THE NEW ST. THOMAS SCHOOL
On Sunday, August 7, 1921, the cornerstone of the new St. Thomas parochial school building
was laid in the presence of a great gathering of Zanesville and out-of-town Catholics. The
structure under way had been located on the lot opposite St. Thomas Church, North Fifth Street.
The school itself had been in existence many years. Father Montgomery had founded it in 1830.
Fire had partially destroyed it in 1863 and when rebuilt another story had been added. The late
Father L. F. Kearney, pastor of St. Thomas, had long planned a new school home that would be
large and modern, in keeping with the needs of the parish; and these plans had been worked out
until now the building was under way.
Preparations for the event were placed in the hands of a general committee of which A. P. Rogge
was chairman. It was ar-ranged that the men, women and children of the St. Thomas and St.
Nicholas congregations and their visiting friends should March in the procession and an estimate
of 4,000 marchers was made.
When Sunday, August 7, came there was a fall of rain which delayed but did not lessen the size
and impressiveness of the demonstration on the streets. There were many fine floats. The
decorations were elaborate. The American flag was in evidence everywhere. Thousands saw the
long column on the march.
Bishop James Joseph Hartley, of Columbus, was in charge of the ceremonies at the school. In the
cornerstone, with due rites, were placed issues of local newspapers, a history of the old and the
new school and names of the 1921 pastors of local Catholic churches.
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The speakers of the occasion were Bishop Hartley, Rev. T. A. Powers, of Steubenville, Ohio;
Rev. A. L. Leininger, pastor of St. Nicholas Church and Rev. L. F. Kearney, pastor of St.
Thomas. Since that day the handsome structure has been completed and occupied.
IMPOSING NEW CHURCH
Another of Zanesville's splendid new churches was under way in the fall of 1921 and ready, on
Sunday, October 9, for cornerstone ceremonies. The structure was to bear the name of the First
Methodist Episcopal Church because its first predecessor, established on Moxahala Avenue, had
been Zanesville's first Methodist Church. The new church was located on Putnam Avenue and
Pierce Street and its basement and first story were almost completed when cornerstone laying day
arrived. Church, parsonage and Sunday School room were to be combined, with total dimensions
of 65 by 105 feet, and the edifice was to cost $65,000. It was to have seating capacity of 1,000
persons.
The ceremonies, which began at 4 P. M. on Sunday, October 9, were conducted by District
Superintendent Franklin McElfresh, who also laid the cornerstone. The casket of lead which was
deposited in the stone contained copies of the Bible, Methodist Discipline, Methodist Hymnal,
Western Christian Advocate, Pittsburgh Advocate, Classmate, Sunday School Advocate and
Journal, history of the church and local newspapers.
Reverends Allen Norcross, J. H. Kinney, George R. Dickinson and T. T. Crawford took part in
the ceremonies. It was a happy day for the pastor, Rev. C. D. Kaho, who had done so much for
the new church.
GREAT 1921 CHRISTMAS
The Zanesville Lodge of Eagles introduced an innovation in the year named which gave
Christmas day a most unique and happy feature. Christmas falling on Sunday, the new program
was carried out on Monday, the 26th. It consisted of a Christmas party for the children of
Zanesville.
At about noon the work of gathering up the little ones at their respective homes began and they
were conveyed, hundreds of them, to the basement of the Eagles' home on North Third Street.
When all were brought in after an enjoyable ride they were
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seated at the inviting tables and fed on the fat of the land. Among. the good thing's spread out
were sandwiches, coffee, fruit, ice cream, pop corn, candy. Many waiters were very busy as the
guests had come to the table with appetites whetted. As the hosts had spent $2,500 for the spread
itself and for the candies, nuts and toys which were distributed after the dinner, there were
enough good things to go around.
MANY OTHER GIVERS
In addition to this treat by the Eagles many pleasure-giving Christmas remembrances came from
other organizations and from private parties. The Elks distributed to needy families 350 baskets,
each containing enough holiday edibles to last a week, also candy and fruit.
The Boy Scouts handed out 200 bundles of toys which they had gathered in from Zanesville
homes and repaired. The Salvation Army made 110 recipients happy with baskets of food, etc.
Children of the Avondale home, seventy-seven of them, had a happy day owing to the Christmas
fund of $500 raised by the Times Recorder in their behalf.
The American Legion and Ladies Auxiliary contributed $400 for the pleasure and benefit of their
friends. The Federated Women's Club filled 200 stockings with candy for the little ones of the
Americanization School in lower Putnam.
The churches, the Y. M. C. A., the Brotherhood of the Central Presbyterian Church and others
gave Christmas happiness to other_ hundreds. Mrs. Katherine Bauman Geis collected funds from
benevolent Zanesville friends with which were bought for the county infirmary and the
enjoyment of its inmates a piano, an organ and a Victrola with records.
The details prove the magnitude of this collective Christmas remembrance. And the gifts were
very timely. Industrial de-pression had fallen even upon Zanesville at the close of 1921 and
Christmas that year would have been a gloomy day for many a family but for the benefactions
recorded in the foregoing.
CHAPTER LXIX
PRESIDENT HARDING HONORED MUSKINGUM
AND WAS HONORED BY IT
MOTORING EASTWARD THROUGH NEW CONCORD, HE STOPPED TO RECEIVE
DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS-OVER 5,000 VISITORS SAW THE IMPRESSIVE
CEREMONIES-TWO DOZEN PERSONS IN PRESIDENTIAL PARTY.
Friday, July 7, 1922, was a great day for New Concord and Muskingum College, for they were
hosts to the late Warren G. Harding, president of the United States, Mrs. Harding and 5,000
visitors from many parts of Ohio, who had assembled at this beautiful college town to see the
president and to witness ceremonies in which the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon
the distinguished guest by Dr. J. Knox Montgomery, the college's president.
It had been arranged that the president should receive the honor in connection with a motor trip
he and his party were making over the National Road from Marion, Ohio, to Washington City
and the program was carried out with satisfaction to all concerned. New Concord was gaily
flagged and streamered for the occasion and her people and her college played the host royally.
The entrance to Muskingum's campus was especially inviting with its wealth of patriotic
decorations.
RESTED AT THE MANSE
President Harding and his party reached New Concord at 11:30 A. M. and were conducted to the
Manse, where Dr. and Mrs. Montgomery entertained them. The ceremonies took place on the
college grounds. In opening these, President Montgomery, alluding to the Ohio Central College,
of Iberia, Ohio, where President Harding had received his degree of Bachelor of Science, told
how and under what circumstances the Ohio Central and Muskingum had been merged.
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Congressman C. Ellis Moore, of Cambridge, then formally presented President Harding for the
degree which Dr. Montgomery was waiting to confer. The latter expressed the pride he felt in
conferring such an honor upon America's most distinguished citizen.
President Harding's acknowledgment was happily conceived and admirably expressed. He
praised the college grounds and surrounding country in cordial terms and remarked that such
landscapes made good settings for the development of character and the inspiration of the mind.
He named the advantages possessed by colleges of Muskingum's type over the huge universi-ties,
advantages which included close contact between the minds of teacher and student.
PRESIDENT PLEASED THEM
The President and Mrs. Harding were in a happy mood and made a corresponding impression
upon the assembled thousands. The former's commanding form and kindly face stood out
strongly during the ceremonies of the morning and deepened the admira-tion of the onlookers.
Mrs. Harding was equally appealing and won the hearts of the throng by her gracious
acknowledgment of the cheers given her. She, like the president, was charmed with the view
from the Manse, exclaiming, "How beautiful, how beautiful !"
The ceremonies were held at "the spring" in that entrancing amphitheatre formed by nature and
which is one of Muskingum's chief attractions.
One of the impressive features was the singing of America, which was led by the Cambridge
band and joined in with patriotic fervor by the spectators and by President and Mrs. Harding.
At the close of the exercises the guests were entertained at luncheon by President and Mrs.
Montgomery and then the Harding party resumed the journey Eastward by motor. The night was
spent at Uniontown, Pa., and Washington was reached the following day.
BRIEF BUT INTERESTING HISTORY
Doctor Montgomery's historical statement was full of inter-est. It gave the facts connected with
the merger of the Ohio Central and Muskingum colleges and continued:
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"The above facts are recited to indicate the real ground upon which the board of Muskingum
College presumed to confer upon America's most distinguished citizen, President Warren
Gamaliel Harding, the degree of Doctor of Laws. As a student of Ohio Central College, through
the transfer and absorption noted above, he became in rather a vital way related to Muskingum
College which today honors itself in honoring him.
"Muskingum College was chartered in 1837 by the General Assembly of Ohio. In former years it
was without any denominational affiliation. In 1877 it came under the care of the Presbyteries of
Mansfield and Muskingum of the United Presbyterian Church.
"In 1888 it was taken under the care of the Synod of Ohio. In recent years it has enjoyed a steady
and constant growth. It now has a campus of eighty-five acres and it had last year an enrollment
of 1,448 students in all departments."
When the presidential party passed through Zanesville on that memorable July morning it
presented an interesting spectacle. Eight officers and friends accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Harding
and to these were added eleven newspaper correspondents and five secret service men. It was
estimated that over 500 Zanesville men and women motored to New Concord either ahead of or
following the presidential autos.
CHAPTER LXX
MUSKINGUM COUNTY GETS GREAT UTILITY AND
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
HER RIVER, MINERALS, GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION, RAILROADS AND LABOR
ATTRACT MILLIONS OF EASTERN CAPITAL-VAST CONSTRUCTION FOLLOWS AT
PHILO, WHITE COTTAGE AND ZANESVILLE.
In a chapter covering the year 1901 much attention was paid to industrial Zanesville for the
reason that the city's future seemed none too secure during that year and because this situation
had spurred the Citizens' League and citizens generally to put through constructive efforts of such
marked scope and with such signal success that within a few months such industries as the tube,
malleable, sheet-steel and chain plants had been added to the city's possessions.
To do this Zanesville was required to subscribe for $150,000 worth of tube mill stock and to
donate sites for the other new acquisitions; but in 1922 the community was favored with the
location in and near Zanesville of industries calling jointly for the expenditure of over
$15,000,000 without being required to lend financial aid in the form of bonus or stock taking.
The contrast renders the story of the acquisitions of 1922 historically valuable.
UNLIMITED POWER PROMISED
On August 14 the Times Recorder announced that the American Gas and Electric Company, a
corporation made up of Eastern capitalists, had acquired what is known as Carter's Island, a large
body of land lying between the canal and the river at Philo, ten miles south of Zanesville on the
Muskingum, and on September 6 the statement was added that ground had been broken there for
an electrical plant which was to furnish light and power to Zanesville and a large section of
Eastern and Southeastern Ohio.
From that day to this the corporation, now known as the Ohio Power Company, has lost no time
As each month's work was
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completed observers found new evidence of the magnitude of the enterprise and of the certainty
that Zanesville and Muskingum County's shortage of electrical light and power was soon to be a
thing of the past.
They also found through newspaper and other statements that the plant would have, when
completed, six units of 50,000 horsepower each and a steam pressure twice as great as could be
found in any power plant in the country.
WATER POWER HIGHLY APPRAISED
John McIntire, the founder of Zanesville, at the very beginning of his knowledge of its site,
looked upon the Muskingum River's water power at the mouth of the Licking as promising great
things for the town. He built a dam and dug a short canal to hasten the day of multiplying
industries. What else he might have done for that cause had he not come to that untimely end at
the age of fifty-six, in 1815, can only be surmised.
His associates and successors and Zanesville's men of affairs generally, undoubtedly expected to
see the tow-path between the head of the canal and the lower locks lined with manufactories run
by water power drawn from the canal. As late as 1868 a similar expectation was voiced in a
public address by a prominent citizen.
Those old thinkers were wrong as to the value of Muskingum River canals as a source of great
power but right as to a canal's possibilities as factors in power production. They knew little or
nothing of the economic value of water running through a plant as a steam-condenser.
Great would have been their wonderment to hear that in the first part of the twentieth century's
third decade a wealthy Eastern corporation would erect between the banks of a Muskingum River
canal and the stream itself a mighty plant whose source of power would be coal instead of water.
LIMESTONE A MAGNET
And while the Philo utility was being constructed upon ground chosen largely because of the
land's position between canal and river, but in part because of its nearness to great coal beds and
its rail and river connection with greater veins more distant, another huge establishment was
under way at White Cottage,
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eight miles southwest of Zanesville, whose site had been chosen by the experts of a great
Pennsylvania corporation, the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, because beneath the ground there
was deposited a stratum of limestone peculiarly adapted to enter into glass and cement
productions.
This plant has been constructed at a cost of $3,000,000 and for a working force of 250 men and a
production of 2,500 barrels of cement a day, besides great quantities of crushed stone for
highways, concrete work, railroad ballast, etc. The plant stands on a 350-acre tract which is
underlaid with limestone and it has connection via the New York Central and Pennsylvania
Central lines and with the other Zanesville railroads. Additions since made double the plant's
capacity.
As was said in the beginning of this chapter the. Philo and White Cottage acquisitions came
without cost to the community. Our river, our location and our minerals were the attractions
which caused millions of outside capital to seek investment here.
NEW GLASS WORKS
The same is partly true of the new glass factory erected in 1922-23 on the Terminal Railroad, just
outside of Zanesville, by the Kearns-Gorsuch Bottle Company, a division of the Hazel-Atlas
Glass Company, of Wheeling, W. Va., at a cost of several million dollars, with a capacity of ten
or twelve carloads of glass a day and capable of keeping 750 hands busy.
The company owns and operates another glass plant at the foot of Market Street in Zanesville
which for many years has been signally prosperous. When the new plant was announced, stock in
the concern was offered to Zanesville citizens and freely purchased but- the choice of Zanesville
as the location of the new works was not conditioned upon the number or amount of Zanesville's
investments in the company's shares.
To sum up, the most fruitful and extensive industrial development in the history of Muskingum
County took place in 1922- 1923, because of her superb navigable water course, the Muskingum
River; her central location and many railroads; her mineral wealth and the intelligence, good
citizenship and other high qualities of her working people.
It would leave this history incomplete if we failed to make a note of it.
CHAPTER LXXI
A PROSPEROUS COUNTY IN THE MIDDLE '20s
GREAT PROGRESS MADE IN ROAD BUILDING-CONSTRUCTION WORK REMAINED
HEAVY-VILLAGES MADE PROGRESS-NEW HONORS FOR ZANESVILLE-LITERARY
DIGEST'S TRIBUTE-A PLACE ON THE AIR MAP-COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
CONTINUED-TRAFFIC ON THE MUSKINGUM-GOVERNMENT WANTS WATER
POWER USED-RURAL POPULATION SHRINKS-LOCAL MINERAL
WEALTH-SIGNIFICANT STATISTICS-NEW CHURCHES AND SOME OLD ONES-LAST
WORD ON LOCAL CONDITIONS-ANNEXATION IN 1927.
The prosperous conditions described in an earlier chapter as prevailing throughout Muskingum
County at the close of 1924 continued and at many points made gains during 1925, 1926 and
1927, with equally friendly relations between employer and employee.
Among the several fields of activity in which marked advancement was registered was that of
road improvement. The work undertaken by the Good Roads Association of Muskingum County,
the Muskingum Motor Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the county commissioners, the surveyor
and the prosecuting attorney of the county and by enterprising men in their private capacities,
bore remarkable fruit and state and national good-roads authorities fairly went out of the way to
render their powerful aid on realizing how willing Muskingum County was to help herself.
Summing up the results achieved Karl S. Dixon, manager of the Zanesville Chamber of
Commerce, said in the summer of 1926:
PROGRESS IN ROAD BUILDING
"Now we are in the era of highway building. We find Zanesville located on three main market
roads, namely, the National Highway; second, the road running from Cleveland through New
Philadelphia, Coshocton, Dresden, Zanesville, New Lexington, Rushville, Lancaster, Washington
Court House and to Cincin-
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nati ; third, a road from Zanesville through McConnelsville and Marietta and ori to Florida. Of
these, the National Highway is completed; important work on the South River Road was
promoted last summer and fall, while the last two miles of unimproved road on the Maysville
Pike in Muskingum County will be improved next summer, leaving only twenty miles to be
improved in Perry County to put Zanesville on an improved highway from Cleveland to
Cincinnati. Work on the improvement of secondary highways is in progress in every township in
Muskingum County and fine progress is being made on three inter-county roads, the highway
from Trinway to the Licking County line, a distance of eleven miles; the completion of the
Maysville Pike improvement from Fultonham to the Perry County line, a distance of two miles,
and the grading and resurfacing of the Chandlersville Road from the end of the present
improvement to Chandlersville, a distance of seven miles, and thence to the Guernsey County
line at Cumberland. Muskingum County, with its extensive mileage of permanently improved
highways and with the largest state appropriation ($49,000) awarded any county under the Green
law for the improvement of secondary highways, is pointing the way to every county in the
state."
County Surveyor Albert T. Connor reported, August 30, 1927, the following figures to show
what vast progress Muskingum County has made in road improvement. Her "good roads" now
consist of 77.6 miles of hard surfaced state highways ; 34 miles of traffic-bound state highways;
15.2 miles of hard surfaced county roads, and 80 miles of traffic-bound county roads.
Muskingum County, it is noted, has a total road mileage of any and all kinds of roads—most of it
on no system that antici-pates improvement—of 1,237 miles. Only Washington County, Ohio,
has a slightly larger mileage.
CITY CONSTRUCTION WORK
The years 1925 and 1926 were marked by many and varied building operations. The size of a
number of existing industries was added to because of the need for increased capacity, new
churches were begun, new business houses went up and the con-struction of homes was
continued on a very considerable scale. The improvement and enlargement of Zanesville banking
and mercantile quarters was a conspicuous feature of the building
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activities. References to some of these operations are made on other pages of this work. Among
outstanding city structures now under way or just completed are the Y. W. C. A.'s new Sixth
Street home, the Zanesville Publishing Company's new Fourth Street newspaper home and the St.
John's Lutheran Church's new edifice at Market and Seventh streets.
VILLAGES FORGING AHEAD
Numerous important forward steps were taken in these county units in 1925 and 1926. The
acquisition of electricity for light and power by Nashport, Irville, Adamsville, Norval Park,
Duncan Falls and other villages is to be noted in this connection. South Zanesville completed the
paving of two of its streets in June, 1926, and decided to erect a municipal building. New
Concord has succeeded in adding to its quota of paved streets, homes and business houses.
Dresden has been assured of ample electrical power and light by reason of the purchase at a cost
of $25,000 of the Dresden Illuminating Company's property and rights by the Utilities Service
Company of Cleveland. When the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company announced in the summer of
1926, that $1,500,000 would be spent on additions to their White Cottage plant in order to
double its capacity, Forest E. Roberts, of that village, began preparations to erect forty new and
modern homes there to house the expected additions to the cement plants working force.
Roseville is planning to install motorized fire fighting appliances and to otherwise advance the
welfare of her busy and prosperous citizens. Excellent evidence of Roseville's important position
will be found in the numerous sketches of her residents which are printed in the biographical
section of this work.
MUSKINGUM COUNTY'S RURAL SCHOOLS
The County School Board endeavors to keep these up on a modern scale, in teaching and
equipment, for the 7,000 students who are receiving instruction from 300 teachers. The school
buildings approximate 150 in number. About 115 of these are one-room structures; the remainder
include from two to eight rooms each, of which seventeen are high school buildings. The high
schools at Nashport, Frazeysburg, Dresden, Westview, South Zanesville, Roseville, Philo, and
Adamsville are modern in con-
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struction and equipment. The other high school buildings are modern in equipment, but not in
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NEW HONORS FOR ZANESVILLE
During 1926 several recognitions of Zanesville's strong position among American cities came
without any concerted effort on the part of its citizens.
The first paid tribute to Zanesville as a clay-working center and consisted of the establishment of
an office here by The National Clay Products Industries Association, to care for that
corporation's Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky in-terests. The office was placed
in charge of W. J. Kirkpatrick, secretary of the Zanesville Manufacturers' Association. The
National Clay Products Industries Association was organized in 1920 and embraces manufacture
of tile, pottery, brick, sewer pipe, etc., and also the operation of clay mines.
LITERARY DIGEST'S TRIBUTE
Zanesville was included in the Literary Digest's 1925 survey of American industrial cities and
stood that publication's tests so well as to be pronounced by it an important city, population
considered and from an economic point of view. The Zanesville Signal of August 5, 1926, said of
this:
"The survey attracted world-wide attention and the honor accorded Zanesville has caused many
cities of approximately the same size to focus their attentions on this city to learn how it is done."
A PLACE ON THE AIR MAP
The third honor placed Zanesville on the air map at the in-stance of Edsel Ford, of the Ford
Motor Company, with the assist-ance of the company's Zanesville representative, Charles N.
Harvey. The Zanesville Signal said of this in its issue of April 27, 1926:
"Zanesville has been placed upon the aerial map of the country through the joint efforts of Edsel
Ford of the Ford Motor Company, and Charles N. Harvey, Ford dealer in Zanesville. About
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ten days ago a personal request was received by Mr. Harvey from Mr. Ford that the name of this
city be painted upon the roof of the Harvey garage at 825-27 Main Street, for the benefit of the
many aviators who daily fly over this city, and especially to guide the United States mail planes
which pass over Zanesville.
"Accordingly the word 'Zanesville' was painted on the roof of the Harvey garage in aluminum
bronze letters five feet high and four feet, nine inches in width. The word runs from west to east
and is clearly visible at a great height. The painting was laid out by compass and a huge arrow
pointing directly north, also was painted upon the roof.
"This work was just completed a couple of days ago and already Mr. Harvey is in receipt of
congratulatory messages, thanking him for the help he has rendered aviators passing over
Zanesville. The marking on the Harvey garage is but a link in a system which is to be spread over
the entire country, as all the Ford dealers on the principal airways of the nation are painting signs
on the roofs of their garages.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
The community activities described in earlier chapters as having originated in the old Seventh
Ward of the city, spreading first to Putnam and later to the northeast section of the city, reached a
remarkable development in Putnam during 1926 where it culminated in August of the year in a
week given up to a merchants' exposition, a pumpkin show and a series of entertainments—
vaudeville, music, etc.—which brought out all the inhabitants of Putnam itself and drew
thousands of spectators from other portions of Zanesville and the surrounding country. The
Putnam Amusement Association has set a genuine standard of value for communities here or
elsewhere who want to develop the neighborhood idea along useful lines.
RURAL POPULATION SHRINKS
Muskingum County farmers are perhaps as prosperous as those of the average community; but in
spite of this, the rural population of the county has fallen off, (as has been the case elsewhere) but
to a less extent than in many other sections of the country. In its issue of July 2, 1926, the
Zanesville Times Re-
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corder printed the following statistics regarding the shrinkage which, while not very pleasant
reading, are significant contributions to local history
"Study of the census figures in Muskingum County for the past four decades reveals the
astonishing fact that since 1850 the population of the county outside of Zanesville has been
constantly decreasing. In 1850 the rural population of the county was 37,120, the largest in the
history of the county, while the population of the city was only 7,929. In 1860 the rural
population had decreased to 35,187 and the city had grown to 9,229. Ten years later the number
of rural residents had dropped to 34,855 and the City had grown to 10,011. During the next ten
years the exodus from the farms was more marked, the country population dropping to 31,661
and the city jumping to 18,113. In 1890 the city had grown to 21,000 and the country had
dropped to 30,201. In 1900 the population of the city was 23,538 and that of the county outside
of the city 29,557. Ten years later the city had grown to 28,026 and the country population had
dropped to 29,462. The 1920 federal census gives the city a population of 29,569 and the coynty
outside of Zanesville 28,411."
ANNEXATION IN 1927
After a long struggle in legislative halls and the courts much of the territory surrounding
Zanesville was annexed. If higher courts do not render adverse decisions annexation will add
from 5,000 to 7,000 inhabitants to the 1920 total, which was 29,526. As it is estimated that
growth within the old limits had amounted to 3,000 or more before annexation, the city's present
population, if annexation stands, may be estimated at about 37,000.
POPULATION OF ZANESVILLE ABOUT 40,000
The population of Zanesville at the opening of 1928, eight years after the last decennial census, is
38,439, compared with 29,569 in 1920, an increase of 30.0 per cent, according to a survey just
completed for the Times Recorder by the Newspaper Feature Bureau. The population of the city
and adjacent urban territory of the Zanesville metropolitan district is estimated at 45,000.
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Characteristics of the Zanesville population are:
|
1920
census
|
1928
survey
|
Population
Males
Females
Persons over 21
Males
Females
Families
|
29,569
14,293
15,276
19,159
9,174
9,985
7,958
|
38,439
18,581
19,858
24,907
11,926
12,981
10,345
|
The survey is based on statistics from local sources, giving the city's gains since the 1920 census
in the factors essential to popu-lation growth:
Excess of births over deaths in the city since the 1920 census, numbering 2,970.
Increase of 24.0 per cent since 1920 in the number of qualified voters in the city.
Increase of 30.0 per cent since 1920 in the number of youth of school age.
Increase of 24.0 per cent since 1920 in the number of active domestic water services.
Annexation of territory in 1927 with population estimated be-tween 4,000 and 5,000.
Chamber of Commerce estimate of 37,000 population for the city in 1927, inclusive of the
annexed territory.
OCCUPATIONAL ESTIMATES
Opening of 1928 estimates for residents of Zanesville engaged in the principal gainful
occupations, together with the 1920 census figures, follow :
|
Males
|
1920
census
|
1928
estimate
|
Persons over 30 years
All occupations
Manufactures-mining
Transportation
Trade
Professional service
Domestic-personal service
Clerical service
|
11,726
9,554
5,475
932
1,584
359
384
570
|
15,244
12,420
7,118
1,232
2,059
467
499
741
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|
Female
|
|
|
Persons over 10 years
All occupations
Manufactures
Transportation
Trade
Professional service
Domestic-personal service
Clerical service
|
12,638
2,785
1,015
73
298
298
638
456
|
16,429
3,621
1,320
95
387
387
829
593
|
LOCAL MINERAL WEALTH
Zanesville's first supplies of natural gas were furnished in 1898 by the Great Southern Gas & Oil
Company and were drawn from the company's field at Sugar Grove, Ohio, and conveyed in eight
inch pipes to this City. In June, 1902, the Ohio Fuel Supply Company took over the Great
Southern Company's rights and property, connecting Zanesville with the Licking-Knox field in
1903. At a later period the Zanesville line was connected with extensive West Virginia wells and
this city has from the first been favored with ample supplies. In recent years the Ohio Fuel
Supply Company has been the source of most of the Zanesville supply, the exceptions being a
limited industrial flow from nearby fields.
GAS SUPPLIES INCREASE
Recently, however, gas yields in the Brush Creek and Harri-son township gas and oil fields have
greatly increased and in August of 1926 pipes were being laid to Zanesville by the Swingle Oil &
Gas Company with the prospect that Muskingum County's industrial plants would have a new
and large supply of the fuel to draw upon. The great development of the gas wells in western
Guernsey County, at the Muskingum boundary line, also prom-ises an increased supply for
Zanesville, while the gas fields of the Bloomfield section are likewise promising. In the summer
of 1926 the work of laying a twelve inch main to link up the Guern-sey and Bloomfield territory
with the Utica, Licking County, Ohio, field, was begun and it was announced that this main
would cross the Muskingum River at Dresden. The development of oil
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fields in the county has not kept pace with that of gas, but Zanesville is still the center of
oil-producing sands.
MOLDING SAND DEVELOPMENT
Recent tests made of the Muskingum County deposits of this valuable mineral indicate a much
larger local supply of it than appeared to be available even two or three years ago. The past of
this mineral has been very bright. Ohio is said to contain more of it than exists in half of the
United States and Muskingum County is credited with possessing half of Ohio's supply. The
future of this county's molding sand mining and shipping is therefore more than ever promising.
STATISTICS COVERING 1925-1926
Zanesville's fire department fought the flames of 1925 with its usual success. The true alarms
answered totaled 196; the value of buildings and their contents involved amounted to $956,199;
the loss sustained was but $39,994.
The Zanesville post office receipts reached the $200,000 mark in 1925, a gain of 6 per cent over
1924.
The city school enumeration of May, 1926, revealed a total of 6,338 children of school age. The
1924 total was 6,174.
The city building permits in 1925, with December omitted, totaled $678,000—a slight loss
compared with 1924.
Tax collections in Muskingum County have risen steadily for twenty-six years. The figures are:
1900, $510,316.50; 1910, $698,651.19; 1920, $1,225,432.69; 1924, $1,831,097.02; 1925,
$2,102,543.69.
Zanesville had no strikes in 1925. The county tax duplicate gained about $6,000,000 in 1924 as
compared with the record for 1923.
NEW CHURCHES AND SOME OLD ONES
Begun in the spring of 1926, St. John's Lutheran Church was completed in the year 1927.
Located at the corner of Market and Seventh streets and of imposing architecture, it commands
attention and makes an impressive addition to Zanesville's quota of handsome church edifices.
The cornerstone was laid Sunday afternoon, May 30, 1926. Hundreds were unable to gain
entrance
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to the church and stood on the streets in their efforts to hear sermons by Rev. S. E. Greenwalt of
Wittenberg College and Rev. W. M. Hackenberg of Mansfield, secretary of the synod of Ohio.
Rev. William Long Dowler, pastor of the church, officiated at the actual laying of the
cornerstone. The ceremonies were opened with a hymn followed by a responsive reading and
after the ser-vices at the new church the throng marched to the old building where the services
were concluded. As completed the church is one of the most beautiful and modern in this part of
Ohio. It is of the cathedral type and is constructed of variegated brick, trimmed with stone. The
plans and specifications for the structure provided for the expenditure of $122,015 for the church
building proper.
The auditorium seats about six hundred people and it is hoped that the congregation will be able
in the near future to proceed with the erection of the Sunday School room. A large, light
basement under the auditorium is a feature of the finished structure. The ladies' congregational
service society has financed the build-ing of a, commodious kitchen which will be a part of the
basement. E. Mast and Sons, local contractors and members of the congre-gation, were general
contractors for the work.
THE TRINITY LUTHERAN
This congregation celebrated the rededication of the rebuilt church, November 1925, after
making the building practically a new One. The exterior is of brick and stone, the ceiling is of the
beam type. The building thus renovated is the third church building of Trinity congregation. The
first building was of frame, erected on the lot where the parsonage now stands in 1845. This
stood for some years when a small brick church was erected. This was built by the efforts of the
church members who contributed sums ranging from 6 cents to $2. The most of the sum was paid
"in trade," after the manner of those days. The third building, the church as it was before the
present renovation, was erected in 1866 at a cost of $15,000. It was considered at that time the
finest church building of the Missouri Synod in Ohio.
Trinity Lutheran Church is one of the oldest congregations in the city. It was founded by a
number of former members of the Evangelical Church. These under their pastor the Rev. Mr.
Minner for a time held services in the old courthouse. In 1844 the
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first pastor, Rev. Mr. Bartels, was called, and he used his energies to form a congregation on
conservative Lutheran principles.
NORTH TERRACE CHURCH OF CHRIST
This congregation's handsome new house of worship was erected at the corner of Frazeysburg
Road and Calwell Street in 1926 and the dedication occurred October 11, well attended, services
taking place morning, afternoon and evening. In architecture the new edifice is a modified
primitive Gothic and the walls are of Zanesville brick. The interior walls bear mottled
decorations. Rev. W. B. Hendershot is the pastor.
Among the Zanesville churches but incidentally mentioned in our running story of events are the
Trinity, Central and A. M. E. and we here submit additional data concerning them.
TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
The Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church was in part erected in 1841-42, when it was known as
the Seventh Street M. E. Church, its location being on Seventh Street at the east end of North.
Services were held in its stone basement as early as 1843 and the structure was completed in
1845. The name was changed to Trinity about 1891. Its present pastor, Rev. Jas. H. Kinney, has
served the church for seventeen years with extraordinary fidelity.
THE CENTRAL METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
This strong organization's nucleus was a mission Sunday School formed in 1865 in the
southeastern section of Zanesville. Through the liberality of Rev. David Young, who had married
John McIntire's widow in 1816, a lot was purchased at the corner of Seventh and South streets
and in 1887 a handsome and commodious church edifice was erected. J. Vernon Stone is the
present pastor.
ST. PAUL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
This flourishing congregation of colored worshipers was organized in 1826 at Ellen Feelin's
North Seventh Street home, where meetings were held for several months, until a small building
on Market Street east of Seventh was occupied. The first church home was located near the river
a little east of Eighth
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Street, the next meeting house was the frame schoolhouse on Putnam Hill and later a frame
church was built on Ninth Street near South Street. Several years later the brick church on. South
Street between Third and Fourth was purchased. On its site in 1876 the congregation built a brick
church at a cost of $7,000. This was remodeled in 1913 and an annex was added in 1924, which
wholly modernized the structure. The record shows that St. Paul Church has been progressive
through the years. Rev. Charles J. Powell is the present pastor.
CHURCH LAYMEN BANQUET
With nearly one thousand, one hundred representative laymen of the twenty-three Protestant
churches in Zanesville participating in a striking demonstration of unity and faith, the banquet
meeting of the Zanesville Church Laymen's Association was held at the Palace Gardens, March
15, 1926. It was the largest banquet ever held in Zanesville and perhaps the largest gathering of
its kind ever staged in the state of Ohio.
The meeting was arranged as an anti-climax to the movement to increase Sunday School
attendance in the Protestant congregations during the winter months and had as other objectives
the attendance of 10,000 in Sunday School sessions on Easter Sunday and, also, 1,000 converts
to Christianity on Easter. All of these objectives were stressed at the meeting and met with the
enthusiastic endorsement of the laymen present.
Ernest B. Schneider was toastmaster at the banquet and presented the pastors of the twenty-three
Protestant churches in Zanesville who were present at the meeting.
LAST WORD ON LOCAL CONDITIONS
Karl Dixon, manager of the Zanesville Chamber of Commerce, submitted to that body's
members, October 1, 1926, a report on local conditions which we here reproduce as a fitting end
to the running story of this history of Zanesville and Muskingum County. It will afford the future
historian a useful survey when he takes up city and county affairs at the point which the present
historian has reached as he lays them down :
"In conclusion it may be pointed out that all Zanesvillans have reason to take pride—and the
Chamber of Commerce most
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certainly shares that pride—in the wonderful progress which is being made by Zanesville
industrially, in retail lines, in jobbing and wholesale lines and civically. Industrially within the
past year the Mosaic Tile Company has erected a half million dollar addition to its plant; the
Fraunfelter China Company has added a second story to a part of its plant; the. Empire Floor &
Wall Tile Company has added a big addition and recently let another contract for a new $20,000
warehouse; the American Encaustic Tiling Company has made very material additions to its
productive facilities; the Standard Tile Company has added two more kilns, thus bringing the
total to twelve, which doubles its original capacity of six just about three years ago; the Marietta
Rustic Company has added garden pottery to its line of products; the Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Company is adding a very large addition to its plant. at Fultonham which will double the output
of cement, raising it from 2,500 to 5,000 barrels per day; the Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Company is again making steel pipe at the Zanesville plant—the first time in two years and is
employing the largest number of men in that two year period; the addition to the Federal Radiator
& Boiler plant has already been referred to; and the American Rolling Mill Company is
expending approximately $200,000 on a new research laboratory, additional productive facilities
and plant enlargement; the Ludman-Mansperger Company has erected a fine new four story plant
on South Fourth Street in which are now consolidated all of the former manufacturing operations
in Zanesville, Cambridge and Columbus; the B. & O. Railway is adding materially to its electric
box signal works; the Brown Manufacturing Company is now making automobile bodies and a
number of other worthwhile industrial enlargements could be enumerated.
"The Zanesville Publishing Company is just completing one of the finest newspaper plants in the
state, same being located on South Fourth Street. The payroll of the combined newspapers is now
approximately $200,000, which in a city like Zanesville is a very important item. The First Trust
& Savings Bank is about to move into its fine new home at the corner of Main and Fifth streets.
The G. J. Aitken department store home was recently completed and that big new retail
undertaking is under way. Excellent progress is being made in the preliminary steps for the
building of the new Y. W. C. A. home on North Sixth Street. It
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is also expected that, in the near future, contract will be let for the new Brown Theater on South
Fifth Street on the site formerly occupied by the Zanesville Publishing Company. The J. C.
Penney Company has also just leased the Shinnick estate rooms on Main Street between Sixth
and Seventh streets and extensive remodeling will be done looking to the material enlargement of
that company's store.
"The new Zane Hotel was opened to the public last Christmas, and now the Hotel Rogge is
building a big addition to accommodate the increased custom that looks to Zanesville for good
accommodations.
"Zanesville has been determined the 'Typical American City' through a survey conducted by the
Literary Digest. This city, it was found, has exceptionally well balanced industry, has good
schools, churches, library, clubs, organizations, social contacts and services which are desirable;
good public utilities and public conveniences; good streets, sidewalks, sewers, waterworks, street
lighting and governmental administration; has few citizens of foreign birth; has a citizenship,
many of whom are of sturdy pioneer stock; and has all of the facilities and accommodations
which make for happiness and which might naturally be expected to be found in a city the size of
Zanesville."
CHAPTER LXXII
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
STATESMEN, GENERALS, BISHOPS, AND OTHERS WHO WERE BORN IN OR SPENT
PART OF THEIR LIVES IN MUSKINGUM COUNTY.
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS
When the late F. H. Southard eulogized the memory of that statesman during the Zanesville
ceremonies paying tribute to the vice president, who had passed away in Indianapolis, November
25, 1885, he dwelt upon the fact that the dead official had come up "from the humble walks of
life." There was warrant for that because Mr. Hendricks had been born in a log cabin located on
Jonathan Creek, a short distance from Uniontown (Fultonham), this county.
In this home the second son, Thomas Andrews Hendricks, was born September' 7, 1819. In 1822
the family removed to Shelbyville, Ind., Where Thomas A.'s boyhood was spent. There he began
the practice of law. As early as 1848 the young man was elected to the Legislature.
He continued to climb. The year 1851 found him a democratic congressman from the
Indianapolis district. At the close of his term, President Pierce appointed him commissioner of
the general land office. Resigning in 1859 to become democratic candidate for the office of
governor and being defeated by Col. Henry S. Lane, Hendricks was the recipient of a new honor
in 1862, when the Legislature sent him to the United States Senate.
Senator Hendricks again sought the Indiana governorship in 1872, this time with success. On
entering the office he had the distinction of being the only Northern democratic governor. In
1876 he was Samuel J. Tilden's running mate, and in 1884 Grover Cleveland's. He died in
Indianapolis, Ind., November 25, 1885.
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LEWIS CASS
This famous man was not born on Muskingum County soil but he launched his career upon it and
lived among our forbears for eight years. Great national honors came upon him but his career was
started in this community where he was elected prosecuting attorney and later a member of the
State Legislature. On entering the War of 1812 he gave up the former office.
Lewis Cass was born at Exeter, N. H., October 9, 1782. His father, Maj. Jonathan Cass, won a
good soldier's fame in the War of the Revolution—at Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Trenton, Princeton,
Monmouth, Germantown, and Valley Forge. In the regular army under Wayne, he served his
country again, taking part in the campaign against the Indians.
In 1797 Major Cass purchased military land warrants representing 4,000 acres. When he drew for
choice of location that number of acres was available in northern Muskingum, near Dresden and
there he settled in 1801, with his wife and four children. Lewis, the eldest son, remained at
Exeter, in attendance at the Exeter Academy, with Daniel Webster as one of his schoolmates.
Having graduated therefrom he followed his family to Marietta, where he studied law under
Return Jonathan Meigs. In 1804 he removed to Zanesville to practice his profession. He came to
the front at once, for the county chose him, in 1804, to be its first prosecuting attorney. In 1806
he represented the county in the general assembly. There he drew up the assembly's address to
President Thomas Jefferson on the subject of Aaron Burr's expedition and fathered the bill
providing for the seizure of Burr's supplies and boats.
He entered the army in 1812 and was colonel of volunteers. At the close of the war he was in
command of the territory of Michigan. Still later he was governor of the State of Michigan and
superintendent of Indian affairs. His experience as a soldier and with the Indians moved Andrew
Jackson to invite him into his cabinet and he was Secretary of War for six years. For the same
length of time he was minister to France. On his return to this country Michigan sent him (in
1845) to the United States Senate.
Having been nominated for the Presidency in 1848 Cass resigned from the Senate and devoted
himself to the furtherance of his candidacy. His friends and followers stoutly claimed that he
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would have won the prize but for Martin Van Buren's personal campaign to bring about his
rival's defeat. Michigan stood by the loser with a loyalty calculated to blunt the edge of his
disappointment. Her Legislature returned him to the Senate to complete his unexpired term.
Buchanan placed him at the head of his cabinet.
When the President refused to reinforce Fort Sumter, Secretary of State Cass took action which
was to have been expected in the light of his antecedents, character and patriotism; he resigned
from the cabinet and became an influential and thoroughgoing supporter of the Union throughout
the war.
The general's last years were spent quietly and peacefully in his Detroit home. There his love of
books was freely satisfied. Patiently and cheerfully he awaited the end. He lived to see the Union
saved and slavery abolished. At the age of eighty-four, he passed away on June 17, 1866. He was
one of the original organizers of Amity Lodge, F. and A. M., of Zanesville, and as a Mason won
high honors.
SAMUEL SULLIVAN COX
Was one of Zanesville's native sons who went out into the big world and became famous. He had
won local notice as a boy while still a resident of the place, for at the age of thirteen he was
assistant to his fattier, who was then clerk of the Common Pleas and Supreme courts. In this
capacity the boy swore in jurors and wit. nesses. At fourteen he was formally appointed deputy
clerk. He was born in Zanesville September 30, 1824. At the age of twenty-nine years he,
purchased a controlling interest in the Columbus, Ohio,. Statesman, assumed editorial charge and
removed to that city. He was elected to Congress from the Columbus district in 1856, serving
four terms; became a resident of New York City in 1866 and practiced law there until 1868,
when he was elected to Congress from an East Side district. As a national legislator Mr. Cox's
activities often took a practical and constructive turn. For instance he set himself the task of
securing for the nation's letter carriers pay commensurate with their fidelity and labors. He won a
great victory for them by putting through a bill in their behalf. Mr. Cox's interest in the life
saving service was of a like character, the service being established (in 1871) largely because of
his labors in its behalf.
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GEN. M. D. LEGGETT
Two men who went from Zanesville to serve their country in the Civil war won the distinction of
attracting Gen. U. S. Grant's favorable notice by reason of their marked ability and of highly
honorable records in their respective fields of action; and the general was so sure of their
personal worth that after entering the White House he chose one of them, Gen. Mortimer D.
Leggett, to be commissioner of patents, and the other, Dr. John G. F. Holston, to be the White
House physician.
Mortimer D. Leggett was born of Quaker stock at Ithaca, N. Y., on April 19, 1821. His father
moved with his family to a farm in Geauga County, Ohio, where young Mortimer worke until he
was eighteen years old. He then attended Kirtland Seminary and graduated at the head of his
class. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1844. In the same year from Willoughby
Medical College he received the degree 'of M. D.
At this early age he took profound interest in the publi schools. In 1846 he went to Akron, Ohio,
and established the firs graded free schools west of the Alleghany mountains. In 1850 he began
the practice of law and six years later became professor of pleading and practice in Ohio State
College at Poland. When he came to Zanesville in 1857 he still held the Poland professorship but
his time was chiefly given to the city's public schools, of which he became superintendent. He
filled that position with characteristic thoroughness and fidelity, but when the Civil war broke
out the call to service aroused him to speedy action.
Early in 1861 he went to West Virginia with General McClellan. Later in the year Governor
Dennison issued a special commission to him under which in forty days he enrolled in Zanesville
1,040 volunteers for the Seventy-eighth 0. V. I. Colonel Leggett commanded the regiment at Fort
Donelson, Shiloh, where he was wounded, and at Corinth in June, 1862, he commanded a
brigade at Jackson, Tenn., which place he captured and he defended Bolivar, Tenn., against a
largely superior force. He was wounded at Champion's Hill and Vicksburg.
One of his biographers has said of General Leggett:
"He served with distinction in most of the important battles and passed through successive grades
of rank, being breveted major general in 1863, assigned to command the third division of
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the Seventeenth Army Corps and placed in charge of the post at Vicksburg." He commanded an
army corps during Sherman's march to the sea "and at the grand review at the close of the war no
general officer was more warmly welcomed by the President than was General Leggett, who was
that day received as a national hero." On August 21 he was commissioned major general of
volunteers, but resigned September 28 of that year. Returning to Zanesville at the close of the
war he became interested in the daily and weekly Courier.
General Leggett's old commander, U. S. Grant, did not forget his subordinate after entering the
White House, but drafted him into the public service as commissioner of patents, which office he
filled from 1871 to 1875. General Leggett resigned the office in 1875 and removed to Cleveland
where he made a specialty of patent law practice. Later he helped organize the Brush Electric
Company and was its president until 1884. He died in 1896.
GENERAL G. F. WILES
One of General Leggett's officers whose army record was of a meritorious character was
Greenbury F. Wiles. Rising step by step he became colonel of the Seventy-eighth O. V. I., and by
the close of the war he was a brevet brigadier general. He was a resident of Putnam when the war
began.
He had earned his promotions by unfailing bravery, by devotion to his duties and by certain
special exhibitions of fitness for command. He is said to have been one of the best drill-masters
in the army, partly because of his intimate knowledge of the manual and also because of the great
volume of his voice.
The strength of his vocal organs was in keeping with his stature, depth of chest and general bulk.
Over six feet tall, his size and erect bearing made him look every inch the soldier. He left
Zanesville in 1879 for Kansas, where he engaged in farming for several years. Later he removed
to New York state. There he died as the result of his second attack of typhoid fever.
General Wiles began service October 26, 1861, as first lieutenant in the Seventy-eighth O. V. I.
As the best drill officer in the regiment, he was soon appointed its drill-master; was promoted to
a captaincy in May, 1862 ; was detailed by Gen. John M.
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Logan to command the division engineer corps, winning in that capacity the praise of all
concerned.
His commission as lieutenant-colonel was received May 16, 1863. Taking immediate command
of the regiment he was within an hour an important factor in the battle of Champion's Hill, giving
an exhibition of calm courage and admirable skill. Colonel Wiles took an important part in the
siege of Vicksburg and as commander of the forces at Jackson repulsed the enemy's attack.
He became colonel of the regiment September 1, 1863, and commanded it until July 22, 1864,
when he took charge of a brigade. He was brevetted brigadier-general at the close of the war for
meritorious conduct.
VAN HORNE, VAN VOORHIS, BLOCKSOM, DURFEE
Although Zanesville's Battery C and Company L did not reach Cuba during the war with Spain
the city was gallantly represented on the battlefields there. Among the representatives were Wm.
M. Van Horne, then a major in the Twenty-second U. S. Infantry, afterwards brevetted a
brigadier-general ; Augustus P. Blocksom, then in command of the Sixth U. S. Cavalry,
afterwards brevetted a brigadier-general; and Wm. C. Van Horne, son of General Van Horne, and
color sergeant of the Eighteenth Regiment, U. S. A. To these might be added Col. L. L. Durfee,
for the Colonel participated actively in the Cuban campaign and was later a resident
of Zanesville. Colonel Durfee also took part in the World war,
as did Colonel Van Voorhis.
BISHOP C. C. M'CABE
It is a noteworthy fact that two Zanesville men of the '60s were born in the same Ohio town,
helped to recruit soldiers for the Civil war, served the Union themselves, were Methodist
ministers and pastors of two different Zanesville churches, and rounded out their careers by
becoming bishops. One of these was Charles Cardwell McCabe, the other David Hastings
Moore.
Charles Cardwell McCabe was born at Athens, O., October 11, 1836, and died in New York,
December 19, 1906. His father, a native of Marietta, Ohio, was a railroad contractor. Charles’
education was had in the Athens and Burlington, Iowa, schools and at Ohio Wesleyan University,
Delaware.
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In 1860 he became a Methodist minister, his first charge being the Moxahala Avenue Church, of
Putnam, now a part of Zanesville. The Civil war stirred his love of country and in 1862 he
enlisted and was elected chaplain of the One Hundred and Twenty-second O. V. I., after having
helped to recruit it. The regiment saw constant and costly service under Grant from the Rapidan
to Appomattox and under Sheridan in the Valley of Virginia, losing 582 men in killed and
wounded.
The Confederates captured Chaplain McCabe at Winchester, Va., in June, 1863, and he spent
four months in Libby prison. Upon release he rejoined his regiment but prison life had broken his
health and he passed through the great grief of being forced to stay behind when the next forward
movement came. In the service he became known as the "fighting parson."
BISHOP DAVID H. MOORE
David Hastings Moore was born at Athens, Ohio, September 4, 1838, son of Hon. Eliakim
Hastings and Amy (Barker) Moore and descendant of Thomas and Susanna Hastings, who came
from Ipswich, England, in 1634, and settled at Watertown, Mass. David was graduated at Ohio
University in 1860 and was ordained to the ministry in September of that year. He died in
Cincinnati, November 23, 1915.
When the War of the Rebellion broke out he helped to recruit the Sixty-third and
Seventy-seventh O. V. I. regiments, and enlisted in May, 1862. His regiment was the
Eighty-seventh 0.. V. I., and he became captain of a company. The Eighty-seventh was later
consolidated with the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth, which at Chickamauga earned from
General Thomas the name of "Ohio Tigers."
Captain Moore served gallantly in the East Tennessee and Atlanta campaigns, rising first to the
rank of major and then to that of lieutenant-colonel. He commanded his regiment at Atlanta, but
when in the fall his health was broken he resigned and came north.
From 1865 to 1868 he was pastor of Zanesville's Second Street M. E. Church; the Methodist
Church at St. Paul, Delaware, 1868-1870 ; Wesley Chapel, Columbus, Ohio, 1870-1872 ; Trinity
Church, Cincinnati, 1872-1875. In 1875 he was elected president of Cincinnati Wesleyan
College. In 1880 he became a resident of
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