HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 575 season alone with his team, e was united in matrimony with Hannah M., daughter of John and Catharine (Vansickle) Grimes. They have no heirs. Mr. Walker came to the United States with his father in May of 1843, who settled in Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, where he lived until 1864, when he came to Perry county, Ohio. John Walker, the subject of this sketch, came to Perry county in 1862, and owns two hundred and forty acres of land in Bearfield .township, and also fourteen acres in New Lexington, where he now lives an acceptable citizen. WALKER, WILLIAM H,, was born September 3, 1841, in the town of Somerset, Ohio. He is the eldest of the sons of Joseph Walker, a native of Maryland, who came to Somerset, in company with his family, in the year 1820, and who, in the year 1836, became the husband of Catharine Miller, daughter of George Miller, the weaver. The father of Joseph Walker was William, a blacksmith, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Walters, sister of Jacob Walters, who carried on shoemaking in Somerset. Moved to Zanesville where he died and where his wife still survives him. The grandfather of this Jacob was also William Walters, a maker of leather breeches, who was murdered for his money by a man who confessed the deed on the gallows, and that he got only six cents in cash, The father of this murdered man was a Revolutionary soldier, and lived to the age of one hundred and fourteen years. He was a native of Holland. In August, 1862, William Henry Walker, subject of this sketch, was united in marriage with Miss Maria Russell and the same day departed with Company H, Ninetieth O. V. I. for the war. They have five sons and two daughters living. As stated in the sketch of W. H, Russell, he began business under the name of Walker & Russell in 1866, and his success in his chosen occupation exceeds the average of business men, who start on far greater capital, and is due to that care, attention, industry, sobriety and perseverance which have distinguished both the partners. WALLACE, WILLIAM, miner, Shawnee, Ohio, was born May, 1846, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Son of George and Jane (Wallace) Wallace, Was raised in Edinburgh and learned the trade of lamp maker, and was also a miner some eight years in Lanarkshire, Scotland: Mr. Wallace was married September 10, 1869, to Isabel, daughter of William and Margaret (Graham) Keay, of Edinburgh, Scotland. They are the parents of five children, viz. : George, Margaret, Jane, William and Alfred. Mr, Wallace came to America in August of 1872, leaving his family in Scotland, but in 1873 he sent for them and they arrived in this place on May 14, of the same year, he has made mining his business since coming to this country, and is now inside bank boss in the New Y0rk and Straitsville Coal and Iron Company's Mines, a position he has held for one year past, WATT, ISRAEL, farmer and stock raiser, post office McLuney. Born in this county in 1825. Son of Joseph and Mary (Hitchcock) Watt. Grandson of Robert Watt. Grandson of Isaac and Susan (Fuller) Hitchcock. Married in 1848 to Miss Rebecca Iliff, daughter of Thomas and Saloma (Reed) Iliff, They are the parents of five children, viz. : John I., Mary S,, Thomas, deceased ; J. W. and L. D. Mr, Watt's father was a captain in the War of 1812. WATT, JAMES, farmer, post office, Saltillo. Born in Baltimore 576 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. county, Maryland, in 1809. Settled in Perry county in 1837. Son of Charles Watt, who died in 1833, in Muskingum county. Elizabeth (Longley), his mother, died in 1825. Mr. Watt is a grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Watt, and also grandson of Benjamin and Elizabeth Longlev. They are of German and English descent. Mr. Watt's grandfather was married in 1830 to Miss Eliza A. Barnett' daughter of Peter and Mary (Owens) Barnett. They are the parents of eight children, viz. : Austin G., deceased ; Elizabeth, Charles, John W.' William H., John J., deceased ; Jonathan deceased ; and George W., deceased. Those living are all married. Mr. Watt had three sons in the late war, George W. enlisted in 1861 in Company D, Thirty-first Regiment, Captain William Free, Army of the Cumberland. He was engaged in the following battles, viz. : Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and Resaca. Austin G. enlisted in 1861, Company H' Sixty-second Regiment, and William H. in Company D, Thirty-first WEATHERBURN, THOMAS, mine boss, New Straitsville, Ohio, was born April 27, 1846, in Saghill, county of Northumberland, England. Son of Thomas and Ann (Robson) Weatherburn. Mr, Weatherburn was brought up as a miner in his native county, where he lived until he emigrated to America, setting sail from Liverpool June 1, and landing in New York June 17, 1870, from where he went directly to Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio, and was engaged in mining for two years. From Cambridge he came to this place, February 20, 1873' and has been engaged as follows : Laying track for one year in what was then called the Old Troy mine, now known as the Thomas Coal Company mine ; laying track one year in what was then the Patterson Coal Company mine, now W. P. Rend & Company's mine ; after which he took his present p0sition of mine superintendent for W. P. Rend & Company. Mr, Weatherburn was married August 14, 1869, to Miss Mary Ann Wilson, born January 2, 1848, in West Cramlington, Northumberland, England, daughter of Robert and Mary (Farrer) Wilson, They are the parents of five children viz. : Ann, born July 2, 1870, and died August 17, 1872. Mary Hannah, born February 5, 1873, Robert William, born August 28, 1875. Joseph, born August 7, 1878, and Evelyn, born April 19, 1881. Mr. Weatherburn's father was born March 14, 1819, in England, where he still lives. His mother was born June 20, 1822, and is still living. Mrs. Weatherburn's father was born May 14, 1823, in England, and is now living in this place, where he has resided for the past ten years. Her mother was born May 8, 1823, in England, and died February 17, 1873, in Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio. WEAVER, GEORGE C., junior partner of the Corning Weekly Times. Was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, November 15, 1835, son of John W. and Julia A, (Sayler) Weaver. Mr. Weaver resided in Virginia and Cumberland, Maryland, until he was seventeen years of age, when he came to Columbus, Ohio, in the fall of 1852, and commenced learning the printing business in the office of the Ohio Statesman, then owned and edited by Samuel Medary. Owing to a strike in the office, he was offered a better position in the Ohio State Journal office, which he accepted and where he finished a four years apprenticeship, at which HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 577 time he joined the Printer's Typographical Union No. 5. In 1856 he went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he Worked at his trade as a journeyman printer. In 1857 and 1858 he attended school at Washington College, Washington, Pennsylvania, but the panic of that year so affected his father's financial condition that he was obliged to leave school before graduating, and returned to Columbus in 1858. In 1860 he again went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was licensed as a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, which license has been renewed from year to year until the present time. May 23, 1861, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary E., daughter of George and Rebecca Getz. They are the parents of four children,. viz. : Harry G., Mary E., John Walter, and his first born, Charles Wesley, who departed this life in September of 1863. Mr, Weaver came to Perry county, Ohio, July 8, 1881, as agent of the Perry county Auxiliary of the American Bible Society, and after having spent several months in Monroe and Harrison townships, the work having been suspended in October, he returned to Columbus. December i0, 1881, he commenced work on the Corning Times, and formed a co-partnership with James H. Sopher, including a half interest January 1, 1881, which interest he still holds. WEAVER, JACOB C., Shawnee, Ohio, was born July 15, 1845, in Deavertown, Morgan county, Ohio ; son of John P. and Catharine (Lenhart) Weaver. Mr, Weaver's father is a merchant, and he was raised in Eagle Port, Morgan county, Ohio. until he was thirteen years of age, when his father moved to Blue kook, Muskingum county, Ohio, and remained about eight years, where Jacob C. was married, August 19, 1865, to Matilda, daughter of Hiram and Matilda (Larrison) Lucas. They became the parents of four children, living, viz, : Harlon C,, Tillie K., Eva J. and Elcie D, ; and one deceased ; Annie C. After his marriage he moved to Delcarbo, and from there to Roseville, Ohio, where he lived about two years, engaged at mining, and returned to Blue Rock, where he remained five years at farming and then came to Shawnee, Ohio, where he has lived up to this time. Since coming to this place his first wife died September 26, 1877. Mr. Weaver was married again December 18, 1879, to Elcedana, daughter of Anthony and Delilah (Rusk) Townsend, of Perry county, Ohio. They are the parents of one child, Mary S. WEILAND, JOSEPH, butcher, Main street, New Lexington Ohio, Mr, Weiland was born June 15, 1840, in Hocking. county, Ohio son of George and Catharine (Shrader) Weiland, Joseph was brought up on a farm, where he remained until twenty-one years of age. When about fifteen he began working at the cooper's trade, which he followed during the winters and farmed during the summers until he enlisted in Company D, Seventeenth O, V. I., in September, 1861, and was dischrged in July, 1865, He served in the army of the Cumberland and was with General Sherman in his "March to the Sea," On his return he engaged in his present business at Nelsonville, Ohio, where he remained two year and then came to this place in April, 1869. Mr. Weiland was married January 11, 1868, to Miss Mary, daughter of James and Catharine (Hoodlet) Edington, of Nelsonville, Ohio. They are the parents of four children, viz. : Clara Ida, George J., John E. and - 58 - 578 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Thomas J. This firm is doing an extensive business in their line, both at this place and at Corning, where they have a branch shop. WELLS, DAVID, postmaster, Rendville, Ohio was born April 3, 1840, in Leeds, Yorkshire, England ; son of William and Elizabeth (Fryers) Wells. David went into the mines of England at the age of twelve years, and worked until 1866, when he came to America, and located in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where he remained about fifteen months. Thence he went to Clinton county, Pennsylvania. Came to Columbiana county, Ohi0, in 1868, where he remained until 1876 when he came to Perry county, Ohio, and located at Moxahala and followed his accustomed occupation, mining. He came to Rendville in March, 1880 and was appointed postmaster January 30, 1882. Mr. Wells was married first, January 11, 1862, to Sarah Jane. daughter of John and Anne (Frith) Dyson, They became the parents of four children, viz, : Anne Elizabeth, married to John Smith ; Mary Anne, married to Martin Davidson ; Susanna and Caroline. Mrs. Wells died in September, 1873. Mr, Wells was married the sec0nd time, March 22, 1875, to Mrs. Margaret, daughter of Robert and Mary (Parrot) Bardsley. They are the parents" of two children, viz. : William and Robert. Mrs. Wells was married first to John Sykes, by whom she had one child, Mary Anne. WELLS, JOSIAH, superintendent S. C. Mining Company ; post office, New Straitsville. He is a son of Matthew and Jane Wells, of the county of Cornwall, England. He was born in Charleston, St. Austile, January 8, 1842, and when a boy removed with his parents about twenty miles east, to Pencilva, near Siskead. His parents had seven children, four of whom died in infancy, The 0thers, the subject of this sketch, and two sisters, are yet living. One sister, Elizabeth, is in Bunly, Lancashire, England ; the other, Grace, is in Adelaide, South Australia, Josiah went to work as a miner at the age of fourteen, February 15, 1861, his father died, aged fifty-one years, and three years after, he came to America, leaving his mother in England, He first went to Lake Superior, Michigan, and in the latter part of 1866 he came to Nelsonville, Ohio. Three years after, he was married to Cornelia Galentine, and in 1870 he came to New Straitsville, when there were only three or four houses erected there. In March, 1875, he cast his first vote, and at the same time was elected township and corporation clerk. He filled the former office five years, In 1874 his mother died, at the age of seventy-three years. In November, 1880, Mr. Wells took charge of the Straitsville Central Mining Company's .mine as superintendent, which position he still holds. Mr, and Mrs. Wells have had nine children, two of whom are dead. Four boys and three girls now constitute their family. WELLS, FRANK C., contractor, brick and stone mason, Corning, Ohio ; was born November 28, 1849, in Newark, Licking county, Ohio, son of David A. and Anne (Cunningham) Wells. From his family the town of Wellsburg, West Virginia, derived its name. The Cunninghams are from the Eastern States, of English ancestry. Frank C. was brought up at Hebron, Licking county ; went to his trade at twenty-one and has followed it to the present time. He came to Corning, Ohio, April 6, 1880. Was married July 30, 1872, to Miss Mary M., HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 579 daughter of Thomas Owen, a native of Wales. They are the parents of five children, viz, : Mary L., David T., died when about seven years old ; Leota B., Orville C., deceased and Nellie C., deceased, Mr. Wells united with the Methodist Episcopal Church when about fifteen and is at present an efficient officer in the church and Sunday school. Mrs. Wells has been a faithful member of the Baptist Church since she was about sixteen years of age. WEST, J. L., merchant and liveryman, New Straitsville, Ohio ; was born May 2, 1856, in Perry county, Ohio ; son of John T. and Sarah (Little) West. Mr. West was raised a farmer and followed agricultural pursuits until 1874, when he came to this place with his parents and attended school about one year, after which he worked at Plummer Hill coal mine for about two months. He then took charge of and superintended a grocery store about one year for his father, at this time purchasing the store himself, continuing about six months, and added to his business that of general merchandise, which he continues to this time. In November, 1881, he bought his brother's livery stable, and in April, 1882, bought the livery stable of J. Watkins, who had been in the business since the town began its existence. April 28, 1882, he bought the livery of Thomas Raybould, and thus controls entirely the livery business of New Straitsville ; and runs a semi-daily hack and mail line to Shawnee and return. March 27, 1879, he purchased a house and lot from Thomas Fuliner for $1,000 ; May 12, 1882, he also purchased a house and lot from Jane Skinner, for the sum of $1,000, and owns a lot at Sand Run. Was married January 10, 1881, to Charlotte Harper, born September it, 1861, in Nelsonville, Athens county, Ohio, daughter of Benjamin F. and Mary (Spencer) Harper. They became the parents of one child, viz. : John Clarence, who was born December 3, 1881, and died May 23, 1882. Mr, West's parents were born in Ireland and emigrated to America in 1837, and settled in Perry county, Ohio, where his father entered land and cleared the place to set his house. He entered eighty acres of land and added to it by purchase until he owned three hundred and twenty acres, one hundred and sixty acres of which he sold during the coal excitement in this vicinity for $25,000, yet owning the remaining one hundred and sixty acres, which is among the finest coal lands. He also owns one hundred and twenty acres of land in Hocking county, Ohio, and invested $12,000 in houses and lots in this village. Mrs. West's father came to Ohio from Virginia at an early day and married Mary Spencer, of Nelsonville, Athens county, Ohio, and engaged in the business of coal operating, which he followed up to the time of his death, in 1875, in his sixty-first year. Her mother died in 1866 in her thirty-ninth year, In Longstreth's addition to Nelsonville, Ohio, Mrs. Westtowns twenty town lots at this time. WESTALL, JOHN W., was born in Reading township, in November, 1832, and, excepting his two sons' Samuel and Frank, is the only one of this name left in the county, save his half brother, residing on the homestead, three miles west of Somerset. His great-ancestor, George Westall, was born in London, England, and after a 42 days, voyage, full of peril, landed in Rockingham county, Virginia, in time to serve in the Continental army as a drummer. He had three sons; 580 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. James, who died in Cumberland county, Illinois ; Ambrose, who was a cripple from an accident in infancy, and Gilderoy, whose children by his first wife, Katharine Lidey, sister of Gen. John Lidey, were Samuel, Joseph F., Eliza, Daniel A., John W., Rachel, Mary, Sarah, and George W., all of whom, except Rachel and Mary, settled in Lawrence county, Ill., these haying settled in Whitney county, Ind. John W. Westall was married first in 1855 to Susannah, daughter of Jacob Petty, leaving at her death Samuel M., H. Franklin, and Susannah Katharine, an infant only two weeks old, at the death of her mother in 1861. In April, 1865, he moved to Somerset and started in the grocery trade, which he wound up in 1876, after the death of his second wife, who was a Miss Berkheimer. His father, Gilderoy, came to Ohio in 1821, when 21 years of age, and was noted for his skill as a wrestler, a sport not only peculiar to the Virginians, but much practiced in the early part of the present century in Ohio. His second marriage was to Katharine Montgomery, daughter of Rev. Joshua Montgomery, by whom he became the father of four sons and three daughters, who with their mother reside upon the old homestead. WHITMORE, PETER, son of Peter, Sr., was born in Belmont county, Ohio, May 16th, 1801, and when yet an infant came with his parents to Perry county in 1802, and in the following year moved on the farm where he lived 78 consecutive years, to the date of his death in 1881. This period 0f consecutive residence at one place was not exceeded at the date of his death by any resident of Ohio known t0 him or the writer in 1879, when the facts and dates of this sketch were obtained directly from Peter Whitmore himself, whose memory was found clear and distinct, the intellectual faculties in full play and the naturally mirthful temperament radiant with pleasing humor. He had seven brothers, all of whom preceded him to the grave. He had then but one sister living, a Mrs. Zellinger, in Piqua, Ohio. His mother's name was Mary Magdalena Overmeyer, an aunt to the venerable Peter Overmeyer, Peter Whitmore picked up chestnuts from the ground where the old Court House in Somerset now stands, met bears in his path through the woods at night when a boy 12 years old, and on one occasion scared away this grizzly denizen of the forest by clapping his shoes together. The bears were hard on pigs, but the worst wild beast and the most uniformly hated was the catamount, or wild cat. He went to German school to one Hartman, and to English school to James Johnson, who taught on subscription, about the year 1812. He never attended a free school. The first mill was Shellenbarger's, below Lancaster, His brother John nearly froze on one trip there, and would have frozen but for the kindly offices of Mrs. Binckley, the mother of George W. Peter Whitmore was the seventh child and the third son. He bought 140 acres of the h0me farm long after his first marriage and prior to his father,s death by buying out the interests of his brothers and sisters. He added 44 acres to this purchase and erected a fine brick house in 1840. His barn is also a superb structure, and his vines and orchard, the best in quality and care of selections. In the last few years of his life his passions for good fruit led him to buy and plant liberally. He found for some years past that sheep paid better than wheat, but he had not tried the fertilizers now in general use. He was reared a Lutheran ; did HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 581 not believe in close communion or consubstantiation, and, theref0re, with three brothers left that church and joined the M. E. Church, to which, as also his present wife, he continued to adhere. In 1824 he voted for Clay, in 1828 for Jackson and other Democratic nominees for President and for Pierce in 1852, for Fremont in 1856 and Republican candidates since. " My father's tax reached $5.50, and we all thought it prodigious. I now pay $65, and we still think it is too much. First saw Zanesville in 1814, when I was twelve years of age. It looked to me then like a big city. Salt was $4.50 per bushel in 1807, so a large company was organized to visit the Kanawha salt works, in Virginia. It consisted of axmen, huntsmen, pilots with compass in hand, horses, pack-saddles, oats bags, camping attachments, etc., etc. They cut a trail from here to Logan and from there they found one already blazed. The Whitmore ancestry came to this country 150 years ago from Switzerland. My father, Peter Whitmore, Sr., was born in 1760. He was a soldier in the Revolution for three years, and came to Belmont county, Ohio, several years prior to his arrival in Perry, 1803," Peter Whitmore was first married to Miss Lizzie Darsham, a sister of the late Jacob Darsham, of this county, in the year 1823. Their children were Isaac, who married Catharine Stoltz (a daughter of Henry) and died on the home farm leaving two daughters. Dr. Allen, married Lovena Turner, daughter of Joseph Turner, of Rushville, and they had three sons and two daughters living. After the death of this first wife, Dr. Whitmore was married to a daughter of David Brown, and has resided in Thornville for near 30 years, as A practitioner of medicine. The last marriage produced no children. Hannah, the only daughter, wife of John Wise, Newark, Ohio. Benjamin, a grocer of Somerset for near 25 years, whose first wife was a Miss Thomas, daughter of David Thomas, now of Rushville, to whom one daughter, Laura, was born. The second marriage was to Miss Mary Kishler, to whom two daughters and one son were born. He is very prosperous and successful in business. Michael, died when four years old, Adam, married a daughter of Jacob Bugh, and resides in Milton Station, Coles county, Illinois, and a farmer by occupation. David, who was not heard from for 23 or 24 years. He is now in Washington Territory. Thomas, was married to a daughter of Mr. Andrew Baker, of this county, and a sister of ex-theriff Martin's wife. He is in the hardware trade at Topeka, Kansas. He has five children, and was in 55 battles of the Rebellion where his comrades fell. Frank, was in the late war from first to last, and went to Arizona, where he was killed by a mine explosion. William, was married to a Miss Baltzer, in Miami county, Ohio. He resides in Topeka, Kansas, where he is chief clerk in the post office, at a salary of $85 per month. He also saw service in the late war. John, was married to a daughter of Ellison Martin, and resides on the home farm. This marriage produced two beautiful twin daughters, now over twelve years of age, since which one more daughter was born. He was also in the war and the only one of six brothers who was wounded. Randolph was married in Topeka. Kansas, where he is in service as a freight agent. He was also in the war. The second marriage of Peter Whitmore was to Miss 582 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Mary Davis. The children by this marriage were George, who died in his fourth year ; Daniel, now married to a Miss Dorris, and devoted to agricultural pursuits, and Miss Mary, who with her mother, reside in the ancestral home, hallowed by a thousand recollections of the past, the beautiful homestead of Peter Whitmore, Sr., and Peter, Jr., whose names and memory it embalms and commemorates. WHITMORE, REV. SAMUEL, minister in the United Brethren Church ; born November 8, 1821, in Richland township, Fairfield county. He is a son of George Whitmore, and a nephew of Peter Whitmore, Jr., now deceased. His grandmother was an Overmeyer, a sister of Peter Overmeyer, Sr. His mother was Sarah Miller, a native of Pennsylvania. In 1842, Samuel Whitmore was married to Miss Susannah, daughter of George Bowman, the first of this name in Perry county, and who had a brother, Daniel, the father of Michael Bowman, now of Somerset. The wife of George Bowman, Susannah Rugh, was a sister of Solomon, Peter and Michael Rugh, of Fairfield county. Samuel had five brothers—Andrew, Solomon, Peter, Isaiah and George, and one sister, now Mrs. Walmire, of Thorn, formerly Mrs. Jonathan Palmer of Richland township. His mother was married to a second husband, Mr. John Brown, of Richland ; and by this marriage he has two half-sisters, one a Mrs. Isabella Yaney, the other a Mrs. Sarah Ann Miller. He and his goodly wife have but two daughters, a Mrs. Isaac Mechling and a Mrs. Daniel Needy, both of Somerset. Rev. Mr. Whitmore has served his church in the capacity of Presiding Elder, a dignity which he supported with satisfaction to his district and superior officers. On the maternal side, he traces his ancestry to that of John George Obermeyer, who was born in Baden, in 1727, and in testimony of whose " honest service and praiseworthy conduct, especially in his knowledge of Evangelical Lutheran religion, the Rev. John Christian Ebersole, pastor of Blachenloch, most cheerfully certifies," in 1751. After sailing four weeks on the Rhine, landing at Amsterdam on June 20, he set sail for England, and on the 22d set sail for America, These facts are preserved in German manuscript, kindly translated by Rev. M. Walter, of the Lutheran Church, now residing in Somerset. WHITE, REV. JAMES, is a native of Muskingum county, Ohio, and was born January 17, 1832. He is one of sixteen children—eight sons and eight daughters, who all grew to womanhood and manhood. His father, John W, White, was a native of Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish descent, and came to Ohio in 1802 or '03. His entire family are Presbyterian, except one brother. Of the sixteen children, six brothers and six sisters are still living in 1882 ; all are married, and all have homes of their own. Father White was a farmer, and died at the age of seventy-seven, in Muskingum county, His wife, the mother of Rev. James White, is yet living, at the age of eighty-one years, and it was on occasion of her illness in 1882, that caused a visit from Tames, all the way from New York, to smooth the pillow of her affliction. Growing better in a few weeks, he returned to his home, grateful for the restoration of his aged parent. Those who know Rev. James White best, need not be told of that command which enjoins upon us all to Honor our parents, that our days may be long in the land," The maiden name of this aged mother was Hannah Guthrie. The mother of her husband was a Ham- HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 583 ilton, and a relative of the great Alexander Hamilton, of whom Daniel Webster said while speaking of him as the finance minister of Washington : The rod of his genius smote the rock of our dried up resources, and forth came floods of revenue." The history of Rev. James White begins with his education at Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio, where he also served two years as Professor of Mathematics. He was licensed to preach in April, 1861 ; was Chaplain of the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Ohio National Guards ; served as pastor of Jonathan Creek U. P. Church for eighteen years, near where he founded the Madison Academy, of which he served as President during the last ten years of his pastorate. This academy still flourishes, and, it is believed, will stand as an enduring monument to his memory. In 1879, Rev. White received a call from the Charles Street U. P. Church, of New York City. This church has not less than five hundred and twenty members, and they pay a salary of $2,500, furnish a study, well lighted and warmed, and other emoluments, making the station one of the first in rank and dignity ; and no man could fill it more gracefully or ably. He celebrated his silver wedding September 21, 1882. His estimable wife was, in her maiden days, Miss Amelia A. Wallace, daughter of Rev. William Wallace, of Cambridge, Ohio. The children of Rev. White by this marriage are, the wife of Mr. Edward Ream, a prosperous and highly esteemed hardware merchant of Somerset, Ohio, and her brother, John P. White, now of New York. WHITE, HAMILTON, liquor dealer, New Straitsville ; was born in 1842, in Scotland ; is a son of Hamilton and Margaret White. In 1864 he came to America, stopping a short time in Pennsylvania. From there he went to Illinois, and in Chicago enlisted in the Ninth Illinois Cavalry, He was mustered out of the service in Selma, Alabama, and returned to Illinois. In 1872, he came to New Straitsville, and was married to Ann McBride, daughter of John and Ann McBride, natives of Ireland. They have one daughter, born June 8, 1877. WIGTON, J. H., farmer and stock raiser ; post office, Roseville, Muskingum county, The father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Muskingum county in 1817., Was married in 1842 to Miss Sarah Horner. They had nine children, of whom J. H, is one. Their names were : J, H., Elizabeth, Ellen, Mary J., Margaret A., deceased ; Alice C., Mattie M., J. C., W. W., deceased ; one married, The father died in 1873. WILKINS, JOHN, farmer ; post office, Mount Perry ; was born in 1816, in Frederick county, Virginia ; son of James, Jr,, and grandson of James, Sr., who was an English soldier ; and in consequence of 2.. severe wound in one of the battles of the Revolution, never again returned to his native country, but remained in Virginia, where he married a Highland Scotch wife, who became the mother of an only child, James Wilkins, Jr, This James was by tradition entitled to an estate in England, which was lost by the slackness of the laws then in force, and the infancy of the only heir in America, which heir perhaps was entirely unknown, on the false supposition that James, Sr., had died without heirs. The father of John Wilkins was a soldier in the War of 1812 ; the husband of Hannah Roberts, whom he married about the beginning of the present century ; a superintendent of a large Virginia plantation, at a 584 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. good salary for many years ; the owner of a few slaves there, at the death of one of whom, John cried bitterly as haying lost a kind nurse. In 1830 the Wilkins family came to Perry county, and a few years later to Muskingum county, where James, the father, died, at the age of eighty-five years. He was a man of remarkable physical endurance, and in his eightieth year, could plow, sow and reap. Mother survived her husband only a few years. Her children were Nancy, the wife of Joseph, and the mother of Nathan Plank. who after the death of her husband became the wife of Joseph Snyder, and died as such in Hopewell township ; Charles and Mary, of Lawrence county, Ohio : William, White Cottage, Ohio ; Joseph, Lytlesburg, Ohio ; Theodore. Lima, Ohio ; Rey. Llewellyn, of the New Light belief ; and two children, deceased, in Muskingum county. In 1839, John Wilkins was married to Mary, daughter of John Bowser. He soon settled where he now lives, section thirteen, Hopewell, and where some of the soil on his farm has been under cultivation for sixty consecutive years, and the last crop of corn measured over one hundred bushels to the acre. It thus supports its fertility by alluvial deposit, and by its natural strength. Their children are eight in number, all living, except Mary, deceased wife of Samuel Bowman, Arcola, Illinois ; Leroy, farmer, post office same ; James, John T., Eliza, wife of Samuel Bowman, and Abraham, post office, Mount Perry, Ohio ; Ann Maria. wife of Daniel Siberds, and Emanuel, post office, North Manchester, Indiana. These sons and daughters are all comfortably situated, and some of them growing wealthy. Five of the sons weigh 1,160 pounds, the lightest of whom is nearly 200. The mother was a large, handsomely sized woman ; the father has weighed 180 pounds ; head twenty-two and one-fourth inches, health good, habits temperate, but not abstemious from stimulants. After the death of his wife in 1879, Mr. Wilkins was married to Mrs. Delilah Stine, in 1881, whose maiden name was Dollings ; of Scotch and English parentage, and whose father was a native of Virginia, and whose mother was a native of Kentucky. By her first husband, John Creighton Stine, she had two sons. both married ; one a teacher and the other a potter by occupation. She alleges that her grandfather; Slover, was a Tory in the Revolution, and that her father fought on the American side, in 1812. At this second marriage, she and her children were welcomed to the Wilkins home by all of Mr. Wilkins' sons and daughters, who reside in the vicinity. WILLIAMS, JOHN L., was born the 18th of June, 1813, in Berkley county, Virginia. His brother, H. T., lives in Virginia. At the age of fifteen he went to the tailoring trade, receiving a freedom suit and his boarding and clothing for a term of five years. He attended subscription school, and for those days became a fair scholar in reading, writing and arithmetic. About this time his father died and he went home and conducted the farm for about two years, when in 1836 he landed in Somerset, Ohio, where he had a brother-in-law by the name of William Wright, a saddler, whose sister Mr. Williams had married prior to his removal to Ohio. He was there married December 19, 1835, to Jane Ellen Wright. By this union eight children were born, the eldest, Sarah, in Virginia, the others in Somerset, whose names occur according to date of birth : Sarah, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitura, John, HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 585 Jane and Charles. Of these, only Rebecca and Charles are now living, Rebecca in Somerset, and Charles in Lancaster. He has, at this date, eleven grandchildren living. On his arrival in Somerset, he began the tailoring business, which he carried on to the time of his appointment as postmaster in 1861, which position he has maintained to this date, twenty years or more. Prior to his service as postmaster, he was elected eight consecutive years as clerk of the township, which, considering the fact that the township was strongly opposed to Mr. Williams' politics, exhibits his popularity and the esteem of his fellow citizens. He was never beaten for this office, and it was not until he declined being a candidate that his successor was chosen. He joined the Methodist Church in 1841, and has maintained his membership ever since. His taxes, and those of his second wife, who was Elizabeth C. Rhodes, still living, amount to $70 a year. His success in life is due to his upright dealing, his sterling honesty, his unflagging industry, his genteel deportment, and his inborn politeness and urbanity, which even now, at the age of sixty-eight, adheres to his manners. Only two men are now living who were here when Mr. Williams first came to Somerset. These are William Jackson and David Brunner. He has belonged to the Masonic fraternity since 1839. His son, John, died at Nashville, a member of the Ninetieth Ohio Regiment. His remains are lying in the cemetery in Somerset. He corresponded for the Lancaster Gazette while in the army, and his bosom companion, Tom Talbot, while bearing the colors at Atlanta, fell a sacrifice on the altar of his country's cause. Just this year a Post of the Grand Army of the Republic was instituted in Somerset under the name of " Tom Talbot Post," a fitting compliment to the youthful hero, and to the memory of daring deeds and undying affection. WILLIAMS, ELIAS DAVID, collier, Shawnee, Ohio ; was bornt May 15, 1836, in Aberystwyth Cardiganshire, Wales ; son of David and Catharine (Evans) Williams. Mr. Williams remained in his native place working in lead mines, until December, 1863, when he emigrated to America, landing in New York, from whence he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he remained four years and six months and thence to Irondale, Jefferson county, eighteen months, and then to Coshocton, Ohio, where he superintended the Home Company's coal mine two years, and then came to his present locality, being the second family that located in the place, and is now engaged by the Upson Coll Company, where he has been successful, being one of the free-holders of the place. Mr. Williams was married in December, 1855, to Ann, daughter of John and Jane (Rollins) Edwards. They are the parents of eight children, viz. : Jane, Kate, Mary, David, Ann, John, Maggie and William, living and seven deceased. Jane is married to Evan 0. Jones, Kate to Charles E. Davis, both of Shawnee, Ohio ; Mary to 'William Davis, of. Orbiston, Ohio. Mr. Williams is now deacon in the Welsh Presbyterian or Calvinistic Methodist Church. WILLIAMS, EDMOND D., collier, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born March 28, 1837, in Monmouthshire, Wales ; son of Daniel and Ann ( Harris) Williams ; was raised a farmer and followed agricultural pursuits in connection with mining until he was twenty-eight years of age. The farm his father rented and upon which he was born, had been rented by - 59 - 586 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES the Williams family for over two hundred years, and in his day the rent was only half as much as neighboring farms. The owner, Windham Lewis. said that the rent should not increase while it was rented by the Williams family. His great grandfather raised a family of fifteen children ; his grandfather a family of twelve children, and his father a family of ten children, all upon this farm of three hundred and fifty acres, only thirty of which are arable, the remainder being pasture land. The farm was rented last by his brother Daniel, who lived until February 25. 1879. But the farm changed hands some four years previous to his death. After being engaged upon the farm he went to Mountain Ash, remaining two years as a miner, from whence he came to America in June of 1868. and has been engaged at the following places : Youngstown, Ohio, three months, farming : Oak Hill, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, short time : Orangeville, nine months, mining ; Monongahela River, mining ; Pan-Handle Railroad, four years, mining ; Illinois, mining ; S. E. Railroad, mining two years ; Springfield, Illlinois, mining ; Cairo, Arkansas and Texas Railroad. three months, railroading ; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, about two years, mining ; Pan-Handle Railroad, six months, mining ; Shawnee, where he has been engaged in mining to the present time, coming to this place in the fall of 1880, He was married September 20, 1881, to Ann, daughter of James and Esther (Jenkins) Driver. They became the parents of one child that died in infancy. WILLIAMS, JOHN R., blacksmith, Shawnee, Ohio was born June 18, 1837, in Llanfachreth parish, county of Anglesey, North Wales ; son of Robert and Mary (Jones) Williams. At the age of fourteen he went into his father's shop to learn his trade., His grandfather was also an iron worker. At the age of twenty, John R. came to America and located in Pomeroy, Meigs county, where he remained until 1872, when he came to this place, and worked for the Shawnee Valley Coal and Iron Company seven years. In 1879 he established his present shop in which he is prepared to do all kinds of general smithing, Mr. Williams was married in the spring of 1866, to Miss Mariah, daughter of enry and Anne (Williams) Davis, of Gallia county, Ohio. They are the parents of nine children, four of whom are deceased, and five living, viz. : Annie, Henry, Robert, Sarah and John, WILLIAMS, WILLIAM E., tinner and sheet iron manufacturer, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born November 21, 1845, near Llamlly, Carmarthinshire, Wales ; son of William and Anne (Evans) Williams, At the age of eleven years William E. went to work in the coal mines of Scotland, and worked two years. Then he successively worked in the tin shop, foundry and coal mines, until May. 1869, when he sailed for America, locating first in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, and followed mining there, and at the following places : Pomeroy and Shawnee, locating here in 1872 ; established his present business in 1876. Mr. Williams was married May 12, 1867, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of John and Margaret Thomas. They became the parents of three children, viz. : Mary and Anne, deceased, and John, living with Daniel Lewis, whom Mr. Williams has employed to care for his son, Mrs. Williams died May 26, 1869, and is buried in the Welsh cemetery, at Minersville, near Pomeroy, Ohio. HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 587 WILLIAMS, THOMAS W., collier, Shawnee, Ohlo ; was born April 5, 1840, in Carno, Monmouthshire, Wales ; son of Thomas and Mary (Williams) Williams. Mr. Williams was raised in Carno until he was about twelve years of age, when he emigrated to America, landing in New York after a seven weeks' voyage, when he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and remained at Charter's Creek near Pittsburgh about nine months, engaged in coal mining, and has been employed as fol lows. Weatherfield, Trumbull county, Ohio, until about 1864, coal mining while there, and during the time he made that place his home ; he was at Minersville, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri. Was married March 1, 1867, to Mary, daughter of William and Mary (Daniels) Morgan, of Minersville, Ohio. They are the parents of six children, viz. : Mary Ann, Catharine, Hannah, William, deceased ; Thomas, deceased ; and Lizzie, deceased. After his marriage he has been engaged as follows : Weatherfield four months ; Brookfield, Ohio, six months ; Mason City, Virginia, about three years ; Coalton, Kentucky, until 1873 ; Mason City three months, and then moved to Shawnee, where his family has remained up to this time, but he was employed a short time in mining in Coshocton, Ohio. He owns a neat and comfortable home in this place. WILLIAMS, DAVID S,, mine boss for W. P. Rend and Company, Rendville, Ohio ; born August 28, 1840. in Wales ; son of David S. and Elizabeth (Roberts) Williams. At the age of seven years he went into the mines in Wales and worked there until 1860, when he came to America and located in Trumbull county, Ohio, and engaged in mining. He remained there about fifteen years, then went to Illinois and filled the position of mine boss at Streator, Lasalle county, for two years. He then returned to this State and was mine boss for Maple Hill Coal Company about three years. He came to Rendville in November, 1881, and took charge, as mine boss, first at number three, then at number two, accepting his present position in August, 1881. Mr. Williams was married December 23, 1858, to Elizabeth, daughter of William and Elizabeth Abram. They are the parents of ten children, , viz. : Elizabeth, married to Louis S. Howbrie ; William S., Mary Ann, Catharine, Minnie Jane, David D., Margaret, Thomas, Lucy, deceased ; and Lewis, deceased. Mr. Williams has had a very extensive experience in mining and fully understands the business, having been mine boss since he was eighteen years of age. WILLIAMS, THOMAS J., farmer, Madison township, post office Sego. He is a son of William and Mary (Wright) Williams, and was born August 8, 1828, He is an agriculturalist, which vocation he hat; always followed. He came to this township in 1836, and was married May 1, 1855, to Mary, daughter of William and Mary (Boone) Cullum. They have four children : Howard H., Charles A., Mary B. and Elmer E. WILLIAMS, REESE E. mine boss, Shawnee ; was born December 4, 1842, in Breconshire, E., ; son of Thomas and Rachel (Williams) Williams. Mr. Williams was moved to Monmouthshire at thy: age of four years, where he remained until he was twenty-one years of age, and was engaged in Wales as follows : Glamorganshire about five or six years, as foreman in a mining shaft. At this time he emigrated to 588 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, America, landing in New York ; and has remained here up to the present, engaged as follows : At Hubbard, Trumbull county, Ohio, three months ; Thomastown, Summit county, Ohio, where lie was attacked by typhoid fever, from which he narrowly escaped with his life ; mining in this place in the winter season and at Talmage in summer season, for about four years. During the time he was engaged at this place he was married, July 3, 1871, to Elizabeth, daughter of Philip and Sarah (Williams) Thomas. They became the parents of one child' viz. : Elizabeth, who only lived fifteen months. Mrs. Williams departed this life February 8, 1872, aged nineteen years and a few days. In 1872 Mr. Williams came to Shawnee, where he has remained to this time, in his present position, which he took in June of 1872. Mr. Williams' second marriage took place May 22, 1881, to Mary E.' daughter of John and Elizabeth (Harris) Harris, of Glamorganshire, Wales, They are the parents of one child, viz. : Celia. Mrs. Williams was educated in Wales for a school teacher, where like a tradesman, they are obliged to serve an apprenticeship of five years before they can be employed upon their own application, by a school board. After entering upon their apprenticeship they can only be released by the payment of ten pounds or giving six month's notice, After serving out an apprenticeship they are then granted what is known as a Queen's certificate ; after this still, ther require improvement upon the part of teachers, by which they are graded every two years as long as they continue to teach, and it would be well also to state that this apprenticeship includes, "Household and domestic economy, pastry, etc." Mrs. Williams taught in Wales eight years and employed her vacations in visiting some of the prominent places of interest in England and Ireland, She went across Milford Haven to Waterford and Kilkenny, through Limerick ; to the lakes of Killarney and through Cork. WILSON, JAMES, farmer and hotel keeper, Maxville, Ohio ; born in Hopewell township, Perry county, Ohio, March 24, 1821, son of Isaac and Margaret (Rison) Wilson. Spent early boyhood on a farm; and in 1838 cane to Monday Creek township with his father, where he has ever since resided. Mr. Wilson was among the early settlers of that township and has always been one of its most highly respected citizens, haying served in the capacity of trustee of that township for two terms. He was, at one time, extensively engaged in quarrying and burning limestone, but is now quietly residing on his farm and keeping hotel in the village of Maxville. He was married February 8, 1844, to Eliza, daughter of David and Sarah (Larimer) Haggerty, of Fairfield county, to whom was born one child, Isaac, who died at the early age of three months. Mrs. Wilson died on the anniversary of her marriage, in 1845, having been a bride but one year. Mr. Wilson was married the second time to Margaret, daughter of Robert and Margaret (Ray) Larimer, January 2, 1850. WILSON, THOMAS, farmer and stock raiser, post office Roseville, Muskingum county ; born in Muskingum county in 1814 ; came to Perry county in 1828 ; son of Zedick and Elizabeth (Stewart) Wilson ; grandson of Matthew Wilson, grandson of Pozy and Prudence Stewart. Married in 1842 to Miss Christie A. Wylie. daughter of John HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 589 and Hannah (McClain) Wylie. They are the parents of eight children, viz. : Harriet, John, deceased ; Zadock, George, Marion, deceased ; Luther, Clara, Thomas. Zadock served in the last war in the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteers. WILSON, WILLIAM, formerly of the firm of Wilson and Rutter, butchers, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born October 11, 1841, in Falls township, Hocking county ; son of Ezra and Elizabeth (Burgess) Wilson. William was brought up on the farm and has followed agriculture, husbandry and butchering to the present time. He came to this county about the year 1857, and located in Clayton township, at his present residence. The present firm was formed November 5, 1881. Mr. Wilson was married March 1, 1864, to Miss Rachel C., daughter of George White and Harriet (Richards) Moore. They are the parents of seven children, viz. : Sorata Bell, Malcome Everett, deceased ; Edward Beecher, Howard Franklin, George Morris, Jesse Heber and Valus Wilma. WILSON, JOHN, collier, Shawnee, Ohio ; was born February 21, 1848, in Cockfield, county of Durham, England ; son of John and Elizabeth (Wanless) Wilson. Mr. Mason’s father moved to Crook, soon after his birth, where he was raised and employed at brick making and mining until he was about the age of twenty years. At nineteen years of age he took the position of weighmaster and timekeeper, which he held about five years, and again for three years was employed in the mine, and a second time was weighmaster and timekeeper for one year, at which time he emigrated to America, leaving Liverpool September 22, and landing in New York October 3, 1879, from where he came to this place where he has lived to the present time, and enjoys his own home. Was married June 28, 1873, to Hannah, daughter of Judge and Isabel (Richardsoh) Scott, in county of Durham. Mr. Wilson is a local preacher and class leader in the Primitive Methodist Church of this place. WINTER, W., post office Crooksville ; merchant ; born in Muskingum county, in 1851. He came to Perry county in 1878. He is a son 0f Wickum Winter, who died in 1856. His mother, Elizabeth, died in 1857, leaving Mr. Winter to do for himself at a very early age, At the age of seven he engaged in the pottery business with Squire Crook, of Crooksville ; serving with him till the age of twenty-one years. He then went to Iowa, being there some eighteen months. He then returned and engaged in shipping stone ware, till he engaged in his present business, that of dry goods and grocery trade. Mr, Winter was married, in 1877, to Miss Sarah McKeever, daughter of Samuel and Hannah McKeever. They are the parents of three children, viz. : Francis A., Samuel G. and Thomas M. WISEMAN, JUDGE JOSEPH G.. was born December 6, 1801, in Monroe county, now West Virginia ; post office Salem. By occupation in early life a bricklayer and later, a farmer, also. He is a son of Rev. John Wiseman, who came to section twenty-nine, Thorn township, Perry county, Ohio, in 1818, and grandson of Isaac Wiseman, who died in Virginia, at the age of ninety-two. The brothers of Judge Wiseman were James G.. John R., Isaac, Philip S. and Jacob G. Wiseman ; all gone. His sisters were Elizabeth, wife of John Brattin ; Mar- 590 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. garet, wife of Aaron Morgan ; and Ann, wife of George Stinchcomb ; all gone. His mother,s maiden name was Sarah Green, a native of Rockingham county, Virginia, and a niece of Hugh McGarey, an Indian fighter, of Kentucky, a companion of Daniel Boone. The memory of these brave men is preserved in a poem by Bryant. The father of Judge Wiseman was with Washington at Valley Forge ; died in 1842, in his eighty-second year, and rests in the Methodist Episcopal cemetery, at Salem. He was a local preacher, regularly ordained, and solemnized marriages. Judge Wiseman was married in 1827 to Miss Susan, daughter of John Manley. Four of her six children still survive. In 1844, after the death of his wife, he was married to Mrs. Katharine Parr. In 1855, after the death of his second wife, he was married to Miss Nancy J. Melick, sister of Alexander Melick, of Madison township. His children are : Louisa, wife of N. H. Crouch, of Newark ; Minta S., wife of H. F. Winders, Findlay, Ohio ; J. Manly Wiseman, married to Caroline Baker, sister of Andrew Baker, and Katharine, wife of Charles Kelsey, post office Salem ; one son and three daughters. His son, Theodore, went into the Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry at the beginning of the war, lost his health, and died at the age of twenty-three, Joseph G. Wiseman became Associate Justice on the Common Pleas bench of Perry county and served six years, He was a Filmore elector in 1856, and a Bell elector in 1860, and served six years as justice of the Peace. He supported the war policy of Lincoln and has since voted with the Republicans. He has acquired a handsome estate by plodding industry and honest labor, enjoys a pleasant home, and the respect of his neighbors, and except Elijah Kemper and Jonas Groves, has voted longer in. Thorn township than any other man. He always was a great reader and patronized literature. WOLF, LEWIS, Superintendent of the German miners at Buckingham, Ohio ; was born April 22, 1840, in Knox township, Columbiana county, Ohio ; son of Henry and Margaret (Stoffer) Wolf, Was brought up on a farm where he remained until twenty-one, when he engaged in mining iron ore, at which he worked about five years. He then superintended the mining of iron ore and coal, and prospecting for iron ore and coal until 1877, when he came to Moxahala, and in the spring of 1880 came to his present residence. Mr. Wolf was married in the spring of 1861 to Miss Emma, daughter of William McLaughlin, of Georgetown, Columbiana county, Ohio. They are the parents of seven children, viz. : Luander, William, Emerson, Charles, George, Leora and Gertrude. Mr. Wolf has devoted the greater part of his life to mining and prospecting for iron ore and coal, by which he has acquired a very useful experience. WOLF, GEORGE, JR., dealer in hides, fur, sheep pelts, at Junction City, Ohio ; son of William D., and Susans (Chidester) Wolf. Was born March 10, 1842, in Ewing, Hocking county, Ohio. He stayed on the farm till the age of nineteen, after which he went to the saddler trade and served three years apprenticeship ; then worked as journeyman for a few years, a part of the time running a shop of his own. He started a saddle and harness shop in Junction City in 1871, which he carried on until 1879 ; since that time has been engaged in his present business, dealing in wool in the summer season. Mr. Wolf was married HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 591 in January of 1871, to Catharine. daughter of John and Christina Filing. They are the parents of one child, Lizzie Mehl. Spent one winter with the Osage Indians, being at that time connected with a trading post. WOOD, J. E., shoemaker. post office, Moxahala, Pleasant township ; born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. Left home when eleven vears old, went to Pittsburgh, obtained work on the boat "Metropolis" for five years ; then learned the shoemaker trade at Pittsburgh ; then went to New Orleans ; from there to Galveston, Charleston, Augusta, Nashville ; then worked in several towns in Kentucky. Then he went back to New Orleans and through the southwest. Mexico, Texas, and the Indian Territory ; lived with the Comanche Indians a while ; rescued a white child from the Comanches. brought it east, and his mother raised it. He enlisted in 1861 in the Eighteenth U. S. Infantry ; was captured at the first Fredericksburg fight, remained a prisoner on Bell Island four months ; he was then exchanged, returned to Camp Chase and did guard duty for eight months, and was then sent forward again and joined his regiment. He was in the battles of Slaughter Pen, Spottsylvania, and Cold Harbor ; was wounded there and taken to Citv Point Hospital ; was then transferred to Emery Hospital ; then to Little York, and then discharged. Since then he has made his home in Clayton township. WOODCOCK JOHN W., SR., of the firm of Woodcock, Son & Co., New Lexington, Ohio ; was born July 16, 1815, in Licking Creek, Bedford county. Pennsylvania ; son of Bancroft and Elizabeth (Giles) Woodcock. John Giles, grandfather of Mr. Woodcock, joined the British Navy when eleven years of age, and served eleven years, He was in the engagement between the Rodney and De Grace, and received a wound in the leg by a spike which r he pulled from the wound with his teeth. At the age of sixteen years John W. went into his father's foundry. The first cupola west of the Allegheny Mountains was put up by him. The blast was produced by a large bellows, worked by horse power. In 1838 the father and son moved to Wheeling, West Virginia, and continued business there until 1849. From there John W. came to Brownsville, Licking county, Ohio; where he conducted the foundry business until 1873. when he came to this place. Mr. Woodcock made the first coke at Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, produced west of the Allegheny Mountains. Bancroft Woodcock was the patentee of the celebrated "Self sharpner plow. This plow came into use in 1832, and has continued to be used to the present time. Samuel J., the youngest of John W.'s family, is the inventor of the mill manufactured by the Woodcock firm in this place. This is believed to be the best feed grinding mill now in use. Mr. John W. Woodcock, the subject of this sketch, was married March , 1841, to Miss Mary Elizabeth. daughter of George and Jane (Miller) Abel, of Belmont county, Ohio. They are the parents of the following children, viz. : Jane Elizabeth, George B,, John C., Irene E,, Hattie, deceased, and Samuel J. WOODWARD, ROBERT BRUCE, M. D., was born March 4. 1839, in Newton township, Muskingum county. Ohio ; son of David Woodward, a highly respectable farmer, who was a native of Bradford township, Chester county, Pennsylvania. His mother's maiden name was Susan 592 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. German, a native of Hopewell township, Muskingum county, Ohio. Of six sons, only Samuel D. and John T. Woodward survive. Two daughters, Elizabeth, wife of Timothy Bowden, and Isabel, wife of Loyd F. Croft, are living. Evans, Harrison and Amos, brothers of Dr. R. B. Woodward, are deceased.. October 14, 1869, the doctor was married to Miss Ella, daughter of the late venerable James Combs, of Reading township, t Perry county, Ohio. The children by this marriage are : Robert Edmund, Charles D., and an infant daughter, Adelle. Dr. Woodward, when yet in his minority, devoted himself to books, using all his spare time from work upon the farm, in acquiring knowledge ; became a teacher in the common schools of his native county ; read medicine with Dr. Cushing, and afterwards with Dr. Beckwith, both of Zanesville, Ohio. Graduated February 14, 1867, at Cleveland Medical College, at the head of his class of twenty-eight, in anatomy and materia medica ; practiced some time in Zanesville, and March 25, 1869, located in Somerset, where he devoted himself with assiduity to his chosen profession. He soon rose in public esteem, not only as a valuable physician, but as an exemplary citizen. He was three times elected Mayor of Somerset, and to his faithful service the town owes its first delivery from the machinations of rowdyism and disorder. He volunteered in Company G, One Hundred and Ninety-sixth Regiment, O. V. I., and served to the end of the War of the Rebellion, being honorably discharged September, 1865. Was Representative to the Grand Lodge of Ohio, I. O, O. F., two sessions. His industry, devotion to his profession, and his scrupulous attention to every duty assigned to his charge, has won for him golden honors, and such a share of public confidence as seldom falls to a man of his age. His practice of medicine has become so extensive as to make large drafts on time, both day and night, and its burdens are so great that none but an iron constitution and an unflagging energy could equal the demands upon his professional service. WORSTALL, THOMAS D., cigar manufacturer and tobacconist, New Lexington, Ohio ; born June 28, 1859, in Putnam, Ohio ; son of Dudley R. and Anne Lucy (Berkshire) Worstall. Young Worstall learned his trade with his father, who has been engaged in the same business for about thirty years, Thomas D. established business in this place in 1881, and is building up an active trade. WRIGHT, JACKSON, farmer, Pike township ; post office, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born February 2, 1826, in this township, and on the farm where he now lives ; son of Thomas and Margaret (Ankney) Wright. Mr. Wright was brought up on a farm, and has followed agricultural pursuits up to this time. He lived with his father until he was twenty-four years of age, when he was married December 26, 1850, to Rebecca Groves, born August 16, 1830, in Reading township, this county ; daughter of Lewis and Ellen (Huston) Groves. They are the parents of six living children, viz, : Burrel B, James Horace, Lewis Alexander, Maggie Caroline, Mary Ellen, Thomas A., and one deceased, William Jackson. Soon after this marriage, he moved into the old homestead, where his father had bought one hundred and sixty acres of land, and lived there for five years, when he moved into the new frame dwelling by which his father had supplanted the log cabin of yore in decline HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 593 1843, where he still lives. Mr. Wright's father came from Somerset county, Pennsylvania, to Ohio in 1812, moving by a four-horse wagon. It rained upon him every day but one while upon his journey. In 1813 he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land, and soon after that purchase, entered three hundred and twenty acres ; and as opportunity afforded and fortune blessed him, he bought two farms of one hundred and sixty acres each, near New Lexington ; one of one hundred and sixty acres, lying just west of the land he had entered ; and one of one hundred and sixty acres, where Patrick Sherlock now lives ; owning all of this land at one time. He lived to see his eighty-first year, and died July 1, 1865. His wife survived him, living until March 30, 1881, and was in her ninety-second year at the time of her death. Mr. Wright, the subject of this sketch, became the support of his parents in their decling years, and from the time he moved into his present dwelling until they died, he cared for them. His father gave .him one hundred and seventy-one acres of the home farm, to which he afterward added eighty acres, buying forty acres from his brother-in-law, William Storts, and forty acres of his brother, Calvin ; also eight acres off of what is now the James McDonald farm ; and at his father's death he received seventy-eight acres by will, He has since sold thirty-one acres to Burrel, forty-seven acres to James, and forty acres to Lewis, his sons, and yet owns two hundred and nineteen acres. Mr. Wright has served several terms as township trustee, and is a prosperous farmer. YAKA, MRS. MARGARET, Pike township ; post office, New Lexington, Ohio ; was born December 21, 1816, in Mansfield, Ohio ; daughter of Samuel and Drusilla (Creig) Croskrey. At the time of Mrs. Yaka's birth there were but few cabins in Mansfield. She was married to Henry, son of Mark and Elizabeth (Davidson) Yaka, of Loudon county, Virginia, October 23, 1842. They are the parents of five children, viz. : Mary E., Samuel, Wm. B,, Catharine, and John Henry. They also adopted a child, Sarah J. Two and the adopted child—Mary E. and William B., are now living. Mrs. Yaka has lived a farmer's wife since her marriage, and now lives near New Lexington in her own house. Her grandfather Croskrey came to this State in an early day, and entered four quarter sections of land, that is now the present site of Mansfield city, and her father built the first house in that city ; but on account of her mother's health, he moved from that place, and finally settled in Perry county, O,, where he lived until his death. Mr. Henry Yaka, husband of the subject of this sketch, died June 11, 1880. YARGER, JACOB, SR., farmer, Clayton township, Perry county ; post office, New Lexington ; born in Huntington county, Pennsylvania. in 1803 ; came to this county with his father in 1811 ; son of John and Elizabeth (Auker) Yarger ; the former died about the year 1853, the latter about the year 1823. Mr. Yarger was married in 1828, to Miss Susan Keister, daughter of John and Mary M. (Hunts) Keister. They are the parents of eleven children, viz. : John, deceased ; David, Jacob, Peter, Daniel, Elizabeth, deceased ; Samuel, Adam, Henry, Mary, Joshua, are all deceased. YARGER, JACOB, JR., farmer, Clayton township, Perry county ; post office, New Lexington : son of Jacob and Susannah (Keister) Yarger. The latter died in 1864. Grandson of John and Elizabeth (Auker) Yar- - 60 - 594 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. ger. Mr. Yarger was married in 1862, to Miss Saloma, daughter of Henry and Saloma (Yarger) Kokensparger, They have four children, viz. : Jacob H., Mary E., Levi H. Saloma K. YARGER, DAVID, farmer ; post office, New Lexington, Perry county ; born in this county in 1829 ; son of Jacob and Susannah (Keister) Yarger ; grandson of John and Elizabeth (Auker) Yarger. The latter died in 1864. Mr. Yarger has been twice married ; first, in 1857, to Miss Sophia Kokensparger. This union was blessed with seven children, viz. : William H., Frederick D., Sarah A., Samuel, Noah E., John, Charles. Mr, Yarger was married again in 1871, to Miss Mary Barker; daughter of William Barker. They have one child, viz. : Allie. YOUNKER, JOHN L., blacksmith, Maxville, Ohio ; born in the Kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany, November 16, 1838 ; son of Leonard and Christina (Wittman) Younker, His father was very desirous that his son should become master of the sciences, and in early boyhood he attended school at Limbach, Germany ; and at the age of 14 years entered Temple Hof Academy in the same kingdom, and made such progress, that at eighteen years of age, he was permitted to enter the famous Erlangen University, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, He had only remained here two years, when the death of his parents threw him upon his own resources, and he was compelled to give up his college life, and at once emigrated to America, landing in New York City, September 21, 1858, and at once went to Circleville, Pickaway county, Ohio, and apprenticed himself to the machinist trade, and continued to apply himself at this trade for about eighteen months, when he also began to work at the blacksmith trade. On the 31st day of March, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, Twelfth Regiment, United States Infantry, serving as corporal, and participated in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac, until he was taken prisoner at Coal Harbor, Virginia, June 11, 1863. He was at once taken to Richmond, and from there to Andersonville, Georgia, where he endured all the tortures and sufferings of that infernal rebel prison ; was taken from Andersonville to Florence, thence to Charleston, South Carolina, where he was paroled December 11, 1864, having been a prisoner exactly eighteen months, After being paroled, he returned to Annapolis, Maryland, and rejoined the army, and served until the expiration of his term of enlistment as hospital steward, He was honorably discharged from the army at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, March 31, 1865, and immediately returned to his home in Circleville, Ohio, and resumed the trade of blacksmithing, which employment he has ever since followed. In the autumn of 1877, he removed to Webb Summit, H0cking county, and remained three years, removing to Maxville, Perry county, Ohio, in 1880, where he has ever since resided. In the spring of 1881 he was elected Justice of the Peace, which office he still continues to hold, Was married in Circleville, Ohio, December 9, 1860, to Loisa, daughter of George and Phoebe Schlicher, of Perry county, Ohio, to whom were born six children, viz.: Frank, Mary, Emma, Rose, Maggie and Philip M. ; the oldest, Frank, died in infancy. Mr. Younker is considered one of the best read men of the township in which he resides, and is a first-class mechanic and a good citizen. YOUNKIN, E, P., Pleasant township, Moxahala, carpenter, born September, 1842, in Bearfield township ; son of John and Margaret (Trout) Younkin, both natives of Pennsylvania. His father came to HISTORY OF PERRY COUNTY - 595 this State in 1818, entered a farm in Bearfield township and became one of the wealthiest farmers in that township. He was in the War of 1812; and died July 12, 1881, aged 90 years. When the subject of this sketch grew up to manhood he went to Illinois, remained there nineteen months and the rest of the three years he spent in the west he lived in Iowa ; he then returned to Perry where he remained one year, then came back to Moxahala, where he still resides, June 7, 1873, he married Miss Agnes McCall, daughter of Matthew and Levina (Gaddis) McCall, of Morgan county, and of Scotch descent. YOST, A. R., dealer in general hardware and agricultural implements, Somerset. He was born in 1839, in this county. His father, Isaac Yost, was born in 1807 in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania. They came to this county in 1808, settling in Reading township. John, grandfather of A. R. Yost, died in 1854 ; his grandmother, in 1859. They were the parents of seven children, The father of the subject of this sketch was the oldest. He was married in 1834 to Miss Elizabeth Pherson, of Clayton township. She was born in 1815. He removed to Clayton township in 1834 and lived there until his death, May l0th, 1881. His wife died in 1874. They were the parents of eight children. A. R. Yost is the third. He was married in 1864, to Miss Olivia Leiter, of Stark county, She was born in 1841 in Mansfield, Richland county. They are the parents of three children, Charlie, Mary and Laura. In 1869 he came from the farm and engaged in the dry goods line with his brother Albert. Went out of that in 1876. Began the hardware business in 1878, buying an entire new stock. He is, also, the patentee of an axle oiler. ZARTMAN, WILLIAM F,, was born in 1845, on the ancient homestead of Peter Zartman, his grandfather, and of Peter, his father, section 24, Thorn. The mother of William F. Zartman was, in her maidenhood, named Sarah Binckley, daughter of Jacob, who now lives with her, aged ninety-three years, and a grand-daughter of Christian Binckley. His three sons, who came with him from Pennsylvania the same year, were John, Adam and Henry, all dead and all among the early pioneers, The grandmother's maiden name was Elizabeth Reid. The great ancestor, Mr. Peter Zartman, must have come into Thorn township in 1805, or thereabout. He was prosperous, and gave homes to his six sons, Samuel, Solomon, David, Franklin, Washington and Jackson, who all moved to Miami county, Indiana, and to his three daughters, Sally, wife of David Mohler ; Polly, wife of John Shrover, Palmetto, Kansas, and Mary Ann, wife of A. Springer, Neptune, Ohio: Peter. Zartman, the father of William F., is the only son, and Mrs. Mohler the only daughter that remained in Perry county, of this large and influential family, and Peter died in 1882, at an advanced age, leaving but one child behind him as his survivor. The only brother of William F,, was Levi Franklin, who joined the Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and gave up his life in the service of his country. The religion is Lutheran. William Francis Zartman was married in 1864, to Miss Clara, daughter of Valentine Weirick, the name being of English extraction, while that of Zartman is German. The surviving children of this marriage are Elmer, Lizzie and Elsie. The first born, Laura, is dead. 596 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. ADDENDA,—The following sketches were received too late for insertion in their proper places : CARTER, CHARLES, merchant, Rendville, Ohio ; was born November 10, 1852, in Pleasant township, Perry county, Ohio ; son of Charles and Rachel (Tharp) Carter. Mr. Carter was brought up on a farm and followed agricultural pursuits until he was twenty years of age, at which time he went to school ; attending the New Lexington high school one year ; one summer at Granville, Ohio, and one summer at Lebanon, Ohio, graduating in a business course at the latter place. During the years he was attending school, he taught in the winter season and for-five years afterward followed teaching. In March of 1881, he opened a store of general merchandise, in partnership with Charles Herring, at Rendville, Ohio, which partnership only continued about one month under the firm name of Carter & Herring, when Herring sold out to Frank N. 'Turner, and the firm of Carter & Turner was established, and has continued up to this time, meeting with good success. Mr. Carter was married September 22, 1876, to Miss Mary, daughter of James and Sarah (Horner) Wigton. They are the parents of two children, viz. : James and Sarah. HAMMOND, WILLIAM, farmer, Pike township, New Lexington, O. ; was born February 15, 1843, in Clayton township, Perry county, Ohio ; son of Nicholas and Susan (Davidson) Hammond. Mr. Hammond was raised a farmer, and has made agricultural pursuits, together with. fine sheep breeding of the Merino stock, his business up to this time. The mines of the Nuget Coal Company are excavations of his farm. He was married October 15, 1872, to Margaret, daughter of Thomas and Julia (Wright) Selby. KLIPSTINE, PHILIP, farmer, Corning, Ohio ; was born on the 12th day of August,- 1820, in Greene county, Pennsylvania ; son of William Klipstine and Nancy (Sherman). Was raised on a farm ; lived in Tyler county, Va., and when 22 years of age came to Monroe township. ERRATA.—On page 46, eighth line from the top, in place of "John Dodds,"' read "George Dodds." On page 48, second line from bottom, in place of "Jermiah Lovell," read "Josiah Lovell." On page 104, nineteenth line from the bottom, in place of "Poin Isabel," read "Point Isabel." On page 159, second line from the bottom, in place of –bread," read "bred," On page 220, twenty-fourth line from the bottom, in place of " 1814," read "1774." On page 226, sixth line from the top, in the place of –War of the Revolution," read "War of 1812." On page 418, the biography of GRIMES, H. C., should read GREINER, H. C. [Since Mr. Colborn's history was printed, reliable information develops the fact that the first settlement in the county was as early as 1801 , instead of 1805, as he has given it ; also, that the first Lutheran Church at Overmyertown, now New Reading (a log building), was erected in 1805, which was, no doubt, the first public house of worship in what is now Perry county.]—THE PUBLISHER.