550 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. parents, T. J. and N. J. (Gould) Richards, were natives of New Jersey and Pennsylvania respect. ively. The father was a graduate of Duff's college of book-keeping and for several years afterward he acted as book-keeper and school teacher. He was by trade, however, a window-glass blower, and as that was much more remunerative than bookkeeping or teaching school, he followed it the principal part of his life. He died on the 20th of January, 1880, in Zanesville, Ohio. His widow who now resides in Zanesville and is sixty years of age, was the daughter of John B. Gould, a native of New Hampshire. The paternal grandfather of our subject, William Richards, died in Van Wert county, Ohio, when seventy-seven years of age. A. C. Richards was the eldest of three living children, the others being, Frank, who resides in Washington county, Penn., and William, who resides in Quincy, Mass. A. C. Richards graduated from the high school of Zanesville in the class of 1880, having come to that city with his parents when five years of age, and after graduating went to Washington county, Penn., where he taught school two years. Returning to Zanesville with the intention of entering the medical profession, he began reading medicine with Dr. T. J. Barton, with whom he remained about six months. Then; on account of sickness in his family, Mr. Richards was compelled to discontinue reading medicine. Shortly afterward he commenced working for the B. & O. R. R. at Zanesville. He commenced as a common laborer on the platform, handling freight, in 1884, and he was subsequently promoted to the position of bill clerk, assistant cashier, chief clerk of the office and then to his present position. He began at the bottom round of the ladder and has worked his way up to his present lucrative position. On July 3, 1890, he was united in marriage to Miss Kate Wilkins, a native of Zanesville, and a daughter of C. A. Wilkins. Mrs. Richards is a cultured, refined lady, and is a graduate of the same class with her husband. After finishing her education she taught school for two years at Fultonham, Muskingum county, and five years in Zanesville. Mr. Richards is an enthusiastic Mason, a member of Amity lodge No. 5, and has taken all the degrees in the Ancient York rite up to and including that of Knight Templar, Zanesville chapter No. 9, R. A. M., and Cyren commandery No. 10, K. T. He is also a member of Phoenix lodge No. 388, K. of P. Politically he is a republican. Rev. Franklin Richards was born in the little village of New Middleton, then in Columbiana county, Ohio, but now in Mahoning county, on April 21, 1840. He was the eighth child and sixth son of Edward and Mary Richards. Edward Richards, the father, was a native of Baltimore county, Md. He belonged to one of the oldest families of that commonwealth and was fifteen years of age when the War of 1812 broke out. He enlisted as a private in the company of Captain Metzgar, and was one of the defenders of the city of Baltimore when the British forces attempted its capture. He was. married to Miss Mary Morningstar, or Morgenstern, on November 2, 1820. She belonged to a family of the early settlers of York county, Penn., who had come from the Palatinate. After marriage they resided in the southern part of York county, not far from the line dividing the state of Pennsylvania and Maryland. About the year 1835, with a family of six children they removed to what was then the wilderness of the West. They determined to settle in Ohio and their destination was Starke county. They journeyed in wagons, and it took from six weeks to two months, camping by the way at times. When they reached New Middleton they were induced to stop and settle there by numerous friends who had preceded them to the West. Shortly after the birth of Franklin Richards, the family removed to the town of New Lisbon, the county seat. At that time this town was the most important one in eastern Ohio, the facilities for travel according to the customs of the day were good and New Lisbon was quite a center of influence. From this place went forth many who have added luster to their native town and state, and here the childhood and early youth of the subject of this sketch was spent. The schools were unusually good, and when the common-school law went into effect the graded system of New Lisbon took a high rank. Here the foundations of his education were laid. He applied himself to study and before he was fifteen years of age had passed through all the grades then taught, and in addition to this he took up privately the study of Latin and Greek. On July 6, 1849, the father died of Asiatic cholera. The disease had been epidemic that year and accompanied with great mortality. Mr. Richards had paid a visit to Pittsburg for the purpose of purchasing goods, being engaged in the saddlery and harness business. Either in going or coming he contracted the disease which ran its course in three days, with fatal effect. His death caused the most intense excitement in the town, but with the exception of the wife and one other member of the family, the disease did not spread. At the tender age of nine years Franklin was left fatherless. The other members of the family with the exception of two sisters scattered to different points of the country and the little circle of the former large family was broken and Franklin was the only son left at the old homestead. The affection of the widowed mother was so centered upon her children that he. owes everything he has attained in this life to her pious, HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 551 godly counsel and kind maternal care. At the age of fifteen Franklin left his childhood's home and went to Pittsburg, Penn., for the purpose of learning the printing business. He entered the office of a weekly paper called the "Missionary" as an apprentice and began his new life with zeal and earnestness and became a reasonably rapid compositor. Later he Worked for the "Daily Post" and "Daily Gazette." It was while engaged in this employment that he was catechised and confirmed as a member of the First English Evangelical Lutheran church of that city under the pastoral care of Rev. C. P. Krauth. In the fall of 1858 the eager desire to obtain a higher education was gratified, and he was enabled to enter the Connoquenessing academy, located in the little village of Zelienople, Butler county, Penn., about twenty-eight miles from Pittsburg. In two years he completed the prescribed course of study and was prepared to enter the freshman class at college. In the fall of 1860 he entered Pennsylvania college at Gettysburg, Adams county, Penn., then an obscure town but little known, but now celebrated as one of the most noted battle fields in the late Civil war, and as the turning point of that great struggle. Here while engaged in study the war broke out and April 19, 1861, Adams county, Penn., was the scene of the most intense excitement. The rumor was that a lieutenant from the United States barracks, at Carlisle, had deserted and that he had been captured a short distance from Gettysburg and that a body of men from Baltimore was coming to his rescue. The people expected an assault upon the town. Guards were hastily armed and all the roads leading to the town were picketed. Here at that time the first experience of standing guard was realized, as upon that night Franklin Richards and a small number of students stood sentry on the Fairfield road. All through his college course Gettysburg and the vicinity was subject to alarms of the warring elements. It was not however until the spring of 1863 that the college was materially affected, and when the invasion of Pennsylvania was threatened the students enlisted and were mustered into the United States service for the emergency, Franklin Richards enlisted as a member of Company A, Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania regiment which was mustered into service in the latter part of May, 1863, and was returned to Gettysburg with orders to march to Cashtown and hold the mountain pass on the pike between Chambersburg and Gettysburg. This regiment, on June 26. 1863, marched out to obey orders and had not gone more than four miles when the advance guard of Gen. Early's corps was met. This regiment was the first to meet and contend with the rebels upon northern soil. After Gen. Lee had crossed the Potomac and the dangers of further invasion had passed, the regiment was discharged and in the fall of that year Franklin Richards resumed his college duties. In March, 1864, he entered the service of the United States Christian commission and was sent to Nashville, Tenn. From there he was sent to Knoxville, where the first diet kitchens were opened. He was also at Chattanooga, and Huntsville, Ala. In May he returned to college to complete his course and as soon as the final examinations were passed he was again commissioned by the United States Christian commission and sent to the Army of the Potomac then in front of Petersburg, Va. For six weeks he was in the general hospital near the headquarters of Gen. Grant, and returned to Gettysburg in time to take part in the commencement exercises and receive his diploma. Chambersburg, Penn., had been burned and fears were entertained that Gettysburg would again be raided. This interfered somewhat with the commencement though it was regularly held. He received the degree of A. B., and in 1867 the degree of A. M. was confirmed. After completing his college course he entered the first class of the new theological seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran church just opened at Philadelphia, Penn., and in the second year of his theological course he was called to take charge of the business management of the "Lutheran and Missionary" the chief and only English paper of the general council. He at the same time continued his theological studies and graduated with the first class in June, 1867. In the same month of that year he was ordained to the Gospel ministry by the ministerium of Pennsylvania of the Evangelical Lutheran church at Lebanon, Penn. He resigned his position on the paper desiring to give his whole time and attention to the profession for which he had qualified himself. In July, 1867, as he was on his way to visit Wisconsin, an appointment was made to preach to a little handful of Lutherans in the city of Chicago. It resulted in his being called as pastor. This was the first and only English Lutheran organization in that city. The work of ingathering was commenced. Without a settled membership, without a church building, with no means at hand for the great undertaking, the active ministry of the young pastor was begun. By the kindness of Rev. W. A. Passavant, of Pittsburg, Penn., the parlors of the little hospital near the corner of Dearborn avenue and Ontario street, were opened for services. Permission was granted to put up a building for church purposes, on the corner of Dearborn avenue and Ontario street, as it was of primary importance to have a church building, and it was begun in the fall of 1867. By slow degrees, as the money could be raised, the work pro- 552 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. gressed and at the beginning of 1871, the church, neat and tidy, well finished and furnished was completed and almost entirely paid for, with a membership which has increased from 10 to about 150. On October 9, 1871, occurred the great Chicago fire, the church edifice and all the members, with the exception of two families were entirely burned out, the pastor sharing the same fate, losing all his library, manuscripts and household furniture. Despair rested upon every heart. It seemed almost impossible to make a second attempt to build an English Lutheran church. Undaunted by the great calamity the pastor appealed for aid for his suffering people, and then sought the means to build up the congregation. He visited the different portions of the Lutheran church, spent the winter of 1871 and 1872, and the summer of the latter year in soliciting subscriptions and collected between $10,000 and $12,000. The lot on the southwest corner of Dearborn avenue and Erie street was purchased, a temporary frame building bought and moved on the lot. This building was neatly fitted up for worship and the congregation, so scattered, began to be drawn together. The work of ingathering was far more difficult now than it had been in the beginning. Conditions were all changed. Mr. Richards continued as pastor until September 1, 1873, when he resigned to the great regret of his many friends. The congregation is now known as the Trinity Lutheran church, and has since been removed to the corner of La Salle avenue and Elm street, where a beautiful Gothic stone structure is now owned by the congregation. On February 10, 4869, Rev. F. Richards married Miss Carrie L. Super, of Mansfield, Ohio. The ceremony was performed in the First Presbyterian church of that city, by Rev. H. W. Roth, D. D., of Pittsburg, Penn., an intimate college friend. This union was blessed with six children five sons and one daughter. The first dying in Chicago, March, 12, 1873, was buried in Mansfield, Ohio. After resigning the congregation in Chicago, Rev. Richards, accepted the position of assistant editor and business manager of the " Lutheran and Missionary," published in Philadelphia, Penn. He entered upon those duties in October, 1873, and then removed to that city, continuing in this position until November, 1876. In 1872, while yet pastor at Chicago, Ill., he received a call to become pastor of the Zanesville charge, but being engaged in the work of collecting the scattered people together and in soliciting funds for a church building, he could not leave, and declined the call. In May, 1876, Rev. W. P. Ruthrauff, pastor of the Zanesville charge, died, and in September of that year another call without a visit, was extended to the Rev. F. Richards which he accepted. In November of that year he moved to Zanesville, Ohio, and on the 26th day of that month entered upon the duties of pastor. After the long vacancy on account of the death of their former pastor, and the uncertainties of the future, the field was anything but encouraging and inspiring. The church edifice was dilapidated and unsightly; however the work of upbuilding was commenced. In the spring of 1878, after appropriate services, the old building was dismantled and torn away and a new building at once begun. The new gothic brick structure was commenced and on the first Sunday in Advent was solemnly dedicated. The sermon was preached by Rev. S. Laird, of Pittsburg, Penn. The same season in the congregation in Bush Creek township, a part of the Zanesville charge, and which Rev. Richards also served, a new building was erected and consecrated. Both of these church buildings were finished without incurring any indebtedness, the one in Zanesville costing about $8,000, and the one in Brush Creek, about $5,000. In 1881 Rev. Richards was appointed on the board of county visitors, by Judge W. H. Ball, of the common pleas court. He was elected president of the board, and such efficient service was done that a workhouse for the city and county was determined upon by the city council and county commissioners. When the board of directors was appointed for the organization and erection of a. workhouse, Rev. Richards was appointed a member by the mayor of the city, held the office of president of the board of directors, and entered with zeal upon these duties. At his own expense he visited the work houses of Cleveland and Pittsburg and other reformatory institutions and gathered the ideas which are wrought out in the building and equipments of the Zanesville workhouse. He served for six years upon that board, and was for three years its president and for three years its secretary. He was also one of the founders of the Zanesville Ministerial association, and served as its president for several terms. He has been very active in the organization of the Pioneer and Historical society of Muskingum county, Ohio, and was appointed as one of the committee to revise this history as prepared by the Goodspeed Publishing Company. He has also been an active member of the Muskingum County Horticultural society and has delivered a number of addresses, some of which have been published in pamphlet form. He has also been president of the Muskingum County Bible society for a number of years. He has taken an active interest in the establishment of the Zanesville City hospital, delivering the address upon the dedication and formal opening of the institution. He is a member of the advisory committee of the board of managers. He was also appointed by the board of elections, a registrar of election for the Third ward of the city, HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 553 and for two years served in that capacity. Rev. F. Richards enjoys the distinction at present of being the pastor longest continued over any congregation in the city of Zanesville, as every congregation, English and German, Roman Catholic and Protestant, have changed their pastors one or more times. He has been pastor of St. John's English Evangelical Lutheran church longer than all his predecessors combined. In June he celebrated the quarto-centennial of his entrance upon the ministry and has only had the pastorial care of two charges during the time he has been in the ministry, Chicago, Ill., and Zanesville, Ohio. At the present, Rev. Richards is in the prime of life and the future promises him still more usefulness than in the years gone by. Without seeking any position either in the denomination of which he is a minister, or the community of which he is a citizen, yet he has fulfilled every duty that has been imposed upon him, with conscientious fidelity. Even by those with whom he differs in religion and politics he has won their respect by his candor and his being true to his own convictions. For sixteen years he has been a resident of Zanesville and for that length of time pastor of St. John's English Evangelical Lutheran church, located at the corner of Sixth and South streets. Among the citizens of Muskingum county, Ohio, long and favorably identified with its progress and development, is John Richards, farmer, Zanesville, whose biography will no doubt be read by old and young, for there is always an instinctive curiosity to know the truth and inner history of a man who has had such a close association with the affairs of this county from primitive date. He was born in Belmont county, Ohio, May 1, 1826, and is the son of John and Mary C. (Dunlapp) Richards, natives respectively of Ohio and Pennsylvania. The father was a successful farmer, and died in Belmont county about 1828. The mother remained a widow and reared a family of seven children, giving each good educational advantages. Her death occurred in 1865. Her children were named in the order of their births as follows: Henry (deceased), Mary (died when young), Joseph D. (deceased), James, William, John and Robert. John Richards received his literary braining in the common schools of the state, principally in the log school house of pioneer days, and at the tender age of eleven years he commenced to fight the battle of life for himself, as cook on a Muskingum river steamboat. This occupation he followed for four years after which he peddled patent medicines and notions for a year and then engaged as a laborer in the paper mill at Zanesville. Six or seven years later he had worked himself up from a common or day laborer to second manager and received a good salary. He remained in this business about six years longer and then embarked in the grocery business in Zanesville, continuing the same from 1856 until 1864. In the last named year he went to Pennsylvania and he was engaged in speculating in oil until 1866, when he returned to Muskingum county. He again embarked in the grocery business but one year later sold out his interest and moved to his present residence. He purchased a farm of 155 acres, and here he has one of the finest country homes to be found in this section of the county. The house is a two-story brick, is conveniently arranged, and, standing on an eminence, commands a fine view of the surrounding country. Mr. Richards was married in 1848 to Miss Jane Gourley of Pennsylvania, and daughter of Thomas and Catherine Gourley, natives of the Keystone state. Mr. and Mrs. Gourley moved to Iowa and there died, leaving five sons and four daughters. Mr. Richards' union was blessed by the birth of three children: Mary C., wife of John H. Allis, resides in Zanesville, Frances A., was born in 1852 and died in 1884, and John H., is married and is a farmer of Wayne township. Mr. Richards is a member of the I. 0. 0. F., Muskingum lodge No. 128 and Mrs. Richards is a member of the Baptist church of Zanesville. The family is well respected in the county. Lewis Richards. There are in every community some persons who, on account of their industry and practical management of the affairs which fall to their lot, deserve special credit; and such is Mr. Richards, whose successful operations as a farmer are proverbial. He was born June 30, 1816, on Sunday creek, Athens county, Ohio, to Jacob and Catherine (Burley) Richards, the former of whom was a native of Maryland, a farmer by occupation, and a participant in the War of 1812. He inherited Dutch blood of his ancestors and many of the worthy traits Of character of that people, among which may be mentioned thrift, industry and honesty. There was born to Jacob and Catherine Richards ten children : Lewis, Edward, Burley, Lyman, Harriet, Surzeleise, Alva, John, Clark and Eliza. He came to Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1810, but soon after moved to Athens county and from Athens county to the Miami valley; after five years removed to Perry county where he died at the age of seventy-five years. His wife was of Irish and French lineage and was born in Pennsylvania. She removed to Zanesville, Ohio, with her parents at an early day andwas called from life in this state at the age of eighty years. Lewis Richards spent his early life on his father's farm and attended school for a few months each year, by which means he obtained a practical education. He came to Muskingum county in 1823, but after a very short time returned to Perry county, where he remained until he had attained 554 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. his majority, when he once more turned his footsteps toward Muskingum county. After working by the month on the farm for one year, he conducted a pottery for about the same length of time and the three succeeding years he tilled the soil. At the end of this time he was compelled to give up farm life, owing to the delicate health of his wife and resumed the pottery business, which calling occupied his time and attention for thirteen years. In 1856 he purchased the farm on which he now resides and although it has been under cultivation for over 100 years, it is still exceedingly fertile land. He was married February 17, 1839, to Miss Phoebe Ann Beems who was born in Muskingum county near the village of Mount Sterling, May 15, 1823, her parents, Frederick and Elizabeth (Parrott) Beems, both natives of New Jersey and of Dutch descent. They came to Ohio in 1817 and here the father died in the sixty-eighth year of his age and the mother at the age of eighty-six. They were the parents of nine children: John born April 13, 1811, was married to Lucy Sullivan Apri1 26, 1830; Mary born October 26, 1813, was married to James Turley December 12, 1831; Eliza born March 22. 1817, died February 25, 1827; Silas horn February 22, 1819, married Jane Todd May 1, 1845; Frederick born March 20, 1829, died July 19, 1832; David born July 23, 1825. married Martha Martin July 16, 1846; Harriet born March 26, 1830, died December 20, 1841; William born April 3, 1833, married Mary Ann Rutledge July 14, 1855. To Lewis and Phoebe Ann (Beems) Richards, six children have been born: Alva born March 16, 1841, who was surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-second regiment, Ohio Volunteers; Arthur born February 14, 1843, in 1861 enlisted in Thirty-second regiment, Ohio Volunteers and served to the close of the war; Dexter born April 21, 1859; Edward born April 6, 1851; Clara born May 15, 1845; and Augustine born September 16, 1847 and died August 23, 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Richards are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of over forty years' standing and he has been class-leader and one of the trustees for thirty years. He has been a member of the republican party every since it has been in existtence. Notwithstanding the rapid growth of the agricultural affairs of the county in the last few years, and the progressive ideas advanced, Richard Rider, Roseville, Ohio, has kept thoroughly apace with the times, and is considered one of the leading farmers of his section. His father, Adam Rider, was a native of Maryland and a descendant of German ancestors, his mother coming from that country to this when but a child. In 1802 Adam Rider married Miss Sarah Bond, also of Maryland, and in 1806 they went by wagons to Muskingum county, Ohio, the mother carrying the youngest child, Adam Jr., in her arms while riding a horse most of the distance. Mr. Rider located on a farm in what was then Brush Creek, but now Clay township, and there resided until his death, April 15, 1855, when seventy-five years of age. His estimable wife had passed away December 7, 1849. He served in the War of 1812. The children born to this union are named as follows: John, Edward, Adam, Mathias, Richard, Charles and Ellen. Richard Rider, the subject of this memoir, was born June 2, 1816, on the old homestead, near Roseville, Ohio, which was then in a thick wilderness. He remained with his father until twenty-three years of age, and received his education in the subscription schools of that day. On November 15, 1835, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Wonn, who was born December 1, 1819, and shortly afterward, by the kindness of his father, received 160 acres, upon which he still resides. But this was not then the beautifully cultivated farm of to-day; instead, the hills were covered with woods, on which has been expended much hard labor. Like his father, Mr. Rider holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, with which he united in 1842, and is one of the most worthy and able supporters of this church. He was formerly an old line whig in his political views, and it is hardly worth mentioning that he is a republican and a warm supporter of his party. Although Mr. Rider was not a soldier in the Civil war, the family was represented by his two sons, Adam and Frank, the latter coming out at the close without a scratch. Mr. and Mrs. Rider's union was blessed by the birth of ten children, one dying in infancy. The others were named as follows: Francis M., born October 6, 1840; John E., born March 5, 1843; Horatio A., born August 10, 1844; William E., born March 24, 1847; Ellen E., born May 8, 1849; Sarah C., born December 31, 1851; Richard H. and Robert F., born December 22, 1855, and Margaret J., born August 28, 1859. John, William and Sarah have passed away. Mrs. Rider's parents, William and Elizabeth Wonn, came to Muskingum county, Ohio, in a very early day (about 1800), and here she received her education. in the subscription schools. She united with the Methodist Episcopal church when but seventeen years of age, and has ever been happy in her belief. She is of German and Irish descent. Francis M. Rider, commissioner of Muskingum county, Ohio, and a representative citizen of this section of the country, is a member of one of the pioneer families of the county, and was born on October 6, 1840. He is a son of Richard and Elizabeth (Wonn) Rider, who were born in this county in 1816 and 1818, respectively. The pa- HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 555 ternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch was Adam Rider, a native of Maryland, who came directly from that state to Ohio in the early days of the present century. Francis M. Rider obtained a thorough knowledge of farming in his youthful days, but also succeeded in obtaining a common-school education, which he has since put to a practical use. When the war of the Rebellion opened, personal considerations were cast aside and he at once enlisted in defense of the " stars and stripes," becoming a member of Company G, Thirty-second Ohio Volunteer infantry, and for four long years he fought in defense of his country and for the downfall of the " stars and bars." He was honorably discharged in 1865, and upon his return home he engaged in farming, which has been his life occupation, and for which he seems admirably adapted. He is the owner of a fine tract of land, containing 321 acres, situated in Clay and Newton townships, which farm is well managed and yields a paying annual income. Mr. Rider is a republican of many years' standing, and has held the positions of trustee and assessor in the township of his nativity, and since 1888 has held the office of county commissioner, being honored with a renomination August 22, 1891, and elected at the following election by a substantial majority. He is an ideal public official, and is, without doubt, one of the ablest commissioners the county has ever had. He is faithful to every trust, is very energetic, and his efforts in improving the county have been thoroughly appreciated. He is a member of Axline post No. 290, of the G. A. R.; Zanesville lodge No. 114 of the I. and P. Order of Elks; and Cannel lodge No. 437, of the K. of P. Miss Melia Maddox, of this county, became his wife in 1870. Joseph Riley, farmer, Frazeysburg, Ohio. Among the prominent pioneer families of Muskingum county, Ohio, the Rileys take a foremost place. Joseph Riley's grandfather, William Riley, came from the north of Ireland and was of Scotch-Irish descent. He emigrated to America at a period antedating the Revolutionary war, served as a soldier in the struggle for independence, and was under Mad Anthony Wayne. against the Indians. He was married in the Old Dominion and became the father of seven children: John, William, Mariah, Robert, Hannah, Polly and Samuel. When an old man he came to Muskingum county, Jackson township, Ohio, and settled north of Frazeysburg. He brought all his family with him except Samuel, and lived to be quite aged. He had been wounded when a soldier and always felt the effect of this. He lived the life of a true Christian and was honored and respected . His son Samuel, father of our subject, was born in Washington county, Penn., October 30, 1796, received but little education, and came to Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1813. He married Miss Anna K. McDonald, daughter of Joseph McDonald, who was originally from Ireland. After coming to the United States the latter settled in Muskingum county, Ohio, and was among the early pioneers. The Catholic church now stands on the land which was part of his farm. He was a Presbyterian and an elder in the same for many years. He was the prime mover in building the old log Presbyterian church, the first in the township, and Mrs. Riley, when a girl, cooked for the men who built the church. Mr. McDonald's children were Margaret, Anna K., Rev. John (Presbyterian minister), and James. Mr. McDonald lived to be an old man and was well respected. To Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Riley were born nine children—George, Mariah, John, Joseph, Aaron, Alexander, Charles, Emily and Eliza are those who lived to grow to maturity. Mr. Riley settled on the farm now occupied by his son Charles, and as there was but little of the land cleared at that time he went actively to work to make improvements. He soon accumulated a handsome property and owned at the time of his death, which occurred on the 17th of September 1879, over 400 acres of excellent land. He began with nothing, and all that he accumulated was the result of his own industry and good management. In politics he was a republican and a strong Union man during the war, sending three of his sons to fight for their country. Aaron enlisted in the Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer infantry, served three years and was in many battles. Charles was in an Ohio regiment. Alexander also served three years. Mr. Riley was a man well known and respected among the old pioneers. His son, Joseph Riley, was born June 25, 1833, on the farm in Muskingum township, and received an ordinary education in the district schools. On the 8th of September, 1864, he married Miss Frances Spencer, who was born on the 15th of July, 1842, and who was the daughter of Wilson and Sarah (Cole) Spencer. Wilson Spencer was the son of Foreman Spencer, who was of the early settlers of Muskingum township [See sketch of Joseph Spencer.] To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Riley were born eight children: Wilson, Sarah K., Odessa, Joseph E., Orie F., Rose F., Laura S. and John T. After his union Mr. Riley settled on land purchased from his father, and gave his entire attention to tilling the soil. He is a prominent man of the county and is enterprising and industrious. He has educated his children and Orie F., after graduating from the high school in Frazeysburg, is attending school at Ada, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Riley are descendants of pioneer stock, and are held in high esteem by all. Henry Roberts settled in Muskingum county, 556 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. Ohio, in 1814, but was born in Loudoun county, Va., his father, John Roberts, being a native of New Jersey. While a resident of his native state Henry Roberts was married to Phoebe Johnson, and in the year above mentioned he and his family came to the "Buckeye state " in wagons, driven across the mountains. After farming on rented land the first season, he purchased some land of a settler, and as he was the owner of seven horses, one of which was an exceptionally good one, he traded it for forty bushels of corn. The land on which he settled was his home throughout his life, and there he and his wife reared the following family of children: John (deceased), who served in the War of 1812; Elizabeth (deceased); Lucinda (deceased); Linda (deceased); Charles (deceased); William, Manley, Harrison and Mary Ann, the last three named being also dead. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and were consistent Christians, taking an active interest in the cause and upbuilding of religion, and reared their children in this faith, all of whom became, as men and women, devout Christians. Mr. Roberts died at the age of seventy-seven years, his wife departing this life when eighty years of age. William Roberts was born in Loudoun county, Va., in 1809, on the 7th of March, and was five years of age when his parents came to Ohio, and is the only one of their children now living. He grew up in a manner common to the sons of pioneer parents, and during the three or four weeks that he was permitted to attend school throughout the year, he acquired a rudimentary education. He was married to Miss Nancy Potts, daughter of Isaiah and Elizabeth Potts of Virginia, and by her became the father of the following children: Henry H. , Phoebe E. , Mary C., Naomi I., Leroy A. , Nancy J., William B., Amos A., Lyman C., Cordelia F. and Cyrus M. Leroy. was a member of Company B, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer infantry, and entered the federal army during the early part of the war. He took part in the bloody battle of Shiloh, but was afterward taken ill from exposure, which resulted in his death. He was also in the,, battle of Fort Donelson. Mr. Roberts has been a resident of this county ever since his first location, with the exception of a few years spent in Morgan county, and is now enjoying the fruits of a well spent life. He was converted to Christianity in his early life and has steadily pursued his way onward and upward, and has held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church for the past sixty-three years. During all this time he has been active in church work, and has taken a leading part in worthy enterprises. In all his transactions with his fellowmen he has been actuated by the highest principles of manhood, and the high esteem in which he is held by his neighbors and friends testifies in an eloquent manner as to the nobility of his mind and heart. In early life he was a whig, but since the death of that party he has supported the principles of the republican party at all important elections. William Robison, the father of John Robison, Dresden, Ohio, was a Scotch-Irishman. He was born in County Antrim, Ballyknock, Ireland, where he learned the weaver's trade, and when a young man of about twenty-four, in 1814, came to America, first settling in New Brunswick. He was born prior to 1790, the exact date is not known. He remained in New Brunswick seven years when he married Miss Holden and to them was born one child. Both mother and child died in New Brunswick. While there, Mr. Robison worked in a lumber mill and he came to the United States in 1822, settling in Philadelphia. Here he lived three years and ran an establishment for weaving linen and employed several hands. The old receipts for money paid out and contracts of apprentices are still preserved in the family. Mr. Robison married in Philadelphia, Isabel Johnson, also of Scotch-Irish descent, and they had three children: John, James (died when three years of age) and Thomas (died when ten years of age). About 1825 Mr. Robison went to Pittsburg, where he followed weaving and in 1828 came to Muskingum county with Thomas Morrison. They bought together 160 acres of land of Robert George, which they divided equally between them. A small clearing was on the land which fell to Morrison and a hewed-log house on Mr. Robison's share. This land constituted a part of the farm now belonging to the subject of this sketch. Mr. Robison brought his family and household goods in wagons and lived in the log cabin for about twelve years and then built a hewed-log cabin, which was afterward covered with siding and in which his son John now lives. There was not a stick cut on the ground when Mr. Robison settled on it and he cut his farm out of the heavy timber and made a good home. The deed for his land is dated March 28, 1829, and is from Robert George, for 77.5 acres, the sum paid for it being $150. The original deed is the United States government dated October 2, 1826, to Robert George. Mr. and Mrs. Robison were members of the Reformed Presbyterian church, which he had joined at Pittsburg in 1828. He was ruling elder for nearly twenty-eight years, and assisted with his means to build the church. He possessed a remarkable constitution and was sick but little in his life and attained the good old age of over one hundred years. John Robison, his son, was born in Philadelphia, October 2, 1828, and was one year old when his father brought him to this county. He received a common-school education, married at the HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 557 age of twenty-eight years, Catherine J. McKee, daughter of James and Isabel (Crawford) McKee. The father was born in County Donegal, Ireland, and came with his father James McKee Sr. ,to America. They were among the first settlers of Coshocton county. James McKee Sr., was the father of Thomas, George, Daniel, Catherine, Nellie, Sarah, Patrick, Gilbert, James, Isabel and Jane. He died at a good old age in Coshocton county. James McKee Jr., lived to the age of seventy-one years and was the father of nine children: Catherine J., James, Thomas, George, Gilbert, Sarah A., John Robert and Isabell. Mr. McKee was a member of the Old School Presbyterian church and an elder for many years. John Robison, after his marriage remained on the home farm, and by industry and good business management has accumulated 300 acres of land. Mr. and Mrs. Robison are the parents of six children: Sarah A. (died an infant); Isabel E. was a graduate of Geneva college, Northwood, Ohio, and married Rev. H. W. Reed of Westmoreland county, Penn., a minister of the Reformed Presbyterian church (she died after five years of married life, March 29, 1886, aged twenty-nine years. She was a lady of culture and refinement and possessed many virtues); Mary J. died when four years of age; Eliza C. died an infant; Sarah M. (a young lady at home), and William M. (who married Sarah R. Spencer, daughter of John Spencer of Muskingum township). [See sketch.] In politics Mr. Robison takes no active part, owing, as he declares, to the State's immoral constitition, but he takes an active part in having good schools and has held the office of school director for several terms. Mr. and Mrs. Robison are members of the Reformed Presbyterian church and he has been an elder for twenty years. He is a practical farmer and substantial citizen, owning besides his farm real estate at Trinway. The son, William M., resides on the new and commodious farm residence on part of the home ground. Mr. Robison is one of the representative men of this county. Thomas Rose, Frazeysburg, Ohio. Thomas Rose's great. grandfather, William Rose, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, and came to America at a period antedating the Revolution, serving in that war under George Washington. His wife had died in the old country and he brought his two children, a son and daughter, with him to America. He landed in Baltimore and traveled on horseback, carrying his children in the saddle bags, to Bedford county, near Bedford springs, and there passed the remainder of his days. He was a Protestant in religion. His son, Thomas, was the grandfather of our subject and was small enough to ride in one of the saddle bags when he went with his father to Bedford county, Penn. He was a tanner by trade and also followed farm- ing to some extent. He served in the War of 1812, and was badly wounded at the battle of Luridy's Lane, shot in the leg and crippled for life. He married Miss. Mary Kenton, a relative of the famous lieutenant, Simon Kenton. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rose were the parents of six children: Henry, Allen, James, Alexander, Mary and Jane. Mr. Rose owned two farms and was a substantial man. He was upright and honorable and well respected. His son and our subject's father, Allen Rose, was born in Bedford county, Penn., received a common-school education and learned the shoemaker's trade. He visited Steubensville, Ohio, entered a home, and soon after married Miss Ann Blackburn, daughter of Thomas Blackburn. The fruits of this union were three children: Thomas, William and Allen. In 1828 Mr. Rose came with his family to Ohio and settled in Knox county, where he resided one year, after which he moved to Richland county. There he resided until killed at the raising of a log barn in 1831, when endeavoring to save the lives of other men by stopping a falling log. He worked very hard and during the short time he had lived in Richland county he had cleared up a good portion of sixty acres. In his religious views he was a Presbyterian. His wife was a Quakeress and lived to be seventy-four years of age. Thomas Rose, his son, was born in Bedford county, Penn., August 28, 1824; received a common-school education, and learned the blacksmith trade. He was but four years old when he was brought to Ohio by his parents, and he was therefore reared in the wilderness. During his early days he was accustomed to all the privations and vicissitudes of pioneer life and grew up strong and hardy. At the age of eighteen he left home and worked at his trade at Mount Vernon, Ohio, for three years. After this he worked at different places, and in 1849 was married to Miss Rebecca A. Ledner, daughter of Christian and Margaret Ledner, of Licking county, Ohio. Mr. Ledner was a farmer and a native of Germany. He first settled in Maryland and then in Licking county, Ohio, in 1848. He was noted far and wide as one of the first class agriculturists. In 1857 he was elected justice of the peace and served three terms. To Mr. and Mrs. Rose were born seven children: Charles, Almira (died at the age of fifteen years), Alvina (died at the age of four months), George W., Mary E. (died at the age of ten years), John W. and Leonard (died in infancy). After marriage Mr. Rose settled down at Boston, Licking county, and in 1866 he went to Illinois, settling in Gillespie, Macoupin county, where he resided until 1878. In the spring of the following year he came to Muskingum county, Ohio, and has since been a resident of Frazeysburg. He is well respected and liked there, and has held the position 558 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. of mayor of Frazeysburg eight years. In politics he is a stanch democrat. He is one of the charter members of New Home lodge No. 338, Hanover, Ohio, and is now a member of Frazeysburg lodge No. 490, having been secretary of this lodge since 1886. Mr. Rose is a substantial business man and owns considerable real estate in Frazeysburg. He is now sixty-eight years of age, is still hale and hearty, and can do a hard day's work at blacksmithing. He does as much work now as he did twenty years ago, has never had a severe spell of sickness, and has a wonderfully strong constitution. Unaided, and by his own exertions, he has made all his property, and stands high in the estimation of all as an honest, upright citizen. When young Mr. Rose was a very powerful man, even among the hardy pioneers, and was considered the strongest man in his locality. He has always been a total abstainer from spirituous liquors, and when young was pointed out as almost the only exception among the young men. He attributes his good health to his early pioneer training, principally. His son, Charles, married Miss Henrietta English and is settled on a farm in Illinois. John W. married Miss Ann Settles. has one child, Mary, and resides at Granville, Ohio. Simon Kenton, spoken of above, was one of America's most noted Indian fighters and hunters, and was a man of great physical strength and endurance. The grandparents of Samuel L. Rutledge, postmaster, Hopewell, Ohio, James and Mary Rutledge were natives of Fermanagh county, Ireland, but at an early date came to America, first locating at New York, but subsequently in Guernsey county, Ohio, where both received their final summons. Their son, George, was born in the year 1815, on the ocean, while his parents were on the voyage to America. Early in life he was apprenticed to the tanner's trade, and when eighteen years of age he was married to Miss Susannah Shutt. In 1831 he and his family moved to Mount Sterling, Hopewell township, Muskingum county, and there Mr. Rutledge purchased a tannery plant which he carried on until his death in 1865. To his marriage were born the following children: Mary A., Margaret J., John W., Samuel L. (subject), George W., Sarah E. and Thomas C. Samuel L. Rutledge remained at home, assisting in the tannery and attending the district school until 1869, when he entered the academy at Pleasantville, Fairfield county, Ohio, graduating from the same in 1872. He took a post academic course, which gave him the privilege of graduating in any college in the state in one year. Returning home, he went from there to Jacksonburg, Ind., where he taught school for ten years. Returning to Mount Sterling, he has since been engaged in teaching school. January, 1890, he was appointed postmaster at that place and holds that position at the present time. He was elected justice of the peace April, 1891, and was appointed notary public under Gov. Campbell. He was school examiner for the county from 1884 to 1887, and discharged the duties of that position in a creditable and satisfactory manner. For the last ten years he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In politics he is a stanch republican, and socially he is a member of the A. F. & A. M. He was married in 1876 to Miss Bessie, daughter of Dr. ____ Hood, and two children were born to this union: Jennie M., born December 25, 1878, and Georgiana, born February 24, 1882. Mrs. Rutledge died May 29, 1886, and Mr. Rutledge's second marriage was on January 25, 1889, to Miss Dosie Morgan, who was born June 2, 1868, and whose parents, Thomas W. and Virginia (Anderson) Morgan, were early settlers of Muskingum county. Mr. Morgan was born in 1823. John Sandel, the deceased husband of Mrs. Christina Sandel, Otsego, Ohio, was born in Adams township, Muskingum county, and was the son of Valentine Sandel, who came from Germany at an early date. He was the father of nine children: Jacob, Mary, John, Elizabeth, Casper, Christian (who died a soldier in the Civil war), Martin, Valentine and George. Valentine Sandel was a member of the Lutheran church, and lived to be over seventy years of age, a respected and honored citizen and farmer. John Sandel, his son, and the husband of our subject, was born March 13, 1832, received a common-school education and learned the carpenter's trade as well as farming. He married October 26, 1865, at the age of twenty-eight years, Christina Klein, daughter of Jacob and Catherine (Moser) Klein. Jacob Klein was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, and was the son of Christian Klein, a farmer and the father of four children: Christian, William, Jacob and Christina. Christian Klein was a man of property in "the Fatherland." Jacob Klein came to America about 1826, at the age of twenty-one, and to Zanes ville, where he worked at his trade of a shoemaker, which he had learned in Germany. He had a common-school education in Germany, and in Zanesville married Catherine Moser, daughter of Daniel Moser. To them were born ten children, nine of whom lived to maturity: Louise, Christina, Jacob, William, Matilda, George, Christian, Albert and Alice. In 1852 Mr. Klein moved to Adams township and settled on a farm where he still resides at the age of seventy-eight years. The farm where he settled belonged to his wife's father, Daniel Moser, who also came from Germany about 1835, and owned a farm of 120 acres. Daniel Moser was the father of four children: Philip, Catherine, Adam and Louisa, and lived to be HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 559 seventy years of age. He was an industrious farmer, a member of the Lutheran church, and was a potter by trade in the old country. Jacob Klein was also a member of the Lutheran church, had always been a good citizen and an honorable and industrious man. After his marriage Mr. John Sandel settled on the farm now occupied by his widow. He worked at his trade of a carpenter for about fifteen years, renting his farm. Before his marriage he was a soldier in the Civil war, in Company A, One Hundred and Second regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, and was enrolled August 12, 1862, for three years. He was honorably discharged May 28, 1865, at Louisville, Ky., by reason of injury received while in the line of duty in the United States service, having been wounded in the foot at the battle of Athens. Mr. Sandel became a prosperous farmer and respected citizen. His farm consisted of 160 acres. Both he and his wife were prominent members of the Lutheran church, and Mr. Sandel held the office of elder and church trustee. He was always connected with the church in some office. In politics he was a democrat; and died at the age of fifty-one years,. November 16, 1887. When the war broke out he did not hesitate to offer his services and life to his country, and was true to his duty. His name always stood on the roll of honor. His widow has ably managed the farm since his death, having kept it free from debt, and besides has made some money, which success speaks well for her business ability and management. She is a sincere Christian and a woman of high character, well regarded by her neighbors. Mr. and Mrs. Sandel kindly took to rear a little three-year-old girl, Floretta M. Stiner, whose mother had died, and have cared for her as though she were their own. Since Mr. Sandle's death she has grown still more into the affections of Mrs. Sandel, who gives her all a mother's love and care, and is giving her a good education and bringing her up to be a capable and Christian woman. She is a very bright and attractive child. Robert M. Saup, the superintendent of the Zanesville city water works, has proven himself the right man on the right place, and has the confidence and respect of all right-minded citizens. He was born in Zanesville in 1847 to Anthony Saup, a native of France, who came to America when a young man, first locating in New York and about 1830 in Zanesville. He was a cabinet maker by trade, and at once began following this business, which he continued until his death in 1856. He was married in the city of New York to Miss Elizabeth Smith, a native of that state, whose parents lived to a very advanced age, dying at the ages of one hundred and four and one hundred and three years, father and mother respectively. To Anthony and Elizabeth Saup five sons and three daughters were born: Robert M., the subject of this sketch, being the seventh in order of birth. He grew to maturity and received a thorough education in parochial schools, but about the age of fourteen years he went to Cairo, Ill., where he had a brother engaged in the mercantile business, and remained with him for some time. He afterward started out for himself, accepting a position as cabin boy on a Mississippi river steamer, plying between St. Louis and New Orleans, in which capacity he served for about three years. He then returned to Zanesville and for a short time thereafter worked in the rolling mills, but in 1864 enlisted in the Union army as a member of Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, at which time he was only seventeen years of age, and had a hard time to pass muster, owing to his youthful appearance. He was sent with his regiment to Maryland Heights and from there to Baltimore, thence to Bush river and was there placed on garrison duty. At the close of the war he was mustered out of the service and returned to Zanesville, where he engaged in cabinet making, to which business he gave his time and attention until 1885, when he was appointed superintendent of the city water works, which position he has since filled. Some important improvements have been made in the system under his supervision, and he is a gentleman of the highest standing in social and business circles. In 1868 he married Miss Alevia Carlow, a native of Zanesville, and by her he is the father of three sons and three daughters. The family are members of the Catholic church, and he belongs to the G. A. R. and is a democrat, politically. R. D. Schultz, one of the popular and most successful business men of Zanesville, was born in that city, January 7, 1839. He is a son of William and Evaline (Darlinton) Schultz, natives of Winchester, Va. In 1853 the father established the soap factory at Zanesville and operated it successfully until 1866, when his son, R. D., and John Hoge purchased and have since operated it. The father died, in 1870, at the age of seventy, but the mother is still living, is seventy-three years of age, and makes her home in Zanesville with our subject. The latter received rather limited educational advantages, never having attended school a day after he was fifteen years of age, and on October 5, 1864, he was married to Miss Sarah Van Home, a native of Zanesville, and daughter of Bernard Van Horne. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz' union resulted in the birth of two children: Bernard V. H. and William D. Mr. Schultz died in 1869. The opera house in Zanesville, one of the finest buildings in the city, was built by Mr. Schultz, and was opened January 560 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. 22, 1880. Mr. Schultz is an enthusiastic Mason, and has taken all the degrees in the Ancient York rite, also all the Consistory degrees up to and including the 32d. He also has taken the Shrine degree. He is treasurer of his commandery, and holds the same position in the Masonic Hall association. He is a director in the First National bank, and president of the Economy Building association. He owns 400 acres of land in Wayne township, Muskingum county, and is one of the representative citizens of this county. In politics he advocates the principles of the democrats. Ernest Scott, county recorder, Zanesville, Ohio. Among Muskingum county's self-made, enterprising and successful citizens, none deserves more favorable mention than the subject. of this sketch, Ernest Scott, who was born in Perry county, Ohio, December 11, 1846. He is a son of Bernard and Josephine A. (Guille) Scott, the mother a daughter of Dr. Augusta Guille, and a native of France. The father was born in Baltimore, Md., and is of Irish origin. He was a mechanic by trade, and died on board a steamboat on the Ohio river, in 1850, of cholera. The mother survived until 1886. They were the parents of one child besides our subject—Caroline E., wife of John C. Dixon. Ernest Scott came to Muskingum county in 1854, and attended the public schools, but subsequently entered the university at Ann Arbor, Mich., and Lebanon (Ohio) university. He then followed teaching school for several years, but this was after he returned from the army. In February, 1863, when but seventeen years of age, he enlisted in Company C, Thirteenth Ohio cavalry, and was in a number of engagements. He was at White House Landing, battle of the Wilderness, siege of Petersburg and the explosion of the mine at the last named place. He was wounded, thirteen days after this battle, while on picket duty, by a gunshot through the breast and right arm, and was in the hospital for five months. He was then put on hospital duty on board the steamer "J. K. Barnes," which plied on the Atlantic between northern and southern ports, carrying sick and wounded soldiers. He remained in this position for six months, and then, on July 20, 1865, was discharged. He returned to Zanesville, as stated before, attended the schools, and taught the young idea how to shoot. After leaving the schoolroom he traveled for three or four years, going as far west as the Rocky mountains. and visiting many points in the South. After returning he engaged in agricultural pursuits for a short time, then removing to Zanesville, soon after which he received an appointment in the postoffice as letter carrier, in which capacity he served about five years, being under two presidential administrations. Then was in the employ of T. F. Spangler & Co., in the real estate business, in which business he was engaged when elected to his present office, in 1888, and reelected in 1891. He is an able and efficient officer, and discharges the duties of his present position in a very efficient manner. He has been twice married, the second time, in 1879, to Miss Louisa Sandie, daughter of Jacob Sandie, of Perry township. The fruits of this union are two interesting children: Viola G. and Nellie B. Mr. Scott is a member of the Hazlett post No. 81, G. A. R., and is senior vice-commander. He is also a member of Muskingum lodge, of I. O. O. F. and the society of B. P. O. E., No. 114. William Senior (deceased) was engaged in the manufacture of woolen, and was a member of the firm of L. Rambo & Co., of Dresden, Ohio. He was born at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., February 17, 1831, a son of George and Mary (Wadsworth) Senior, natives of England, the former dying in 1866 and the latter in 1854 at Mount Vernon, Ohio. The maternal grandfather, Jonathan Wadsworth, was born in England and came to the United States, becoming one of the early woolen manufacturers of the "Empire state." He died in Richmond, Va., when over eighty years of age. In the state of New York, William Senior spent his earliest days, but later became a resident of Pennsylvania and in 1853 first located in the town of Dresden, which has been his permanent place of abode since 1858. He became a member of the firm of L. Rambo & Co. in 1871, and their large and growing business testifies to their standing in the community and to the excellence of their product. The reliability of their goods and the exceedingly reasonable price at which they sell them has made their establishment well known and popular. Mr. Senior was married in 1855 to Miss Bell Nye, who died September 27, 1888, and August 1 of the following year he took for his second wife Miss Amelia Cresap, who died December 8, 1891. Mr. Senior was a republican politically, was a member of the Presbyterian church, in which he was an elder, and belonged to the I. O. O. F. His only son by his first marriage was born in Circleville, Ohio, October 17, 1856, and died in Dresden, January 16, 1880. He graduated in June, 1878, from Wooster university and in September, 1878, entered Princeton Theological seminary at Princeton, N. J. He was one of the brightest students in the institution, and his death was a sad blow to all who knew him as well as to his parents. Mr. Senior has a daughter, now Mrs. J. L. Adams of Sheffield, Ala. Mr. Senior was a model man of business for besides being enterprising, shrewd and practical, he was strictly honorable. He died December 31, 1891. John D. Shaw, Frazeysburg, Ohio, is one of the large farmers and land owners of Cass township, Muskingum county. The family in America first HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 561 settled in Maryland in old colonial times. William Shaw, the grandfather, came from Maryland, was one of the pioneer hunters and made his headquarters near Dresden on the Muskingum river, making a business of hunting and trapping game and fur-bearing animals, with which this county then abounded. His children remembered were Elias, John, Lydia and Sarah and one whose name is forgotten married into the Burch family. Elias Shaw, one of the sons and the father of our subject, was born in Maryland and came to Muskingum county when a young man. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and served under Gen. Cass. He married Harriet Deakin of Maryland, and to them were born four children: Letitia, John D., Philenia and William Francis. Mr. Shaw settled in Cass township above Dresden where Trinway now stands. He was a member of the Baptist church and in politics an old line whig, later a republican and a union man during the war. He lived to be seventy-two years of age. One son, Frank, was in the First Illinois Cavalry regiment and served five years during the war, taking part in many battles. John D. Shaw another son was born November 28, 1828, where the town of Trinway now stands. He can remember a great many things pertaining to the old pioneer life. He received a common-school education in the old log schoolhouse, of those days and early learned to work on the farm. When but seven years of age he went to live with Squire James Morgan, a prominent farmer of the township, and remained with him until he was eighteen years of age. He continued to do farm work until twenty-four years of age, when he married Mary E. Morgan, December 2, 1852, a widow of Washington Morgan, and the daughter of Spencer Lake of Coshocton county. By this marriage Mr. Shaw became the father of three children: George (died when twenty-three years of age) and Perry L. (died when sixteen years of age). This wife died, and November 27, 1888, Mr. Shaw married Cecil Dorsey, daughter of Joseph Dorsey. [See sketch of A. C. Dorsey and Benjamin Dorsey for early history of Dorsey family.] Both Mr. and Mrs. Shaw are members of the Old School Baptist church, and in politics he is a stanch republican. Mr. Shaw and son by industry and hard labor have succeeded in accumulating considerable property and now own 800 acres and have excellent buildings. His son, Joseph Francis, has an elegant and substantial farm residence near his father. Capt. Joseph Shaw, president of the board of trade of Zanesville, and secretary and manager of the Muskingum Coffin company, is a keen, intelligent business man, thoroughly conversant with all the requirements of the trade. The Muskingum Coffin company was established in Zanesville in 1881, and incorporated August 24 of that year with Mr. Shaw as secretary and manager. The company annually manufactures over $100,000 worth of burial goods and gives employment to about sixty hands. Mr. Shaw was born in Newburg, N. Y., May 27, 1840, and the same year his parents, Joseph and Mary (Williams) Shaw, came to Muskingum county and settled upon a farm in Harrison township. This farm was unimproved and they immediately set to work to clear and make a home. Joseph Shaw, Sr., was an Englishman by birth and after emigrating to America located in New York where he followed his trade, that of a weaver. There he married Miss Mary Williams, a native of the Empire state, and they afterward came to Ohio, where the father followed his trade iii connection with farming, often weaving flax and wool for the early pioneers' home-made clothing. He died in Harrison township in 1851, when fifty-one years of age. His widow afterward removed to Zanesville and died there in 1884 in her seventy-ninth year. Two children were the fruits of this union: Joseph (our subject), and George W. Shaw, a hardware merchant of Zanesville, Ohio. Joseph Shaw, Jr., spent his early boyhood upon the farm attending the district schools, and had for one of his teachers the late President James A. Garfield. The schoolhouse was a primitive log building with slab seats, and a single desk, extending around the room and resting on pegs driven into the logs, furnished a writing desk for the pupils. At the age of twelve years young Shaw removed with his mother to Zanesville and began attending the public schools of that city. Later he entered the old Putnam academy, graduated, and then apprenticed himself to Dr. Ezra Dillon, an early physician and druggist of Zanesville, and began fitting himself for an apothecary. About two years later he accepted a clerkship at Dresden, Ohio, where he remained until the outbreak of the Civil war. Immediately after the fall of Fort Sumter, when the whole North began to realize the peril of our country, Mr. Shaw, on April 24, 1861, enlisted in Company E, Third Ohio Volunteer infantry, and served until he was discharged at Columbus, Ohio, July 24 of the same year, by reason of expiration of term of enlistment. On October 16, 1861, he re-enlisted in Company F, Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer infantry; was promoted to sergeant in November of that year, to first or orderly sergeant in January, 1862, quartermaster-sergeant in June, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran in January, 1864; was commissioned first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster in November of the same year, and as such was attached to the First brigade, First division of the Twenty-fourth Army corps. In December of the year 1864 Mr. Shaw was further honored by a captain's commission. During his military career, Capt. Shaw was in active service, 562 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. participating in the numerous battles and marches of his regiment, and was honorably discharged, August 23, 1865. Returning to Zanesville he embarked in mercantile pursuits, having purchased a drug store in which he had previously served as an apprentice, continuing the same until 1881. In 1861 Capt. Shaw wedded Miss Amanda A. Marshall, by whom he is the father of seven children. In politics he is a republican, a member of the Odd Fellows and G. A. R. fraternities, and he and family are attendants of the Putnam Presbyterian church, of Zanesville. The bar of Muskingum county, Ohio, has no more worthy or prominent member than Arthur J. Sheppard, for besides possessing a brilliant mind, great powers of observation and discriminating judgment, he has devoted many hours to the study of his profession and is, without doubt, one of the best-read lawers of the county. He was born at Irville, this county, to Hon. John B. and Rebecca (Bonham) Sheppard, the former of whom was born at Irville April 7, 1828, and the latter in Jackson township, of this county, in December, 1824. Hon. John B. Sheppard began the practice of law in Zanesville in 1868, continuing with distinguished ability until 1873, when he was elected to the general assembly of the state as a democrat, during which time he proved himself an able and incorruptible legislator. Since the close of his term of office he has resided upon a farm in Licking township, this county. His father, Rev. Lenox Sheppard, was born in Westmoreland county, Penn., in 1784, and was called from life in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1849. He was a " circuit rider" of the Methodist church and was one of the powerful preachers of his day. The Sheppard family first became known in this county in 1815, coming thither from Westmoreland county, Penn. The maternal grandfather, Rev. Zachariah Bonham, was born in Virginia, but in 1812 became a resident of Muskingum county, Ohio, and, like Lenox Sheppard, was one of the pioneer Methodist preachers of this region. He died in this county at a ripe old age. Arthur J. Sheppard was given the advantages of the common schools and the schools of Zanesville in his youth, after which he taught school for some time. After having thoroughly fitted himself for the practice of law, by much desultory study, he was admitted to the bar in 1878 and has since beep an active practitioner. He devotes the energies of his heart and mind to the successful conduct of his cases, and never allows the interests of his clients to suffer if careful attention to every detail can prevent it. He is a member of Cyrene commandery of the A. F. & A. M., and also belongs to the I. 0. 0. F. and the B. & P. order of Elks. Peter C. Shroyer was born in the township in which he is now living, on the 30th of July, 1839, a son of Christian and Catharine (Werts) Shroyer, who were born in Pennsylvania in 1801 and Loudoun county, Va., respectively. The father was one of eleven children born to Philip and Mariah (Stotts) Shroyer. He was about the seventh child, and after reaching manhood he settled on the farm where his son, the subject of this sketch, now resides, in 1808. Christian Shroyer and his wife were both earnest members of the Lutheran church. Philip Shroyer was the first to settle on a farm in Salem township, coming to this region from Pennsylvania with an ox team and a team of horses, often having to cut a wagon way through the woods. The grandfather died on his farm, the father in 1839 and the grandmother a short time before. To Philip Shroyer and wife the following children were born: Adam, Philip, Abram, Jacob, Elizabeth, Mary, John, Christian, William, Andrew, and Catherine. Christian Shroyer was about six years of age when he came to this county, was brought up on a farm and obtained a fair education in the neighboring schools. At the age of twenty-four years he was married, and his union was blessed in the birth of the following named children : Solomon and Jacob, who died when young; Susan M., (Mrs. S. H. Hardy); Helen (Mrs. Hamilton); Matilda (Mrs. Shrigley); Elizabeth, who died in early childhood; Peter C.; Malinda C. (Mrs. Edwards); Mary A. (Mrs. Stewart); John 0., who is a farmer residing in Adamsville, and Eliza J. (Mrs. C. H. Bucker), living on the home place, are twins. The father of these children died in this county in 1867. He was a well-to-do farmer, and at his death was the owner of 600 acres of land, all of which was the result of his own endeavors. He was upright and honorable in every particular and was highly respected by the citizens of Muskingum county. Politically he was a Democrat. His wife was a daughter of Peter Werts and was an earnest member of the Lutheran church. She died on the 19th of April, 1888, at which time she was eighty-three years of age. The paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch and his eldest sons were soldiers in the War of 1812. Peter C. Shroyer spent his youth on his father's farm and in attending the common schools near his home, and at the age of twenty-two years he began farming on his own account in Adams township. In 1859 he was married to Miss Sarah E. Winn, a daughter of James and Eliza Winn, her birth having occurred in this township January 31, 1844. She was about the eighth of fourteen children, only six of whom are living, and in her youth she was an attendant of the common schools. She has borne her husband two children: Flora 0., who was born November 2, 1862, and is the wife of H. N. Slater, of Adams township, by whom HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 563 she has a son, Charles William, and Charles T., who was born July 27, 1876, and is still at school. Mr. Shroyer has been a resident of his present place since 1864, but only became the owner of the place in 1872. His land comprises 210 acres, well improved, on which he raises a considerable amount of stock. Mr. Shroyer is a democrat, is active in advancing all interests for the benefit of the county, being especially interested in the building up of churches and schools. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is an excellent business man and strictly honorable in every respect. David Sidle is one of the most venerable citizens of Muskingum county, Ohio, having reached the eighty-fourth milestone of his life. John Sidle, his father, was born in New Jersey, Sussex county, near New Brunswick, but his father, Andrew Sidle, was a native of Germany and upon coming to this country settled in New Jersey. He was married to Miss Sarah Brass, and by her became the father of four children: John, Sarah, Annie and Sophia. He was called from life in the state of his adoption. John Sidle, his son, was by trade a cooper, but also followed the calling of a farmer. He married Mary Reed, of New Jersey, daughter of Cornelius and Elizabeth (Swackhamer) Reed, who were of English and German descent respectively. Mr. Reed came to Ohio in an early day and settled in Muskingum county, near Zanesville. John Sidle and wife reared nine children: Philip, Sophia, Cornelius, Anna, Sarah, David, Jacob, Caroline and Mary. From New Jersey Mr. Sidle first removed to Wilkesbarre, Penn., and became a teamster from that point to Philadelphia, hauling merchandise in one of the immense conestoga wagons drawn by from four to six horses. He hauled the first load of goods from Philadelphia to Zanesville. He lived many years in Wilkesbarre and there two of his children were born. He came by wagon to Ohio, having a four-horse conestoga wagon filled with his effects and a two-horse wagon in which his wife and children rode. In November, 1811, they arrived at the farm now owned by David Sidle, and the first winter of their sojourn here they lived in a small log house about fourteen feet square and in the spring moved into a double log house which was standing on his land. In 1812 he built a still house, which he ran for many years. The following year he built a grist and sawmill on Licking river, which was one of the first mills to be erected in the county. Later these mills were razed, and in 1827 he built a large mill with three run of stone and made flour for shipment. This mill wag in operation for about twenty years. When he first came to the state a number of mills were running, two being in operation at the falls of the Licking river and a large tannery was also there, owned and operated by Stephen White. The little village there continued to exist until along in the thirties and for some time was a rival of Zanesville, and now there is not a vestige to mark the place where many of the old settlers obtained their supplies. John Sidle was a good business man and besides his mills owned a large farm, to which he continued to add until he became the owner of 800 acres of land. He and his wife were Presbyterians in their religious views but he afterward became a Methodist. Politically he was an old line whig and for many years he filled the position of township trustee. He lived to be seventy-four years of age, dying December 11, 1847. His wife died February 3, 1845 at the age of sixty-eight. He was very energetic and enterprising and became well known to all the old pioneers. The millstones for his first mill were hauled from Cheat river, Va., in 1812 and he was much pleased when he got them. His son, David, was about four years of age when the millstones arrived in the night, and he well remembers the teamster shouting to awaken his father. One of these stones does duty as a step at David Sidle's gateway. John Sidle was one of those old pioneers who had a hardy spirit and could face with undaunted courage the trials and privations of pioneer life. He succeeded in whatever he undertook and his son David says of him that " he made things go or broke something." He left a handsome property to his children. David Sidle was born at Wilkesbarre, Penn., November 3, 1807, and was but four years of age on coming to Ohio. Even at that early age he was impressed with the scenes and incidents of that long journey. They remained at Zanesville six weeks, crossing the ferry and stopping on the Putnam side. Schools were few and far between and Mr. Sidle gained but little education in the old pioneer subscription schools. He early began to work on the farm,and well remembers when he planted his first hill of corn. When large enough he began to work in the grist and sawmill and for seventeen years continued at this work and in this way he became acquainted with many of the old pioneers and knew all the settlers within a distance of fifteen miles. He worked both by night and by day, taking turns with the men to sleep, and although the school in which he was trained was a rather rough one, it taught him to think and act for himself. At the age of twenty-three he was married to Harriet Thrapp, their union taking place May 6, 1830. She was a daughter of Rev. Joseph and Jemima (Van Camp) Thrapp, the former of whom was born within eleven miles of Baltimore, Md., on what was known as Gallows Hill. In 1805 he came to Licking county, Ohio, and the following year moved to Muskingum county and settled on a farm within sight of the house where 564 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. David Sidle now lives. He was a minister of the M. P. church and was the first preacher of the county and his services were in requisition far and near when funeral sermons or wedding ceremonies were to be performed. He was the father of twelve children all of whom lived to maturity with one exception, Adaline dying young. The others were: Philander, Israel, Lucinda, Julia A., Harriet, Marcus L., Ellen, John, Joel S., James E. and Martha A. Rev. Thrapp lived to be nearly ninety years of age, dying May 12, 1863. He was well known among the old settlers as an earnest Christian who endeavored at all times to live in the fear of the Lord. His sons Joel and Israel became Methodist Protestant ministers, and aided largely in increasing the membership of the church which their father had helped to found in this county. To Mr. and Mrs. David Sidle a family of nine children were born: Angeline who died at the age of nine years, Eliza A. (wife of James E. Tanner), Emma J. (wife of Salem Barrack, deceased), John W., Cornelius F., Josephine T. (wife of Wilbur F. Armstrong), David M. (resides in Winfield, Kas.), Julia E. (widow of Thomas B. Bland), and Laura S. (wife of A. H. Jennings). After his marriage Mr. Sidle worked in the mill for four years, then removed to a farm in Licking township and afterward to Delaware county, where he resided two years. Owing to the death of his father he then returned to the old homestead, where he has since lived. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Protestant church and he has for many years been one of the trustees of the church. He is well known as an honorable man and has served as township trustee two terms and county infirmary director three years. He was for many years a member of the state militia and served as first lieutenant, then captain and finally as lieutenant-colonel of a cavalry regiment, which position he held three years. He has been uniformly successful as a farmer, and is now the owner of 646 acres of land. He inherited $3,000 from his father's estate of which he and his brother Jacob were executors. The residence in which he lived was built fifty-seven years since and is still a comfortable home, pleasantly situated in a picturesque locality. At eighty-four years of age Mr. Sidle is a remarkable man, his erect form and elastic step showing that he is still possessed of much youthful vigor. He is active in his movements, his eyes are bright and clear, his countenance is ruddy and indicative of good health, his hearing is good, and his wonderful memory and clear intellect are unimpaired. He has always been a man of kindly heart and generous in the use of his means in the interests of worthy movements. His wife, Mrs. Harriet (Thrapp) Sidle, was a gentle and venerable lady, and died February 9, 1892, at the advanced age of seventy-nine years three months and twenty-one days. The family are all well settled in life and are residents of Muskingum county, with the exception of two members. Mr. Sidle is a credit to the old pioneer stock from which he sprang. His brother Philip was a great horse racer and was an extensive shipper of horses to New York and Philadelphia. He once went on horseback to New York city to attend a horse race and fair and attracted much attention as the noted Western horseman. Cornelius, another brother, was also extensively engaged in horse trading. Many of the Sidles have been noted for the excellence of their horsemanship. David Sidle was a strong Union man during the war and is a stanch republican in politics. He sent all his sons to the war and all returned without wounds. John W. was in Company G, Ninety-seventh regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, which was famous for its many battles, and participated in them all. [See sketch of George Vickers, a comrade, for regimental register.] Cornelius was in the 100 days' service and re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Ninety-fourth regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry. David M. was in the Ninth Ohio cavalry, but was taken sick with typhoid fever and was discharged, but afterward re-enlisted in the service in the One Hundred and Ninety-fourth regiment. The war record of all these boys was excellent. Robert Silvey, president of the board of workhouse directors, was born in Blue Rock township, Muskingum county, Ohio, June 30, 1826, to Robert and Pamela (Anderson) Silvey, natives of County Down, Ireland, and New Jersey, respectively. The father came to this county in 1818, and became one of the pioneer farmers of Blue Rock township. In 1831 he was appointed by Gen. Jackson as postmaster of Blue Rock postoffice, which was prior to the time that stages were used, and the mail was carried on horseback from Zanesville to Marietta, Blue Rock being the only post-office between Zanesville and McConnelsville. James Larrison was the mail carrier, and he was the grandfather of Robert Silvey Jr's. wife. The elder Robert Silvey was postmaster at Blue Rock until 1840, but upon Harrison's election to the presidency he resigned. He was a shoemaker by trade, and in addition to this occupation carried on farming. He was born in 1790, and died in 1868, his wife's death occurring in 1887, at the advanced age of eighty-seven years. Her father, Augustine Anderson, was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary war. She bore her husband eight children, five of whom are living: Joseph (in Missouri), John (in Utah), Robert (of Zanesville), Mrs. Metcalfe (of Sidney, Ohio), and Mrs. Deaveo (of Osage City, Kas.). The subject of this sketch was reared in his native township on a farm, and received HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 565 such education as the schools of his day afforded. In 1847-48-49 he taught school. In 1850 he took a trip to California, going via the isthmus of Panama. He remained in that state two years engaged in mining, but in the fall of 1852 returned home and embarked in merchandising at Gaysport, subsequently selling out and starting again at Eagleport, Ohio. At the end of about fourteen years he returned to this county, and in 1869 was elected one of the commissioners of Muskingum county, in which capacity he served efficiently for three years. In 1872 he was elected county treasurer, was re-elected in 1874, and at the expiration of his last term he acted as deputy for two years under Treasurer George W. Allen. In 1880 Gary Bros. & Silvey established themselves in the manufacture of furniture, and conducted a wholesale and retail business until January, 1891, when the firm dissolved. Robert Silvey and Rolla E. Silvey now carry on business under the firm name of Robert Silvey & Son. Mr. Silvey is president of the board of directors of the county workhouse, is president of the Home Building & Savings company, and is also a director of the Home Insurance company. He was married in 1853 to Miss Emeline Lucas, a native of the county, by whom he is the father of six children: Harry K., Hattie M., Rolla E., Robert L., Leona and Leota (twins). He and his family are regular attendants of the Market Street Baptist church, and he is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the K. of H., the A. 0. U. W. and the American Legion of Honor. Harrison Skinner was born in Madison township, Muskingum county, Ohio, March 8, 1841, and was the youngest of eleven children born to John C. and Nancy (Garrett) Skinner, early settlers of Muskingum county. Their children now living are named as follows: Mary, now Mrs. Post, resides in Morrow county, Ohio; John G. resides in Columbus City, Iowa; Joseph V. resides in Coshocton county, Ohio, near Adams Mills; Margaret, now Mrs. Comin, resides at College Springs, Iowa; Sarah, now Mrs. Paisley, resides in College Springs, Iowa; William, in Louisa county, Iowa, and Harrison. the subject of this sketch. Those deceased were named: William, Thomas, Elizabeth and Eliza. The mother of these children died in 1844, and the father received his final summons at his son John's home in Iowa. Harrison Skinner is the only one living in Muskingum county, Ohio. He was reared on what is now known as the Samuel King farm, near the center of Madison township; when thirteen years of age' he left home and began working on a farm. In 1863 he enlisted in Company B, First Ohio cavalry, and his principle battles were Moulton, Ala., Columbus, Ga., and Selma, Ala. His company was detailed body guard for Gen. McPherson, subsequently he was detailed at the same place to carry mail and dispatches from Marietta to Atlanta and other commanding posts, and performed his duties without mishap and with great credit. After the siege of Atlanta he went with Sherman to the sea. While on this raid he was two days and nights without food. He was a good soldier and served his country faithfully and well. He received his discharge at Columbus, Ohio, on September 13, 1865, and then returned to farm life in his native country, following the same until 1867. He then embarked in the sawmill business near Adams Mills, in company with his brother Joseph. and continued at this for about two years. Later he embarked in farming. On December 29, 1870, he was married to Hannah NI. King, who was born in Muskingum county on April 27, 1850, and who received her education in that county. She was the daughter of Hugh King. [See sketch]. Mr. and Mrs. Skinner have reared seven children: Ira U., at home, was born August 29, 1871; Adra A., born September. 13, 1873; Cora L., born July 23, 1875; William H., born August 10, 1877; Arthur C., born June 19, 1879; Herbert E., born June 24, 1882, and Carrie G., born May 4, 1887. Mr. Skinner has followed agricultural pursuits for the most part since his marriage and has tilled the soil of the farm on which he now lives for some time. He own sabout 160 acres of well-improved land in the southern part of Madison township, and will move to this farm in April, 1892. He is actively engaged in stockraising annually raises cattle, sheep, hogs and horses. In politics Mr. Skinner is a stanch republican, and he is a public spirited citizen, taking an active interest in all public enterprises of a worthy nature. He and family hold membership in the Methodist Protestant church and attend the Prospect church. George W. Slater, of Adamsville, Ohio, is the son of Anthony and Susannah (Vinsel) Slater, being one of their six sons; Sampson, John, George, William, Harrison, and Solomon, four of whom were born in Ohio. [For complete sketch of the family see sketch of Harrison V. Slater.] George W. Slater was born in what is now Adams township, Muskingum county, February 2, 1820, and received a common-school education in the old log schoolhouse of those days, known as the Bainters schoolhouse. Among his teachers were Alph. Buker, John Palmer and Samuel Hamilton. He well remembers many of the old pioneer characters whose names and records are now matters of history. He early learned to work on the farm and married December 14, 1848, at the age of twenty-eight years, Mary C. Wenmer, born April, 566 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. 1829, in Ohio, a daughter of Solomon and Malinda (Wurtz) Wenmer. Her father was from Loudoun county, Va., and of German descent, coming when a young man to Ohio, about the year 1825. He was a carpenter by trade and married in Salem township. He worked for some years at his trade and finally settled in Adams township on a farm. He died in the year 1852, about fifty-two years of age, and was the father of two children who lived to maturity: Mary C., and Elizabeth R., who married George H. Vinsel. He was a member of the Lutheran church, and held offices of trust. After his marriage Mr. Slater settled in Highland township, on a farm of 160 acres of land, which he bought about this time. Here he lived six years, and in the spring of .1855 moved to his present farm, which then consisted of 225 acres, and which joined his father's farm. Later he bought out his father's interest and still resides on this farm having lived here continously for thirty-seven years. Mr. Slater now owns about 518 acres in this county and about four acres in Adamsville. He is the father of seven children: Cidua J., Solomon 0., Frances M., W. H., Susan M., Howard B. and Carson E. Mrs. Slater died September 6, 1869, aged about forty years. She was a devout member of the Lutheran church, a sincere Christian, and affectionate wife and mother. In politics Mr. Slater is a stanch republican, he was county commissioner for six terms from 186167, and during the war was a Union man. He has also been township trustee and treasurer, and a member of the board of education. He is public spirited and in favor of all improvements for the good of the county, and was road supervisor. As a member of the Lutheran church he has held the office of warden, chairman, and trustee. He has all his life assisted with his means and influence to maintain the church. He is a practical farmer and during his life accumulated quite a library. Of the children, Cidua J. married Jonas Bainter (he is deceased and Mrs. Bainter and the two children live with her father); Solomon 0. married Ruth Hanks (he is a farmer of Lucas county, Iowa, and they have four children); Francis M. married Belle Keys (he is a farmer of Monroe township, they have three children); William H. married Hannah Cone (he is a farmer of Monroe township); Susan M. married Joseph C. Souder, a farmer of Loudoun county, Va. ; Howard B. married Anna Vinsel (he is a farmer of Lucas county, Iowa); Carson E. is a school teacher of Lucas county, Iowa. Mr. Slater gave all his children good educations, some of them attending New Concord college. All the boys were school teachers except Howard B. Harrison V. Slater, Adamsville, Ohio, was the son of Anthony Slater, who was born in Loudoun county, Va., October 2, 1789, eight miles from Harper's Ferry. He received a common-school education in both German and English, and was a soldier in the War of 1812. He married in Loudoun county, Va., Susannah Vinsel, and to them were born six children: Sampson, John, George, William, Harrison V., and Solomon. In 1816 Mr. Slater came to Ohio, bringing his family, which then consisted of his wife and two sons, Sampson and John. He first settled in this county five miles north of Zanesville, on the Adamsville road, living here about one year. He bought land in Adams township, which is now owned by Eliza Cowden. This land was covered with heavy timber, and Mr. Slater cut a road from the farm' occupied by Peter Wurtz, to get his house-belongings to his farm. He first built a log cabin and later a hewed-log house, and here he lived the remainder of his life, reaching the advanced age of ninety-five years. He was a man of powerful constitution, and possessing a wonderful hold on life. He owned a good farm of 160 acres, most of which he cleared with his own hands. He became a prosperous citizen, was an early justice of the peace, and held the office for twenty-one years. Besides his farm in Adams township he owned 100 acres in Monroe township, and 160 acres in Iowa. He was well thought of by the old settlers, well known as Squire Slater, and respected as an honest and Christian man. Both himself and wife were members of the Lutheran church. Harrison V. Slater, his son, was born January 2, 1828, on his father's farm, in Adams township, in the original log cabin, and well remembers the building of the hewed-log house in which his father passed so many years. Young Harrison received the common-school education of that day, in one of the old log schoolhouses of the pioneers. He became a farmer and married at the age of twenty-four years, October 16. 1851, Jane Walker (born December 8, 1832), daughter of Joseph and Margaret Alice (Hammond) Walker. Col. Joseph Walker was from Washington county, Va., born June 10, 1799. His father, Robert Walker, was a millwright of Irish descent. His great-grandfather was a native of Ireland, a soldier in the Revolutionary war. By this wife, Joseph Walker became the father of five children: Julia A., John, Agnes, Jane and Eliza. All lived to maturity. August 12, the same year as his marriage, he moved to Ohio, settled in Monroe township, this county, engaged in the tanning business, and this in connection with farming was his work through life. He possessed an unusual degree of intelligence, taking a great interest in Political affairs, general and local, and held a number of offices of trust. Politically he was a lifelong democrat. Col. Walker received his military title as an officer of the Ohio HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 567 militia, August 9, 1838, and was commissioned by Gen. Joseph Vance as adjutant of the Fifth regiment, Second brigade and Fifteenth division of the Ohio militia. His commission and sword he possessed during life, and was always pleased to show them. His daughter, Julia A., married Barton Cone of Otsego; Agnes married Jacob Wheeler, of Monroe township (she is deceased); Jane married H. V. Slater (our subject), and John is a farmer of Caldwell county, Mo. Col. Walker's first wife died ugust 6, 1843, at the age of forty years. He rried again July 6, 1844, Margaret Emler of onroe township, and they were the parents of six children, all of whom are living: Charles and Robert in Monroe township; Dr. A. E. Walker, of East Plainfield, Ohio, William of Highland township; Mrs. Eleanor , of Cumberland, Ohio, and Mrs. Andrew Jackson, of Wapello, Iowa. The Colonel's second wife died September 7, 1881, aged seventy years. On September 23, 1882, a family reunion was held at his residence, at which were gathered seventy of his descendants, including children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. His descendants aggregate up to 100 persons. He died March 22, 1885, at the age of •ighty-five years, nine months and twelve days, and was interred at the Otsego cemetery, March 24. Harrison V. Slater, our subject, after marriage settled on a farm in Monroe township belonging to his father, and after four years bought land comprising 160 acres, in Adams township, which he still owns. By industry and thrift he has added to his land until he owned 341 acres, but has given eighty acres to his son Barton. Mr. Slater started with nothing but by his own efforts and the assistance of his faithful wife, after years of hard work and patient self-denial, succeeded in accumulating a handsome property. They are members of the Lutheran church. Mr. Slater has been township trustee, has held the office of justice of the peace for six years, and will always use his influence in the support of the schools and for public improvements. Mr. and Mrs. Slater are the parents of seven children: Susannah (born June 24, 1853, married Charles Gaumer, editor and proprietor of the "Shield and Banner" of Mansfield, Ohio); Margaret C. (born August 17, 1855, married Clark Ramsey, a farmer of Highland township, and they have two children); Salena A. (born January 9, 1858, married Elijah Cowden, a farmer of Adams township, they have one child); Albert B., a farmer of Adams township (born April 22, 1860, married Eliza J. Cowden, they have one child); Henrietta (born November 2, 1862, married Allen 0. Adams, a farmer of Salem township, they have three children); W. O. (born July 10. 1865 and died February 4, 1880); and Rose (born January 10, 1870, is at home). Politically, Mr. Slater is a democrat. Anthony Slater was a Soldier in the War of 1812, entering service the same day the British burned the capitol at Washington. He was in Baltimore during the attack and siege of that place, and at Fort Henry was one of the advance guards of the American army when the British landed there. In 1816 Mr. Slater moved with his wife to Ohio and first settled on what is now known as Culbertson farm in Washington township, where they lived for about one year, and then moved to the farm in Adams township where the remainder of their lives was spent. They had no neighbors nearer than three or four miles, and the nearest mill or postoffice was at Zanesville, eighteen miles away. They *ere the first permanent settlers in the territory now included in Adams township, which was then, a part of Monroe township. In 1824 Adams township was formed of parts of Monroe and Madison and named in honor of John Q. Adams, who was then a candidate for the presidency. Mr. Slater was the first justice of the peace of Adams township and held the office for twenty-one years in succession., He was also a candidate for county commissioner on the democratic ticket, but was defeated, as the whigs carried the county that year. He had six sons, two of whom are yet living—George W. and Harrison. On July 3, 1878, Mrs. Slater died at the age of eighty-five years. They had been married sixty-six years, and resided together in one place for sixty-one years. They were both members of the New Hope Lutheran church. Mr. Slater was a man of intelligent mind and remarkable memory, retaining his vigor unimpaired up to within two years before his death. John Smith is one of the leading agriculturists of Muskingum county, Ohio, and was born here in 1844, to Thomas and Malinda (Pringle) Smith, the former of whom was born in Virginia in 1805 and was brought by his father, Edward Smith, to this state in 1808, when, before the encroachment of civilization, wild game was plentiful. In 1809 Edward Smith purchased the farm on which his grandson, John Smith, is now living, which place had been entered by another man a short time before. In payment for this land Mr. Smith gave his horse, saddle and bridle and finished by paying the government a small balance due on the land. At the time of his settlement there was but one house between his place and Zanesville, a distance of six miles, and it was owned and occupied by a Mr. Ecelberry. These two families had many interesting experiences and on several occasions united their forces for protection. The Smith family came from Virginia to Ohio with a wagon and a cart, and Mr. Smith always used horses instead of oxen. He had four head of horses and but very little money and as corn had to be bought, for which he had, to pay $1 per bushel and the 568 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. journey to procure it occupied ten days at least, he had at first a hard time to make both ends meet. Three or four days were required to go to mill and, like many other pioneers, they were compelled to undergo many other inconveniences and hardships. Mr. and Mrs, Smith reared a family of ten children —five sons and five daughters—of whom Thomas was the second. Nathan is the only son now living and is a resident of Hardin county. Mrs. Elizabeth Comstock is the only member of this family now residing in this county. The father of these children died in 1859 at the age of eighty-five years, his wife's death occurring on the 30th of October, 1861, at the age of eighty-one. Thomas Smith, the father of the subject of this sketch, was reared on the farm on which the latter now lives, and was educated in the common schools of this county. At the age of twenty years he married and moved immediately to Blue Rock township, where his father had purchased a farm of eighty acres and presented to him, and to this land he afterward added 160 acres, making it one of the finest farms in the township. He took an active interest in the affairs of his section and filled the offices of township trustee and land appraiser. He had the confidence of all who knew him, and was a decided acquisition to the section in which he located, for besides being industrious and thrifty, he was enterprising and always up with the times. He was a strict member of the Blue Rock Baptist church for more than twenty years, and in his death his family lost a kind and affectionate husband and father and a faithful friend, and the community a man true as a die to her interests and a lover of peace and good order. He was an old time Whig, but during the latter part of his life voted the democratic ticket. He resided on the farm in Blue Rock township for fifty-five years and died on the 9th of April, 1881, at the age of seventy-six years. His wife survived him until September, 1889, and was buried on her eighty-fourth birthday. She was a kind, gentle and considerate mother, a true friend and an accommodating neighbor. She and her husband reared a family of eight children: Edward, who resides in Blue Rock township; Mary, the deceased wife of Emmer Greenfield ; Elizabeth, the deceased wife of Austin Brothers; George, who was accidentally killed at a house raising, by a log falling on him; W. P., who resides in Blue Rock township; Eliza J., widow of George Roberts, resides in Blue Rock township; John, the subject of this sketch, and Jedidah, wife of J. E. Shaver, of Blue Rock township. John Smith, whose name heads this sketch, attended the common schools of his precinct, but owing to the fact that his father got crippled, a brother killed and another brother married, the burden of conducting the farm fell on his youthful shoulders and thus deprived him of many a day's schooling. He has always been quite a reader and kept thoroughly posted on all the general topics of the day and may be said to be a well-informed man. At the age of twenty-one he was married to Miss Calista Shaver, their union taking place January 23, 1866, she being a daughter of Levi and Anna (Hale) Shaver, the latter being born on the ocean August 14, 1818. They were shipwrecked on the way to this country from Germany and were landed on one of the Portuguese islands where they remained for one year, or until the ship could. be repaired. She had one brother and one sister who died on the voyage and were buried at sea. They finally landed in New York city and Mr. Hale at once made his way to this state and county and engaged in stock dealing and butchering at Chandlersville, but died soon after settling in this section. They reared a family of four sons and one daughter, the last the mother of the subject of this sketch. John resides in Springfield, Ill., Alexander resides at Athens, Ill., Oscar in Peoria, of the same state, and Joseph in California. The mother of these children lived to be sixty-five years of age, dying in 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Shaver became the parents of eight children. A pair of twin boys died when small; a little girl also died; and those living are: Calista (Mrs. Smith); Jonas E., of Blue Rock township; Nancy and Louisa (twins), the former being the wife of A. F. Cohagin; Louisa, wife of George Davis, and Amanda, wife Samuel Gillogly. Mrs. Shaver died June 5, 1854, but Mr. Shaver is a resident of Blue Rock township, and although seventy-seven years of age is yet stout and active. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are the parents of four children: Levi S., Anna M., Willard T., and one that died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is at present one of the school directors of his district. Frank H. Southard is one of the leading lawyers of Muskingum county, Ohio, for he makes it a principle of his to perfect his work and calling more and more, to keep thoroughly posted in his profession and to have a thorough knowledge of the current topics of the day. He was born in Licking county, Ohio, October 31, 1840, to Isaiah and Elizabeth (Parnell) Southard, the former having been born in Pennsylvania in 1801 and died in Licking county, Ohio, in 1885. The mother was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1807, and is now a resident of Licking county. The Southard family settled in that county in 1804, and there the early boyhood of Frank H. Southard was spent. He prepared himself for college in the common schools and went through the junior year at Dennison university at Granville, Ohio, being afterward admitted to the senior year in the Wesleyan university of Delaware, Ohio, graduating in the HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 569 classical course in 1864. The following year he entered the law department of the Michigan university, and in 1866 was admitted to the bar at Mount Vernon, Ohio, entering upon the practice of his profession in Zanesville in the fall of the following year. He has been connected with many important trials. He was married in 1872 to Miss Laura Laughry, and by her has one son—Carl M. Mr. Southard supports the men and measures of the democrat party. Col. T. F. Spangler, president of the People's Savings bank and a member of the firm of T. F. Spangler & Co., dealers in real estate, is the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Torrance) Spangler, natives of Ohio. The Spangler family is of German origin, and its members were among the pioneer settlers of Maryland. The paternal grandfather, Jacob Spangler, was quite young at the breaking out of the War of 1812, but served as a drummer boy. After growing up he followed agricultural pursuits. He came to Ohio from Maryland and settled in Muskingum county in pioneer days, locating in Wayne township. He subsequently moved to Zanesville, and died there when quite aged. Benjamin Spangler was a farmer in his early days, but is now retired and resides in Zanesville. He was a member of the city council for several years. He had one son and one daughter —Col. T. F. and Mrs. Mary J. Orr, of Columbus, Ohio. Col. Spangler was born in Zanesville on the 28th of March, 1849, and graduated from the high school of Zanesville in 1867. After this, like many of the other prominent men of the county, he began for himself as a school teacher, following this profession for two winters in the country schools. He then entered the law office of A. W. Train and was admitted to the bar in 1873. While studying law he was clerk for the firm of Ball & Train, being the student of the latter, and after his admission to the bar began practicing immediately. He became connected with the building association of the city, and organized the Union Building company, the McIntire Building Company association, and is now managing the Homestead Building and Savings company, of which he is general manager, secretary and attorney. This company has 1,100 members, and has a capital of over $1,000,000, with $700,000 active stock. He was the senior member of Spangler & Finley, attorneys and real estate dealers, from 1881 to 1887, and this proved very paying. The firm became well known and did an immense business. The People's Saving bank was organized in the fall of 1889, Mr. Spangler being elected a director and its president. The firm of T. F. Spangler & Co. represents the Pennsylvania Railroad company in various ways, and is composed of T. F. Spangler and W. J. Atwell. It represented the land interest and was largely interested in the Cleveland & Canton railroad on its terminus in Zanesville; also the Zanesville Terminal railway, for which this firm has purchased $150,000 worth of land in the Second ward, for which they held the title. Mr. Spangler was appointed on the military staff of Gov. Hoadley in January, 1884, with the rank of colonel, and served in that capacity for two years, during which time the Cincinnati riot occurred. He was in active service for ten days, and afterward received a letter of thanks from the governor for his good service during that time. Upon the election of Gov. James E. Campbell he was appointed to the same position. Col. Spangler has been a very active member of the board of trade, and has been a director since its organization. He was also the chairman,. of a special committee of five men that retained the American Encaustic Tile works. Mr. Spangler has ever been active in promoting the welfare and progress of Zanesville and is one of its representative citizens. He is a member of the I. 0. 0. F. and a Thirty-second degree Mason. He was married in 1875 to Miss Mary S. Cox, sister of Sunset Cox, so well known. He is the father of four children: Leola, Dora, Helen, and Arthur C. He and wife are members of the Market Street Baptist church, leading and popular members of society, and possess social qualities of a high order. Robert W. Speer, a prominent agriculturist of Muskingum county, Ohio, was born on the farm where he now resides on March 4, 1807, and was the eldest child born to William and Rebecca (Boggs) Speer. William Speer was born in Adams county, Penn., near the Gettysburg battle ground, on January 19, 1778, and was a son of Robert Speer, who was a native of the north of Ireland. The latter emigrated to the United States about 1760, settled on a farm in Adams county, Penn., and there passed his last days. His wife's maiden name was Agnes Stewart, and they were engaged to be married before he came to this country. After settling in Adams county and getting a pretty good start, he returned to the land of his birth and his sweetheart whom he married and brought back with him. They died in that county in 1813, within three days of each other. William Speer was reared on a farm, and when a young man came to Muskingum county, settling on the farm now owned and occupied by our subject. He took up land about 1804. He had one sister and six brothers, four of whom came to Ohio and settled in Guernsey and Muskingum counties. William was married in Washington county, Penn., in 1806, and after coming to this country followed blacksmithing until about 1814, after which time he cultivated the soil spending the principal part of 570 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. his days engaged in the latter occupation. He reared a family of ten children—two sons and eight daughters: Robert, Sarah, Jane, Mary, Rebecca, William, Margaret, Eliza, Martha and Nancy. The father died about 1832. His wife, who was a native of Washington county, Penn., was a daughter of James Boggs, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and a friend of Gen. Washington, being appointed to some official position by the latter. He was land agent for George Washington, who gave him a farm in Washington county, Penn., after the war. Mr. and Mrs. Boggs were members of the Presbyterian church and both received their final summons in Washington county,Penn. RobertW. Speer' s boyhood days were spent on his father's farm, about one-half mile from New Concord, and from 1814 until 1832 he was in Guernsey county. From the latter date until the present he has been a resident of Muskingum county and one of its most esteemed and worthy citizens. He was married in 1837 to Miss Sarah Jamison, a native of Muskingum county, born in 1817, and one of a large family of children born to the marriage of Elder John Jamison of this township and county. Her parents came originally from, Erie county, Penn., and settled in Muskingum county, as early as 1809. The father followed farming. Mr. and Mrs. Speer became the parents of twelve children: Margaret, now Mrs. Stevenson, resides in St. Louis, Mo.; Rebecca, now Mrs. Robb, resides in this county and township; Sarah, who married Rev. W. Stevenson, died in Illinois; Rev. James, resides in Wapinitia, Ore. ; John a farmer and lumberman, resides at Elk, Mich.; Lizzie, now Mrs. George, resides at McDonald, Penn.; Cammeron, is a farmer near Elk, Mich.; Flora, Mrs. Thompson, of Washington county, Ill.; H. W., at home, engaged in farming; Hester, at home; Joana, at home; and Lena, also at home. Mrs. Speer passed away at her home in Union township in 1882. She was a member of the Reformed Presbyterian church. Mr. Speer also holds membership in that church. He was formerly a whig in his political views, and although in sympathy with the republican party at the present time, he does not vote. He has a good farm of 100 acres and is one of the foremost planters of the county. He is interested in church and school matters and was a member of the board of trustees of Muskingum college for many years. William Speer, who is one of the oldest pioneers of the county with which he has been identified since 1832, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, July 15, 1817, to the union of William and Rebecca (Boggs) Speer, both natives of the Keystone state, the father born January 19, 1778, and the mother in 1784. William Speer Sr., followed blacksmith ing during the early part of his life, but later engaged in tilling the soil. At an early day he moved to Ohio, and there his family, consisting of ten children, was reared. They were named as follows: Robert, Sarah, Jane, Mary, Rebecca, William, Margaret, Eliza, Martha and Nancy A. The father died in Muskingum county, on June 12, 1832. He and wife were members of the Associate Reformed church, and he was a whig in politics. William Speer Jr., remained in his native county until 1831 or 1832, and then moved to this county and settled on his present farm which consists of eighty-four acres. Agricultural pursuits have been his life's calling and he has met with substantial results in this occupation. In his thirtieth year he married Miss Margaret Pollock, a native of Muskingum county, Ohio, born March 17, 1827, and the daughter of Abraham and Jane (Bigger) Pollock, natives of Pennsylvania. Her parents came to Guernsey county, Ohio, prior to the War of 1812, in which her father served as a soldier, but later moved to Muskingum county, where the father died shortly afterward. The mother died in this county about twenty-three years ago. Mr. Pollock was a member of the Presbyterian church and his wife of the Associate Reformed church. Mr. Pollock was a whig in politics and represented Muskingum county two terms in the legislature. He was a prominent politician at that time. Their children, four in number, were named as follows: Samuel (residing on a farm in this county), Mary J. (died in 1835), Margaret (subject's wife), .and Rachel M. (now Mrs. Watson, resides in Guernsey county). Mr. and Mrs. Speer became the parents of seven children: Rebecca J. died at the age of ten years; John B., a farmer of Highland township, this county; William P. died at the age of three years; Sarah M., residing at home; Mary M., also at home; Anna E., who is now Mrs. Watson and resides in this county, and Robert S., who resides at home. Mr. Speer and wife are members of the R. P. church, in which he is an elder, and in the past he took a deep interest in church work. The children are nearly all members of the same church. During his entire life Jason Spencer, farmer, Zanesville, has been a resident of Muskingum county, Ohio, and he enjoys the reputation of being an honest, upright man in every respect, fully deserving the good opinion with which he is regarded by every one. He was born in this county, February 28, 1814, and is the son of Ichabod and Mary (Smith) Spencer, both natives of New Jersey. The parents were married in their native state and as early as 1805 emigrated to Muskingum county, Ohio, settling on the farm now owned by their son, Jason. It was all in the woods then and Mr. Spencer immediately erected a log house HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 571 and began improving his place. He had traded fifty acres of very stony land for 375 acres in Muskingum county and after arriving here he had but $75 to keep his family until he could clear land and raise a crop. He continued improving his farm until his death, which occurred February 16, 1856. He was a hard-working man and an influential citizen. In clearing his land he would be so late in the season in getting in his crops that he would not take time to plow his ground, but would mark it out and his wife and children would plant. The mother died October 2, 1858. Our subject's paternal grandfather, William Spencer, was of English descent. Jason Spencer was the seventh in order of birth of eight children and is the only one now living. He has always resided on his present property, the old homestead, and has carried on what his father began. He was married in 1840 to Miss Rachel Savidge, a native also of Muskingum county, residing about two miles from the home of Mr. Spencer and her parents were early settlers also, coming here a few years after Mr. Spencer. Mrs. Spencer died on February 26, 1890. Joseph Spencer, farmer, Frazeysburg, Ohio. Among the well-known pioneer settlers of Muskingum county, Ohio, the Spencers deserve honorable mention, for not only are they classed among the first settlers, but they have ever been respected and esteemed citizens. Mr. Spencer's grandfather, Joseph Spencer, was a native of Maryland, of English descent, and was a shoemaker by trade. He was the father of five children: Foreman, Edward, William, Sarah and Gracie (who died in Maryland). Grandfather Spencer came to Ohio in early life, after the death of his first wife, and after her son, Foreman, had made a start, built a home and married. He lived with his son until his death, when seventy-five years of age. He was a member of the Baptist church and was well thought of by the old settlers. His son, Foreman Spencer, was born in Maryland, September 1, 1784, secured but a limited education, and there learned the trade of a tanner and shoemaker. He was one of the first settlers of Muskingum county, Ohio, emigrating there, it is believed, about 1800 or 1801, with a family by the name of Tanner, the descendants of whom are now residing in Zanesville. Mr. Spencer entered land which is now the farm of his grandson, John Spencer. Muskingum township was then an unbroken wilderness, and to the best knowledge of our subject there was not a single settler in it. Mr. Spencer first built a log cabin and here resided for a number of years. He had entered his land, but had no money to pay for it. He had a horse, and having some time in which to pay for his land, he mounted that animal and with some provisions and a sack of oats, he visited Virginia to borrow $100 of an uncle. He received the money and returned in time to save the land, consisting of 160 acres. He again returned to Virginia and married Miss Dorothy Wiseman of West Virginia, on the Little Kenesaw river. The fruits of this union were eight children, all of whom lived to maturity: Wilson, Foreman, Owen, Wiseman, Harriet, Joseph, Elizabeth and Minerva. Mr. Spencer was a great worker and cleared his land of the heavy timber with which it was covered. For many years his nearest neighbor was ten and fifteen miles away, except one family that lived where the covered bridge now is, near Frazeysburg, and he used to go ten miles to a log rolling. He used to go to the falls of Licking river for his grist of meal, horseback, and hitch his horse to the branches of the beech trees, waiting sometimes all night to get his grist ground, and sleeping under the trees. On his way home, he would frequently miss his cabin, although near it, on account of the thick foliage of the trees. Here he labored hard, endured all the privation of pioneer days, and gradually made a fine farm. He cared very little for hunting and did not waste his time that way, well knowing that the farm was the road to success. He used to wrap up his children and lay them under the beech trees while his wife would gather brush to keep up a fire so that he could see to grub up the bushes with his mattock. In this way he worked and delved until he finally owned 600 acres. His sons, as they grew up, greatly assisted him, which he repaid by giving them land. Mr. Spencer built a brick house before 1817, and this was the first brick building in that county. There were none at Nashport, Irville or Frazeysburg at that early day. He got out the timber on his own land, burned the brick on his own farm and they are in excellent condition to this day. He built the house by piece meal and the walls are still standing in good condition. Mr. Spencer gave an acre of land to build the Old School Baptist church on, and this still stands and is occupied by them. The land where Shannon now stands belonged to Mr. Spencer, who founded the town and which at one time had a general store; a physician, and all the different trades were represented. He was the first tanner in this township, or in this part of the county, beginning the business soon after coming here and continuing it for many years. The money he made in that way assisted him in paying for his land. He was very careful and economical, and the household clothing was all raised, spun, woven and made upon the farm. He used to go to Taylor's salt works for salt, paying several dollars per barrel. His faithful wife died at the early age of thirty-seven. She was an Old School Baptist in her religious belief and a devout woman. 572 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. About fifteen years afterward Mr. Spencer married the widow of Jesse Crannell, formerly a Miss Margaret Evans, and to them was born one child. Mr. Spencer was one of the foremost men of the township and took an active interest in its advancement. After rearing his children and giving land to each, he sold his property in Ohio, and went to New York city, where he took passage on a sailing vessel for San Francisco. From there he went to Portland, Ore., and settled thirty miles from that city in the Willamette valley on new land which was then a wilderness, and here Mr. Spencer again made a new home in a new country. During the period of the great Civil war about 1861 and 1862, his daughter, Harriet Baxter, with her husband (John Baxter) and seven children, went to Oregon and settled in the home of Mr. Spencer, who was now an old man, and who lived about eight years afterward, dying at the age of eighty-six years. He left a handsome property of over 300 acres in the Willamette valley. Mr. Spencer was very energetic and a good business man, depending more on his business management and not so much on hard work the latter part of his life. He was honorable and upright and his word was as good as his bond. His son, Joseph Spencer, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, July 8, 1823, and received but a limited education. At an early age he Vegan assisting his father to clear the, home place, and worked with untiring industry on the same for years. At the age of twenty-four he married the daughter of Chaney and Sarah Mendenhall, one of the pioneer settlers of Jackson township, coming from Virginia at an early day. To Mr. and Mrs. Spencer was born one child, Jesse J., who is now a married man with two children and is living in Kansas on a farm. After his marriage Joseph Spencer lived with his father until he was thirty-one years of age. His wife died three years after marriage, and six years later, at the age of thirty-one, he married Miss Martha Bail who bore him four children, all of whom lived to grow to maturity: Foreman, William H., Thomas C. and Flora A. After his marriage, and in 1855, he moved to his present farm which his father had given him and which consisted of 128 acres. To this he, has added from, time to time until he now owns 328 acres, besides having given his sons 120 acres in Jackson township. Mr. Spencer has been successful in farming, and is one of the substantial men of the county. He holds membership in the Presbyterian church and has been trustee of the same for some time. He takes a decided interest in educational matters and has been school director. In politics he is a republican. He has lived all his life in this township, is well known, and is a temperate, moral man. He made a trip to Oregon and Washington territory in 1888 and was much pleased with the Willamette valley. Wiseman Spencer, farmer, Dresden, Ohio, is an old soldier, and when the country needed his services he did not hesitate to risk his life in its defense. His grandfather, Foreman Spencer, was one of the pioneer settlers of Muskingum county [see sketch of Joseph Spencer] and Wilson Spencer, son of Foreman, was born on the 'old Spencer homestead near Shannon. In youth his time was divided in attending the common school and assisting his father on the farm, and when grown he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Cole, daughter of Samuel Cole. The fruits of this union were eight children, four of whom died when small: Samuel, Martha, John, Wiseman, Francis, Louisa, Sarah, and Marshall. Mr. Spencer advocated the principles of the republican party, and during the war he was a stanch Union man. Socially he was a Mason, a member of the lodge at Frazeysburg. He became a substantial farmer, and at the time ,of his death, which occurred in 1864,. when fifty-five years of age, he was the owner of 300 acres of good land. He had two sons in the Civil war, Wiseman and Marshall. The latter enlisted in the Seventy-ninth regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, and served in all about four years. He re-enlisted as a veteran and was in many battles. He is now a resident in Frazeysburg. Wilson Spencer was a hard-working, industrious citizen, and was well respected in the vicinity in which he lived. His son, Wiseman Spencer, subject of this sketch, received his scholastic advantages in the common schools, and learned all the details of farm life in early youth. When twenty-one years of age, or on the of 15th September, 1861, he enlisted in the Fifteenth regiment, Ohio Volunteer in fan-try, Company B, and this was the first regiment to respond to the call for men in Muskingum county. Young Spencer was mustered into service at Mansfield, Ohio, and his first service was in a skirmish at Green river, Ky. Later he participated in a severe skirmish at Liberty Gap, in which his command lost eight men. Shortly afterward Mr. Spencer was taken prisoner, but was only held a few days, when he was exchanged. He was in the great battle of Chickamauga, Tenn., and was shot through the chest, a minie-ball passing through the lower part of the right lung and lodging in the fleshy part of the back where the ball could be felt. He fell to the ground insensible, but in a very short time became conscious, arose to his feet, and walked about fifty yards toward the field hospital. His comrades then came to his assistance and placing him on a stretcher carried him to the hospital, in. which 500 wounded men were lying. The hospital was a log house, and as it was in the line of fire a flag of truce waved from the top. The hospital was full and Mr. Spencer was placed on the outside of the house. That night the confederates capt- HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 573 ured the hospital. There Mr. Spencer lay for eight days without shelter, with scanty food—principally corn gruel—and as the surgeons were too busy to extract the ball from his back it remained there eight days. He nearly died during that time. At the end of the eight days he was removed to the creek with the other prisoners, the United States furnishing the confederates with tents and surgeons for the wounded. The prisoners were then examined, and those able to walk were taken to Liberty prison, while those remaining were exchanged. Mr. Spencer, being badly wounded, was exchanged about ten days after he was wounded. He was then taken, with others, to the hospital at Chattanooga, remained there one week, and was then taken in an ambulance to Stevenson, Ala. There he remained one month. The ball was cut out at the field hospital, after inflammation set in, and Mr. Spencer still has in his possession the ball that so nearly caused his death. He was in Nashville, Tenn., about a month and was there discharged as permanently disabled; his father coming for him. After reaching home he was sick for a year, but he has never fully recovered, and can not do a full day's work, although a strong and hearty man when he entered the service. He was in active service two years and three months, and receives now a pension from his country. He was a good and faithful soldier and was ever ready for duty. On the 28th of December, 1864, he married Miss Emily Riley, daughter of Samuel Riley [see sketch of Joseph Riley], and afterward settled on a farm where Howard Spencer now lives. There he made his home for eight years and then bought his present farm, which consists of 190 acres of land with good buildings, etc., on which this old soldier expects to pass the remainder of his days. To Mr. and Mrs. Spencer were born nine children: Effie, Minett W., Charles, Annie, Edna, Eliza, Ollie, Mary and Leah. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer are members of the Presbyterian church and he is trustee in the same. He takes an interest in all laudable enterprises and is now holding the office of township trustee. He is active in school matters and is a director. He is a member of the Cass post, G. A. R., of Dresden, and in politics is a republican. He is one of the county's best citizens and is universally respected.. Phineas P. Sprague, Otsego, Ohio. James Sprague Sr., was from Massachusetts and a soldier in the Revolutionary war. At the age of seventeen years he ran away and joined the continental army and served through the seven years' war. He then returned home and married. His children were Lydia, Anson and Ralph. This wife died in Massachusetts, and he, with several brothers, Jonathan and Nehemiah, joined a company who were the first settlers of Marietta, Ohio, under Gen. Rufus Putnam. Mr. Sprague was in the fort during the famous defense against the Indians and remembered seeing the celebrated Indian fighter and scout, Lewis Wetzel. Nehemiah and Jonathan Sprague were famous hunters, and while the Indian troubles were still ripe, ascended the Muskingum river in a canoe, and entering the mouth of W ills creek, ascended about five miles and discovered a lake which is now called James Williams pond. Here they hid their canoe carefully from the Indians and hunted. They could hear the Indians about them and proceeded carefully. One night Jonathan Sprague was bitten by a snake on the head, and he cut out a piece of his scalp as large as a quarter. They were probably the first white men who saw Wills creek. After a residence of some years at Marietta, Mr. James Sprague married again a Miss Susan Rife from Pennsylvania and of German descent, and by her became the father of eleven children: Samuel, Elizabeth, Jonathan, Eliza, Levina, Elisa, Lucinda, Rosena, William, James and Ralph. Mr. Sprague took his family and moved to what is now Dresden, and what was then known as Old Town. Here lie ran a mill for a man named Elbridge.. In 1812 Mr. Sprague came to what is now Otsego, and was the first white man to settle in the wilds of what is now Monroe township. He erected a rude but where Joseph Walker lived. There were only two hours between him and Zanesville. Mr. Sprague was a great hunter, had visited Otsego on some of his hunting excursions and was attracted to settle. there on account of the game which abounded. He entered land and lived there from 1812 to 1835. He was a lover of freedom and once sheltered an old Negro female slave who had run away from her master in Virginia. James Sprague and his wife were members of the Methodist church. About 1835 Mr. Sprague and his family went to southern Indiana and settled on the neck where the W hite river empties into the Wabash. He resided there until 1845, when he returned and lived with his sons. He lived to the great age of ninety-six or ninety-seven years and received a pension from the government for his services in the Revolutionary war. Elijah Sprague, his son and the father of our subject, was born at Dresden in 1801. He attended school only about two weeks and learned to read and write at home. He became a famous hunter. At the age of thirteen years he shot with his father's rifle a panther ten feet long from tip to tip. One evening when his father and older brothers were away, himself and William, a younger brother, went after the cows, both boys riding a pony without bridle or saddle, and accompanied by two large dogs. They discovered a panther crouched in a tree. They returned immediately to the house, secured a rifle and tomahawk 574 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. and returned to the scene of action. Dismounting and going to the tree he shot the panther through the neck and down it came struggling to the ground. The large wolf dogs of the family sprang upon it, and young Elijah, seizing the tomahawk from his brother, struck him repeatedly. The tomahawk is still preserved in the family. The boys loaded the panther on the pony's back and in triumph carried him home. Maj. Jonathan Cass, a large landholder of Dresden wanted to present the brave boys with a suit of clothes, but Mr. Sprague would not allow it. He married Elizabeth Palmer, daughter of Phineas Palmer, the father of nine children: Mary, James, Julia, Rachel, Cornelius, Joseph, John, Phoebe and Ann. After marriage Elijah Sprague settled at Otsego. He was the father of five children: Phineas, Emily, James, Margaret A. and Emeline. Mr. Sprague lived all his life in Union township, except one year which he passed in southern Indiana. Both himself and wife were members of the Methodist Protestant church. He lived to the good old age of eighty-six, dying in 1887. Phineas P. Sprague, his son and our subject, was born August 31, 1825, in Washington county, Ohio, where his father resided one year after his marriage. He received the usual limited common-school education, but has always been a great reader. He accompanied his father on many deer hunts, driving the deer to their farm for his father to shoot. He married Margaret J. Elson, daughter of Henry and Hannah (Laughlin) Elson. Henry Elson was from Crawford county, Penn., near Meadville, of German descent and a son of Tunis Elson who came to Ohio in a pirogue with his family consisting of wife and four children: Sarah, Henry, Tunis and James. There were two daughters who remained at Paden's Island, Va. Tunis Elson proceeded to what is now Marquand Mills where the ripple stopped him. Samuel Sprague moved the Elsons through the woods horseback and they settled there in a log hut, with neither door nor floor, which had been built by James Sprague. Here Mr. Elson made a good farm and built the first gristmill in this vicinity. Henry Elson, his son, was the father of Mrs. Sprague and was a boy when his father came to this country. He married Hannah Laughlin, and died at the age of eighty-two years in this township. He and his wife were the parents of three children: Margaret J., Charity G., and James G., who died when young. Mrs. Elson is an old lady of seventy-nine years and still lives on the old homestead where she moved when first married some sixty years ago. Mr. and Mrs. El-son were members of the Methodist church and he has been a member of fifty years' standing. Phineas P. Sprague, after his marriage, settled on the old Elson farm where' he has since lived. To Mr. and Mrs. Sprague have been born eight children : Ransom (died at twenty-three years of age), Elijah (died at eight years of age), Angeline (died at four years of age), Charlotte (died at eight years of age), Melilla J. (wife of Charles W. Buker), Viola (died at twenty-three years of age), Elijah (at home on the farm), and Ela D. (a young lady at home). Mr. and Mrs. Sprague are members of the Methodist Protestant church, and in politics he is a strict democrat and is in favor of the alliance movement. He is a practical farmer and has one of the largest apiaries in this county. He is a student of bee-keeping, has made a success of it and now owns more than 100 good swarms. He has been interested in bees ever since he was a boy and now has all the modern improvements and can make his own comb foundations. Homer L. Stamets, furniture dealer of Frazeysburg, Ohio, is from a family distinguished in both Prussia, the country from which the family originally sprung, and America, where the great-grandfather of Homer, Philip Steinmetz, settled at the beginning of the Revolutionary war. The name has assumed a number of different forms among the Pennsylvanians. Philip Steinmetz was born in the province of Schwabruken, near the city of Schwabruken, Rhein Baiern, Prussia, southeast of Antwerp, Belgium. He was professionally a soldier, and was lieutenant of hussars in the army of the Empire, belonging to the illustrious family of whom we have the genealogy of six generations of military men, the late Gen. Steinmetz of the Prussian army being one of the number. Philip was of a negative disposition, but his descendants show bold, resolute and defiant qualities when once thoroughly espousing an opinion or cause. Tie was finely educated, and an ardent republican, It was hated by the sycophants and tools of monarchy, and among other petty offenses to the same he, with some companions, was guilty, while hunting, of starting and killing some game belonging to the king. The penalty was several months' imprisonment and forfeiture of pay. Steinmetz defied the officers and escaped, leaving his companions in custody. He made his way to the French frontier and securing protection, took passage for America, arriving at Philadelphia on the eve of the great Revolution. He fought with distinction in the continental army and at Germantown, which was one of the many battles in which he participated, he was wounded. He served under Washington, to whom tradition shows he was warmly attached, as captain of a Pennsylvania .company of light-horse. He was promoted for some gallant service to higher rank, which at the close of the war he was still holding. He was at one time reluctantly induced to fight a duel with a British officer, who had the reputation of killing every Prussian that ever en- HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 575 countered him. He met his foe on horseback, vanquished him, severing his head from his body. He was of medium Night, but of powerful physical stature. He was of a mechanical turn of mind, and was sober and temperate save in the habit of smoking. He was a devoted member of the Lutheran church, and politically was a follower of Thomas Jefferson. He penetrated the wilderness from Lancaster county, Penn., where some of his older children were born, and settled three miles east of the present city of Greensburg, Westmoreland county. After some years he removed from Greensburg and purchased 500 acres of land, the site of which ancestral seat is one of the most beautiful and picturesque in Pennsylvania. Philip Steinmetz was a great lover of horses, and even in his advanced years trained his horse to leap, with him on his back, over fences and gates, and holding his hat in his hand he would exclaim: " So geht du alte hussar." The helmet that he wore is still preserved. He had a soldier's land grant, and selected land on which a part of East Liberty, four miles in the rear of Pittsburg, now stands. After his death, which occurred in 1807, on the 4th of February, his heirs were notified that an immense fortune of $7,000,000 was due them. They were tardy in investigating proceedings, and it was not until the year 1840 that claim was made to the property. In that year the venerable John Schneider, of Wilkinsburg, grandson of Philip Steinmetz, employed counsel to prosecute the matter. They ascertained the certainty of the inheritance but were unable to prove to the satisfaction of the German government the identity of Philip Steinmetz, and the fortune is lost to his descendants. Philip Steinmetz lies buried at Harold Church, Penn., and the G. A. R., each memorial day, places floral tributes on his grave. He had three sons that bore commissions in the War of 1812; Philip, Jacob and John. The two former were distinguished as Indian fighters during that war. Philip Steinmetz, Sr., was the father of twelve children: Philip, Jacob, Susannah, George, Peter, Leonard, Catherine, Mollie, Hannah, John, Anna and Christopher. Their descendants are now numerous. George Stamets (or Steinmetz) was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, and was born in Westmoreland county, Penn., afterward moving to Muskingum county, Ohio. He was among the early pioneers here and for a number of years ran the Mendenhall mill, which was one of the first in the county. About 1822 he settled on land one mile north of Frazeysburg, which at that time was covered with heavy timber, and like so many of the pioneers of that day " He cut, he logged, he cleared his lot, And into many a dismal spot, He let the light of day." He resided on this farm until his death, which occurred at the age of eighty-two years. He was married in Pennsylvania and was the father of twelve children: John, George, Evan, Harrison, Leah, Malinda and Harriet, being the only ones known. Mr. Stamets was a devout member of the Church of Christ, and throughout life was a man of strict integrity of character and is still well remembered by the old pioneers of the county. His son, John, lives near Marysville, Ohio; George resides at Brownsville, Penn., and a son of the latter, who also bears the name of George, is at the head of an immense co-operative store at Braddock, Penn., and is a prominent business manager and friend of the great capitalist, Andrew Carnegie. George Jr.'s brothers are John, Evan and Harrison. The sisters are Ruth, Mary, Amy, Sarah and Amelia. Evan P. Stamets, son of George, and the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1818, received a common-school education and was brought up to the life of a farmer. He was married to Miss Sarah E. Slaughter, daughter of Samuel and Margaret Slaughter [see sketch of Samuel Dunn], and to their union were born seven children: Harriet, John, Homer L., George E., Sarah E., Lydia A. and Amelia C. Mr. Stamets resided on the old homestead and added to it until he became the owner of 145 acres, and lived on this farm all his life. He and his wife were members of the Church of Christ for about twenty-two years. He made horse-raising his chief business, and was a substantial farmer and a man of great integrity of character. He was a democrat in politics, and during the Civil war was a stanch Union man. Homer L. Stamets, his son, was born March 22, 1845, received a good common-school education in his youth and learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked from the time he was twenty-one years of age until 1889, eight years of which time were spent as a contractor. A part of this time he was with David McNaught and John Kipp. As a contractor Mr. Stamets built the flouring mill at Frazeysburg and the Methodist Episcopal church at Frazeysburg, also many residences. In 1889 he began dealing in furniture in Frazeysburg, and has built up a good trade. He was married on December 20, 1866, to Miss Nancy E. Wilson, daughter of William C. and Mary G. (Prior) Wilson, the former of Whom is a farmer of Irish descent. His father, Matthew Wilson, came from Ireland and settled in Muskingum county on Irish Ridge. Mr. and Mrs. Stamets are the parents of three children: Emmet L., William E. and Oscar B. Mr. Stamets has been a lifelong member of the Church of Christ, and since 1884 has been an elder. He is a man who has the respect of all who know him, and is an active member of the town 576 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. council and the school board and one of the directors of the Building and Loan association. He has been successful in business and stands high as an honorable business man. Politically he is a democrat with prohibition principles. The Stamets family has furnished officers and privates for every war, save the Mexican, from the time of the Revolution until the present, and in the 120 years of the family's residence in America it has not furnished a solitary criminal, but on the other hand honest and useful citizens. Austin J. Starrett, a native of Muskingum county, Ohio, was born in Newton township in 1835, the son of George and Mary A. (Pierce) Starrett. The father was the son of Joseph and Ann (Morrison) Starrett. Joseph Starrett was born in Ireland, and was one of three brothers who came to Muskingum county in 1816, and settled in Rich Hill township. These three brothers were John, James and Joseph, all married and had families. Of John's family none are left, of James a few are living in this county. Joseph married in Washington county, Penn., and had six children when he emigrated to this county and settled on a farm in Rich Hill township, about three miles from Chandlersville, here he died in 1864, at the age of seventy-eight years, from an injury received by a train on the B. & 0. R. R., at the S. M. Hadden crossing. He was the father of fifteen children, all who lived to maturity except one. He was one of the successful and honest farmers of the county and a member of the Associate Reformed church, and in politics his sympathies were with the whig, party. His wife, Ann Morrison, was a native of Washington county, Penn., and their children are named as follows: Charles, Mary, George, Anna, James, Jennie, Samuel, Elizabeth, John, Hannah, Margaret, Ellen, Sarah, Nancy, and Joseph who died at six years of age. Of this family all but Hannah and Ellen reared families, and John, Sarah (Mrs. Knight), and Nancy (Mrs. Stitt) are still living. George, the father of our subject was one of the six born in Pennsylvania, and was a young boy when his parents settled in Rich Hill township. He attended the subscription schools of the county, and when he was eighteen years of age learned the carpenter's trade, and followed that all his life. He located in Taylorsville, and in 1834 married Mary A. Pierce. He was a member of the Associate Reformed church and died in January, 1840, when only twenty-eight years of age. He was a whig in politics. His wife, Mary A. Pierce, was born in Pennsylvania, and was a daughter of Nicholas Pierce and Margaret (Moody) Pierce. The father was born in New Jersey and was a son of James Pierce, a native of that state. Nicholas married in Pennsylvania, and two children were born there. He moved to Newton township, this county, in 1807, and entered a farm upon which he lived until his death, in 1838. In politics he was a whig; a man well posted on all public matters, honest and hard working, and reared a family of eight children. His wife died in Newton township about 1853. Their children were Mary A. (subject's mother), Samuel, Andrew, Robert, Elizabeth, James, Alexander, Steven, all deceased. Mary A. was born in Pennsylvania, in 1805, and was but two years of age upon coming to Ohio. She attended the schools here, was here married and was the mother of three children: Austin J., Homer T. and George P., all living. Austin and Homer were both in the late war. At the death of George Starrett, his widow, in 1844, married Samuel Woodard, a native of Newton township, Muskingum county, Ohio, and the son of Amos Woodard. This union was blessed with five children: David, Hester A., Emma, Martha and Olive, all living except David who died in 1869; the rest are living in Iowa. Our subject's mother, in 1865, aged sixty-four years, settled in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she died in 1873. She was a member of the Presbyterian church. Homer T. Starrett, a brother of Austin J., is living in Zanesville in the coal business. He was a soldier in the late war and served six months; is married and the father of three children: Minnie, George and Irwin. Austin J. Starrett is the eldest grandson on both his father's and mother's side. He was educated in the schools of Union township- and was there married, in 1856, to Martha C. Elliott, a daughter of Simon Elliott, born in 1837. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Starrett settled on a farm in Union township, later in Highland township and in 1881 moved to the farm upon which they now reside. It consists of sixty-two acres, upon which Mr. Starrett is engaged in general farming and sheep-raising. In 1864 he enlisted in Company D., One Hundred and Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer infantry, and was a soldier in the Shenandoah valley. June 15 he was in a battle at Newton, Va., and July 7 and 8 at Harper's Ferry. After that he was on post duty and in a number of skirmishes. Himself and wife are the parents of six living children: George L., married Mary L. Smith, of Cambridge, and they are living at Newark; Mary S., died at the age of ten years; Nancy M., at home; Phillip S., a store-keeper. at Wills Creek, Coshocton county; Simon E., in business at Newark; Wilber W. ; Charley I. (on the farm); and Riley (died in infancy). Mr. and Mrs. Starrett are members of the United Presbyterian church of Norwich, Ohio. In politics Mr. Starrett is a republican and interested in political matters. He has held some offices in the township and is very active in school and church HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 577 work. He owns a well-improved farm, and is one of the enterprising men of the township. George H. Stewart, cashier and director of the First National bank, Zanesville, and one of the organizers and long a director of the Zanesville board of trade, was born at Londonville, Ashland county, Ohio, in 1849, a son of George H. Stewart, Sr. His father a native of Pennsylvania, came to this state at an early day and, locating in Richland county, there engaged in business. He was for several years one of the most prominent of the earlier merchants of Mansfield. In Ashland county he became prominent and well known among the leading and most influential citizens, and was entrusted with several important public offices, among them that of associate judge of the court of common pleas and deputy provost-marshal, filling the latter important position during most of the period of the late war of the states. Politically he was a stanch republican. He died full of honors in 1883, deeply regretted by all who had known him. George H. Stewart Jr., is a self-made man, and a successful one at that, for though he has never achieved nor sought any conspicuous political preferment, as an every-day man of affairs, in his own chosen walk of life he has attained such a measure of success as marks his as one of the leading business spirits in this growing city. He grew to manhood and received his education in public schools of his native town, and in 1869 at the Age of twenty years, came to Zanesville to accept the responsible position of teller in the financial institution with which he has since been more and more prominently identified. In 1873 he was made assistant cashier, and in the absence of a cashier ably and satisfactorily performed the duties of this position. Immediately after the panic of 1873, he was elected cashier in fact, and has ably administered the important affairs coming within his jurisdiction since. At that time he was but twenty-four years of age and was one of the youngest bank cashiers in the state. Since that time he has even more and more closely identified himself with Zanesville's most vital commercial and financial interests, and at this time takes rank with the most useful and prominent business men of the city. In 1877 Mr. Stewart married the youngest daughter of the late W. C. Cassel, long a leading and most enterprising manufacturer of Zanesville, mention of whom will be found elsewhere in these pages. For a period of nearly twenty years Wilson Stewart has been engaged in the grocery and general merchandise business in New Concord, conducting his business from the first on the cash system, and during the entire time intervening to the present, has been steadily increasing his hold on public favor and patronage. He owes his nativity to Washington county, Penn., where his birth occurred in 1842, and he is the eldest of three children born to John and Nancy (Stormont) Stewart, both natives of County Antrim, Ireland. John Stewart was born in the year 1811, and was one of nine children (seven of whom came to this country), born to Allison and Elizabeth (Wilson) Stewart, both of whom died on the Emerald Isle. John Stewart came to America in 1832, and landed at Quebec at the time of the great cholera scare in this country. He was quarantined there for some time. From there he went to New York city, and, having learned the shoemaker's trade in his native country, followed that for five years. In 1837 he moved from there to Washington county, Penn., became the owner of a shoe store, and followed his trade for many years. He was married in that county in 1841 to Miss Stormont, and reared three children: Wilson (subject); David Boyd, who is engaged in the oil business in Allegheny city, Penn. ; and Nancy J., who is now in Union township, this county. She married Mr. Thomas Stewart, a prominent farmer in that township, of which he is a native, and the son of George Stewart who was one of the first settlers in Union township. In the year 1864 John Stewart emigrated to Muskingum county, Ohio, settled on a farm two miles from New Concord, and there tilled the soil for nine years. From there he moved to the town of New Concord and made his home there until 1887, when he went with his son to Kansas, where he received his final summons the same year. Mrs. Nancy (Stormont) Stewart, mother of subject, was one of twelve children (five of whom came to this country) born to David and Nancy (Boyd) Stormont, natives of County Antrim, Ireland. She died in New Concord in 1879. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart were both members of the Reformed Presbyterian church. David Stormont came to the United States in 1825, and located in Washington county, Penn. Wilson Stewart passed the early scenes of his life in Washington county, Penn., but in the fall of 1864 he came to Muskingum county, Ohio, Highland township, and there followed agricultural pursuits for seven years. After that he went to Mansfield, Allegheny county. Penn., and clerked in a store in which his brother was a partner for nearly two years, and then returned to New Concord, where, with the exception of a short period in 1887 and 1888, he has been engaged in merchandising ever since. In the spring of the former year he went to Wabaunsee county, Kas., but only remained there a short time, and then returned to New Concord, where he resumed business. Mr. Stewart was married in 1879 to Miss Mary A. Wallace, daughter of David and Flora (Jamison) Wallace, who were early settlers 578 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. of Union township, and the fruits of this union have been five children—three daughters and two sons: Anna F., Jennie R., Ella M., David W. and John W. Mrs. Stewart was born in Union township, Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1848, and was one of ten children. Her paternal grandfather, Rev. Robert Wallace, was a pioneer preacher of this part of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are members of the Reformed Presbyterian church, and he is a deacon in the same. They are classed cmong the county's most respected and esteemed aitizens and are active in all good work. Rev. Robert Wallace, the grandfather of Mrs. Stewart, was born in Ireland, married there, and several of his children were born there. In 1812 he came to the United States and settled in New York city, later coming to Utica, Knox county, Ohio. He was one of the first Reformed Presbyterian ministers in this part of Ohio and west of Pennsylvania. He preached in tents and barns or wherever he could, and was very prominent in church work. He died in 1845, and by his first marriage reared a family of three sons and three daughters: Eliza; John, who is a minister of the Reformed Presbyterian church; David, Margaret, Nancy, and James; all deceased except Margaret, who is the wife of Samuel Stevenson, of Iowa; and Nancy, now Mrs. Campbell of Monmouth, Ill. After the death of his wife Rev. Wallace married Mrs. McCartney, the widow of Henry McCartney. They had no children. David Wallace, his son and the father of Mrs. Stewart, was born in Ireland in 1806, and at the age of six years came to this country with his father. He was reared principally in Knox county, and was a young man when his parents moved on a farm in Union township, this county. Here he engaged in farming, was a poineer of the abolition party, in this part of Ohio, and his home was a depot for the underground railroad. Ire made a number of speeches on the anti-slavery question, and came near losing his life a number of times. He was an active member and elder in the Reformed Presbyterian church and a great temperance man. After settling in Muskingum county he married Flora Jamison, a daughter of John Jamison [see sketch of Robert W. Speer]. To this union were born six sons and four daughters: Margaret, was the wife of David Stormont, and died in 1856; James B., died in 1853, having just left college; Robert, who is living in Delaware county, Iowa, a farmer and man of family; John C., died when young; Rebecca J., died in 1865; Sarah E., married Mr. Ardrey, of Rich Hill township, and died in 1871; John C., is a farmer on the home place in Union township, was a soldier in the late war in which he served three years; David, died in 1859; Mary A., the wife of Wilson Stewart; Rev. Samuel R., a Reformed Presbyterian minister of Syracuse, N. Y., where he has been preaching some years. David Wallace, the father of this family, died August, 1888, and his wife, September 9, 1872. The latter was born in 1807, and was a small child when brought to Muskingum county, here reared on a farm northwest of New Concord. She was a lifelong member of the Reformed Presbyterian church, and an active worker in the same, and held it as her special duty to care for the sick and assist all in trouble. David Stokely (deceased) was the founder of the Stokely family in Muskingum county, Ohio, but he was born in Delaware and in his youth was apprenticed to the shoemaking business, at which trade he served his full time. About 1795 he immigrated west and first settled at Marietta, which was then nothing but a fort, and there he was married July 3, 1799, to Abigail Hurlbut, a daughter of Benoni Hurlbut, who was killed and scalped by the Indians September 29, 1791. He had built a cabin before he was married but had not laid the floor yet. Immediately following the event of their marriage they packed their effects on a horse and started for Muskingum county, both walking the entire distance. Upon arriving at Putnam they set to work to erect a habitation, his young wife using the grubbing hoe in leveling the ground, while he with a stronger but not more willing arm, felled the trees for their cabin home. They soon had a small tract of land cleared, upon which they began raising vegetables, and boarded the hands of a sawmill that stood on the banks of the Muskingum where the present C. & M. V. R. R. crosses the river. In 1804 Mr. Stokely entered a quarter section of land on the south fork of Jonathan creek in Newton township, upon which he settled in 1805. This land he cleared, im proved and lived upon the rest of his natural life, and in connection with tilling the soil he followed his trade for quite a number of years. After a short service in the War of 1812 he was discharged on account of over age. He was a member of the Christian church and his wife was a Methodist. Seven children were born to their union, three of whom grew to mature years: Benoni P., Elizabeth and David, the latter being the only surviving member of the family. Benoni Hurlbut was a Revolutionary soldier of note and the Stokelys have in their possession official documents dated April 10, 1770, which guarantee to the loyalty of Mr. Hurlbut and to the fact that he was in every way worthy of confidence. They also have the deed of a land grant of 100 acres dated October 27, 1769, and another dated June 19, 1771. During the Revolutionary war Mr. Hurlbut commanded a small detachment of troops on the lakes and was a brave and fearless soldier, devoted to the interests HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 579 of the struggling colonists. He was located at Marietta, and during this time, as above stated, was killed by the Indians. The paternal grandfather, Prettyman Stokely, was the commander of a vessel during the Revolutionary war and did his country good service in preying upon the English merchantmen. David Stokely, whose name heads this sketch, died on August 31, 1847, at the age of seventy-nine years, and his wife, who was born August 4, 1777, died March 31, 1847. David Stokely, the son of David and Abigail (Hurlbut) Stokely, was born on the farm on which he is now residing, October 29, 1810, and his youth was passed in a manner common to all pioneer boys. He was married January 18, 1835, to Miss Lydia, daughter of Samuel and Eunice (Emerson) White, after which he settled on the farm where he now lives where his six children were born, only three of whom are living at the present time: Rufus Putnam, David Edwin and Benoni P. Those deceased are Abigail Hurlbut, Eunice Emerson and Arminta Sybilla. Rufus P. enlisted in Company, Sixty second Ohio Volunteer infantry, as a rivate in 1861, and passed through the various grades of promotion to first lieutenant and at the close of the war was brevetted captain. He was wounded in the right arm at Fort Wagner and in the mouth by a spent ball at Chapin's farm, and at the close of the war was honorably discharged. David Edwin enlisted in Company G, Thirty-second Ohio Volunteer infantry, as a private, and during his term of service was in many hard-fought battles, but escaped without being wounded. He was taken prisoner at Maryland Heights, was paroled, exchanged and afterward re-enlisted in the service, in which he remained until the war terminated. Benoni served as a private in Company A, Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer infantry, and Was taken prisoner the day of Lee's surrender, but was immediately paroled and a few days later was discharged and returned home. David Stokely and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church, of which he has been a ruling elder since joining, forty-three years ago. He was formerly a whig in politics, but since the birth of the republican party has supported its measures. His undertakings have been prospered throughout life, he has always enjoyed good health, and he is now well preserved for one of his years. He has in his possession a small wooden box in which his father carried his shoemaker's kit, and it is now considerably over one hundred years old. It is of cypress wood, the nails are of smith make and it is still in a state of good preservation. His father, after his settlement in Putnam, returned to Marietta in a canoe for a barrel of pork he had pickled in salt for which he paid $10 a bushel. This brine he preserved and used during his entire life and it de- scended to his son, the subject of this sketch, who still has it in use. Samuel White, the father of Mrs. Stokely, was born in Barnard, Vt., in the year 1791, a son of Thomas Wells and (Wright) White, who were also born in the Green Mountain state. Thomas White was a son of Rev. David White, a Presbyterian minister of Massachusetts, a native American. Elder John White came to America twelve years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers and founded the family in this country. Samuel White removed to Ohio in 1800 and settled in Washington county, where he spent the rest of his days. His wife was a daughter of Asa and Eunice (Foster) Emerson, which family also came from Vermont, taking up their abode in Ohio about 1805, their home being at Windsor in Morgan county. Asa Emerson was a ruling elder of the Presbyterian church. He was of Scotch origin. To Samuel White and wife the following children were born: Mary, Susannah and Roxana (deceased), and Lydia, Abigail and Asa living. Mr. White died October 23, 1823, and his wife, who was also a Presbyterian, in 1839. Mrs. Lydia Stokely was born in Morgan county, Ohio, March 2, 1816. Samuel T. Storer, A. M., M. D., New Concord, is one among the foremost of the professional men of Muskingum county, Ohio, and as a practitioner of the healing art he has won for himself golden opinions. His cheerful countenance, encouraging words and advice, and his thorough knowledge of his profession, which only long and continued practice can give, has placed him upon the highest pinnacle of success, and his services are sought over a large scope of territory. He was born on the old homestead (which he now owns), one-half mile south of the village of New Concord, December 18, 1832, where he spent his early life in rural pursuits, receiving his education in the common schools of the village, and later entered Muskingum college, from which institution he graduated with honors in 1853. He was the eldest of seven children born to Isaac and Mary (Snodgrass) Storer, all now deceased except our subject, and Mary A. who is the wife of Rev. W. S. Harper, a minister of the United Presbyterian church and a resident of Beaver, Penn. Those deceased were Richard A., Martha (who was the wife of Rev. Robert W. Hill who is also deceased), David (who died when young), John (died on his return from the army at the age of twenty-one) and James (whose death occurred from a kick of a favorite colt when fourteen years of age). Isaac and Mary Storer, the father and mother of these children were both natives of Allegheny county, Penn. The father was born on December 1, 1807, and the mother on March 5, 1811. The mother died on December 4, 1872, and the father 580 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. followed her to the grave on January 22, 1875. Both were members of the Presbyterian church, and he was a ruling elder in the same. He was a great church worker, and for many years was superintendent of the Sunday school. Politically he was a lifelong democrat. Agriculture was his chosen occupation, and by industry, economy and perseverance he succeeded in educating his family, contributing freely of his means to all benevolent and praiseworthy objects, leaving an ample inheritance to his children. He was much interested in educational matters, and served as a member of the board of trustees of Muskingum college for twenty-five years. He was an excellent neighbor, a respected and public-spirited citizen, and not only taught but practiced the " golden rule." Dr. Storer's paternal great-grandfather, Thomas Storer, was the father of ten children: John, Samuel, Stacy, William, Thomas, Ezekiel and Richard (twins), Rebecca, Margaret and Elizabeth. The Doctor's paternal grandparents were Richard and Hannah (Frazier) Storer. Eight children were born to them in the following order : Thomas, John, Ezekiel, Richard, Elizabeth, Frazier, Isaac and Hannah, all of whom are now deceased except the latter, who is eighty-three years of age, and is a resident of the state of Missouri and is the mother of fourteen sons and two daughters. Richard Storer, the Doctor's grandfather is a native of New Jersey, after marriage settled near Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, where he got into trouble with the Indians, killing one with his rifle, for theft and for abusing and threatening his family; on this account he was obliged to leave the state, and located in Allegheny county, Penn., near Elizabeth, where he principally reared his family. Dr. Storer's maternal grandparents Col. Samuel and Mary (McKinney) Snodgrass were natives of Allegheny county Penn., near Pittsburg, both were of prominent families, and unto them were born seven children James McK., Mary, Elizabeth, Matthew, Nancy, Rachel and Ann, all of whom are deceased except Elizabeth (S.) Mills of Braddock, Penn., and Nancy (S.) King of New Lisbon, Ohio. Dr. S. T. Storer, after taking his degree of A. B. in Muskingum college, spent one year traveling and sightseeing; then located in Chicago Ill., in 1855, and remained three years clerking in a wholesale mercantile house. Chicago was then a small city not exceeding 50,000 inhabitants; and was located in a marsh; no sewerage and not a street paved save part of one; which was Lake street; it was covered with plank from Dearborn street to Lake street bridge. It was no uncommon thing to see in the spring of the year stakes on the principal streets with boards attached, labeled " no bottom." Old Fort Dearborn stood on the south bank of the river near the lake; it was constructed of hewed logs with port holes for rifles, also near it stood the old stone stuccoed lighthouse, to guide vessels into the mouth of the river. Chicago sprung up like. a mushroom, and it was generally believed that it would be short lived and a poor place to make investments; hence he concluded to pack his trunk and return to the place of his nativity, thinking he was lucky to make his escape from that wicked city. After time and due 'deliberation the Doctor decided that medicine was his calling, and in the year 1858, went to Cleveland, Ohio, and commenced reading medicine with Dr. Thayer, professor of surgery in Cleveland Medical college, graduating from the same in 1860; shortly afterward he commenced the practice of medicine and surgery in Leavenworth, then Kansas Ter., remained there until the spring of 1861, when he returned to his home and shortly afterward enlisted in Company A, Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer infantry, for three years; was chosen second lieutenant and served in that capacity for nine months, resigned his commission, and was appointed and commissioned assistant surgeon of the Ninety-ninth Ohio Volunteer infantry, Army of the Cumberland, and joined his regiment then stationed at Murfreesboro, Tenn., remaining with the same until April, 1864, when it was consolidated with another regiment, and all supernumerary officers were mustered out, giving him the opportunity of returning to private life, and to "marry the girl he had left behind him." During the Doctor's army life he participated in the battles of Shiloh, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge, besides several smaller engagements; received an injury in the battle of Lookout Mountain, from which he has never fully recovered. Dr. Storer was married November 16, 1864, to Miss Naomi H. Finley, of Newark, Del., where she was born January 5, 1839. She was the third daughter of Samuel C. Finley in order of birth of five children; Priscilla, Mary E., Rachel E., and Edgar A. After his marriage he returned to New Concord, opened an office, and there remained several years; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in the fall of 1869, took a post-graduate course in the Cleveland Medical college, and from there removed to Darwin, Clark county Ill., practicing his profession for five years with unprecedented success. After his father's death he was obliged to return to New Concord, and has been a resident of the same ever since, meeting with unusual success in . his profession. He is a man interested in the public welfare, and while he pays strict attention to his private affairs, he shrinks from no duties as a loyal citizen. Dr. and Mrs. Storer are comfortably situated in a beautiful home of their own planning, in the quiet and picturesque village of HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 581 New Concord, with but one child, a daughter (Ida M.), to enjoy it with them. She is a graduate of the New Concord High School, also a graduate of music in Muskingum college and leads the choir in the church. Dr. Storer and family are associated with the Presbyterian church, and he is a ruling elder in the. same. He is active in politics and in war or peace has always been loyal to the democracy. At present he is a member of the town council. Socially he is a devoted and enthusiastic Free Mason, has filled with acceptance all the offices in the Blue lodge, is now and has been filling the office of secretary for nine consecutive years in Malta lodge No. 118, Norwich, Ohio; has been identified with the order thirty-four years. He is a member of Cambridge chapter No. 53, R. A. M., and was a charter member of Cambridge commandery No. 47, K. T., Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio. Samuel Stover (deceased) was another of the early settlers of Muskingum county, Ohio, and a man universally respected. He was a native of the Keystone state, born December 29, 1785, and was the first one of the family to settle in Muskingum county. He was married September 3, 1807, to Miss Mary Deitrick, and in 1809 he emigrated to Ohio, settling in Newton township, near the present site of Stovertown, where he built the first sawmill in 1813: In 1828 or 1829 he built a gristmill and operated these mills in connection with farming. becoming very successful. To his marriage were born the following children: Eliza' beth (born June 2, 1808), Sarah (born December 23, 1809), Baltser (born May 15, 1811). David (born March 9, 1813), Mary Ann (born January 22, 1816), Mary M. (born March 31, 1820), Susan (born May 23, 1822), Ann M. (born March 9, 1824), William (born February 26, 1826), Lucinda (born January 19, 1828,) and Samuel (born November 26, 1829). The mother of these children, who was born December 20, 1786 died February 12, 1839. The father met a violent death on the " Y " bridge at Zanesville in 1837. His body was found on the rocks below the bridge, cold and stiff, and the supposition was that robbery was the incentive, as he usually carried considerable money on his person. Suspicion pointed to no one, and his death remains a mystery. Jacob Studor, Adamsville, Ohio, is a member of one of the prosperous families of Adams township, Muskingum county. Jacob Studor Sr., the father, was born in Alsace, France (now Germany), received a common-school education and could read both French and German. He was brought up as a farmer, and at the age of of twenty-one years drafted into the French army and served five years. While in this service his father emigrated to Canada and settled on a farm. He was a stonemason by trade. He had married three times, his first wife being the mother of Jacob and Elizabeth, now residing in New York. After his service in the French army expired Jacob married, in Alsace, Barbara Earhart. They soon came to America and settled in Coshocton county, Ohio, on a farm in Franklin township, in 1837. To this worthy couple were born seven children: Madelina, Jacob, Elizabeth (deceased), Catherine, Carolina, John and Mary. On this farm Mr. Studor spent the remainder of his days and died at the age of eighty-five years, a member of the Lutheran church and a respected and honorable farmer. Jacob Studor, his son, was born in 1837, and was six weeks old when brought by his parents to the farm in Coshocton county. He received but little schooling and was brought up to work on the farm. March 25, 1861, he married Louisa Lapp, born March 20, 1840, and the daughter of Henry and Madelena (Zimmer) Lapp. Henry Lapp was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1804, here he received a common-school education, was a carpenter by trade, and came to America in 1832, settling in Adams township, Coshocton county, Ohio. Here he married, spent the remainder of his life and became the father of twelve children, nine of whom lived to maturity: Michael, Elizabeth, Margaret, Catherine (deceased), Solomon, Abner, Henry (died at nineteen years of age), Mary and . Mr. Lapp was a member of the Lutheran church, was a hard-working man, accumulated 420 acres of land and brought up a large family. He died in 1882 at the age of seventy-eight years. After his marriage Mr. Studor settled on a farm in Adams township, where he remained about ten years. He then moved to a farm in Coshocton county, lived there three years, when he returned to Adams township and settled on the farm which he now occupies, consisting of 318 acres of good land, with excellent buildings and a fine residence. Mr. and Mrs. Studor are the parents of six children: Ada A. (born March 8. 1862 ), Arabella C. (October 17, 1864), Flora E. (June 22, 1867), Lilly D. (September 17, 1868), Henry A. (October 12, 1873), Estella M. (August 12, 1875). All these children are members of the Bethesda Methodist church, and Mr. and Mrs. Studor are members of the Lutheran church, of which he has been a deacon. Mr. Studor is a man who holds the respect of the people, has been a township trustee, takes a great interest in education and has been school director. His daughter, Belle, married John Lettick, a school teacher of Kansas, and they have two children. Lettie married Albert Long, a farmer of Madison township, and has three children. Noah Stull, farmer, Dresden, Ohio. Mr. Stull, who is one of the practical farmers of Muskingum 582 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. county, was born in Pennsylvania, January 14, 1822, and is of German descent. He was but four years of age when he was left fatherless, and he was brought up by his grandfather, Peter Ault. His mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Ault. About 1826 Mr. Ault came to Coshocton county, Ohio, settled on land two miles west of West Carlisle, and was one of the pioneer farmers. Here the mother of our subject was married to Alpheus Taylor and became the mother of these children: George, William, Freelove, Julia, Mary, Amanda, Lucinda and Peggy. Noah was the only child by the first marriage. Alpheus Taylor resided on a farm near West Carlisle, Coshocton county, Ohio, and there our subject made his home until fourteen years of age, when he began learning the carpenter's trade in East Union, Ohio. He was bound out to Andy Ault, an uncle, for four and one-half years and served his time out. After this he went to work for another uncle, Frederick Ault; remained on his farm two years, and then came to Dresden where he worked in a cabinet shop for one year. A few months were then spent in Missouri, after which he returned to Dresden, and worked at his trade for thirty years. In April, 1865, he came to his present farm, which he bought, and is now the owner of 250 acres and is a substantial farmer. He is an example of what energy, perseverance and economy can accomplish, and the property he now owns is the result of his own honest toil. He first worked for Mr. Jones in the cabinet shop, and received 50 cents a day. Later he worked in Dresden for $1 a day, and in this manner saved sufficient means to buy 160 acres, for which he paid $4,600 in ready cash. In December, 1848, he married Miss Frances S. A. Eveland, daughter of Jacob and Jane Eveland. Mr. Eveland came from Virginia to Ohio at an early date and lived to be an old man, dying in Muskingum county. He was the father of nine children: William, Rachel, Betsey, Peggy, Polly, Frances S. A., James, Mildred and Catherine. After marriage Mr. Stull settled in Dresden and there followed his trade until he moved with his family to his farm. His union was blessed by the birth of two living children: Charles L. and Emma F. Mrs. Stull died June 28, 1876, and Mr. Stull has never remarried. His wife was a member of the Presbyterian church, and be holds membership in the same. In politics he is a democrat. Mr. Stull's half brother, William Taylor, was in an Ohio regiment during the Civil war and died at Bowling Green, Ky. At one time Mr. Stull owned about 300 acres of land, but he has given considerable of it to his children. He is entirely selfmade, and now in his old age he can enjoy the fruits of his labor, being in very comfortable circumstances. For five years Mr. Stull worked at carpentering and millwright work, and during that time did not lose a half day. John P. Sturtz, Adamsville, Muskingum county Ohio. Among the prosperous pioneer families, substantial farmers and valuable citizens of this part of the state we find the Sturtz family. Christian Sturtz, the great-grandfather of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania, and a farmer of Somerset county. His father came from Germany with his parents when but four years of age. A tradition in the family relates that his parents both died at sea, on the passage to America, and their son, the father of Christian, was sold to pay his passage to Philadelphia, as was the custom in those days. He finally settled in Somerset county, Penn., and for many years the family were residents of that county. Christian Sturtz, his son, married a Miss Shoemaker, was a successful farmer of Somerset county, owned about 300 acres of land, and here passed the remainder of his days. Jacob Sturtz, his eldest son, and the grandfather of John P., was born in Somerset county, Penn., in 1787, and of Pennsylvania Dutch stock. He received a common-school education in German, was reared a farmer, and married Susan Gaumer, the daughter of Jacob Gaumer, a Revolutionary soldier from Reading, Penn., who settled in Washington township, this county, in 1808, the families coming together. Jacob Sturtz settled, the same year, on land now owned by Mr. Lovett. To himself and wife were born ten children: Daniel (born in Pennsylvania, and died soon after coming to this county), Charles (born in Washington township, this county), Lucinda, Catherine, Adam, Andrew, Lydia, Martin, Solomon and Margaret. All lived to maturity, except the first. Jacob Sturtz was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, served as a rifleman, under Capt. Robert McConnell, and lived in Washington township eight years. In 1818 he settled in Adams township, on land now owned by George W. Bell, and here died, December 24, 1834. He was very handy at almost any work. He was a blacksmith, gunsmith and carpenter, and very often built houses. Among other things he prepared gunpowder and charcoal, and was considered one of the best hunters of the time in his county. He was a member of the Lutheran church in Salem township, held the office of church trustee, and assisted in the building of this church. When he died he was but forty-seven years of age. Charles Sturtz, his son, and the father of John P., was born, February 19, 1813, on his father's farm in Washington township, and received but little education in the old log schools of that time, He attended school, in all, about three months, learning to read and write, and learned the usual work of a farmer boy, becoming very handy with a rifle. He shot his first deer when but seven years of age. In 1833, at the age of twenty-one years, he married Rachel Bainter, daughter of Adam and Elizabeth (Shroyer) Bainter, and was one of six chil- HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 583 dren: Mary, Jacob and John (twins), Catherine and Rachel (twins), and Adam C. Philip Shroyer, grandfather of Mrs. Sturtz, was the first of the family to come here, and cleared the land now owned by his grandson, P. C. Schroyer. To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sturtz were born ten children: Elizabeth L. (married and deceased); Margaret (died at the age of twenty-two years); Adam C., Susan C., Jacob L., John P., Mary M. (died at the age of twenty-two years); Charles N. (drowned ir. the Muskingum river in 1873, at the age of twenty-one years); Rachel A. (died at the age of eight years); Josiah (died an infant). After his marriage Mr. Sturtz bought the land upon which he now resides, and where he has lived many /years. He was very successful in farming, and bought a sawmill on Symms creek. This mill he operated until 1850, when he built a new one, and also had a store for three years, from 1847 to 1850, in Coshocton county. He was a very prosperous farmer, and now owns 320 acres of well-improved land. He is a prominent member of the Lutheran church, of Adamsville, and has been a church trustee. In politics he is a democrat and a charter member of Hubbard lodge No. 220, of A. F. & A. M. He was a strong Union man during the war, and had two sons in that war. Mr. Sturtz owns land in Salem township, the original deed for which was signed by Gen. Andrew Jackson. His two sons who served in the war were Adam C. and Jacob, both in the One Hundred and Sixty-second regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry. Mr. Sturtz is now eighty years of age, hale and hearty, and respected by all. John P. Sturtz, his son, was born April 11, 1845, received a common-school education, and took up farming. June 10, 1869, he married Louisa C. Moser, the daughter of George A. and Anna (Hahn) Moser. After their marriage they settled in Adamsville, followed farming and teaming for a time, when Mr. Sturtz sold out and moved on a farm in Adams township, lived there one year when he moved to Hayworth farm, where he lived fourteen years. On this farm he erected a good house and barn in 1877 and 1878. In 1890 he moved to Adamsville, where he had opened a hardware store in 1889 in company with J. A. Snoots. This was the first hardware store in Adamsville, and they built up a good trade. In 1892 Mr. Sturtz retired and the business is now conducted by Ferrell Bros. In 1890, in connection with his other business, Mr. Sturtz opened a hotel in Adamsville, which has been very successful. Himself and wife are members of the Lutheran church, of which he has been elder, deacon and Sunday school superintendent for many years. Like his father he is a stanch democrat, but not an office seeker. He has held the office of township trustee. To Mr. and Mrs. Sturtz have been born three children: Annie E. (born March 12, 1870), Clark N. (born July 31, 1876), and Roland J. H. (born September 8, 1883). Annie E. married September 30, 1890, Elbert S. Ferrell, a hardware merchant of Adams-vale, and they have one child. Daniel Moser, grandfather of Mrs. Sturtz, was born in Zweybreaker, Bavaria, and received a good education in German, later learning the pottery business. He was a well-to-do potter in Bavaria, and gave all his children good educations, his sons, as was the custom in Germany, following the trade of their father. He married, in Bavaria, Catherine Wenderling, and to them were born four children, who lived to maturity: Philip, Catherine, Louise and George A., all born in Bavaria. In 1843 Daniel Moser came to America with his family, and settled on a farm in Adams township, now owned by John J. Klein. Himself and family were unaccustomed to farm work, and were compelled to pay to have the work done until they gradually became farmers. They were members of the Lutheran church, and Daniel lived to be sixty-three years of age, dying in 1843. His son, Philip Moser, worked at the pottery business in Zanesville for years. George A. Moser, another son, and the father of Mrs. Sturtz, was born in 1816, in Bavaria, and received a good education, being able to speak French and German, and when he came to this country he also learned the English language. He was eighteen years of age when he came to America with his father, became a farmer and married Anna Hahn, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Boltenberrick) Hahn. Her father came from Hesse Cassel, Germany, in 1834, and settled first in Pennsylvania, where he lived about a year and a half, and in 1835 came to this county and settled in Adams township near Wills creek. Here he became a prosperous farmer and lived to be about seventy-one years of age. He was one of the founders of the Lutheran church, and with his means helped to build the church, and held the principal offices. His widow is yet living at the age of eighty-seven years. After his marriage George A. Moser remained on the home farm. Later he removed to Boone, Iowa, and remained there one summer, but not liking the climate he returned to his old home. He then opened a grocery store in Zanesville and remained there two years, when he removed to Adamsville and engaged in the same business, was also postmaster, and held the office of township trustee. Himself and wife are members of the Lutheran church, and he has held all the offices in the same, and having a good voice he was accustomed to lead the singing. He is a strong democrat in politics. Mr. and Mrs. Moser are the parents of nine children: Louise C., Mary E. (deceased at thirty-one years 584 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. of age, a widow at the time), John D., Emma M., Ella C., Annie S., William G. (died an infant), Lourena A. and Charles A. (died at the age of twenty-three years). Mr. Moser gave all his children good educations, and Emma M. and Lourena A. are successful teachers, the latter having taught ten years in Adamsville. Mr. Moser died in 1874, at the age of fifty-eight years, his widow is yet living. Mrs. Catherine Fleming Stump represents two of the oldest families in Muskingum county, Ohio—the Flemings and the Stumps. Leonard Stump, her husband's grandfather, came from Virginia to this section of the country about 1807. A more complete account of this sturdy old pioneer and his descendants is given in the sketch of Miss Mary E. Stump. His son, James, was but seven years of age when he came with his parents from West Virginia, in which state he was born in 1800 in Hardy county. He attended the common schools of Licking and Irville, and as he diligently applied himself to his books he obtained a practical education. Indians were very numerous when he was young, and there was plenty of wild game on all sides. He was first married to Miss Susan Randall of this county and their union resulted in the birth of one child that lived to grow to maturity—Leonard Stump. After the death of his first wife he was married to Miss Cynthia Rennick, of Pickaway county, which union resulted in the birth of four children: Lucinda, Rennick, William M., and Cynthia. Mr. Stump settled in Licking township on the Newark road, one and one-half miles from Nashport, where he had erected him a home prior to his marriage, in 1823. This fine house, in which he spent all his days, is still standing. Surrounding it were 540 fertile acres of land which, during his lifetime were exceptionally well tilled and looked after. He was a Presbyterian in religious belief and lived to be eighty-seven years of age, his later years being spent in ease and comfort. His character was truly Christian like and in his family he was the soul of kindness and generosity. He was a patron of education and gave all his children fair educational advantages and assisted them to a start when they took up the burden of life for themselves. William M. Stump, his, son and husband of the subject of this sketch, was born on the 22d of December, 1838, and was given a common-school education. On the 4th of March, 1862, he was married to Miss Catherine Fleming, who was born March 24, 1842, daughter of John and Hannah (Carter) Fleming. [See sketch of Fleming family.] The father was the third son of Col. Nathan Fleming and was born at Irville, July 16, 1815, and after reaching manhood followed farming on the highlands of Licking township. He married the daughter of Salathiel Carter, of West Virginia, and their union resulted in the birth of the following children: Nathan C., Alva, Mary, Catherine, James M., Charles W. and Alice V. Mr. Fleming lived to be seventy-one years of age and was a man of property, owning about 900 acres of land in Muskingum and Licking counties. He was a Methodist and had an honorable purpose in life. His wife died before him at the age of forty-eight. The Fleming family is one of the most noted and numerous in the United States and all its members have been honest, law-abiding citizens. To Mr. and Mrs.William M. Stump three children were born: Cora, Walter W. and Bertha. Walter married Eva George, is a farmer and has one child; Bertha is the wife of Thomas G. Fleming, son of Nathan Q. Fleming, and Cora is still at home. William M. Stump died on the 7th of May, 1868, at the age of twenty-nine years, leaving a young widow with three little children to care for. He was a successful business man and possessed in a marked degree those qualities which surmount all difficulties. He was a kind husband and father, and his loss has always been greatly deplored. He first settled on the farm whichis now occupied by his widow, then purchased a farm of his father-in-law on which he lived two years. He then resided on the Newark road opposite his father and managed the farm belonging to his father, until he was called from life. Since that time Mrs. Stump has always resided on the old Stump homestead and has a pleasant and comfortable home, which she built with her own means, having inherited property from her father. She has brought up her children wisely and well and all have received practical educations. She and her daughter Cora reside together and their home is the abode of culture, refinement and hospi¬- tality. Miss Mary E. Stump, Nashport, Ohio. The Stumps are of German descent and are among the pioneers of Lincoln township, Muskingum county. Leonard Stump, the grandfather, was a Virginian, and was related to the family from which the noted rebel general, Stonewall Jackson, sprung. He was married in his native state to Miss Phoebe Stump, and to their union were born eight children: John, born January 29, 1798; James, born April 1, 1800; Jackson, born February 11, 1802; Mary M., born February 16, 1804; Ruth, born February 17, 1806; William, born October 16, 1808; Elizabeth, born January 9, 1811, and Phoebe, born September 11, 1814. Leonard Stump came to Ohio in 1808 and settled on some wild land one-half mile west of Nashport, where he resided for some time, after which he removed to Irville, where he spent the remainder of his days. He built him a substantial log house, and the huge stone chimneys with their capacious fireplaces are still standing. The house has just been torn down, and although HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 585 built before 1808, the logs were still sound and were used in the erection of another building, to serve, perhaps, another three-quarters of a century. Mr. Stump was a wealthy man for those days, for he brought property with him from Virginia and became the owner of 3,000 acres of land in Muskingum county. He died on the 8th of October, 1847, having been born on the 12th of January, 1772. He came of good Virginia stock and possessed excellent business qualifications. William Stump, his son, and father of the subject of this sketch, was born in the old log house near Irville, and was brought up to a farm life, with limited opportunity for acquiring an education. He inherited 270 acres of land from his father and was married to Miss Asenath Pierson, daughter of Daniel Pierson and Johannah (Stiles) Pierson, both of whom were from New Jersey and were descended from English ancestors. Daniel Pierson came to Ohio in 1819 and settled on the Fra- zeysburg and Zanesville road in Muskingum county, where he became possessed of a fair amount of worldly goods. To Mr. and Mrs. Stump were born three children that grew to maturity: Mary E., William and James S. Mr. Stump was a careful and thrifty farmer, and at his death was the owner of 31.1 acres of land. He was not a believer of secret organizations, but was of a very peaceable turn of mind and attended strictly to his own affairs. He was an honorable man in every sense of the term, and his word was considered as good as his bond. He was a strong democrat politically, but was not an active politician. He lived to the advanced age of eighty-two years, dying on the 1st of February, 1891. His daughter, Miss Mary Stump, is now living on the old homestead and is successfully managing a farm of 140 acres. She is a capable and energetic woman, and has rapidly acquired a knowledge of business and the most successful way of managing her own affairs. The stone house in which she resides is now fifty-one years old and is a solid and substantial structure. J. G. Stump is the owner of a fertile and well-kept farm of 581 acres in Muskingum county, Ohio, all of which is one tract comprising one of the most magnificent bodies of land in this section of the country. Besides this valuable property he owns landed interests in other counties and states and is the owner of a farm in Kansas, also one in Missouri. His residence in Madison township is a very handsome one, and he has the unbounded satisfaction of knowing that he owes his prosperity to his industry and economy. He was born in Licking township, Muskingum county, June 30, 1834, the third of four children reared by John R. and Rachel (Gorsuch) Stump, the former of whom was born in Hardy county, Va., January 12, 1798, to Leonard and Phoebe (Davis) Stump, who were also Virginians of German descent. The father of Leonard was John Stump, who married a Miss Brake; he died in early life and his widow married John Rager. They moved to Muskingum county in 1806, when the county was almost a wilderness, and here spent their declining years. Leonard Stump came to this county in 1804 and took up his residence on a farm in Licking township, about eleven miles from Zanesville, where he was called from life in 1846. He reared a family of eight children: John R., James D., Mary, Jackson, Ruth, William, Elizabeth and Phoebe. Elizabeth is the only surviving member, her home being in Putnam county, this state. The mother of these children died about 1832. John R. Stump came with his parents to this county and was here educated and afterward married; his union with Miss Gorsuch taking place in 1826, and eventually resulted in the birth of four children: Margaret, who died in 1863; John, who died in 1861; J. G., the subject of this sketch, and Leonard N., who has been living in Colorado for the past three years. He was county commissioner of this county from 1875 to 1878, also serving part of another term. He is married to Annie Lynn, by whom he has four children. J. G. Stump was educated in the schools near his home and was married in Licking township in 1868 to Miss Sarah Van Voorhis, a daughter of Daniel and Jane (Roberts) Van Voorhis, she being one of their seven children: John R., Victoria, Samuel F., Sarah A., Mary J., Fulton Z., and Henry C. Mrs. Stump was born in Licking township, this county, in 1843, and in her youth was given good educational advantages. She has borne her husband five children: Nellie, who was born in Licking township in 1869; Charles, who was born in Madison township in 1870, and died January 12, 1892; Daniel, who was born in Madison township in 1873; Mary, who was born in Madison township in 1876; and Jay, who was born in Dresden in 1877. All these children have been given excellent advantages and have attended high institutions of learning. They all still reside at home and are favorites in the social circles in which they move. Mr. Stump's eldest daughter is a member of the Presbyterian church, and politically he is a democrat, and is ever ready to fill all calls of public trust. He is a public-spirited man and is interested in all movements which tend to build up the county. His Grandfather Stump was a first cousin of Andrew Jackson, and when boys they were reared together. His father was a second cousin of Stonewall Jackson. About 1740 or 1750 George Brake, the brother of Mr. Stump's great-grandmother, was stolen by the Indians in Hardy county, Va., when only four years of age, 586 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. and was brought to this part of Ohio, where he was reared by them until he became a young man, when he managed to escape and return to his people. Conrad J. Sunkel, an influential citizen and a substantial farmer, was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1842, and his parents, William and Margaret (Hines) Sunkel, were natives, also, of Germany, both born in 1816. They emigrated to the United States in 1847, located in Zanesville, Ohio, and there they have resided ever since. The father is a retired farmer. They reared five sons, Conrad J. being second in order of birth, and three are now living. Conrad J. Sunkel was reared in Muskingum county, and there resided until 1879, when he moved to Morgan county, Ohio, where he made his home until 1884. He then returned to the former county, where he has since resided. He was married in 1864 to Miss Elizabeth Seybert, a native, also, of Germany, whose parents emigrated to this county at an early day, and are yet residents of the same. Mr. Seybert has always followed farming, and has been unusually successful. Mr. Sunkel and wife are the parents of an interesting family of six sons and one daughter. Mr. Sunkel has held the office of township trustee several terms, also various other offices of the township, and is now one of the directors of the county infirmary. He is the owner of 152 acres of land five miles west of Zanesville, and resides on a farm one and a half miles from that city. He has always affiliated with the democratic party, and cast his first presidential vote for George B. McClellan. He and Mrs. Sunkel are members of the German Evangelical church, and he has held membership in the same as far back as he can remember. He has been successful, is one of the substantial men of the township and is well respected. Rev. S. H. Swingle, Brush Creek, Ohio. George Swingle Sr., probably the founder of his name in this country, and a respected and honored pioneer, was born at Saarbruch, Oberlinksweiler, district of Otweiler, province of Nassau, Germany, on July 25, 1755. Of his ancestors there is no record extant. On July 2, 1776, he enlisted in the army of Louis XVI., of France. His discharge from that king's service is preserved, and is an interesting document to his descendants, a liberal translation of which, from the French, is as follows: " We, the undersigned, certify to all whom it will concern, to have granted unconditional discharge to one George Schwingel, soldier of Company La Gace, Regiment Nassau. Said Schwingel is twenty-six years old, size five feet ten and a half inches, hair and whiskers brown, eyes grey, face long, Lutheran by religion, shoemaker by trade. Said Schwingel has very faithfully served in the said regiment from July 2, 1776, to this date. Given in Metz, 10th day of September, 1784." This was signed by the officers of the regiment. On the back of this document appears a memorandum stating that he had been paid in linen and shoes, in all to a sum the equivalent of a little more than 15 livres. Subsequent to his discharge he emigrated to America, settled in what is now Adams county, Penn., where is supposed to have occurred his marriage with Miss Mary Magdalene Deitrick. Ten children were born to them as follows: Phoeba, born March 4, 1788; Nicholas, born February 15, 1789; George Jr.,born September 11, 1790; Jacob, born September 10, 1792; William, born September 6, 1793; Margaret, born August 8, 1795; Elizabeth, born October 7, 1796; John, born August 16, 1798; Polly, born November 8, 1802, and Samuel, horn January 14, 1804. In 1811 the family immigrated to Muskingum county, Ohio, in wagons, in which were stored their worldly effects. Two years previous to this, however, Nicholas and George (sons) came on a prospecting tour to this county and selected the southeast quarter of section 27 of what is now Brush Creek township. When the family made the journey Mrs. Swingle rode a horse most of the way from Pennsylvania and carried her youngest son, Samuel, who was then seven years of age, most of the distance. Upon arriving they erected a log cabin, and soon set to work to clear their land, which was heavily timbered. Mr. Swingle and his sons erected a sawmill on Brush creek, one of the first mills built in this vicinity, and to him belongs the honor of naming the township at its organization. George Swingle Sr., was a keen observer and a well-informed man, his range of reading covering many topics with which he was conversant., He was a good citizen, became prosperous, and was respected by all who knew him. At the age of eighty years he was so well preserved that he could, without the aid of glasses, make the finest shoes. The whole family were members of the Lutherarn church, and of his ten children all became prominent citizens of their adopted county save two, viz.: Nicholas, who settled in Morgan county, Ohio, and Elizabeth, who moved to Clark county, Ill. All the children led lives of usefulness and reared families that reflect honor and credit on their worthy and esteemed progenitors. George Swingle Sr. died in 1844, and his wife departed this life in 1848, at the age of eighty-six years. George Swingle Jr. was married to Miss Mary M. Martin, the ceremony taking place about 1824. He located in the township, and in addition to farming operated a salt well for a number of years, which, in the end, proved disastrous to him financially. He was an enterprising and intelligent man, and was held in high esteem for his many excellent qualities of character. To his mar- HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 587 riage were born eight children: Solomon H. ; Mary, wife of Solomon Dozer, this county; Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Mason, this county, Clarissa, wife of Jacob Elson, this county; Franklin, Hicksville, Ohio; George W., this county; David, a member of the Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer infantry, and died in hospital, and Fanny, married Jacob Stainbrook, Seneca county, Ohio. George Swingle Jr. died on February 16, 1865, at the age of seventy-four. Mrs. Swingle was born November 24, 1803, and died May 17, 1877. Mr. Swingle was a whig, but subsequently a republican in politics, and was well informed on the affairs of the day. His eldest son, Rev. Solomon H. Swingle, was born on the old home of the Swingle family, Brush Creek township, August 28, 1825. His boyhood was passed on the farm and in the public schools he obtained the rudiments of his education, fitting himself to teach, which profession he followed two terms. In 1849 he went to Columbus, entered the Capital university, and taking the full course, graduated in 1854. The following winter he taught a select school in Roseville, Ohio, for a term of six months. On April 29, 1855, he was married to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of John Baughman, an old settler, of whom mention is made in this volume. Mr. Swingle was ordained a minister in the English Evangelical Lutheran church, in Zion church, near New Cumberland, Ohio. He had been licensed to preach previously, and installed in a charge. In this charge he served a number of congregations until 1865, when he received a call to Brandenville, W. Va., then a mission field, which was accepted, serving four regular congregations until 1869. He was theta called to New Lebanon, Penn., where he ministered to three regular congregations until 1874, during two years of which time he conducted the academy of that place. In 1874 he received a call from Prospect, Penn., which he accepted, and ministered to four regular congregations until 1879, at which time he returned to his old home to recuperate and visit friends and relatives. Here he has since resided. In the spring of 1882 he embarked in general merchandising at Stover-town, and was commissioned postmaster at the same time. He conducted his business for eight years, and then sold out. A throat affliction compelled Mr. Swingle to give up ministerial work as a regular preacher, but he performs in an irregular fashion such duties as come in his way. To Mr. and Mrs. Swingle have been born eight children: Emma H., wife of Rev. H. K. Gebbart, of the Lutheran church,who has two children—Corinne and Helen; Sarah M. ; William M., Ph. D., principal of the Greensburg, Penn., seminary; Henry R.; Charles M. ; James W. ; Lucy V. and Ida M. During the late war Mr. Swingle took decided ground on the question that so agitated the public mind, and his voice and influence were fearlessly raised in the defense of his country and his flag. G. W. Swingle, who is one of the well-known and much respected citizens of Newton township, Muskingum county, Ohio, was born in Brush Creek township, on the farm where Christopher Swingle now resides, August 28, 1833. He is a son of George Swingle and the grandson of George Swingle Sr. [See sketch.] G. W. Swingle was reared to the arduous duties of the farm and supplemented a good practical education received in the common schools by a course in the academy at Cumberland, W. Va., and at Fultonham, Ohio. After this he taught school for ten years, a part of the time in Illinois, and the balance of the time in the schools of Muskingum county, winning an enviable reputation as an educator. In 1863 he enlisted in the Ohio National guards, but was not called into service. He was married in 1860 to Miss Martha A., daughter of George Baughman [see sketch], and subsequently located in Brush Creek township, where he made his home until 1864. From there he moved to Newton, but shortly afterward returned to Brush Creek township and there resided until 1888, when he purchased his present farm, consisting of ninety acres of land. This farm is one of the best in the township, and Mr. Swingle is a man of advanced ideas and progressive principles, who thoroughly understands every thing pertaining to agriculture. Mr. and Mrs. Swingle are the parents of the following children: Luther W. (died at the age of ten years), Edward Sherman, (a high-school graduate and a teacher), Rosy C., Mary E., Augustus B. and Minnie. Mr. and Mrs. Swingle are members of the Lutheran church, with which they have been connected since childhood. They take a decided interest in all good work, and are well respected in the neighborhood. Politically Mr. Swingle affiliates with the republican party. William Swingle was the fifth child and fourth son of George Swingle, and was eighteen years of age when the family settled in the wilds of Muskingum county. He was married March 28, 1820, to Susanna, daughter of Henry and Dorothea (Houpt) Pletcher, soon after which he settled in Morgan county and a short time later purchased 160 acres of land, which now comprises the homestead farm of his son, B. F. Swingle. This fine farm he made a permanent home, and after putting it in a high state of cultivation and otherwise greatly improving it, he resided on it until his death. He was a successful farmer and accumulated a handsome property which he bequeathed to his children at his death. His union resulted in the birth of six sons and three daughters: Helena, born May 3, 1822, and died September 6, 1842; was the wife of Isaac Cohagan; Diana, born Sep- 588 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. tember 23, 1823, and died October 17, 1865; was the wife of William Deitrick; Solomon.T. was born July 15, 1825; Susannah A. was born December 8, 1829, and is the wife of Solomon S. Baughman; Henry G. was born October 8, 1831; William W. was born October 19, 1833; David F. was born July 24, 1836, and died in infancy; Benjamin F. was born December 2, 1838, and Isaac was born December 3, 1841. Mr. and Mrs. Swingle were members of the Lutheran church, and were active in religious movements. Mr. Swingle was at first a whig in politics, but afterward became a republican. He was called from life March 14, 1876, but his widow yet survives him and has reached the advanced age of ninety years. B. F. Swingle, their son, was their seventh child in order of birth, and was born on the farm where he now resides. He fitted himself for a teacher in the public schools of his native county, his first term being taught at the age of seventeen years. He continued to follow this calling for about fifteen years, and acquired the reputation of a successful educator and a fine disciplinarian. He was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Adam and Catherine (Stover) Baughman January 6, 1860, and settled on the old homestead of which he is now the owner. He and his wife are the parents of the following children; Rosetta, wife of R. R. Weaver; Ida C., wife of Stephen Gibson; Warren F., married Lizzie France; Roxana C., Edwin M., Alta E., Nellie N. and Albert E. The mother of these children was born in this county June 17, 1841. Their home farm comprises 225 acres of fine land, which is well improved, and in a fine state of cultivation. Since 1874 he has been interested in the Grange movement, and has taken considerable interest in the work, and for two years was state lecturer Ohio State grange. During these years he visited nearly fifty counties, organized many lodges, and lectured on topics pertaining to the work of the order. At present he is district deputy. He is a well preserved man, is well read upon the general topics of the day, and takes an active and leading part upon all questions pertaining to the public good. He was nominated for congress in his district in 1890, but declined to accept the honor, owing to his lecture work in the Ohio State grange at the time. In 1862 he was commissioned second lieutenant by Gov. David Tod, of a company of Ohio Home guards, the commission constituting him a recruiting officer. Solomon L. Swingle is the third child and eldest son of William Swingle, a sketch of whom appears in this work. Solomon's early life was passed in assisting on the farm and in attending the common schools, where he fitted himself for a teacher. He taught very successfully for eighteen consecutive years and acquired a gcod reputation as an educator. His first school of three months he taught for $45 and boarded himself. On August 28, 1856, he married Miss Lucy R., daughter of Jesse and Sarah (Deitrick) Gibson. After his marriage Mr. Swingle settled upon the old homestead of his grandfather and there he has resided until the present time. He has prospered in business affairs and is one of the well-to-do citizens of Muskingum county. To him and his estimable wife have been born eight children, the two eldest dying in infancy, unnamed. Rosa Florence, born July 23, 1860, wife of Charles A. Fye of Zanesville; Emma J., born October 4, 1863; Willie Sherman, born November 20, 1864, and died February 26, 1865; Francis E., born January 16, 1866, is a graduate of Zanesville High school and has been a student at Theil college, Greenville, Penn., where he is taking a scientific course; Lewis H., born September 19, 1868, who fitted himself to teach in the common schools and is now following that profession; and Norah Ellen, born October 19, 1870. All the children are well educated and his daughters have good musical educations, being quite proficient in the art. Politically Mr. Swingle has not been a seeker after the honors of office, preferring rather to attend to his own business affairs, but he affiliates with the republican party. He and wife and children are acceptable and useful members of the Lutheran church, and all take a decided interest in good work. Henry G. Swingle, one of the substantial farmers of Roseville, Muskingum county, Ohio, is the second son of William Swingle and the grandson of George Swingle. He was born on the homestead of his father, which is now the property of B. F. Swingle, October 8, 1831, and became familiar with the duties of the farm at an early age. He received a fair education in the common schools, fitted himself for teaching, and for ten years followed that profession in the schools of Muskingum county, five years of which time in one district. He was a successful educator, and there are documents yet extant that attest his success as an instructor. He remained with his father until twenty-four years of age, at which time he selected a wife in the person of Miss Lydia A. Baughman, daughter of Joseph Baughman, their nuptials being celebrated March 25, 1855. A short time afterward Mr. Swingle bought 196 acres of land in Clay township, then partly improved, and on this place he has since resided. Mrs. Swingle was born on January 23, 1833, and died on March 6, 1873. Nine children were born to this union: Cecelia A., Laura I., Lyman C., Charles S., Eldora N., Caroline A., Mary S., Jennie E. and Lizzie H. Lyman C. and Eldora N. became teach- HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY -589 ers in the county and all the children are well educated. Charles S. holds a certificate though he has not taught. Mr. Swingle's second wife was formerly Miss Martha E. Deitrick, daughter of Jacob Deitrick [see sketch], and the ceremony was performed October 14, 1874. Mr. Swingle has held the office of trustee repeatedly, and is a man of good executive ability. He is the owner of 300 acres of land and has it all well improved. He has been liberal in providing for his children and started them out in life when they began making homes for themselves. He has been eminently successful and is one of Muskingum county's wealthy and progressive citizens. He has been a member of the Lutheran church from his boyhood and is one of its liberal supporters. In politics he is a stanch advocate of the principles of the republican party. He has a large, roomy house, and his barns and outbuildings are good and substantial. Mr. Swingle is a well-informed man, and keeps well posted on the current events of the day. His wife and children are also members of the Lutheran church. I. C. Swingle is the youngest son of William Swingle and grandson of George Swingle, the latter being the founder of the family in Muskingum county. I. C. Swingle was born on the William Swingle homestead, now owned by B. F. Swingle, December 3, 1841, and his boyhood was devoted to tilling the soil and to attending the district schools, where he obtained a sufficient knowledge of the " world of books " to fit him to teach. He entered the schoolroom as instructor at the age of twenty, and with the exception of three terms, he has since wielded the ferule—a period of twenty-seven years. He has always been employed in his native county, and nine terms were taught in one district, which fact speaks eloquently as to his efficiency. His services are often sought by school officers, and it may with truth be said that he has never disappointed them. In August, 1863, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteer infantry, Company K, and the following May, he with his regiment, was assigned to duty at the front in the Army of the Potomac, in Genera] Pickett's brigade. At the expiration of his term of service he was honorably discharged and returned home. June 18, 1863, he was married to Miss Mary E. Williamson, who was born October 9, 1846, daughter of Marcus and Elizabeth (Waxier) Williamson, and after his return from the war Mr. Swingle settled on the place where he now resides. He successfully conducts a farm of 135 acres, in addition to teaching, and utterly refutes the old idea that one can not do two things well at once. He is a member of the Dan Brown post No. 380, of the G. A. R., of which he has been quartermaster since its organization. He and his wife are the parents of eight children: Marion S., William A., Mertie I., Jennie I., Edna G., John H., Frederick E. and Lillian. Politically Mr. Swingle is a republican, and is a member of the board of the Soldiers' Relief Commission, an organization that provides for the relief of indigent soldiers. He and his wife and eldest children are members of the Lutheran church. The last school which Mr. Swingle taught was in the same district in which Gen. James A. Garfield taught his first term of school. His son, William A., is a successful teacher. Marcus Williamson, the father of Mrs. Swingle, was born in Virginia, and was a son of John Williamson, who settled in Franklin county and afterward at Duncan's Falls, this county. He was a carpenter by trade. Marcus was married to the daughter of Michael and Martha (Ayers) Waxier, the latter being the daughter of Martha Ayers and a granddaughter of Jacob Ayers, of Welsh origin. Jacob Ayers came to Muskingum county, Ohio, before the Indians had been removed from the country, and one of his children was captured by the red men and held in bondage for several days. The child's name was Moses, and at the time of his capture, an adopted daughter by the name of Carpenter was also captured. The latter had been picking beans, and Moses Ayers, with his gun in hand had been sent along to guard, but boy-like he removed his gun lock, and while in this defenseless position, an Indian stole up behind him and made him a prisoner. Later both children made their escape. Michael Waxier died in 1867, aged about seventy years, his wife's death having occurred in 1855. William C. Tanner is one of the most substantial and thoroughgoing farmers of Muskingum county, Ohio, and was born on the farm where he now resides August 29, 1816, son of Edward and Sarah (Brown) Tanner, the former of whom was born in Virginia of English parents, and when about fifteen years of age was captured by the Indians and taken to Upper Sandusky, Ohio, where he was kept for three and a half years. At the end of this time he was purchased by the government and returned to his home in Virginia. He learned the Indian language while in captivity, and became thoroughly familiar with Indian customs and traditions. He was married in Virginia, and emigrated from that state to Ohio in an early day, coming down the river on a keelboat. After residing for one year near Coshocton, they settled on the farm on which William C. Tanner is now residing, but at that time the land was heavily covered with timber, and the country around was a wilderness. Before leaving Virginia he had purchased land warrants sufficient to buy 500 acres of land, and at the time of his death in 1831, he 590 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. had a magnificent farm, well improved. He lies buried on his farm. Indians and wild game were very plentiful at the time of his settlement, but there were only two or three houses between his home and Zanesville, and it was five miles to the nearest neighbors. He was compelled to go to Coshocton to mill and to do his trading, and, in fact, had to undergo all the hardships incident to the life of the early pioneer. His wife was born in Virginia, and proved a true help-mate to him in his struggles to obtain a home. She died in 1855, after having borne a family of five sons and five daughters. She was of Irish descent. William C. Tanner is their youngest child, and the only one now living, so far as known. He has always resided in this county, on the farm which he now owns and which was settled by his father. He was educated in the old-time subscription schools of his day, and in the winter time was compelled to walk three miles to a log schoolhouse. March 19, 1840, he was married to Miss Eliza Cooke, of this county, and their married life has extended over fifty-one years of their lives, and has resulted in the birth of two sons and six daughters: John W. (deceased), Sarah, Harriet, wife of George Kreiger; Fannie, wife of Henry Fleming; Clarissa, wife of Dr. Frederick Vigor; and Charles, who died in Colorado in 1881, and two daughters, Ida F. and Theba A., who died when young. Mr. Tanner inherited the warlike spirit of his paternal grandfather, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and when the Rebellion came up he espoused the Union cause, and in 1862 enlisted in Company G, Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer infantry, of which company he was chosen captain. After remaining in the service for about six months, be was compelled to resign his commission on account of disease contracted while in the service, and returned to his home. He was a participant in the engagements at Perrysville, Stone River, La Grange, and Crab Orchard, in all of which he acquitted himself creditably. He has a splendid stock and grain farm of 167 acres, about six miles from the county seat, located on Licking river, and through this farm the Baltimore & Ohio railroad runs. He and his wife are members of the M. E. church, politically he is a republican, his first presidential vote being cast for William H. Harrison, at which time he was a whig. He is a man of liberal views, is well posted on general topics of interest, and has always taken a deep interest in educational matters, and was one of the first men in the county to give his children collegiate educations. Nearly all his children have taught school and his daughters are well versed in music. William T. Tanner, a substantial farmer residing near Zanesville, Ohio, was born in Coshocton county, of this state, in 1812. He is the son of James and Nancy (Taylor) Tanner, the former of whom was a Virginian and emigrated to Ohio in an early day, dying in this state when the subject of this sketch was an infant. William T. Tanner was left motherless at the age of eight years, but continued to make his home in Coshocton county until he was twenty-three years of age. After the death of his mother he lived with his uncle, William Taylor, who had quite a large family, and whose house was a one-roomed cabin with loft overhead, which was reached by a ladder set up in one corner of the room. Here the boys slept on beds made on the floor. Sometimes when very cold, they slept under the beds next the floor. When fourteen years old, being tired of the hard life at his uncle's he ran away to other friends, wading the Muskingum river through slush ice in November. He has been doing for himself since he was about fourteen years of age and throughout life has devoted his attention to farming. In 1835 he came to Muskingum county and was here married the following year to Miss Phoebe Stump, who was born in this county, but he was called upon to mourn her death in 1881, she having borne him three sons and five daughters, two sons and four daughters now living: James E., Mary L. (wife of Mr. A. C. Springer), Oscar W., Rachel A. (wife of John W. Marshall), Margaret E. (wife of William T. Mapel) and Malinda (wife of W. S. Drake, M. D.). In 1848 Mr. Tanner had purchased the farm of 300 acres which he now owns, which is situated about five miles west of Zanesville. Here he began raising and dealing in stock on quite an extensive scale, but of late years has not given so much attention to this business as formerly. Mr. Tanner is one of those men to whom the term "self-made" is decidedly applicable, for he started for himself single handed, but by industry and economy he has succeeded in securing for himself and family a comfortable and pleasant home. He has always been a law-abiding and progressive citizen, and has been one of the leaders in improving the section in which he resides. He has made his farm, which was very little improved when he purchased it, one of the most fertile and finest places in the county. He has held various offices of trust and for seven years he was one of the county commissioners, was director of the county infirmary six years and has held minor offices in his township. His first presidential vote was cast for Martin Van Buren in 1836 and be has always been a democrat in politics When he was about twenty-two years of age he and another young man raised akrop of corn for which he received about the first money he ever owned, and as he kept his corn until the following spring he received a good price for it which gave him a little start in life. Although he always had to work hard for what he had he has been liberal in HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 591 the use of his means in worthy causes, and is a useful and valued citizen. He has lost over $3, 000 in going other people's security and by trusting to their honesty and his generosity and honesty have manifested themselves in various other ways. Alfred Taylor, farmer, Norwich, Ohio, was born in Hampshire county, England, January 2, 1814, and was the second child born to George and Elizabeth (Tragust) Taylor, natives also of that county. The grandparents were Thomas and Lidia (Mainard) Taylor, and they were also of English nativity. George Taylor emigrated to this country in 1835, and ten weeks after starting, landed in Zanesville. He purchased a farm in Union township and the following year located on it. There he and wife received their final summons on the same day. His children were all born in England and were principally reared there. They were named as follows: Henry (who came to this county about two years before the rest of the family, and is now residing in .Washington township, this county), Alfred (subject), Elizabeth (sixty years old, died within five days of her father, ninety-two years old, and mother, ninety years old, and all are buried at the Norwich graveyard), Ann (deceased) and Thomas (residing in Norwich.) The members of this family all belonged to the Church of England. The father was at one time a whig but later became a democrat. He was a carpenter by trade, but after coming to this country he engaged in agricultural pursuits which he carried on the remainder of his days. Alfred Taylor remained under the parental roof until nineteen years of age and was married to Miss Eliza Ray, a native of Hampshire county, England, born in April, 1812, and the daughter of Henry Ray. The latter emigrated with his family to this county after Alfred Taylor and wife had settled in Union township, and there they both died. He was a farmer. Mrs. Taylor was one of three children, George and William, and all are now deceased. Our subject was married before leaving England and one child, Alfred H., was born in that country. He is living in Union township at the present time and is engaged in farming. Four children were born in Muskingum county, Ohio: George (residing in Perry township), Thomas (also in Perry township), Isabel (the wife of Mr. G. Richie, resides in the West) and Courtney H. (who is living on the home place in Union township). Mr. Taylor lost his first wife in 1871. His second wife, Miss Elizabeth Herron, was born in Rich Hill township, Muskingum county, in 1816, and died December 31, 1891. She was one of eight children reared by William and Elizabeth (Crow) Herron. Her father was a native of Ireland, where he first married and reared a family, and later he came to the United States and settled in Rich Hill township, where his wife died. He then married the mother of Mrs. Taylor and eight children were the fruits of this union: Elizabeth, Mary, Andrew, James, Martha, Christopher, Samuel and Sarah. Only two are now living, Martha and Sarah, the former a resident of Indiana. Mrs. Taylor's father followed farming in Rich Hill township and carried this on successfully until his death when ninety-one years of age, about 1857. His wife died the following year. Mrs. Taylor was a worthy member of the M. E. church. Mr. Taylor's sons are all living in this county, and are public-spirited citizens. Mr. Taylor was apprenticed to a butcher in Sussex county, for a term of three years and at seventeen years of age received his diploma. He then engaged in business for himself, until coming to America. He sailed from Portsmouth to New York, with his wife and child, in the ship "Louesa," under Captain Wood and had a very rough voyage. His brother, Henry, met them at New York, to pilot them through to Zanesville. From New York to Troy they were on a towboat; from Troy to Buffalo on a canal boat;' from Buffalo to Cleveland on the "Daniel Webster," and on their way they met a boat in distress and towed her to Detroit, which delayed them two days and two nights. After a very rough lake voyage they finally landed Saturday, near midnight, strangers in a strange land. No friendly police came to their assistance and rats and frogs were their companions until morning. Sunday morning they took a canal boat from Cleveland to Dresden, and from Dresden to Zanesville were on Captain Rene's steamer. Coming to Union township, they lived in a cabin with a puncheon floor, and as he saved money he put it in a pewter can under this floor. Later Mr. Taylor bought a farm, paying for it with the money he saved in this can, which contained all nations of specie. He attributes his success to honesty. A great many drovers passed through his place generally stoping on their way and at one time he accommodated ten drovers and a boy with 1,500 head of hogs from Saturday until Monday. He always found these people honorable and peaceable while at his home. When Mr. Taylor landed in Zanesville, Ohio, with his wife and child, he had but $30 in money. He is a butcher by trade and worked at Belknap stillhouse through the summer season and in the winter season at his trade, for which he received $1 per day. He also worked on a farm until he got a start and in 1836 began assisting on the home place. About 1842 he rented a farm from his father and in connection with tilling the soil, worked at butchering. He served a number of years as a volunteer in the Concord Blues and attended camp muster at Zanesville and Taylorville. Mr. Taylor has accumulated a good property by his industry and good management and is one 592 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. of the county's most esteemed citizens. He first bought sixty acres, then eighty, afterward sixty acres more, then eighty again, and then 160 acres. He owned in this county about 500 acres of land and gave his children all a good start in the world. He contributes liberally to churches, schools, etc. and " honesty " has been his watchword through life. Among the pioneers of Muskingum county, Ohio, appears the name of Henry Taylor who located in this county at an early day. He was born in Hampshire, England, in 1811, and came to America in 1832, settling in Muskingum county, where he has since lived. He resided in Zanesville two years, in Union township eight years, in Falls township two years, again in Union township, seven years, in Perry township twenty-one years, in Salt Creek and Wayne townships fourteen years, and for the last six years has lived in Wayne township near Zanesville. When he first came to this state it was a comparative wilderness and entirely destitute of the luxuries of modern times. Buggies were almost unheard of and the settler made his trips either on foot or in ox or horse wagons. Mr. Taylor's parents, George and Elizabeth (Triges) Taylor, were natives of England, and the father was a carpenter, son of Thomas Taylor. Two years after Mr. Taylor came his father and mother came and lived in Union township until their death in January,1878. They were the parents of five children, all of whom came to America: Henry, Alfred, Thomas, Ann and Elizabeth. Ann married H. Curll and died a number of years ago. Elizabeth is also deceased. Henry Taylor was married in 1840 to Miss Jane H. Caw, who bore him nine children, one of whom died in infancy. James was killed at Champion's Hill, Miss. He was a member of the Seventy-eighth Ohio infantry, and was not yet seventeen years of age; Eliza is the wife of R. J. Hogan; Mary married W. A. Vernon and resides in Iowa; Charles C., married and living in Washington; Annie, wife of T. H. Allan; Cornelia, wife of Albert Huff; A. A. married Barbara Sutter, and lives in Salt Creek; Jennie, single, resides at home. In 1836 Mr. Taylor joined a company of cavalry composed of citizens of the county. At this time he was not a citizen of the United States. He was elected first lieutenant of his company after two years, and filled that position for five years, when his term of enlistment expired. The company had to furnish their own horses, clothing and provisions, the government furnishing a saber and a brace of pistols. Mr. Taylor's first presidential vote was cast in 1840 for W. H. Harrison. In 1886 he joined the historical society of this county and is at present one of its trustees. He is an honorable, upright citizen and is respected and esteemed by all. Allan A. Taylor, a progressive citizen of Muskingum county, Ohio, was born here October 5, 1858, to Henry and Jane Taylor, the former of whom was born in Hampshire, England, where he was reared and educated, coming to America at the age of twenty-one years. The subject of this sketch was twenty-one years of age when he started out in life for himself, but prior to this had taught three terms of school, having had excellent advantages which he improved to the utmost, being for some time an attendant of Muskingum college at Concord. He was next to the youngest of his parents' family of nine children. After attaining his majority he embarked in the mercantile business, which he continued for two years in partnership with his brother. He was married in 1879 to Miss Barbara A. Sutter, daughter of Bartley and Louise (Sandal) Sutter, the former of whom was born in Germany and came to America at the early age of twelve years, locating, in time, in Perry township of this county where he is now residing. Jacob Frederick Sutter, his father, crossed the ocean to Germany five times to attend to his property interests in that country. Of the four children born to Allan Taylor and his wife, the following are living: Norah E., Clarence L. and Lily E. Louis E. is deceased. Mr. Taylor is the owner of a valuable farm of 204 acres, all of which is improved and one of the best farms in Salt Creek township. Besides keeping his land in excellent agricultural condition he gives considerable attention to the raising of stock of all kinds, in which business he is successful and prosperous. He inherits his father's sterling principles of honesty and integrity, and although he has an extended acquaintance he is respected wherever he is known. He is a republican politically, and in his religious belief his views are in accordance with the Lutheran church. His brother, James Taylor, enlisted in the Union army in 1861, at the age of fifteen years, and was killed at Champion's Hill in 1863. He enlisted from Perry township in Company F, Seventy-eighth Ohio infantry. One of the finest and best equipped drug stores in this section is that conducted by Thomas G. Trembley, Frazeysburg, Ohio, who is a thoroughly practical and expert chemist and a gentleman well respected in business and social circles. He comes of one of the old pioneer families of Muskingum county, and is of French descent, his grandfather, Isaac S. Trembley's ancestors having been French Huguenots. When this family first came to the United States they settled in New Jersey at Tremble Point, of that state was named after this family. Isaac Trembley added the " y " to the name. His father, John Trembley, was one of three brothers who fought the British at the battle of Lexington. He was there taken prisoner, carried to England HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 593 and made to work in the English shipyard where he remained until the close of the Revolutionary war, a period of about seven years. He was then brought back by the British and received from them $1 per day for the entire seven years. He married and settled in Newark, N. J., where his death occurred shortly afterward. He had but one son, Isaac S., grandfather of our subject. Isaac was born at Newark, N. J., December 18, 1788, served in the War of 1812, and was one of the famous minute men stationed on Governor's Island, N. J. He came to Muskingum county, Ohio, in the fall 1814 and settled on a farm. He had married in Newark, N. J., and his wife died died there leaving him three children, one of whom remained in that city until 1839, when she came to Ohio. She was named for her mother, Ariann A. Vosaler. Mr. Trembley lived with his mother and two children, George and John, until his marriage to Lucy C. Shaffer, -daughter of Jacob Shaffer, of Muskingum county. The Shaffer family was of Pennsylvania Dutch descent. To Mr. and Mrs. Trembley were born Joseph, Nancy, Jacob, Isaac, Cynthia, Elizabeth, Downer, and one who died in infancy. Mr. Trembley settled in Muskingum county, cleared a tract of 200 acres, and resided on that, and near it, until his death in April, 1869. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and in politics was an old line whig. He was hard-working and industrious, strictly temperate and a strong abolitionist. He preached temperance when it was decidedly unpopular to do so, but he was firm in his convictions and pushed to a conclusion anything he undertook. It is said that he was connected with the " under, ground railroad." He voted the abolition ticket and was a warm friend of James G. Burney, the noted abolition leader, who ran for president on the abolition ticket. The Guthries, of Zanesville, noted abolitionists, were also his friends. Mr. Trembley took great interest in abolitionism when it was not only unpopular, but unsafe to do so. Dr. Joseph S. Trembley, his son, and father of our subject, was born April 29, 1819, on his father's farm in Muskingum county, and received a common- school education. In connection with farming he also learned the carpenter's trade, which he carried on for some time. Later he studied medicine with Drs. Black and Pierce, of Frazeysburg and Dresden, and then attended medical college at Cleveland, Ohio, where he received his diploma in the winter of 1846. He began practicing in Frazeysburg that year. On the 29th of April, 1847, he wedded in this county, Miss Mary A. Goff, daughter of Thomas and Mary A. (Mart) Goff, the former of English descent. To Dr. and Mrs. Trembley were born five children : Mary (deceased), Thomas G., Isaac, Lucy C., Rosa H. After marriage the Doctor settled at Adams Mills, Muskingum county, practiced medicine there for eleven years, and then went to Roscoe, Coshocton county, where he remained one year. From there he went to Keene of the same county, but eight years later he returned to Muskingum county and resumed practice in Frazeysburg where, in connection, he also carried on a drug store. He met with unusual success in his profession and during the fearful epidemic of diphtheria that ravaged the country during the Civil war, the Doctor kept two horses and went night and day, thus saving many lives. Dr. Trembly was the only physician who could handle the disease in this part of the country, and he visited the poor as well as the rich, and thousands of dollars due him were never collected. It was said of him that during his career as a physician that he never lost a patient in child-birth. Like his father, he was a strong temperance man, and from his childhood, never tasted alcoholic liquors, although it was an almost universal custom to use whisky in those days. He prescribed it as little as possible in his practice and would have disposed of it altogether if he could have persuaded his patients to look upon it as he did. Dr. Trembley has been a church member for forty years and although brought up a Presbyterian he joined the Methodist Episcopal church, there being no church of his faith near. He is now a member of the Presbyterian church, was class-leader for many years, and has been a trustee in the Presbyterian church since it was built in Frazeysburg. He contributed liberally of his means to build this church and is one of its most active workers. His wife is also a member of this church. In politics he was formerly an old line whig, but he now affiliates with the republican party. He has been justice of the peace four terms, and was postmaster at Frazeysburg for many years. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He is a man universally respected and had the confidence and esteem of all. His son, Thomas G. Trembley, and the subject of this sketch, was born at Adams Mills, Muskingum county, Ohio, January 19, 1850, and received a good practical education in the common schools. He started out for himself as clerk for his father in the drug store in Frazeysburg and has continued this business ever since. He is highly esteemed by all his patrons for his courteous manners and strict integrity, and has been highly successful. He married Miss Elizabeth Holcomb, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Holcomb. Mr. Holcomb was a descendant of one of the pioneer families of Gallia county, an attorney of considerable prominence and a successful merchant. Mr. Trembley has been postmaster at Frazeysburg for four years, and has greatly improved this office, using the modern system and putting in new and improved fixtures that would be consid- 594 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. ered quite good for a much larger place. As postmaster he is very popular for his duties are discharged in a very efficient and capable manner, and he stands deservedly high in the estimation of the people as a man of character and integrity. His official record is second to none. Mrs. Trembley's grandfather, Samuel R. Holcomb, is a descendant of an old colonial family of English descent. He was a brigadier-general in the War of 1812. He was born on the Hudson river, N. Y., and his scholastic advantages were good. When a young man he went to Virginia, settled in the Mercer bottoms, and was married in that state to Miss Sarah Ewing, daughter of John and Ann (Smith) Ewing, the former of an old Virginia family and an old Revolutionary soldier. When a youth Mr. Ewing was captured by the Indians and remained a captive in the old town of Chillicothe, Ohio, for two years. A young woman by the name of Kate Sea, was also captured. The Indians had stolen a Bible and at their request John Ewing read to them, the Indians objecting to Adam, saying that an Indian was the first man. John Ewing finally escaped with the young woman, and arrived home, where he subsequently became a prominent man and an extensive land owner. Samuel R. Holcomb and wife became the parents of ten children: Anselm T., John E., Stephen, Edward T., Ann S., Taphena, Lura, Caliphurnia, Olive and Jeanette. Soon after marriage Mr. Holcomb moved to Ohio and settled where the town of Vinton now stands. He came with his wife and two eldest children, all on horseback and their effects on a pack horse. Mr. Holcomb was one of the first settlers of Gallia county, Ohio, and became one of the substantial farmers, owning over 400 acres of land and a fine brick house. He was sheriff for several years and served in the legislature two terms. In politics he was formerly an old line whig but afterward a republican. He was a strong abolitionist and was connected with the "underground railroad," his house being a station on the road. He was a prominent man in his day, was noted for his integrity of character, and is yet well remembered. His son, Edward T. Holcomb, the father of Mrs. Trembley, was born in Vinton Ohio, January 4, 1822. He received an academic education, read law, and in connection with his law practice taught school for a number of years. He was married February 23, 1847, to Mrs. Elizabeth (Mitchell) Morlan, widow of Jesse Morlan, daughter of John S. and Mary (Lord) Mitchell. Jesse Morlan and Miss Elizabeth Mitchell were married in Columbiana county, Ohio, November 14, 1833. To this union were born two children: Mary M. and John M. Mary married E. Jordan, and lives at Marathon, Ohio; John married Ann Garrison, and lives at Dahlgren, Ill. Jesse Morlan, the father of the above named children, died at Vinton, Ohio, June, 1844. John S. Mitchell was born in Yorkshire, England, March 7, 1792, received a good, practical education, and was there married, one daughter, Elizabeth, being the fruit of this union, her birth occurring on November 14, 1814. In 1817 Mr. Mr. Mitchell came to America with his family, and for several years resided in Philadelphia. He finally moved to Columbiana county, Ohio, settled on a farm, and there remained until 1839, when he moved to Gallia county, of that state. He remained there seven years, engaged in the mercantile business at Vinton, and then removed to Cincinnati, where he retired from active life, investing his money in securities, which brought him in big returns. He finally moved to Newport, Ky., where he passed the remainder of his days. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics he was an old line whig. He died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Holcomb, June 6, 1874, when eighty-three years of age. His wife had died the year previous at the age of eighty-two. Mr. Mitchell was a man of honorable business methods, and one highly esteemed. After marriage Edward T. Holcomb and wife settled at Vinton, Ohio, where he was a prosperous merchant. In 1863 he retired to his farm, where he still resides. In politics he is a republican, and has held the office of postmaster for twenty years. He has also been township trustee. When the confederate general, John Morgan, made his famous raid, he passed through Vinton and sacked the town and burned the bridges. They robbed the stores of Mr. Holcomb and his brother, John E. Holcomb, and took what they wanted. They captured all the horses they could find, and one was a horse belonging to the venerable Samuel R. Holcomb. Socially Mr. Holcomb is a Mason, and both he and wife are members of the Universalist church. They were the parents of the following children: Victoria, Chauncey M., Elizabeth and Walter. Chauncey M. is an attorney at Gallipolis. and Walter is a farmer at Vinton. The Holcomb family is descended from old Revolutionary stock, which for generations have held liberal views. When Morgan made his raid, Chauncey M. Holcomb, then a lad of fourteen years, took a musket, and going to a hill near Vinton, shot at the first raiders who made their appearance, narrowly missing the head of one of them. He was immediately searched for but could not be found, for he had hidden himself in the attic of a house, the woman of the house denying any knowledge of him. Thomas Goff Sr., the father of Mrs. Dr. Trembley, and our subject's maternal grandfather was born at Ludlow, England, near the borders of Wales, February 18, 1794, and at the time of his death was seventy- HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 595 four years of age. He removed with his parents to the United States when about three years of age, and resided for some time in eastern Pennsylvania, principally at Columbia, but was finally persuaded to leave and come to Ohio. In 1806 he came with his father's family to Zanesville and assisted in grubbing out the hazel brush on the spot where the courthouse now stands, and his father raised two crops there before the ground was secured by the authorities for the state house. Mr. Goff enlisted in the War of 1812, from Zanesville, just after Gen. Hull surrendered, and served thirteen months. He was in the regiment with the famous Col. Croghan, and saw Tecumseh fall in the decisive battle of the Thames. He was married January 28, 1822, to Miss Mary (Martin) Putnam, who bore him seven children. He moved to Frazeysburg in April, 1838, when there were but three or four houses in the place, and there resided, respected and honored, until his death August 19, 1868. He was baptized in the Church of England, and confirmed a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church in the spring of 1860 at Dresden. He was a substantial farmer, and owned 320 acres of fine farming land, on which was a commodious residence, an excellent barn, and substantial outbuildings, etc. He was a man who kept out of debt and left his property unencumbered. His widow was instantly killed in October, 1874, being struck by an engine while crossing the Pan Handle railroad at Frazeysburg. He was one of the oldest as well as one of the most respected citizens of the county; a soldier of the cross, a soldier of the War of 1812, and a warm supporter of the Union during the Civil war. C. H. Trimble, farmer, Rural Dale, Ohio. C. H. Trimble's father, John Trimble, was a native of Chester county, Penn., born May, 8, 1785, and in his younger days followed the trade of a stone mason, although in later years he devoted his entire attention to agricultural pursuits. He was married on November 24, 1814 to Miss Lydia Harlan, also a native of Chester county, Penn., born October 29, 1789, and their union was blessed by the birth of nine children, who are named in the order of their births as follows: Elisha I., James, Caleb Harlan (subject) Mary, Edward, Isaac, Willis D. J., John D., and Phoebe H. Of these James, C. H., Mary and Phoebe are living in Muskingum county, Ohio, Edward resides in Morgan county, and the others are deceased. In 1818 John Trimble removed to Muskingum county, Ohio, and settled on a farm now owned by his son C. H., near Rural Dale. This tract, consisting of 160 acres, together with another tract of 160 acres he purchased from the government, was in the very heart of the wilderness and not a foot had been cleared. His first work was to clear a small place and erect a log cabin 16x20 feet, with a roof of clapboards fastened down with poles. The fireplace at one end was built without jambs in order to take firelogs of great length, and the one room of the cabin served as kitchen, bedroom and parlor. In that house the family lived until our subject was about six or seven years of age when a house of hewed logs was built. About five or six years later a brick house was built and this, which is still standing, was the second brick house in the township. As might be supposed, at the time of John Trimble's settlement here there were very few settlers and only one house on the present site of the town of Rural Dale. About 1822 a log schoolhouse was built on the farm of Jesse Johns, who was the first teacher, and this was probably the second schoolhouse in the township. The first church in the neighborhood was built by the Society of Friends in 1821 or 1822. Mr. Trimble and wife were members of the Society of Friends and though for many years there was no church, he and his wife remained steadfast in their faith all their lives. He received his final summons on January 21, 1854, and she followed him to the grave on June 16, 1872. Mr. Trimble advocated the principles of the Whig party and represented his county in the legislature two terms, 1846 and 1848. He was prominent in the affairs of the township and was almost continually in some of the various township offices. His son, C. H., the immediate subject of this sketch, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, within a mile of Rural Dale, in 1819, and was educated in the schools of his neighborhood, attending irregularly until the age of nineteen years. He then began tilling the soil and this has been his chosen occupation since. On Christmas day, 1842, he led to the altar Miss Emma Taylor, a native of Harrison county, Ohio, born March 3, 1823, and the daughter of William and Sarah Taylor, pioneers of Ohio, they having removed to that state about 1833. Mrs. Trimble was one of a family of twelve children and is the only one now residing in Blue Rock township. To Mr. and Mrs. Trimble were born eight children, three of whom are now living: Washington, Sarah, and Ada. Washington resides in Michigan; Sarah became the wife of Everett Pierpont and resides in Harrisburg, Penn. ; and Ada is the wife of Edward Morrison and resides on our subject's farm near Rural Dale. Although not a politician Mr. Trimble is a stanch republican and firmly adheres to the principles of his party. Although repeatedly solicited and eminently qualified to hold office, he has refused all public positions and attends strictly to his chosen occupation. He is an Odd Fellow of many years' standing, having been initiated in Zanesville in 1846, and in 1850 he was instrumental in organizing a lodge at 596 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. Rural Dale. He was its first treasurer and served in that capacity for over forty years. In 1874 and 1875 Mr. Trimble represented the district of which his lodge is a part, in the Grand lodge, and he has ever been alive to the interests of his order and whatever pertains to Odd Fellowship. He was an active member of the Sons of Temperance, and at various times held all the offices of the lodge. He and Mrs. Trimble are members of the Baptist church and he has been clerk in the same for about twenty years. He takes a deep interest in Sunday-school work and is a regular attendant. His brother, Elisha Trimble (deceased) was married in 1839 to Miss Eliza Barr, a native of Ohio, and nine children were born to this union, eight now living: Mrs. Anna Finley, a resident of Muskingum county; Hayes, in Oklahoma; Mrs. Carrie Hall, of Blue Rock township; B. F., in Colorado; John C., in Muskingum county; Mrs. Allie Smith, of Muskingum county; Mrs. Isadore B. Van Meter, of Columbus, Ohio, and Lena also of Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Trimble was an old line whig, afterward became a republican and served his county in the legislature from 1858 to 1862. He also held a number of township offices, the most important being trustee and land appraiser. In 1872 he went to North Carolina and there engaged in farming and the real estate business. He died in 1874. His widow is still living and makes her home in Rural Dale. Another brother of our subject's, John Trimble, Jr., was married in 1859 to Miss Sophia White, and became the father of two children—James and John S. He enlisted in 1864 in Company —, One Hundred and Sixtieth regiment, Volunteer infantry, and serves until the war closed. He met his death from a fall from a tree in 1866. His widow and sons are now living in Iowa. Our subject's other brother, James Trimble, was born in West Chester, Chester county, Penn., on February 20, 1817, and when but little over a year old was brought by his parents to Muskingum county, Ohio. There his boyhood and youth were passed among such hardships and vicissitudes as are unknown to the present generation. Zanesville was the nearest market. Wild game abounded—deer, turkeys and squirrels were plentiful and wild cats and panthers were too numerous to be pleasant. An occasional bear was seen. Mr. Trimble relates that once, when a considerable distance from home, he and his brother Elisha were chased by a large gray timber wolf that whipped the two fierce dogs accompanying the boys, and followed them nearly home. Educational facilities were limited. Four or five months' subscription school during the winter, that Mr. Trimble could only attend irregularly, was all the time afforded, and he attended the first school taught in Blue Rock township, the teacher being Jesse Johns. When about twenty years of age he entered school at McConnelsville, and there remained about three months. He was married in 1840 to Miss Sarah A. Haworth, a native of Chester county, Penn., born in 1820, and the daughter of John and Susanna (Long-shore) Haworth. In 1841 he went to Section 12, and settled on a farm that he had purchased from his father, and there resided for forty-nine years, removing to his present residence in 1890. His marriage resulted in the birth of seven children, five of whom are living: Mary F., wife of Benjamin Harlan, of McConnelsville; Angeline K., wife of George Menefee; Eliza J. (deceased); Annie H., wife of J. H. Harlan; William H. (deceased); Esther H., wife of Vincent Reed, and Elmer E. All the children reside in Blue Rock township. Mr. Trimble advocates the principles of the republican party, and has held various township offices, having been supervisor three or four years, trustee from 1846 to 1856, and for seven or eight years was school director. Mr. Trimble is a member of Rural Dale lodge No. 157, I. 0. 0. F., being initiated about 1852, and was treasurer for ten or twelve years, besides holding various other offices. He was a prominent member of the Sons of Temperance during the time that order was in existence. Mr. and Mrs. Trimble and their children are members of the Baptist church and he is deacon in the same. Rev. William W. Trout, minister of the Methodist Episcopal church at Hopewell, Ohio, was born in Lancaster, Ohio to Horatio Gates and Ruth Card Trout, natives respectively of the states of Pennsylvania and New York. The paternal grandparents were John W. and Hattie (Purcell) Trout, and the former was born in 1776 and died in 1861 at the age of eighty-four years, while the latter was a daughter of Peter Purcell of Sunbury, Penn. Both the Trouts and Purcells came to America during the early history of this country. Horatio and Ruth Trout became the parents of eight children, six of whom are living at the present time: Randolph (deceased); Sarah Amelia (Davis) in Lancaster; Ella, a teacher in Jacksonville (Illinois) college; Julia Frances, a student in the Philadelphia Medical college; W. W. the subject of this sketch; Mary and Abbie, who are at home. Rev. W. W. Trout was born July 2, 1858, and spent his early life in Lancaster, where he attended the public schools until he was seventeen years of age, at which time he entered the Ohio Western university, from which he graduated in 1881. The three following years he was in business with his father in Lancaster and on the 6th of August, 1884, he was married to Miss Jesse Reece, of 'Hillsboro, Ohio, a daughter of James and Eliza (McKenney) Reece, the former of whom HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 597 was born in Highland county in July, 1815, and upon reaching manhood held the position of county auditor and county treasurer three terms. His father David was born in Virginia and moved to Highland county in 1802, while his father, who also bore the name of David, was born on the Brandywine near Philadelphia. Eliza Reece was born March 15, 1839 to Jesse G. and Mary Ann McKenney who were of Welsh decent. The latter was born in Virginia and in 1830 came to Ohio. Her father William was born in Cork, Ireland, but became a resident of America in 1806. Mr. and Mrs. Trout are the parents of two children; Marion, born April 10, 1886, and Horatio Gates, born January 29, 1888. Mr. Trout was ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1884, after which he preached for two years, then entered the Boston Theological university, in which institution he remained three years graduating in 1889 and receiving degree of S. T. B. In 1889 he was appointed the pastor of A shbury circuit, which appointment he is still very satisfactorily filling. He is not only faithful in the discharge of his pastoral duties, but he is indefatigable in his labors and during his short ministerial career has done much to further the calling he represents. He also received the degree of A. M. from Ohio Wesleyan university in June, 1888. The subject of this memoir, William H. Thompson has been a resident of Muskingum county, Ohio, in Union township, buying a farm of 160 acres two miles northwest of New Concord. He was born in Guernsey county, this state, June 24, 1841, the youngest of eight children born to William and Sarah (Ansley) Thompson. The father was a son of Matthew and Mary (McKeiver) Thompson. Matthew Thompson was born in Tyrone, Ireland, there married and some of his children were born there. In 1793 they came to the United States, settled in New York state, remained there but a short time when they came to Fayette county, Penn., and here Matthew Thompson followed his trade of a wheelright. By his first marriage he became the father of five children, all lived to maturity: James, David, Joseph, Catharine and Elizabeth. His first wife died and he married the mother of William and reared a family of six children: William (the father of William H., our subject), Jane, Matthew, Mary, Sarah, Andrew (all deceased). The father of this family died in Pennsylvania about 1810, and his wife died in Guernsey county, Ohio, about 1848, having moved here about 1825 and settled on a farm in Monroe township. They were members of the Associate Reformed church and of Scotch-Irish descent. William Thompson was born in February, 1791, in Ireland, and only two years of age when he was brought to this country by his father. His early life was spent on a farm in Fayette county, Penn., and at the age of twenty years he enlisted in the War of 1812 as a private. He received a common« school education and emigrated to Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1825, where he settled on a farm. He resided on this farm and cultivated it until his death in 1880, at the age of ninety years. After coming to Guernsey county he married Sarah Ansley, and this union was blessed with eight children: James (who died in 1862 in Guernsey county. He was a soldier in the late war and died of the effects of a sickness contracted in the army. He was a man of family), Mary J. (who married John Cherry, of Highland township, Muskingum county, Ohio, and died in 1891, leaving four children), Nancy (who married Hamilton Pollack, formerly of Guernsey county and later of Kansas. She died in 1888 leaving two children), Margaret (who died in 1855, unmarried), Elizabeth (who died in 1857, unmarried), John A. (who is living on the old home farm in Guernsey county and was married first to Mary Agnes Neal. They had seven children. After her death he married Agnes Boyd. He is a republican in politics, and a member of the United Presbyterian church. He does farming and general stockraising and owns a farm of 300 acres. He is a prominent man and has been county commissioner. He and our subject are the only surviving members of the family), William H. (our subject and the youngest of the family), and one son died in infancy. The father was a whig in politics, and later a republican. He was a member of the United Presbyterian church and took an interest in all church and school work, was a very successful farmer and at the time of his death had a good farm of 200 acres. His wife, Sarah (Ansley) Thompson was born in Beaver county, Penn., in 1799, and was the daughter of John and Jane (Beaver) Ansley. Her parents came from Ireland and were of Scotch descent. The father was born in Ireland in 1775 and died in 1831 and the mother was born in Scotland in 1776 and died in 1826. They were the parents of ten children: Sarah (born 1799), Jane (1800), Mary (1803), Thomas (1805), Nancy (1808), John (1810), Amos (1812), Sampson (1815), Myrtilla (1818) and Elizabeth (1820), only one now living, Myrtilla, in Kempton, Ill. Mrs. Thompson, the mother of William H., died in Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1878. She had lived here since her marriage and was a lifelong member of the United Presbyterian church. William H. Thompson received his education in the district schools of this county and was reared to farm life. At the age of twenty years he enlisted in the late war in Company H, Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteer infantry, as a private and was promoted to sergeant. Some of the principle battles in which he took part were: 598 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Ga., Spring Hill, Tenn., Franklin, Tenn., and Nashville. He was wounded at his first battle at Stone River and was taken prisoner and confined in Libby prison a part of five months. He was in a number of hard battles and was discharged December, 1865. After the war Mr. Thompson settled in Guernsey county, and here married, in 1866, Mary J. Lee. They were the parents of six children: Frank L., Samuel H., William 0., Albert R., Andrew A. and Robert H. Mrs. Thompson was born in Guernsey county in 1838 and was the daughter of Samuel Lee. She was a member of the United Presbyterian church and died in 1878. In 1879 Mr. Thompson married Maggie L. Moore, a native of Perry county, this state, born in 1844, and the daughter of William C. and Jane (Boles) Moore. Her father was a native of Washington county, Penn., but at an early day settled in Jefferson county, Ohio, later in Perry county, and about 1861 moved to Guernsey county, near New Concord, where he died in April, 1881, at the age of seventy-four years. His wife died, December, 1891, in her eighty-second year. They were the parents of nine children, five living: James, Samuel E., John, Mary (deceased), Robert (deceased), Margaret, Robert (deceased), William A., and Jane (deceased). By this marriage Mr. Thompson became the father of three children: Myrtis B., Maggie M. (deceased) and John S. (deceased). Himself and wife are members of the United Presbyterian church of Norwich of which he has been ruling elder for some time. He has held the office of school director of Fox Creek district and is always ready to assist in any work for the benefit of the church and school. He has been a republican in politics, but is now with the prohibition party, in which he is very much interested. He owns a well-improved farm of 160 acres and is engaged in farming and stockraising. His children are all at home, except Frank, who is out West. William C. Moore, the father of Mrs. Thompson, was a son of James Moore, who came from Ireland and settled in Washington county, Penn., about 1800. He married in Ireland and was the father of the following children: Esther; John S.. William C. (father of Mrs. Thompson), Mary, Robert Nancy, and McConkey Moore (who died soon after the late war from effects of campaign life while in the service of his country). F. M. Townsend, proprietor and owner of Gant Park, is a native of Morgan county, Ohio, born September 21, 1854, and the son of William and Harriet (Burgess) Townsend, both of whom were originally from England. They emigrated from their native country at an early day, and after reaching the United States located first at Pitts burg, Penn., where they were married. From there they subsequently moved to Morgan county, Ohio, and there the mother received her final summons. F. M. Townsend was left motherless when about five years of age, and an elder sister then took charge of the family and reared the younger children. He received his primary education in Morgan county, but completed it in Beverly, Washington county, where he remained until sixteen years of age. In 1871 he came to Zanesville and finished his trade, that of a tinner and sheet-iron worker, in 1873, but never followed it. He went with his brother, T. B., and took charge, as superintendent and general manager, of public contract work through Ohio and Virginia for five years. In the winter of 1878 he began contracting for himself and followed the same until 1886. The last work that he accomplished in this line was ten miles of the Zanesville & Ohio River railroad. He also worked extensively for the P. & W. R. R., the Connotton Valley railroad, now the C., C. & S. R. R., and on railroad and county bridges. In June, 1886, he bought the interest of J. Burgess (his uncle) in the street railway, and took charge of the road in August as its president and superintendent. When he bought the road it was run down, and had scarcely any business. He went to work and fixed it up and soon had it on a paying basis. In 1877 he built two and a half miles of road from Greenwood cemetery to Gant Park and leased the park. He erected a great many buildings and soon was doing a good business. He managed the street railway until October, 1890, made some money out of it, and turned it over in good shape to his successor. In June, 1890, lie purchased Gant park, consisting of twenty-two acres, and in September of the same year fifteen acres of the Street Railway company at an enormous outlay, and has since devoted his time in beautifying these grounds. He has put at least $10,000 improvements on the park and is still improving. He also contemplates making a zoological garden out of part of it. He has a base-ball diamond, a race track, and show ground, which is the only available place in the city. Gant Park is the finest natural park in the state of Ohio. and with Mr. Townsend's improvements it is bound to become the most beautiful. It is certainly one of the finest pleasure resorts in the state, and the people of Zanesville appreciate the enterprise of Mr. Townsend. He certainly deserves great credit for his perseverance. He began life for himself at the age fourteen of without a dollar, and since then was compelled to earn his own living. He can now enjoy the fruits of his industry and perseverance. He is a director in the T. B. Townsend Brick company. Mr. Townsend was married in 1883 to Miss Birdie F. Lee, HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 599 of Kent, Portage county, Ohio, and is the father of one son, William L. Charles F. Urban, retired shoemaker, was born at Clotra, Germany, in November, 1821, the youngest of seven children born to Gotleib and Wilhelmina (Phenn) Urban, the former of whom was an officer in the German army, and died in his seventieth year, his wife dying in 1827 at the age of forty years. Charles F. Urban commenced learning the shoemaker's trade at the age of fifteen years, working for three years as an apprentice, after which he commenced business on his own account and in 1846 opened a shop in the town of his birth. In 1854 he came to America to seek his fortune, and landed at Baltimore on the 20th of May of that year with only $5 as a cash capital to go to work upon. He went to Wheeling by rail, which was the terminus of the road, and then by wagon to Cambridge, Ohio, and in Perry township, Muskingum county, he opened a shoe shop. After two years of hard work, and by practicing the economy which is so characteristic of the German people, he had saved enough money to purchase a house and lot, and to this property he continued to add for sixteen years and then came to Springfield township, 'Muskingum county, where he purchased an excellent little farm of forty-eight acres near Zanesville, Ohio, which he cleared and otherwise improved to the value of $1,500. When the war opened he joined Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth regiment, Ohio Volunteers, and was mustered into the service on the 6th of May, 1864, at Zanesville. After participating in a number of battles and numerous skirmishes, he was taken sick and sent to his home from the hospital. He soon regained his health, but was not ordered out again, being discharged the following November. In 1846 he was united in marriage to Miss Hannah S. Dittmar, by whom he became the father of nine children: Ernestine, wife of John Young, a carpenter of Columbus, Ohio; August was accidentally killed at Cambridge while assisting in the construction of the tunnel of that city, at which time he was twenty-one years of age; Henrietta is the wife of Charles Griffin of Zanesville; Charles married Miss Birdie Swagert and resides in Zanesville; Benjamin F. married Miss Mary Tanner and was accidentally killed in Griffith & Wedges' foundry in August, 1890; Henry married Miss Eva Vankirk and is a prosperous farmer of Indiana; Louis is single and follows the trade of a molder in Zanesville; John resides at home and is unmarried, and Rosa also resides at home. Mr. Urban has held the office of superintendent of highways a number of years and has been school director and township trustee. He and his wife are members of the German Protestant church of Zanesville and are upright and useful citizens and are considered acquisitions to the community in which they reside. George Varner, one of the wide awake, thoroughgoing farmers of Muskingum county, Ohio, was born in 1854, and comes of old pioneer stock. His grandfather, Martin Varner, was of German descent and came to Ohio from Monongahela county, Va., in 1812. He brought his wife and twelve children: John, Isaac, Alexander, Joseph, Jacob, Samuel, Polly, Susan, Lydia, Margaret, Betsy and Sally. Martin Varner settled on land in Muskingum county and here passed the remainder of his days, dying when about seventy years of age. He was one of the old-time pioneers and a man possessed of many sterling traits of character. He was an Old School Baptist in religious belief, and assisted in building the old Baptist church at Cottage Hill. His son, Alexander Varner, and the father of our subject, was born in Monongahela county, Va., June 15, 1810, and was but two years of age when brought to Muskingum county. He grew to manhood in the wilderness, received but a limited education, and on the 19th of May, 1842, he married Miss Catherine Clapper, daughter of George and Susan (Baker) Clapper, of German descent. George Clapper was born in Fayette county, Penn. In 1807 he came to Muskingum county, Ohio, and settled in Salt creek township, where he followed agricultural pursuits, becoming the owner of a large tract of land and giving his sons all good farms. He is the father of fourteen children, two of whom died in Pennsylvania. The others were Peter, Betsy, Susan, George, Katie, Mary, Sarah, Anna, Jacob, William, Martin and Eliza, all born in Muskingum county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Clapper were members of the Lutheran church, and were highly respected in the community in which they lived. He died in Salt Creek township in 1864, when eighty-two years of age. His father was in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Varner was born June 26, 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Varner's marriage resulted in the birth of seven children: David W. (who enlisted in the Union army in August, 1862, and was in Company C, the famous Ninety-seventh regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry. He was shot through the hand, and died at Cumberland hospital, Nashville, Tenn., on the 3d of September, 1864, at the age of twenty-one years four months and thirteen days); the remaining children are: Mary A., Felix, Jacob M., George H., John L. and Susan L. After marriage Mr. Varner settled on the farm now carried on by his children, 207 acres of excellent land, and there his death occurred at the age of eighty years. He was an industrious, hard-working man, and accumulated all his property by the sweat of his brow. His son, Felix, married Miss Ella Skinner and resides in Licking