many admirable qualities of head and heart, of vigorous intellectual powers, of a logical mind, of excellent pulpit talents, and always manifested a kind, catholic spirit. Many friends deplored his death
BUCKINGHAM, JEROME, attorneys office southeast corner of Public square, Newark. Mr. Buckingham was born in Wyoming county, Pennsylvania, on the tenth day of June, 1820. He received a common school education, and in the year 1837 he entered Kenyon college, at Gambier, Knox county, Ohio; remaining two years. Then in 1839 he went to Hudson, Ohio, where he graduated in the Western Reserve college, in 1841. In the fall of the same year he engaged in the study of law in Zanesville, Ohio, under the instructions of Goddard & Converse, with whom he retrained about two years. In 1843, he went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he attended the Harvard law school one year. In 1844, he applied to the supreme court, at Cleveland, and was admitted to the bar. In the fall of the same year he came to Newark, where he has since been engaged in the practice of law. At this writing there are but three members of the Licking county bar who have been longer in the profession than Mr. Buckingham. In 1869, he was appointed by Governor Hayes, as judge of the common please courts of Licking county. In this capacity he served one year. He has had the honor of being president of the First National bank of Newark since its establishment, in 1865.
BUEHLER, TINNEL, grocery and provision dealer, and manufacturer of carriages, wagons, etc. He was-born-at Norristown,- Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, September 11, 1833. At the age of fifteen he went to Bucks county, Pennsylvania, to learn the blacksmith trade. After learning his trade he left Pennsylvania and came to Ohio. He visited Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and generally without any means. Finally, he landed in Newark, in 1854, penniless. He went to work for a man by the name of Tom Owens. He worked a short time for Mr. Owens and left. He was away one summer, and in the fall returned and formed a partnership with Mr. Owens in the blacksmith business. He has remained in Newark ever since, carrying on the carriage and wagon making business with the exception of two years, when he. left his family and went to California He was married to Sarah Britton, September 17, 1856. They have three children: Johanna, born February 15, 1858; William, June 7, 1859, and Franklin, July 19, 1861. On the 28th of October, 1873, while out hunting, he was deprived of the use of his right hand by the accidental discharge of his gun. After suffering for more than a year, unable to do anything at his trade, through the kindness of Mr. William Davis, was employed as night watchman at the rolling mill. He held that position six months, and then started in the grocery and provision business on the corner of West Main and Union streets, in West Newark, where he is still engaged.
BURNER, JACOB V.-No. 425 West Main street, Newark, wholesale and retail dealer in general hardware. Mr. Burner was born in 1838, in Newark, and is a son of Henry Burner, deceased. He received his education in the Newark schools. In 1865 he engaged in the dry goods and general merchandise business in Newark, and continued in the business until 1875; he then sold his stock of goods and retired In November, 1877, he purchased the entire stock of hardware owned by the Wells Hardware company, and , became their successor, and has since been conducting it successfully. In 1878 he removed to his present location, where he occupies for sales and general business, a room twenty-five feet wide by one hundred and one feet deep, including basement and room overhead of some size, which are used as depositories; also a room just back of the main building, used for depositing steel and iron bars, doors, sash, etc. His rooms are all well stocked with everything in the line of general hardware, such as nails, iron, steel, carriage goods, window-glass, sash, doors, oils, paints, varnishes, mechanics' tools, Fairbanks' scales, Weir's cultivators, Lancaster double shovel plows, shovels, hoes, forks, and all kinds of steel goods, also barbed fence wire, guns, pistols, and a general line of tripple plated and table cutlery-ware. He has, as employes .in .his store, five competent young men as salesmen, also one traveling salesman, who sells goods in seven different counties in the State.
BURRELL, FRED, SR., cigar manufacturer, Birkey's block, West Main street, Newark, Ohio. Mr. Burrell was born in Broome county, New York, in 1824. At the age of twelve years he engaged in a cigar factory, worked one year at stripping, then commenced at the trade and remained three years as an apprentice. He continued at his trade as journeyman About .eighteen years. He traveled over and worked in nearly every State in the Union. In 1858 he established a cigar factory in Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, which he conducted successfully about eight years. In 1866 he came to Newark, where he has since been carrying on the business of manufacturing all kinds of
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cigars except stogies. He moved to his present location on West Main street, in 1874, where he occupies a room forty by twenty feet on the second floor in the Birkey block. His goods are all manufactured from the best material, such as the Connecticut, Havana, and Yara tobacco. He employs eight efficient workmen, manufactures about four hundred thousand cigars yearly, and pays the government from two hundred to three hundred dollars per month as revenue tax.
BUXTON, EARL, was born at Brandon, Rutland county, Vermont, February 7, 1806. He came from Vermont and located in Johnstown in 1832. He was married to Mary Ann Shoemaker, daughter of Christopher Shoemaker, of Johnstown. She was born in that place in 1820. They have two children: Murvin, now living at Homer; Roswitha, now the wife of S. G. Larimore, of Newark. Mrs. Buxton died in 1865. Mr. Buxton followed farming until he was about eighteen years of age; he then commenced traveling as a musician, continuing twenty years. He has traveled through the west and has lived in Missouri and Arkansas. Some twenty years ago he located permanently in this county.
PERRY TOWNSHIP.
BLAND, SILAS, farmer, post office, Perrvton, was born in Ohio, near Zanesville, in 1798 ; came to this county in 1844; was married to Miss Ida Cooksey, who was born in 1807. They have had one child, Joel Hamline, born in 1845. Hamline was married, in 1867, to Miss Marietta Spencer; they had three children: Celestia, Hattie, and Silas Herbett. Silas Bland owns eight hundred acres of land in this township, and is one of its most respected citizens. He was born in a tent on the banks of the Muskingum river, his father not having a house finished at the time of his birth.
BROWN, WILLIAM S., farmer, post office, Perryton, was born in Virginia in 1814 and came to this county in 1834; he was married to Miss Minerva Lemmert in 1837. The result of this marriage was three children. In 1863, his wife died, and, in 1865, he was married to Miss Ellen Thumwood, who was born in London, England, in 1831. One child was the result of this union: Greeley H. Brown. Mr. Brown owns about four hundred and twelve acres of land, one hundred and fifty-four acres of which is located in Licking county; the balance in Muskingum county. His father was horn in Scotland, and came to the United States many years ago. Mr. William S. Brown is one of this township's prominent men, attends to his own business, and has plenty of friends among his neighbors.
ST. ALBANS TOWNSHIP.
BARBOUR, JOHN, deceased, was born July 12, 1801. About 1831 he located in Liberty township, this county, where he remained about fortysix years on the same farm. He married Eliza Ramey, February 12, 1831. To them were given eight children, viz.: Louisa, Pencie R., Emeline, Caroline, and two who died in infancy, Maria M. and Lewis. The father died September 19, 1879; Louisa, December 22, 1841, and Emeline, January 19, 1864. Lewis W. enlisted in company B, Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, February 27, 1864, and participated in the following engagements: Resaca, Dallas, and Kenesaw Mountain. In front of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, and near Atlanta again on the twenty-eighth of July, at Jonesborough, Ship's Gap, and from thence with Sherman to the sea; constituted the city guard at Savannah, and was in several skirmishes, viz.: Columbia and Bentonville. He received his discharge at Louisville, Kentucky, July 15, 1865. He returned home and married Mary E. Severn in 1866. They had four children, viz.: Joseph W., Johnny, Sylvester and Olden. Johnny died in infancy. John Barbour, the subject of this sketch, was a faithful member of the Freewill Baptist church at Concord. He was one of those peaceable, quiet men we meet but once in a Wetime. His demise was regretted by the entire community. Miss Pencie Barbour and sister are engaged extensively in dress-making, and their reputation is second to none in the county.
BATTIE, ELISHA, blacksmith, wagon and sari riage manufacturer, was born March 16, 1835, in Baltimore county. His parents, Elisha and Jemima Battle, with their four eldest sons, emigrated to Ohio about September, 1835, locating near Hebron. Elisha, sr., was born January 31, 1798, and died May 31, 1866; Jemima, his wife, was born February 5, 1805, in sight of Bunker Hill monument. Her maiden name was Jemima Stansberry. At eighteen years of age the subject of this sketch began his present trade, at which he has continued nearly all of his time. He was employed by the Government during the fall and winter of 1862 and spring of 1863, building boats at Bridgeport, Alabama. He worked at his trade in Cedar county, Iowa, Berlin, Wisconsin, and Fort Scott, Kansas. He married Hellen Gregory; November 15, 1866, who was born December 18, 1846, in Monroe township, near Johnstown. Her parents, Madison and Sarah Gregory, were born, the former in Maryland, the latter in Virginia. They emigrated to Licking county in an early day, locating near Utica. The subject of this sketch began life without any help, and, by hard work and strict economy, has won himself a good home. They have four children: Pearl, Cora, Mark E. and Broom.
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BOWMAN, SAMUEL, merchant, was born June 4, 1843, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he received his education. He is well fitted for his calling. His beginning was that of a clerk for Henry Hamilton, of Baltimore, Maryland, in which capacity he continued about seven years, changing localities from time to time. October, 1879, he began with a small stock of groceries, and has added a full line of dry goods and sells about nine or ten thousand dollars worth of goods yearly. The citizens of Alexandria may well be proud of Mr. Bowman as a merchant. He is sociable, hospitable, and ranks among the enterprising merchants of. Licking county. He married Martha A. Jordan, December 17, 1874. They have two children: Maud, born .January 12, 1876, and Cora, born July l0, 1877.
BUTLER, CHARLES, farmer, was born July 16, 1804, in Blanford, then Hampshire county, Massachusetts. His parents emigrated to Granville December, 1805. He spent his early life in Granville township, where he received his education at the district schools. He is one of the active, energetic pioneers of this county, and took an active part in introducing the common school system. He married Philota D. Pratt, of Berkshire county, Massachusetts, April 25, 1829. They had six children: Martha M., born January 26, 1830; Elias D., born May 22, 1834; Caroline A., born December 17, 1841; Sarah J., born July 4, 1842 ; William H., born November 19, 1846; Corwin C., born July 26, 1850, all of whom ate living and have children. Mr. Butler is a man who is respected by the entire community, and is still an active old gentleman.
BUXTON, MRS. C. A., widow, was born August 13, 1834, in the Shenandoah valley, Virginia. November 2, 1859, she married David Buxton, who was born October 6, 1799, in Brandon, Rutland county, Vermont. They have one son, Rufus, born July 21, 1864. Mr. Buxton died July 12, 1879. He. was a man of reserved opinions, and a consistent member of the Congregational church. He emigrated to Johnstown, Licking county, about 1834, and about one year later came to Alexandria, where he remained until his death.
UNION TOWNSHIP.
BEAUMONT, WILLIAM, superintendent of the infirmary, post office, Union station. He was born in St. Albans township June 6, 1831; and followed farming as a business until he was twenty-five years old; he then engaged in the mercantile business in the village of Alexandria, Ohio, continuing for the period of thirteen years. He received the appointment of superintendent of the infirmary February 1, 1880, and at once entered upon the duties of his office with the energy and devotion to business which has heretofore characterized him. Mr. Beaumont was a prominent man in his township, filling offices of importance for many years. He has been master of the St. Albans lodge, No. 491, Free and Accepted Masons, for six years. He is a very pleasant and agreeable gentleman, well calculated for the important place which he fills. He was married to Miss Laura Webb October 16, 1856, two children being the result of this union.
BURCH, HOMER C., merchant, post office, Hebron, was born in Muskingum county, July 12, 1842 ; came to Hebron in 1859, and in September of that year, engaged in the milling business, which he followed until the tenth of August, 1861, when he enlisted in company H, Thirty-first Ohio volunteer infantry; he re-enlisted in 1863, and served until the close of the war, the last year being detailed orderly on General Beard's staff; General Beard commanded Third division, Fourteenth army corps; Mr. Burch was wounded at the battle of Resaca, Georgia, and captured at Ringgold, Georgia, but was parolled in a short time; he was married on the tenth of July, 1861, to Miss Kate Smith, a native of this county; they have had six children: Delbert C., fourteen; Harry, twelve; Willie (deceased); Winnie Gertrude, eight; Georgie H., six, and Maude, four. In 1878 company K, Seventeenth Ohio national guard, was organized in Hebron, and Mr. Burch was elected captain by acclamation, his commission bearing date December 7, 1878; his company was named Atherton guards when organized, in honor of Gibson Atherton, who represented the thirteenth Congressional district in Congress. The company has the reputation of being the finest in the regiment, having won the badge at their first encampment in August, 1879, at Camp Hoagland, Zanesville, Ohio. Mr. Burch deals extensively in groceries and everything pertaining to a first class village store.
BURCH, H. D., grocer, post office, Hebron, was born in Muskingum county in 1846; he was married in 1869, to Miss Candace Ruick, and they had four children: Otto E., Frank C., Rosa L., and Bettie T. He enlisted in 1862, and served three years, going out in company A, Tenth Ohio volunteer cavalry, as private; was promoted to bugler; had his horse captured on two different occasions; has been postmaster here since 1870; is first lieutenant of the Atherton guards; he has been engaged in his present business since .1869, and has made it a success by honorable dealing; he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, he having been identified with that denomination for the past twelve years.
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WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
BELL, WILLIAM, SR., Utica Ohio. He was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1809, and came to Knox county with his father in 1816, and located on the farm joining the one on which he now lives. He married Nancy R Hanger, November 11, 1830, daughter of Jacob Hanger, of Knox county. She was born January 29, 1813. They went to housekeeping in the house now owned by Robert McFarland, where they lived some three years, then moved to the vicinity of Martinsburgh, lived there one year, then moved to Licking county, where he has been living forty-five years. He now owns fifty acres of land, where he has lived for thirteen years; also forty-eight acres adjoining, in Knox county. They have eight children-Amanda, Hiram, Phidelia, Irene, Mary E., Catharine H., Alvira and David G: Amanda was married to George Hughes, and died September 8, 1865, leaving four children. Hiram is now living in Knox county, Ohio. Phidelia was married to Peter Crumrine, and died December 5, 186o. Irene now lives in Utica, and is the wife of John McFadden. Mary E. lives in Utica, and is a widow. Catharine is now living in Wisconsin, and is wife of Felix Bennett. Alvira lives in Utica, and is the wife of C. C. Hughes. David G., is now teaching school in Knox county. His home is in DeKalb county, Indiana, where his wife and one child are living. The subject of this sketch is one of the early settlers, and remembers the Indian squaw being shot and her thigh broken by John McClane. She was taken to Mr. Bell's father's and cared for. McClane was sent to the penitentiary for twenty years. The squaw, after remaining at this place two days, was carried by Indians to Mt. Vernon on a hammock made of bark. She died from the effects of this wound some two weeks after going to Mt. Vernon. McClane, after serving ten years of his time died in the penitentiary. Cortland McPeek, husband of Mary E. Bell, was a soldier in the late war for three years.
BENNINGTON TOWNSHIP.
CARVER, RANDOLPH, farmer, Bennington township, was born in 1852, in this county. His father, J. W. Carver, was born in New Hampshire county, New Jersey, in 18o5. He came to this county in 1812 with his father. He was married in 1827 to Miss Mary Livingston, daughter of Peter Livingston, of this county. She was born in 1805. Mr. Carver died in August, 1879. Mrs. Carver died in October, 1879. They were the parents of thirteen children, eight of whom are living. The subject of this sketch was married in 1874 to Miss Eliza Moore, daughter of V. R. Moore, of this county. She was born in 1855.
BOWLING GREEN TOWNSHIP.
COOPERIDER, GEORGE, Bowling Green township. John Cooperider emigrated to Licking county from Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1815. He had twelve children: John, Andrew, Emanuel, Peter, David, William, Jacob, Philip, George, Lewis, Abraham and Anna Margaret, settled in Licking, Perry and Fairfield counties. His son, Emanuel, preceded his arrival here by one year, having previously married Elizabeth Shelly, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania Six children resulted from this union, three of whom died in early life. The remaining three, Anna Margaret, wife of George Bixler, John, and George, the subject of this sketch, reside in this township. George was born February 25, 1818, in this township, is a farmer by occupation, and has always lived here. He married Margaret Trout, of Perry county, April 10, 1845. They are the parents of ten children: Sarah E. (died); Emanuel W., living in Perry county; Joel, a physician in Petersburg, Mahoning county, Ohio; George, a Lutheran minister in Baltimore, Maryland ; Martha, Martin L., John H., Charles, Noah and Herman.
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP.
CONARD, JOSEPH, farmer and stock-dealer, was born in 1819, in this county. His father, Nathan Conard, was born June 5, 1779, in Loudoun county, Virginia. He was married in 1800 to Miss Hannah Butcher, of Hampshire county, Virginia. She was born January 7, 1779, in Hampshire county. They came to Fairfield county, now Knox county, in 1805. They came to what is now Licking county in 1807. He died September 20, 1854. She died January 28, 1871. They were the parents of ten children: John, born June 28, 1801, died August 28, 1861; Jonah, born January 1, 1804, died April 20, 1866; Sarah, born December 24, 1805, died September 20, 1877; Mahlon, born February 28, 1808; Amos, born April 20, 1810; Elizabeth, born February 16, 1812; Anna, born July 18, 1814; Nathan, born July 21, 1817, died July 6, 1880; Joseph, born August 7, 1819; Cyrus M., born February 18, 1823.
CONARD, C. M., farmer and stock-dealer, Burlington township, was born in 1825, in this township. His father's name is Nathan Conard. C. M. Conard was married in 1846 to Miss Phoebe Long. She. was born in 1826, in this county. She died April 4, 1859. They were the parents of three children. He again married, in 1860, Miss Sarah Kinsey, of Knox county. She was born in Coshocton county in 1830. They are the parents of nine children.
CONARD, MRS. HANNAH.- Mrs. Conard was born in the State of Virginia, in 1779, .while
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yet the Revolutionary war was in progress; became the wife of Nathan Conard, and settled in Licking county in 1806, while it was yet a part of Fairfield county, and died January 28, 1871, at the great age of ninety-two-years. Mrs. Conard knew from experience what it was to live in the wilderness, and to endure the toils and, to some extent at least, the privations incident to life on the frontiers. She was highly esteemed as a wife and mother, and as one of the oldest and best of the pioneers of Licking.
EDEN TOWNSHIP.
COLVILLE, JAMES W., was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, April 30, 1795. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and came to this county in 1826; was married to Leah Baker in 1827, and soon thereafter settled on the farm in Eden township, where he lived fifty-ope years, and where he died after a protracted illness, November 7, 1878, in his eighty-fourth year. He was a son of Major Colville, who, in the valley of Virginia, had attained some distinction by his military and civil services, and by his integrity and. intelligence as a magistrate and legislator. Rev. Peter Schmucker, who was also from Virginia, was the officiating clergyman on the occasion of Mr. Colville's marriage, July 26, 1827. Mr. Colville was an acting justice of the peace of Eden township upwards of twenty years, and was highly esteemed by his neighbors, -and by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, which was not by any means a limited number. He was a man of considerable information, a patriotic man, a useful, industrious citizen, an accommodating neighbor, an upright, just magistrate, a kind husband, an affectionate father, an honest man, a warm hearted friend.
ETNA TOWNSHIP.
CONINE, JACOB F. ESQ,-The death of the subject of this sketch took place at his residence in Etna township June 6,.1880, .at the age of seventy, seven years: Squire Conine was born in Morris county, New Jersey. July l0, 1803, came to this county in 1840, served a year as a soldier in the Mexican war, doing duty as a member of Captain John R Duncan's company of rangers on the Rio Grande line. He was a gentleman of extensive information, conscientious, patriotic, intelligent, and always exerted a favorable moral influence. Squire Conine had acquired a. good degree of scholarship, and had written some acceptable historical papers for the Pioneer society.
FALLSBURY.
COLVILLE, JAMES, ESQ., son of James W. Colville, esq., was born in Eden township, Licking county, Ohio, June 29, 1836. He intermarried with Eleanor, youngest daughter of the late Jordan Hall, esq., November 8, 1866. He now lives in Fallsbury township, where he has lived thirteen years, having served as justice of the peace for six years. Squire Colville has devoted himself industriously and successfully to agricultural pursuits and stock raising; he has also been engaged, more or less, for sixteen years at school teaching, and filling positions in his township involving more or less responsibility. His ancestors, paternal and maternal, were immigrants to Licking county from the Shenandoah valley, in Virginia, where his grandfather, Major John Colville, was a prominent man for many years, being a -representative in the Virginia legislature, and occupied other positions of prominence. His relatives of old were also active in the Revolutionary war. He is a grandson of Aaron Baker, one of the veteran pioneers of Licking, who moved to this county from Rocking- . ham county, Virginia, in 1803, and settled two miles north of Newark. His mother, Leah Baker, was then only three years old, and is still living in this county, at the age of eighty years: She was one of the hardy, vigorous race of pioneer women who courageously encountered the toils, hardships and privations incident to life on the frontiers, and who is now, after a life of great activity, energy and industry, calmly and resignedly near its close.
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP.
COOPER, JAMES. - Mr. Cooper, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Cooper, was born in Marshall county, West Virginia, January 15, 1820. His parents were farmers, and James adopted this as his avocation, following it in his native place until 1868, when he came to this county, living six years near Brownville, then removing to this township, where he has since 'resided. He was elected justice of the peace for Franklin township in April, 1879, and is a member of the orders of Odd Fellows and Masons. Mr. Cooper has been twice married. His first wife was Drusilla Linville, of Washington county; Pennsylvania, whom he married April 20, 1848, and by whom he had five children. Of these only Elizabeth V., and Mary B. survive. His wife died December 31, 1859. His second marriage was with Jane Buchanan, of Marshall county, Virginia, solemnized May 15, 1860. Of his eight children by this marriage, five are living: Flotilla Ann, Ella Jane, Carrie Spencer, John Henry, and James Buchanan.
CONNEL, JOHN. Mr. Connel was born in Madison township, April 2, 1830. When he was six or seven years old his parents moved to Newark. He there learned the carpenter trade and worked at it in Newark until 1878, when he purchased the farm upon which he now resides, and removed to the country. Mr. Connel was married to Mary E. Goodwin, of Newark, January 10,
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1856. Their children are Ada E., George W., Nettie B., and Stella May.
COULTER, PRESTON F.-Mr. Coulter was born in Franklin township, October 21, 1827. His father, John Coulter, was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he was born, December t9, 1796, and when only one or two years old his parents moved to Butler county, Ohio, and afterwards, in 1810, to Licking county. His mother, Matilda Pumphrey, was a Virginian by birth. He was married May 30, 1851, to Lydia E. Dodd, of Belmont county, Ohio, who is one year and seven days his junior. His children are, Horace M., born July 3, 1852 ; Eva M., born July 13, 1854; Mary A., born May 1, 1857; John C., born March 18, 1859, and died February 28, 1862; Lorin, born September 8, 1861; May, born October 14, 1863; Rollin, born May 30, 1866; Edwin Stanton, born June 9, 1868; Frank H., born March 20, 1870, and Howard E., born August 29, 1875. Since his marriage Mr. Coulter has resided in Madison, Bowling Green and Frankiin townships successively. His occupation is farming and stock raising, also makes a specialty of raising and selling fine sheep.
COULTER, W. C., son of John Coulter, one of the early settlers of this county, was born in this township March 13, 1832. His early life was active and varied. He taught school at seventeen and the next year attended school at the Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, Ohio. He was then employed about eighteen months in building telegraph roads in this State and in Indiana. He next went west with a flock of sheep and remained there two years when he returned to Licking county. He remained here five or six years and then spent two years along the Ohio river in Scioto county, Ohio. In 1860 he returned to this township and has remained here since. In 1855 he married Catharine Irwin, of this township. He has two children, Lenora and Ella M. Mr. Coulter is an extensive sheep grower, and has imported a valuable stock of sheep from Vermont into this county.
CUMMINS, MRS. SARAH A., was born December 8, 1821, in Guernsey county. She married John Cummins November 28, 1841, who was born in Rockingham, Virginia, August 30, 1814, and was the son of Thomas Cummins and Mary Bowers. Mr. Cummins was a farther and a member of the United Brethren church. He died September 4, 1858. Mrs. Cummins' parents are from Cumberland valley, Pennsylvania. Her father, William McVicker, was born April 5, 1778; her mother, Sarah A. Lisney, was born March 18, 1786; her brothers and sisters are Jonathan C., born April 11, 1802; James, born August 21, 1803; William, born March 3, 1806; Alexander, born December 25, 1809; Aaron, born August 11, 1812; Achor, born December 2, 1813; Samuel F., born April 3, 1816; Rebecca, born February 21, 1819; John C., born February 13, 1824; Stephen, born March 4, 1827; Mary, born May 3, 1829. Her children are Mary Jane, wife of Harrison Moore, of Kansas; Sarah T. (deceased); Lora H., wife of William Griffith, of Lima township; John, William T. (deceased), David, Martha Ann (deceased), Sylvester, and Rena May. Mrs. Cummins is a member of the Presbyterian church.
COURSON, JAMES S., was born August 24, 1843, in Bowling Green township. His father, Alexander, and his grandparents, Isaac and Jane Courson, came from Pennsylvania. He was born and bred a farmer, but during the last seven or eight years, has followed stone masonry as a trade. Until within a few months he has resided in his native township. His brothers and sisters living, ate: Ananias, of this county; Cornelius, living in Memphis, Tennessee; Charles W., who resides in Missouri; Mary Ann, wife of John Abraham, of Oskaloosa, Iowa; Nancy married to Harvey Dusthimer, of this township, and Martha J., the wife of Abram Eby, living in Bowling Green township. Mr. Courson was married November 27, 1879, to Rachel Irwin, daughter of Hamilton and Catharine Irwin. Mr. and Mrs. Courson are members of the Methodist church.
GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP.
BAILY, L. B., Concord, Hancock county, Iowa. His father, John B. Bailey, came from New York to Ohio in 1837, locating near Granville. He went to Wisconsin in 1861, and to Iowa in 1864, where he died in 1875. He was the parent of four sons, one of whom, Rolla, was killed by lightning in 1876. Smith was a farmer on the Pacific coast. John B. and L. B. are farmers at Bailey's Grove, Iowa. L. B. Bailey was born near Granville. He left Ohio in 1868, was married in 1864 to Miss F. A. Ocian, of Wisconsin. They are the parents of two bolls, Charles and Edwin B.
CASE, GROVE, was born in Connecticut January 20, 1800. He was brought to Licking county, Ohio, in 1807, by his parents, Major Grove and Cinderilla Case, who settled in Granville, where they deceased. He died in 1836 or 7, aged fifty-six years. His wife survived him until January, 1867, aged eighty-seven years. Major Case built the well-known house in Granville, in which he kept hotel from 1810 until 1814 or 15. He served as major in the War of 1812; was at Fort Meigs when besieged. He, in company with Silas Wincbell, erected the first grist-mill in Granville town-
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ship. He was the father of four children-three sons, born in Connecticut, viz: Grove, Norton and Jarvis; one daughter, Lucinda, born in Granville. All of the children are living, except Norton, who deceased in March, 1879. Mr. Case was reared a farmer, and has followed farming and stock-raising, as his vocation. He married Laura Carpenter, of Delaware county, Ohio, May 15, 1821; born October l0, 1797 ; daughter of Nathan Carpenter, a soldier of the War of 1776. They settled on North street, Granville township, Licking county, Ohio, on the farm now occupied by his grandson-in-law. He erected the residence, now in use, in which they lived for fifty-six years. In October, 1877, they moved on the farm where they are now living, which he had purchased in 1876. Their residence is a fine brick structure. They reared a family of three children: Lucius A. married Polly Rose, in 1844, daughter of Levi Rose, and he deceased July 3, 1866; Laura J. died at the age of seventeen years; Lucy C. married James Sennett, and died two years after her marriage.
CLOUSE, REV. NOAH.-The parentage of Mr. Clouse was on the father's side, High Dutch, and on the mother's side, English, who settled in New England in very early times. One of his grand. fathers served seven years in the Revolutionary war, The place of their nativity was Washington county. Pennsylvania, where they lived to an advanced age. The subject of this sketch, Mr. N. Clouse, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the first of October, 1813. He received a moderate select school education while young-good for those days. Having attained his majority, he moved to Ohio, and located in Tuscarawas county in the spring of 1835. On the twenty-third of October, 1835, he was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca Ashbrook, whose parents came of the old English and Dutch nationalities, and settled on the borders of the States of Virginia and Pennsylvania, where her parents were born. From thence they removed to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where they were blessed with a family of two sons and four daughters. Mrs. Rebecca Clouse nee Ashbrook was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1806, and is still living, enjoying an active, old age. The religious life of Mr. Clouse began at the time of his conversion at the age of fourteen years, and continued in a special call to the ministry of the Baptist denomination in the year 1841, when he was licensed to preach by the Dover Baptist church, and was subsequently ordained in the same church in the year 1843. During these calls to preach, the exercise of his mind led him to seek the means of a better education for the duties involved. He studied as the means of qualification, the Latin, German and Greek languages, with other essential helps under private tutors. For several years he served Sugar Creek, Magnolia, New Jefferson and White-eye-plains churches. In the fall of 1847, he removed to Licking county, Ohio, under a call from the Newark Baptist church, with whom he labored about sixteen months. Following this pastoral he supplied, and was the pastor of the following churches, viz: Alexandria, Union, Homer, Liberty, Johnstown, Fredonia and Welsh Hills, aggregating a period of ministerial labors equal to and over thirty-six years. The close of this record leaves him in possession of much vigor of life and good prospects of future usefulness in the ministerial function for many years to come.
HANOVER TOWNSHIP.
CHEEK, ADALINE, daughter of William and Elizabeth Priest, was married October 20, 1836, to George Cheek. She was born August 15, 1812, in Culpepper county, Virginia. At a very early day she, with her parents, moved to Muskingum county, settling in Hopewell township, where she lived until 1875, when she removed to Licking county and settled in Hanover township. Mr. Cheek died September 1, 1854, leaving her with nine children -William Elsie, born July 3, 1838; Sarah Elizabeth, born December 11, 1839; George Andrew, born July 18, 1841; James Henry, born March 29, 1844; John Robert, born November l0, 1845; Thomas Jefferson, born September 14, 1847; Franklin Howard, born February 11, 1851; Perry Streeper, born November 25, 1852; Harvey Allen, born January 3, 1855. Of these, John Robert and Thomas J. are dead, having died while in the late war. William married Martha Skinner, November 15, 1860. She died January lo, 1863, leaving Mr. Cheek with one child-Joseph, born October 27, 1861. About five years after Mrs. Cheek's death Mr. Cheek married his second wife-Elizabeth Loughman.--- By this marriage they are the parents of five children-William Henry, Jamb Franklin, John Robert, Sarah Adaline and Harvey Allen. John McFarland, of Muskingum county, married Sarah October 9, 1866: They have four children Adaline, born July 7, 1867; James Henry, born January 30, 1869; Amanda, born September 18, 1870; Perry Milton, born January 9, 1873. Amanda died February 25, 1871. Howard was married August 1, 1877, to Julia A. Drum. She died January, 1880, leaving him with one child-Cecil Celista. James Henry married Sarah A. Vansikle, August 8, 1878. They have one child-Mary Etta. Perry S. and Harvey Allen are not married. They are living in Hanover township.
CLAGGETT, WILLIAM E., farmer, was born in
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Perry county, Ohio, in 1837. In 1859 he was married to Miss Cyntnia H. Hillier, of Muskingum county. They have had ten children-Edmund R., John W., Myvard B., Charles A., Anna E., Louie Bell, Frank P., Emma J., Ora and Samuel M. (deceased). His father and mother were born in Virginia in 1810, and came to this State in 1834. His mother's maiden name was Rector. The subject of this sketch lives about a quarter of a mile south of Hanover, on the Woodbridge farm.
HARRISON TOWNSHIP.
CONDIT, ISAAC, deceased, was born in Essex county, New Jersey, November, 1798. He was a carpenter by trade, and followed that business for a number of years. He then turned his attention to farming, which he made his principal vocation, after his settlement in this county. In 1822, he married Miss Jane R. Dobbin, of Essex county, New Jersey, born in 1802. They settled in Essex county, remained until 1835, when he, with wife and five children migrated to this county and located in Harrison township, on the farm now owned by their son, Joseph B. Condit, where they passed the remainder of their days. His companion died January 3, 1878. He died May 10, 1878. They reared a family of nine children: Mary, George, Matthias, William D., Joseph B., Sarah, Frances, Pheba, and Theodore. Two of the above named children are deceased, Pheba and Theodore.
CONDIT, WILLIAM D., son of the aforesaid Isaac Condit, was born in Essex county, New Jersey, February 7, 1831, and came with his parents to this county in 1835. He is a carpenter by trade, and followed that as his vocation a few years, when he turned his attention to farming, in which business he has since been engaged. December 28, 1854, he married Miss Martha Charles, daughter of Jesse and Nancy Charles. Miss Charles was born in Harrison township, this county, March 10, 1834. They moved on the farm in Harrison township, where they now reside, in April, 1856. They have a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters.
HARTFORD TOWNSHIP.
CASTNER, EDWIN S., farmer and sheep breeder, born in Jefferson county Ohio, in 1844, came to this county in 1870. He was married in 1868, to Miss Mary J. Stone of the same county. She was born in 1850. They are the parents of three children, two are dead, and one, Earnest, living. Mr. Castner lived in this county from 1870 to 1874, when he removed to Knox county, where he resided six years. He again came to this county in the spring of 1880. He has been engaged in the breeding and shipping of registered merino sheep for the last five years; he has on hand sixty-five thoroughbred sheep. Mr. Castner is a member of the board of directors of the Hartford Agricultural society.
COLEMAN, JOSEPH, hotel-keeper, born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1825; removed to Knox county while a child, and at the age of eighteen he came to this county, living at Johnstown two or three years, when he removed to Hartford, where he has since lived. He was married, in 1847, to Miss Sarah E. Williams, of this county ; she was born in 1826 in this county; she died in 1875. They were the parents of three children, one of whom, Charley, is living. He again married, in 1879, Miss Sarah A. Warner, of Essex Junction, Vermont. She was born in 1842 in Paw Paw, Michigan. Mr. Coleman has held several positions of trust and profit, having been township treasurer ten or twelve years, and trustee two terms. He is at present a member of the town council and a member of the Hartford Agricultural society.
CUNNINGHAM, J. Ross, farmer, born in Jefferson county, Ohio, June 16, 1835; married Emily M. Ross of the same county. Mrs. Ross was born in 1839. Mr. Ross came to this county in 1870, purchased a fine farm of two hundred acres in the northwest part of the township, and now has one of the finest farms in the township. He is essentially a self-made man, and is one of the substantial citizens of the county.
CURRY, GEORGE, farmer and breeder of thoroughbred sheep. He is a breeder and shipper of Spanish merino sheep, hich are registered in the Vermont and United States registeries. He has a fine flock of eighty head on hand at present.
JERSEY TOWNSHIP.
CARTER, FREDERICK C., born in Franklin county, September 30, 1830; his father, Havilah, settled near Newark, on Jasper Sutton's place, about 1819, emigrating from Loudoun county, Virginia; two years after he moved to Franklin county; his mother, Mahala Starkey, was a native of Hampshire county, Virginia. In 1847 his father's family came to St. Albans township, where he remained till the spring of 1880, when he removed to his present farm home. His grandfather was a Quaker, and .his father, though not a member of this society, possessed its virtues, and. was noted for his scrupulous honesty in his dealings with men. Mr. Carter married Amanda, daughter of Martin and Lucy (Johnson) Brooks, June, 1863. Her parents were early settlers in this county; her father hailing from Maine, her mother from Vermont. Frank B. is their only child.
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LIBERTY TOWNSHIP.
COOPER, ELI, farmer, New Way, was born September 7, 1830. August, 1847, he came to Bennington township, this county. In the spring of 1877 he moved into this township, locating in the village of New Way, where he now lives. He married Elizabeth Fulk, March, 1858. They have two children: Sarah M., born November 29, 1859; Leroy, born October 27, 1861. He owns one hundred and twenty-five acres in one body, and thirty acres in another. He is a successful farmer.
LICKING TOWNSHIP.
COFFMAN, REUBEN, was born July 6, 1824, in Page county, Virginia. He was the son of Peter and Rebecca Coffman. Peter came to this county in 1809; remained here till 1818; then returned to Virginia again, and was married to Rebecca Lanum, of Page county, Virginia. .Returned to this county in 1828, and located in Newton township. He was the father of eight children-four living at present: Wesley, Reuben, Mary and Philip are married, and living in this county. Reuben, the subject of this sketch, was married March, 1846, to Susanna Bullock, of this county, the daughter of Samuel and Nancy Bullock. They have had seven children-six are living. Mary Jane was born January 1, 1847. She was married to John Grove, of this county, a farmer. Julia Ann was born March, 1848; died April, 1848. Lewis was born February 2, 1849; is single, and lives at home; is a farmer. William was born June, 1851; is single, and lives at home; is a farmer. P. A. was born February, 1853; is single, and, at present, is a law student in John D. Jones' office at Newark. Isaac was born August, 1855; is single, and lives at home; is a farmer. Rebecca V. was born November, 1857; married George Swartz, of this county, a farmer, and lives south of Jacksontown. Peter Coffman died January, 1867, aged sixty-eight years. He was a farmer and carpenter. Rebecca Coffman died June, 1873, in Newton township. She was a member of the Old School Baptist church of Lost run. Reuben Coffman located in Licking township in 1853, on the farm where he now lives, having some five hundred and forty-five acres of land in Licking township, and ninety-two in Newark township. He is an extensive farmer and wool grower; is a very influential and highly respected man in Licking township. He is a natural mechanic, which is characteristic of the family.
LIMA TOWNSHIP.
CROMPTON, FRANCIS, post .office, Pataskala, was born in King's county, Ireland, January 14, 1821. In 1848 he emigrated to the United States and settled in Licking county. In 1876 he went west, settling in Putnam county, but remained only one year, returning to Licking, where he has since resided. Mr. Crompton has been twice married, his first wife being Miss Mary Wickliff, who lived but a few years, he afterwards marrying Mrs. Roberts, the widow of Samuel Roberts, who died while in the army.
CONINE, RICHARD, farmer, post office, Pataskala, was born in this county, October 28, 1852, a son of Richard and Hester Conine, the former of whom came from New Jersey with his parents and settled on the farm on which the subject of this sketch now-lives. He was-born near Newark. He remained at home until he was twentytwo years old, when he went to Fairfield county, and from thence to Franklin county; and in 1876 he came to this county and settled on his present farm. He was married in the winter of 1873 to M. E. Valentine, of this county. His father, Richard Conine, was among the first that ever came in the county and took an active part in the settlement of the same.
McKEAN TOWNSHIP.
CADA, MOWRY, was born in 1802 in Rhode Island; was the son of Sylvester and Sadie Cada. He was married in 1833 to Abigal Barber, of Vermont, who was born in 1815 in Vermont. They had four children. A. J. Cada was burn in 1834, in Massachusetts, and with his parents came to this county in 1836; located in McKean township on the farm where he now lives. He was married September 25, 1860, to Mary A. Conard, of this county, who was born November 19, 1840, in this county. The result of this marriage was three boys; Joel M., born June 15, 1861; Edwin J., born November 29, 1864; Charles G., born January 19, 1872. Phoebe C. Cada was born April 7, 1837; was married, in 1863, to Frederick Smith, of this county, who is a farmer and lives in McKean township. Sabra C. Cada was born January 30, 1845; was married November 8, 1874, to Andrew Morgan, of this county, a farmer. Mr. Morgan died and his widow is living in Indiana. They had one child, Mary F., born September 20, 1849; died January 20, 1851. Mr. Cada's grandfathers were both soldiers of the Revolutionary war; were under General Green.
CLARK, ABSALOM, was born December 10, 1819, in McKean township; was the son of Fleetwood and Sarah Clark, who came to this county in 1814, from Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. The journey being made by wagon. They located in Newton township, and came to McKean in 1815, where they remained until death. They were the parents of eight boys and one girl. Absalom, John, William, and .Jesse are yet living. Fleetwood
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Clark died in 1851, aged sixty-one; Sarah, his wife, died in 1835, aged forty-five years. Absalom, the subject of this sketch, went to California in 1853, by way of the isthmus; was there about twenty months. He married Matilda Walker, of Delaware county, who was born in 1835. The result of this marriage was nine children. Those living are George W., Caroline L.; Absalom, Mary, Sarah, Charles, Eunice, John B., and Emma. George was married to Christenia Stevens, of this county, in 1879, and lives in this township. Caroline was married to Samuel S. Fry, of Newark, and is now living in Westerville. The others are single and live at home. Mr. Clark has always had his home in McKean township, on the old homestead where his father first located, when the country was all woods. Mr. Clark has always been .a well-to-do farmer, and is esteemed by all his acquaintances.
MONROE TOWNSHIP.
CLOUSE, SUSAN, farmer, postoffice, Johnstown, Ohio, was born in the extreme northern part of Fairfield county, October 18, 1828 ; is a daughter of William and Sarah Hendrickson. Mr. W. Hendrickson was born August 30, 1791, in New Jersey, and died August 30, 1859, in Monroe township, Licking county, Ohio. He married Sarah McClain, about 1820, and had eight children: John, born about 1821, and died when about two years of age; Catharine, born April 13, 1823, and died August 20, 1855; William, born October 15, 1826, and served in the Mexican war about two years. When civil war was declared in the United States, he -enlisted in an Illinois regiment, served out his time went home only to veteran. During one of the sieges was shot through the lungs, from the effects of which he is a constant sufferer at the present time. The next in order is the subject of this sketch, Susan. Elizabeth, born August 4, 1830; Elenor, born March 21, 1832; Jacob, born June 21, 1834. Mrs. Clouse came to this county with her parents about 1832, where they have remained. She married Jacob Clouse, December 8, 1849, and moved to where she now lives March, 1850. She had six children : Leuzerne, born September 29, 1850, died May 3, 1869 Ellen, born August 1852; John, born October 16, 1855; Amanda, born February 18, 1858, Lincoln, born February 25, 1861; Frederick, born August 6, 1864. Jacob Clouse was born April 13, 1828, within a quarter mile of where they now live, and where he died February 19, 1879. Mrs. Clouse says he never was further from home than Brownsville, Bowling Green township, this county, not to exceed thirty miles, and she has been to Gibsonville, Hocking county, Ohio, a distance not to exceed sixty miles, and made the trip on horseback, to attend the funeral of a relative; that neither of them rode a mile in the cars. They began life with but 'a very few dollars, and by frugality and hard work have made for themselves a comfortable home.
CITY OF NEWARK
CARROLL, CHARLES, druggist and parmaceutist, three doors south of American. house, west side of the public square. Mr. Carroll was born in Cincinnati, April 11, 1852, and when about one year old his parents came to Newark. He received his education at Granville, Ohio, after which he engaged with W. P. Kirkpatrick, druggist at Utica, Ohio, as salesman, whom he served four years. He then went to Philadelphia and entered the Pharmaceutical college, from which he received his diploma in the spring of 1875, after which he entered the employ of French, Richards & Co., wholesale druggists and manufacturing chemists, with whom he remained about five years. On May 1, 1880, he returned to Newark and bought out the firm of Seymour & Co., at the old Fullerton stand, which was established in 1844, three doors south of the American house, on the west side of the public square, where be occupies very pleasant and commodious rooms, eighteen by eighty, as salesroom with prescription case and laboratory, and a ware-room up-stairs eighteen by eighty, and cellar eighteen by forty, in which he carries a large first-class stock of pure drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, toilet articles, fancy goods, trusses, shoulder braces, supporters, Whitman's confectionery. Also special attention given to the compounding of physicians' prescriptions, and the wholesale and retail manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations. This is a special department, and a leading feature of the business; and this is the only drug establishment in the city that employs a night clerk, and is under the immediate direction of a graduate in pharmacy
CAUL, JOHN.-He was born at Dillmon's Falls, Muskingum county, Ohio, June 25, 1836. He came to Newark in 1854. He was married to Melvina Walker October 16, 1862; had two children, one of whom died in infancy. Joseph Benjamin died in March, 1870, in the sixth year of his age, Mr. Caul moved with his father to the blast furnace, in Mary Ann township, in 1844. He Worked some five years at this furnace. In 1854 he came to Newark, working at anything he could by the day until in the fall of 1861, when he went on the canal: remained in that business until 1877. He then engaged in teaming, which is his present occupation; his a comfortable little home on Seventh street in Newark. He has a sister, Valsory Eastman, living in Hocking county; Clara A., in Hocking county; a brother Henry, living in Illinois. His father died in the seventy-second year of his age.
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CHAMBERS, DR. W. B., surgeon-dentist, Clinton street, two doors from Locust. Dr. Chambers was born in Marshall county, western Virginia. He received his preparatory education in the district schools of Marshall and Ohio counties, after which he- attended. an academy at Alexandria, Washington county, Pennsylvania, and took a course at the Pennsylvania college, Philadelphia. In 1858 he commenced reading with Alexander Reed, M. D., physician and surgeon, also a practitioner of dental surgery, of West Virginia. In 1865 he came to Newark and entered upon the practice of the dental profession, to which he devoted his entire attention until 1872, when he returned to Philadelphia and completed his dental studies at the Pennsylvania college of dental surgery, from which he graduated 1873. On his return he purchased a lot at his present location, on which he has erected a handsome brick residence, which he has furnished and fitted up with heating, gas and water fixtures of the most modern design and is unexcelled in the city. His office is also of brick, one story high and neat design, in which he has an elegant suite of rooms consisting of a reception room eighteen by twelve and a half feet, which is fitted up with . good taste and has everything necessary for the comfort and entertainment of waiting patients, an operating room fourteen by ten feet which he has furnished with all the modern facilities and appliances for the successful operation of his profession, by means of which the usual excruciating operations of dentistry are made comparatively pleasant; a private office and consulting room twelve by twelve feet, a laboratory eighteen by twelve feet which is furnished with everything necessary for the operating of mechanical dentistry, also a commodious room eighteen by ten feet for the chemical and metallurgical department. Dr. Chambers has spared no expense to secure everything adopted in the profession. In the operating department he uses only the safest and purest and most effective esthetics, and administers :almost--painless treatment. He was married March 31, 1870, to Miss Augusta Smucker, youngest daughter of Honorable Isaac Smucker of this city.
CHAMBERLAIN, MRS. MARY A., was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, August 16, 1816. About the age of nine years she moved, with her father, to Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, Samuel Murdock, was. a farmer by .occupation, and died in Licking county, Iowa, at the age of ninety years. She was married to Mr. Austin Chamberlain, of Cleveland, Ohio, July 14, 1838, and was the mother of three .children, .all dead. Mr. Chamberlain, in early life, followed boating; after moving to Newark, in 1838, he followed carpentering until he died in 1870, aged sixty-one years. Mrs. Chamberlain lives on the corner of Elm and Locust streets, Newark, and has three of her grandchildren living with her.
CHASE, GEO. W., photographer. Mr. Chase was born in Oswego, New York, March 15, 1839, and was educated at Nunda, New York. He came to Ohio in the fall of 1858, locating at Zanesville, where he took charge of the omnibus and stage lines which he remained in charge of until 1861, when he was the second man in Muskingum county to respond to the first call for troops. He enlisted in company H, First Ohio volunteer infantry, in which -he served several -months when he teas put on recruiting service and the organizing of regiments and staff duty, during which he was promoted to first lieutenant and was honorably discharged as brevet captain, in 1863, in consequence of expiration of his term of service. He came to Newark in 1864 and engaged in the photo art in which he has been engaged with good success ever since. He occupies a large and excellent suit of rooms in the Franklin block, consisting of parlor eighteen by eighteen ; two operating rooms sixteen by forty and seventeen by forty-five; printing room, eleven by twenty ; toilet, six by twelve ; frame and moulding room, eight by sixteen, where all kinds of photos are produced in a high degree of perfection, also enlarging of photos, etc. He also keeps a large first class stock of albums, velvet goods, frames mouldings, etc., etc.
CHERRY, HARRIET, daughter of Jesse and Isabella Taylor, was born April 4, 1812, in Frederick county, Virginia. When she was seventeen years old she removed, with her parents, to Lancaster, Ohio, where they remained two years. Then they removed to Fairfield county, Ohio, anti lied there seven years, during which time she was married to James Cherry, of Fairfield. Two years after their marriage they removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, and remained there for thirty years. Mr. Cherry was a farmer, and followed this occupation during their stay in Indiana. In 1865 they returned to . Fairfield county, and located in Millersport, Mr. Cherry engaging in the dry goods business until his death, February 7, 1873. The family remained in Millersport three years after the death. of Mr. Cherry, when they removed to Pataskala for a short time, when they removed to Newark, where they have lived ever since. The family consists of five children-all girls-Belle, born May 1, 1837; Mary E:, born June 12, 1840; Hattie, born April 30, 1842; Katy, born November 3, 1846; Emma, born November 26, 1852. They are all married but Katy, who lives with her mother.
CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM, was born November 20, 1857. He was married to Elizabeth Wharton, of
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Hebron, Licking county, November 17, 1877, who had one child, which died November 17, 1879.
CLARK, MR. ANSON.-The subject of this sketch was a native of Granville, Massachusetts, where he was born December 29, 1796, and came with his father's family to Granville (then in Fairfield county), Ohio, November 18, 1807, after a weary journey of forty-seven days, performed with ox teams, that being one of the methods of crossing the Alleghanies in the days of the pioneers." Mr. Clark acted well his part as a pioneer, as a citizen of the Commonwealth, as a Christian. He was a friend of freedom, of emancipation, of human liberty. Mr. Clark was theoretically and practically an ardent, zealous, consistent advocate of temperance, all his life, having joined the first temperance society organized west of the mountains, more than fifty years ago, and was always faithful to the pledge then taken. His church membership dates back to 1828, and he ever afterwards to the close of his life, sustained honorable church relations. Mr. Clark was an upright, intelligent, industrious, honest man, and had endeared to him many sympathizing friends. He was distinguished for integrity of purpose,. and for devotion to the interests of the poor, the oppressed, and especially to the down-trodden, the crushed slaves. His influence was always exerted in behalf of what he esteemed to be truth, justice, right and good morals. The aim of his life was to make his conduct harmonize with the golden rule. The venerable pioneer died July 19, 1877, and was gathered to his fathers at the ripe age of eighty years, six months and twenty-two days.
CLARK, HON. A. B. Mr. A. B. Clark is the son of Anson Clark, and was born in Granville township July 11, 1825. He is essentially of New England origin, his father and mother both being born there, the former in Granville, Massachusetts, and the latter in Burlington, Vermont. In 1835 his-father removed to Hartford township, and there gradually opened up a farm aided by the subject of this sketch, until he reached maturity, mean while enjoying the benefits of such schools as then existed in the remote township of this county. To these limited advantages were superadded, during the closing years of his minority, the privileges of a select school in the village of Hartford. In the meantime he constantly received valuable moral instruction from his father, who impressed upon his mind the infinite importance of a life of purity, honor and virtue, and of faith in Christianity. His father was not unmindful of the importance of the current periodical literature of the times, and furnished his household weekly with the reading of the Oberlin Evangelist, the New York Tribune and the National Era. The library of the family was rather limited, and confined chiefly to the style of books of which "Baxter's Saints' Rest," "Pilgrims' Progress," "Hervey's Meditations among the Tombs," and "Allein's Call to Unconverted Sinners" were fair representatives. This was a- style of literature to which an ambitious youth and still less a full grown, young man could scarcely be expected to confine himself, and the subject of this sketch found his remedy in the free use of a tolerably extensive library owned by a neighbor and friend to whose generosity and kindness he was indebted for the opportunities it afforded of acquiring a wider range of information than were afforded by the home library, and it will probably be conceded by those who have made the acquaintance of the then young man of Hartford that he did not permit his opportunities to go unimproved. The desire for mental improvement and the acquisition of knowledge, thus early indulged and cherished, soon became a habit which he has not sought to change, but which has "groan with his growth, and strengthened with his strength" with each passing year. Mr. Clark entered October 1, 1846, into a life partnership with Miss Mary E. Durant, then a young lady fresh from the green .hills of Vermont, whose father had settled in Hartford township. After his marriage he engaged in mercantile pursuits as well as in farming, and served for some years as a justice of the peace, signalizing his official term more as a neighborhood pacificator than by endeavors to multiply the cases on his docket. He was trained in the school of the early Abolitionists, and was always ready to advocate their peculiar views, and more than willing to assist in giving force and effect, and if possible, success to their measures. Until 1848 he acted with the Abolitionists politically, then and until 1856 with the Freesoil party, and in 1856 and ever since with the Republican party. With a taste for literature, and a natural bent for literary labor, he early fell into the habit of writing for the press; it was therefore the most natural thing in the world that he should drift into the editorial chair. Accordingly, in the spring of 1868, he purchased an interest in the Newark American, and since that time, has done the principal editorial work on that paper; and that he is a writer of "pith and point," all who are familiar with the American, will admit. Mr. Clark was postmaster of Newark for eight years, serving from 1869 to 1877; he was also the chosen standard bearer in 1880, of the Republican party, by unanimous nomination, in the Thirteenth Congressional district of Ohio, and was supported by the full vote of his party. Mr. Clark is not only a writer of force and elegance, but also a public speaker of ability and power, and his contributions to the poetical literature of the day possess more than ordinary merit. And, most of all, it can be
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said of his literary productions, whether poetry or prose, and whether on political topics, temperance, or whatever subject, that their tendency is to edification, to instruction, to enlightment, to mental improvement, to moral elevation. And no less true-is this of his elocutionary efforts or public speeches and addresses.
COCKRAN, THOMAS, son of Joseph and Susan Cockran, was born April 22, 1831, in Coshocton county. He left his home when but sixteen years of age and went to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, and there learned the plastering trade. He remained there about nine years, then removed to Delaware, Ohio, then to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, then to Bloomington, Illinois, then to Iowa City, then to Kansas, then to Arkansas, from here he went into Texas, hence to Florida, then back to Kansas City, and moved about from place to place fifteen years, and finally settled in Newark in 1875, where he has been living ever since. In 1862 he volunteered in the service of his country's welfare in company I, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, under Colonel Reed, of Delaware. He received his discharge September 16, 1863. Mr. Cockran was married February 22, 1857, to Angeline Wilcox, of Marysville, Union county. By this marriage they have seven children, six of whom are living. After Mr. Cockran left his home he did not return until he was forty years of age, and since that time he has been to see his folks only three times.
COFFMAN, JOSEPH, retired, learned the brickmason trade when about twenty years of age, and has made that the principal occupation of his life. He was born in Page county. Virginia, May 11, 1803, and came to Licking county in September, 1807. He says "the trip was made on horseback, and that he had to ride between two boys, and that he cried frequently during the route." After coming to the county, his father rented a farm and set him, in company with his brothers, to work. Mr.. Coffman was married, December 25, 1825, to Maggie Connell, who lived until 1872. They had twelve children. Mr. Coffman married his present wife, Dorcas S. Youse, July 1, 1875.
COFFMAN, DAVID T., contractor and builder, was born in Newark, Licking county, September 14, 1836; commenced to learn his trade with his father in 1851. His father, Joseph, came to Newark in 1807 ; is still living, and one of the pioneer settlers of this county. The subject of this sketch was married to Harriet A. Pease, December 19, 1858. They have eight children: Thomas P., born October, 1859; William J., September 29, 1861; Elnora L., November 13, 1863; Harry J., June 25, 1866; Annie M., September 21, 1868 ; Charles R, May 4, 1871; Mary S., August 25, 1873; Ella D., February 19, 1878. Mrs. Coffman's father was justice of the peace in McKean township, and was elected county treasurer, which office he held four years, and died at the age of fifty-two; her mother is still living, and resides with Mr. Coffman. She was born in 1819. Mr. Coffman remained in Newark, carrying on the business of building, until the spring of 1865, when he moved to Marshaltown, Marshall county, Iowa; remained there until spring of 1867, when he returned to Newark ; remained in Newark until the spring of 1872, and moved to Jefferson City, Missouri, remaining there until 1875, when he returned to Newark, where he now resides. on the corner of West Main and Pine streets, West Newark. He built the foundation for the Licking county courthouse.
COFFMAN, THOMAS C., carpenter, was born October 7, 1838, in Newark. His father, Michael Coffman, came to Licking county, with his parents, from Shenandoah county, Virginia, in 1809. He was born in 1806. He remained in Newark, following the millwright and carpenter business, and was married to Sarah Raymer. There were five children, of whom three died. Hiram H. was born October 7, 1831, Thomas C., October 7, 1838. His wife died, and February 14, 1849, he married the second time, Sarah Strous, who was born October 30, 1806, and had one child, Abram, who was born April 17,1850, and died April, 1863. His mother is still living. The subject of this sketch at the age of thirteen went to Indiana, remained about a year, and returned to Newark; remained in Newark some time, and went to Indiana and learned his trade, came home and enlisted in the Third Ohio volunteer infantry for three months. He was the third man that enlisted in company H. He was taken sick and sent to the hospital and mustered out of service at Columbus. He returned to Newark and re-enlisted in company G, Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry for three .years; was mustered out after two years, came home, and soon after he went to Illinois. He was married to Susan M. Summers, July 27, 1863, and by this marriage had seven children Genere F. was born June 17, 1864; Freddie E. was born March 14, 1867, died February 15, 1870; Wilbert H. was born February 26, 1871, died April 12, 1872; Ruby L. was born March 4, 1873, died in infancy; Jessie L. was born June 20, 1874; Arthur Z G. F. was born September 11, 1877; George W., born February 22, 1880: Mr. Coffman remained in Dallas City, Illinois, until 1869, when he returned to Newark where he has since resided.
COOK, WILLIAM, cabinet-maker, was born in Germany, in February, 1843. At the age of two years he came with his father and mother to Buf-
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falo, New York, and afterwards moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, then to Zanesville, Ohio, at which place they are now living. His father, Henry C. F. Cook, was born in Germany, May 30, 1814. His mother, Hannah C. L., was born in Germany May 10, 1818. Mr. Cook, when about fourteen years of age, learned the cabinet-makers' trade, and has followed this ever since, and is now in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company. In 1875 he came to Newark. He was married to Miss Ida Victora Sessor, daughter of the late Thomas F. Sessor, who was a soldier of the Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and died December 17, 1863, aged thirty-five years, from the effects of a soldier's life. His wife is yet living in Newark at the age of forty-six years. Mrs. Cook was born in Newark, May 7, 1853. She has three brothers and one sister living in Newark.
COOPER, MRS. SARAH, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, April 2, 1834. She is the daughter of Eliza Brown, now living in Zanesville. She was married to Daniel H. Cooper, November 19, 1857. He was born in Zanesville, July 23, 1833; by occupation he was a railroad engineer-this he learned when quite young and followed up to the day of his death December 14, 1873; he was killed by the explosion of an engine at Columbus, Ohio. He was the father of four children: Harry C., born November 13, 1858; Fred, born December 29, 1860; Nellie, born April 20, 1867; Cora, born March 9, 1873- Mr. Cooper was a soldier in the late war, but on account of ill health was discharged after serving only one year. Mrs. Cooper is one of a family of four sisters and one brother, all living; her mother is also living in Zanesville, Ohio. Harry is time-keeper in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad office; Fred is learning the trade of machinist.
CONLEY, RICHARD, railroader, was born in Newark, February 12, 1843. When eighteen years of age he enlisted in company E, Twelfth Ohio volunteer infantry, under Captain Legg, of Newark. He received his discharge July 18, 1864, after serving his term of enlistment-three years. After his discharge he served a term in the Ohio State prison, as a guard. When his term expired at Columbus he returned to Newark and engaged in the railroad business. This occupation has consumed the greater part of his time ever since. He received severe injuries in 1869, occasioned by a colision of a train and engine. Mr. Conley was married July 7, 1868, to Margaret S. Horn, of Newark. They have three children: Mary, Christian M., and William M.
CONROY, JAMES, engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at present, but has served in the same capacity on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis railroad, and has given entire satisfaction to both companies. He has been engaged as an engineer for twelve years. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, August 31, 1847, at 58 Sand street, and came to this county in 1869, settling in Newark, and has lived here since. He was married in 1872 to Margaret S. O'Hare. They have four children; three living and one dead; two boys and two girls. He resides on Canal street.
COUCH, R. B., carpenter and joiner, was born in Linnville, April 15, 1847. He was the son of Eli Couch, of that place. His father died in 1849, in the fortieth year of his age, and his mother died in 1848 at the age of forty years. After his father's death he made his home with J. H. Hupp, with whom he lived until he was thirteen years of age; he then made his home with Jerry Grove, south of Newark. In 1876 he came to Newark. He was married to Ida B. Barber, October 23, 1878. She was born September 20, 1860. They have one child, Jesse, born August 24, 1874. Mr. Couch worked on a farm until 1876; he then learned the carpenter trade and now takes contracts for build ing. He owns the steam saw-mill on West Mill street.
CRANE BROTHERS, No. 119, west side of public square, Newark, dealers in millinery, notions, and dress goods. This firm was established September 1, 1873, by F. A. and O. W. Crane, who have since been conducting the business with success. Their business room is eighteen feet wide by one hundred feet deep, which is stocked to repletion with a variety of attractions that in elegance defy the descriptive genius of the eeriest fashion critic. The notions and fancy goods department occupies about one-half of their extensive room, where is to be seen an array of goods simply immense. Hosiery, gloves, ties, sets, collars, cuffs, buttons, lace work, while black dress goods, black colored or fringed silks, fine kid gloves, zephyrs, and Germantown wools seemed to be made a leading specialty. The other half is the millinery department, where are a large stock of hats, trimmed and untrimmed, neat, rich, elegant and beautiful. Bibbons of all kinds and colors. Delicately tinted tips, feathers, plumes, flowers, ornaments, and trimmings by the thousands of all kinds used in a millinery store. Miss F. Ball, a lady of wide experience and excellent taste has charge of the trimming department, conducted in a room thirty-two by ten feet, where they employ from six to ten ladies. They also employ six efficient salesmen, who are always willing and ready to wait on and accommodate their many customers, while both members of the firm give the business their undivided attention.
CRUM, JAMES B., carpenter. He was born in
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Frederick. Maryland, August 27, 1837 ; went to Baltimore where he learned his trade. Was married to Margaret C. Creager, June 22, 1858. They lived in Baltimore until April 27, 1874, when they moved to Newark. By this marriage they had three children, Ida, born May 17, 1859 ; Kate, January 18, 1861 ; James G., October 10, 1865. Since corning to Newark, Mr. Crum has followed railroading as locomotive engineer.
CURTIS, GENERAL SAMUEL R.-Samuel R. Curtis lived in Licking county from 1807, the year of his birth, until 1826, when he was admitted as a cadet to West Point military academy. He had been for some time a clerk in the office of the clerk of the court. In 1831, he graduated; was appointed a lieutenant, but resigned his position in the army in 1832, and studied law and practiced his profession for some time. He was chief engineer in the construction of the dams and public works of the Muskingum, from 1837 to 1840, and afterwards superintended public works in Iowa and Missouri, and served under General Taylor in the Mexican war as a regimental commander and also acted as military governor of a number of towns in the valley of the Rio Grande. General Curtis was elected three times a member of Congress from Iowa ; but on the breaking out of the rebellion in 1861, he resigned his seat in Congress and became a major general in the Union army, in which he served with credit and honor. General Curtis was also chosen a member of the Peace congress, and held other honorable positions. He died at Council Bluffs, Iowa, December 25, 1866 in the sixtieth year of his age.
CUNNINGHAM, PATRICK, AND OTHERS.-Patrick Cunningham was a Scotch-Irishman, born in the Province of Ulster. When quite a young man he emigrated to Maryland, and espousing the cause of his adopted country he served in the Revolutionary war. A few years before his death, having met with reverses in fortune, he succeeded in obtaining a pension from the United States government. He was an educated gentleman of the old school, very reticent in his .disposition, particularly neat in his dress and person, and from his persistence in wearing gloves, knee breeches, and buckels, was considered very eccentric by his pioneer neighbors. He was married three times, and died about the year 1835, and was, at the time of his death, supposed to be over eighty years of age. His first wife was killed by the upsetting of a sleigh. By her he had but two children, viz.: William and Thomas Cunningham. From his second marriage there were four children, viz: John, sr., Joseph, Ann and Polly. After the death of his second wife he again married, from which marriage there were no children.
CUNNINGHAM, WILLIAM, son of Patrick and father of John, jr., married Elizabeth Moore and with his family, consisting of his wife and one child (John, jr.), removed from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to Newark in 1811. He enlisted in Captain Spencer's rifle company and served in the War of 1812; was present at Hull's surrender, and subsequently re-enlisting, died in camp at Franklinton, Franklin county, Ohio, in March, 1814. A letter written by this pioneer Eoldier upon a drum-head, by the light of a camp-fire, at the time of the surrender, and yet in the possession of his son, John Cunningham (who- is- now eighty years of age), is a fine specimen of composition and penmanship.
CUNNINGHAM, THOMAS, settled in Zanesville, where he reared a large family of children.
CUNNINGHAM, JOHN, sr., a son of Patrick by his second wife (nee Isabel Rainey), married Mary Elliott, a niece of Captain Elliott, of pioneer fame. He served as sheriff and auditor of Licking county, and justice of the peace for many years. Subsequently his son, John R., served a term as auditor. His family, consisting of his wife, two sons and two daughters and himself, have been dead for many years. The other children of Patrick Cunningham having migrated west, but little is known as to their history.
CUNNINGHAM, JOHN, JR., son of William and grandson of Patrick, was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1800, and came to Newark with his parents in 1811, both of whom dying in 1814, he was left an orphan at the age of fourteen. Among the pioneer teachers to whom he was indebted for his early education were the names of Everson Blackburn, Amos H. Caffee, Rev. Thomas D. Baird, Hosmer Curtis and others, whose names grace the annals of the pioneer history of Newark and of Licking county. Among those with whom he attended school were Henry B. Curtis, of Mt. Vernon, and Enoch Wilson, of Newark. A few others, perhaps, of Rev. Thomas D. Baird's scholars still survive. He learned the trade of tanner and currier, was for many years deputy sheriff and deputy auditor, and subsequently worked at his trade until ill health compelled him to give it up. April 2, 1826, he married Ann, daughter of David and Martha Lewis, and granddaughter of Deacon Theophilus Rees, who was born in Newark October 28, 1803, in a cabin on a hill upon the site of which the Park house now stands. Ill health compelling him to give up business since 1855, these pioneers have resided with their only son, W. M.. For thirty-nine years, the annual enumeration of youths has been made by Mr. John Cunningham, and from
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these annual visitations no one is probably better known to the citizens of Newark than the subject of this sketch.
CUNNINGHAM, WILLIAM M.--The following regarding this gentleman appears in the Masonic Newspaper printed in New York in February, 1879
(The following sketch is from the pen of Brother Rob Morris, who has intimately known the subject of these remarks for a quarter of a century].
"Brother Cunningham, now going through his second term of grand mastership, was born at Newark, Ohio, March 9, 1829, and is just completing his semi-centennial. Few of the craft have filled their fifty years of life in a more honorable and yet quiet and unobtrusive manner. Amongst masons, outside of his own jurisdiction he is best known as the writer of reports on foreign correspondence, a position which more than all others best develops the wisdom, strength, and beauty in the man. Many a man has worthily filled the highest grades of office, and filled them well, who could not write a readable report on foreign correspondence. Of those due to the fecund and facile pen of Brother Cunningham, we find the best were composed for the grand lodge, but those for the grand chapter, grand council, and grand commandery, are well worthy of perusal. Were all gathered into a volume they would make a resume of the history of the order for the years that they cover. " Brother Cunningham was initiated into Masonry in 1850, in Newark Lodge, No. 97, Newark, Ohio, and received the second and third grades the same year. Those of the chapter and council followed tour years later ; the orders of the commandery in 185$. The almost interminable series of the Scotch rite occupied his time at intervals from 1856 to May x9, 1865, when he received the honorary grade of sovereign grand inspector general.
"The writer, in 1856, was the guest of Brother Cunningham, then a merchant in Newark, and, over an interval of several days. enjoyed the confidential chat of the young and studious brother, whose well filled library, and well filled mind and easy tongue, afforded all that could be desired of such an occasion. He predicted then (an easy task), the brilliant career which awaited Brother Cunningham, and he esteems it a special favor, twenty-three years later, to act as historian of his own (fulfilled) prophecy. Let us see it in a synopsis:
"Worshipful Master, of Newark Lodge, No. y ; High Priest of Warren Chapter, No. 6, Thrice Illustrious of Bigelow Council. No. 7 (all at Newark); Thrice Potent of Enoch Lodge of Perfection (Columbus); Deputy Puissiant Grand Master, 1863, and Puissiant Grand Master of the Grand Council R. and S. M., Ohio, 1864-5-6; District Grand Lecturer Grand Lodge, 1864-77; Grand Orator of Grand Lodge, 1874; Deputy Grand Master Grand Lodge of Ohio, 1875 and 1876. Finally he arrived at the highest honors known to Free Masonry, viz.: Grand Master of Ohio, in October, 1877. and re-elected in October, 1878. It is of record that his vote for the first term was seven-eighths, and for the second term, nine-tenths of the eight hundred votes of the delegation. His first annual address, October, 1878. is a masterpiece and model for documents of the perspicacious yet forcible, brief yet comprehensive. In 1876 he had appealed from the decision of the Grand Master upon a constitutional question, which appeal was sustained by the Grand Lodge, and thus the question of recognizing the legality of colored Masons in Ohio was settled adversely to the advocates of recognition.
But Brother Cunningham is equally known as Masonic author and compiler. In 1865 he wrote a Funeral Book of Free Masonry, giving a complete set of forms for Lodge, church, and cemetery service, and full instructions for Sorrow Lodges. This is the first work ever published upon that plan, and subsequent writers have borrowed from it so freely as almost to forfeit its identity, yet the evidences exist.
As author and compiler, the following list of works are accredited to our industrious friend:
"The Manual of the Ancient and Accepted Rite,' 12MO pp 272, Philadelphia, 1864, perhaps the first complete separate manual put forth in the Northern jurisdiction; 'Cross' Masonic Text Book;' ' Cross' Masonic Chart;' ' Cross' Templars' Chart;' all revised and published in 1865, with handsome and appropriate illustrations, and taken very extensively with the trade. In 2874 he gave forth 'Craft Masonry, or Part First of the Ancient York Rite,' 12 mo. pp. 210. (The second part, ' Capitular Masonry;' third part, 'Cryptic Masonry,' and fourth part, 'Templar Masonry,' are now in press.
"The writer has seen in Newark, what is rarely exhibited in these degenerate days, three generations of Masons in the Cunningham family, viz., the aged father, the subject of this sketch and his son. May the three limbs long stand unbroken, and afterwards be indissolubly united in the Celestial lodge above.
"Our sketch would be imperfect were not some references made to the secular life of Brother Cunningham. The book trade has occupied the greater part of his life. This was followed by the insurance business, as agent, and in 1877 he received the appointment as statistician to the Ohio department of State, to which laborious charge he was reappointed in 1879. The volume of Ohio statistics issued for 1877, which has received commendatory remarks everywhere, was of his compilation. A similar volume for 1878 is in press. As a handle of literary merit he received the grade of magister artium
"But my space is exhausted. Were a page of 'the Masonic newspaper' left for friendship, a eulogy would follow, both in prose and verse, that would demonstrate how much we all love William M. Cunningham who know him."'
Sanford Cunningham, son of William M., died November 8, 1880, of consumption. He was an only child and much beloved. One of Newark's papers thus speaks of him:
"Few young men were more generally or more justly respected and beloved than was Sanford Cunningham, and the memory of his broken, and yet in a true sense, complete life, will cling around his early tomb with a sweet fragrance. He was a young man of unusual energy, ability, and ambition, and had he been endowed with a physical constitution in proportion to his mentality, he would have accomplished that distinguished career in life, of which his energy and ability gave such abundant promise. The heroism with which he battled for years with the insidious disease that was sapping his life was greater than the heroism of battle-fields, and yet he bore his sufferings with a patience and a resignation born of a calm, serene faith that never failed him. Chords of sympathy, deep and heartfelt, thrill unbidden for the bereaved parents, and yet, only the God of all consolation can comfort such sorrow."
NEWARK TOWNSHIP.
CARSON, NANCY.-Nancy Carson was long a well known citizen of Newark, where she died November 25, 1872, in the seventy-ninth year of her age. She was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1794, and came with her father's family to Licking county in 1816. She was a most excellent pioneer, well adapted to life on the frontiers; of rare industry, conscientiousness, and devotion to religious duties. Nancy Carson became a member of the Presbyterian church of Newark, November 13, 1816, during the ministry of Rev. Dr. Thomas D. Baird, and continued her membership there until her death, a period of fifty-six years, and always; while health permitted, attended its ministrations.
COPLEY, JOSEPH. - He was born in Madison township, January 16, 1845; he is the son of John and Mary Copley. Mr. Copley was born December 25, 1798, in Yorkshire, England; he carne to Licking county in 1842, and located in Madison
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township; he was married January 18, 1843; his first occupation was farming; he afterwards moved to Perry county. and engaged in the woollen manufacturing business; moved back September 1, 1862, and died October 11, 1864. His wife was born in Madison township, March 15, 1810. She is living with her son in Union township; they are the parents of only one child, the subject of this sketch. He was married May 29, 1870, to Miss Viola Hancock, daughter of Nathan Hancock, Harrison township. She was born in Union township, March 8, 1851; they are the parents of Mary E., born August 11, 1871; John W.; who died August 8, 1873, aged five months; George, who died February 2, 1877, aged four years; Mattie, who died January 21, 1877, aged eighteen months, and Lucy Perl, who was born November 11, 1878. Joseph Copley is a farmer; has taught school during the winter since 1864.
NEWTON TOWNSHIP.
COLVILLE, J. H., farmer, post office, Chatham. He was born August 8, 1830, near St. Louisville, Licking county. The following April his parents moved to Newark, where they lived till their death in May, 1848. His father, mother and brother died within a few days of each other, with a disease that was then known as erysipelas fever. The entire family was afflicted. It was considered contagious and very dangerous, and, at the time of his parents' death, none of the neighbors or friends would come to the house but one uncle. An aunt did the baking and cooking for the family, and would take it as far as the door and leave it. His parents were buried, but the funeral service was not held until the following June. His father was one of nine children. His grandfather, father and two uncles served in the War of 1812; his grandfather was major, his father lieutenant, his uncle Samuel was captain, and his uncle James a lieutenant. The youngest uncle, at the age of sixty years,. enlisted. and-served in the late civil war, from Oskaloosa, Iowa. His father was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, in 1788, and came to Licking county in 1826. His uncle James was eighty-three when he died. Samuel was eighty-eight, and his uncle John is past eighty, and is living in Iowa. The subject of this sketch is one of nine children, and is the only one at present living. At his father's death his oldest brother returned to the farm, having been absent, and the children remained together, and worked the place in common until one of his sisters' marriage, when he and his brother-in-law took the place and worked it together. He remained there about three years, when the farm was sold, and the proceeds divided among the heirs. He married Sophia Bline August 24, 1854. He rented the old homestead of the party that purchased it, and lived there three years, when he moved to a farm near the "Goose Pond," lived there eight years, when he bought the farm near Chatham, where he now resides. Mr. and Mrs. Colville have nine children: William, born January 3, 1856; Jacob B., born April 26, 1858; Flora, born July 18, 1859, married to Frank B. Preston, January 30, 1879, and lives in Chatham; Jennie, born April 14, 1865; Mary Bell, born March 29, 1868; Rachel Ann, born January 8, 1871; Ella, born September 17, 1875; J. H. Bastine, born April 16, 1876; Merlie, born February 14, 1879. Mr: Colville, besides his farming, makes a specialty of raising fine wool sheep. At present he has a fine flock of blooded Merino sheep.
PERRY TOWNSHIP.
COOKSEY, JAMES O., farmer, post office, Cooksey, was born April 21, 1841, and was married to Miss C. J. Huffman, of Tuscarawas county, in 1867. They have had three children: Laura Nellie, aged twelve; Lillian Leonia, ten; Sadie Vioria, nine. Mr. Cooksey lives near Denman's cross roads, and is a rising young farmer. He has been township clerk for several years, and the office never was in better hands. His father, John Cooksey, was born in Virginia in 1800, and is living in this township. His mother was also a native of Virginia. Cooksey post office was named in honor of his father in 1880.
CRAWFORD, JAMES M., farmer, post office, Perryton, was born in Coshocton county in 1840, and came to this county in 1866; was married to Miss Sarah E. Beckham, of this county, in 1861; they have had seven children: Ella J. (deceased); Ida (deceased); Eva, fifteen; infant; Anna, twelve; Carl, ten; Stella, two. J. M.'s father was born in Ireland in 1806 and died in 1850 ; his mother was born in Virginia in 1807, and has lived in Coshocton county seventy-two years; his mother's maiden name was Rebecca J. McCann. J. M. Crawford was elected justice of the peace in 1867, and held the office twelve consecutive years; has been trustee, and has held other offices of trust in this township; owns three hundred and sixty-three acres of good land and one of the nicest houses in the township; he is the eldest of four living brothers, all over six feet in height, and he has never been sick a day in his life.
CULLISON, Z. B., physician, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, June 7, 1837. He has been practicing medicine in this county eighteen years, moving to Elizabethtown in 1863 ; he graduated at Jefferson Medical college, Cincinnati, in 1857;. practiced a short time in Mansfield before the war, in which he took an active part, going out in company
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E, Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry. Since locating here he has given his entire attention to the practice of his profession, and has built up an extensive practice. He was married in 1862 to Miss Rebecca Ann Pigman, of Coshocton county; they have had nine children; two deceased. He and his wife's parents came from Maryland, and are of . English descent; their grandfathers were among the first Methodist preachers in Ohio, and he and his wife are children of Methodist preachers.
ST. ALBANS TOWNSHIP.
CLEMONS, MRS.. E. S., was born in Granville township June 12, 1837. She attended school at Granville about four or five years, and began teaching school when she was sixteen years of age. She was married to William H. Clemons January= 15, 1857, by Rev. W. S. Burton, and emigrated to Washington, Washington county, Iowa, in March of same year, where they engaged in shipping cattle; also purchased a farm of eighty acres. They remained in Iowa about three years, and then returned to Granville township and purchased the old Clemons homestead. They have five children: Bell Rose, born July 8, 1861; Frederick Levi, born March 23; 1865; Charles C., born June 28, 1869; Johnnie Leclaire, born April 2, 1871; Maud S., August 6, 1873. Levi and Sophronia Rose, parents of the subject of this sketch, were' pioneers of Granville township. The former was a son of Levi and Polly Rose, who were among the first settlers of Granville, having moved there in 1805, and was one of the active, energetic families of the county. Levi Rose died in Granville, May 16, 1879. Mrs. E. S. Clemons is now living in Alexandria maintaining her family.
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
CAMERON, GEORGE, merchant tailor, Utica. He was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1840, and came to America in 1854. He went to work in a boot and shoe store at No. 174 on the Bowery, New York city; remained there a short time, then went to Patterson, New Jersey, where he remained for a short time and then returned to the old country. After he came to America the second time he apprenticed himself to a merchant tailor in New York State, and served his time, and in 1863 went to Cleveland, Ohio. He worked there about a year, when trade slacked up and he went from there to Sandusky. Trade was better there, for the reason that the rebel officers imprisoned on Johnson's Island, when exchanged, had work done. He then went to Terre Haute, Indiana, and served a second apprenticeship, and on the fifteenth of April, 1865, he left there and went to Kansas City, Missouri. After traveling about the country for a long time he came to Licking county, and cut for H. B. Green, of Granville, and then went to Michigan. He returned to Licking county and started business for himself in Utica. He was married to Mary Burns-a native of Ireland of Genesee county, New York. Her parents came to this country when she was very small. She was born in 1840. Since coming to Utica he purchased property on Mechanics street, where he resides, carrying on his business. He built an addition to the house he lives in, and has just completed a small brick house on the same street. He is ready at all times to cut or make a suit of clothes for all.
CAMPBELL JOHN R., farmer, post office, Utica. He was born March 9, 1815, in Washington township. His parents moved here in 1809, from Pennsylvania. They settled on the farm in the woods now owned by John Coad. There were of the family Julia, Joseph, Jane, John, Eliza, Mary, Sarah and Samantha, of whom four are living. He remained at home with his parents until their death. He then purchased, with his brother James, the homestead. His father died June 23, 1844, and his mother July 1, 1846. He was married to Louisa Hughes June 3, 1851. She was born November 17, 1820, and is the daughter of Jonathan Hughes and granddaughter of Captain Elias Hughes. After their marriage they remained on this place until 1859, when he sold to John Coad and bought the farm they now live on. They have had three children. The first died in infancy. Romilla O. was born April 20, 1854, and died May 24, 1855. George S. was born March 24, 1862, and lives at home.
CANNON, JACOB, farmer, post office, Utica. He was born in Clay township, Knox county, in 1835. His parents were from Pennsylvania. His father died in 1859, fifty-five years old; his mother in 1878, at the age of sixty-seven. They lived in Knox county about twenty-five years. There were four boys and five girls of the family. Jacob remained at home until he was twenty-one years old and then went to Illinois ; returned to Ohio and was married to Melinda Painter, of Licking county, in 1855. She was born June 12, 1836. They had eleven children, of whom are living, Amanda, Ellen, Mary, Roselia, James M., Ida May, Anzonia, Ethel and Grace. Mr. Cannon enlisted in the Seventy-sixth regiment, company D, Ohio volunteer infantry, Captain Kibler, in November, 1861, and served three years. He was discharged a the expiration of his term ; Has in the campaign of the Southwest under Grant and Sherman; took part in the battles at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, skirmished on the advance to Memphis, had three days' fight at Hayne's Bluff, was in front of Vicksburg; part of the army was engaged at Port Gibson and the balance captured Jackson. Rebel General Churchill fell back
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to Vicksburg, and the Seventy-sixth attacked Arkansas Post in the rear, and was the first regiment that entered the fortification. This command was led by Col. William B. Woods, who took part in the battle at Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge. His regiment was on the right. After this they fought at Ring gold. They were cut off at this fight and were placed in Joe Hooker's command. After this they went into winter quarters at Paint Rock, Alabama. At this time the entire command reenlisted and came home on a furlough in 1864. After coming home Mr. Cannon was taken sick, and on being sworn in. was rejected on account of diease contracted in the war. He was sick three years, and has never been entirely well since. Mr. Cannon is at present an expert in shearing sheep, and during that season shears more than any one man in his neighborhood. He makes a specialty of doctoring sheep. He has invented an attachment to sheep shears which makes the work more rapid and easy, and prevents injuring the sheep.
CONARD, JOSEPH (deceased), was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, and came to Licking valley in 1895. In 1808 he purchased a farm near the present village of Utica, where he lived and died, .his death occurring February 14, 1873, at the ripe age of eighty-eight years.
BENNINGTON TOWNSHIP.
DENTY, JOHN, farmer, born in Fairfax county, Virginia, in 1807, came to this countv with his father in 1831. William Denty died in 1850, and his wife, Elizabeth, died in 1861. John Denty married; in 1825, Miss Maria Barber, of Anne Arundel county, Maryland. They were the parents of three children. Amanda, married to William Weiant, of this county, but now living in Kansas; Martha, married to David Weiant, brother of William. Martha died March 5, 1880. John W. married Miss M. Moore, daughter of T. H. Moore, of. this county. John W. and wife are the parents of four children; three living and one, Flora May, dead. Those living are George, born in 1864; Warren, born in 1866, and Lavina, born in 1872. J. W. Denty lives on the old homestead.
DOUGLASS, JOHN, farmer, born in 1822, in Morris county, New Jersey, came to this county in 1842. He was married, in 1846, to Miss Louis A. Green, daughter of Robert A. Green, of this county. She was born in 1830, in this county. They are the parents of ten children, nine of whom are living; one, Albert B., is dead. He died March 7, 1871. Mr. Douglass has a fine farm .in this township besides a fine town property in Utica.
DUFFIELD, SAMUEL, wagon-maker, born in this county in 1823; lived at home until the age of eighteen, when he went to learn his trade. Went to Iowa in 1854; lived in Iowa farming and working at his trade six years; went to Colorado for a year and came back to this county in 1861, has worked at his trade since coming back In 1845 he married Miss Matilda Scribner, of this county. Miss Scribner was born in 1829; she came to this county with her parents in 1836.
DUKE, SALATHIEL ALLEN, of Baxter, Drew county, Arkansas, was born in Bennington township, near Homer, Licking county, January 14, 1828. His parents were natives of Virginia; David .Duke, his father, being a child of six years when his father, John Duke, moved from near Wheeling, Virginia, and settled near Zanesville, Ohio. This was about 1802. His mother's maiden name was Sarah Elizabeth Conard; whose father, Nathan Conard, was among the first settlers near Utica about the same time. This county was then inhabited by Indians; schools were almost unknown, and consequently the parents of Mr. S. A. Duke received but little education but endeavored to make up 'the loss 'by educating their children, and were always foremost in all educational interests in their neighborhood. In religion, his father was Calvinistic, his mother Quaker, but both became Methodists. In politics his father belonged to the Democratic party, and always went with his party. The son, however, was independent, thought for himself, and dates his opposition to the Democratic party from the repeal of the Missouri compromise. When the war broke out, Mr. Duke went to Helena, Arkansas, under authority of General Curtis, to organize a regiment of colored troops. A delay occurring, by reason of a change of department commanders, Mr. Duke was employed in finding homes in St. Louis for the thousands of contrabands that were then entering that city from the South. For this work he neither asked nor received any compensation. In the spring of 1863 he went to Helena, and there, under the direction of General Prentice, began the organization of a colored regiment. His work here was, however; interrupted, and he accompanied Adjutant General Lorenzo 'Thomas, who was then in the west for the purpose of looking after the interests of the colored people, down the Mississippi river; a plan having been devised for placing the contrabands upon a abandoned plantations. Mr. Duke probably inaugurated the first successful efforts in this direction ; and was placed in charge of what was known as the " Out-post Plantation," two miles in rear of Goodrich's Landing, Louisiana. Prior to taking charges of this plantation, it was through his instrumentality that four hundred bales of cotton were taken out of the clutches of thieves and delivered to the of Government. After disposing of the abandoned cotton- on his plantation, Mr. Duke, after paying
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all expenses out of the proceeds, was enabled to turn over to the Government sixty thousand dollars, which would have been lost or stolen but for his occupation of the plantation. He also started the first colored school in that section, being within the sound of Grant's cannon, at Vicksburgh, and was taught by a freed-woman. When the planting season ended, he gathered the negroes together in a fort the troops having departed from Goodrich's Landing, where a defense could be made in case of attack. Into this fort were collected during the winter some five thousand contrabands with all their possessions, to await, in the shelter of the fort, another planting season. The small-pox broke oat among them, and Mr. Duke caused the erection of a hospital for the patients, near the gate of the fort, which fact probably prevented a rebel attack. In the fall of 1865, Mr. Duke settled in Arkansas, and still continues a resident of that State. In 1868, he was elected a member of the house, and in 1872 a member of the senate of Arkansas, on the Republican ticket. It was at this time that the well known trouble occurred between Baxter, the legally elected Republican governor, and Brooks, who contested his seat. A speck of war appeared in Arkansas, but Grant put his heavy hand on the contending parties, and the war was over. The Republican party was, however, deposed and. retired from power. Since that time, Mr. Duke. has devoted his energies to building up his neighborhood and bettering his condition. He now owns about three thousand acres of land, five hundred acres of which is under cultivation, and all but sixty acres of this has been cleared in the last ten years. In 1849, Mr. Duke married Ruth E. Barnes, daughter of George Barnes and granddaughter of Charles Barnes, a pioneer of the county who emigrated from Frederick county, Virginia, in 1811, having rendered military service under Lord Dunmore. Her mother was the daughter of another pioneer family named Bacon.
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP:
DAILEY, WILLIAM, hotel keeper, born in Warren county, New Jersey, in 1825, came to Urbana, Ohio, in 1835; he was married in 1852 to Miss Sarah A. Brinnon, of Urbana, Ohio. She was born in 1823, in Virginia. They came to Homer in 1850. They have no children of their own, but have an adopted daughter, who is married to Mr. William Green, who is now a student in the medical college in Columbus. Mr. Dailey enjoys all the custom of Homer, being a man who is courteous to travelers and sets a good table.
DAVIS, SARAH.-Mrs. Davis was a daughter of Captain Elias Hughes, Licking's pioneer settler of 1798, and was one of his twelve children who then composed his family. She was born in western Virginia in 1790, and died in Burlington township December 12, 1869, in the eightieth year of her age. Sarah. Hughes married Samuel Davis in 1808, and for some time after that event lived in Newark, then a village of about two hundred inhabitants. Mrs. Davis was pre-eminently one of the pioneer women of Licking county, having lived within its limits seventy-one years. She had been for forty years a member of the Christian church.
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP.
DUSTHIMER, ISAIAH.-Mr. Dusthimer has been . a life-long practical farmer, and is the descendant of one of the early settlers of this county. His grandfather and family came here from Loudoun county, Virginia, when his father, Anthony, was a small boy, and built his log cabin in the midst of an unbroken growth of timber. His father united in marriage with Rebecca Hoskinson, and Isaiah was their first child, born October 29, 1818. He was married March 16, 1848, to Mary Brady, the daughter of Levi Brady, born September 1, 1792, and Mary Brown, born June 15, 1794, a Pennsylvanian by birth. Mrs. Dusthimer was born March 18, 1825. Their children are: Elizabeth Jane, wife of Bourbon Coe, of Hopewell township; James M., John W., and Harvey E. Rebecca Ellen, twin sister to Harvey, died in infancy.
GRANVILLE.
DAVIS, DAVID E., tailor, was born in Wales June 6, 1815. He is a tailor by trade, and has made tailoring his principal vocation through life. In 1831 he emigrated to America, and located in New York, where he worked at his trade about three years. In 1834 he commenced travelling and working at his trade as journeyman, in different towns, for one year. In 1835 he came to Ohio, and lived in Newark about eight months. In the spring of 1836, he came to Granville township, and located in the Welsh Hills settlement, in the northeast corner of the township. October 22, 1836, he married Miss Isabella, daughter of Deacon William Williams. Miss Williams was born in Wales February 29, 1812, and migrated to this county with her parents in 1820. Mr. and Mrs. Davis settled in Granville township, where he engaged in carrying on a tailor shop, which business he has since been conducting, and is better known in the neighborhood by tailor Davis than by his right name. In 1847 he purchased and moved on the farm in the northeastern part of Granville township, where he now resides, and has since that time been carrying on the business of farming in connection with his trade. His companion def ceased January 22, 1877. They reared a family of four children: Hannah, Ariadna, William H. and Samuel A. All are yet living, married, and have n families. His son, Samuel A., served about two
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and one-half years in the late war, in the Sixth Ohio sharp-shooters, and returned home at the close of the war.
HARRISON TOWNSHIP.
DENNIS, JOHN, deceased, was born in Ireland in 1773. He served four years in the Tyrone County militia, and was discharged July, 1797. About 1809 he married Miss Eleanor Dennis, born in Ireland in 1786. They reared a family of eight children: Hugh, Francis, John, James, William, Ann, Eleanor and Margaret. In 1839 two of the sons, Francis and John, emigrated to America, and located in this county. Francis engaged in farming, which business he has since followed. John was a blacksmith by trade, and has made blacksmithing his principal vocation. In 1842 Mr. Dennis, with his wife and the remaining six children, emigrated to America, and located in St. Albans township in this county; remained about two years; then in 1844 they moved on the farm in the northwest corner of Harrison township, now owned by their son, Francis Dennis, where they passed the remainder of their days. He died January 2, 1851 His companion survived him until November 9, 1870. Two of the children are now deceased: Hugh and Ann. William left home in 1844 or '4, and has not been heard of since. The remaining five children-three sons and two daughters are now living on the home farm in Harrison township.
HARTFORD TOWNSHIP:
DAVIDSON, G. W., farmer, was born in 1849, in Knox county, and came to this county in 1851, with his father's family, where he has resided ever since. He was married to Miss E. Graham, of Licking county, in 1869. They are the parents of two children, aged respectively two and eight years. He has a fine farm of one hundred and forty-seven acres, and is an enterprising and highly respected young farmer
DURFEY, MRS. A. C.-She was born in Granville, Massachusetts, September 20, 1800. At the age of five years she came with her father's (Hiram Rose) family to Granville, Ohio. Her father's family was one of the first seven families that came to Granville. Three years after coming to Granville he purchased one hundred acres of land three miles west of Granville, where he resided until his death, some twenty-five years ago, in the eighty-ninth year of his age. Mrs. Durfey was married to A. C. Durfey July 15, 1819. She became the mother of two children, viz: Hiram L. and Adeline, now the wife of Julius Cornell. Mr. A C. Durfey was born in Midlebury, New York, July 13, 1796. He came to Hartford at the age of twenty-two years, walking all the way. In his early days he taught school, and later followed farming. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. His widow draws a pension of eight dollars per month because of his serving in the war. Mr. Durfey was a man of influence in local affairs.
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP.
DECROW, SAMUEL G., farmer and stock grower, New Way, was born in Lincolnville, Waldo county, Maine, April 13, 1816. He emigrated to Ohio October, 1834. He married Sarah E. Woodworth August 22, 1839; she was born November 30, 1830, in Sunbury township, Delaware county. They have five children, as follows: Warren, born February 17, 1841 ; Herbert, born December 2, 1846; Emma, born October 9, 1848; Rosa, born April 19, 1852; Hattie J., born October 23, 1861. Warren married Hattie C. Stone, December 7, 1865, and lives in Quincy, Illinois; his business is that of a dentist. Herbert married Lucy A. Holmes, June 30, 1874, and practices medicine at Galion, Crawford county, Ohio. John DeCrow, father of Samuel, was born in Marshfield, Massachusetts, August 7, 1773, emigrated to Ohio October, 1836, he died October 30, 1847. His wife, Katy K. Park, was born April 28, 1782, and died May 18, 1856. Nathan Woodworth, father of Mrs. DeCrow, was born September 6, 177o, and emigrated to Ohio about 1818, and died March 12, 1848. His wife, Cynthia Culver, was born in Connecticut, September 30, 178o, and died July 6, . 1862.
DUKE, DAVID, carpenter and farmer, was born May 27, 1797, in Brooke county, Virginia, where he remained until he was about six years of age. His parents, John and Catharine Duke, emigrated to Ohio in 1803, locating on the Tuscarawas river, about ten miles above Coshocton; they remained there only one year, when they came to Licking county, where he has resided ever since 1804. He married Martha Larue, January 18, 1821, and had three children. The only living child by the first marriage, Harvey L., was born May 27, 1823. Martha Duke died April 20, 1825. David married, for his second wife, Sarah Conard, March 1, 1827; she was born in Knox county, Ohio, December 24, 1805, and died September 20, 1877. They had nine children, eight of whom are living: Salathiel A., born January 14, 1828; John Crawford, born May 3, 1830; Nathan W., born December 11, 1832; Jonah Boman, born August 15, 1835; David Milton, born May 28, 1838; Sarah Elizabeth, born December 2, 1840; William Benton, born February 21, 1843; Joseph Wesley was born October 4, 1845 and died October 9, 1855; Lewis Cass was born May 18, 1848. He is the only child remaining at home with his aged father. The subject of this sketch says there were but fifteen voters in
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Licking county when he first came, and he can mention the names of most of them. He also says that he could speak the Indian tongue as fluently as he now speaks the English. John Duke, father of David, now of Liberty township, was first justice of the peace of Granville township.
DULL, JOSEPH.-Mr. Dull was born February 9, 1804, in Somerset county, Pennsylvania; was the son of John and Hannah Dull. March 29, 1827, he gave his hand in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Dumbauld, who has since blessed his fireside with nine children, and who still shares with him the trials and joys of life. Mrs. Dull was born October 30, 1807, and is also a native of Pennsylvania. Eight of their children are still living, and seven of them married, having homes of their own, and prosperous. Below we give children's names: Phebe, born January 7, 1829; Christena, born June 3, 1831; Joannah, born August 1, 1833; Uriah, born November 15, 1835; Nancy, born June 17, 1838; John, born March 23, 1841; Elias, born October 10, 1843. Charlotte and Lufema Jane, the last, having died August 18, 1856, being about eight years of age. Mr. Dull has held from time to time some of the higher positions of trust in his township. Is Republican in politics, and during the late war was a staunch supporter of the Union cause. For his known fidelity was appointed "enrolling officer" for his own and Bennington townships. Met threatening opposition, but braved all fearlessly, performing faithfully his duties, and to the satisfaction of higher authorities. He is yet vigorous for one who has passed his "three score and ten." He still guards, with unabated vigilance, private and public interests. In comforts and pleasures to himself and family, he enjoys the profits from the accumulations of toil. He enjoys the love of his family, and the high regard of a large circle of friends. He has been a resident o: this township since 1838.
LICKING TOWNSHIP.
DAVISSON, CATHARINE, Jacktown post office, was born February 4, 1816, in Muskingum county. She was the daughter of William and Elizabeth Bisant; her parents were of Shenandoah county, Virginia, and came to Muskingum county in 1802. William Bisant located on the site of Zanesville, there being but few cabins at that place. He was the first man that planted apple trees in that county. He afterwards took up land four miles from Zanesville and cleared it up and improved it. When he first came to Muskingum county he had but fifty cents, and when he died he was supposed to be worth about one hundred thousand dollars. At one time they were the only family that had a coffee mill in the neighborhood. It was used by the neighbors in turns. William Bisant was the father of twelve children; five are yet living. William died at the age of seventy-one. Mrs. Bisant died at the age of ninety-five years; they both died on the farm where they first located; in Muskingum county. Catharine Davisson, the subject of this sketch, was married June 15, 1834, to Dr. Walter W. Davisson, of Muskingum county. Results of this marriage, five children: Louisa was born August 12, 1835, was married to John Cherry, of *Fairfield county; they had eight children. Eunice was born August 11, 1836, was married to William Workman, of Muskingum county; they had six children. William Franklin was born April 3, 1838, was married to Hellen R. Linn, of this county; they have seven girls. Frank is station agent for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at the National Pike, west of Jacksontown, he also is a grain dealer in company with Oliver Davis; he is a very energetic, obliging business man and is very highly esteemed by all his acquaintances. Elizabeth was born June 16, 1841; she was married to Oliver Davis, of this county, who is in company with Frank Davisson at Pike station. Mrs. Catharine Davisson's grandfather was killed in the battle of Brandywine. Her grandfather on her mother's side was a Hessian but deserted his countrymen. He came over to the Continental army, and after the war followed butchering. Mrs. Davisson is now living with her only son, Frank, and is in her sixty-fifth year, is a very intelligent old lady and has the highest . respect of her acquaintances. She has been a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church for over twenty-two years.
DEMOSS, JAMES, was born in Licking county May 2, 1825, being the son of job and Elizabeth DeMoss, who came to this county in an early day. James was married to Lucinda Beatty, of this county. They, had three children, two are deceased; William Perry is single and lives with his father. Mrs. DeMoss died in 1853. Mr. DeMoss was married again to Leah George, of this county, December 11, 1855; results of this marriage, six children: George W., Mary Amelia, Sevila E., Rachel A., Nancy R., and Sarah C. Three are married and three are single and living at home. Mrs. Leah DeMoss is the daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann George. Thomas came to this county in 1821, when thirteen years of age, making the journey on foot with his parents and nine other children, the mother carrying the youngest child in her arms. They started from Rockingham county, Virginia, in company with twenty-one others; all came on foot, only having two horses to carry their baggage. They located on the Licking river, where they all lived and died. This party was known as the Morgan colony. Stephen George
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was in the War of 18 12 four years, was in the battle of Lundy's Lane.
DICKERSON, THOMAS, was born in Bowling Green township May 25, 1808; son of John and Elizabeth Dickerson, who came to Licking county in 1805. Thomas farmed till he was eighteen years old, then worked at stone cutting about forty-five years; was married to Nancy Piels, of this county; results of this marriage, seven children: John, William, Daniel, Eliza Jane, James and Rozella. John is single and lives at Newark; William married Frances Tippet, of Illinois, and is a stockdealer; Daniel married Eliza Emery of Bowling Green township, and is a farmer; Eliza Jane was married to Logan Osburn, of Licking county, and died March 1, 1876; James is single and a farmer; Rozella died August, 1870. Mrs. Dickerson died Novewber 13, 1835. Jar. Dickerson was captain of the Jackson riflemen for seven years; lived in Bowling Green sixty-two years; was married a second time to Anna Vanhorn, of Licking county, October 9, 1859. John Dickerson was in the War of 1812, under General Beall, and came to Licking county when there were but few huts in Zanesville. Mr. Dickerson has been a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church for over fifty-three years, and assisted in building the Flint Ridge, Brownville and Linnville churches.
MADISON TOWNSHIP.
DAVIDSON, WILLIAM, farmer, was born in Muskingum county, February 8, 1817; moved to Hanover, Licking county, when one year old; he is the son of Richard Davidson, deceased; he was married to Priscilla Vail, of Meigs county, Ohio. She is the oldest of the family of Mr. Vail; they are the parents of four children living: William T., Patience E., Andrew O., Eliza C., living; Thankful M. died September 15, 1861; Sarah M. died February 18, 1872. Mrs: Davidson was born July 17, 1818. Master. J. . W. Con was born February 5, 1872; he is the grandson of Mr. Davidson, and has been living with him ever since he was five days old.
MARY ANN TOWNSHIP.
DUDGEON, WILLIAM, merchant and farmer, was born in Knox county, Qhio, February 18, 1822. From the age of fifteen he labored on a farm until his marriage December 18, 1845; married Sarah A. Allbaugh, daughter of Peter and Sarah J. Allbaugh. She was born September 22, 1822. In 1847 he moved to Madison township in this county, where he continued farming, occasionally working at the carpenter trade. In 1863 he opened a small store at Wilkins' corners, where he did business two years, then purchasing a piece of land near, he erected a large dwelling house and storeroom. He is doing a paying business; has been elected assessor seven terms. Their children are: Franklin B., born October 6, x856; Laura J., born August 27, 1859; Ora M., born January 24, 1863; and John W., born December 7, 1864.
McKEAN TOWNSHIP.
DEVENNEY, JOHN P., a farmer and stock raiser, was born March 11, 1808, in Orange county, Virginia. He was the son of Cornelius and Elizabeth Devenney, who came to this county in 1831, and located in McKean township. Their family consisted of five children-Mary, David, Eliza, Harriet and John P. Two are deceased-Mary and David. Cornelius Devenny died in 1850, aged eighty-two years. Elizabeth, his wife, died in 1852, aged eighty-two years. John P. was married March 20, 183.1, to D. B. Sheldon, of this county, who was born August 27, 1809, in Hampshire county, Massachusetts. They had four children. Warren C., born August 19, 1837, in McKean township, was married February 14, 1867, to Carrie Little, of this county; is a farmer, and lives in McKean township. Emma E., born May 13, 1841, was married June, 1864, to John Robinson, of Harrison county, a hardware merchant at that time, and is now living in Granville township, and is a farmer. Helen was born September 23, 1843; is single, and lives at home. Samuel S., born January 23, 1846, also lives at home and is a farmer. John P. Devenney located on the farm where he now lives in 1842, and has lived there ever since. He is a dealer in, and breeder of, fine blooded stock, including fine wool sheep, having some of the finest blooded stock in the county. He has voted the Republican ticket since the repeal of the Missouri compromise. They are a well-to-do family, and are highly esteemed by all who know them.
DUNN, JAMES W., farmer, was born June, 1832, in Muskingum county; came to this county in 1843 with his parents and located in Fallsbury township. He was married in 1861, to Mary Eshelman, of this county, who was born in 1830. They had one child, David, born in April, 1862. Mr. Dunn was drafted to go to the army. He was in company A, Seventy-sixth Ohio regiment; was in General Sherman's division, and was in the battles of Arkansas Post, Grand Gulf Vicksburgh and a few others; returned home in 1863. He received a wound in his hand at the battle of Vicksburgh. Mrs. Dunn died August 26, 1879, aged fifty years. John Dunn lived to the age of seventy-five years, Richard to the age of ninety-four years. John Dunn had eight sons in the late war. Five went from this county, one from Kansas, one from Missouri, and one from Arkansas.
MONROE TOWNSHIP.
DERTHICK, CLINTON, dealer in general merchan-
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dise, Johnstown; was born in Columbia, Herkimer county, New York, August 6, 1841. He, with his parents, Ira and Viansa Derthick, emigrated to Ohio in 1852, locating in Berkshire township, Delaware county, about 1855. Mr. Derthick, sr., engaged in general merchandising at Galena, Delaware county. In 186o he formed a partnership with his two youngest sons, Clinton and John. In the fall of 1865 they disposed of their stock at Galena, and the following spring entered into business at Sunbury, Delaware county. Mr. Derthick and son, Clinton, disposed of their interest in the stock in the spring of 1869, and the following fall Clinton came to Johnstown and engaged in business with Mr. Alpheus Reed, purchasing a half interest. At the death of Mr. Reed, in 1874, Mr. Derthick purchased the remainder, of the stock, and at the present writing is doing a fine business. He married Emily E. Dyer November 27, 1866. She was born December 27, 1847, in Berkshire township, Delaware county. They have two children, Guy joy, born October 28, 1872; Aubrey Viansa, born December 6, . 1874. Ira Derthick, jr., father of the subject of this sketch, was born December 7, 1814, in Columbia, Herkimer county, New York, and died August 14, 1880, at Galena, Delaware county, Ohio. Mrs. Derthick, sr., was born March 13, 1813, in Herkimer county, New York, and is still living at Galena, Ohio.
CITY OF NEWARK,
DANNER, M. F., grocer, 145 North Third street, born October 23, 1850, in Fairfield county. He was educated in the common and select schools of his native county. In 1866 he entered as clerk of S. D. Leonard's dry goods store, where he remained eighteen months, after which he engaged in the book business six months, after and then conducted the grocery business in Basel in company with D. H. Stover, which continued but a short time, after which he became sole proprietor and continued as such until 1875, when he came to this city, engaged with McCarthy & Co. as first clerk and remained with them until 1877, when he purchased the grocery store of J. J. Holmes, and has since conducted the business in his present room, twenty-four by ninety feet, which is well stocked with staple and fancy groceries, confections, canned goods, produce, tobacco, etc.
DARLINTON, REES- Mr. Darlinton was a native of Frederick county, Virginia, but in early life his father's family located in Newark, Ohio. Before reaching manhood he held the position of a clerk in-the office of the late Amos H. Caffee, esq., the then clerk o: our courts. Subsequently he engaged in merchandise in company with the late Carey A. Darlinton. After some years absence in the west he returned to Newark, and was for some time again engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1855 he was elected clerk of the court of common pleas, and served as such three years, retiring in 1858. He was a faithful public officer, and gave general satisfaction to the court, the bar, and to the public generally. On account of failing health he did not engage in business again, but in an enfeebled condition of health lingered a few years, and, before reaching the patriarchal age, "was gathered to his fathers." Mr. Darlinton was a gentleman of excellent intellect, a vigorous, original thinker, of extensive information, and a man of undoubted integrity of character. He thought and investigated for himself; and was outspoken and fearless in giving expression to his opinions on all subjects. Mr. Darlinton was for many years a member of the Presbyterian church.
DARLINGTON, CAREY A.-Mr. Darlington came to Newark in. 1823, and for ten or twelve years followed merchandising. He married a daughter of judge Holmes, and soon thereafter purchased a prairie farm on the Sandusky plains and engaged in farming and stock raising. Being troubled with bronchial difficulty, he removed to Shakopee, Minnesota, for his health. He subsequently and for similar reasons became a citizen of Montana territory, where he had his home at the time of his decease. He died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Kate Copeland, in Marion, Ohio, April 3, 1874. He was the son of Joseph Darlington, was born in 1788, and had therefore attained the ripe age of seventy-six years. His father settled in southern Ohio in territorial times, and took a leading part as a legislator in the government of the Northwest Territory, being a representative in the first territorial legislature in 1799. He was also a member of the convention that formed the first constitution of Ohio in 1802, and remained in public life about fifty years. C. A. Darlington-was an intelligent, genial kind hearted gentleman, and a man of pure, unimpeachable character.
DAUGHERTY, CHARLES, SR, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, May sixteenth, 1824.
He commenced working as a bricklayer and stone mason in 1843 and has since made that business his vocation. In 1845 he was united in marriage to Margaret Wells, of Zanesville, who was born in June, 1824.
They settled in Zanesville, where -he worked -at his trade about fifteen years, except a few months during the year 1853, when he came to Newark and built the Robins residence and the Pataskala block. In 1858 he moved to Newark, where he has since been carrying on the business of contracting and building. He has contracted for and built some of the best buildings in Newark, besides doing a great amount of work in the way of build-
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ing for the railroads. Also a majority of the bridges in Licking county have been built by him.
The following are a few of the principal buildings erected by him and the date of erection:. The Lansing house, in 1858; the Park house, in 1859; in 1859-6o he built the coal oil works at Warsaw, Coshocton county, which took him about two years to complete. In 1853 he built the round house and railroad shops at Bellaire, Ohio. In 1874-5 he built the railroad shops at Newark, which took him about two years to complete. In 1876 he did the stone and brick work for the depot at Chicago Junction. His last large job of work was the erection of the Pan Handle depot at Newark, which he has just completed. He has made for himself an extensive reputation as a first-class mechanic. By his union with Miss Wells he is the father of seven children, five of whom are now living, viz.: Sarah, Albert, Edward, Charles and Eva. He is the grandfather of thirteen children.
DAUGHERTY, EDWARD, son of Charles and Margaret Daugherty, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, April 29, 1852. He was brought to Newark by his parents in 1858. H He learned the bricklaying trade with his father when a boy, which he followed until 1870, when he commenced as an apprentice at the tinner trade with John Tucker & Co., of Newark, with whom he remained one year. He then worked a year at his trade as a bricklayer. In 1872 he became a partner of Mr. Tucker's in the tin and stove business, and remained as such about five years. In 1877 he again returned to his old trade as a bricklayer, and continued at it about two years. In January, 1880, he, in company with Edward Dodd, established the stove and tin store at 129 South Third street, Newark, Ohio, known as Daugherty & Dodd, dealers in tinware, cook and heating stoves, house furnishing goods, brittannia and triple plated ware, etc. In cooking stoves they make "The Maud S." a specialty. In the way of manufacturing, they execute everything, from tin, copper, zinc arid sheet iron, and give special attention- to gas and steam fittings, also tin and slate roofing. They do more tin and slate roofing than any other firm in the county. They are known and considered by the public as first class mechanics.
DAVIDSON, COLONEL ROBERT, was one of the early pioneers of Licking county, and a prominent business man of Newark for forty years or more. He was a native of Adams county, Pennsylvania, where he was born in March, 1777. In 178o his father removed to Washington county, in the same State, and located near the Ohio river. He was educated at Marietta, Ohio. In 1809 Robert Davidson married, but his wife died in a few months. The next year he settled in Newark, where he established himself in business. In the early summer of 1812 he volunteered for one year in Captain John Spencer's company of riflemen, and was elected first lieutenant. This company was attached to the Third Ohio regiment, commanded by Colonel Lewis Cass, and was included in the surrender of General Hull at Detroit. Lieutenant Davidson saw some hard service, and endured severe illness before the expiration of his year's service, being on the sick list at Fort McArthur many weeks. Just before the termination of his enlistment he marched to the relief of Fort Meigs. In 1816 Colonel Davidson intermarried with Eliza Mathiot, of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, with whom he lived until his death, in 1858, in the eighty-first year of his age, she and a number of children surviving him He was a patriotic, public-spirited, useful, enterprising man, a good citizen, and exemplary as a husband and father, and as a member of the Episcopal church. Few of our pioneers were more intelligent, or had pursued a more thorough course of reading.
DAVIDSON, MRS. ELIZA MATHIOT.-The subject of this sketch was a native of Maryland, born near Ellicott's mills in that State, About the beginning of the year 1791. .Her father was descended from an old Huguenot family, and her mother was a Quakeress. During her childhood her father removed to Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where, in May, 1816, she was married to Colonel Robert Davidson, of Newark, Ohio, to which place she at once removed. Mrs. Davidson was an intelligent and estimable lady, and a model pioneer woman, who was largely influential in giving to the society of the then village of Newark an improved and more elevated tone. She was one of the original members of Trinity Episcopal church, organized in 1826, and was the last survivor of that little band. She always maintained a consistent, Christian character, and impressed herself favorably upon those who came within range of her influence. Mrs. Davidson died in Dayton, Ohio, at the residence of one of her daughters, April 27, 1874, in the eighty-fourth year of her age.
DAVIES, J. R, attorney, east side Lansing house, was born February 15, 1845, in Granville, son of David A. Davies, a native of Wales, and came to America in 1840. J. R. Davies was raised in his native village and received an elementary education in its public schools, and was graduated at Denison university in 1869, and in 1871 received the degree of LL.. B. in the law department of Michigan university, and was admitted to practice in the same year, and has continued his. profession to the present time. Attorney Davies was married to Miss Clara Crabbe, of Bucyrus, Ohio. They have had four children-Charles D, deceased, Elizabeth Rose,
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Clara Anne, and William A. Mrs. Davies deceased February 25, 1880..
DAVIDSON, SAMUEL, barber, was born in Newport, Indiana, in March, 1854. At the age of twelve years he learned the barber trade in Hillsborough, Illinois, with his brother-in-law, E. Outland. He stayed there some two years, then went to Lichfield. He stayed at this place only a short period of time, then went to Alton, stayed there with his brother about five months, afterwards went to Terre Haute, and from this place to Cambridge, Indiana; then to Piqua, Ohio, and from there to Troy. In 1876 he went on a steamboat on the Ohio river from Cincinnati to Wheeling, remained about one year, after this went back to his own trade-barber. He moved to Newark, Ohio, April 14, 1880. He is master of his trade. When the war broke out he was living with his father, Rev. William Davidson, of the Methodist Episcopal church. On account of Union principles his father was taken prisoner and kept five months. He died after the war closed from above effects. The subject of this sketch was driven from home on the same account.
DAVIES, THOMAS J., was born February 2, 1838, in Wales. He is a blacksmith by trade, commencing at the business as an apprentice in 1855, and served as such until 1861, when he began working at the business as journeyman. In 1862 he emigrated to America and located in Venango ' county, Pennsylvania, where he continued his trade about four years. Then, after working in different localities, he came to Newark in 1868 and engaged as blacksmith in the rolling mills (he being a stock holder in the establishment), where he remained during the time the mills were in operation. In 1874, he erected his present carriage, wagon and blacksmith shops in Flory's second addition to Newark, at West Main street, near the Raccoon creek bridge, where he manufactures all kinds of buggies, carriages, spring and farm wagons, and also gives special attention to repairing of all kinds and horse-shoeing ; all work warranted to give satisfaction.
DAVIS, THOMAS, grocer, No. 417, West Main street. Mr. Davis was born in Baltimore, Maryland; March 10, 1850, and received his education in the public schools of that city. In 1863 he enlisted in company G, Fifth Maryland volunteer infantry, but was shortly afterward transferred to Battery B, First United States artillery, Captain Elder's command, in which he served until the close of the war. After his return home he engaged in the manufacture and wholesale and retail sale of cigars, in which business he continued until the memorable flood of 1867, when he shared the fate of many others, that of losing all he had. In 1872 he came to Newark and entered the employ of W. R. Tubbs, proprietor of the Tubbs' house, with whom he remained until 1876. And in 1878 he established his present business, in which he occupies pleasant and commodious rooms in Birkey's block, where he carries a large stock of staple and fancy groceries, confectioneries, fruits, oysters, in season; also deals in all kinds of country produce, etc.
DAVIS, ELI, born May 7, 1847, on the Atlantic ocean during the emigration of his parents to America. His parents remained in America but a short time, when they returned to England. Mr. Davis, after traveling about for the greater part of his life, settled in Newark, where he has been engaged in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad shops. Mr. Davis :vas married to Celena Lent, of Birmingham, England, June, 1867. Mrs. Bent was born April 25, 1847. They have two children, Emile, born March .1, 1873; Ada, born September 3, 1877.
DEAN, LEVI, fireman on Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He was born in Perry county, Ohio, August 29, 1836. At an early day of his life he learned to run a stationary engine and followed this business seventeen years. He was married to Catharine Hooper, of Perry county. They have seven children: Mary, born March 19, 1864 (died October 17, 1865); Clara Melissa, born February 3, 1870; Lucy Melville, September 27, 1873; Mathias Nathaniel, born September 21, 1878. Mrs. Dean was born July 4, 1843. She is the daughter of Mrs. Mary Hooper, who now lives with her. She is sixty-five years old. Mr. Dean died July 16, 1863, at the age of sixty-seven. Her father, William Hooper, was a member of company A, Thirty-first Ohio volunteer infantry. He died October 27, 1873. Mr. Dean's father, Levi Dean, was an early settler of Perry county.; he died in 1877 at the age of eighty years.
DERRICK, MRS. MAGDALINE, was born in Etzling, France, November 24, 1839. She came with her father, John Gorius, to Newark; lived here five years; then moved to Kenton, Hardin county, Ohio, where they remained ten years; then returned to Newark. Since that time she has lived five years in Columbus. She was married to George Derrick, of Columbus, May 12, 1863, and is the mother of two children:. George J., born February 15, 1864 ; Mary Theresa, September 9, 1865. For many years Mr. Derrick followed clerking, and the grocery business,, and was a partner with Mr. Rodenfels; afterwards he was a member of the firm of Engelke & Derrick, dealers in vinegar, No. 214 South Fifth street, Columbus, Ohio. He died February 13, 1866. Shortly after his death Mrs. Derrick started a dressmaking establishment in
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Newark, which business she yet follows. George J. is attending St. Vincent's scholasticate in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania.. Miss Mary is attending the Sisters' school in Newark.
DEW, ELIAS, railroad engineer.-He was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, August 11, 1825; learned cabinet-making when thirteen years of age; he worked at this five years at twenty-five dollars per year; he then went to the trade of millwright; his last job was to build the mill at Quaker City, Guernsey county. January, 1855, he went to work in shop for Central Ohio railroad company in Bellaire; he worked until April 22, 1855; he then went to firing on yard engine "Reliance;" in August he was transferred to Cambridge, this being the first engine owned by Central Ohio railroad company-named Pataskala No. 7 ; three days afterwards he took charge of this engine as engineer at sixty-five dollars per month; nine months afterwards, was transferred to engine George Clark, and run her as a helping engine at Bellair, and afterwards run a local freight; then transferred to engine Columbus to run passenger train during the fall of 186o; he then quit the company, and went to North Carolina in January, 1861, and engaged with the North Carolina Central, running the Norris engine on a work train four months; then went to running freight, and after the battle of Fair Oaks he was transferred to engine Cyclops on a passenger train. He quit . the company in February, 1862, and went to Florida to work on the Fernando railroad on engine Elachway; quit this company September, 1862; then went on ocean steamer Mayflower for the purpose of running blockade to Cuba in July, 1863; started for Cuba; on the way, was captured by the United States supply steamer Union; he was taken to Key West; a few days after arrival, was paroled and went to New Orleans; then to Cairo, and to Wheeling, and arrived at home March 10, 1863, and went back to Central .Ohio railroad company on same engine he left three years previous; a short time afterwards, was transferred to Flying Cloud, the last locomotive built by Blandy. Shortly after this, he was transferred to the Robert Garret, a passenger engine; six months after, was transferred to David Lee, now on Chicago division Baltimore & Ohio; February, 1866, was promoted to supervisor of engines; some five years afterwards, was .relieved and put on engine 513; in five months was promoted to supervisor as before on Chicago division; the next April, came to Newark; put on No. 514; run this some time; then quit the company for some two months; returned and took 539. This he run during the centennial year between Chicago Junction and Newark, doubling the road every night in the week from April to January; in this time his engine made forty-nine thousand nine hundred and eighty miles. February 10, 1879, he went to engine No. 182; run this until April 6, 1880; it was then put in shop for repairs, since which time he has been running No. zoo. He was married June 1, 1849, to Elis J. Hunter, of Wheeling. They had seven children. She died December 10, 1869. He was again married June 24, 1873, to Mrs. Asa Beckwith.
DODD, SAMUEL, proprietor of the excelsior grocery, Birkey's block, 423 West Main street. Mr. Dodd was born in Muskingum county,. October 4, 1840. He received his education in the public schools of Zanesville When about seventeen years old he engaged to learn the carpenter trade at which he only served an apprenticeship, and after which he engaged in dealing in country produce which he followed until the fall of 1862, and in 1863 he enlisted in company F, Thirty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served until the close of the war. After his return home he resumed the produce business, in which he continued one year. In 1867 he took a course in book-keeping at the commercial college at Zanesville, Ohio, and in the fall of 1867 he engaged with the firm of W. & S. Stevens, as shipping and bill clerk in which he remained until August 1, 1870. He then came to Newark and engaged in the grocery and produce business, which he conducted until April 1, 1878. On January 1, 1879, he engaged in the grocery business, and he occupies commodious and pleasant rooms, twenty-two by ninety feet, with cellar of the same dimensions, in which he carries a large first class stock of staple and fancy groceries, confectionery, stoneware, wood and willow ware, sugar cured and smoked hams, pickled pork, all kinds of canned goods, flour, salt, and fish. He makes a specialty of fine teas and coffees, of which he roasts his own coffees, and has the only roaster in the county, and he keeps constantly on hand -fresh roasted coffees of all the best grades; also keeps all the latest and best brands of tobaccos and cigars.
DODSON, ELIZA E., MRS., was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, near Brownsville, January 12, 1825. She moved with her father (Abraham Wintermute) to Licking county, and located near Elizabethtown on a farm now owned by Mr. H. Bland. At the age of thirty years she was married to John Dodson, born near Culpeper Court House, Virginia. His first occupation was farming. He came to Licking county in 1840, locating east of Newark, on a farm, and lived there some ten years, then went to McClain county, Illinois, there lived seven years. During the time he lived in Licking county and Illinois he followed preaching for the Christian church. He was a
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man of many friends. He is the father of F. B. Dodson, born July 11, 1857, who is now in the hardware house of Mr. Burner, of Newark. Mr. Dodson died February lo, 1873, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. His wife moved back to Newark in April, 1873, since which time she has been living in East Newark.
DOWNS, GEORGE, was born March 30, 1820, in Cincinnati. His father died when George was but six months old, leaving a widow and four children. When Mr. Downs was three years old, he was bound out to a Mr. Baker, of Butler county, remaining with him and assisting in the general farm work until he was seventeen years of age, when he removed to southern Indiana, remaining about two years, when he returned to the place of his birth, and after a short time came to Licking county. About the beginning of the Mexican war, Mr. Downs volunteered under the command of G. W. Morgan, Second Ohio volunteer infantry. Mr. Downs served the general as first waiter for some time, after which he was discharged June, 1847. After the war closed Mr. Downs went to Illinois for a short time, then to Cincinnati, then to Dayton, remaining there about three years, and after moving about for three years more he returned to Licking county, August 15, 1854. He was married February 26, 1857, to Mary Coffman, of Newark.
DRONE, JOHN W., carriage, wagon and sign painter, Newark, Ohio. Mr. Drone was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, August 30, 1835. At the age of eighteen years, in March, 1853, he commenced at his trade, that of a painter, in Muskingum county; remained until 1856, when he moved to Zanesville, where he continued at his business until 1864; he then moved to Newark, where he has since been residing, and doing all kinds of work in his line of business, such as carriage, wagon and sign painting. At present he occupies the paint rooms in Jones and Sons' wagon and carriage shops, located on Church street, where he is carrying on his business. On the fourth day of September, 1856, he married Miss Nancy J. Moore, of Muskingum county, Ohio, daughter of John W. Moore. They have a family of five children, three sons and two daughters.
DRY, DANIEL B., manufacturer of boots and shoes. He was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1851, and came to Newark with his father's family in 1872. His father, Daniel Dry, died in 1870, leaving him with the care of his mother, who is now fifty-seven years of age.
DUNCAN, HON. DANIEL- Daniel Duncan was a native of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, where he was born July 22, 1806. He came to Newark, Ohio, in 1828, where he engaged actively in general merchandising and produce dealing for nearly twenty years. In 1843 he was elected a member of the State legislature and served in that capacity with energy and ability. He was elected a member of Congress in 1846, and served from 1847 to 1849, and died in Washington city June 18, 1849. Mr. Duncan ran an honorable career, and his early death was regretted by hosts of friends.
DURKES JOHN, shoemaker by trade, but has not worked at it for twenty years. His present occupation is teaming. He was born in Germany April 6, 1824. He came to this county in 1854 with his family, and settled in Newark, where he has resided ever since. He was married in 1848 to Katy Disher, who was born in Germany in 1828. They have ten children: Mary, born October 1, 1849 ; Katy, born July 30, 1851 ; Katy, born October 17, 1852 ; John, born May 14, 1856 ; George, born February 28, 1859; Peter, born February 8, 1861; Katy, born October 17, 1863 ; William, born April 16, 1866 ; Andrew, June 16, 1868, and Rosa, born March 9, 1871. They called three of their daughters by the same name, all of whom are dead. Peter and George are also dead.
PERRY TOWNSHIP,
DENMAN, PHILLIP R., farmer, post office, Cooksey, was born in this township in 1823, and was married to Miss Susan Platt. of this county, in 1849. They have had three children, Frank, Leonora, and Ida; Frank and Leonora are married. Mr. Denman owns two hundred and forty-four and one-half acres of good land, and lives surrounded by every comfort which a life of industry richly entitles him to.
DENMAN, CECIL, farmer, post office, Hanover, was born in this county in 1826; in the year 1853 he was married to Miss O'Connor, a native of Ohio; they had two children, Mary and Helen; in the year 1858 his wife died, and in 1868 he was again married to Miss Balsley. Mr. Denman owns one hundred and thirty acres of good land in the southern part of this township, and is surrounded by plenty of friends; has held several offices of trust in this township, and has been trustee and a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal church for many years.
ST. ALBANS TOWNSHIP.
DAVIS, JOHN, farmer. and stock dealer, was born March 10, 1843, on the banks of Moot's run, St. Albans township. At the age of fifteen years he began to purchase stock on commission, at which he continued eight or ten years, when he began to branch out for-himself, and in connection with farming has continued in the stock business up to the present time. He has grown during the past
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three years over four thousand bushels of wheat. John G. and Martha Davis, parents of the subject of this sketch, were born in Pennrokeshire, South Wales. The. former in 1807, the latter January 21, 1815. They were married June, 1837; emigrated to Ohio in 1838, where they purchased eighty-five acres of land, remaining on it about thirty-three years. Mr. Davis, sr., died April, 1843. He was the father of three children, David W., Elizabeth, and John. David W. died April, 1867, in his thirtieth year. The only daughter married Thomas Edwards, and resides in Harrison township. Mrs. Davis is one of the thrifty matrons of .St. Albans township, and recollects incidents and dates quite accurately. John Davis, jr., purchased the old Davis farm, containing about ninety acres of land, half a mile east of Alexandria, on which there are Indian trails, mounds, and various remains of the past. The subject of this sketch took a child, Nolla Williams, eight years of age, brought him up, and gave him a good education. He read medicine and attended one course of lectures at Cincinnati, and now has a ward at the Insane retreat at Columbus. About 1876 Mr. Davis purchased twenty-five acres of land, on which the frame of the Vale's mill stands at present.
UNION TOWNSHIP.
DEWESS, SAMUEL, farmer, post office, Kirkersville, Ohio. He was born. in Madison township, in 1824. He moved soon after to Union township where he is still living. He has lived there fifty years, and has followed farming all his life. He is the owner of three hundred and forty acres of land, is a man of general information, which has made him influential in his neighborhood. He has filled several offices of distinction in the township. By his enterprise and industry he has secured for himself and family a valuable farm and competency for life.
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
DALTON, NATHAN, carpenter and painter, Utica. He was born in California, Pike county,. Ohio, on February 1837. His father was born near Baltimore in the year 18oo. His mother was born in Gallia county. His father came to this country at an early day, and resided in Ohio most of his time till his death in 1877. There were ten children of his family. In 1872, they moved from Pike county to Putnam county. They were farmers. His mother is still living at Middlepoint, Van Wert county, fifty-six years of age. He remained at home with his parents, assisting on the farm and attending school until he was seventeen years of age, when he went to learn his trade as carpenter and joiner, with David Moser, of Pike county; worked with him two years and a half, when he started in business for himself. He carried on the contracting and building business at this place until the fall of 1873, when he moved to Putnam county and followed the same business. He married Abbie C. Marriott, October 1875. She was born in Licking county ; her parents were both born in Licking county and were farmers. When she was six months old they moved to Putnam county where they now reside. Her father is fifty-six and her mother is forty-nine years old. In 1879, Mr. Dalton moved to Utica, where he now resides. He commenced to learn the painter's trade in 1870 and at present. is engaged in the. business of building and painting, and is prepared at all times to do all kind of painting, graining, both fancy and plain. They have one child ; born in March 1878.
DAVIS, WILLIAM S., was born in 1818 in McKean township; was married January 26, 1850, to Mary Jane Philipy, of this county, who was born in 1829. Results of this marriage, three children: William L., born in 1852, was married to Sarah Davis, of this county; Susannah E., born in 1856, was married to Jacob Oakleaf, of this county, and now lives in McKean township ; Mary Ellen, born in 1859, is single and lives at home.
BENNINGTON TOWNSHIP.
EDWARDS, H. T., saw-mill owner and farmer; born in 1846, in this county. His father, Joshua Edwards, was born in New Jersey in 1809. His mother was also born in New Jersey in 1809. They each came with their respective parents at an early age to this county. They were married about 1830, and were the parents of six children: Nancy, married to John Overturf, and living in Knox county; Charity, married to John Smith, and living near Appleton; Julia died in infancy; Frances M., married R. McFarland, of this county, and died in 1878, leaving two children; Harrison, the subject of this sketch, and Mary A., who died at the age of nineteen. Harrison was-.married in 1870 to Miss Julia A. Parsons, of .this county. She was born in 1846, in this county. They have three children- Warren H., Arthur and Hallie.
EVANS, LEWIS, JR., farmer, born in 1832, in this county. His father, Lewis Evans, sr., was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1797. He came to this county, with his parents in 1807; was married in 1822 to Miss E. Shaffer, who came from New York in 1819. Mrs. Evans died in 1854. They were the parents of eight children, of whom five are living. Mr. Evans was again married in 1856, to Miss Mary Shafer, and is still enjoying good health and is as active as some men at forty, although living at an advanced age. He helped to clear the timber from the square in Newark Lewis Evans, jr., the subject of this sketch, was
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the fifth child, and married Miss Margaret J. Conard, daughter of Mahlon Conard, of this county. She was born in 1834, in this county. They are the parents of four children: Emma E., Clark M., Henry A., and Mary A. Mr. Evans has. a fine farm of two hundred and thirty acres in this township, and is a genial, sociable gentleman, enjoying life with his family.
BOWLING GREEN TOWNSHIP.
EMERY, BALTUS, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, during the last decade of the last century, and had at his death attained to octogenarian age. He came to Ohio in 1811, was married in 1817, settled in Bowling Green township in 1821, where he continued to reside until his death, a period of fifty-seven years.
EWING, WILLIAM, born in Muskingum county April 1, 1818; son of Alexander Ewing; learned and worked at the wagon making trade in Zanesville, and a short time in Gratiot. In 1839 he came to Brownsville and has conducted a wagon shop here since. Married May 4, 1836, to Martha Huff, who came to Ohio when young from Maryland. Of their ten children six now survive: Charlie, William, Henry, Albert, Frank and Abram.
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP.
EFFINGER, JAPHETH, was born May 12, 1826. His father, William Effinger, came to Newark from Woodstock, Virginia, about 1825, where he carried on a tin store in partnership with Richard Harrison, but quitting this business, he turned his attention to farming in this township. Mr: Effinger's mother was Elizabeth Mentzer, a native of this county. He has one sister, Angeline, wife of William Quick, living in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and two brothers, Noble and Washington, died young. In 1847 he married Jane Murphy, and has three sons: William, who teaches school, and farms in Adams county, Indiana, and Noah and Japheth, both young farmers of this township. His wife having died, Mr. Effinger, in 1873, married Barbara A. Hisey, a daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Hisey. He began life with less than one thousand dollars, but, by economy and industry, has purchased successively sixty-nine, forty-six, one hundred and twenty-seven, twenty-eight and fifty acres of land. He has started each of his boys in life much better than he began it, and at present owns, besides other valuable property, two hundred and five fertile acres, situated in this township, the accumulations, by hard labor, of a well spent life.
GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP.
EGGLESTON, JOSEPH F.-In Onondaga county, New York, September 4, 1815, our subject was born. He was a shoemaker by trade, and followed that as his vocation for twenty years. Then he turned his attention to farming, and has since made farming and stock raising his business. In 1844 he migrated to Licking county, Ohio. In 1855 he married Chloe E. Wells, born March 5, 1820; daughter of Ezekiel and Mary Wells. They settled in Hartford, Licking county, Ohio, where he worked at his trade until 1862. They moved on the farm, where they are now living in Granville township, one and a fourth miles west of Granville. They reared a family of three children-two sons and one daughter.
ENO, REUBEN, was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, November 1789. He was educated in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a tanner by trade. He migrated to Granville. Mass., in 1812, and engaged with William Cooley at his trade. In 1813 he married Loana B., daughter of William Cooley. He continued at his trade with Mr. Cooley until 1828. He purchased the tannery of Mr. Cooley, and operated it himself until 1844. He gave up his business in that place, and with his wife and two daughters, Amelia and Charlotte C., migrated to Homer, Licking county, Ohio, leaving two sons, William F. and Frederick A., in Mass., who came to Licking county a few years later. He, in company with Dr. J. B. Cooley, erected a tannery at Homer, which he operated three years, and in 1847, moved on a farm in Granville township, same county; remained six years; then moved to Granville where he deceased May 24, 1864. His companion survived him until 1868, aged eighty-nine years.
ENO, FREDERICK A., son of the aforesaid Reuben and Loana Eno, was born in Granville, Mass., March 22, 1822. He is a carriage and wagon maker by trade; served his apprenticeship in Westfield, Mass. In 1846 he married for his first wife, Rebecca Loomis, of Westfield, Mass. They settled .in North Becket, of same State; remained two years, and in 1848 they migrated to Granville, Licking county, Ohio; remained two and a half years; then on account of his wife's bad health, they removed to Springfield, Mass., where she deceased December 1, 1853, leaving to his care three small daughters. He married for his second wife, Mary E. Davey, of Westfield Mass., August, 1854. They migrated to Granville, Licking county, Ohio, where they are now living. Their union resulted in three children-two sons and one daughter. He has made carriage and wagon manufacturing his business. In 1856 he purchased the old stand of John L. Huggin's car. riage shops, which he operated successfully until 1868. He sold his shops, and purchased a farm in Granville township, and followed farming as his vocation for three years, and in 1871 he repur-
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chased the old stand, which he is operating at present, but not so extensively as in years gone by.
EVERETT, SAMUEL H., was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1792. He was brought upon a farm, and made farming his principal business through life. He migrated to Licking county, Ohio, in 1807, with his parents, Samuel and Agnes Everett, who purchased and moved on the farm in Granville township, now owned by Samuel J. Everett, where they passed the remainder of their days. Samuel deceased in 1809, aged forty years. His companion survived him until January 11, 1853, aged eighty-one. years. His father, Samuel Everett, sr., died in Granville township in 1812, aged eighty-three years. Samuel H. Everett married Miss Dorsey Warner in 1814, who was born near Granville, Massachusetts, in 1790, and emigrated to Granville, Licking county, in 1807 They settled on the Everett homestead two miles west of Granville, on the Alexandria road, where they remained until their death. He died March 20,1845. His companion died October 5, 1852. They reared a family of five children: Lodama, born September 22, 1815; Horace, born May 20, 1820; Samuel J., born April 20, 1826; Emily A., born August 24, 1828; Jeremiah F., born October 15, 1831. All are now living, married, and have families.
HANOVER TOWNSHIP.
ENYART, D. T., post-office, Hanover, a farmer. He is the son of Rufus and Sally (Thompson) Enyart, and was born in 1812, in the house in which he now lives. He has always lived here and has never known any other place as home. His father came to Ohio from New Jersey in 1800, and in 1804 he came to Hanover and built the house (it being a log cabin) in which Mr. Enyart was born. Here a family of seven children was reared consisting of four sons and three daughters, all of whom are dead except D. T. and Sarah, the youngest daughter. She lives within a half mile of her place of birth. Mr. Enyart well remembers the hardships of pioneer times. He was married June 3, 1843, to Martha Denman, the daughter of Matthias and Jane Denman; she was born in 1825, in Perry township. Her father came to this county from New Jersey, and her mother from Virginia Her grandfather's folks were among the earliest settlers of Licking county, coming here about the same time. Mr. Enyart settled. Raising grain and stock has been the principal occupation of Mr. Enyart through life. In politics he has always been a Demucrat, his father and grandfather also belonged to this political party. The farm Mr. Enyart occupies is a portion given his grandfather for services rendered in the Revolutionary war, the deed being signed by Thomas Jefferson.
HARTFORD TOWNSHIP.
EVERETT, REVEL, was born in Massachusetts in 1794, came with his father to this county in 1807, settling in Granville. During the last fifty years of his life he was an honored citizen of Hartford township. He died March 22, 1880, at the ripe age of eighty-six
LICKING TOWNSHIP.
EAGLE, D. E., was born April 14, 1851, in this county; is the son of Hiram and Rebecca Eagle. D. E. Eagle was married October 1, 1877, to Abby Moody, of this county, who was born March 14, 1851, and was the daughter of Buse and Jane Moody, who died when she was but nine months old. Mr. Eagle has but one child, Clyde, who was born October 10, 1878. .
ETNIER, SIMEON, was born in Pennsylvania; he was the son of David and Hannah Etnier. He came to this county and located with his parents on a farm in Licking township. David Etnier was born in the year 1787; was married to Hannah Smalley, of the same county; Simeon was married to Emily McCleery, October 27, 1840. They had five children: Corlesta, Lewis, John W., Marinda and Amelia Jane. Corlesta died January 18, 1843; Lewis died May 18, 1843; John W., married Martha Handly, of Licking county, and is living with his father at the old home and is a practical farmer; Marinda died October 1, 1865; Amelia Jane married John W. Hupp, a farmer, and is living in Jacksontown. The result of this marriage is four children. Simeon's first wife died March 11, 1853, in her thirty-first year. He was married again February 28, 1857, to Rachel Sigler, of Licking county. The result. of this marriage was one child, William E., who was born March 3, 1860, and is single and living with his father. Mr. Etnier's second wife died March 23, 1861. He was married again, to Elizabeth Nayler, November 16, 1865, of Jefferson. county, .Ohio, who was born November 20, 1833, in the same county. Mr. Etnier has followed farming all his life on the same farm that he and his father settled on some two hundred and sixty acres of land. He is also a practical wool grower; has voted the Whig and Republican tickets all his life.
EMERSON, GEORGE E., farmer, was born April 3, 1819, and was the first white child born in Liberty township, where he has always remained, and now owns eighty-one acres of land, making a comfort able home. He states that he never saw a school house until he was fourteen years of age. Also that there is a mistake in regard to the original settlement of the township, published in a former history, that his parents, Stephen and Elizabeth Emerson, emigrated to St. Albans township from
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Hillsboro Ware township, New Hampshire, in the fall of 1815, and remained there almost three years. October, 1818, the family moved into Liberty township, and became the first settlers in that township, remaining there nearly three years before any other settlers came. The subject of this notice married Mary Foster, February 3, 1851 ; she was born in Staffordshire, Marchington parish, Woodlands, England. She with her parents, William and Susannah Foster, emigrated to Licking county, arriving in the month of June, 1836. Mr. Emerson has two children: Amanda J., born- January 28, 1852; Mary Susannah, born November 28, 1857. The subject of this sketch is benevolent, genial, and bears his age well; he has a retentive memory, that is remarkable for one of his age.
LIMA TOWNSHIP
ELLIOTT, W. C., Pataskala.-W. C. Elliott was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, March 27, 1824. Samuel Elliott, his father, came to Ohio in 1845, and settled in Harrison township. W. C. Elliott came to Lima in September, 1854. He married Miss Amy Beach in Granville in x854. She was the daughter of John Beach, who died in Etna township. Mr. Elliott was a merchant in Pataskala three years, since when he has been engaged in railroading as station agent at Pataskala, and has been postmaster since 1857.
MCKEAN TOWNSHIP.
ESHELMAN, MARTIN, farmer, was born September, 1827, in this county. He is the son of David and Margaret Eshelman, who came to this county at an early date. He was married in 1849 to Sarah Fry, of this county, who was born in 1833. The results of this marriage were three children - Mary E., born in 1852, was married in 1871 to William Fulton, of this county, a farmer, and is now living at Chatham; George A., born in 1860, and Charles T., born in 1868; both living at home. Mr. Eshelman is a well-to-do farmer, and is esteemed by his neighbors and acquaintances.
CITY OF NEWARK.
EATON, JOHN, telegraph operator, born near the city of Basle, Switzerland, December 18, 1852. His father died when he was three years of age. He has two younger brothers. His mother came with them to this country in June, 1865, and settled in Newark, Ohio. He followed different occupations up to 1870, when he learned telegraphing, and has since that time followed that business. He was married to Miss Emma Swern, daughter of Marion Swern of this city, March 28, 1878. His mother was married again to Mr. Jacob Geiger, of Rose Hill, Darke county, Ohio, where she is now living. His youngest brother, Jacob, is working on a farm in that neighborhood; his other brother, Henry, is also telegraphing, and is stationed at Memphis Junction, Kentucky. ,
ELLIS, JOHN R., was born in Madison township, Licking county, Ohio, October 10, 1844; lived on a farm until he was eighteen years of age. He enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Thirteenth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; was in the western department under W. T. Sherman; served thirteen months and was discharged. He was married to Mary A. Palmer, February, 1868. By this marriage they are the parents of two children: Charles W., born December 2, 1868; John H., born November 25, 1870. Mrs. Ellis was born August 10, 1851, and is the daughter of Washington Palmer, of Mary Ann township. The subject of this sketch followed farming until the war broke out, he then enlisted. After the war closed he went back to farming and followed that business until within a few years. He is now in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. He is the son of Thomas Ellis, of Madison township.
EVANS, JOHN, formerly a dealer in groceries and provisions, but for the last year he has engaged in the patent combination flour and meal chest. Mr. Evans owns the half interest in the patent for the United States. He was born December 8, 1846, in this county. He has always resided here. He was married to Lizzie A. Jones, of Licking county, March 31, 1870. Mrs. Evans died August, 1874, and in August, 1876, Mr. Evans married his second wife, Maria Jones. They have two children: Minnie Belle, born August 24, 1877, and Carl Ellsworth, born August 9, 1879. Mr. Evans resides on Pearl street.
PERRY TOWNSHIP.
EDIE, JAMES, farmer, Perryton post office. James Edie's parents were born in Pennsylvania; his father in 1812 and his mother in 1803. His parents came to Ohio at an early day, his grandfather being one of the first settlers of Tuscarawas county. James Edie was born in Tuscarawas county in the year 1837, and came to this county in April, 1867. In the year 1861 he was married to Miss Martha Ewart. The result of this union has been five children: Anna Mary, seventeen years; Clark, sixteen years; Charlie, twelve years; Nanny, eleven years; Bertie, eight years. Mr. Edie owns some. two. hundred and eight acres of fine farm land. He is treasurer of this township, having been elected the last time by a majority of seven, a gain of from thirty-five to forty over the regular ticket. He is now holding it the second term. He and wife are members of the Disciple church.
EVANS, JOHN, farmer, post office, Perryton. Mr. Evans was born in Virginia in 1805. His
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father was born in Wales, his mother in Virginia, and is of German descent. When Mr. Evans was three years old his father came to Muskingum county, Ohio, and in 1826 the subject of this sketch was located in this township. In 1826 he was married to Miss Deborah Campbell; after a married life of twenty-four years his wife died. They had twelve children: Jesse, born in 1827, died in 1828; James H., born in 1829; David B., born in 1830, died in 1858 ; Minerva, born in 1832, died in 1834; Lafayette, born in 1835; Josiah, born in 1837; Mary Ann, born 1839; Zebulon P., born in 1841, died in 1870; Elizabeth Ellen, born in 1844; Deborah Nancy, born in 1850; John P., born in 1852; William, born in 1854. In 1851 Mr. Evans was married to Miss Mary Patton, of Coshocton county, and two boys resulted from this union. Death again entered Mr. Evan's household, and his second wife passed away in 1861. In 1864 Mr. Evans was united in marriage with his present wife, a Miss Mildred Reed. They have one child. Mr. Evans is possessor of two hundred and forty-eight acres of land, besides a pleasant town property in Elizabethtown. He is one of the first settlers in this township. He has hauled wheat to Zanesville, getting fifteen cents a bushel for it, and paying five dollars a bushel for salt during the War of 1812. Within his memory there was a large camp of Indians on the property he now owns.
EVANS, THOMAS,. post office, Hanover, was born in this county in 1816; his parents came to this county at a very early day from Virginia; his mother came here when eleven years of age, when there were but three houses in Zanesville. His uncle, James Evans, grubbed the first stump out of the square in Newark, where the court house how stands. The subject of this sketch was married in 1837 to Miss Susanna Sterman; they had two children, John Z. and Laura A. She died in 1843. In 1844 he was married to Miss Sallie Summers, of Muskingum county. They had seven children. She died the tenth of April, very suddenly, going to bed in as good health as usual, apparently, and dying in the night, which fact was not discovered till next morning.
EVANS, JAMES H., farmer, post office, Perryton, was born in March, 1829; was married to Miss Adams in 1853. The fruit of this marriage was two children, Anthaline and Alice. In 1862 his wife died, and in 1866 he was married to Miss Sarah Patterson. He is at present a justice of the peace, having been elected in 1877. Mr. Evans is one of the solid and respected men of this township.
EVANS, JOSEPH, farmer, post office, Black Run, Muskingum county, was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, in April, 1838; he came to Ohio when young. He was married in this township in 1861, to Miss Rebecca Jane Wallcott; they had eleven children, all living. He owns seventy-four and one-half acres of land here, and gives considerable of his time to the culture of fruit, having, a good peach orchard.