HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 325 with Mrs. Nace for one year. Store, opposite Kelley's saddlery shop, Main street, Barnesville, Ohio. A. R. CREW & CO. A. B. Crew started a meat market on south Chestnut street, July, 1878, and soon after bought a stock of groceries, provisions, grain, &c. and run this in connection. On January 9, 1879, he took W. M. Giffin in as partner. Both of these young gentlemen are natives of Belmont county, Ohio. The former was born February 14, 1856, and the latter, August 23, 1849. ABRAHAM KELLEY, Harness and saddle manufacturer, began business at his present location on Main street, three doors west of Chestnut, in 1868. His room is sixty by eighteen feet. He usually employs from four to six men and does an extensive business. He keeps on hand a full line of manufactured articles in his trade, such as harness, saddles, trunks, valises, whips, &c. JOHN COLPITT— Proprietor of meat market and provision store, also dealer in grain; produce, &c., South Chestnut street. G. W. HANCE—Boot and shoe dealer. Also dealer in tobacco, cigars, &c. He employs from two to three men in the manufacture of boots, shoes, &c. Store on Main street. BARNESVILLE AT PRESENT. Barnesville has within its corporate limits at this time, June 1, 1879, four hundred and thirty dwelling houses and houses used in part as dwellings, and sixty-eight houses used exclusively for business purposes. Her population now is about twenty-five hundred, and will not exceed or fall below that number to the amount of twenty persons, and of that number there are one hundred and sixty persons of African descent, or colored persons. She has seven doctors, eight lawyers, two dentists, one steam flouring mill, one woolen factory, one coal shaft, one railroad depot, one railroad carpenter shop, two hardware stores, one liquor store, five saloons, one hatter's shop, two undertakers and furniture stores, two machine shops, three barber shops, one national bank, four drug stores, three boot and shoe stores, one wholesale leather and findings store, five blacksmith shops, one bakery, five butcher shops, four cigar factories, twenty-four grocery stores, one gas house, one Friends' church, one white M. E. church, one A. M. L. church, one Presbyterian church, One Disciples church; one school house, four hotels, two livery stables, one foundry, nine tobacco packing houses, five dry goods stores, one clothing store, two wagon-makers' shops, one ornamental painter's shop, five milliner shops, two saddle and 'artless makers' shops, two monumental marble shops, one "team saw mill, one gunsmith's shop, eight shoemakers' shops, one music store, one tannery, three tailor shops, or picture framer's shop, one stoneware dealer, two photograph galleries, four dithers' shops, one warehouse, three billiard rooms, one newspaper with two printing presses, one paper sack manufactory with one printing press, one cooper's shop, one greenhouse, one wholesale grocery, one force pump manufactory. There are five merchants and firms, which deal in leaf tobacco at Barnesville. They will pack this year about eighteen hundred tubs of tobacco, and will give employment to one hundred and forty persons, men and women, to tie, qualify and pack them. The fire department of Barnesville consists of a fire company, hose company and a hook and ladder company. The fire apparatus comprises fire engine and hose, with a large number of hooks, ladders and leather buckets. The fire company has forty members, with Moses Edgar as captain ; hose company twenty. members—Henry W. Barnes, captain ; hook and ladder company thirty members—E. T. Hanlon, captain. Those companies are well uniformed and do capital service. The fire apparatus is in good condition and works well. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. ROBERT MILLS.—Robert, a son of Benjamin Mills, deceased, came to Barnesville in 1809. He was a saddler, the first in the place, and in later years purchased the Philip Allen tannery, managing for many years both trades, and connecting also farming and hotel-keeping with them. He married in 1814 Patience Short, a member of the family of James M. Round. Her parents died in Delaware when she was a small child, and she accompanied Mr. .Round's family on their journey to Barnesville. This marriage is said to have been the first in Barnesville. She died in 1860, in her sixty-fourth year. Ho died in 1867, aged eighty-three. The Barnesville Enterprise of that date contained the following obituary concerning him : "Death of an Old Citizen.—On Thursday last Barnesville lost one of her oldest and most respected citizens—Robert Mills, Esq.-who died at his residence, in this place, at the ripe old age of eighty-three. Robert Mills was born in Lancaster county, Pa., came to Ohio in 1809, and settled at Barnesville one year after the town had been laid out. At that time two or three cabins marked the spot where now stands a flourishing town, and the bears and wolves frequently came to what are now the most prominent streets. " For fifty-eight years Mr. Mills resided in the town he chose in his early manhood, and witnessed all the changes that were wrought in that time. The men with whom he first worked and associated have long since passed away, and others wore born and grew old while he remained. For many years ho has been a landmark of the past, to whom every one paid reverence due to honorable men. Everybody who has lived in Barnesville remembers Robert Mills, and all will bear testimony to his honesty and integrity. He was positive in his opinions and positive in expressing these opinions, yet no one doubted the honesty or sincerity of the man. "From his habits he admired the customs of the past, and thought the "good old days" were better for honor, truth and the latter years of his life. He died as he had lived, respected by all, and beloved by those who knew him well. "Time nor space will not permit us to treat the subject as it deserves, and we hope some one better acquainted with the life and character of Mr. Mills will furnish an obituary for publication." WILLIAM TIDBALL, son of John and Sarah Tidball, nee McGowen, was born in Allegheny county, Pa., about nine miles from Pittsburgh, in 1796. The former came with his parents to that county when a boy ; subsequently he entered two hundred acres of land covered with a dense growth of timber, and commenced a clearing that increased slowly from year to year. Much of the early history of the Tidballs is lost. In common with the pioneers of that period, they were more engaged in making than in recording history. He died in 1.547, and his wife some years later. The children were—Margaret, deceased ; Jane, deceased ; William, at one time a .Presbyterian minister and an attorney at St. Clairsville; John and James (twins), deceased; and David, for some years a resident physician of Kirkwood township. William Tidball has been twice married ; first in 1822 to Maria, a daughter of John Caldwell, a pioneer of Wheeling. Mrs. Tidball died in her twenty-sixth year in 1834. Their children were: Sarah, deceased; Maria Jane, deceased ; and John C, so well known as Major-General Tidball, of the Union army in the late war. Mr. Tidball's second marriage was in 1838, to Rebecca McKinney, daughter of James and Ann McKinney, nee Fletcher. Their children are Ann Z. and Chalmers M, Our subject farmed in the vicinity of Wheeling for six years, and in 1858 removed to Kirkwood township, Belmont county. Here tie was engaged in merchandizing and firming from 1831 to 1861. During these years he served three terms as Justice of the Peace, as well as several years as school director and township trustee. For two years he has been a resident of Barnesville. JAMES MCKINNEY, the father of Mrs. Tidball, was a major in the Revolutionary army. Ho came from Bedford county, Pa., to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1805, and on the 13th of J tine of the same year, married Ann, a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Pletcher. The latter, a widow with three children, came to Union township, Belmont county, with Duncan Morrison, a son-in-law, in 1803. James McKinney and bride returned to Bedford county, Pa., and in 1814 again removed to Belmont county, locating in Kirkwood township. he died in 1826, nearly seventy-eight years of age ; his wile in 1859 nearly eighty-nine years of age. 326 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. ISAAC R. LANE.-His great-grandfather, Thomas Lane, died December 10, 1819, in his one hundred and seventh year. His grandfather, Richard Lane, died in the same year, about forty-two years of age. His father, Harrison Lane, born July 14, 1812, deceased October 1, 1875, was a native of Maryland. He migrated to Belmont county in the fall of 1833, and like most of the pioneers, possessed no capital but a pair of strong hands and an earnest purpose. Ile was married on the 25th of September, 1834; to Miss Rebecca Cox, then in her seventeenth year. Her mother's family consisted of one son and four daughters, her father having died in January, 1833. The family removed to Barnesville in the spring of 1834 and stopped for the first night in an unfinished brick. house west of town, then occupied by Thomas Tanneyhill, lately removed to give place to a new one. Isaac, the only son, for whom our subject was named, arising in the night, accidentally fell down stairs and was killed. Mrs. Cox with four daughters were left to fight the battle of life in the then almost wilderness. Isaac R. Lane was born October 20, 1842, in the little frame near the west end of Main street. He first went to school in the little old brick which was situated near the site now occupied by the union school house. At the age of sixteen be entered the office of the intelligencer to learn the printer's trade. There worked in the office at this time Samuel Craft, John Q. Judkins and George Williams. He entered the army as private in company H, 94th Ohio infantry, August 5, 1862, and was in active service until the close of the war. The regiment was almost immediately put into the field, and within one month one-third of the 94th were prisoners in the hands of General Scott's Confederate cavalry. They, including Mr. Lane, were paroled near Lexington, Kentucky, were exchanged and started for the front at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Christmas morning, 1862. The regiment was part of General Thomas' famous "14th army corps," and were in Rosecrans' Tennessee campaign and Chickamauga battle, September 19 and 20, 1863. Afterward they were nearly starved at Chattanooga, until Bragg's siege was. raised. The "94th" took part in Booker's " Battle above the Clonds," " Mission Ridge," and during the summer of 1864, was under Sherman i nth̊ siege and capture of Atlanta, after which they joined in his famous " march to the sea." in the early part of 1865, the " 94th " campaigned through the Carolinas, arriving finally at Washington in time for the " grand review." Our subject was mustered out of sersice June 5, 1865, having served two years and ten months. He was married February 18, 1868, to Miss Mary A. Warfield, daughter of Dr. J. W. Warfield, who was well known in this section of Ohio as a leading surgeon and citizen, Since the war our subject has been a railroad clerk at Bellaire, book-keeper in a wholesale house at Columbus, secretary and treasurer of a large iron company at Portsmouth, Ohio, and now the agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company at Barnesville. COL. BENJAMIN MACKALL.—He was born in Calvert county, Maryland, in 1801, and was the son of Benjamin H. and Mary Wheeler Mackall, nee Bond. The latter was the daughter of Dr. John T. Bond, who served as surgeon in b. Pennsylvania regiment in Braddock's army. The Mackalls were among the old families of Maryland. On the chimney of the old homestead, the date 1745 was plainly visible. The house, though a frame structure, we understand still survives the ravages of time. Many years ago, while making an excavation, a stone wall was found about a foot below the surface and completely surrounding the house. Benjamin H. was a member of the Maryland legislature and a deputy United States marshal. Ile was officiating in the latter capacity on the 1st of August, 1814, when the marines from the British fleet landed on the shore and commenced plundering the country. They seized thiry-two hundred hogsheads of tobacco On the Mackall place, and carried away all the movables they could find in the residence and out-buildings. In 1817, Mr. Mackall disposed of his property, and after a tedious journey of twenty days, arrived on the 20th of October at their new home in Belmont county. His farm was situated about half way on the road from Barnesville to Fairview, and is vet in possession of the family. After remaining on the place about eleven years, the family removed to Barnesville. He died on the 16th of May, 1835, about sixty-five years of age ; his wife, on the 13th of July, 1871, aged ninety-three years, eleven months and fifteen days. Col. Mackall was engaged in mercantile pursuits about twenthree years, either singly or as partner of his father and Thomas Shannon, a brother of Governor Shannon. He served as postmaster for twenty years. From 1839 to 1845, and from 1854 to the present date he has acted as Justice of the Peace, and for twelve years of this period as notary public. In 1845 he was elected to the State Senate, representing the counties of Monroe and Belmont, and served two years'' During these years.he participated in the militia movements, and was an active officer for many years. He passed through all the grades from lieutenant to colonel of the 2d Regiment, Ohio Militia; resigning the latter position to act as inspector. Since 1825, he has been a member of the A. F. & A. M. and has passed through all the chairs of the Lodge. He has been the secretary of the Lodge with less than twelve years' exception since 1827. He is also a member of the Chapter, the Commandery and the Council. he has been the efficient secretary of the Chapter since 1855. He was also identified with the Sons of Temperance. He was married in 1823 to Mary, daughter of Robert Pearce, of Ohio county, Virginia. She died in 1848, at the age of forty-five. Ten children wore born to them, of whom eight are living. HA was married in 1850 to Clarissa Carroll, a daughter of Michael Carroll, of Belmont county, Ohio. Dr. NICHOLAS JUDKINS.-Our snbject is the son of Carolus Judkins, M. D., who located in Barnesville in 1809 and was the first medical practitioner in this portion of Belmont county. His history is given under the caption of the notable, men of Barnesville, in another portion of this work. Nicholas was born in Barnesville in 1815. He read medicine with his father for three years and commenced to practice at the age of twenty-one, In 1845, in connection with his brother Jesse, he opened a dry goods, grocery, drug and variety store, the drug department being the first drugstore in the city. This firm continued in operation for ten years. Since that period ho has not been engaged in active business. Dr. Judkins has been thrice married; first in 1847, to Margaret White, daughter of William White, of Belmont county, who died in 1849, leaving one child, John William ; second in 1851, Rhoda, daughter of Asa Craft, of Guernsey county, who died in 1851; third, on the 2d of January, 1862, to Julia, daughter of Leven and Juliet Fowler, nee Harrison. G. S. WELLONS, M. D.-A son of Asa and Asenath Wellons, nee Davis, was born September 22, 1834, in Somerton, Belmont county, where he remained till his father bought and moved upon a small farm a mile and a half north of that place. He taught school from 1853 to 1856, after which he read medicine for two years with Dr. Win. Schooley, of Somerton, and also continued teaching as a means of support. In 1858, he entered the office of Dr. J. W. Warfield, of Barnesville, with whom he remained five ..five years, one and a half years as a student and the remainder of the time as an assistant in the practice, In the spring of 1863; he became a matriculant at the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, from which he graduated in July, 1863, and immediately afterward passed examination before the military board at Columbus. In August, 1863, he received a commission as first assistant surgeon of the 91st Ohio volunteers, and remained in active service with the medical branch of the army till June 31, 1865, at which date the regiment was mustered out of service, He was associated with the management of the hospitals at Cloyd, Cedar Creek, Winchester, the Sheridan field hospital, the Cumberland general hospital, the post hospital at Martinsburg, and other points, Since his return to Barnesville his practice has been largely in the line of surgery, as well as in general practice. He has been for several years the surgeon, fir this section, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. He was married on the 8th of September, 1859, to Anna, daughter of Jesse Griffin. M. W. O'BRIEN, M. D., son of Matthew and Hannah Caroline O'Brien, nee Harrison, was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1855. Matthew O'Brien was an early storekeeper at Fairview, being for some time a partner of one of the Bradshaws. He removed to Baltimore and subsequently was engaged in the wholesale dry goods business. He died in May, 1878, in Alexandria, Va., sixty-four years of age. He married Miss Harrison in Alexandria, Va. She is yet living in Washington, D. C. Our subject's grandfather was banished from Ireland, came to Virginia ID 1799, and died in 1811 at an advanced age. Our subject acquired his academic education at St. John's Academy, Alexandria, Va., came to Barnesville in September, 1872, and fur nearly' tour years read medicine with Dr. G. S. HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 327 Welions. He attended two sessions of the Medical College of Ohio, Cincinnati, from which institution he graduated with distinction on the 2d of March, 1876. He then formed a partnership with his preceptor, and has been engaged in the active practice of his profession ever since. He is at present health officer of Barnesville. DR. AARON PLUMLEY was born in Philadelphia, Pa., August 24, 1818. He is a son of William Plumley, who emigrated to Mt. Pleasant township, Jefferson county, O., in the spring of 1819; then removed to Wayne township, Belmont county, O., and from thence to Somerset township in 1834, where he practiced medicine for many years, and passed the remainder of his life, dying in 1862 at the age of eighty-four years. In his religious belief he was a Friend or "Quaker." His wife departed this life in 1870 in the eighty-third year of her age. They were the parents of twelve children, seven sons and five daughters. Our subject is the sixth son, and was reared a farmer. He obtained an academical education, and began the practice of medicine in 1844, which he continued till 1851, when he attended Starling Medical College at Columbus, 0., of which he is a graduate. After this he again resumed his practice, and continued the same for sixteen years. On the 25th of September, 1845, he married Rebecca Tribby, of Washington county, Ohio. Her death occurred September 27, 1851. He chose for a second wife Elizabeth A. Devitt, of Morgan county, O. August 6, 1853, who died September 2, 1859. He then married Elizabeth V. Cox, of Greene county, O., June 24, 1862. On November 1, 1865, Dr. Plumley removed to Barnesville, O., and embarked in the drug trade, which he still continues on Main street. JOHN T. MACKALL, M. D.—He was a brother of Col. Benjamin Mackall, and was born in 1818, in Warren township. He read medicine with Dr. Isaac Hoover, and till within a brief time of his death on the 24th of March, 1877, was in the active duties of his profession. He was W. M. of Friendship Lodge A. F. and A. M. for seven years, and was intimately connected Widow, Mrs. the philanthropic movements of his generation. His widow. Mrs. Sarah A. Mackall, survives him. The children are: B. H. Mackall M. D., Mary F., (married to W. A. Talbot, Jr.), John W., Anna M. (married to John W. Hingely.) Dr. B. H. Mackall studied medicine with his father, and graduated at the age of twenty-six at the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati in the spring of 1870. He has passed through the various chairs of the A. F. and A. M. Chapter, Red Men, Knights of Pythias and Good Templars, and was a charter member of the last three. W. J. McCALVIN, M. D.—His father, John McCalvin, was born on a farm near Inverness, Scotland, and died at St. Johns New Brunswick while en route for tbe United States, in 1836, at the age of forty. His widow (Elizabeth McCalvin, nee Robinson. :daughter of Alexander, who died in 1844 at the age of one hundred and four in Ireland, and Elizabeth Robinson.) removed with her son, W. J., born in 1836, in St. Johns, N. B., to Philadelphia. In 1844 she removed to Cambridge, Guernsey county, O., where she now resides, over eighty-three years of .age. As an item for our farmer friends we give the following: Alexander Robinson had a farm containing twenty acres. His children numbered eight sons and a daughter. All but one came to America. They each received from their father five hundred pounds ($2,500) as an outfit. What must have been the income from the land ? Our subject became a cabinet-maker by trade. Finding this unsuitable to his taste, he read medicine with Dr. G. L. Arnold, of Cambridge, and practiced for some years in Cambridge and Wellsville, O. He attended a term of lectures at Starling Medical College of Columbus, O., and graduated in 1872. In the same year he removed to Barnesville, from which time dates his permanent location. He was married in 1866 to Emma W., daughter of Samuel and Margaret Swayne, nee Brown (Friends). Their only child is deceased. EPHRAIM WILLIAMS, M. D., a son of Daniel Williams, who came to Belmont county in 1818,-was born in Berks county, Pa., in 1810. Wm. Williams, the grandfather of Ephraim, was of Welsh birth, and an infant at the time his parents arrived in America. Jane Jackson was Daniel Williams' second wife, and was the daughter of David and Elizabeth Jackson, nee Morris, of Berks county, Pa. She died in 1813. There were six children by the first union, and an equal number by the second. He married to 1815, Martha., daughter of Joshua and Lydia Mendenhall, of Chester county, Pa. She was familiar 'with many scenes of the revolution, especially those connected with Valley Forge. She died in 1868, nearly ninety-five years of age. The Williams settlement in Belmont county was in Warren township, on the Morristown road, about three miles northeast of Barnesville. Here the early years of our -subject were passed, graduating with honor at the log cabin school. He read medicine for three years with Dr. Daniel Williams, of Salem, Columbiana county, Ohio, and commenced practice at the age of twenty-four. His first location was, in 1834, at Millwood, since known as Quaker City. After remaining five years at this point, he removed to Barnesville, his permanent residence for over forty years, He was married in 1839 to Anna, daughter of Jeptha and Sarah Sharp, of Belmont county. Mr. Sharp was an early 'surveyor of the county, who died while a young man. His children are Sarah T. and three sons, deceased. G. H. KEMP, M.D. - He was born at Bendforth Church, Belmont county, in 1838, and was the son of Dennis and Isabella. Kemp, nee Wilson. Dennis Kemp was born in Frederick. Maryland, in 1812, and came with his parents to the headwaters of Stillwater creek in 1818. He was a merchant and farmer. He was a county commissioner at the time the first pikes were built. He was one of the early abolitionists, and through evil and good report boldly urged the claims of the enslaved. He died in 1875. His wife to whom he was married in 1837, is still living. Our subject read medicine without professional instruction till near the close of his studies, when he was under the tuition of Dr. J. K. Thomas, of Beallsville, Monroe county.. He graduated in 1868 at the University of Philadelphia. He commenced practice in Beallsville and remained there until 1867, when he located in Barnesville. He was married in 1863 to Minerva, daughter of Madison Thornberry. Their children are Kate, Beta and Stella. JAMES SYKES ELY, M. D., was born near Darlington, Hartford. county, Md., August 22d 1832. His parents were Jacob :Ely and Sarah (Brown) Ely, who moved to Morristown, Belmont county, Ohio, when he was three months old. Began the study of medicine when seventeen years of age with Pr. C. Schooley, then of Martin's Ferry, Belmont county, finishing the standard course of three years reading. He found employment as a teacher until the year 1856, when he began the practice of medicine in Somerton, Belmont county, and in the early part of the year 1862, attended lectures at the medical college of Ohio in Cincinnati, graduating the following June. Entering the army he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the 126th Ohio volunteer infantry; November 18, 1862 and surgeon of the regiment February 8, 1864. In the ensuing March he passed the examination of the United States board of examiners at Washington, D. C., and was commissioned assistant surgeon, United States volunteers, by the President, April 21, 1864. The inauguration of the Wilderness campaign being at hand, he resolved to hold this commission and remain with his regiment. Assigned to the operating staff of his brigade, the work was incessant, trying and exhaustive. Upon the arrival of the army at Cold Harbor, he reported to the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac and was assigned to duty with the depot field hospitals at White House, Va. In the latter part of June, 1864, these hospitals were removed to City Point, Va. He was on duty here for awhile with the Sixth Army Corps Hospital. and also with the Fifth Army Corps Hospital. On December 22, 1864, he was placed in charge of the Cavaly Corns Hospital, principally for the purpose of effecting its reorganization. Early in January, 1865, he was placed in charge of the depot field hospital of the Sixth Army Corps, and retained that position until after Lee's surrender, when all the hospitals of the place were broken up. May 26, 1865, having remained until the last moment, he transferred all the remaining hospital inmates aboard the hospital steamer "Connecticut" in charge of J. B. Hood, surgeon United States soldiers, for transit to Washington City. He was then ordered to duty at Camp Dennison Hospital, June, 1865, under Dr. McDermot, surgeon United States volunteers. On the following August 12th, he was ordered to take charge 328 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. of the City General Hospital, at Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was eventually mustered out October 16. 1865. November 7, 1865, he removed to Barnesville, Belmont county, Ohio. Alter reaching home he received a brevet promotion from the United States government, and was appointed United States Examining Surgoon for pensions in the year 1868, which position he still holds. He has since been a successful practicing physician, and has a wholesale and retail drug store in Barnesville. WILLIAM REED—The Reeds are of Irish extraction. The grandfather of William migrated from Ireland and located in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1835, at the age of eighty. William was born near Hookstown, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1812. _His parents were Alexander and Mary Reed, nee Lance. Alexander was a farmer, who removed to a portion of Richland county, now a part of Ashland county, Ohio, in 1815, then to Wayne county, Ohio, and finally to Kosciusko county, Indiana, where he died in 1861, at the age of eighty. He was twice married ; first to Mary Lance who died when William was an infant, and second to Cassander Keyes, who is living though over ninety years of age, in Kosciusko county, I ndiana. William, when a boy of sixteen, went to Wooster, Ohio, to live with William Larwell. After remaining one year he became a member of Hon. Benjamin Jones' family of the same locality, with whom he was associated for four years. He then removed to Noblestown, Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he commenced to learn under the direction of his brother John, the "art and mytery of shoemaking." The latter removing from Noblestown, William sought his way to Cannonsburg, in the same county, where he completed his service and remained three years. His subsequent removals were: to Wheeling, remaining one year ; Fallstown (later known as Beaver Falls) where he married Eliza, daughter of William and Cassander Grafton, three years ; Little Pittsburg, Wayne county, Ohio, one year ; Richmond, Jefferson, Ohio, seven years; Burlington, Iowa, twelve days; Pomeroy, Meigs county, Ohio, one year ; Richmond, Ohio, one year; Peru. Miami county, Indiana, twenty-eight days; Leesburg, Carroll county, Ohio, five months, and arrived in Barnesville in the spring of 1845. In all these years he was engaged in his trade, and he is to-day the proprietor of an extensive boot and shoe store at Barnesville. He has served in the council several terms and has been identified for many years with the Methodist Episcopal church, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. his wife died in 1875, at the age of sixty-two. He was again married in 1877 to Mrs. Eliza Worthington, nee Lynn, widow of Dr. Wm. M.cK. Worthington. His children are Wesley, (deceased) John W., Wm. McK., Adaline, deceased, B. P. Menander and Emeline. The latter is married to Dr. H. W. Baker, Mayor of Barnesville. ROBERT PRICE was born in Calvert county, Maryland, October 7, 1788, and was at his death 82 years and 6 months old. His death occurred in April, 1871. In 1815 he removed with his family to Barnesville, Ohio, in the vicinity of which he resided for about twelve years, living most of the time on the farm known as the Albert Broomball property. When be came to this county he could have had the choice of the lands at government prices, but ill-advised friends told him not to invest iii them, as the country would never be settled. A few years, however, saw most of the land occupied by actual settlers, or owned by small capitalists, while his own small means had been wasted in seeking a livelihood as a renter. In 1825 he sold a horse and an extra feather bed, and with the proceeds entered the half-quarter section upon which he died. Here, at spare times, he cleared some land, planted an orchard and built a house, into which he moved on the 2nd of March, 1827. A short time after his arrival at Barnesville, he returned to Maryland, and assisted in the emigration of Benjamin Mackall, Sr:, and his only known living relative, the Rev. J. D. Price, who died a number of years since. The latter had a brother who left Maryland before him, but whether living or dead is not known. Mr. Price was twice married. Of the seven children of his first marriage, two only grew to the age of majority, and but one is now living. Ile married for his second wife Sophia Wilson, daughter of Rev. William Wilson, of West Liberty, Virginia. By this marriage he became the parent of nine children, six of whom are still living. He was probably the oldest white man living in Warren township at the time of his death, and very few lived here longer than he did. His character for honesty, sobriety, truthfulness and benevolence, had always been of the highest repute, None can say that a promise once made by him was ever wilfully broken. Neither can it be said that he ever misrepresented an article, he might wish to sell, in order to enhance his gains. The virtuous poor never sought his help in vain. While he hated imposture and deceit of every description, and was cautious of the plausible tale of suffering where the facts were inaccessible, yet every known case of real want found in him a friend in need. He made no public profession of religion, but was a man of daily prayer, and sought to live according to the gospel of Christ. he received the teachings and doctrines of the Bible, as held by the orthodox churches, with implicit confidence, and his last remembered words were the expressed hope that his sufferings would end in the "rest of heaven." He was retiring, diffident, and self-distrustful to a fault. So much was he burdened by this almost absolute characteristic, that it was exceedingly painful to him to be noticed in any public manner whatever. It was for this reason that he refused to attach himself to the church. Unable, by reason of this failing, or rather excess of modesty, he could not be persuaded to assume responsibilities that his disposition unfitted him to fulfill. Stern in his manner, and firm in his convictions, yet he lived at peace with his neighbors, respected and honored by all who knew him, and died without* an enemy. JOSEPH PRICE, a son of Robert and Sophia Price, was born in Warren township, Belmont county, on the 5th. of August, 1832. He was reared on a farm and received a lair English education in the common schools. On the 10th of December, 1858 he married Sallie L. Birket, of Loudon county, Virginia, by whom he became the parent of seven children, whose names are : John F., Sophia E., Robert G., Susan R,, Thomas D., Annie C. and Walter S. Mr. Price resided on the farm which was originally entered by his father, three miles west of Barnesville, until the 6th of December, 1878, when he removed to the town and has resided here ever since. THOMAS McCALL, a son of Alexander and Margaret McCall nee Fergue, was born in Chartiers township, Washington coun- ty, Pennsylvania, in 1807. Alexander's father, John McCall, and his wife Jane McCall, wore born in Scotland. 'He served in the revolutionary army. He died in 1810, nearly one hundred years old ; his wife subsequently, about the same age. Alexander was born in York county, Pennsylvania. He, with his wife and three children, Jane, Thomas and John, came to Wheeling creek, in the north side of Union township, Belmont county, in 1811. He had served as captain and major in the Penn: sylvania militia when engaged in actual service under the gen- eral government, and for this reason "escaped" service war of 1812. He died in 1833, in his sixty-fifth year; his wife, 1839, about seventy years of age. Their children were : Jane, married to Thomas Wilson, deceased ; Thomas, married to Mariam Harrah ; John, married first to Margaret Taggart, ceased ; second to Mary Fulton ; Sarah, deceased, married to John Trimble ; and Mary, married to John Vincent. Thorne McCall's children are: Tabitha J., married to Win. Bell John T., married to Anna Chandler; Alexander, deceased Charles H., Married to Louisa Vance ; Hugh F,, deceased ; George S., deceased ; J.. H. ; Margaret T. ; Thomas E. ; and Mariam A., deceased. JOHN ELLIS.- He was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1804. His parents were Jonathan M. and Martha Ellis, nee Ogan, who were married in 1798, near Winchester, Va. They, with their children, migrated to Harrison county in 1803. In 1805, Jonathan's father entered a section of land in what was subsequently :Flushing township, Belmont county, and he gave Jonathan eighty-six acres of it, and the latter with his family, entered into possession. of the land in the same year. He resided on the place till 1834, and then removed westward, dying in Indiana in 1842, in his sixty-fifth year. His wife has been dead for many years. Their children were Naomi, deceased, Elisha, Elizabeth, deceased, John, Bevin, Sarah, deceased, Uphemy, deceased, Jonathan, Peter M., Martha, Theodore, Salmon, John, deceased, and Catharine, deceased. John Ellis was married in 1825 to Hannah Barnes, a relation of Jams Barnes, of Barnesville founding fame. She died in 1873, over seventy years of age. Their children were Mary, married to John Scolds ; Martha, deceased, married to James Norris ; Charlotte, married to Thomas Jefferson Pickering; Nicholas Garrett, deceased ; Leven Barnes, married to Rachel J. Hoover; Jonathan M., married to Maggie Barnes ; Hannah, married to F. W. Hunt; Jesse Bailey; John H., married to Mary E. Brown ; and Florida, married to William M. Nace. Our subject was for several years is farmer, and subsequently HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 329 for over thirty years a carpenter. Four of his sons and five of his sons-in-law served in the Union army during the war of the Rebellion. JACOB BARNES, born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1808, was the son of Henry and Margaret Barnes, nee Oldshue. The former died at the age of twenty-five, when Jacob was only one year of age. The latter, after a widowhood of eighteen years, married Frederick Roach. In 1832 the family removed to Noble county, Ohio. Mrs. Roach died in 1868, nearly seventy-one years of age, and her husband, a few years previous, in his sixty-fifth year. Leven Barnes, our subject's grandfather, was the cousin of James Barnes,. the first proprietor of Barnesville, and came to the latter place in 1813. He resided about a mile west. of Barnesville on the property later known as the Henry Barnes farm. He died in 1836. His wife was Hannah Slack. Their children were Henry, William, Moses, Nancy, married to John Fligor, Elizabeth, married to Thomas Roach, Polly married to Thomas Barnes, and Hannah, married to John Ellis. In 1842 Jacob removed to Warren township, Belmont county, and continued as heretofore to farm, and for several seasons packed tobacco. In 1863 he made his permanent residence in Barnesville, and has generally been employed in packing tobacco. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of William and Margaret Edgar, nee Croy. Their children are Wm. Henry, Margaret Ann, married to Jonathan Ellis, Swazey, Jacob Francis, and Lizzie, married to John Heed. ROBERT HODGIN.—In the early part of the present century, several families (among whom were the Plummers, Griers, Croys and others) members of the Society of Friends or Quakers, migrated to Belmont county, and their settlement was the objective point toward which a large number of Georgians were attracted, both on account of the salubrity of the climate and the fertility of the soil, the fame of which had reached their neighborhood, and the ties of religion and amity, joined to a natural antipathy to the institution of slavery. In 1803 the Hodgins, Todds, Williams, Vernons, Millhouses, Childreys, Hayes, Stubbs, Pattens, and other families, from a section of country about fifty miles northwest of Augusta, arrived in Warren township. Our subject's father, Wm. Hodgin, was born in Georgia. He, in 1802, in company with William Patten, visited this portion of the no valley. They examined thoroughly the lower Miami lands is they were termed), but on account of the sickness generally prevailing they decided to to the Friends, settlement in Belmont county. Mr. Hodgin left the necessary money with Jonathan Taylor to enter two sections of land. Mr. Taylor attended faithfully to the business, and Mr. Hodgin (in 1803) found himself the owner of the sections of which the Wm. Bundy and the Lindley Bundy farms form parts. His brother Stephen accompanied him to his new home. He (Wm. Hodgin) died in 1820, in North Carolina, while en route to Georgia, at the age of 54. His wife, who was Agnes Childrey, died several years later at the age of 74. The children were,: Mary, John, Sarah, William, Martha, Laban .Robert, Rebecca and Stephen, several of whom accompanied their parents on the trip to Ohio. Robert was born in Warren township in 1805. He at the age of nineteen, began to labor at the millwright trade, and farmed when not engaged in that calling. In 1837 he removed to Barnesville, and in later years was in the grocery, drug,: and other business. For several years he has retired from active Work. He was married in 1828 to Eunice, daughter of George and Elizabeth Starbuck. The latter were born and married in North Carolina, and removed to Warren township in 1806. George Starbuck died in 1815, at the age of forty-one, and his wife, Elizabeth Starbuck, died at the age of seventy-four. Their children were: john, Rachel. Elisha, Mary, Lydia, Eunice, Elizabeth and George. Elizabeth, George, Elisha and Eunice, are the only children still surviving. ABEL LEWIS.—He is a native of. Mount Pleasant township, Jefferson county, Ohio, where he was born in 1810, and was the son of Jacob and Mary Lewis nee Bundy. The Lewis's are of Welsh extraction, and their migration to America and location in Philadelphia, dates from 1680. Our subject's father, Jacob hi Lewis, was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania. In 1802, he 42—B. & J. Cos. moved to Jefferson county, Ohio. Prior to this, he had resided near Centerville, Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he was married in 1798. His grandfather, Samuel Lewis, accompanied his father to Washington county: The latter's wife was Deborah .Richardson. Both he and his wife lived to an advanced age. In 1822, Jacob Lewis removed to Smith township, Belmont county, and purchased the old Levi Pickering saw and grist mill, since known as the Lewis's Mills. He died in 1827, in his sixty-eighth year. His wife, who was the daughter of Joshua Bundy, was born in North Carolina. She died in 1858, eighty-two years of age. The children were Ira, Abel, Reese, Hannah, deceased, married to Charles Griffith, deceased, and Rachel, deceased, married to Martin Foreman, deceased. Mr. Lewis resided at the mill, in which he was a partner for several years, subsequently engaging in farming, from 1822 to 1863, removing in the latter year to Barnesville. He has been twice married ; first to Lucinda Gregg, daughter of Stephen and Asenath Gregg nee Mead (who were born and married in Loudon county, Virginia, and removed to near Belmont, Belmont county, in 1804) who died in 1861, at the age of fifty-two ; and second, in 1863, to Hannah Hirst, daughter of David and Ann Hirst nee Smith, who migrated from Loudon county, Virginia, to Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson, county, Ohio, in 1815, and removed near Flushing, Flushing township, Belmont county, in 1817. JAMES T. MOORE.—Our subject is the son of Hezekiah and Harriet Moore nee Smith, and was born in Fairview, Guernsey county, in 1844. Mr. Moore migrated in 1824 from Virginia, where he had been a farmer, and located in Barnesville, where he engaged in merchandizing and buying tobacco. He subsequently resided at Fairview and Middletown, Guernsey county. In 1849, he removed to Barnesville and was in the grocery business. He also was an engineer for several years, receiving several injuries while employed in that capacity. He died in March, 1877, sixty-three years of age; his wife's death occurred in 1858, in her thirty-seventh year. The children were Wm. H. (served in 3d O. till 1864) married to Mary J. Fowler ; Mary C., married to John Fowler : James T., married in 1869 to Mary V. Moore, daughter of Elijah and Rebecca Moore nee Fowler; Elizabeth, married to Frank S. McCormick ; Annie M., married to John R. Scott; Samuel W., in the regular army ; and Harriet E., married to John Steck. James T. Moore entered as a private Company F. 30th Ohio, in August, 1861, and was mustered out in September, 1865. He was the captain of the Tom Young Guards, since November, 1877, has been the major of the 2d Ohio National Guards. ASA WELLONS.—This venerable citizen is a native of Southampton county, Virginia, where he was born on the 23d of February, 1802. He is the son of Robert and Sarah Wellons nee Wooten, who had a family of ten children: eight sons and two daughters—our subject being the seventh child. On the 19th of February, 1827, he left home and came to Ohio, and settled near Barnesville, on the farm now owned by Joseph Gibbons. On the 5th of October, of the same year, he was married to Miss Asenath Davis, daughter of Moses Davis, a native of Virginia. Mr. Davis was a pioneer of Belmont county, who Lame to Ohio at an early day and settled on Captina for a short time, and then purchased a farm near Barnesville, where he resided for twenty years, after which he removed to Somerton, built the finest house in that place, and bought several tracts of land adjoining the village. Ho was an unusually large man, weighing 300 pounds, and had ample strength to endure the hardships of the pioneers. He died January 1, 1844, aged about 63 years. His wife died on the 9th of June, 1838. Asa Wellons learned the trade of a wagon-maker at Flushing, with Jesse Lundy, and afterwards removed to Somerton, Where he followed his trade, remaining at the place thirty years, during which time he also erected and successfully operated a, carding machine. Disposing of his property, he purchased a farm in 1850, one and one-half miles north of Barnesville, remaining there until the fall of 1855. Returning to Somerton, he engaged in business for four years and then for one year resided in the village of Malaga, in the adjoining county. After this Mr. Wellons came back to within two miles of. Barnesville, where he remained two years and then settled down at his present location, taking charge of the first toll gate established on the Barnesville and Somerton pike, the duties of which position he faithfully and honestly fulfills. He reared a family of four children, all of whom are still living. Mr. Wellons has been a 330 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. man of regular and moral habits—never indulging in the use of intoxicating drink or profane language. MRS. ANNA BARBARA JENKINS.—This lady—the widow of Andrew Jenkins—was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania in 1800, and was the daughter of Samuel and Cornelia, Am, Crossman. She was married in 1819 to Andrew Jenkins, and resided for ten years in Franklin county. He was a blacksmith, and worked at divers places, as the following partial list of removals indicate. We only insert the more important. he removed to Monroe county, Ohio, remaining one and. a half years ; Union county, Ohio, a few months; Patterson's Mills, (Belmont Mills) Belmont county, about a year ; Farmington, a few months; St. Clairsville, a few months; Bridgeport, about a year ; Bealsville, Monroe county, and vicinity, three years; Wheeling, Va., one year ; Goshen township, nearly five years ; near Morristown and in the town, five years; Temperanceville, one year ; Bealsville and vicinity, ten years; Lampsville, a few months; Burton Station, a year and a half; Mount Olivet, six months ; Barnesville, about six months ; Mount Olivet, six months ; Barnsville, one year.; Zanesville, six months ; Mount Olivet, about thirteen years, and April 3, 1878, to Barnesville, where he died in June, eighty-two years, one month and. nine days of age. Verily, "After life’s fitful fever, he sleeps well." Their children are : Rachel, Jemima, Rhoda Ann, deceased ; Rebecca, deceased ; Henry Purdy, deceased ; Lydia Ann, deceased; Joseph C., Mary Elizabeth, deceased ; Martha Ellen, and Sarah Melinda. Mrs. Jenkins has fifty-three grandchildren and thirty great grandchildren. She is hale and hearty, and can walk her four miles without difficulty. She hears with ease, and bids fair to mark her centennial. W. C. WATSON.—John Watson, the great grandfather of our subject, came to what was subsequently Mt. Pleasant township, Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1798. His son, John Watson, was born on the Atlantic ocean in 1781. He and Eber Brooks built the first school house in Jefferson county. He died in 1844; his wife in 1848, at the age of sixty-two. The latter's son—John Watson—was the father of our subject. He was born in Jefferson county, and located in Morristown, Belmont county, in 1848. For several years he was a merchant in the latter place and Lloydsville. he was married in 1850, to Hannah L. Price, (a daughter of Smith T. Price, who located in Gray Shot, Muskingum county, in 1806, and removed to Morristown, where he died in 1832, at the age of forty-four. He was a merchant, Justice of the Peace, Postmaster and hotel keeper.) The. children were W. C., Mary F. (married to John Renner) and J. F., deceased. Mrs. Watson was again married in 1861, her husband being Henry T. Barnes, a son of .David Barnes, and a nephew of James Barnes, the founder of Barnesville. Mr. Barnes was a tobacco broker. He died in 1873, at the ago of sixty-eight. Annie Lee Barnes was their only child. W. C. Watson was born in Morristown, in 1852, and removed to Barnesville in 1863. In 1870 he removed to Pittsburgh, and was the ticket agent of the Pennsylvania railroad at the east end. On his step-father's decease, he returned to Barnesville, and succeeded to his business as a tobacco broker, and is now a member of the firm of Howard & Watson, tobacco merchants. In January, 1878, he was appointed by Governor Bishop State inspector of tobacco, a position created by the Legislature at the session of 1877-8. MRS. ELIZABETH BARNES—This lady, the widow of Abel Barnes, a nephew of James Barnes, the founder of Barnesville, was born near Cove Mountain, in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, on the 10th of February, 1800. Her parents, Isaac and Susannah Wilson, nee Thornberry, were married in Martinsburg, Va., December 20, 1794. In 1814 the Wilson family came to Belmont county, and located on the place about a mile from Barnesville, where the toll gate is situated. Mr. Wilson died on the 9th of March, 1837, in his sixty-eighth year ; his wife, on the 15th of November, 1836, in the sixty-seventh year her age. The children were Cabel, deceased, Elizabeth, William, deceased, Joseph, deceased, Lydia, deceased, Josiah and Mary. Elizabeth was married to Abel Barnes on the 20th of March, 1817. After their marriage they resided in Barnesville where be worked for his uncle. At the end of that time he had saved enough money to enter one hundred and sixty acres of land, and thereupon became the owner of the place about five miles south of Barnesville, of late known as the Hobbs farm. After residing there about forty years (where their house for years served as the meeting place for the Methodists) they removed to Barnesville, where he died nearly eighty-one years of age, in 1876, The children were : Wilson, who died in infancy ; Susannah D., deceased, married to Joshua Barnes ; Mary Ann, died in childhood ; James A., Recorder of Belmont county, married first to Matilda Cator, deceased, second to Elizabeth Bumgarner ; Eleanor, married to Wm. Neptune ; Lydia, deceased, married to Elijah Cator ; Milton, secretary of State, married to Rhoda Allison ; Marcella, died in childhood ; Ruth M.; Josiah E. died in infancy ; Elizabeth, died in infancy ; Abel C., married to Mary Bannister, and Frank P., married to Mattie Keeler. Four of her sons, viz: Milton, who was a Colonel, James A., Abel C. and Frank P., were soldiers in the late war, and each was wounded. RICHARD H. TANEYHILL was born in Calvert county, Maryland, in 1822. He removed with his parents to Barnesville in 1832. He was married in 1843 to Rebecca J. Judkins, daughter of Thomas Judkins. His children are ten in number and were born in the following order : Henry C. married to Anna James ; Richard T. married to Mary Arnold; William S., married to Elizabeth Trott ; Francis M., married to Priscilla J. Winland ; Mary B., Eugene, Sarah, deceased, Hettie, deceased, Nettie and Nellie. He studied law with John Davenport, was admitted to the bar at St. Clairsville in 1847, and practiced law in Williamsburg, Noble county, Ohio, twelve years. He alas for several years been engaged in horticultural pursuits. He was for two years clerk of Warren township ; six years justice of the peace, and two years, mayor of Barnesville. He its pest known among historical students and archaeologists by his learned and instructive essays on historical and archæological matter contributed to the magazines, scientific journals. Ohio Valley Historical. series, and others volumes of national circulation and prominence His series of articles on the history of this portion of Belmont county, the mounds, forts, foot-prints, the Leatherwood God, etc., are the most painstaking, and approach nearer our idea of local history than any that we have heretofore met with in all our experience. Had it not been for Mr. Taneyhill how little of the past of Warren township ..and vicinity would have been treasured up ? The series of articles as published in tho Barnesville Enterprise, written by Mr. Taneyhill, under the non de plume of R. King Bennett, are invaluable. KELION HAGER.—Our subject was Dorn in Uniontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1798. His parents were Jacob and Mary Hager nee McCombs. The former was born and reared in Westmoreland county, his father being a German, had settled in Pennsylvania a few years previous to Jacob's birth. While Kelion was a small child, his father resided 01 Waynesburg, Green county, Pennsylvania, where he was gaged in tanning. in 1808, the former went to Steubenville to reside with an uncle, Archibald Cole, who was a house carpenter. On the 18th of April, 1815, the latter and family, including our subject, arrived at Barnesville, then a very small village, Kelion learned the carpenter's trade under the direction of his uncle, and pursued that calling for several years. In 1830, his father arrived in Barnesville, and from that time his business was mainly confined to farming. He died at the advanced age of nearly ninety-seven. His wife passed away a few months before commemorating her ninety-third birth day. Their children were: Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Orphia, Lucy, Nancy, William, Kelion, Levi, Isaac and Jacob. Mr. Hager, after having, as above recited, pursued the calling of a carpenter for several years, engaged in mercantile operations and in buying and packing tobacco, continuing in the latter business for a longtime. In 1860, he purchased an oil refinery at Newark, Ohio, and after a management of four years, leased it to other parties and finally disposed of it. Of late years, he has been operating in western lands, and has large interests in Kansas, Iowa and Missouri. he has served several terms as member of the council and mayor of the city. He was married in 1822, to Sarah B., daughter of Benjamin H. Mackall and sister of Colonel Benjamin Mackall. Their children number Benjamin J. and Wm. L., livingand eight deceased. JEREMIAH BRYANT, a son of Aquilla and Susan Bryant, was born near Freeport, Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1833. His parents migrated from Loudon county, Virginia, and settled in Guernsey county, in 1828, His father died in 1877, about eighty years of age, and the mother though over eighty-one, still survives, and is enjoying remarkably good HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 331 health. Their children numbered thirteen, of whom two, John C. and Jeremiah are living. Our subject has been engaged in farming and dealing in live stock throughout his business career. He was married in 1853 to Narcessa, daughter of Thomas and Sally White nee Spencer, of Richland township. She died in 1865, at the age of thirty-five. Ho was again married in 1869, to Rebecca E., daughter of Jasper Robson. WILLIAM HYDE.—He is of Welsh descent paternally, and was born near Middletown, Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1799. His parents were Thomas and Catharine Hyde nee Walker, the latter being of German origin. Thomas Hyde was one of the pioneers of Washington county Pennsylvania. He died in 1814, at the age of sixty. His wife died in 1868, at the age of ninety. William came to Colerain township, Belmont county, in 1815, and after remaining, three years returned to Washington county, Pennsylvania. He returned in 1823, and made his home in Somerset township. He farmed, was proprietor of a store at Boston, and was a buyer and shipper of tobacco. He acted as "treasurer of the sixteenth section" for twenty-four years. He removed to Barnesville in 1867, and for three years was engaged in the grocery business. For several years he has participated in active business. He was married in 1837, to Harriet, daughter of A very and Eliabeth West. The latter died in 1875. Their children. five in number, are all living. JOHN W. LAUGHLIN, son of Thos. W. Laughlin, was born near Washington, Guernsey county, Ohio, March 15, 1837, where he received his early education, including an academic course, at Miller Academy, Washington. He graduated at Jefferson College Cannonsburg, Pa., in the year 1861, receiving the degree of A. M. from the same in the year 1864. He enlisted in the 1st U V. cavalry, and served three years and nine months, part of the time as adjutant of the regiment, and part as captain. Was present at the engagements of Pittsburgh Landing, Corinth, Miss., Chaplain Hills, Ky., Stone river, Chattanooga, Chicka- mauga, Kenesaw Mountain, and the siege of Atlanta, besides many any engagements of less notoriety, in one of which he had his horse killed during a sabre charge. In 1865 he was the unsuccessful candidate for Representative for the Democracy of Guernsey county. In the same year he was married to Miss Maggie J. Cowden only daughter of David Cowden, of Quaker City, Guernsey county, who were among the earliest settlers of Millwood township. In 1869 he was again the, unsuccessful Democratic candidate. for Representative, the county being largely Republican. In 1873 he was elected as senator of the 19th district, composed of Guernsey, Monroe and part of Noble counties. 1878 he purchased the farm on which he now resides, being in Belmont county, one mile west of Barnesville. JOHN BUNDY, son of William and Sarah Bundy, was born in Warren township, Belmont county, Ohio, February 17, 1813 ; was reared a farmer, and pursued the same till 1875, when he left his farm, removed to Barnesville, and built a fine residence on East Main street. Mr. Bundy has been married the third time; for his first wife he married Ruth Patten, October 30, 1833. The names and births of his children are as follows : William P. and Sarah, February 15, 1835 ; Martha, September 16, 1836 ; Mary P., December 18, 1837 ; Charity, April 17, 1839 ; all these are dead. His wife died February 17, 1851. Married for second wife Sidney Tipton, February 9, 1843. They are the parents of Thomas W., who was born December 6, 1843, and Ephraim, born May 13, 1845 ; the latter is dead. His wife, Sidney, departed this life June 16, 1845. He then married Anne Edgerton, February 8, 1849, by whom he has the following named children : Ruth, born November 7, 1849 ; Rebecca, February 10, 1851; Jesse E., September 23, 1852 ; Wilson H., July 22, 1855 ; Elizabeth, October 4, 1858. Those living are Ruth, Jesse E., and Elizabeth. W. H. FOLGER, a native of Winchester, Va., was born May s, 1813, and is of French extraction. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812. At the age of fifteen years his father removed to Harrison county, Ohio, and from thence to Somerset township, Belmont county. He remained with his father till twenty-one years of age, and then found his way to Barnesville, where he followed the trade of a carpenter and joiner for fifteen years in the summer seasons, and in the winter worked at gunsmithing. Mr. Folger was afflicted with spasmodic asthma, for which reason he began the study of medicine with I-42—B. & J. Cos. Dr. Waddle, became a practicing physician and followed the same for a number of years. He first owned property in the west end of town, but sold it and bought the property now owned by Frasier & Judkins, and kept a drug store and grocery. He was at this place for some nine years, after which he removed to his present location on South Chestnut street. Married Ann Ensminger in January, 1833. He has four children living, two sons and two daughters. Both the sons served in the war against the Rebellion. SAMUEL WALTON is a native of Philadelphia, and was born July 7, 1827. He is a son of Joseph Walton ; was educated in Philadelphia, and is a graduate of its Dental college. Ho finished his course at this colege the third year of its existence, in the winter of 1854. In 1842, however, he had begun mechanical dentistry, which consists in the making of gold and silver plates, After his graduation he began the practice of his profession in the city. In 1854, he came to Ohio for the purpose of marrying, and on the 26th day of the seventh month of the year of his arrival, led Sarah J. Edgerton to the marriage altar, whose ancestors on her father's side located in Belmont county in 1803, and those of her mother in 1802, in Jefferson county, Ohio. They were among the first settlers of the two counties. After his marriage he returned to Philadelphia and again resumed his former labors, where he continued till the spring of 1857, and then with his family removed to Barnesville, Ohio, and purchased the farm which he yet owns. Mr. Walton still continues to labor at his profession, while his conduct the interests of the farm. His eldest son is engaged n business in Philadelphia. Mr. W. resides on North Chestnut street and his office is at his residence. His religious convictions are those of the Friends, being a devoted member Al that sect, ROBERT C. GRAVES, was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, May 15th, 1836. He learned the book, stationery and wait paper business with Joseph Graves of the same city. In 1850, he removed from Wheeling to Barnesville, Ohio. On the 13th day of August, 1856, he opened the first regular "hook, stationery and wall paper" store ever started in the place. The first room occupied by him for that purpose was the east end of the "City Hotel," the room now occupied by John Hill. In November, of the same year, he removed across the street to the room now used as a boot and shoe store by William Reed & Son. On the 4th of March, 1858, he was married to Miss Martha J. Reed, daughter of John Reed of Barnesville. He continued in that room until April, 1858, then removen to the room now occupied by Maring Bros., which he occupied until November, 1858, at which time he sold out and in March following returned to Wheeling, where he entered into the "book, literary and news business. He carried on an extensive periodical and news business during the years 1861 to 1864. In February, 1864, he sold out, and on the 2d of March, he enlisted in the United States navy for the term of one year at Cincinnati, Ohio. He was assigned by Captain W. H. Sells, to the "ships crew" of the United States receiving ship Grampus, off Cincinnati, and remained as one of these until his term of service expired. On the 28th of March, 1865, he was mustered out. His health was considerably impaired during the last three months in the service. He immediately returned to Barnesville, and from 1865 to 1869 was engaged in the grocery business and plastic roofing. He had a very successful grocery trade from 1869 to 1872. In the fall of 1872 he sold out and began in the same business at Cambridge, Ohio. At this place he suffered for eighteen -months with sickness, which resulted in serious consequences to his business. In 1877 he again returned to Barnesville, and in October took charge of the book store of H. F. Barnes, to which the firm of Graves & Co., succeeded in July, 1878. The business under his management has been very successful. Mr. Graves was the first mayor of Barnesville elected under the " new municipal code," the term of office being for two years, instead of one year under the old 'law. The office requiring more time than he could spare from his business, after serving one year, (very satisfactorily to the people) he resigned the office. He was elected a member of the school .board the same year (1871), which position he resigned the following year, in consequence of his removal to Cambridge, Ohio. Mr. G. has been an occasional correspondent to a number of secular and religious papers for many years past. S. L. JAMES, attorney-at-law. Born in the village of Hendrysburg, Belmont county, Ohio, in 1851. Attended school there 332 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. until he arrived at the age of eleven, and then engaged in farming. In the latter part of 1864, be started to the Barnesville graded school, and received instructions from Prof. I. T. Woods for two terms, He subsequently took a course at Mt. Union college, Stark county,, 0. In 1867 he again went to farming with his father, which occupation he followed until the spring of 1869, when he entered the school known as a branch of the New Market college, held at Barnesville. Here he prepared himself for teaching. In the winter of 1870 he began teaching district school, and continued until the middle of 1871. After the close of his school, he again resumed his agricultural pursuits on account of ill health, until 1873. In September of that year, he began reading law in the office of J. H. Collins, an attorney of this place. On the 4th of October, 1874, he was admitted to the bar. In January, 1875, he commenced the practice of his profession in Barnesville. Prior to his admission, however, he. tried twenty-nine cases, losing out of that number but two. In February, 1877, he was united in marriage to Mrs. Mary R. Hunt, daughter of James B. Moseley, of West Newton, Pa. In January, 1879, he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States. His success as a lawyer has been very flattering, and future prospects are exceedingly brilliant. He is building up a large practice. Since his admission to the bar he has tried about six hundred cases with marked success. FRANK W. HIBBARD, dealer in furniture; undertaking made a specialty. Establishment on south side West Main street, Barnesville, Onio. The subject of this sketch was born in .Barnesville, January 26, 1844. The earlier part of his life was spent in the school both as a pupil and teacher. He was educating himself for a professorship. Attended Hopedale Normal School during the years 1862-3-4-5. Whilst on his way back to complete his course, he was intercepted at Bellaire with the striking beauty and affability of a lady of that place, Miss Delia A. Ogle, a daughter of the old and noted pilot, Benjamin Ogle, upon whom he plighted his affections. On the 26th of September, 1866, he led her to the marriage altar. He first began in the furniture business in partnership with his father in 1867. On April 5, 1868, his father departed this life, after which event he took charge of the establishment himself. This store was first started in 1843, and has always had a large run of trade. He carries a fine stock of furniture. His courteous manner and fair dealing wins him many customers, and as a consequence is at present driving a good business. JOHN W. HINGELEY, grocer, on West Main street, apposite postoffice, where can be found a large stock of groceries and queensware. Mr. H. has had an extensive acquaintance by years of experience in this business, and knows how to purchase his goods, so that his customers can buy of him advantageously. Ho is very accommodating and obliging in his manner of dealing. His store is kept replete, with goods in his line. Mr. H. is a son of the Rev: Ezra and Anna Hingeley, nee Warwick. His parents were born in Birmingham, England. They migrated to America in about 1850, and first settled in Pittsburgh, Pa., where our subject was born. His birth occurred on the 10th of February, 1852. He attended school until he reached the age of seventeen. In 1868 he began clerking in the firm of D. McConville & Son, of Steubenville, who were carrying on the dry goods business on a large scale, doing a wholesale and retail trade. He remained in the employ of this firm for one year, and then hired with D. McConville, Jr., who continued the business. With him he remained for seven years—five of which time he traveled on the road soliciting for the establishment. in 1877 he removed to Barnesville and purchased the building and stock of R. T. Chaney, continuing ever since. On the 18th of December, 1878, he was married to Miss Anna Mackall, an amiable daughter of the late and reputable Dr. John T. Mackall, of this place. he is at present the treasurer of Friendship Lodge, No. 8'9 F. & A. M., and a member of the .Board of Education of Barnesville. His father, the Rev. Ezra Hingely, has long been an honored minister of the M. E. Church—was a member of the Pittsburgh Conference from 1850 until the formation of the Eastern Ohio Conference, since which time he has been a prominent member of the latter. BENJAMIN DAVENPORT.- He was born in. Winchester, Va., in 1813, and was the son of Hon. John and Martha Davenport, nee Coulson, who came to Barnesville in the fall of 1818. Hon. John Davenport's children were : Coulson, who served two terms in the state legislature, Eleanor, Benjamin, Mary Ann, Rebecca C., John Adrian, William (died in infancy) George Harris (dec,d) and Samuel. A full account of his career is given among the notable men of Barnesville. Benjamin Davenport was married in 1834, to Mary Ann Bradshaw, and was a merchant in Barnes ville for many years, most of the time having as partner 1;i4- brother Coulson. Kelion Hager and William A. Talbot were also partners with Mr. Davenport.. He served one term as a justice of the peace, several terms as mayor and a number of terns as recorder of the town. For upwards of thirty years he was the superintendent of the M. E. Sabbath school. JAMES DOBBINS.—He was born at Mount Holly, New Jersey, in 1799. His parents were James Dobbins and Elizabeth (.Rog. ers) Dobbins, who with their family removed to St. Clairsville Belmont county, in 1814. The elder Dobbins purchased a farm of two hundred and eleven acres situated on the state road, about. a mile and a half east of Morristown, and in the fall of the year 1814) removed to it for his permanent home. Here he was engaged in coopering and farming till his death in 1843. James Dobbins was married first in 1823 to Edith, daughter of Samuel Gregg, of Belmont county, who died leaving five children, and second, to Mrs. Lydia Thatcher, nee Nichols, daughter of Isaac Nichols, of Loudon county, Va. Our subject resided for eleven years about a mile south of Barnesville, then seven years near Boston, and the remainder of the time in Barnesville. Like unto his father he has been a cooper, with occasional farming added as circumstances would demand. WILLIAM PIPER.—He was born near the foot of the Allegheny mountains, in Beasontown, Pa., in 1794. His parents were Henry and Magdalene Piper nee Polhemus. The former, in 1793, leased of Thomas Smith, a Quaker, a tract of land about a mile and a quarter from Newellston (St. Clairsville). He raised a cabin on the land, and then returned home. In the fol- lowing year, while en route to his lease, he died (our subject being only six months old) at Col. Zane's inn, at Wheeling. The widow, with her four children, wintered at Wheeling, and in the following spring (1795) removed to the land above named. Our subject was bound unto Henry Stewart, a nail manufacturer, his apprenticeship commencing at the age of eleven, and he was to serve eight years. After working three years, be was so cruelly treated by the proprietor that his mother, by process of law before a justice of the peace, forced Stewart to give up the indenture papers. He then went to work for John Hynes, a brickmaker, and continued with him three seasons. He or off" the brick, one at a time, of which the St. Clairsville court house is constructed. The first season he received as pay five dollars per month and board, and the remaining seasons and a half dollars per month and board. For several years he superintended William Brown's nail factory, and also assisted him in other business. In 1820 he removed to Barnesville, and for over thirty-five years labored at brickmaking also worked as a brick and stone mason, and at other trades that demanded his attention. He was married in 1821 to Elizabeth Parsons, daughter of Jonathan and Ruth Parsons, formerly or Loudon county, Va., and who had located in Barnesville in 1818. Eight children were born to them, of whom one son and three daughters are living, and three sons and one daughter are deceased. This aged couple seem to enjoy good health, and together they joined the M. E. Church in 1821, of which they remain to this day earnest and devoted members. S. B. PIPER, a son of John H. and Jane E. Piper, nee Claudy, was born in Barnesville in 1837. The former was born near Georgetown, Delaware, and located in Barnesville in 1830. In 1832 he married Jane E., daughter of Abraham Claudy. He was postmaster for six years; constable and town marshal for twenty-one years. S. B. was a clerk in the dry goods business eight years. He .enlisted on the 13th of April, 1861, in Company A, 3d Ohio Volunteers, for three months; re-enlisted June 13, 1861, in the same company, and served till April, 1865; promoted to second lieutenant in February, 1862 ; promoted September, 1862, to a first lieutenant, and on the 10th of December, 1863, to adjutant of the regiment. He was a prisoner twenty-three months and nineteen days at Atlanta, Ga., Libby, Va., Macon, Ga., Charleston, S. C., Camp Sorghum, S. C., and. Columbia, S. C., escaping at the time of Sherman,s entry, and "tramped through" to Greenville, East Tennessee. He was elected sheriff of Belmont county in 1866 by a majority of twenty-four, and served three years. He was defeated for re-election by eighty-two majority, his party generally being defeated by over five hundred majority. In connection with his brother, Wm. HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 333 piper, he engaged in the dry goods business, under the firm name of S. B. Piper & Bro., for two years. For a year he was connected with Barnes, Brother & Herron, wholesale hat, cap and fur dealers, of Philadelphia, Pa. From 1872 to 1876 he was deputy postmaster of Barnesville, and from 1876 the post-master. JOHN C. BOLON.- He was born in Wayne township, Belmont county, in 1831. His parents were Hiland and Margaret Bolon nee Calhoun. Hiland came to the county in 1813 with his father, William Bolon and family, from Laudon county, Va. Margaret Bolon died in 1876, at the age of sixty-eight. The children were: James, married to Mary J. Lane; John C. married to Marian B. Shotwell ; De Witt C., married to Sarah Cole; William, deceased; Thomas, deceased ; and Ellis, deceased. Our subject, prior to entering the army, was a farmer. In October, 1861, he enlisted in company 1), 43d regiment, Ohio volunteers ; was promoted to sergeant, then to a first lieutenancy in 1864, of company C, 60th regiment, Ohio volunteers; was wounded (lost left leg) in May, 1864, and discharged in November of that year. From 1866 to 1869, he was recorder of Belmont county. In 1869, he was appointed United States gauger and inspector and served seven years. In 1876, he was appointed United States storekeeper and gauger, and is now fulfilling the duties of that position. JOHN COLE, the youngest son and ninth child of Archibald and Elizabeth. Cole nee Wood, was born in Barnesville in 1821. His parents were married at Steubenville, Ohio, in 1803. The fol. lowing is a copy of the marriage license, viz: "State of Ohio, Jefferson county, ss.: "Permission of marriage is given unto Archibald Cole and Elizabeth Wood, and ministers of the Gospel duly licensed and justices of the peace within said county or others authorized by law to solemnize marriages, are hereby empowered upon the application of the aforesaid parties, to unite them together as husband and wife. Given under my hand and the seal of the said county of Jefferson, at Steubenville, the third day of November, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and three. JOHN WARD, Clerk," Archibald Cole an family removed to Barnesville in 1815. He is said to have been the first carpenter and cabinet-maker to "take up" a permanent location in the place. He worked at the trade for many years, served as class leader in the M. E.' church for several years, and died in 1855, nearly eighty-three years of age. His wife died in 1852, nearly sixty-four years of age. John Cole was married in 1846, to Harriet Hibbard, of Caleb and Matilda Hibbard, nee Stowe, of Harrison county. She died in 1873, in the forty-ninth year of her age. ABRAHAM KELLEY was born in Hollidaysburg, Blair county, Pa., August 22, 1839. When quite a small child his parents removed to Huntingdon, and from thence to Pittsburgh, where they both died, leaving our subject an orphan. He had sisters, however, old enough to perform the, household duties, and he and they kept house, When he was eleven years old they moved to Salesville and lived there for two years ; then for about the same period of time at Quaker City, and in August, 1854, came to Barnesville. In 1856, our subject began the trade of a saddler with N. Patterson, with whom he served four years ; worked as journeyman a year longer ; enlisted to serve in the war of the rebellion, August 8, 1862 ; was a member of company B, 126th 0. V. I.; and served till June 25, 1865. He was in a number of engagements ; was a prisoner several times, and underwent many hardships and privations. After his return he again worked for Mr. Patterson some four years, and since has been in an establishment of his own. He married Anna Leeks, November 15,1863, who died several years afterward, and he then married her sister, Sarah J. Leeke, on the 28th of November, 1878. RICHARD E. FRASIER.—He is a native of Culpepper county, Virginia, and was born on the 4th of March, 1804. His parents Were James and Sarah Frasier. The latter was a daughter of Richard Evans, a companion of William Penn. Wm. Frasier, the father of James, came to Delaware a few years prior to the revolution. James E. Frasier and family came to Belmont county on the 24th of December, 1817, and located on a tract of land near St. Clairsville. He died in 1846, nearly seventy years of age. With the exception of six months as a soldier in the war of 1812 (in which his son Thomas served ten days), his life was that of a quiet firmer. His wife died in 1853, nearly eighty-three years of age. Of their children, Elizabeth, Phoebe, Richard E , Alsinda, Juliann, Emily and William are living and Thomas, Townsend, James, Whalen and Mary are dead. Richard • E. was a farmer till 1841, at which time he removed to Barnesville, and for nineteen and a half years we find him engaged in store keeping. In 1862 he purchased a private residence form- erly known as the Piper House, renovated and enlarged the same, and it has since been known as the Frasier [louse. He was married in 1840 to Eliza Cowgill, daughter of Ralph and Mary Cowgill, One child, Worthington, is the only living issue of the union. JOSEPH F. Du Bois was born in Belmont county, Ohio, April 20, 1837. He was reared on a farm, Married Lydia Gregg, a daughter of Abner Gregg, February 1, 1860, Mr. Du Bois has made various removals since his marriage, but has resided most of the time in his native county. In 1866 he removed to Barnesville, Ohio, where be yet resides. On June 1, 1878, he opened a coal bank on the farm of John W. Kennon, which is known as the narrow-gauge coal works. They are situate on the Barnesville and Hendrysburg turnpike, about one mile north of Barnesville. The vein is font- feet• thick, and the coal is of a superior quality. ANNIE E. BAILEY, daughter of John H. Piper, was born in Barnesville, Ohio, September 23, 1842, and on the 29th of November, 1859, married William C. Bailey. Mr. Bailey was first lieutenant. of Company A, 4th Regiment W. Va. V. I., in the Rebellion. At the expiration of sixteen months his health failed him, on account of which he was discharged. In the spring of 1861 they removed to Gallipolis, Ohio, and two years later returned to Barnesville, where Mr. Bailey departed this life December 9, 1874, leaving his wife and one daughter, Ada E., to mourn his loss. Mrs. Bailey was assistant in the post office for four years, and is engaged in the millinery and fancy goods trade at present on Main street. G. W. HANCE was born in Barnesville October 3, 1848. He is a shoemaker by trade; learned the same of N. Patterson, with whom he served two years, and then worked as a journeyman for four years. The first shop he kept for himself' was on Arch street, and in May, 1877, came to his present location on Main. Our subject served as a private in the Rebellion. Enlisted in the fall of 1864 and served till the close of the war in Company D, 60th Regiment 0. V. I. Married Martha 'Tinton on December 22, 1870. THOMAS D. MARIS was born in Belmont county, Ohio ; received a common school education, and learned the stone-cutting trade with I. Rutter, of Barnesville. On the 15th of February, 1855, he was united in marriage to Miss Rachel A. Fisher, daughter of John H. and Mary Fisher, who was born January 30,1837. By this union were two daughters, viz : Mary 11., who was born November 26, 1856, and died January 6, 1861; Allis E., was born March 16, 1858. After his marriage he resided in Somerset until 1866, when he removed to Illinois. He was taken sick, and after an absence of about three months returned to Barnesville, Ohio, where he died April 21, 1866. His widow survives him. JOHN BRADFIELD, SR., was born March 23, 1813, at Knavesboro, County of York, England. Emigrated to America, May 6, 1827, and landing at Baltimore, June 18th of the same year. He arrived at Barnesville, Ohio, in July, locating on a farm in that vicinity the same fall, where he remained until 1841, when he commenced the dry goods business in connection with the purchase of tobacco there and elsewhere. 1 n May, 1842, he married E. A. Shannon, daughter of Thomas Shannon, by whom he became the father of six children, now living—four boys and two girls. Mr. Bradfield is still engaged in the dry goods business, assisted by his first and third sons as partners, at the corner of Main and Chestnut. streets, in the room formerly occupied by James Barnes & Sons. At the time they started there were five stores in the place, Mr. B. is the only one who has continued in business up to the present time, and his store constitutes the largest dry goods house in the town. His transactions in tobacco amount to thirty or forty thousand dollars annually. He also operated largely in wool from 1865 to 1875, when his sons succeeded him. Mr. B. has never sought official distinction, but whenever his fellow townsmen have seen fit to elect him to offices he has filled them cheerfully, 334 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. C. R. ROWANS—Our subject was born in Belmont county, 0., July 26, 1856; was educated at the Barnesville Union School. At the age of fifteen years began teaching, and taught sixty-seven months in Belmont and Guernsey counties, forty of which were in Bethel district, Warren township. In 1876 he began the study of law with J. II. Collins, and was admitted to the bar January 3, 1878, passing an examination before the Supreme Court of the state. On the first day of April he began practicing. Office, East Main street. EDWARD T. PARKER, son of Thomas C. and Lydia J. Parker, was born September 4, 1844, in Barnesville, where he obtained a common school education. He followed farming till twenty-two years of age, when he began the manufacture of cement, packing of tobacca, general dealer in grain and seeds, white lime, white sand, plaster of paris, stoneware and fertilizers. In 1871, T. C. Parker & Sons built the warehouse, 40x150 feet, at the B. & 0. R. R. station at Barnesville, which is owned at present by our subject and his father. On the 29th of April, 1873, he married Josephine Kennon, daughter of the Hon. John W. Kennon, of Warren township. He is the father of three children : William K., Blanche T. and Harry W. Residence on North Chestnut street, Barnesville. MARX ALBERT was born in Prussia, June 26,1823: His father being a butcher, his son Marx learned the same trade. At the age of seventeen years he was taken into the cavalry and served six years. In 1844, he began at the military school at Berlin, where he remained two years, and then served for a time in the regular army. Emigrated to America in 1847, remained in New York for a short time and then came to Wheeling, where he remained till 1849, and then removed to Monroe county, 0. In December, of the same year, he married Melissa Gaits, In 1869, he came to Barnesville and completed the building in which he resides at present, and began keeping hotel. WILLIAM H. BARNES, grandson of James Barnes, the founder of Barnesville, and was born in this place, December 24, 1839. In 1861, enlisted as a private in company B, 3d regiment, 0. V. I., and served until April, 1863, when he lost his left foot in the battle of Stone River. On the 15th of December, 1868, he was married to Orrell A. Vance. Our subject is a photographer. He first began to learn his trade with his father-in-law, with whom he stayed till 1874, when he opened a gallery on Arch street. Came to his present location on Main street, in the spring of 1876. HEZEKIAH BAILEY, son of Micah and Mary Bailey, was born in Warren township, October 23. 1821. He obtained a common school education, and was reared a farmer. Married Elizabeth Bundy, daughter of William and Sarah Bundy, December 31, 1845, by whom he became the parent of seven children—Sarah, October 15, 1846 ; Mary, November 16, 1848 ; Demsey, February 5, 1851. Melvina, May 6, 1g54; Almeda, March. 8, 1856; Adaline, August 26, 1858 ; Lucinda, January 9, 1864. All are living but one--Melvina. They resided where Daniel Stanton now lives from the time of their marriage till Mr. B.,s death, which' occurred October 19, 1872, when Mrs. Bailey removed to Barnesville, where she now resides. Residence on Bast Main street. JAMES SHANNON PARKER was born in Warren township, Belmont county, Ohio, October 7, 1853 , lived on a farm till fifteen years of age; when he began teaching school and taught for three years. In 1871 he removed to Fort Smith, Arkansas, where his brother lives, and was crier in the United States court there for four months. His brother Isaac C. is United States Judge of the Western District of that state. From thence he removed to St. Louis, where he remained some two years and became collector for the Missouri & Pacific Railroad, and then returned to Belmont county, Ohio. Married Lydia A. Barnes December 24,1877, by whom he is the lather of one son, Frederick W. He started a grocery and provision store on Main Central, Barnesville, in 1877. ELI KENNARD, son of William and Rachel Kennard, was born near Mt, Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio, February 23, 1816. His father migrated to Jefferson county about 1814, from Bucks county, Pa. Eli was his only child from his first wife. He was. a Friend minister and did a great deal of traveling in the cause of that church. After remaining there for about three years, they moved to Colerain township, Belmont county where they lived until 1824, and thence to Monroe county, where Jerusalem now is, and in 1854 to Somerton, this county. About three years later they located in Warren township, two .miles east of Barnesville, where he died in 1862, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, and at which place his widow resides. Our subject received a liberal education in common schools and at Mt. Pleasant. He used to teach occasionally. On the 3d of April, 1844, he married Mary Edgerton, daughter of James and Anna Edgerton, who were early pioneers of the county. This union resulted in nine children—Anna, William, Jesse D., Mary E Rachel (who is dead) Abbie W., Sarah, Alfred E. and Elizabeth. William and Jesse are married, the former residing in Philadelphia, and the latter in Iowa. Eli resided awhile at Jerusalem after his marl iage, then in Somerton, and in 1856 removed to Barnesville, where he lived for eight. years, and then went to Linn county, Iowa, remaining there four years. After the expiration of that time, returned to Barnesville, and here resided ever since. In 1852 or 1853 he became a partner of Israel Palmer, who was a tinner, and by so doing learned the trade, which he has been engaged in the greater part of his time since. In 1857 he began the hardware- business in connection with his trade, which continued until 1864. His shop is located on Arch street, Barnesville, Ohio. ALLEN FLOYD.—The subject of this sketch was born in Belmont county on the 30th of December, 1822, and is a son of Michael and Elizabeth Floyd, nee Allen. Hie father was a native of Marion county, Virginia, and his mother a native of Greene county, Pa. His grandfather, Henry Floyd, was a sol- dier of the revolution, serving in the Continental army eight years. and afterwards followed farming in Marion county, Va., where he died about the year 1839. Michael Floyd followed farming for fifty years and died in .1853, aged 69 years. Hie wife died in 1855, aged 67. Our subject raised a company of volunteers for the 176th 0 V. I. in 1864, to serve in the war against the rebellion, accomplishing the same in three weeks, time, and Served as captain for one year. After his return from the war he located in Barnesville, where he has resided ever since. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Harper in the year 1848, and is the parent of four children, three of whom are living. He is at present a Justice of the Peace—having served nine years in that capacity in Noble county, and seven years in Barnesville. HENRY STANTON was born, June 27, 1847. He was reared ti farmer. Married Mary Bailey, March 8, 1871 by whom he be" came the parent of one child. JOHN W. STEPHENS, SR., was born near Frankfort, Germany, November 4, 1820, and when twelve years of age his parents emigrated to America, stopping in Wheeling a few months, and then removed to Belmont county, Ohio. When fourteen years of age our subject began merchandizing. He married Catharine Dirolf, of Columbus, September 6, 1846, after which he removed to Athens county, Ohio, and embarked in the dry goods trade. He continued this for five years, removed to Wheeling and sold stoves for four years, then came to Barnesville in 1855, and continued the sale of stoves till 1863, when he engaged in the liquor trade, which he still continues. In 1873 he began the manufacture of cigars, and expects to make it a specialty in the future. M. N. CRAWFORD, a native of Washington county, Pa., was born March 5, 1809, and when a small child his parents removed to Jefferson county, Ohio, and located near Smithfield. He studied medicine) with Dr. Leslie, and practiced the same for many years. He married Mary A. Laws, of Barnesville, December 11, 1834, whose parents came to this place in the fall of 1815. Her father was a justice of the peace for twenty consecutive years, and a class leader in the M. E. Church for thirty years. In 1864 they removed to Iowa, where Mr. Crawford died February 26, 1865, and also two of his daughters. His widow removed to Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1867, where one of her sons died. In April, 1869, she returned to Barnesville, where she has since resided. One son served against the Rebellion. Of nine children, three sons and six daughters, three daughters alone survive. Residence on North Chestnut street. JOHN W. STEPHENS was born in Wheeling, W. Va„ December 8, 1849, and when young his parents removed to Barnesville. Fie learned the trade of a jeweler, and, after working in Wheeling, Cincinnati and Columbus for several years, returned to HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 335 Barnesville in 1873, and has been working at his trade ever bee. His stoke is on South Chestnut street. He married Martha E. Campbell July 8, 1874. EDWARD T. HANLON, son of William Hanlon, was born in Cross Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio, April 5, 1838. His lather was a native of New York state, and moved to Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1825; married Elizabeth Duvall in arch, 1828, by whom he became the parent of ten children, four &whom served against the Rebellion, viz. : William H., Samuel 1., Oliver C., and Edward T., our subject. Samuel was killed .t Peach Tree creek, Georgia, July 19, 1864; Oliver died in West Virginia. When our subject was but a child his parents 'moved to New Alexandria, Jefferson county, and, as he was weakly and unfit for labor, he attended school most of the time. He taught school a number of terms, and finally his health bceame so poor that he went to Illinois, and for two years traveled through many parts of the west. In the fall of 1859 he remowned to Jefferson county and began. the study of medicine, which he continued till the opening of the war, in 1861. He enisted as a private August, 1862, in Company E, 52d Regiment O. V. I., and served till May, 1865. After his return from the war he embarked in merchandizing with his brother in Barnesville. In the spring, 1876, he came to his present location on arch street, where he keeps a grocery and provision store. He married Nancy Daniels, a descendant of the Danfords, July, 10, 1873. ISAAC PERRY was born in Belmont county, Ohio, July 15, 1823. When two years of age his father died, and he lived with Christian Baker until sixteen years old. He them began to learn the trade of making wagons with Jonas Bernhard, of Morristown; with whom he served five years. In 1845 he came to Barnesville and began labor in a shop of his own and continued till 1849, when he began work for James McLish, for Whom he continued five years. In 1865 he erected a shop on -South street, west of Chestnut, where he yet holds forth, manufacturing farm and spring wagons, wheelbarrows, sleds and harrows; does repairing, painting, &e. On February 4, 1847, he married Sarah E. Piper. RUDOLPH GAMENTHALER, a native of Switzerland, was born it 1834. In 1850, he began the trade of a jeweler and in 1862, removed to Besanson, France, where he remained for six years and then emgrated to America, locating in Barnesville, 0., November, 1868. Fpr and some five months he worked in a shop on Chestnut street and then came to his present location on Main street. He married Ellen Sieverling, February 5, 1874. At the age of twenty-three years he began muster according to the laws of Switzerland and followed it for six years, and was in actual military service for some four months. FRANK R. LYLES was born in Warren township, Belmont county, Ohio, October 18, 1843. He followed farming until he arrived at the age of twenty-two years, when he began as a druggist in Wheeling, where he remained one year. He then located in Barnesville, continuing the drug business. He married Carrie A. Graligny, of Beallsville, Ohio, December 25, 1871. The names and births of his children are as follows: Alma, No. vember 10, 1872 ; Maud M., December 20; 1875 ; William A., April 13, 1877. 110 has been engaged as a grocer since 1872. He built the property he now occupies on Main street, some three years since. ROBERT M. CONNER was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, June 2, 1823. When eighteen years old he began the trade of a tanner. This he has followed the principal portion of his life; married Agnes Marquis, of Morgan county, Ohio, in 1844; he is the father of seven children. He has lived in different places in Ohio; came to Barnesville in 1873, and began work in the Lanyard of William Reed, Sr., where he still remains. J. M. GARDNER.—He was born in Barnsville in 1827. His parents were Joseph and Susannah Gardner, nee Brookbank. They were married in 1804, and removed to Barnesville in 1815. Joseph Gardner will be remembered as one of the first shoemakers in Barnesville. He "stuck to the last" till 1833, and from that date till death was a farmer. He died September 3, 1840, fifty-nine years of age ; his wife October 19, 1850, sixty years of' age. The children were: Nancy, deceased ; Louisa, deceased; Wesley, deceased ; Rev..Asbury ; Emily, deceased ; Maria, deceased ; Rebecca; George, deceased; Susan, deceased; Julia and J. M. Gardner. The latter has been a farmer, packer and shipper of tobacco. He has served as city clerk, township clerk, justice of the peace (twelve years), mayor of Barnesville, and is acting at present as notary public. CHARLES H. LITTLE was born in Allegheny county, Pa., November 29, 1851. When three years of age his parents removed to Nashville, Tennessee, where our subject learned the trade of a carriage maker. Young Little served as an independent scout in the rebel army for one year, under General Vandorn. For quite a number of years he worked as a journeyman in many different places. In 1876, he located in Barnesville, where he still pursues his trade. He married Maggie Armstrong, of Wheeling, September 2, 1874. ABRAHAM C. HOGUE, a native of Jefferson county, Ohio, was born in a log cabin near what is known as the " Rock Houses," on the 7th of April, 1826. His parents removed to Mt. Pleasant whilst he was hut a mere child. Here he received a common school education, and at the age of eighteen he began to learn carding and spinning, He served an apprenticeship of three years, and after having finished his trade he worked as a journeyman, working at various places. In the spring of 1851, he found his way to Hendrysburg, Belmont county, and engaged with Taylor, Tidball & Co., remaining in their employ three years. During this period he formed the acquaintance of Cynthia Sells, whom on the 28th of March, 1854, he led to the marriage altar. After this he rented a woolen factory on Wheeling creek, Ohio, conducted it for nine months and then returned to Hendrysburg, where he was made superintendent of the " Effort Mills," for two years, and then became a partner, remaining as such for tour years. In 1865, he removed to Barnesville, and in partnership with William Barlow, started the Barnesville Woolen Mills, which he is still operating. Mr. H. assisted in weaving the first figured silk ever manufactured in the United States, and also assisted in organizing the primitive Odd Fellows' lodge in Belmont county. G. V. RIDDLE, dentist, was born in Washington county, Pa., December 1, 1847. In 1860, his father removed to Guernsey county, Ohio. Our subject attended Mt. Union College for a while, and has devoted a great deal of his time to teaching, having taught some forty-two months. One year (1868) he taught in Illinois, and the balance of the time in Guernsey county, Ohio. In September, 1875, he married Maggie McCall, of Cambridge, formerly of Belmont county. In July, 1876, he began the study of dentistry with Dr. Hunter, of Cambridge, with whom he remained until 1878 and then located on Main street, Barnesville, Ohio. MOSES W. EDGAR was born in Greene county, Pa., in 1838. When a small boy his parents removed to Monroe county, Ohio. Mr. Edgar enlisted as a private, September 19,1862, in company C, 116th O. V. 1., and served till the close of the war. Ho married Catharine Clegg, April 22, 1860, who died June 16, 1861. He then married Sarah M. Watt, January 31, 1867, and came to Barnesville, April 15, 1867. The principal work of his life has been operating a saw mill. WARREN TOWNSHIP.* At the commencement of the present century Warren township was a wilderness. The woods, in rich and native grandeur, stood monarchs of its hills and valleys. The prostrate bodies of great trees, which age or storm had felled, lay scattered over its surface, while about and around their mouldering forms vines crept and wound, giving them prouder sepulchre than pomp and show ever bestowed on prince or noble. Wild beasts roamed undisturbed through its jungles, or lodged in safety amid the security of its fastnesses. The axe of the pioneer had never gleamed in its sunlight, nor had the voice of song or utterance of love ever broken the depths of its silence. How great the change in seventy-nine years! FIRST SETTLERS. The first settlers within the limits of Warren township were: John Grier, George Shannon, and John Dougherty, with their families. They all removed from Fayette county, Pennsylva- * From Barnesville Enterprise of 1869—R. King Bennett Articles. 336 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. nia, and arrived almost at one time in the township in the fall of 1800. John Grier settled on the north end of section 9, and erected his cabin, the first one ever built in the township, about one hundred yards northeast of where Robert Smith, Sr., now resides. George Shannon settled on section 12, and built his cabin on the farm now owned by Mrs. Thomas Moore, a fourth of a mile north of Mt. Olivet. John Dougherty settled on section 18, near the residence of Mr. Vansyoc. In the fall of 1801 Robert Plummer arrived and settled on a part of section 10, about half a mile north of John Grier's cabin. Plummer was the first "Quaker" that settled in the township. His first cabin was built of poles, chinked with moss, and covered with bark. In it he passed the first winter in the township. His descendants still run the old farm. During the year 1802 Plummer set apart an acre of ground on the south edge of section 10 as a burial ground, with the intention of donating it to the "Friends" as a site also for their meeting-house. They once contemplated building their church on this ground, but ultimately built it where the Friends' Stillwater Church now stands. On this acre was the first burial ground in the township, and was called "The Township Graveyard" or "Cemetery "—a name which it still bears. Emigrants now began to crowd into the township, settling along its eastern and northern portions, and so numerous were their numbers that I cannot notice them in detail. Among them was Otho French. He came with his family from the state of Maryland, and settled on the south side of section 10 in the fall of 1802. In the winter of 1802-3, in the month of January, George Shannon perished in one of the severest snow storms that ever visited the township of Warren. He wont out early in the morning on a hunting excursion. "The morning," said Otho French, the informant, "was clear and calm, with the sun shining brightly. About noon the sky was overspread by clouds, and rain began to fall. The air chilled and it began to snow. And such a snow I never saw before nor since. it fell so fast that I could not tell a cow from a horse twenty steps from me. The very clouds seemed to be falling down in snowflakes. When nearly sundown it became bitterly cold, but remained calm. By daylight the next morning the snow was nearly waist deep. I was out of all heart, and told Betsey that if we lived till spring we,d go back to old Maryland. (But when spring came on, and the ground settled so that I could venture on my journey, the country had got to be so pretty and enticing that I concluded to stay.) Shannon did not get home that night, so search was made for him the next day, and his body found about six hundred yards due east of Chaneytown, now Mt. Olivet, and only about a half mile from his cabin. From the appearance of his tracts, he had become bewildered and lost. he had walked around and around as men always do when lost. He had gathered some dry sticks and had got out his tow and knife to strike a fire, but the flint bad been lost from his gun. Flint, tow and knife were his only means to strike a tire. So in despair he seated himself 'at the roots of a tree in the centre of his beaten circle, and was found sitting up, frozen stiff. His remains were buried in the "Township Graveyard," and were the first ever consigned to the grave in Warren township. He was only a lease holder, but although his children were left orphans and poor, they became conspicuous among their countrymen—filling the offices of governor, congressmen, minister to foreign courts, and members of the state legislatures." Until the year 1800, the pioneers of Warren township were nearly all Quakers from the states of North Carolina, Maryland and Pennsylvania. In the year 1803, a cabin was erected by James Vernon, a few rods from the Township Graveyard, and in it convened during that year a " Friends' meeting." It was the first gathering for religious worship in the township. Ruth Boswell preached a sermon, and other business was transacted. FIRST MEETING HOUSE. In the spring of 1804, the Quakers built a log meeting house about the middle of section (9) nine, near where the "Stillwater Church" now stands. This was the first house erected for Christian worship in Warren township, and Ruth Boswell preached the first sermon within its walls. The first person buried at " Stillwater Graveyard " was Eupherma Mendenhall, in the pear 1804. The brick church was erected in the year 1812, and the aged and venerable Hosea Doudna, Sr., was its first steward, which office he held worthily for many years. This church ground has been occupied by the " Friends " since 1804, and over seven thousand meetings for worship have been held there by that religious denomination. Out from its influence has come the greater part of the moral dignity of the township, and throughout the west its power for good has been felt. FIRST SETTLERS WEST OF BARNESVILLE. The first settler in Warren township, west of Barnesville was Henry Grier, brother of John Greer, aforementioned. he Caine to the township with his family from Fayette, county, Pa., and located on a section west of Barnesville, in the year 1804. Ile erected his cabin on the south side of the Pultney road, at the foot of the hill just west of Mr. Vance's residence. His son Thomas was then a boy in his fifteenth year and resided till his death upon the lands then taken up by his father. At the time of his decease ho was the oldest pioneer resident of the township. In the spring of 1806, Alexander Campbell, with his family, removed from near Winchester, Va., and settled on what is new known as the Wilson farm, in Guernsey county, just over the Warren township line. At the house of Henry Grier he had to leave the Pultney road to reach his lands, and so was compelled to cut a road through the woods to them. Arriving at his farm still in a state of nature, he camped in the woods, putting his most valuable articles, for safety, in a large hollow elm. Beyond his camp about half a mile west, was a party of Indians. A large number of these Indians came to Campbell's tent to pay their respects to him and afforded much amusement by their wild pranks to the Campbell youngsters. The same spring, John Kennon, father of Judge Kennon, Sr., camped for settlement on an adjoining tract of land, a little north of Campbell. The Judge was then a little fellow, only a few years old. Campbell, a few years later, moved into Warren township on the farm subsequently owned by his son Robert. It was on this :farm that Judge Kennon, when a young man, grubbed and cleared lands for money with which to educate himself A GOOD TRICK, Mr. Alexander Campbell, who died in Barnesville in 1868, W38 the son of Alexander Campbell aforementioned. Aleck, as be was called throughout life,. was, when a young man, a noted bee hunter. He had a private mark which he put on all the bee trees he happened to discover. Judge Kennon and Gov. Shill:. non by some means became acquainted with Aleck's private ate mark and felled the trees just as fast as he marked them, getting all the honey and then twitting Aleck about the robbery. Aleck, them saw the game being played and determined to turn the joke on He had an extraordinary power to conceal his real feelings and convictions ; so appearing not to suspicion either of them as the disturbers of his trees, he changed his mark the next season for his real bee trees, and hunting out the largest and toughest trees to be found in the surrounding woods, he put his old mark on them and awaited events. Kennon and Shannon suspecting no cheat, proceeded to cut down about a dozen trees having Aleck's old. mark, finding no honey, nor even a bee on any ef them. It was now Aleck's time to laugh—but his bee trees were never afterward interferred with by Kennon and Shannon. They always after that occasion, called him "cute Aleck "—too cute indeed for them that time, FIRST MILLS. Anterior to the year 1800, the pioneers of Warren township had to grind their corn in hand mills, or crack it on hominy blocks. What little flour they had and it was then a luxury—was purchased at Wheeling, and transported home on pack horses. Salt, for which six dollars per bushel were paid, " had to be gone for'' to St. Clairsville, and blacksmithing was " done for them on the old Wheeling road, near Morristown. And the two days' work upon the roads were performed on ways from six to eight miles distant. In the summer of 1806,a horse mill was put up by Joseph Middleton, on the Thomas Lisle farm, In section fifteen, about half a mile southeast of the site of Barnesville. It stood near where the old orchard on that farm is situated about one hundred yards northwest of the dwelling house. So completely did its machinery operated, that one horse could easily grined a grist of corn or wheat upon it. The first water mill was erected in 1807 by Camm Thomas, on section one, near. The first watermill was erected in 1807 by Camm Thomas, on section one, near HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 337 where Slabtown now stands, and three and a half miles south-, east of Barnesville: It was moved by an overshot wheel, and did good work. This was for eight years the onlywater-mill in the township. All traces 'of it, have long since passed away, except the race, which conducted the waters of Captina creek to the wheel. This. still remains, well defined. In. connection with this mill, was a saw-mill, the first in the township. FIRST CHILDREN. The first child born in Warren township, was Wilson Shannon, son of George Shannon, whose birth occurred in the year 1802, on the Moore farm, near Mt; Olivet. He, too, when a young man, grubbed, cleared lands, dug ginseng, and hunted furs to acquire means to prosecute his education. He subsequently rose to eminence as a lawyer, practicing that profession for over twenty years in Belmont county. He was twice elected a governor of Ohio, once to congress, was minister to Mexi- co, and was also. governor of Kansas.. Subsequently he practiced his profession in Atchison, in the latter state. He was the most eminent of all the native born sons of Warren township, and the only one who achieved national reputation. The first child born, and still living in the township, is Edmund Hays, who resides a few miles northwest of Barnesville. FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE. The " Friends." erected. the first school house in the township. It was erected in the year 1806, and was on section one, on the ridge between the Hezekiah Bally farm and the present school house in district number. One. Samuel Berry was the first teacher thereat, and hence was the first person who followed that profession in Warren township. WARREN TOWNSHIP ORGANIZED. Warren township was made a voting place in the winter of 1806-7. Before that time the resident voters had to go to Kirk- wood township to deposit their ballots. The first election in Warren was held at John Grier,s cabin, and took place. in the spring of 1807. At that election John (drier was elected justice of the peace—the first ever elected for the township. He was not sworn into office until 1809. Three successive elections were held at John Grier's cabin—one in the spring of 1807, other in the fall of that year, and the last in the spring of 1808. FIRST JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. The first five justices of the peace were: John Grier, Jacob Myers, 'David 'Smith, John • Dougherty, and Jesse Bevan, who were elected in the .order named: Warren had but one jus- tice---John Grier—until 1811, when by order of court she became entitled to two; and Jacob Myers was elected to the station. The township continued to have only two justices until 1818, when, at the March term of the Common Pleas, it was ordered "that Warren township be entitled to an additional justice of the peace." AN OLD RESIDENCE. An event occurred in Warren township in the winter of 1806-7 which presents the privations of the pioneer in so strong a light that we arc constrained to present it to our readers. Jesse Bailey, a Quaker, from the state of North Carolina, arrived in the township late in the fall of. that year. He had not. time to .build a cabin before hard .weather would set in; so looking about for some place in which to winter,. he found, situate on the lands now Awned by Jesse Judkins, in section 27, rock, the upper ledge of which projected out beyond its fellows, from fifteen to twenty feet. He immediately. determined to turn it to his advantage. Splitting Out some puncheons he placed them upright, enclosing a space even with the edge of the out-cropping rock: In one corner, the rocks were so formed as to make the part of a natural 'chimney. Topping this out with four puncheons, like a funnel, and daubing its sides with clay mud, formed a fine outlet for . the smoke. In this structure,: he and his family passed the winter. Timid deer, frightened, bounded away from its ungainly front by day. At night wolves howled around his humble mansion, bears came and clawed at the door, and wildcats, on the limbs of the adjacent trees, screamed at the unwelcome intrusion, but Bailey, secure within, lived through the winter in comparative comfort. 43-B. & J.Cos. DRAFT OF 1814. Omitting for the present a period,. the record of which more properly belongs to the history of Barnesville, we invite attention to events ()mitring during the war .of 1812. 'There were no• volunteers from the township ill that war. Drafts were resorted to, however, to fill up the depleted ranks of the national army. The quota for the township in the call of 1814, was eight. men. To raise the men a draft took place, and the following persons were chosen, to-wit: Thomas Grier, a son of Henry Grier ; John and William Douglas, (brothers of George Douglas) ; Thomas and Robert Grier, sons of John Grier ; John Dougherty, Jr. ; and John and Thomas Shannon. They were assigned to a company, which formed a part of a regiment raised in the counties east of the Muskingum river, and south of the Harrison County line, and which was commanded by Colonel Thomas DeLong, late of Guernsey county, Ohio as Shannon was elected captain, Robert. Grier was appointed ensign, and Thomas Grier orderly sergeant of the company. The regiment did duty at and about Lower Sandusky, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. THE WAR FEELING IN 1832. As illustrative. of the war spirit, we will give an ino.ident; which although appearing out of the proper chronological arrangement, is indicative of the patriotism of the citizens :oil nearly fifty. years ago. In, 1832, Michigan set up a claim to three counties, rightfully belonging to Ohio, at het northwest, corner, and actually marshaled some cowardly militiamen to enforce her claims. Ohio's governor, Robert Lucas, resolved to meet force. with force, and so issued a call for volunteers, intimating that if they were not forthcoming, a draft would ensue. The military authorities of Warren determined on a day to obi tarn, if possible, her proportion. There resided in this township a well-to-do farmer named. Robert Ogg, who had two sons liable to do duty. .Everybody predicted that the Ogg boys would not volunteer, and if drafted,, the old man would hire substitutes. The day of trial came. The men liable to duty were put in ranks, and the governor,s call read. Captain Farley walked to the front, with drawn sword glistening, glazed hat shining, and a gay plume waving, dressed. the company, demanded attention, and called out. "All who are willing to volunteer will step three paces to the front of the company."' None moved to the front save the Ogg boys. The old man, who stood by, with deep emotion cried out : "Come, men,, let there be no draft in old Warren.!" With a hurrah, the whale company sprang into line wit h the Ogg boys; and:the township had her men ready. WILD TURKEYS AND OTHER GAME. Bears were numerous within the limits of Warren townships and a large number of them were killed by the pioneers. Deer were very plenty, and wild cats, panthers and wolves were abundant.. The wild turkey, if the narratives of such men as Otho. French and Thomas. Grier can be relied upon (and who ever doubted them), existed here in almost incredible numbers. Otho French and a fellow hunter, once saw a flock of turkeys wandering about the base of the hill now known as the "Knob field," north of Barnesville, which they estimated to contain fully two thousand turkeys. Thomas Grier, at another time, saw a flock of them at least a mile long, and 'so thick along the concave ridge on which they were assembled, as to make the hillside black with them. At. another time, Otho French was returning. home from at hunt with his 'horse loaded with turkeys. Their noise attracted the attention of a. large flock in the woods. They crowded around his horse in such numbers that he could scarcely make headway' through them, and came up so close to the horse's sides that he could readily knock them over with a stick*. THE FIRST CULTIVATION OF TOBACCO The cultivation of tobacco in Ohio, was began in Warren: township, in the year 1819 by Rev. John D. Price. Mr. Price was born. in Calvert county, Maryland, and belonged to that class cal led in the slave states, the "poor whites." In 1817, he concluded to seek a home in the west for himself and family, where they would no longer be cursed by the blight of slavery. He made a choice of Warren township, and .arrived therein the fall of the saute year. He passed the first winter in a house whick is still standing 338 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. on the farm of Mr. Broomhall, in section (16) sixteen, then school lands. During the winter he purchased a lease of a part of this section, of a Nathaniel Caperell, and in the spring of 1818 removed to it. Mr. Prices observations for that year led him to the conclusion that tobacco could be grown on his lands, and that too with profit, He sent to Calvert county, Maryland, for seed, and in the year 1819, planted the first tobacco crop raised in Warren township, it being also the first in the state. It grew on the field north of the residence on the Joseph Bond farm. Mr. Price himself packed this crop, being assisted by John Davenport, shipped it to Baltimore, and received a large price for it. His two sons, Wesley and Nelson, who still reside in the town- ship, assisted in tilling this crop of tobacco. Wesley, with the exception of the year 1832, has annually raised a crop of tobacco since the pioneer crop afore mentioned. Mr. Price was soon able to enter a quarter section (160 acres) in section (31) thirty-one, upon which he resided till the time of his death, which occurred in 1850. Before his migration to Ohio, he was a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church, and though he changed his place of residence, did not waver in his religious opinions, or modify his. relations to that denomination. In the year 1825 or 1826, he was ordained an elder in the church by Bishop McKendree, which office he filled while he lived. As soon as Mr. Price had located on his new farm in section (31) thirty-one, he began a movement to erect a house of worship for the Methodists of the neighborhood. His efforts, united with those of John Reed, also one of the pioneers of Methodism in this part of Ohio, resulted successfully. The house was built and called BETHEL CHURCH. Mr. Price donated a half acre of his farm for a church site and graveyard. This meeting house was erected in the year 1832. Peter Hamilton and John Hays performed the entire work of its construction, and the first sermon was .preached in it in the fall of 1832, by the Rev. Avery West, at the special invitation of Mr. Price. (These notes apply exclusively to the old log church.) Before the erection of this church, the Methodists of that part of the township held their meetings for worship at the dwelling of John Reed, almost on the very spot where the residence of Isaac Reed now stands in section (31) thirty-one. The first person buried in the Bethel graveyard, was Thomas Price, son of Rev. John D. Price, and his remains were deposited there in 1832. ZANE'S RIDGE. In a short time after the treaty of Greenville, the Zanes, of Wheeling, who were sportsmen of a high order, with some associates of the merry class, began to make hunting excursions into the wilds of Belmont county. Game at that time was plenty everywhere within its limits, but being led on by a desire for the adventurous, they pushed there expiditions into Warren township, and made a permanent camping ground on the top of the bill, overlooking the valley of the Leatherwood, a few hundred yards southwest of the present residence of Hugh Douglas, in section (26) twenty-six. Here bear, deer and turkeys, together with all other animals native of the country, were very abundant, Being fully remunerated for their labors, and at the same time completely gratifying their ambition for the hazardous, they continued their visits to this location for many- years, always pursuing the same road in their approach to it. After the "Old Wheeling" road was opened out, they followed that to a point a little east of Hendrysburg; hero deflecting to the south, they continued up a branch of the Stillwater., to the point of the ridge close to the dwelling of John B. Phillips, in section (22) twenty-two ; thence winding with the top of the ridge to the permanent camping grounds previouly mentioned The latter still retains traces of their fires and wanderings, and their pathway to it was well marked until a few years ago, but cultivation of the lands over which it passed has almost wholly obliterated it. The repeated comings and goings of this party, gave in very early times a local celebrity to the ridge along which they passed, and on which they camped. This ephemeral fame is fast disappearing out of the public memory, and but few were observers of the exploits of the daring hunters who have stamped there names upon this ridge. SHANNON'S RUN, After the death of George Shannon, the support and cares of his family fell upon his oldest sons, Thomas and John, and they proved equal to the charge. Although mere boys, they were industrious, economical and good managers. The family was well supported, and its younger members reared with commendable circumspection. They were stout boys, most excellent choppers, and for the times made money rapidly. They cleared lands for their neighbors, and devoted their energies to whatever would bring them gains, and in a short time had lauds of their own. They still continued to clear lands for others in addition to managing their own farms, devoting all their leisure time to hunting and securing furs. With John, hunting became a passion. As Warren township became settled, game retired southward, seeking safety along the margin of Leatherwood, and among the rough hills beyond, but he followed them into their retreats. At night, and on all days unfit for work, he was vigilantly on the hunter's path. But after he entered the lands on which his family new reside, he was too remote from the game territory, to carry on hunting with success ; so he put up a shanty on the Nuzum farm, in section (33) thirty-three, in which to pass the nights, and as a shelter from storms. He afterward cut out a road for a horse and sled from his house to the shanty. This horseway is still visible at many points between the two places. He continued these hunting operations for over twenty years, and though all remains of his shanty have long since passed away, yet this circumstance has firmly fixed his family name on that branch of the Leatherwood, which heads on the Barnes, farm, in section (33) thirty-three, and empties into the main stream above Spencer's Station. AN ESCAPE. Immediately after the war of 1812, Mr. Shannon got, on a December morning, on the track of a deer, near his house. He made pursuit, and in the afternoon killed it, about a mile or so below the shanty above named. Having skinned the animal, and swung up its body on a sapling, to keep it safe, he went home to obtain a horse and sled to convey it thence. Very late in the afternoon, he and a neighbor boy started for the deer. Wilson Shannon was then a little youngster, and he insisted on going with them, and after much coaxing obtained permission so to do. The little fellow clapped his hands and darted away on the horsepath in a hurrah of delight. About midway between the shanty previously mentioned, and Mr. Shannon's dwelling, and in the very centre of the old Indian fort on the James Nuzum farm, in section (22) twenty-two, he had put up of poles another shanty, as an intermediate resting place. They encountered other game on the way, so that it was nightfall when they arrived at the fort. After consultation, it was concluded to kindle a fire in the shanty, to tuck in the little boy among the bed clothing and skins, and let him remain, until they returned. These things being done, Mr. Shannon aid his friend went on to the shanty on Shannon,s run, to obtain the deer. A heavy snow storm commenced, and the night grw dismally dark, so they determined to remain until morning. Early in the next day, they started for borne through a snow several inches (keg On arriving at the fort, in sight of the shanty, they behold the door down, and in the snow the tracks of a large bear, making directly toward it. But Wilson was nowhere to be seen, In alarm they seized their guns, and cautiously approached the shanty. The tracks continued on directly towards it. They arrived at the door, looked in, and there, safely nestled amid the bear skins, lay the little fellow sound asleep, unconscious of the danger he bad passed, and of the terror of his friends. The bear bad gone to the door, reared up his paws against it, made a circuit about. the shanty, and then struck off to the east, leaving little Wilson unmolested. The jar given the door by the bear's weight, and the force of the wind subsequently, had thrown it down, but after bruin had departed. Having followed the tracks of the bear to a den, inaccessible to their reach, a half mile distant, they returned home, filled with a deeper joy than they bad ever found in the pleasures of the chase. The hardships that Mr. Shannon underwent, and the exposures to which he was subjected, caused a rheumatism that in later years disabled him. He died a few years ago, universally respected. The life and character of John Shannon are examples which every young man would do well to imitate; for in them are exhibited the highest excellence that dignify human nature, and of him it may be truly said, the world is better by his living in it. HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 339 A PREDICTION. For long time the settlement in Belmont and Guernsey counties, clung along the line of the old Wheeling and Putney roads, and emigration being so large that belt of country soon became crowded with inhabitants. Asa consequence, soon game had to be sought for at remote distances. The earliest settlers beheld this pressing out of their favorite sport, with any but agreeable feelings. Hospitable and kind as they universally were to all new comers, yet every fresh arrival brought with it to them, sincere regret, for the reason that it contracted the limits of their hunting ground. Settlers hesitated to go south of the Leatherwood and Captina (Captenon according to the early surveyors' plats and the old authorities) creeks to enter farms, and that region as a result, became the home of the fugitive game driven away by the intrusive settlements of the north. Hence that no one went south of the points indicated to form settlements, was a matter of great grattification to the first pioneers. They often said to each other, "that in the dark hills of Monroe, we shall at least have a permanent hunting region." I remember very vividly a conversation I once heard between Alexander Campbell and John Kennon, who were mentioned in the previous portion of this article. While they were discussing the course of events about them, the rapid and constant disappearance of wild animals for other parts, and sighing for the good old days of wilderness and neighbors, Campbell remarked : "John, game will soon be gone, and we'll have to go on west, or go to living as we did in the east." "I don't think exactly as you do, Aleck," replied Kennon. "We'll only have to go a longer way from 'home to carry on hunts, that's all. That country over there," pointing towards the Monroe region, " will never be settled up, and there we will always find plenty of game." The elegant farms and blooming fields of that locality, gives answer to the mistaken opinion of these worthy pioneers ; but the epithet of dark hill, stills clings to it, notwithstanding its great productions and the general enlightenment of the industrious and energetic inhabitants. OTHO FRENCH Among the first pioneers of Warren township, was Otho French, and as he was conspicuous among them, firmly impressing upon early times some of the peculiarities of his own character, from the many noted incidents in his career we will present a few of the more salient. He was born in Frederick county, Maryland, the 2d of May, 1777, His parents were respectable, but poor, and as a consequence his education was only rudimental. When he was twenty-second year, one of the neighbors, Robert Plummere, aforementioned as one of the earliest settlers in the township, proposed that if Mr.. French would go west with him, and assist him in the selection of some lands for entry, he would assist him to purchase a part of the land so taken up. The proposition was accepted by Mr. French, and in a short time they started for Ohio. Arriving at Marietta they heard such a glowing description of section number 10 of Warren township, that they determined at once to enter it, provided it were not already taken. They employed a guide to point out to them the section line that led to it. Pursuing this line north they reached section (10) ten, which they knew as soon as they saw it, by the faithful description given them at Marietta. They went to Steubenville, made the entry and returned home. Mr. French was married in a short time after his return, and migrated to Belmont county. Mr. Plummer, true to his agreement, sold him a part of section (10) ten on easy terms, and Mr. French began immediately to clear out his farm. At first he put up a cabin, in which he resided for several years. This was succeeded by a hewn-log mansion which is still standing in a fair state of preservation on the farm now owned by his son, Otho French, in section (10) ten. Mr. French, in a very brief period, became an expert hunter, surpassing all competitors, and his fame, in this respect,. was so great that his neighbors, many times, would work in his clearings in order that he might go to kill game for them. In this manner he acquired a most consummate knowledge of the means to secure game. An old acquaintance and relative of Mr. French, has kindly furnished us with some interesting hunting incidents in his life, which we beg leave to present to the reader precisely as they were written by our very worthy correspondent. I - 48 - B & J Cos HUNTING TURKEYS. He says : " Mr. French had two modes for hunting turkeys ; first, the old stratagem of hiding and then calling like one of a flock.. He, however, combined with it a well trained turkey-dog which would scatter the flock ; calling them would bring large numbers of the disturbed flock about his hiding place, thus giving him more numerous chances to kill them. Second, to hunt out their roostings and shoot them by moonlight. He discovered at his first trial by moonlight that to shoot his turkey, the aim must be taken from six to eight inches beyond the point desired to be hit. These nocturnal expeditions were generally successful. " WOLF HUNTING. Of wolf hunting he says: " Mr. French was the most accomplished wolf trapper ever resident in Belmont county. So ex pert did he become in the capture of these animals that he rarely failed, if be set his traps, to catch one of them. The wolf is your sly customer, and can only be caught in a trap by much deception. During the winter of 1815, Mr. French captured six wolves. His traps that winter were set on the Leatherwood, about two and a half miles southwest of Barnesville. His mode of trapping was to place the bait near a stream of water, so that the wolf could not gel, it without crossing the stream front the opposite side. Then we would set the trap under the water, and place a flat stone on the treadle, and lay others a short distance apart from the banks to the trap, for the wolf to step on. He never could catch any unless the trap was set under water. The last one he caught in his traps in the winter of 1815, as soon as it saw Mr. French hid down as quietly as a dog. He thought it was of the kind that they said could be handled like a kitten. French came up and touched it. It showed its teeth. He then reached his hat out to it, which was seized and torn to pieces. Ur. French then determined to take it home alive, Having, with the assistance of a friend, secured and muzzled it, he started home. As he pasred through Barnesville, he caused quite an excitement by having a live wolf tied on his horse behind him. BEE HUNTING. "Mr. French was also a great bee hunter. In early times there was no bee-moth, and the old hives were often very rich in honey. He very frequently obtained as much as twenty to twenty-five gallons from one bee tree. The greatest quantity he ever got from one swarm was found in a limb, the hollow of which was fully ten feet long, and over a foot in diameter. His manner of finding a bee tree, was to place halt in some convenient place, and watch the course of the bees. The bee never goes over a mile in quest of forage. One day when Mr. French was out hunting bees, he had quite an adventure with a wild cat. A STRANGE STORY. "He had placed the bait on the upturned roots of a fallen tree, and was seated on its trunk, awaiting results. Presently he saw a large wild cat and two kittens coming down the hill toward him. He determined that when they were immediately under where he was seated, to jump down and seize the old cat. The kittens saw him and stopped; the old eat gave a mew or two but came on, and when she was right under him, he sprang at her but missed her. She ran a little way and turned. French started on his hands and knees toward her. She growled, stuck up her hairs, snarled, and made several jumps at him., but on he went, thinking that he could manage one wild cat, if he couldn,t whip his weight in them. The old cat stood her ground, until he was within ten feet of her, when she bounded away into the woods. The kittens had already disappeared." BEARS. Mr. French killed a great many bears within the limits of Warren township. Once he found a bear's den in a large poplar. So collecting a number of youngsters to help him cut the tree, they paraded at the spot, in high degree the coming sport. French set his gun against a tree near at nand, but so as to be out of the way of the falling tree. They then commenced cutting down the old poplar. They had not chopped long before they heard some noise up the tree, and looking up, beheld the bear coining down. French thought of his gun, and started for it on the run. The boys thought he was running to escape from the bear, and so cut dirt as fast as their legs would carry 340 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. them. Some of them did not stop until they were out of sight and hearing. French shot tho bear, and had a hearty laugh at the expense of the boys. In all his hunting adventures, he was never injured by any wild animal. The narrowest escape ho ever had was from a wounded buck. A NARROW ESCAPE. He had shot it in the shoulder, and so disabled it that his dog soon brought it to bay. Before he could reload his gun the deer had caught the dog between its horns and pinned him to the ground. French re-loaded his gun as quick as possible, and ran up close, so as to shoot it in the head. As soon as the deer saw him it loosed its hold on the dog, threw its hair all back the wrong way and pitched at French, who barely bad time to level his gun and pull the trigger, before the deer would have been upon him. His shot was fatal, and the buck fell dead at his feet A CURIOUS AFFAIR. "At another time, in the last of December, he wounded another old buck so that his dog soon caught it. While they were fighting, the dog had seized the deer by the top of the head, and was hanging down between its horns. In their strugglings both of the buck's horns fell off, and he became an easy prey. Some may ask why the deer's horns fell off at that particular time ? I answer because it was the time of year for shedding his horns. The deer sheds its horns about New Year's. They grow a new set from six to seven feet long every year, after they are two years old. " AN AFFECTING SCENE. "Mr. French and his father-in-law were out hunting one day but got separated. After awhile French come across an old deer and her fawn, ho shot the old deer and the fawn squatted close to her side. He loaded and fired at it several times, but it did not move. Presently the father-in-law came up aid tried his skill on the fawn, but it remained as motionless as before. So they went up to it and found it alive, and making efforts to get away from them. Every shot had apparently taken effect, yet the love for its mother was so great that it endured all this pain sooner than leave her side.." HIS TEMPERANCE RECORD. We give this in the language of another of his old friends. He says : "The most remarkable feature of Mr. French's life was his persistant, uniform and ceaseless opposition to the use of spiritous liquors as a beverage. There were no circumstances in which he tolerated its use, as such, either by himself or by others, and in this particular has set an example that should be followed by all who teach total obstinence : put in practice yourself, what you preach to others. Do not talk temperance and act whisky." "With the early settlers of Warren, the use of spiritous liquors as a drink was the rule, he who abstained was the exception. Next in importance to the Bible with them, was the whisky jug. At all public gatherings it was drank ; in public and private it was drank; at home and abroad, whisky was the foremost social economizer. Every class and every age indulged in its use, and the religious and the irreligious made it the companion. of their convivialities and the forerunner of their social recognition." "Such were the surroundings of Otho French when ho first placed himself in opposition to the use of alcoholic drinks. His first demonstration against it was at a log rolling where were assembled nearly all the able-bodied men of the township. Every one present partook of it but French, who continued to reject it, until as the custom was, they proposed to funnel him, as it was called. They had a funnel and flask, and the practice was to throw the ref user down, put the funnel in his mouth and pour in the whisky, The tunneler approached within .a few feet of him to execute the proceedings, when French warned him of his danger by an uplifted handspike, ominously threatening, and so doggedly determined in his manner that the tunneler desisted from his effort, and French became the victor." "In 1830 he assisted in the organization of the first temperance society ever instituted in the township. And from that time to his death was always 'instant in season and out of season,' the faithful champion of total obstinance. "Many of the old residents of Barnesville will remember how dogmatic he was in his opposition to intoxicating drinks. He would not walk on the side-walk in front of a tavern at which liquors were sold. Sooner than do so he would walk out into the deep mud or snow of the street, until he had passed the tavern, and then come on the side-walk again. And nothing could duce, him to enter such a tavern if be knew it. "During the latter years of his life he was in the habit of entertaining droves and drovers. His universal inquiry of the drovers was : 'Has any of your stock been fed at a still house? if they have, you cannot stop with me.' " SEVERELY FOR THE RIGHT. "I well recollect his treatment of a drover, in the year 1849. He called on Mr. French and requested to stay over night. Mr. French put the usual question, which was answered ill the negative. The drove was turned in and fed, and the hands had all washed, ready for supper, which was on the table. M.r. French had found out, by some means, that the hogs fine the greater part had been fattened at the Waverly distilleries. He instantly ordered the drove to be taken out of his field, and would not let even the drover, nor his hands, have their suppers. "When the Maine law excitement was raging in the country, Mr. French became a zealous advocate for its adoption in Ohio. He had a sign painted, bearing the words: 'Give us the Maine Law., When he was on his death bed, he enjoined on his relatives to have engraved on his tombstone, the words : 'Hold on to the Maine law forever,, which was done. He died in 1857, in his eightieth year; and was buried in the township graveyard." OIL MILL. About the year 1825, Daniel Williams began the manufacture of linseed oil at his mill, two and a half miles southeast of Barnesville. It continued to be a paying business until 1833, when cotton fabrics supplanted linen ones. The cultivation of flax was abandoned, and Mr. Williams stopped his mill. The old mill is now called White's Mill. NATURAL CURIOSITIES. On the farm of James Cox, two miles southwest of Barnesville, there is a natural curiosity unexcelled, perhaps, in the history of the freaks of nature. The dwelling of Mr. Cox is situated at the foot. of a hill five hundred feet in height. At about one hundred feet from the top of this hill, and directly west, and above Mr. Cox's house, a spring comes out from the hill, making its exit due east. Some time in the earth's history this spring was very highly charged with lime. Out from the mouth of the spring, there projects due east, a gently sloping bench, a large part of will̊, has been formed by the action of this spring. For a distance of fifty feet on each side of the trench through which the stream, of the spring passes on this bench, there are a large number of flag-stones, sandstones and boulders, encrusted with films and crusts of carbonate of lime. On many of these stones, the-films and crusts are as closely and as neatly laid on and about them as the gold on plated ware is laid on and about the grosser metal that it encloses. These films and crusts vary in thickness from that of tissue paper to a half inch. The most peculiar and interesting feature of the work of this spring is that it has deposited an incalculable quanty of the hydrate of lime, and which deposit makes up the whole of the projecting just mentioned, within the following limits : At about twenty-five feet from the spring,s mouth the hydrate deposits begins, and at that point is not over ten feet wide on each side of the spring stream. But widening with the descent of the bench, this deposit becomes fifty (50) feet wide on each side of the spring stream at the brink of the bench. It then woes on, increasing in width, down the now steeper slope of the hill, nail it stops at a point (150) one hundred and fifty feet from the brink of the bench, and with a width of (100) cue hundred feet at point of termination on each side of the spring stream. How deep the deposit may be is unknown. The writer has dug down into it over four feet, and from two inches from the surface to the depth mentioned, he found the deposit a hydrate of lime just as perfect in looks, and just as pungent to the taste as time best slacked lime. This vast deposit if hydrate of hundreds of thousands of tons, is so perfect that it might be put into mortar and plaster with only the usual sifting. No- vegetation will grow upon its surface, as in summer it is like the dust of a pike. Outside of its HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 341 balk, where its fertilizing powers may be utilized, vegetation is very luxuriant, and when put on ground on which tobacco is about to "throw up " it will carry the plants forward to a good growth and perfection. It is another strange fact that no "calcareous tufta " are found in the vicinity of this deposit. TEA-TABLE ROCK. On the old Riggs farm, about two miles south of Barnesville, is "Tea-Table Rock." It is on the very top of a large, smoothly sloped hill, and is associated with several other sand rocks of the same geological formation. The general outline of the rock resembles that of a goblet very closely. Hence "Goblet Rock" ought to be its name, as that is much more descriptive of its general appearance. We shall therefore call it Goblet Rock. The writer has very carefully examined it, and gives the following as the result: Its average heighth is nine feet; circumference at base, fifteen feet and nine inches; mid circumference, eighteen feet and ten inches, and top circumference, thirty-one feet and four inches. The top of the stone is flat, but not level, having a slight inclination from the south to the north side. The top circumference on all sides but the north, describes very nearly a circle. The body of the stone from the bottom to the heighth of seven and a half feet, is almost a perfect circle, becoming larger as the heighth increases. At from seven and a half feet to the top, the stone enlarges rapidly, forming a projection of a foot and a half to two feet, and when put in proportion to the rest of the stone, is like the rim of a goblet. The following are the measurements of the top of the stone, regarding the latter as a high goblet, with its mouth southwest and its back northeast : Back diameter, five feet; mouth diameter, eight feet; long diameter (back to mouth) eight feet and two inches, and diameter from side to side, at mid way, back to mouth, six feet and eight inches. On the southside of the stone, from the ground to two feet high, the disintegrating influences of weather and frost, have carried away as much of the stone as would make a block of two feet perpendicular, two feet base, and lot less than three feet long where base and hypothenuse touch. The bottom of the stone to the height of a foot, has been converted by some occult forces into thin layers of from a half to an inch in thickness, and these layers are much softer than the remainder of the rock, which is not stratified at all. The whole stone can be shaken into a sensible tremble by one standing on its top. These layers are now being crushed by the weight of the rock, and it is easily foreseen that if these "pulling down" forces continue, in a few years the Goblet Rock will fall Over. HUMAN AND OTHER FOOT-PRINTS. The most interesting relics of the mound-building race yet discovered in the annals of their remains are the celebrated footprints on a sand-rock of the coal measure located on the lands of Robert Y. Price, Warren township., They were found in 1856, by a son of Mr. Price, who was then an ardent student of geology, and was excited to an examination of the rocks of the neighborhood by reading of the Connecticut bird-tracks. These foot-prints are, without doubt, the result of the artistic skill of a Mound-race sculptor, and indicate a well advanced attainment of that branch of art; and although they have been for many years exposed to the erosions of the weather, and to the mutilations of time and accident, yet they were well defined when the author of this article made an examination and measurement of them in the fall of 1856. He then wrote a very accurate description of them, which was published in one of the scientific journals, and here take the liberty of transcribing a portion of it for the benefit of our readers : "Passing through Belmont county, Ohio, a few weeks ago on my way east, I stopped to see the footprints on some rocks near Barnesville, about which there is so much talk. Having: made a careful survey of the location, and that of the region around and about. I proceeded to scrutinize the tracks themselves, and am well satisfied that they are the works of art—that they are the workmanship of some artist long since passed away—one of that extraordinary race whose relics so abound in this vicinity. "The rocks on which they are impressed he at least eighteen hundred feet* above the sea level, and are of a formation abundantly developed in the adjacent region. I counted ten frag- * "This attitude is perhaps about thirteen hundred feet. ments of rocks containing footprints, but I shall describe only those I found on two of them. "One of them will average two feet above the alluvial deposit, in which a large portion of its substance seems to be imbedded, with an exposed irregular surface of seventy-five square feet. The other is not over eight inches above earth level, with exposed surface of forty square feet. On the last named rock are carved eight human footprints, all of the same size, and appear as if the artist had intended to convey the impression that a person had crossed and recrossed upon it, as one of the westbound tracks is trodden upon one of the east-bound tracks. "They are impressed upon the rock one-half inch deep, and are but a shade less than ten inches in length. There are also engraved on this rock twelve bird tracks, some of them web-footed, and seven other tracks of two different animals, one of which belongs to the tortoise family; the other I am unable to classify. "On the balance of these rocks are sculptured nine human footprints, varying from five and a half to fourteen and a half inches in length, and indented in rocks in divers depths, cloven footprints, the impression of shell fish, serpents, earth worms and numerous bird tracks. "Two of the human footprints are anomalous; one is seven inches long, two and one-fourth inches across the heel, and impressed in the rock one-fourth of an inch. The four small toes go out straight with the body of the foot, while the great toe shoots out at right angles with it, at the right side from the point where the small toes are attached to the foot. From the point of the great toe to the opposite side of the little toe, is five and a half inches. "The other queer footprint is nine and three-fourths inches long, three inches across the heel; the toes attached to the body of the foot just as the one described, but the great toe goes out on the left side of the foot. From the point of the great toe to the opposite side of the little toe, is six and three-fourth inches. "Of bird tracks, I counted thirty-five on the two large rocks of which I have been speaking, and twenty-five on smaller fragments which lay carved about them. I only found six in regular succession, as if intended to represent the tread of the same bird. They were four inches in length from the point of the heel to the tip of the fore toe, and four inches wide, but the steps were less than five inches. "The remainder of the bird tracks were scattered in all directions over the surface of' the rocks and no two of them of the same size. The depth of impressions of the various tracks varied from three-fourths of an inch to a mere scale barely discernable. The smallest human footprints were five and a half inches long, were the deepest, being a shade over three-fourths of an inch, while the largest, fourteen and a half inches long, were scarcely perceptible." From the multitude of facts furnished by. these and other relics of the mound builders, conclusions concerning them : That they cultivated the .terms of peace, never engaging in war save for self defence; that they were highly civilized, taking a different line of development from all other races of men, existing or extinct; that they were advanced in some of the arts, but pursued agriculture and herding as their chief occupations, on account of their high moral tendencies; that they were exceedingly religious and worshipped the sun as their principal Deity. Nowhere among the work of their hands remaining for our examination have implements of war been found justly referrable to them. What are called " forts," never have a stragetical location and are never built on such principles as justify the opinion that they were such. The fort and mound on the Nuzum farm and the two little mounds on the site of the 01(1 brick meeting house, are, in the author's opinion, parts of the devotional structures and appliances. The two former were their temples of worship and the latter a monument of' the sacrificial ceremonies. MOUNDS AND PORTS. A few miles west of Barnesville, but within the township of Warren, are two ancient works erroneously denominated "Indian Forts." One of them is located on the Jesse Jarvis, and the other on the James Nuzum lands. Over fifty years ago the author of this article made a careful examination of the one last mentioned, and we will have to submit the result to our readers as he then sketched it. 342 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. "In the year 1828, at the invitation of some friends, I visited the old Indian Fort, located on the farm of Richard Hare, about two miles west of Barnesville. I found this ancient monument of a departed race, beautifully situated on the broad top of a ridge gently inclined from the northwest to the southeast. The embarkment was at no point less than five feet in height, and the southeastern portion had an average elevation of a little less than ten feet, and the uniform width a trifle over fifteen feet. Judging by the eye I had concluded the fort to be a perfect circle, but when I applied the line to its measurement, I was astonished to find how much I had been deceived. "By measurement I found the circuit to be eliptical with the greater focus at the southeast end of the elipsis, and also that the shape of the embankment was hexagonal, instead of cycloidal, with each segment of uniform length, arid but a slight deviation in curvature. The longest diameter, that from northwest to southeast, was four hundred and fifty feet, and the cross diameter was four hundred and twenty feet. The diameter of the ends, taking a given distance within from the embankment, was: the longer two hundred and twenty-five feet, and the shorter one hundred and fifty feet. The total length of the embankment was four hundred and forty yards. "Breaking through the embankment on the southeast side, at each end of the most easterly segment, were two depressions twenty feet wide measuring across the summit. These depressions I concluded from the appearance of themselves and surroundings, were gateways. The embankment and the interior of the circle were covered by large fresh trees. Sugar-trees stood on the embankment three feet in diameter, and on the southwest limb of the enclosure was a great poplar, sixteen feet and five inches in girth, towering eighty to one hundred feet above its comrades. " Directly east of Mr. Nuzum's residence is one of the largest if not the largest mound ever yet discovered. This mound is over ninety feet in height, and its circumference at the base about eighteen hundred feet, tapering in elegant proportions to the summit. Out from each side of the mound projects a tremendous embankment, declining with gradual slope to the general level of the ridge on which it stands. This mound and embankment, equal in their stupendous proportions, according to many antiquarians and archoeologists, any work of ancient or modern times. A little north of northwest, and about a mile and a half from the fort, on the Nuzum farm, there is another on the lands of Daniel Chaney, which encloses several acres of land. West of southwest of this last fort, and on the farm of Jesse Jarvis, there is another, which encloses about six acres of land The entire summit of the hill level is surrounded by the em. bankment, which is very irregular in height and course. Several human skeletons were ploughed up in early times on the inside of this fort. Almost due south. of this, and two and a half miles distant and within five rods of the county line, on the farm of Robert Y. Price, are the "track-rocks." On the lands of Thomas Colpitt, three-fourths of a mile, southwest of Barnesville, there is a very beautiful mound. Its height is about fifteen feet, and diameter, at the base, forty feet. This mound is almost a perfect cone. It stands upon the lowest point, at the feet of the surrounding hills that rise two hundred to three hundred feet above its top. FRIENDS' STILL WATER MEETING-HOUSE BY JONATHAN SCHOFIELD. About one-half of the eastern part of Warren township was originally settled almost exclusively by Friends, commonly called Quakers. They came chiefly from the southern states, many of the pioneers being the heads of young and growing families, were stimulated to the movement by a desire to remove without the blighting influence of human slavery, against which their religious principles required them to bear a consistent testimony, and being unwilling that their children should grow up in the midst of its corrupting influences, they left, in many instances good lands in a genial clime, to set themselves down to a life of privations and hardships incident to pioneer life in the forest north of the Ohio river. Robert Plummer and family were probably the first Fiends who settled here, about the year 1801. They came from Fred. crick county, Maryland ; and family tradition tells us that five days' time was necessarily occupied by them in making their way through from the open road where Morristown now is to this neighborhood. There was no road, and a way had to be made as they progressed. From the lips of Robert Hodgin, now of Barnesville, seventy-four years of age, we get the following tradition : That his father and William Patten, in company, left their homes in Georgia and came prospecting in 1802; that they crossed the Ohio river at Cincinnati and looked over the Miami country, but did not like it, thinking it would be sickly. They therefore came on to Belmont and Jefferson counties, and determined this to be the locality for their future homes ; therefore they made arrangements with Jonathan Taylor, a Friend, of Mt. Pleasant township, Jefferson county, to secure them a section of land from the government, as no less than a section was then subjeetto entry, and they returned home to make preparation for moving the next season. They had to swim their horses through all the unfordable streams this side of Cincinnati. The next season (in 1803) came the Hodgins' that is, Robert's father, William and his brother Stephen, the Pattens, the Tod& and Bailey flays, with their families. (The Hayses were not Friends, and Deborah Stubbs, a young woman, emigrated, and Joseph Stubbs, Deborah's father, came along prospecting). Their route lay through Virginia, and their vehicles of conveyance were the well-known southern one-horse carts. They camped of nights on theirjourney. Within the next five years, from 1803 to 1808, they came .in companies—the Williams', part of the Millhouses Childrees, wells, Thomases and Vernons, from Georgia ; the Starbucks, but recently from Nantucket; the Pattersons, Bundys, Stantons, Edgertons, Doudnas, Boswells, Coxes, Brocks, Outlands, Halls, Colliers, Middletons and Hausons, from North Carolina; the Baileys, Davies, some of the Vernons, and Hickses; from Southeastern Virginia, and the Clendennens, Strahls, Smiths and Whites, from Pennsylvania. The exact dates of the arrival of the various families before 1808 is difficult now to ascertain. For after additions we extract from the minutes of the Still water monthly meeting: In Fifth Month, 1808, certificates .0 membership were received for William Patterson and wife abeth, the latter a minister in unity, with their five minor children, from Short creek. In the Sixth Month, from same meeting, Joseph Patterson, Sr., wife and three children, Mary Edgerton, Elizabeth and Jemima Patterson. Seventh Month, Stephen Bailey, from Dinwiddie county, Virginia, and Mary Hicks wan five sons and a daughter from Sussex county, Virginia. Eighth, Month, Richard Kerney, eastern Pennsylvania. Tenth and Eleventh Months, from Short creek, Benjamin Patterson, Jr., Joel 'Patterson and John Patterson. Twelfth Month, John Beck, wife and seven children, from Gleason county, Va., and in the First Month of 1809, Hannah and Ann Rogers, from Cecil county, Md. Also in 1809, John Purvis and Hezekiah Starbuck, from North Carolina, James Brock and wife, Peter Sears and Benjamin Watkins, from Dinwiddie county, Va. ; William Blocksom, wife and six children, from. Plainfield monthly meeting; fleury Barnes, from Concord, and Jacob Parker and wife, Benajah Parker and George Parker, from Short creek. In 1810, Sarah Williams, with five sons and three daughters, and Henry Ballenger, from Pipe creek monthly meeting; Philip Strahl, wife, five sons and three daughters, Rachel Pickering and Ann Edgerton, from Short creek ; Titus Shotwell. wife, three sons and two daughters, Ann Taylor, Joel Gilbert and wife, Abel Gilbert, wife and two daughters, and Sarah Cox, from Plainfield; Jeremiah Cook, wife and two daughters, William Satterthwaite, Jacob Pickering, from Concord. In 1811, Anderson and Thomas Arnold, Joel Judkins, wife and daughter, Carolus Judkins, wife, five sons and one daughter, Edward Thornboro, Jacob Crew, wife, three sons and one laughter, Isaac Crew, wife and daughter, from North Carolina; Hugh Wilson, Richard Fawcett and daughter, John Gilbert, wife, one son and two daughters, from Plainfield; Thos. Webster, from Little Britain, Pa.; Mary Taylor, from Exeter, Pa.; Samuel Yocum, wife, one daughter and six sons, from Short creek monthly meeting; Jesse Bailey, wife, two sons and four. daughters, Reuben Watkins, wife and five sons, Sarah Bailey, one son and two daughters, from Dinwiddie county, Va. ; Joseph Garretson, wife, two sons and one daughter, from Concord. 1812. From Short creek, Simeon Taylor, wife and daughter, Henry Stanton, wife and two sons, Eaton Hays, Robet Burnett, wife, three sons and three daughters. From Plainfield, Joseph HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 343 Nicholson's minor daughter and two sons, Elizabeth Nicholson and five minor children, Josiah and Alice Rogers, two sons and three daughters, Matthew Wood, one daughter and two sons, Isaac Wood and Abraham Wood. From Chester county, Pa., Josiah Pennington. Samuel Berry, wife and two daughters, from Concord, Ohio ; and Reuben Edgerton, from Deer creek monthly meeting. 1813. Joseph Albertson, wife and daughter, from Plymouth (now Smithfield, Ohio) ; Sally Morris, from Salem, Ohio ; Jonathan Fawcett, William Webster, from Plainfield ; Joshua Scott, four sons and three daughters, from Short Creek ; Stephen Burnet, from Redstone; Zachariah Bailey, Dinwiddie county, Virginia Achsa Patterson, from Northampton county, North Carolina ; Rebecca Vore, from Exeter, Pa. 1814. James Barnes, from Plainfield. This James Barnes must have been the founder of Barnesville, as he was a Friend, and no earlier certificate for one of that name appears on the records of this meeting. Jacob Patterson, from Darby creek ; Zadoc Boswell, from Symonds creek, North Carolina ; Abisha Thomas, from Plainfield; Anna Webster, Edward Hatton, from Centre, Pa.; Hannah Miles, Jr., Thomas Smith, wife and four sons, from Hopewell, Virginia; Susanna Plummer, four sons and two daughters, from Pipe creek ; Wm. Morris, wife, five sons and four daughters, from Salem. 1815. Nellie Frazier, her son and two daughters, William Frazier, from Concord ; Mary Patterson, from Short creek ; Joseph Bishop, from Concord ; Thomas Osborn, wife and son, frem Surry county, North Carolina; Samuel Sharpless, from Concord ; Hugh Judge and wife, Susannah, Rebecca G. Judge and Phoebe Judge, from Indian Spring, Maryland; Mary Satterthwaite, from Chesterfield, New Jersey ; Ann Peebles, from North Carolina; Daniel Wilson, from Concord, Pa.; Joseph Edgerton, wife, four daughters and one son, from North Carolina ; Robert Miller, from Plainfield. 1816. John Webster, wife and son, from Plainfield ; Samuel Embre, wife, six sons and a daughter and Lydia Embre, from Short creek ; Joseph Jones and Mary, his wife, Aaron Morris, George Parker, wife, and son, from Columbiana county, Ohio ; Jonathan Bogue, wife and two daughters, Caleb Engle, one son and five daughters, from Plainfield ; Issacher Scholfield, wife, two sons and two daughters, from Indian Spring, Maryland ; these moved from Washington City ;) Andrew Sholfield, minor, from Indian Spring, Maryland ; Hiram Baily, from Centre, Ohio; Hannah Stanton and two daughters, Mary Wilson, from Concord; Israel Briggs, wife and two daughters, from Salem; from  Romine, from Hopewell, Virginia; Isaac Brown, from Maryland ; Enoch Harlon, Hannah, his wife, six sons and a daughter, Harriet Harlan, from Chester county, Pa. 1817. Job Newby, from Short creek ; Wm. Mott, Marlboro and William Massey, from Goshen, Pa. ; Jordon Newsome, Pru- dence Newsome, from North Carolina ; Robert. Hodgin, wife children, from Mill creek: William Dewees, wife and three children, Cidney Hoops, from Pennsylvania; Borden Stanton, wife and four children, from Concord ; William Harry, from Kennet, Pa. ; Susannah Jolly and daughter, from Plymouth , Daniel Strahl, Mordecai Yarnall, wife and two daughters, from Short creek ; Mary Morris and Nathan Morris, from Salem ; Rebecca Fisher, from Plainfield. These people were generally poor or in moderate circumstances, and for the most part occupied the land only in small tracts, so that the population was reasonably dense for a country district at an early day. They were industrious, frugal, upright, necessarily; with their religious principles, moral to the highest degree; and, on the 'subject of temperance, abstinence from the use of spiritous liquors, or the manufacture or sale thereof, or even the sale of grain knowingly for distillation, They were the pioneers—the beacon light of the age. To sustain this assertion, copious extracts from the records of Stillwater monthly meetings will hereafter be inserted as legitimate matter of history. They systematically extended care as to the encouragement of schools for the education of their youth, and to assist pecuniarily those of their members in defraying the expenses thereof who were unable of their own means to pay the expense of their children's tuition. Their first meeting-house, according to the statement of the oldest citizen, Hosea Doudna, was a single " log pen," "scutched down," situate on a ten-acre lot obtained of Richard Croy, in the northeast corner of the southwest quarter of section number 9, inside' of and near the northeast corner of the present graveyard. Whether the land was bought before this first meet- ing-house was built cannot probably be ascertained, but the right of occupancy was manifestly secured in some way, and said ten-acre lot was, subsequently, if not previously, paid for, and a deed executed by Richard and Ann Croy, Fourth month, 1st, 1813, to William Hodgin, Joseph Middleton, Herman Davis, Richard Edgerton and Joseph Cox, trustees, for the use and be-hoof of Stillwater monthly meeting, $40 being the consideration paid. The first meeting-house must have been built in 1803 or 1804, as Robert Plummer’s family is the only one we have any account of having come before 1803, when William Hodgin and his fellow emigrants arrived, and the preparative meeting being established in the spring of 1805, (according to Hosea Doundna,s account) when another room was added to the building to accommodate it. Nearly all Friend's meeting-houses are constructed of two contiguous rooms (one for each sex) so arranged as to open into one for public meetings, and to be separated by closing shutters between them for the transaction of disciplinary proceedings. This house seems to have been made to subserve their wants for both meeting and school house for a number of years. The following minutes, taken from the records of the monthly meeting, indicates the first movement to provide a better one, viz : Third Month, 26th, 1811.—" The subject of building a new meeting house coming under consideration, the meeting appoints Joseph Middleton, Camm Thomas, Isaac Clendennon, William Hodgin, George Starbuck. John Middleton, Jesse White, David Smith, Joseph Cox and William Bundy to take the ease under their care and make an estimate of the expense of a house 60x30 feet in base, and to carry the same into execution as soon as convenient." Nothing more appears on the records in reference to the subject until the Seventh Month, 1815, when a committee was appointed to make an estimate of the amount necessary to be raised to finish the new house, and in the Ninth Month said committee reported: " They had attended to their appointment and thought $300 would be needed, which they had apportioned on the members, and produced the list, which was satisfactory," and a committee was appointed to receive it from the members and pay it to William Hodgin. A year later Issachar Scholfield, who had been appointed to collect money to be applied to building the yearly meeting house, reported a surplus received, which he was directed to pay towards finishing the new house. H. Doudna thinks the brick were made for this building in 1811, and it was put up in 1812. If this was the case the finishing was very tedious, This house was lengthened about 1823 or 1824, to accommodate the quarterly meeting. Thus enlarged it was about 38x97 feet, twelve-feet story, and stood, serving the meeting well, until the year 1878, when it was demolished and the present plain, substantial brick structure was buirt by the yearly meeting on the same site. It is 60x100 feet, twenty-nine feet high to the square and roofed With slate, and makes a respectable appearance. It cost $9,000. There are two large committee rooms in the northeast and southeast, or front corners, with the space between them partitioned off from the main room by a movable partition, for the accommodation of Stillwater particular meetings, above all of which (a space twenty-four feet wide, the length of the building) are gallery seats. In time of yearly meeting the portable partition is taken down, throwing the whole floor area, (except the committee rooms) with gallery, into one room for the public meetings. The women occupy the south end of the building and the men the northern, and by lowering from the garret a pannel work board partition, the two are separated for the transaction of their disciplinary proceedings. It would seem not inappropriate here to introduce a sketch of the religious belief of this peculiar people. The doctrines of the society may be briefly stated as follows: They believe in one only wise, omnipotent and everlasting God, the creator and upholder of all things, and in one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, the mediator between God and man, and in the Holy Spirit, which precedeth from the Father and Son, one God, blessed forever. They believe in the divinity and manhood of the Lord Jesus ; and that His sacrifice of Himself upon the Cross was a propitiation and atonement for the sins of the whole world. The Friends believe also in the Holy Spirit, a manifestation of which they believe is given to every man, that it convicts for sin, and as obeyed gives power to the soul to overcome and forsake it, opens to the mind the mysteries of salvation, enables it ravingly to understand the truth recorded in the holy Scriptures, and gives it the living, practical and heartfelt experience of those things which pertain to its everlasting welfare. The society of Friends have always believed that the holy Scriptures were written by divine in- 344 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. spiration, and contain all the fundamental doctrines and principles relating to eternal life and salvation. They believe that the gospel baptism is that of the Holy Spirit, and that the true communion of the, body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ is inward and spiritual. Believing that man can do nothing that tends to the glory of God or his own salvation without the immediate assistance of the spirit of Christ, it is the practice of the society to sit down in solemn silence to worship God, unless some feel drawn by the influence of the spirit to engage in the ministry of the gospel or in vocal prayer. They believe the qualification for the ministry is the special gift of Christ Jesus upon both men and women, and to be exercised only as he qualifies immediately for the service. Their ministers preach freely without any compensation from their hearers. The society believes war is wholly at variance with the gospel, and therefore cannot take part in any warlike measures. They also believe all oaths forbidden by Christ. It also forbids its members to go to law with each other, and enjoins upon its members a simple mode of living, moderation in pursuit of business, and that they discountenance lotteries, music, dancing, stage plays, horse races and all other vain and unprofitable amusements, as well as changeable fashions, in dress, language, or the furniture of their houses. The practice of uncovering the head, as a mark of respect, or using the complimentary expressions in common use, such as " Mr.," "your humble servant," or other flattering titles, the Friends have always felt bound to refrain from, believing they had their origin in the pride and vanity of the human heart, which as also the use of the names of the days of the week and month, derived from heathen gods, and have called them by their proper numerical names. The Discipline of the society embraces four grades of meet ings connected with and dependent upon each other. First, the preparative meetings receive and prepare the business for the monthly meetings, which are composed of one or more pre- parative meetings and rank next in order above then. In the monthly meetings the executive department of the discipline is chiefly lodged. The third grade includes quarterly meetings, which consist of several monthly meetings, and exercise a supervisory care over them, examine into their condition, and advise or assist them as occasion may require; and, lastly, the yearly meeting, which includes the whole within a given district, possesses exclusively the legislative power, and annually investigates the state of the whole body, which is brought before it, by answers to queries addressed to subordinate meetings. In each preparative meeting there are usually two or more Friends of each sex appointed as overseers of the flock. There are also distinct meetings for the care and help of the ministry, composed of ministers and elders, the latter being prudent and solid members. chosen specially to watch over the ministers for their good, and to admonish or advise them for their help. In these meetings the men and women meet together; they are called meetings for ministers and elders, and are divided into preparative, quarterly and yearly.* HISTORY OF THEIR RELIGIOUS MEETING. The earliest history here is only traditional, there being none living who were here at the first. Hosea Doudna says that they first held meetings for worship at the house of Robert Vernon. This was probably in 1803 and the early part of 1804, after which their meetings were held at the several buildings elsewhere described, situate on the present meeting property in section num- ber nine. The same person is our authority for the fact that a meeting was established here with privilege to hold a preparative meeting in the spring of 1805, either just before his father's family came (in the Fourth month of that year) or immediately after. This meeting was organized under authority of and as a constituent branch of Concord monthly meeting, in Colerain township. As pertinent history we here introduce the following from the records, to-wit: " At Stillwater monthly meeting, first opened and held the 29th day of the Third Month, 1808, agreeable to directions, the following extract was produced and read, viz : ' At Short creek quarterly meeting held the 12th of the Third Month, 1808, the NOTE.—The reader who may desire further information on these subjects is referred to tract No. 82, published by the Tract Association of Friends, Philadelphia ; address, 84 Mul berry street. It consists of 20 pages, and is "a concise account of the Religious Society of .Friends, embracing a sketch of their Christian doctrines and practices." the committee under appointment respecting the proposal for a division of Concord monthly meeting report they have attended thereto, and after weighing the case according to the ability furnished, give it as their judgement that it may be right that the division take place agreeable to their request ; which on solid consideration and after being communicated to the women's meeting, is unitedly agreed to in the following manner, viz : A monthly meeting composed of Concord particular (preparative) meeting to be held at Concord the fifth day after the third seventh day in the month. A monthly meeting composed of Plainfield and Flushing preparative meetings, to be denominated Plainfield Monthly Meeting, and to be held alternately at each of those places on the fourth seventh day in the month : at Plainfield in the odd months and at Flushing in the even months. "A monthly meeting at Stillwater, to be called by that name, and composed of that preparative meeting to be held the third day after Plainfield monthly meeting; and that the preparative meeting of ministers and elders be held the day preceding each. * * * * These arrangements to take place * * * in the present month. The following. Friends are appointed to attend the opening of the several monthly meetings and to report to our next quarter, viz. : Nathan Updegraff, Malachi Jolly, William Wood, Asa Cadwallader, Samuel James, Extracted from the minutes by "JOSEPH GIBBONS, Clerk." "The following Friends are appointed .by the women's meeting to attend the opening of the monthly meetings, viz., Leana Harris, Sarah Hurford, Jane Cadwallader." George Starbuck was clerk for the day at this meeting. During the session Samuel Edgerton, Stephen Hodgin, Isaac Strahl, and William Patten wore appointed a committee to propose names for regular clerks, and at next meeting, Fourth month, 26th, 1808, recommended that "James Edgerton be appointed clerk and George Starbuck assistant," with which the meeting concurred, and "they accordingly appointed to serve the ensuing year.". In the regular routine transactions we find nothing to remark until the Sixth month, when James Edgerton and Sarah Millhouse were appointed elders—the first by this meeting. 27th of 9th mo., 1808.—Benjamin Patterson was the first overseer appointed. Elizabeth Patterson and Ruth Boswell are the only members alluded to as resident ministers prior to 1815, when Hugh Judge was introduced as one from Maryland. Geo. Starbuck was the first treasurer 31st of First month, 1809. 30th of 5th mo., 1809.—Isaac Clendennon and Robert Plummer were appointed, the former to record the minutes and the latter births and deaths. These were the first records the meeting had. The minutes as recorded show the release of the various officers in the service of the meeting, and the succession properly kept up by the appointment of others at proper seasons to fill the places. The following names, in addition to those already mentioned, appear as having been freely used in transacting the affairs of the church the first year, Joseph Middleton, William Hodgin, Daniel Ballenger, Henry Williams, Joseph Arnold, Knowis Doudna, John Doudna, Jehu Middleton, Joseph Cox, Moses Davies, Camm Thomas, William Bundy, Jr., Robert Plummer, Henry Sidwell, Micajah Bailey, William Bailey, Isaac Hall, Sr., Joseph Patterson and William Patterson—to which may be added, as new names in the service the next year (1809), viz.: Michael King, David Smith, Jesse White, Jethro Starbuck and Joseph Patterson, Jr., making a goodly number of active members for one monthly meeting. The first marriages, under sanction of this monthly meeting, were two the same day: Stephen Bailey and Tahitha Patterson, and Joseph Dodd and Ann Hall. Next following we give the proceedings as sanctioned by Friends among its members : The first marriage certificate on the records (which is in the usual form) is here introduced, as it will interest many not acquainted with the society, and it may also be interesting to some to explain the antecedent proceedings, which are shown by the following from the monthly meeting,s records of minutes, viz : 28th of 7th mo., 1808. Stephen Bally and Tabitha Patterson appeared in this meeting and declared their intentions of marriage with each other. Consent of surviving parents being bad, therefore William Bailey and Cam. Thomas are appointed to inquire into his (the young man's) "cleanness" (of like engagements with others) and report to our next meeting. The same care is extended by the women's meeting, as to the young woman's clearness of other marriage engagements. Then again the 30th day of 8th month.--"The friends. ap- HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 345 pointed to inquire into Stephen Bailey's clearness in respect to marriage, report ort they find nothing to obstruct his proceeding. They are therefore left at liberty to accomplish the same agreeably to discipline, and William Bailey and William Patten are appointed to attend the same marriage, and produce the certificate to next meeting for recording," Then at a subsequent mid- week meeting (never on First day), the marriage takes place, as is shown by the certificate, which is here given : "Whereas, Stephen Bally, of the State of Ohio, in the county of Belmont, son of Edmond Bally- and Elizabeth, his wife, deceased, and Tabitha Patterson, daughter of William Patterson, of the county and state aforesaid, and Elizabeth, his wife, having declared their intentions of marriage with each other before a monthly meeting of the Religions Society of Friends, held at Stillwater, according to the good order used among them, and having consent of surviving parents, their said proposal of marriage was allowed of by said meeting. Now these are to certify-whom it may concern, that for the full accomplishment of their said intentions this Fourteenth day of the ninth month, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and eight, they, the said Stephen Baily and Tabitha Patterson, appeared in a public meeting of the said people, held at Stillwater, aforesaid and the said Stephen Bailey, taking the said Tabitha Patterson by the hand, did openly declare that he took her, the said Tabitha Patterson, to be his wife, promising, with Divine assistance, to be unto her it loving and faithful husband until death should separate them ; and then in the same assembly, the said Tabitha Patterson did in like manner declare that she took him, the said Stephen Bailey, to be her husband, promising, with Divine assistance, to be unto him a loving and faithful wife until death should separate them ; and moreover, they, the said Stephen Baily and Tabitha Patterson, (she according to the custom of marriage assuming the name of her husband) did, as a further confirmation thereof', then and there to these presents, set their hands, "STEPHEN BAILEY, "TABITHA BAILEY." "And we whose names are also hereunto subscribed, being present at the solemnization of said marriage * * * have, as witnesses thereto set our hands the day and year above written. Miriam Hunnicut, William Bailey, Lucy Bailey. Mary Bailey, Rebecca Bailey, Silas Patterson, Benjamin Patterson, Mary Patterson, William Patterson, Elizabeth Paterson, Micajah for Bailey. Doubtless there were numerous other signers, but these were legaly sufficient and the recorder's page being filled, others were omitted. "The Friends appointed to attend the marriage of Stephen Bailey and Tabith A. Patterson report they attended and the marriage was orderly, accomplished and have produced the eel.- L8 t            recording., This minute made at the next monthly meeting, 27th of the Ninth month, concluded its care in the case; afterwards the recorder copies the marriage certificate in the appropriate book of records and the original is returned to the married parties. In the first ten years after its organization the records of the monthly meeting show fifty-six marriages, and up to the end of the year 1821, thirteen years, the number was increased to eighty-seven, which fills the first volume of records, all within easy reach of this writer at present. THE OUTGROWTH. At the request of Friends living several miles southeastward, an indulged meeting was granted, as shown by the minutes made in Sixth month, 1808, viz. : "The committee appointed the month previous to sit with Friends down Captina creek, report they attended to the service and are free their request be granted, which the meeting unites with the privilege to continue six months * * * and George Starbuck, Joseph Arnold, William Patton, Daniel Baleuger, William Hodgin and Joseph Middleton are appointed to attend with them as way may open, and report their satisfaction to a future meeting." In the Twelfth month, 1808, this committee report they have attended divers times to their satisfaction ; and the Friends renewing their request for a continuance, this meeting unites therewith and appoints James Vernon, William Bundy, John Middleton, Camm Thomas, Isaac Strahl, Micajah Bailey, Demsey Boswell and Benjamin Patterson, to sit with them as way may open and report of their care and the state of things amongst them once in three months. Similar minutes appear on the records periodically 44-13 & J Cos. until this became an established meeting (Captina preparative) in 1816. Also, in the Second Month, 1809, is the the following minutes : " Friends living down Leatherwood creek request they may be indulged with the privilege of holding meetings for worship among themselves.- Whereupon a committee was appointed "to sit with Friends there and feel after the propriety of granting their request, and report of their care to next meeting." This committee reported favorably in the Third month for the meeting under the care of a committee, and the meeting united with the report granting the request, and appointed " Stephen Hodgin, John Doudna, Joseph Arnold, William Patten, Harmon Davies, Robert Plummer, Richard Edgerton and Camm Thomas, to sit with them at their meetings as often as they can with convenience and report of their care, and the sense they have of their meeting being kept rip, to the reputation of truth, once in three months." In the Sixth month, this committee reported "they had attended to a good degree of satisfaction, and the meeting was continued under care of the same friends." The same care shows on the minutes from time to time until the establishment of the meeting as "Richland preparative" was allowed by the monthly meeting in 1816. The history of Ridge meeting is similar. In the same manner and care an indulged meeting was allowed at or near Benjamin Patterson's by this monthly meeting in the Eleventh Month, 1811, and nurtured till its establishment as Ridge Preparative in Ninth month, 1815. Besides these three offshoots from Stillwater meeting there were very many members emigrated to other parts, some to Miami, some to Alum creek in Delaware county, and very many to Indiana in its early history. The meeting records of its minutes from 1817 to 1826, being lost, makes a hiatus, which the writer is unable to fill. Within this time the monthly meeting was divided, perhaps about 1820, or near that time, and Somerset monthly meeting set up, and as the following show Stillwater quarterly meeting established, viz.: At Stillwater quarterly meeting, opened and held the 28th of Eleventh month, 1821, agreeable to the subjoined extract : "The report from Short creek quarterly meeting contains a proposition that a division of that meeting take place in the following manner, to wit : Concord, Short creek, Smithfield and Flushing monthly meetings constitute Short creek quarterly meeting; and that Plainfield, Stillwater, Alum creek and Somerset monthly meetings constitute another quarter, to be held at Stillwater quarterly meeting, and held the fourth day, week following Short creek quarter, which, obtaining the concurrence of the meeting, is directed to be opened at the time proposed- in the Eleventh month next, under the care of John Hains, Thomas Farquhar, Jr., William Ballinger, Elisha Bates, Isaac Parker, William Wood, Thomas Hech and William Heald. "Extract from the minutes of Ohio yearly meeting, held by adjournment from the 3d day of Ninth month to the 7th of the same, inclusive, 1821. "BENJAMIN W. LADD, Clerk." For many years all the meetings at Stillwater were large, up to the time of the Hicksite separation notably so. This defection from the established doctrines of the society, as recegnized for nearly two centuries, and which was preached by Elias Hicks for a number of years previous in the eastern states, culminated in 1827 east of the Alleghanies, causing separation in several yearly meetings in that year, and, being extended to. Ohio, disrupted the society here the next year, 1828. Friends, sound in the faith of their 'forefathers in Ohio, were in many monthly meetings, enabled, through much tribulation and suffering, to maintain the integrity of their meetings. As leading members of this monthly meeting who joined with the separatists in holding and giving encouragement to meetings held not in the order of the society,s discipline, they were disowned in regular way before the organized rupture took place, which occurred here at the Eighth month quarterly meeting in 1828. There was no disturbance in the preceeding monthly meeting. They, the Hicksites, were sufficiently numerous, however, to keep up a meeting at Stillwater for many years, and persistently occupied one end of the building, whilst Friends sat in the other, on public meeting days, very much to the discomfort and annoyance of Friends meetings. In course of a few years after the separation, some emigration of members commenced to Morgan county, in this state, and gradually increased until ultimately they became sufficiently numerous there to establish a quarterly meeting there, which 346 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. was accomplished in 1854 by the division of Stillwater quarter, and the new quarterly meeting of Pennsville set up. And again out of these two quarterly meetings mainly has grown another quarterly meeting in Iowa, viz : Hickory Grove, now a constituent member of Ohio yearly meeting, at Stillwater. THEY WERE TEMPERATE. "As early as 1808, a minute reads, 'Received an extract from the minutes of our last quarterly meeting impressing on Friends to attend to the advice handed down in the extracts (from the yearly meeting's minutes) in regard to spirituous liquors.' Therefore this meeting appoints,( here follows the names of a large committee to extend a care in the case where they may find it needful, and report to our meeting in the 8th mo. next.) 1809. 8th mo. 29th.—"This committee report they have met several times and conferred on the subject, and find no complaint in regard thereto amongst us." 1809. 12th mo. 26.—With a large quarterly meeting’s committee in attendance on this subject, a large committee was appointed to extend care towards our members, and report their care and how they find matters amongst us, to this meeting in the 8th month next. 1810. 8th mo. 28.—This committee, they have extended care on the subject, and though all our members are not clear of the too common use thereof, yet it is thought our testimony is gaining ground. 1810. 12th mo. 25th.—Another large quarterly meeting's committee in attendance on the same subject, and a large committee appointed "to have a care and oversight among our members, and to extend labor where necessary, and report," &c. 1811. 8th mo. 27th—Report care and duplicate last year's report.—These are probably sufficient quotations, to show the care exercised by this people over their members in reference to this subject. In more modern time the discipline prohibits members of the society from the manufacture, sale or unnecessary use of spirituous liquors, and it is a rare case to find a member of the society who indulges to any extent the use thereof as a beverage. It may safely be remarked, now seventy years after this neighborhood was begun to be occupied by Friends, that the impress of their temperate habits was deeply made on the community, so forcibly indeed, that although many, not of them, are now located among and around them still that impress dis tinguishes theirs in a marked degree from surrounding communities. On the subject of education, too, in the early history, they were in advance of their surrounding cotemporaries, nor do they lag now, but strive to keep abreast with the age—but the great advance on this subject by the state and general community has been so rapid in the last half century, that Friends have ceased to appear conspicuous thereabout. A Friends' school was taught in Stillwater meeting house as early as the winter of 1805-6 by Samuel Berry, a Friend. THOMAS SHILLITOE. To show the condition of the society of Friends and their feelings of its membership. as produced by the teachings of Elias Hicks, as well as to give a history of that most trying epoch in the annals of that society, we will here present to our readers very liberal extracts from the diary of Thomas Shillitoe, who was an eye-witness of the scenes of which he gives an account. Mr. Shillitoe was an Englishman, and was born in Holborn, London, in Second Month, 1754. At first he was put as a clerk to a grocer, then to a brandy house, but disgusted at the scenes about him, he apprenticed himself to a shoemaker, and followed the business of shoemaking while he pursued secular affairs. His parents belonged to the Church of England, but be preferred the worship and doctrines of the Friends. His parents opposed him bitterly, but he persisted in attending the. Friends' meetings, and became a member of that society in a short time. He became a minister among them. Gradually he arose emminence as a traveling. minister. He journeyed much, doing most of it on foot. He visited the Continent, went to Scotland, and ,journeyed in Ireland on foot. as a minister of the Word, and in 1826, at the advanced age of seventy-two, he made a religious visit to Friends in the United States and Canada. He remained among them about three years, witnessing the distressing events occasioned by the most terrible conflict of opinions that has ever befallen that body of professing Christians. He died the 12th of the Sixth month, 1836, in the eighty-third year of his age. Mr. Shillitoe was a man of only limited education, yet of fine intellectual powers and led a life of eminent piety. The simplicity, force and unctiousness of his religious writings, placed them almost on a level with Bunyan’s Pilgrim's Progress. He was an adhering Friend, and as such was a partizan against Hicks and his party, but his character puts his narrative of events above suspicion of bias only so far as it is inevitable to the most exalted, enlightened, and religious human nature. THOMAS SHILLITOE'S DIARY OF QUARTERLY MEETING AT STILLWATER. "Third day, 26th of Eighth month, 1838. Attended the select quarterly meeting held at Stillwater : The meeting was inform ed before it was fully gathered, that some persons were on their way who had been members of this select meeting, but who had been disowned in consequence of uniting themselves with the Separatists. On their making the attempt to enter the house, and the doorkeepers preventing them, they assembled on the meeting house lot, where they held their meeting, preaching and praying, so much to the annoyance of Friends, that they were obliged to close the windows of the meeting house. "Fourth day, 27th of Eighth month, 1828, the day of Stillwater quarterly meeting.—My companion (James Emlen) and myself on proceeding towards the meeting house, observed a vast crowd of people assembled; the nearer we. approached, the more awful the .commotion appeared ; the countenances and action of many manifested a determination to make their way into the house by resorting to violent means, if no other way would effect their designs. By pressing through the crowd we gained admittance. The tumult increased to an alarming degree; the consequences of keeping the doors fastened any longer were to be dreaded, as the mob were beginning to break the windows to obtain an entrance, and to inflict blows on some of the doorkeepers. It was therefore concluded to open the doors. .The door of the men's house (room) being opened, to attempt to describe the scene to the full, would be in vain. The feelings awakened in my mind were such as to almost to overpower my confidence in the superintending care of a Divine Protector. The countenances of many as they entered the house, seemed to indicate that they were ready to fall upon the little handful of us in the minister's gallery, there being few others in the house,. Some of their party forced open the shutters between the men and women's house (room), as if they would have brought the whole of them to the ground; others ran to the doors which had been made secure, seizing them, tearing them open and some of the binges. The like outrage they committed in the women house (room.) The cracking and hammering this occasioned for the short time it lasted, was awful to me, not knowing where or in what this scene of riot and wickedness of temper would end. The house was very soon crowded to an extreme, the Separatists taking possession of one end of the men's house (room) and Friends the other. Trying as our situation was, it appeared best to proceed with the business amidst the host of opposers and strangers present. The representatives were called over, the answers to the queries, and a summary prepared. Had I not been present, I could not have conceived it possible for the Friends to conduct the business of a quarterly meeting so quietly, circumstanced as they were—the Separatists going on with the business of their new quarterly meeting at one end of the house (room) and Friends at the other. The Friends were favored to get comfortably through with their business." FRIENDS BOARDING SCHOOL HOUSE AT STILLWATEP The Supreme Court of Ohio, having decided that the O. Y. M. of F. boarding School house and farm at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, in its opinion rightfully belonged to the "Bunns party," or the "Gurney Division of the O. Y. M. of F., the adhering Friends, or the Hoyle party, as they were called in accordance with that decision, delivered up the possession in the summer of 1874. At the yearly meeting of adhering Friends for that Sear a committee was appointed to take the subject of building another boarding school house into consideration, and to report at another sitting. The committee reported in favor of proceeding at once to raise funds and erect another boarding school house within the limits of Stillwater quarterly meeting "for the religiously guarded education of our children." The committee also suggested that a building committee be appointed out of. which a committee should be nominated to circulate subscript tion papers throughout the limits of Friends' church in Ohio; and that when sufficient money was raised that they buy a site Lot HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 347 over sixty acres in extent, and erect thereon a plain and substantial building that would accommodate seventy-five to eighty scholars. The yearly meeting approved and adopted the suggestions of the committee. After the adjournment of the yearly meeting, the committe appointed B. Stratton and W. Hall a committee to solicit contributions. The result of their efforts was as follows : Short creek quarter, $7,950.50; Salem, $6,898.00; Stillwater, $10,752.50; Pennsville, $1„983.00 ; Hickory Grove was not called upon. The Friends of Philadelphia yearly meeting took a lively interest in the erection of the boarding school, and donated $16.308.34. Total funds raised were $43,862.34. Ferty-two and a half acres of land, the corners of four different farms a short distance south of Stilwater meeting house, was purchased at a cost of $4,462.23. As a public road ran through these lands near their centre, legal proceedings were had by which it was changed so as to run along their southern boundary: The cost of change was $45.00. The building committee appointed Francis Davis superintendent of the work of the building house. The first work done on the premises Was the digging of a well in the south yard, and was begun 10th Eleventh month, 1874. On New Year's day, 1875, the first log was cut and hauled on the snow to make lumber to build laundry. The building committee decided to contract building after the following plan : Centre building 120 feet in length by 68 feet in depth, and two wings, each 58 feet and all feur stories high. The building fronts north with wings on east and west sides. A belfry containing bell surmounts the top of centre building: A laundry cost $2,000 was put up for the accommodation of the workmen engaged in the construction of school building. Asa Garretson was appointed treasurer. The work was conducted by having a foreman for each class of work, and the committee employed all the workmen individually. The first stone was laid in the foundation on 7th day of Fifth month, 1875. A hard light colored stand-stone was selected for range work and steps: Three large kilns of brick were burned from materials of the farm, and the first brick moulded on the 18th day of Fifth month, ,1875, and the first brick laid at noon on the 29th day of the Sixth month, 1875, at the northeast corner of the centre building. Under that brick one cent was lain as momento of the occasion. The' brick work was completed on the 27th day of Ninth month, 1875. Seven hundred and twenty-five thousand bricks were used in the build- ing, The wall bricks were three times carefully selected before they were put in the wall. The whole building and belfry are roofed with slate. The school rooms of all the classes are warmed by stoves and illuminated by gasoline, generated at the gas house. There are complete pipings about the whole building to carry water to the cistren The cistern holds one thousand barrels, and is divided into two compartments, one smaller than the other.     The wind-engine and pumps lift the water from the the smaller division of the cistren to the attic of the centre building and thence by pipes it is conveyed to every part of the building. Whatever of the furniture of the Mt. Pleasant boarding school that was retained when it was abandoned, and that was suitable, was put into the new boarding school house rooms, but much and elegant furniture bad to be made or purchased to complete the garnature of the rooms. A large planing bit was procured from the east that had been made to be used, and was used in making the seats for Germantown Friends meeting house; and it was used here by Davis & Starbuck at their planing mill, to make seats for the Stillwater meeting house and boarding school. The first school began first 2d day of 1st month, A. D. 1876. BETHEL M. E. CHURCH. The Methodists in the neighborhood of Bethel church, before the erection of that place of worship, held their meetings at the house of John Reed, Sr., near the spot where the residence of Isaac Reed now stands, in section 31. The .Rev. John D. Price having in 1829, entered a quarter of that section, immediately donated one-half acre of it to the M.. B. Church as' a site for a meeting house and grave yard. In 1832, by the united efforts Of Rev. Price and Mr. Reed, a commodious hewn log house, was put up on that site as a place of worship. This house was se occupied until 1857, when the present church house was built at a cost of nine hundred and fifty dollars. It was built by Messrs Stephen Denny and Amos Finch, and will seat three hundred persons comfortably. The membership at this time is I-44—B. & J. Cos one hundred and eighty. Present stewards, John K. Reed and William Reed. The pastor now in charge of the church is Rev. Mahlon J. Stutz. GIBSON'S CHAPEL (M. E.) Gibson's Chapel was built in 1855-6, by Mr. Richard Stamp, at a cost of seven hundred dollars. It was dedicated in February, 1856, the dedication sermon being preached by Rev. John Coil, of the Pittsburgh Conference. Before the erection of this church house, the Methodists of that vicinity had their membership at Barnesville. At the start, as a separate congregation, there were only twelve members. But, notwithstanding the smallness of their number, they boldly ventured upon the building of their church, trusting to the future for additions to their number. Mr. John R. Gibson kindly donated to the church three-fourths of an acre of ground as site for house of worship and burial ground. He also largely aided with funds towards the erection of the church, and after it was built it was generously called Gibson's Chapel, in consideration of Mr. Gibson's worth as a man, as well as the assistance he gave the feeble congregation. In a year or so, the Chapel became too small to accommodate the people that attended the meetings held there, and an addition of fourteen feet was put to the original building, at a cost of two hundred and eighty dollars. The house will now seat about three hundred persons in comfort. The present stewards are John Gibson and John W. Chaney, and the membership is eighty-three. Rev. Mahlon J. Slutz is preacher in charge of the Chapel at this time. Almost as soon as the house was built, a Sunday school was organized in connection with the church, and keeps up active work from March to December of each year MOUNT OLIVET M. E. CHURCH. The Methodist at and around Mt Olivet organized themselves into a society about the year 1855, and held their meetings in an old log district school house on the lands of Mr. Richard Stamp. The membership increasing, a Sabbath school was formed in connection with the church, and preaching and the school held in the old log school house until it became too small to accommodate the people and scholars when they were removed to Mt. Olivet. In 1860-1 their nice little frame church at Mt. Olivet was erected at a cost of about twelve hundred dollars. The church house was built by funds raised on subscription and the construction, superintended by Mr. Richard Stamp. It will seat about three hundred persons. Present pastor is Rev. Ransom S. Strati', The Sunday school is still kept up and is well attended. REFORMED DISSENTING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. George Buchanan came to Ohio in the year 1800 from near Brownsville, Pennsylvania,     and settled in what is now Kirkwood township, Belmont county. in 1796, the Associate Reformed Synod of Pennsylvania adopted a formula for the government, worship and discipline of that church which it was claimed to subvert or modify many of the fundamental articles of the Westminister Confession of faith, and the catechism. That formula in its eighth article declared that "a religious test can never be essentially necessary to the being of a magistrate, any farther than an oath of fidelity, except where the people make it a condition of the government." That formula was made a test of church communion. Among the ministers of the Associate Reformed Church; who resided at that time in the state of Pennsylvania, were Alexander McCoy and Robert Warwick, both gentlemen of great talents and high attainments, Mr. McCoy was a courageous man and dared to do what he thought right let any oppose him who might, and too honest to subscribe to that which his convictions condemned. as erroneous. In early life he was a great student, but as he approached manhood, discontinued his studies, intending to follow the occupation of farmer, But while attending a meeting going on at Rev. Riddles' church at Moon creek, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1790, he was most earnestly urged by friends who promised to aid him, to resume his studies and enter the ministry. The warmth with which these gentlemen pressed him to that course caused him to go on with his studies. He entered Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and having graduated, he studied divinity with Rev. Mathew- Jamison. During the years 1794-5 he delivered his trial sermons as a test to his qualifications for the ministry. In April, 1795, he received his license as a Presbyter at the house of his old friend Rev. Robert Warwick on Redstone creek, Fayette county, Pa. 348 - HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. When the alteration was made in the Associate Reform church discipline just mentioned, McCoy and Warwick refused to subscribe to the changed discipline. They continued steadily to so refuse, and uniting their powers and efforts together, in 1796 they produced a schism which widened and grew stronger until on the 27th of .January, 1801, at Washington, Washington county, Pa., they organized a Presbytery distinct from all other religious bodies. This Presbytery took upon itself the name of "'rho Reformed Dissenting Presbytery." In 1805 Mr. McCoy visited Ohio and preached at the house of Mr. George Buchanan ; many of his old church members in Pennsylvania having settled in Kirkwood and Warren townships and the surrounding neighborhoods. Mr. McCoy continued his visits to Ohio, and to preach at the house of Mr. Buchanan until the year 1812. In the spring of that year a half acre of land was donated to the "church" by Thomas Griffith in Warren township, section 24, us a site for a meeting house and graveyard. In that spring a hewn log house was put up on this land as a place, of public worship. The house was built within two rods of the township line, and stood with its length north and south, with shingle roof, doorway at centre of west side and a little high pulpit on east side of room directly opposite the doorway. The house at first was 20x25 feet, and was seated with plank benches without backs. Subsequently an addition was put to the north end of the old hewn log house, and the whole resented with pews—each member providing his own pew. The following list of gentlemen, with their wives, constituted the membership of the church there, when the old hewn log meeting house was built : George Buchanan, John Hyde, John Brown, Andrew Dougherty, Thomas Griffith and Robert Griffin. Griffin and Buchanan resided in Kirkwood, and the remainder of the members lived in Warren township. The first minister who preached in the old log church was Rev. John Patterson, who lived near West Alexander, Pa. He preached every fourth Sunday and continued to do so for eight or ten years, when he was succeeded by Rev. John Anderson, who ministered to the congregation until his death ; his ministration over the church extended over a period of from twenty-five to thirty years. During Rev. Anderson's pastorate the old hewn log meeting house was abandoned and a stone one erected ppon a fourth acre of ground bought of Mr. Thomas Gilliland. The stone. church stood within.Kirkwood township, about eight rods from the township line. It fronted to the east and was fifty feet long by thirty-six feet wide, with good pews and a pulpit built on the modern plan.. It would seat five hundred persons with comfort. During the pastorate of Mr. Anderson immense congregations assembled at this church, families coming from Morristown, Middletown, and all the region round about, to attend divine services there. Sermons two hours to two hours and a half each were preached before and after noon with a short recess between the sermons. Rev. Anderson was a gentleman of superb education and preached for the congregation at the trifling salary of thirty dollars a year. He devoted much of his time to the instruction of young men for the ministry. At the death of Rev, Anderson, Rev. Hugh Forsyth became pastor of the church. After a few years he was succeeded by the Rev. James Goudy, who continued to preach until the secession took place and the U. P. Church formed, and that broke up the congregation. The stone church has been torn down and its materials used to form the foundation of the present dwelling of Hon. John Kennon, half a mile north of Barnesville. All of the gentlemen who formed the first membership of this church, with their wives and many of the children were buried at the old graveyard attached to it. Mr. John Brown and his family are the only ones of the original membership whose remains rest in their graves elsewhere. He removed to the state of Indiana where they died and were buried. FRIENDS' RIDGE MEETING HOUSE. A large number of Friends having settled in the neighborhood of what is now known as .Ridge Meeting House, about two miles south of Barnesville, and being under the jurisdiction of Stillwater monthly, very early had permits granted them by that "monthly" to hold "meetings of worship." The first permit was granted in the Eleventh Month, A. D., 1811, the meeting to be held at the house of Benjamin Patterson. Permits for the same purpose continued to be granted to them by that monthly for seveial years, and on the 15th day of the Ninth Month (Sept.) 1815, it established Ridge meeting and authorized "preparative." The first monthly was in 1820, by grant from Stillwater quarterly. In 1816, the Friends at the Ridge bought a lot of Joseph Patterson for a meeting house site and burial ground. The deed for the lot was made to Richard Edgerton and William Themas who were the first trustees of that meeting. A log meeting.' house was forthwith built upon the site now occupied by the frame meeting-house. It was a small structure, and the membership and attendance at divine 'worship soon became 80 large that in the year 1821 the prent frame building was erected as their place of worship. The first sermon that was preached at the old log church by a home minister was by Elizabeth Patterson. The present meeting-house will seat about 250 persons. The number of members at this time is eighty-four. Eunice Thomasson is at present the minister at, Ridge meeting. Isaac Light. foot and Jesse R. Livsey, are the overseers of men Friends and Lucy Bailey and Martha S. Bailey overseers of women Friends. The Friends' meeting at the Ridge has never been disturbed by Separatists, nor have the Friends there ever had any trouble with them about the meeting-house: The first person buried in the graveyard at Ridge meeting was Joseph Patterson, the gentleman of whom the lot was bought. Elisha Grey, the inventor of the telephone, was in early life a member of Ridge meeting. He was the son of David and Christiana Grey, and was born within a half mile of the Ridge meeting-house, on the lands now owned by Jesse Strahl, being in the southeast quarter of section 19, Warren township. THE BERRY CULTURE. Mr. Daniel Barr in the year 1859, began the cultivation of the strawberry for the use of the public on. his lot on the southwest border of the town of Barnesville. He planted only a small piece of ground, but cultivated it with great skill, and until the year 1866, he and:a few others from their gardens supplied the entire demand for that berry in the village. The Wilson's Albany Seedling was the only good variety of the strawberry planted by Mr. Barr. Soon after he began raising the strawberry, he added the Doolittle raspberry to his business, and until the year 1866, furnished all that cultivated berry that the town needed. In the year 1866, Mr. Stewart Morrow, John Scoles and the Messrs. Barlow began to plant and cultivate several acres each of those berries, Mr. Scoles being the largest raiser among them. The excellence of the Barnesville berries becoming known abroad, the raisers began to ship, them to many adjacent cities and villages. Those gentlemen, except Mr. Barr, are still in the busi- ness. In the year 1872, Mr. John Bryant and his son William also began to cultivate .those berries, planting several acres of each. About the same time, Mr. James Steer and Thomas Hal' also engaged in the business. The foreign demand increasing, and large prices being paid for the Barnesville berry, the raisers became more energetic in their cultivation, so that in the year 1875 over four thousand bushels of strawberries and over two thousand bushels of raspberries were shipped by those gentlemen to adjacent towns and cities. The raisers and shippers in that year received about fifteen cents per quart net for their strawberries, and about eight cents per quart net for their raspberries. In the year 1873, Mr, John Bolon began the cultivation of those berries, and is now quite an extensive raiser. Throughout the berry culture here, Mr. John Scoles has been much the largest raiser, excepting in the year 1875, when the Messrs. Bryant had the lead. Mr. Scoles in connection with his berry culture, carries on an extensive general gardening. operation. The varieties of the raspberry most popular with the Barnesville cultivators are the Doolittle, Mammoth Cluster and Gregg. Those of the strawberry are the Jucunda, Monarch of the West, Kentucky and Wilson's Albany Seedling. The Jucunda carries the banner for size and the price it commands, while the Wilson, like the old wheel horse to the wagon, can be relied upon for all purposes, and never disappoints expectation. Mr. John Scoles has raised Jucunda strawberries so large that thirty of them filled a quart. And several other raisers have grown the Wilson so large that forty of them filled a quart. The raspberry grown here is no larger nor of a superior quality to that raised in other parts of the great west. It is the mode of handling them that advances them so much in the city markets. The largest acreage of strawberries here has never exceeded thirty acres, and that of the raspberry not over forty acres. In this year, 1879, the strawberry acreage will not be over twenty-five acres, and the raspberry will nearly reach fifty acres. HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES - 349 We have not mentioned several small raisers, who contribute siderably to the total shipment of those berries from Barnesville, and whose berries equal in all respects those of any of the larger cultivators. R. H. Taneyhill. Esq., universally has the earliest strawberries in the market, by from a week to ten days. That, however, is owing entirely to the location of the ground. When we consider that the soil for miles around Barnesville is so peculiarly adapted to the growth of the strawberry and other small fruits, it is really astonishing that their cultivation is confined to so small an acreage. Enterprising men elsewhere would do well to direct their attention and capital to the vicinity of Barnesville and the small fruit cultivation there. ME GRAPE CULTURE. The grape mania of 1862-3 seized the people of Warren township in the year 1864, and many acres of land were prepared and set with the grape plant. High hopes were excited in the planters that ample fortunes lay ready to be grasped by them in the near future by and through their vineyards. But the plants grew, the grapes came, and the expectant future recoiled even from hope. For the grape there was no market, for the wine there were no purchasers, and rot and mildew succeeded, sweeping the vineyards into worse than worthlessness. The grape plants were dug up and the 'vineyard grounds applied to better purposes. And now there are only enough grapes raised to supply home consumption, and that is very little. The Messrs. Barlow and R. H. Taneyhill were the largest planters and hence the greatest losers from the cheat of the grape humbug. THE BLACKBERRY. The blackberry received early attention from the small fruit raisers here, and about the year 1875 was cultivated upon about five acres of ground. But the demand not being equal to the supply the cultivation of that berry has been gradually abandoned. So that at the present time only a small shipment of them is made. The soil of this township grows a superior berry, but the mist in a few years destroys the plants. ENTERPRISE NURSERIES —WILLIAM STANTON, PROPRIETOR. These nurseries, located two miles east of Barnesville, on the B & O Railroad, were established in the year 1871, by William Stanton and Wm. K. Tipton. In 1873, Mr. Stanton became sole proprietor, and has conducted the nurseries ever since. He has a green house 22x40 feet near his residence. There are twenty-five acres, occupied mostly by the nursery and orchard, and the property west corner p 3, also comprises sixty-seven acres in the northwest corner of section 4. Mr. Stanton designs to make his nurseries and green house a permanent business, and to meet the wants of the public with everything in the line,, than which nothing can be more advantageous to a farming community. PARKER & SONS' CEMENT WORKS. In the year 1857 a layer of cement rock was discovered by the outcrop on the farm of Mr. Thomas .C. Parker one mile west of Barnesville. Mr. Parker immediately had the qualities of the rock tested, and it was found to be of a very superior character. Mr. Parker forthwith proceeded to erect the necessary works for its proper manufacture. The rock is five feet five inches thick, and lies about midway between No. 8 lower vein of coal and No. 10 upper vein of coal. Its chemical analysis shows the following to be the elements whereof it is composed :