(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 368 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY CHAPTER XLI. (RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) WAR OF THE REBELLION-CONTINUED. One Hundred and Twenty-second-bluster Rolls-Record of its Services-Seventy-eighth Regiment - Its Services in the n Field. THE One Hundred and Twenty-second Ohio was recruited in the counties of Muskingum, Morgan, Coshocton and Guernsey. The Coshocton complement consisted of two companies, viz PAGE 369 - PICTURE OF COL PREM METHAM FARM PAGE 370 - BLANK HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 371 D and G, and were recruited mainly under the supervision of Captains Benjamin F. Sells of Company D, and 0. C. Farquhar of Company G, The muster rolls of these companies at enlistment were as follows: COMPANY G. Officers. O. C. Farquhar, Captain. G. H. Banger, First Lieutenant. John Anderson, Second Lieutenant. Josiah Norman, First Sergeant. William Gorsline, Second Sergeant: Calvin Meizer, Third Sergeant. Daniel Shuck, Fourth Sergeant. Samuel Dougherty, Fifth Sergeant. Thomas P. Chance, First Corporal. Thomas G. Arnold, Second Corporal. George Graham, Third Corporal. Edwin Powers, Fourth Corporal. James S. Anderson, Fifth Corporal. John Minor, Sixth Corporal. Christopher Philabaum, Seventh Corporal. George N. Putt, Eighth Corporal. J. H. Loveless and James W. Law, Musicians. Emzy Maxfield, Teamster. Privates -Robert Axline, Levi Bailey, Lewis D. Barge, Levi Brown, Daniel Barr, Caleb Berry, George Boyd, William Brilhart, Amos Buckmaster, William Cassiday, Wash. Collies, Richard Dyer, Nathan Daugherty, William Donovan, Benjamin B. Emmerson, Alexander Finton, McConnel Fortune, J. A. Fleckenger, John H. Fretney, Gottleib Fear, William Gribben, David Garber, Peter Gephart. Zeth Goodhue, John Hawk, John Hawkins, David M. Harmon, George W. Har-on, Lewis Hines, James Hamby, Samuel Hamby, Henry Hoogland, Zeb. Huff, Archie Heuston, George Jones, Porter Kinney, David Kost, Samuel Lewis, Enos J. Lower, Moses Lower, Luther B. Martin, Arch Martin, John A. Milligan, David C. Miser, John T. Miller, Thomas J. Murphy, Benjamin Milligan, James Maxfield, Thomas McPherson, N. C. McClain, Charles Moore, Andy Norman, Ezekiel Poland, James H. Poland, William Pyles, Nat Reed, Thomas Riggle,. J. W. Rinehart, David Reed, Edwin Riggle, Isaac Stafford, Lyman Spaulding, Andy P. Stultz, David N. Thomas, Palentine Thatcher, Amos Winklepleck, William Ward, Peter Worley, Samuel Worth, George Younker. COMPANY D. Officers. B. F. Sells, Captain. James Work, First Lieutenant. James Sells, Second Lieutenant. William A. McGruder, First Sergeant. Henry Forrest, Second Sergeant. Jacob Rogers, Third Sergeant. David Cooper, Fourth Sergeant. James Bradfield, Fifth Sergeant. John G. Powelson, First Corporal. John W. Watson, Second Corporal. Jacob Gribeler, Third Corporal. Caleb C. Wheeler, Fourth Corporal. James H. Goodman, Fifth Corporal. James C. Stringfellow, Sixth Corporal. John W. Phillips, Seventh Corporal. Andrew D. Keefer, Eighth Corporal. Privates.-George W. Adams, Lewis Bickelor, Charles Bertho, Samuel Banger, Ambrose Bryan, Ira C. Billman, Robert Brink, Adam Bodine, Noah Blackford, James Buckmaster, Joseph Cross, Elisha Cross, John P. Cly, Tames O. Cochran, John Cochran, William H. Callentine, James B. Cooper, John Casebier, James Carter, William Camp, Vincent Clark, Augustus Cox, John Darr, William H. Divan, Joseph O. Donnely, John M. P. Davis, Samuel H. Elliott, Gotleib Feas, Henry Freteg, Eli Former, Peter Former, William King, George King, William W. Kincaid, George Kiser, Zach M. Jewell, James Layland, George Ladees, John Lafland, Hugh Lynch, James Miller, Robert Marshman, Thomas Mullen, John W. Magruder, Adam Murry, Patrick Murphy, Alexander Martin, John Meyers, John Moore, Frank Morton, William McFee, Aaron Norris, Samuel Neptune, John T. Nelson, Samuel Phillips, John H. Ravir, William Roney, John W. Ridenbaugh, Levi Rose, William Roderick, William Reay. Companies A, B, D, E and H, of the One Hundred and Twenty-second, were mustered into the United States service on the 30th day of October, 372 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. 1862, at Zanesville; Company C, October 3; G, October 5; F, October G; and Companies I and I K, and the field and staff officers, October 8. On the 23d of October, the regiment left Camp Zanesville, with an aggregate. of 927 men ; embarked at Zanesville, on the steamers Powell and Patton, descended the Muskingum, and encamped at Parkersburg, Virginia. It moved by railroad to Clarksburg, and became a part of, the second brigade of Milroy's division; the brigade being composed of the One Hundred I and Tenth, One Hundred and Sixteenth, One Hundred and Twenty-second, and One Hundred j and Twenty-third Ohio regiments, Carlin's Virginia battery, and one or two Virginia companies of cavalry, and being commanded by Colonel Washburne, of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio. On the 15th of November, the regiment j moved by railroad to New Creek, and on the 5th of December was temporarily assigned to the first brigade of Milroy's division, Brigadier- General Cluseret, commanding. The brigade was ordered on an expedition up the valley of the South Branch of the Potomac, and, in a blinding snow storm, the regiment began its first march. The column advanced by way of Petersburg, in Hardy county, and Wardensville, and struck the valley pike at Strasburg. The train accompanying the expedition was '! guarded by a detachment from the One Hundred and Twenty-second, and was attacked by McNeil's guerillas at Wardensville, but they were repulsed with some loss. The regiment was ordered to Wardensville to keep open communications, but lest it might be overpowered by the combined forces of Jones, Imboden and McNeil, it was ordered to Moorefield, and moved from there, with Milroy's command, toward Romney. McNeil attacked the train just north of the ford of the South Branch, and captured the teams and teamsters of eleven wagons and four men of Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-second, who were guarding that portion of the train. Passing through Romney, the regiment entered Winchester on the 1st of January, 1863, and, with the One Hundred and Tenth Ohio, constituted the garrison of the place. On March 14, Milroy's division became the Second Division, Eighth Army Corps, and the four Ohio regiments which had composed the second brigade of the old division, were organized into the first brigade of the new division, in connection with Carlin's battery and some cavalry, under the command of Brigadier General Elliott. The regiment was on scouts and expeditions, either as a whole or in detachments, to Newton, Front Royal, Summit Point, White Post, Cedar Creek, Millwood, and the Blue Ridge. During General Hooker's Chancellorsville campaign the One Hundred and Twenty-second, with other regiments, was sent up the Shenandoah valley to capture the town of Staunton. The expedition moved on the 4th of May, and advanced to New Market, when it was ordered back to Winchester by General Schenck. On June 13, Companies A and F, of the One Hundred and Twenty-second, met the advance of J. E. B. Stewart's raid on the Strasburg road, and after a brisk skirmish retired to Winchester. The next day the entire regiment was engaged, and at eight, it, with other troops, forced a way through the rebel lines and marched to Harper's Ferry. The regiment lost several officers and men captured, some of whom were not exchanged until April, 1865.. The regiment spent one night on Bolivar Heights, and then crossed the Potomac and became a part of the garrison of Maryland land Heights. Upon the evacuation of Maryland Heights, it accompanied the heavy guns and public stores to Georgetown, District of Columbia; moved through Washington City, and thence by rail to Frederick, where it was assigned to the Second Brigade, Third Division, Third Army Corps. The brigade at once marched against Lee, crossed the Potomac at Harper's Ferry, passed London Heights by the road around their northern base; marched southward along the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge, passed through Manassas Gap, and on the afternoon of July 23, marched in line I of battle, as Ewell fell back from Wapping Heights. The next day it returned, passing through the Gap and through Warrenton, encamped about the 1st of August near the Rappahannock. On account of the New York riots, the regiment was ordered to that city, and was distributed by detachments through the disturbed HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 373 quarters. In September it rejoined the brigade, in camp on the Rappahannock, and marched to Culpepper Court House. During the fight at Winchester, about 100 officers and men of the One Hundred and Twenty-second became separated from the regiment, and moved with the One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio to Cumberland, and thence to Bloody Run. They were attached to the command of Major-General Couch, and following his movements through the Cumberland valley, formed a part of the garrison at Martinsburg. This detachment joined the regiment at Culpepper, in the latter part of September. The One Hundred and Twenty-second moved from Culpepper to Centerville in October, and held its election for Governor and State officers while in line of battle, on the afternoon that Warren so roughly handled A. P. Hill, at Bristow Station. Returning toward the Rappahannock, it crossed the river November S, and took part in the skirmish at Brandy Station. On the 26th, the regiment was again on the march, crossed the Rapidan, and fought at Locust Grove. It returned to Brandy Station, December 3, occupied ground on the farm of J. Minor Botts, and constructed winter-quarters. In March, 1864, the the third division of the Third Corps, became the third division of the Sixth Corps. On May 4, winter quarters were abandoned. The next day the brigade guarded the road leading up the south bank of the Rapidan until noon, when it marched to the front, in the battle of the Wilderness. The regiment maintained itself well through the fight, losing on the first day over one hundred and twenty men. During the subsequent movements to Spottsylvania, to Guinea Depot, to the North Anna, and across the Pamunkey, the regiment performed its full share of picket and skirmish-duty, being under fire almost every day. Arriving at Tolopotomy Creek, May 30, it was placed on the skirmish line, and on the 31st aided in capturing a rifle-pit from the enemy. The regiment moved to Coal Harbor, and was engaged in a general assault on the rebel works, taking and holding those in its front. On the 3d of June it again advanced, and occupied a new position. The regiment moved forward by regular approaches, being continually under fire and sustaining considerable loss, until June 12, when it marched to Jones' Bridge, on the Chicahominy, and thence, via Charles City, C. H., to Wilcox Landing, on the James; ascended the river and reported to General Butler, at Bermuda Hundred. Here a detachment of eighty conscripts and substitutes joined the regiment, and, on the 10th, it crossed the Appomattox and marched to the lines in front of Petersburg. After a few days' rest it went into position on the extreme left, and, after heavy skirmishing on the 22d and 23d, obtained possession of the Weldon railroad. It was held until a portion of it was destroyed, when the rebels, having received reenforcements, regained it. On the 29th the regiment marched to Ream's Station, fortified, destroyed a mile or two of railroad, and returned to Petersburg July 1. On the same day between fifty and sixty conscripts and substitutes joined the regiment, and, on the 6th, it moved, with the division, on steamers via Fortress Monroe and the Chesapeake to Baltimore. The One Hundred and Twenty-second was divided, and, owing to an accident, one half of it did not arrive in the Patapsco until July 9, when it, with the Sixth Maryland and Sixty-seventh Pennsylvania, started by rail for Frederick. On that day the other half of the regiment, with remainder of the division, fought the battle of Monocacy Junction. The troops on the cars arrived in time to cover the retreat, and the third division marched to Ellicott's Mills, and moved thence by care to Baltimore. The third division proceeded to Washington, and from there through Tenallytown across the Potomac, below the mouth of Goose creek, and joined the corps near Leesburg.. The regiment followed Early through Snicker's Gap to near Berryville, and then returned to Tenallytown. It soon after advanced via Rockville and Monocacy Junction to Harper's Ferry. On the 30th of July the army recrossed the Potomac, and concentrated near the junction, where the regiment enjoyed a few days' rest, for the first time since the opening of the campaign. ' On the 7th of August the army moved to Halltown, and on the 10th marched via Clifton, Berryville and Newton, to the front of Early's works at Fisher's Hill. After various marches and skirmishes, on the 19th of September Sheridan moved down to 374 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. the crossing of the Opequan, between Berryville and Winchester, drove in the rebel pickets, and by 10 o'clock A. M, the Sixth Corps was formed in order of bottle, two and o half miles east of Winchester. In the bottle which ensued the regiment bore on important part, and in entering the town it come upon the old camp ground which it occupied in 1863 under Milroy. Before daybreak the next day the troops were again on the march, and soon after midday come up with Early at Fisher's Hill. On the 22d five companies of the regiment, with other troops on the skirmish line, drove the rebel skirmishers into their main works, and occupied the hills close to Early's intrenchments. As soon as Crook was known to hove gained the enemy's flank, the second brigade pushed over the breastworks, captured three guns, and assisted in driving the rebels from their position. The regiment pursued Early as far as Mount Crawford, and returning to Strasburg, rested o short time, and then moved via Front Royal toward Alexandria. When the head of the column was approaching the Shenandoah, opposite Ashley's Gap, it was overtaken by an order to return to Cedar creek, as Early was coming down again; and on the 14th of October the Sixth Corps was in position along the hills bordering Cedar creek. On the 19th the regiment was actively engaged, and assisted. in driving Early across Cedar creek. Sheridan's army went into cantonments south of Kernstown, November 10, and on the 3d of December the Sixth Corps moved by cars to Washington, and thence by boot to City Point. A few days later the One Hundred and Twenty-second was in the lines before Petersburg, holding the "curtain" between Forts Keen and Wadsworth, just west of the Weldon railroad. In January, 1865, it moved with the corps to the left, when Grant extended his lines beyond Hatcher's Run, and was placed in position near Fort Fisher. On the 25th, of March, with the brigade, it captured and held the rebel picket trenches. At four o'clock A. M., April 2, the Sixth Corps advanced against the enemy and drove them from their fortifications. Marching in pursuit, the corps struck Lee's flying army, with the One Hundred and Twenty-second on the skirmish line, and broke the rebel columns. It was present at Lee's surrender, and afterward marched to Danville, Virginia. It returned to Washington City in June, and was reviewed by the President and members of the Cabinet. It was mustered out on the 26th of July, with on aggregate of 585 men, and was paid and discharged at Columbus on the 30th of July, 1865. The following letters from different members of the One Hundred and Twenty-second, who were enlisted in Coshocton county, give, besides personal reminiscences, more directly the port taken in the various bottles of the regiment by the Coshocton companies. WHEELING, VA., June 19, 1863. In regard to the Winchester battle, having been for four months previous thereto detailed from my regiment as judge advocate of our general court martial in the Second Division of the Eighth Army Corps, I was ordered to report for field duty on General Milroy's staff, in which position I acted during the engagement, on Saturday at 10 o'clock A. M. The One Hundred and Twenty-second was not engaged outside the forts until Monday, and up to that time had lost but few men and had only twelve wounded; but on Monday its lose was heavy, as the regimentwas ordered to assault a rebel battery to the woods, having a severe fight and making a gallant charge. The sensation produced on one after being under fire for awhile is very different from what I expected. I felt, after the first hour or so, all right. Monday morning I was sent to some place on the field with an order, and getting cut off from the main body, had o hard ride to keep from going to Richmond. The force attacking us was Jackson's old corps, under Ewell, about 30,000 strong; our force was about 8,000 effective men. At 2 o'clock on Monday, we spiked all our guns, leaving wagons, baggage, etc. I lost everything I had except what I had on. G. H. BARGER. Captain Barger is still o resident of Coshocton county and o prominent member of the bar. At the time when the above letter was written Captain Barger was First Lieutenant of Company G, One Hundred and Twenty-second Ohio. He dues promoted to the captaincy, and commissioned, March 26, 1864, and resigned from the service October, 1864. The following is from the Age, of date December 31, 1863: HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 375 The One Hundred and Twenty-second Ohio was near the front during the advance of the Army of the Potomac. Colonel Ball telegraphed from Brandy Station that all the officers were safe, but that the regiment had lost six killed and thirty-two wounded, of whom twenty-two are seriously hurt. The killed are: Edward Green, John Morling and William A. Phillips, of Company C; Solomon Thompson, Company E; William R. Tudor, Company I; John Hawkins, Company G. And in the Age, of date January 23, 1864, the following from Captain B. F. Sells, of Company D: CAMP NEAR BEALTON STATION, VIRGINIA, Dec. 25, 1863. I have just received official information of the death of another member of my company. Private Robert Marshman died at Second Division Hospital, at Alexandria, December 21, from a gunshot wound received in the fight at Dune Run, the 27th day of November, 1863. Private Marshman was a prompt and efficient soldier, always ready and willing for duty-he had no superior and few equals. B. F. SELLS. In the Age, of date June 18, 1864, these deaths are recorded THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SECOND O. V. I-This gallant regiment has suffered severely in the Virginia battles. From along list of casualties we copy the following of Coshocton companies Company D-Killed, Martin Vance. Wounded, John P. Cly, Joseph O'Donnel, James Cooper and Thomas Nelson. Company G - Killed, Corporal E. Polan. Wounded, First Sergeant William Gorsline, Sergeant C. C. Meyer, R. H. Axline, D. B. Myser, E. Riggler, William Ward, .J. W. Rinehart, Lewis Smith, W. King, Es. Polen and H. Moore. We have noticed Captain Work's death in a previous issue. SEVENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT. Guite a number of the citizens of Coshocton county enlisted in the Seventy-eighth Ohio, who Were not credited to Coshocton. While not enumerating any, except such as have contributed personal reminiscences, it would not be just to omit a consideration of the regimental history of the Seventy-eighth. It was raised under special authority from Governor Dennison, issued to M. D. Leggett, Esq:, of Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio. M. D. Leggett, afterward appointed brigadier general, was Well and favorably knoWn in Coshocton county, and his popularity accounted for the enrollment of a large number of those citizens whose homes were in the adjacent townships of Coshocton county, making Zanesville as near a point of rendezvous as Coshocton, The first man of the regiment was enlisted on the 30th day of October, 1861. The organization was completed on the 11th day of January, 1862. and the regiment left by cars for Cincinnati on the 11th day of February, where steamers were found, on which it embarked for Fort Donelson, on the Tennessee river. This point was reached on the 16th of February and the regiment went into position on the battle-field, but too late to take part in the action. Immediately after this battle the regiment saw its first field duty, that of taking care of the rebel prisoners and stores. On the 1st of March the regiment marched across the country to Metal Landing on the Tennessee river, where it went into camp awaiting transportation. About the 10th of March it moved With the national forces to Crump's Landing, and thence to Adamsville, on the road to Purdy, to guard an exposed flank of the army at Pittsburgh Landing. Nothing of interest transpired here except a few slight skirmishes with the enemy. Early on the morning of the 6th of April picket firing Was heard by the troops stationed at Adamsville. The whole command was immediately drawn up in line awaiting orders. Receiving orders at twelve o'clock M., the Seventy-eighth, with its brigade, marched to the battlefield, a distance of fourteen miles, and reached Pittsburg Landing at eight o'clock in the evening, in company With General Lew Wallace;s division. The fight being over for the day the regiment went into camp for the 'night on the extreme right of the national army. At daylight on the morning of the 7th the regiment went into battle on the right and was under fire throughout the day, with, however, but slight loss, only one man was killed and nine wounded. Retaining its position on the right, the Seventy-eighth shared the movement on Corinth. In guarding the right flank of the army the regiment was frequently engaged in reconnoissances and skirmishes with the enemy. On the evacuation of Corinth, the regiment marched with Lew Wallace's Division to Bethel, 376 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. where it was detached and sent with the Thirtieth Illinois, under command of Colonel Leggett, to Jackson, Tennessee. The town was found in possession of a small rebel force, which was driven off, and the place occupied. At this place the regiment had the honor to raise a national flag on the pole where the first rebel flag Was raised in Tennessee. At Jackson, the Seventy-eighth was transferred from Lew Wallace's division to General Logan's division. From Jackson, the Seventy-eighth, With the Thirtieth Illinois, Were again sent, under Colonel Leggett, to Grand Junction. It remained at this point one month, and then returned to Bolivar. While there the regiment made several important and arduous reconnoissances, in Which a number of skirmishes were had with the enemy. On the 30th of August, the Seventy-eighth and Twentieth Ohio, one company of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, and a section of the Ninth Indiana Artillery, had a brisk engagement at Spring Creek, sixteen miles from Bolivar. While the engagement was in progress, four companies of the Second Illinois Cavalry, under Colonel Hogg, reported and took part in the fight. Colonel Hogg was killed. On the day before the fight, a force of mounted infantry Was improvised from the Seventy-eighth and Twentieth Ohio, by selecting three tried men from each company. This force under command of Lieutenants G. D. Munson, of the Seventy-eighth, and Ayers, of the Twentieth Ohio, Was sent on a reconnoissance the night previous, and discovered the enemy• in force. After capturing the rebel outposts it fell back to its main body. On the the next day this "mule cavalry" performed excellent service, and to them was attributed largely the successful result of the fight. In this affair the loss of the regiment was slight. When the rebel army, under Price and Van Dorn, moved on Iuka, the Seventy-eighth marched, with Logan's division, to that point, but did not participate in the battle. Returning to Bolivar it joined Grant's forces in the movement toward Grenada, Mississippi, and was near Grenada in advance of the whole army, When, in consequence of the destruction by the enemy of Holly Springs, it fell back with the national army on that place. Immediately thereafter it accompanied Grant's forces to Memphis, Tennessee, and thence by steamer to Lake Providence, Where it was employed in cutting the bank of the Mississippi, and opening Bayou Jackson for the purpose of overflowing the country below. While lying at this point the regiment, with its brigade, went to Eagle Point and up Mud Bayou to aid in saving some gunboats surrounded by the enemy. Milliken's Bend was the next point to which the Seventy-eighth was sent, where it joined the national army, under General Grant, then concentrating for the march on Vicksburg. On the occasion of running the blockade of Vicksburg with transports, twelve members of the Seventy-eighth Ohio were selected as part of the crew of one of the boats of this detail. Sergeant James McLaughlin and private Huffman occupied themselves during the trip in playing cards by the light of the enemies guns. Crossing the Mississippi river at Bruinsburg, the regiment marched with the army to the rear of Vicksburg. On this march it participated in the battle of Raymond, on the 12th of May, 1863, and lost in killed and Wounded about eighty men. On the 16th of May it was engaged in the battle of Champion Hills, Where it lost 116 men killed and Wounded. During these battles General Leggett was commanding the brigade having received his commission as Brigadier General on the 29th of November, 1862. On the 17th, 18th, and 19th of May, the investment of Vicksburg Was completed. On the 22d of May, the Seventy-eighth .participated in the general charge of that day on the enemy's works, With slight loss. About the 25th of May the regiment Was joined to a force sent up the Yazoo river, under General Frank P. Blair, to look after a rebel force reported to be moving to the relief of Vicksburg, under General Joseph E. Johnston. Johnston having changed his line of march to a point further south-toward Jackson-the command returned to Vicksburg, and the Seventy-eighth Ohio resumed its position before the city. At this point General- Leggett was transferred to the command of the first brigade of General Logan's division. On the 22d of June the Seventy-eighth Was again sent with a force to prevent the rebels under Johnston from crossing the Black river at Bovina. The regiment remained HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 377 at Bovina until after the surrender of Vicksburg. On the 4th of July the Seventy-eighth joined Sherman in his march on Jackson, Mississippi. It was left at Clinton, where, on the 7th of July, it was attacked by rebel cavalry, which attack it handsomely repulsed. On the return of the national forces to Vicksburg, the regiment accompanied them and remained there until the latter part of August. It then marched with McPherson's expedition, to destroy the rebel mills, near Canton. Coming back to Vicksburg, it went with General Loan's division to Monroeville, Louisiana, on the Washita river, to look after a force of rebels reported to be in that vicinity. On the 5th of January, 1864, the Seventy-eighth re-enlisted for the war. Immediately thereafter the regiment marched with General Sherman on the Meridian expedition, and on its return Was sent home on veteran furlough. The regiment returned on the 1st of May, and rendezvoused at Cairo, Illionis. The division Was reorganized at this point, and moved by steamers up the Tennessee river to Clifton. From Clifton it marched over the Blue mountain Midge and joined General Sherman's army at Acworth, Georgia. It was immediately placed in position on the left, and commenced its part of the campaign at Atlanta. On the 17th of June, the regiment took part in the attack on and capture of Bushy mountain. About the time the order Was given to move on the mountain a heavy rain storm commenced. General M. D. Leggett, commanding the third division of Logan's corps, dashed up the slope and captured the rebel works, turning its guns on the rebels as they fled. By reason of the driving rain, the other divisions that were to co-operate in the affair, did not perceive General Leggett's movement, and supposed the rebels still held the mountain and were firing on the national cavalry, directed their batteries on Leggett's division, and shelled the mountain until a staff officer was sent to undeceive them. On the 27th of June the regiment participated in the battle of Kenesaw mountain. The regiment, with the Army of the Tennessee, then swung around the mountain to the extreme right of Sherman's line, extending to the Chattahoochie, at the mouth of the Nicojack creek, thus flanking the rebel forces and causing them to evacuate the mountain. From the 5th to the 6th of July the regiment was engaged in an almost continuous skirmishing and artillery duel. During this time, at intervals, it was almost impossible to prevent the privates of the two armies from affiliating. On one occasion a Large boat Was procured and placed in the middle of .the Chattahoochie river, in each end of which a hostage Was seated, and a squad of either party placed on the banks to shoot the hostage if treachery Was practiced. Brisk trade and card playing then commenced and continued until discovered and stopped by some of the officers. On the night of the 15th of July the rebels evacuated the north side of the Chattahoochie river, and, on the 16th, the regiment, with its brigade and division marched to Rosswell Factories and crossed the Chattahoochie at that place. While the Seventy-eighth was on its march to this point, an affecting incident occurred. Major James Reeves, the surgeon of the regiment, while walking through a clump of bushes, Was accosted by a citizen of the country With a request for a national surgeon to administer medical aid to his sick daughter. The doctor at first demurred, but on reflection concluded to go With the man, who took him down in a valley and into a cave. In this secluded spot Were congregated about 200 Union refugees, hiding from the persecution of the rebel authorities. From Rossville the regiment moved directly on Atlanta. On the 21st of July the regiment participated in the attack on and capture of Bald Knob, a position commanding the city of Atlanta. The rebels occupied it in force, behind strong works. In carrying it the division suffered severely. This position being carried, shells were at once thrown into Atlanta by the national artillery. This position was considered so important by the rebel commander that in his anxiety to retake it he, on the neat day, threw his whole army on the left flank of the national lines and a terrible battle was the result, costing the life of the brave McPherson. The Seventy-eighth Ohio suffered severely. It lost 203 officers and men killed and wounded. At a critical moment the Seventy-eighth and Sixty-eighth Ohio held a lice near Bald Knob, on Which the rebels made a deter- 378 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. mined attack. A hand-to-hand fight occurred in which desperate valor was displayed on both sides. Of thirteen flag and color bearers of the Seventy-eighth Ohio, all Were either killed or Wounded. On one occasion a rebel was about to capture the flag, When Captain John Orr, of Company H, seized a short sword from the ground and almost decapitated him. For this the Captain received a gold medal from the board of honor of the Army of the Tennessee. The Seventy-eighth participated in the subsequent movements of the Army of the Tennessee till the fall of Atlanta. It then went into camp near Atlanta, and remained there until about the middle of October, when it Was sent up the Atlanta railroad to the vicinity of Chattanooga, to guard that line of supply. When Hood left the railroad and marched toward Decatur, the Seventy-eighth returned to Atlanta, by the way of Lost Mountain, reaching that place on the 13th of November. On the 15th, it started with General Sherman's forces on the March to the Sea. After the taking of Savannah, and the march through the Carolinas, up to the surrender of Johnston's army, the regiment accompanied the national forces through Richmond, Virginia, to Washington City, and there participated in the grand review. From Washington it Was sent by rail and river to Louisville, Kentucky. On the 9th day of July it started for Columbus, Ohio, and on the 11th was paid off and mustered out of service. The Seventy-eighth passed through a series of battles said skirmishes that involved an immense amount of fatiguing duty and severe exposure. One of the saddest results that followed this taxing service, finds an illustration in the person of Hamilton Caton, from one of the best families in Coshocton county, and who is still living under the care of relatives in the county, incurably insane. William Caton was a faithful soldier, a private in the ranks of the Seventy-eighth; he did not shrink from any task, and met any amount of exposure with a truly Spartan fortitude; the result of this physical drain, combined with the impressions produced by the horrors of war, was to becloud the mind of this patriot and soldier with the dark shadows of the insane, and though long years have elapsed since the war, and he has been through them all, the recipient of a grateful country's bounty, he still tramps over swamp and through thicket, and digs trench, and stands picket, ever hearing, day and night, the shrieks of shells and the dying. Coshocton still retains as a citizen, another prominent member of the Seventy-eighth, in the person of A. W. Search, Who, entering the service as a private, at the organization of the regiment, Was promoted .to the first lieutenancy July 1, 1863, and to the captaincy January 11, 1865. While holding the position of lieutenant, Captain Search Was assigned to duty as adjutant of the regiment, and was also appointed judge advocate for the Third Division, Seventeenth Army Corps. Captain Search has for quite a number of years edited the Coshocton Age, and has been a prominent citizen in his influence in the county. Within the first three months the year 1881, he has retired from the more public life of a newspaper man, to that of mercantile pursuits. The following interesting sketch of personal reminiscence is furnished by Captain Search: The Seventy-eighth had a few of that class in her private ranks, Who were mighty men and brave-in words-and who continually boasted in camp of the prowess they would manifest upon the field. A shrewd colonel, haying overheard their warlike speech while the division Was on the march from Crump's Landing to Purdy, concluded it was bad to keep them waiting, and detailed a small scouting squad, taking in every man "of Words " from the various companies, at midnight, to go ahead on a corduroy road and be vigilant and brave, and notify the main body if the. enemy was found. A staff officer was sent after them to sound the recall in a short time, Who in leading his horse over the corduroy road and trailing his sword thereon so frightened the scouting squad of braves that they fled incontinently, minus guns, hats, and sometimes coats. In going to La Grange, Tennessee, the regiment made a forced march which told so heavily on the boys that only a few men out of each company showed up when the regiment first arrived, the balance coming on behind exhausted and spent. At La Grange there was a seminary located, the resident of which, like Horace Greeley, pride himself upon °'what he knew about farming" and gave good evidence of it, in a large field one side of his residence which HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 379 was crowded with finely growing sweet potatoes; the boys of the Seventy-eighth immediately took possession and commenced digging them out with their bayonets. The professor came out and ordered them off, and, not a man giving the slightest heed, he then pompously asked: "Is this the manner in which you come to defend a down-trodden country?" and Was answered by a shock-headed Coshocton county farmer in this wise: "Not much, boss; this is the way we dig taters." The professor surrendered and retired. On the Water Valley campaign an interesting incident occurred, showing the advantage of being the possessor of ingenuity. General Logan's division came to the banks of a stream too deep to ford, the bridge over which had been burnt by the rebels. General Logan rode to the front with his engineer, and inquired how long it would take to put a bridge over. The engineer said, "Three days." Captain Wiles, of Company C, Seventy-eighth, spoke up and told General Logan if he Would furnish three reliefs, of a hundred men each, he would have it ready the next morning. The men were furnished, the bridge was built, and the division was over according to agreement, although the engineer swore it could not be done. It was managed by tearing down a cotton gin on the banks, and by cutting and floating limbs of trees into place. At Atlanta, during the severest part of the fight, while the Seventy-eighth was behind some earthworks, two brothers belonging to one of the companies of the Seventy-eighth, of the name Cocochnower, were so intense in their fighting hatred that they jumped upon the top of the works and loaded and fired until they were both killed. Company C, under command of Captain Wiles, Was the pioneer company of the corps, and had charge of the mining and sapping, in order to accomplish which they were compelled to load up a long wagon with bales of cotton, and push it on ahead to cover them from the fire of sharpshoot shooters. Many efforts were made by the reels to burn it, and they finally shelled it and set it on fire. While pushing the mining and sapping the men who were so detailed were continually attacked; among other methods that of the hand grenade being employed, and, in numerous instances, our boys would coolly pick them up, burning fuse and all, and throw them beck in the rebel works, not Without some fatal results however. Captain Search, it may be added, was, at on time, captured by a small body of rebels who Were hidden in the bush along side of the road leading to Resaca, and upon Which road the Union forces were moving to meet Hood. Captain Search was then a staff officer, and was coming back on the road with orders to close up the sections of artillery on the road. As he was riding back he met a slouchy appearing man coming toward him, who, in the dusk of the evening, he supposed Was one of the gunners or teamsters, when directly opposite Captain Search he seized the lines, thrust a pistol in his face, and, taking him off the road about three hundred yards, placed him in charge of a company of about one hundred. Considerable badgering was indulged in about appropriating the captain's property, but, finally, when they were ready to depart, he was allowed to mount his own horse, which, being a good one, as they struck the road in crossing he put spurs to and dashed off, succeeding in getting away from his captors, it being too risky for them to pursue him on the open highway. CHAPTER XLII WAR OF THE REBELLION-CONTINUED. Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry-Its Operations in the Field-Thirty-seventh Ohio-A Record of its Services. HE Fifteenth and Thirty-seventh regiments, in so fax as they find a representation in Coshocton county, obtained the Coshocton men somewhat similarly. The men who enlisted proposed going into other regiments, but Were too late, and consequently became absorbed in the Fifteenth and Thirty-seventh. The following history of the Fifteenth is from "Ohio in the War": The Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry was one of the first to respond to the President's call for seventy-five thousand men for three months' service, and, on the 4th of May, 1861, the regiment was organized at Camp Jackson, Columbus, to Ohio, and four days after moved to Camp Goddard, near Zanesville, Ohio. Here it spent about. ten days, engaged in drilling, disciplining and active preparations for the field. It. was then ordered into West Virginia, and, crossing the ad Ohio river at Bellaire, it was employed for some 380 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. time in guard duty on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, advancing as far as Grafton. It was engaged in the rout of the rebels under General Porterfield at Phillippi, on the 13th of June, and afterward took part in the affairs of Laurel Hill and Carrick's Ford. The regiment performed a large amount of marching and guard duty, and rendered valuable services to the Government in assisting to stay the progress of the rebels, who were endeavoring to carry the war into the north. Having served its term of enlistment, it returned to Columbus, Ohio, and was discharged about the 1st of August, having lost but two men, one killed and one dying of disease. The President having issued his call for three hundred thousand men for three years, the soldiers of the Fifteenth felt the importance of a hearty response, and with their patriotism and ardor not lessened, but rather increased, by the trials and exposure incident to their three months' campaign, they almost immediately and almost unanimously resolved to reenlist; and the regiment was reorganized at Camp Mordecai Bartley, near Mansfield, Ohio, and left Camp Bartley for Camp Dennison on the 26th of September, 1861. At this place they received their arms and the remainder of their clothing, camp and garrison equipage. The regiment was armed with old Springfield and Harper's Ferry muskets altered, except Companies A and B, which received En field rifles. The outfit being completed on the 4th of October the regiment left for the field, its destination being Lexington. Kentucky. It remained in camp at Lexington until the 12th, When it was transported by rail to Louisville, and from there to Camp Nevin, near Notin's Station, Kentucky. At this place it was assigned to the sixth brigade, (General R. W. Johnson commanding) Second Division, (General A. McD. McCook, commanding) of the Army of the Ohio, then commanded by General W. T. Sherman, subsequently by General Buell. The regiment remained at Camp Nevin until the 9th of December, 1861, when the division marched to Bacon creek, and on the following day the sixth brigade occupied Mumfordsville. On the morning of the 14th the second division broke camp, moving in the direction of West Point to embark for Fort Donelson ; but upon receiving intelligence of its capture the division was marched to Bowling Green. Crossing Barren river on the 27th, the command marched for Nashville, Tennessee, which place was reached on the 2d of March. Camping grounds were selected about three miles from the city, and the army rested until the 16th, when the march to Savannah began; which point was reached on the night of April 6, and on the morning of the 7th the regiment embarked for the battle-field and was engaged from about twelve M., till four P. M.., when the enemy retreated. In this engagement the regiment lost six men killed and sixty-two wounded. In the subsequent operations against Corinth, the second division formed the reserve of the army, and did not take the front until the 27th of May. It was continually skirmishing with the enemy until the 30th, when the town was occupied by our forces. On the 10th of June the division marched to Battle Creek, Tennessee, crossing the Tennessee river at Florence, and, resting there several days, arrived at Battle Creek on the 18th of July. The regiment was engaged in building a fort at the mouth of Battle Creek and in the ordinary duties of camp until the 20th of August, when General McCook's command moved to Altemonte, on the Cumberland mountains, in «-hick direction the invading army under Bragg was marching. From Altemonte the division marched, via Manchester and Murfreesboro, to Nashville, arriving there on the 8th of September. After halting two or three days the army marched to Bowling Green, and thence, by way of West Point, to Louisville, arriving on the 25th of September. On the 1st of October the second division marched on the Shelbyville pike in pursuit of the enemy, reaching Shelbyville the second day. Remaining in camp a few days, the march was resumed to Lawrenceburg, where a skirmish was had with the enemy in which the regiment was engaged. The division then marched to Perryville, which was reached a few days after the battle of Chaplin Hills, and there joined the main army and marched in pursuit of Bragg as far as Crab Orchard, where it remained several days, and then marched to Nashville, where it arrived on the 7th of November, 1862. The army was reorganized and thoroughly HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 381 drilled here, and, on the 26th of December, advanced on the enemy's position at Murfreesboro. In the battle of Stone River the regiment was heavily engaged, losing eighteen killed and eighty-nine wounded. After the occupation of Murfreesboro by the army, under General Rosecrans, the Fifteenth was engaged in drilling, foraging, fortifying and picket duty until the 24th of July, when an advance was ordered on Tullahoma and Shelbyville, which places were occupied by our army after the enemy was dislodged from his strong position :at Golner's and Liberty Gaps, the latter being carried by the second division, and the Fifteenth taking a very prominent part therein. In this engagement, one officer and seven men were tilled, and twenty-three Wounded. The second division was stationed at Tullahoma till the 16th of August, when it was ordered to Bellefonte, Alabama, marching via Winchester and Salem, and arriving at its destination on the 22d. Remaining there about a week, the division marched to near Stevenson, Alabama. On the 2d of September the march was resumed in the direction of Rome, Georgia, crossing Lookout Mountain and camping at the eastern foot, near Alpine, on the 10th. After remaining in position for ten days, the command re-crossed Lookout Mountain to Winson's valley, and, on the 11th, marched to a position in connection with main army in Lookout valley. The regiment remained in position on the extreme right flank of the army until the morning of the 19th, when it marched for the battlefield of Chickamauga, a distance of thirteen miles, and was engaged soon after its arrival. At Chickamauga the regiment lost one officer and nine men killed, two officers and silty-nine men wounded, and forty men missing. The regiment bore its share in the arduous labors and privations of the Beige of Chattanooga, and on the 25th of November participated in the brilliant assault of Mission Ridge, capturing a number of prisoners and some artillery. On the 28th of November the regiment, then belonging to the First Brigade, Third Division, Fourth Army Corps, marched with the corps the relief of Knoxville, Tennessee, arriving on the 8th of December; on the 20th the command moved to Strawberry Plains by Way of Flat creek. On the 14th of January, 1864, the greater portion of the regiment having re-enlisted as veterans, it started for Columbus, Ohio, via Chattanooga, preparatory to being furloughed. The regiment arrived in Columbus, with 350 veterans,. on the 10th of February, and the, men were furloughed on the 12th. On the 14th of March the regiment assembled at Camp Chase to return to the held, having recruited to upward of 900 men. Upon arriving at Nashville, on the 22d, the regiment was ordered to march to Chattanooga, arriving on the 5th of April. On the 8th the regiment moved to Cleveland, Tennessee, meeting with a serious accident near Charleston, Tennessee, by a railroad train being thrown from the track, by which twenty men were more or less injured. The regiment moved to McDonald's Station on the 20th, and remained there till the opening of the spring campaign. At noon, on the 3d of May, the regiment broke camp and marched to Tunnel Hill, where General Sherman's army took position, and was constantly skirmishing with the enemy, this regiment being frequently engaged until the 13th, when the enemy evacuated Rocky Face Ridge and our army took possession of Dalton. The Fifteenth participated in the subsequent pursuit of the rebels, in the battle of Resaca and again in the pursuit and engagement near Dallas, where the regiment suffered severely, losing nineteen men killed, three officers and silty-one men wounded and nineteen men missing, who were supposed to be either killed or severely wounded. The color guard, with the exception of one corporal, were all either .killed or wounded, but the colors Were safely brought off by the surviving member of the guard, Corporal David Hart, of Company I. The rebels having evacuated their works on the 5th of June; the army moved to the vicinity of Acworth, and on the 10th advanced to near Kenesaw Mountain. While skirmishing sharply, on the 14th of June, the regiment lost one officer and one man killed, and five men wounded, all belonging to Company A. On the to morning of June 18, the rebels having withdrawn; a party of three or four men advanced to reconnoiter, and picking up a couple of stragglers, they 382 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. were sent back in charge of Peter Cupp, a private of Company H, who, in returning to the regiment, suddenly came upon a rebel outpost, which had been left by accident. Cupp announced the withdrawal to them and ordered them to stack their arms and surrender, which they did, and one captain, one lieutenant and sixteen men of the First Georgia volunteers were marched into our lines by Private Cupp. While in the vicinity the regiment was engaged in scouting and skirmishing, frequently capturing prisoners. After crossing the Chattahoochie the regiment moved down the river on the 11th of July, and in connection with the division, drove back the en emy's cavalry and covered the crossing of the Fourteenth Corps. The line was advanced each day until it closed in around the rebel works before Atlanta. On the night of August 25, the command to which the regiment belonged withdrew from the works in front and commenced the movement upon the communications in the rear of Atlanta, skirmishing with the enemy at Lovejoy's Station on the night of September 5, and, reaching Atlanta the 8th, the Fourth Corps encamped near Decatur. When the army of Hood began its raid upon our communications the regiment marched via Marietta and Rome, to the relief of Resaca, October 3, and from Resaca it marched through Snake Creek Gap, by way of Salesville, Chattanooga and Pulaski to Columbia, where it was engaged in a alight skirmish. From Columbia the army moved toward Franklin, passing in view of the camp-fires of a corps of the enemy near Spring Hill, Tennessee. The regiment did not participate in the battle of Franklin, but was assigned the duty of covering the withdrawal of the forces and the retreat to Nashville. At Nashville the regiment formed the extreme left of the army, and when the order came for the left to move forward the regiment advanced rapidly, capturing a fine battery of four brass guns and some thirty prisoners On the 16th of December, the enemy was found entrenched in a strong position on Franklin pike, about five miles from the city. The regiment participated in a movement upon these works, capturing prisoners to the number of two commissioned officers and one hundred men. The entire loss sustained by the regiment in the two days of the fight was two officers and one man killed and two officers and twenty-four men wounded. The most vigorous pursuit was made by our army, but the infantry was unable to overtake the flying enemy, and after following the rebels to Lexington, Alabama, the corps moved in the direction of Huntsville, and the regiment :cent into camp at Bird Springs about the 4th or 5th of January, 1865, and remained until the 15th of March when it was ordered to move into East Tennessee. It moved by rail to New Market, Tennessee, and then took up the line of march to Greenville, to assist in preventing the escape of Lee and Johnson, while Grant and Sherman pressed them to a surrender. The Fifteenth arrived at Greenville on the 5th of April, and on the 22d was ordered back to Nashville. On this march the regiment acted as train guard and reached Nashville about the 1st of May, 1865. From this time till the 16th of June, the regiment was in camp near Nashville, Tennessee, when orders were received to move to Texas. With a good degree of cheerfulness the men turned their backs once more upon their homes, went to Johnstonville and thence by boat to New Orleans. Moving down a short distance below the city they bivouacked in the old Jackson battle ground till July 5, when they shipped for Texas. The regiment arrived at Indianola, Texas, July 9, disembarked, and in order to obtain a sufficient supply of water, marched that same night to Green Lake, a distance of about twenty miles. Remaining here just one month, on the 10th of August it marched for San Antonio, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles. The scarcity of water, the extreme heat, the want of suitable rations, together with inadequate transportation, all combined, made this one of the most severe marches the regiment ever endured. It reached the Salado, a small stream near the San Antonio, on the 21st of August, and remained there until October 20, when it was designated to perform post duty in the city, and it continued to act in this capacity till November 21, when it was mustered out and ordered to Columbus, Ohio, for final discharge. The regiment left San Antonio on the 24th of November and marched to Indianola, proceeding HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 383 thence, by way of New Orleans and Cairo, to Columbus, Ohio, where it arrived December 25, and was finally discharged from the service of the United States, on the 27th of December, 1865. The Fifteenth was among the first regiments to be mustered in, and among the last to be mustered out, having been in the service as an organization about four years and eight months. Few regiments present a bitter record upon battle fields and marches than the Fifteenth, while in respect to the intelligence and moral character of its officers and soldiers, it holds an enviable position. It is worthy of note, that the Coshocton soldiers in the Fifteenth, though not numerous, in following the varied vicissitudes of the regiment, as they did, from its muster in till its muster out, escaped without a death or a wound. THIRTY-SEVENTH. In viewing the record of the Thirty-seventh Ohio, it would be will to note the fact that it was recruited as a German regiment, and as such was the third of its kind raised in Ohio. A large portion of the regiment was taken from Tuscarawas county, and the German settlements of Coshocton county bordering on Tuscarawas contributed liberally in enlistments that wire credited to Tuscarawas. The record of the regiment is as follows: The Thirty-seventh was principally recruited among the patriotic Germans of Cleveland, Toledo and Chillicothe. The counties of Auglaize, Franklin, Mahoning and Tuscarawas (Coshocton min) furnished a number of the men; Erie, Wyandot and Mercer also contributed liberally. Its organization was commenced under the call of President Lincoln for 300,000 men, in August, 1861. By the latter part of September, seven full companies had reported, and on the 1st of October 800 min were enrolled. With this number the regiment was placed in Camp Dennison, and on the 2d of October it was mustered into the service armed and equipped. Colonel E. Siber, an accomplished German officer, who had seen active service in Prussia and Brazil, was selected as the commander of the regiment; L. Von Blessingh, of Toledo, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Charles Ankele, of Cleveland, Major. Its line officers were selected from those who had seen service in the preceding three months' campaign. The regiment moved via Cincinnati to a point on the Kanawha river, in West Virginia, where it reported to General Rosecrans, then commanding that department: Shortly after its arrival, the regiment was sent up the Kanawha, in company with other forces, to the oil works at Cannelton, with the view of driving the rebel General Floyd out of that valley. The national forces moved up the valley, marching along Loup creek, flanked, and forced the rebels to evacuate Cotton Hill, and pursued them to within seven miles of Raleigh Court House. On its return from this expedition, the regiment went into winter-quarters, at Clifton, where it occupied itself in drilling and perfecting its organization, guarding all the principal points in the vicinity, and occasionally sending out scouting parties in all sections of that part of West Virginia. In January, 1862, it went out on an expedition to Logan Court House, east of Guyandotte river, and eighty miles distant from Clifton. After marching and brisk skirmishing with the enemy's cavalry, the place was captured and all the war material destroyed. This accomplished, the regiment returned to Clifton, having suffered a loss of one officer and one man killed. In March, 1862, the Thirty-seventh Ohio was added to the third provisional brigade of the Kanawha division, and ordered to accompany that division on a raid to the southern part of West Virginia, with the view of reaching and destroying, if possible, the Virginia and East Tennessee railroad, near Wytheville, Virginia. But, after severe and unsuccessful fighting at and near Princeton, on East river, in which the regiment lost one officer and thirteen men killed, two officers and forty-six men wounded, and fourteen men missing, the national forces were compelled to retreat to Flattop Mountain, where they remained in :bivouac until the tat of August, 1862. On that day the regiment marched to Raleigh, garrisoned the place, and scoured the country for a circuit of twenty-five miles. In an expedition to Wyoming Court House, a detachment of the regiment fell lento an ambuscade, and were surrounded by the enemy, but out 384 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. their way out of the difficulty with the loss of two killed, and one officer and seven men taken prisoners. In the latter part of August the regiment marched in detachments to Fayetteville, Virginia, Which place Was garrisoned by the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-fourth Ohio, and a temporary battery, composed of men from the Thirty-seventh Ohio on temporary duty. On the 10th of September two companies of the regiment were sent out on the Princeton road, and, after reaching a spot one and a half miles from their starting point, they encountered the enemy in heavy force, making it necessary to fall back. Shortly after, the whole force Was engaged With the enemy, led by General Loring. The fight lasted from 12 M. until dark, When Colonel 'Siber, the commanding officer of the Thirty-seventh Ohio, being informed that another force of the enemy Was threatening the national rear and line of retreat, the retreat was sounded, and, at 2 o'clock in the morning, the regiment moved back on the Gauley road, taking a position on Cotton Hill, and engaging the enemy an hour with effective results. The retreat was then resumed, and, on the 12th of September, the national troops crossed the Kanawha river at Camp Piatt, and arrived at Charleston on the next day. The enemy, who had followed at a respectful distance, was here engaged and kept at bay until dark. This stand was necessary in order to cover the retreat of a valuable train of seven hundred wagons loaded with the entire supplies of all the troops in the Kanawha valley. After a very exhausting march of three days and nights, the Ohio river was reached on the 15th, at a point nearly opposite Ripley, Ohio, and the troops crossed over, but almost immediately thereafter re-crossed the river, and went into camp at Point Pleasant. In this unfortunate retreat the Thirty-seventh Ohio lost two men killed, three Wounded and sixty-three missing, of which latter a large portion were teamsters and train guards. All the company wagons, camp equipage and officers' baggage Were lost near Fayetteville by a rear attack of the enemy. On the 15th of October the company entered Kanawha valley, under command of Lieutenant L. Von Blessingh. Gauley Bridge was reached November 19th, where a camp was formed and occupied up to December, 1862, on which day the regiment marched to Camp Piatt, and from thence embarked on steamers for Cincinnati. While lying at the wharf there Colonel Siber assumed command of the regiment, and Was fortunate enough to procure new Enfield rifles in exchange for the arms then in use: Proceeding down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, the regiment Was landed at Napoleon, Arkansas, on the 16th of January, 1862. Here it was with other regiments, formed into the Third Brigade, Second Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps. On the 21st of January the troops moved over to Miliken's bend, nearly opposite Vicksburg, Mississippi, where they Were engaged in the construction of the canal which was to isolate Vicksburg from the river, and make it an inland town. A freshet in the Mississippi river compelled the regiment, with the other troops, to seek higher ground for encampment. Young's Point was selected. From Young's Point a number of expeditions were sent to the east side of the Mississippi and up the Yazoo river, in all of which the Thirty-seventh participated. On the 29th of April, 1862, the regiment, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel L. Von Blessingh, with eight other regiments of the division embarked on steamers and were taken up the Yazoo river to Haines' Bluff. This movement was made as a feint to cover the movements of General Grant, to the southeast of Vicksburg. The regiment returned to the west side of the Mississippi and again went into camp at Young's Point, performing guard and fatigue duty u until the 13th of May, when it Was sent down to Grand Gulf. From that place it marched with the force under General Gram to the rear of Vicksburg, where it was assigned as a portion of the front line of the army• investing that place. In the bloody but unsuccessful assaults on the enemy's works, May 19 and 22, and the subsequent siege of Vicksburg, the regiment lost nineteen killed and seventy-five wounded including among the Wounded Lieutenant Colonel L. Von Blessingh. This casualty devolved the command of the regiment upon Major C. Hipp until the 18th of June, when Colonel Siber reported from his leave of absence, and resumed command. After the surrender of Vicksburg the Thirty- HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 385 seventh participated in the expedition against Jackson. Mississippi, and on its capture, July 17, it performed provost-guard duty for some days. On the 23d of July it marched to a camp of rest and reorganization, called Camp Sherman, near Big Black river. It remained in this camp up to the 26th of September, 1863, on which day it marched into Vicksburg and embarked on the steamer Nashville for Memphis, Tennessee. From Memphis the regiment marched into Corinth, Mississippi ; thence to Cherokee Station, Alabama, reaching the latter place on the 20th of October, and remaining in bivouac until the 26th of the same month. The rebel General Forrest becoming troublesome, the Thirty-seventh Ohio marched, with its division, to drive off his cavalry, who were operating with the view of impeding the march of the national forces toward and for the relief of Chattanooga. On the 21st of November Chattanooga was reached, and on the nights of the 23d and 24th the regiment crossed the Tennessee river, , opposite Mission Ridge, and held a hill in front of the enemy during the night of the 24th, in order to maintain communication with the first brigade of the division. On the morning of November 25 the regiment participated in an as saint on the enemy's fortified position, in which it lost five men killed and thirty-six wounded, five of the latter being officers. Although not successful in the charge, other points of the rebel line were broken and the enemy• retreated during the following night, and was pursued as far as Ringgold.. At Gravesville, on the 29th of November, the regiment received orders to march with the division to East Tennessee to drive the rebels under Longstreet from that part of the State. This campaign lasted for three weeks, and is memorable from the intense suffering endured by the troops. The weather was intensely cold, the men half clad, and numbers of them shoeless, and were compelled to subsist on half rations ; and yet these brave men endured all these privations without a murmur. On the contrary, unreasonable as it may seem, the men generally were in exuberant spirits, and it was noticed that more humorous jokes were current on that campaign than any that preceded it. On the march back, the regiment remained at Bridgeport, Alabama, until the 26th of December, when it went into camp at Larkinsville, Alabama. In the beginning of the month of February, 1864, the Thirty-seventh formed part of an expedition sent toward Lebanon, Alabama, and on the 15th of the same month it marched to Cleveland, Tennessee, with the Fifteenth Army Corps, on a reconnoissance to the vicinity of Dalton, Georgia,, returning to Larkinsville, Alabama, March 2. On the 8th of March, three-fourths of the men having re-enlisted for another term of three y ears; they were again mustered into the service, and placed in the Second Brigade, Second Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps. The usual thirty days' leave was accorded, which the regiment enjoyed at their homes in Ohio. At the expiration of the furlough the men promptly rendezvoused at Camp Taylor, near Cleveland, and by the 28th of April, 1864, were again at the front, ready for duty. On their way to duty a disastrous railroad accident occurred near Mumfordsville, Kentucky, by which thirty men were wounded and one killed. On the arrival of the regiment at Chattanooga it Was newly armed and equipped, and was immediately ordered to join its division (May 10), then operating in Sugar creek valley, Georgia. On the 13th of May it participated in the advance on Resaca, in which it lost three killed, two of whom were officers, and ten men Wounded. The enemy having been driven out of his strongholds, the division and regiment crossed the Oostenaula river at Lay's Ferry, and marched towards Kingston, Georgia, reaching there on the 19th of May. At this time the Thirty-seventh Ohio was under the command of Major C. Hipp, Lieutenant Colonel L. Von Blessingh being in Ohio on sick leave. In the march on Atlanta, Dallas Was the next point reached. On the 23d of May, the enemy was encountered in strong force at that place, sheltered by a strongly fortified position. In this engagement and at New Hope Church (May 28, 29 and June 1), the regiment only lost four men wounded. On the retreat of the enemy the Thirty-seventh pursued toward Acworth, and went into line of battle in front of Kenesaw 386 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. Mountain, and participated in the memorable and disastrous assault made by the national forces against that stronghold, in which the enemy was compelled to fall back and abandon the position. Up to this point (from June 11 to July 2), the regiment lost four men killed and nineteen wounded. Again on the march, the regiment was next found, with its division, to the extreme right of the army, supporting the Twenty-third Army Corps in the engagements near the Chattahoochie river and Nicojack creek. Immediately after, it was ordered to the left (July 12), and marched through Marietta, Rosswell Factories and across the Chattahoochie river. Strong breast works were built on the south side of the river, and the regiment moved by a rapid march to the Atlanta and Augusta railroad, which was destroyed for a considerable distance. It then moved through Decatur on Atlanta, and on the 20th of July, 1864, encamped within two miles of that city. On the 22d of July the Thirty-seventh Ohio held a position on the right of its division, in the breastworks abandoned by the enemy on the previous night. The enemy, receiving heavy reinforcements, succeeded in breaking the national lines on the left, whereby the Thirty-seventh was flanked and compelled to"get out of that" In this reversed movement it lost four men killed, ten wounded, and thirty-eight taken prisoners. The national forces, stung to the quick by the success of the enemy, turned fiercely upon them, and with the help of the Sixteenth Army Corps, retook the position and held it. On the 27th of July the Fifteenth Army Corps was moved to the right of the besieging army, thereby threatening the enemy's communication With Macon and the South generally. Perceiving too late the advantage that had been gained by the national movement, the enemy made an effort to drive them from their position, and for that purpose the battle of Ezra Chapel was fought (a fierce encounter) in Which the rebels were severely punished. The Thirty-seventh Ohio held the extreme right in this engagement, was deployed as skirmishers and completely frustrated an attempt of the enemy to turn the national right. Major C. Hipp commanded the regiment in this affair, and lost his left arm at the commencement of the battle. This devolved the command on Captain Morritz, who took the regiment through the remainder of the battle. The regiment lost one man killed and five wounded. Very nearly a month (from July 23 to August 26) was consumed in advancing the national lines toward the fortifications in front of the railroad leading from Atlanta to East Point, during which period the regiment lost five men killed and eight wounded. It then moved With its division, over the Atlanta and Montgomery railroad, toward Jonesboro on the Atlantic and Macon railroad. The 30th of August found the Thirty-seventh in line of battle, moving on Jonesboro in advance of the brigade. Driving the enemy's skirmishers before it, at sundown it had gained a position one half mile west of the railroad, where, during the night, it threw up intrenchments, and participated in the bloody repulse of the enemy's repeated charges on the national position. The loss o. the regiment during these two days (August 30th and 31st), was two killed and seven wounded. Jonesboro was entered by the national troops on the 1st of September at noon. By night, Atlanta was occupied, and the national forces in full pursuit of the rebel army. The pursuit was abandoned at Lovejoy's Station, and the regiment returned to East Point (September 7), where it went into camp and rested until the 4th of October, 1864. The Thirty-seventh Ohio left its camp, in pursuit of the rebel forces under Hood, on the 4th of October. Forced marches were made over Northern Georgia and Alabama, and the enemy's cavalry rear guard encountered near Gadsden, Alabama, on the Coosa river. On the advance of the brigade in line of battle, the enemy retreated in such haste that it was useless for infantry to attempt the pursuit The regiment then returned to Ruffin's Station, near the Chattahoochie river, where it remained up to the 13;h of November. Lieutenant Colonel L. Von Blessingh, having recovered from his illness, joined and resumed command of the regiment, relieving Captain G. Boehm, who had taken the place of Captain Morritz, absent on leave. The great March to the Sea was forming, and its energetic commander, Major General W. T. Sherman, had ordered up to Atlanta all the regi- PAGE 387 - PICTURES OF SAMUEL AND SUSANNAH MOORE PAGE 388 - BLANK HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 389 menu and divisions that could be spared from a General Thomas and the other army corps. On the 13th of November, 1864, the Thirty-seventh Ohio marched into Atlanta to draw the necessary outfit for the long march about to be made. On the 15th it took up the line of march. 'The route of the regiment passed over McDonough's Indian Springs, near which place it crossed the Ocmulgee river; thence through the towns of Hillsboro and Clinton. At the latter place it performed, in company with the Fifteenth Michigan Infantry, valuable guard duty, in preventing the enemy's cavalry from crossing the road leading to Marion, with the view of capturing and destroying a division train, then parked in the town of Clinton. Covering the rear of the division, the regiment marched the next day to Griswold, where it joined its division, and having crossed the Georgia Central Railroad, marched through Ironton. It crossed the Oconee on the 26th of November and, after marching through extensive swamps, arrived at Summertown, November 13. Continuing its march through the low and swampy lands of Georgia., along the southern side of the Ogeechee river, it crossed the Connonchee river on the 9th of December; thence to the line of the Savannah and Gulf Railroad, miles of which, with the assistance of other regiments, it destroyed. Recrossing the Cannonchee, it passed the Ogeechee river and advanced to within nine miles of Savannah. On the 13th, it again crossed the Ogeechee, at King's bridge, advanced on Fort McAllister, which was invested by the national forces and carried by assault the same day. After some days rest the division again marched to the Savannah and Gulf Railroad and completed its destruction for a distance of thirty miles: On the return of the brigade to Savannah it received orders to report to the headquarters of the Fifteenth Army Corps to take part in the contemplated general attack on Savannah. In the meantime, however, the enemy evacuated the city, and the Thirty-seventh Ohio went into bivouac in a camp eleven miles west of the place. It afterward moved into the immediate vicinity of the city and occupied itself in drilling, perfecting its equipment and in fortifying against the enemy, who, it was thought, might possibly make an effort to regain possession of Savannah. On he 19th of January, 1865, the regiment, under orders, marched to Fort Thunderbolt, on the Savannah river, where it embarked for Beaufort, South Carolina, which was reached on the 22d of January. At this point the regiment went into camp until the 27th of January, when it returned o Beaufort and took the division train out of the transports then lying in port at that place. On the 30th it escorted this train to Pocotoligo, and from thence marched to McPhersonville, where it joined the division, and went with it through South Carolina and the southern part of North Carolina. On this march it crossed Coosawattee, the Big and Little Combahee, the South and North Edisto, often wading through water up to the arm pits of the men, and attacking the enemy in fortified positions. After crossing the Congaree, the regiment bivouacked on its banks, five miles south of Columbia. On the 16th of February it crossed the Saluda river, four miles above Columbia, and guarded the division train into Columbia. It crossed Broad river February 18, and was engaged for two days in destroying the track of the Columbia and Charleston railroad. On the 20th of February the regiment continued its march, crossing the Wateree and wading Lynch creek (which had assumed the dimensions of a river), on the 26th. At this point the regiment was compelled to halt until the 2d of March, to allow the balance of the division to come up, freshets and the carrying away of a bridge having retarded the march. On the 7th of March, Cheraw, South Carolina, was entered, and the Great Pedee crossed. The next day (March 8), the State line of North Carolina was crossed. After having crossed the headwaters of the Little Pedee, Lumber river, and Little river, the regiment was ordered to escort General Howard's headquarters and pontoon` trains of the Army of the Tennessee (right wing). It brought the trains safely into Fayetteville, North Carolina, on the 11th of March. On the 14th of March, Cape Fear rider was crossed, the regiment marching on the road leading to Clinton, which was guarded from the enemy's cavalry, then demonstrating in the national front. On the 17th, Beaman's Cross- 390 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. roads was reached, and the national army drew near Goldsboro', North Carolina. On the 22d of March, the regiment marched towards Goldsboro', crossed the Neuse river on the 24th and went into camp two miles east of the town. The regiment remained in this camp until the capitulation of Lee and Johnson, when, with the rest of the national army, it marched, via Richmond, Virginia, to Washington City, there passed in review before President Johnson and his Cabinet. Thence it was transported by rail to Louisville, Kentucky, where it lay until the latter part of June, when the regiment was sent with the Second Division of the Fifteenth. Army Corps to Little Rock, Arkansas, arriving on the 4th of July. The regiment remained in camp there until the 12th of August, when it was mustered out and transported to Cleveland, Ohio, and there discharged, and the men returned to their respective homes. CHAPTER XLIII. WAR OF THE REBELLION-CONTINUED. Sixty-Ninth Battalion, or One Hundred and Forty-Second Ohio N. G. and One Hundred and Forty-Third Ohio N. G -Review of the Sixty-Ninth Battalion-Rosters of Five Companies-Record of the One Hundred and Forty-Second and One Hundred and Forty-Third-Correspondence fro the Front. THE Sixty-ninth Battalion was originally com posed of six companies, but at the time Governor Brough made a call upon the National Guar of Ohio there were but five companies. Two of these companies went into the One Hundred an Forty-second Ohio, and three into the One Hundred and Forty-third Ohio. The Sixty-ninth Battalion absorbed nearly all of the fighting element that was left in Coshocton county, and the interest that was felt in the organization is manifest in the following, published in the Age of date May 14,1864: The Coshocton county National Guards, that had been temporarily dismissed to their home on Wednesday, the 4th inst., reported promptly for duty again on Monday last, and rendezvoused in the fair ground at 4 P. M. Tuesday, when the went aboard a special train, provided to convey them to Camp Chase. The weather, Tuesday was very unpropitious, a cold rain falling all day, and our streets were very muddy, but notwithstanding, a large concourse of people assembled at the depot to see the Sixty-ninth Battalion, O. N. G., depart, and many a friend wished them God speed and a safe return. They are as fine a looking body of men as have yet left the county, and are commanded by officers of known ability. Although calling them into service at the present time is very hard on many of them-in many cases no one being left to cultivate their farms yet they went off cheerfully and in good spirits,. determined to do their duty wherever they may be sent. The Sixty-ninth Battalion was known in the• military records solely as part of the two regiment to which it was assigned as mentioned above. The muster rolls of the five companies are given as they were assigned. Muster rolls of Companies E, G and H, of the One Hundred and Forty-third Ohio: OMPANY E. Officers: . N. R. Tidball, Captain. D. F. Denman, First Lieutenant. J. Willis, Second Lieutenant. M. L. Norris, First Sergeant. C. C. Thompson, Second Sergeant. J. D. Evans, Third Sergeant. J. E. Milner Fourth Sergeant. Reuben Jennings, Fifth Sergeant. D. Laffer, First Corporal. John Day, Second Corporal. F. Suttlemeyer, Third Corporal. D. S. Waggoner, Fourth Corporal. William Watson, Fifth Corporal. George Moffit, Sixth Corporal: William H. Mayberry, Seventh Corporal. D. W. Horton, Eighth Corporal. Alonzo McClure, Drummer. M. S. Beebe, Fifer. Privates. - S. Anderson, A. J. Bricker, W. E_ Butler, Howard Cass, H. Lurch, James Donehew, John Dennis, J. B. Elliott, Jackson Engle, D. H. Ewing, William Frew, H. Fortune, J. Fortune,. Joseph Guinther, Joel Glover, G. W. Gilbert, James Hay, A. C. Hay, J. P. Hay, F. Hammtree.. E. Hastings, Harrison Hart, Alexander Jennings,.E. Kingler, 0. Laclore, William Lanzer, Robert. HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 391 Love, M. L. Linsey. W. S. Lutz, E. Michael, Wesley Marlatt, Edwin Murphy, Lennel Marlatt, William F. Mobley, D. F. Meyers, R. A. Mohler, J. W. Norman, J. E. Oxley, Thomas Parson, A. P. Perking, S. L. Ricketts, Alexander Richards, Joseph Richards, Robert Sands, William Scott, Thomas Scott, John Sherrod, A. Steward, L. S. Smith, James Stone, Nick Swartz, M. Steenhine, Samuel Taylor, W. S. Tidball, John Fish, Joseph Vincel, Jacob Vincel, George W. Vincel, William Webb, H. Waggoner, A. D. Wells, I. F. Wait, Thomas I. Wells, Elias West, W. H. Williamson, L. H. Whinery, I. A. Williamson. COMPANY G. Officers: John L. Daugherty, Captaiin. Andrew J. Stover, First Lieutenant. Daniel Rose, Second Lieutenant. Lewis Carhart, First Sergeant. Leander Bryant, Second Sergeant. Barzilla Shaw, Third Sergeant. John W. Graves, Fourth Sergeant. James Reed, Fifth Sergeant. Alexander McCullough, First Corporal. Thomas Le Retilley, Second Corporal. Hiram Hall, Third Corporal. William Austin, Fourth Corporal. Albert Wright, Fifth Corporal. Joseph Graves, Sixth Corporal. Phillip Bible, Seventh Corporal. Samuel S. Waddle, Eighth Corporal. Lewis Reed, Fifer. Martin Hack, Drummer. Samuel Squires, Wagonmaster. Privates -John Allen, Henry Akeroyd, Joseph Blackburn, Henry Bradfield, James Brennernan, William Bradfield, Jeremiah Barcroft, Moses Chaney, Thomas Cook, W. H. Cox, Lewis Cain, William Cullison, Franklin Catrel, William Dodd, William Dawson, J. Dawson, William Dunfee Jared Doolittle, Jesse Fortune, T. J. Edward's, R. Finnel, T. A Finnel, N. Graves, James Graham S. Gooden, Wesley Graves, George Hill, J. Huff man, J. Husten, William Huffman, S. Hues, S Keyes, D. Kern, D. R. Larr, T. Lowery, J. Lowery J. McCullough, F. D. Miller, William McCullough, H. Mulford, J. North, A. Ogle, L. Owen, J. Peart, William Peoples, William Phillip, R. Platt, A. J. Randles, W. G. Ross, Josephus Reed, J. H. Reed, G. Roney, G. C. Robinson, J. Sprigley, G. Sheron, Stewell Squire, J. Stevens, T. Smith, J. Stone, J. W. Taylor, J. W. Turner, M. D. Vaneman, J. W. Vansickel, H. Vansickel, H. Wright, G. W. Wright, COMPANY H. Officers: James Rarie, Captain. John T. Crawford, First Lieutenant. Nathan Elliott, Second Lieutenant. W. H. Park, First Sergeant. Elias Steward, Second Sergeant. Nathan Glover, Third Sergeant. Thomas Love, Fourth Sergeant. Andrew Jack, Fifth Sergeant. John Waters, First Corporal. John Weir, Second Corporal. John E. Baker, Third Corporal. Harvey Ford, Fourth Corporal. Robert McGee, Fifth Corporal. John A. Duncan, Sixth Corporal. Robert McKarr, Seventh Corporal. Daniel Overholt, Eighth Corporal. James P. Lanning, Musician. Privates -John M. Adams, John Andrews, Gabriel Andrews, Robert D. Boyd, Samuel E. Bechtol, Ramsey W. Boyd, James H. Boyd, Henry B. Boyd, Samuel G. Bechtol, John C. Boyd, Francis M. Buckalew, Aaron Fitzwater, Hammon Carnahan, William A. Carnahari, Leander Catterell, John Derr, Joseph Davis, Jonas H. Duncan, Joseph R. Duncan, George Derr, William Derr, Thomas G. Ensley, Simeon H. Ellis, James Elliott, George W. Elliott, William A. Ensley, Robert B. Finley, William G. Jack, Thomas L. Karr, John W. Karr, Andrew Karr, George Kuhn, Benjamin J. Lower, Harrison Ling; Miland A. Larance, Sylvester Leant, John B. Linn, Joseph Ling, James L. Moorhead, Alex. McConnell, James Overholt, John J. Robertson, Cyrus Rey, James E. Reed, Harvey E. Shannon, William Shannon, Samuel Stonehocker, William Stewart, William F. Sands, Thomas Shannon; Isaac Stafford, Thomas C. Sager, Joseph Stonehocker, Emanuel Spangler, Isaac M. Smith, Abraham 392 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. Shaffer, David Stewart, Robert G. Terbit, Robert W. Thompson, Richard Watters, J. A. Williamson, Ebenezer Williamson, John T. Whitemore, Emanuel Winklepleck. Muster Rolls of Companies E and G of the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio: COMPANY E. Officers Lambert B. Wolf, Captain. John Weatherwax, First Lieutenant. B. F. Leighninger, Second Lieutenant. Joseph Fletcher, First Sergeant. Ralph Barcroft, Second Sergeant. Anderson Hedge; Third Sergeant. William McLaughlin, Fourth Sergeant. Charles Conley, Fifth Sergeant. Hiram Phillips, First Corporal. Asa H. Lose, Second Corporal. Aaron G. Hedge, Third Corporal. George Leighninger, Fourth Corporal. Orin Jennings, Fifth Corporal. Milton Brelsford, Sixth Corporal. B. F. Chamberlain, Seventh Corporal. F. W. Culbertson, Eighth Corporal. Musicians - Joseph Love, Fifer; Alonzo Sibley, Drummer. Privates.- L. F. Annsbaugh, Adam Aaronhalt, E. D. Baker, Jacob Brewer, Josiah Bible, Trusdal Babcock, David Barcroft, Christ. Bowers, Samuel Brillhart jr., L. G. Cheverant, Isaac Casbear, H W. Duling, Martin Duling, James Frazee, W. H. Fowler, Benjamin Fuller, Eli Fox, Josiah Green, Porter Hedge, Peter Holser, O. P. Jones, Joseph Jones, Samuel Jones, H. W. Jennings, James H. Johnson, D. W. Kelley, A. H. Lewis, A. J. Loos, Levi Lehninger, Levi Levengood, J. M. Mathena, C. H. Mathena, Francis McGuire, C. Meek, D. B. Mulvaine, Samuel McKee, A.W. Moffet, John Morrison, W. S. Magness, A. J. McCoy, J. A. McClain, David Norman, Richard Owens, J. Poland, Philemon Phillips, David Phillips, John Phillips, Adam Potter, W. J. Price, Joel Reherd, Lemuel Reherd, James Richmond, Henry Vanolinder, James Vanolinder, Levi Vansickle, William Venrick, Harrison West, William Williamson, E. D. Wells, William Wolf, Milton N. Wolf, S. P. Woodward, William Williams, J. L. Watson, J. Williamson, E. Weathwax. COMPANY G. Officers: Caleb Wheeler, Captain. David Lawson, First Lieutenant. Solomon McNabb, Second Lieutenant. Joseph J. Barren, First Sergeant. Joseph J. Maggs, Second Sergeant. John Johnson, Third Sergeant. L. H. Hogle, Fourth Sergeant. John J. Given, Fifth Sergeant. Aaron Clark, First Corporal. John W. Edwards, Second Corporal. J. W. Moore, Third Corporal. William H. Cullison, Fourth Corporal. J. W. Thompson, Fifth Corporal. Cyrus Elder, Sixth Corporal. Adam Trimble, Seventh Corporal. G. W. Cullison, Eighth Corporal. Privates. - Joshua Ammond, John Barrett, James Barrett, John Bennett, M. Batemen, Alexander Barren, J. S. Barcroft, Henry Brilhart, G. W. Crooks, John Cullison, Daniel Cammel, Newton Calhoon, D. Cullison, M. Cullison, Ben Cullison, J. W. Clark, J. S. Churchill, Alonzo Clark, Thomas Carter, Charles Dehuff, Jesse Downer, John Darr, Samuel Deviney, D. Dorsey, David Daniels, Stanton Fry, N. C. Guinn, S. Gilbert, Henry Hayns, William Hubenthal, Thomas Jones, Samuel Knoff, Robert Kyle, Joseph Landers, John Little, Robert Long, Thomas Little, W. N. Lamey, S. Lanning, Daniel Miller, A. J. Mackey, W. S. Masterson, Corwin McCoy, Joseph McCoy, L. Ogean, R. Phillips, W. R. Polo, M. Pomeroy, H. Plummer, David Richcreek, T. O. Schooley, Joseph Speaks, J. W. Stanton, G. W. Smith, William Stewart, Joseph Smith, R. Smith, G. W. Stover, Joseph Treadway, H. Terry, John Taylor, G. S. Tredway, N. Thompson, Franklin Ulman, R. Willis, C. W. Wilson, H. Wolford, John Yunker. The One Hundred and Forty-second was organized at Camp Chase, Ohio, and mustered into the service of the United States for 100 days, May 12, 1864. On the 14th it was marched through the streets HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 393 of Columbus to the State arsenal, where it was supplied with Enfield muskets. Thence it took ears for Martinsburg, Virginia, where it remained drilling until the 19th of May, and then left for Washington, D. C., but meeting with detention at Harper's Ferry, on account of the bridge being destroyed at that point, it did not reach the capitol until the 21st. From Washington it marched out to Fort Lyon, nine miles distant. The regiment did not reach the fort until late at night, and finding no barracks, the men tasted their first experience of soldier life by lying prone upon the naked ground. That night's experience will be long remembered ; and many a good jolly laugh has been expended at the recollections of the learned and serious conversations of the night about "suffering for the country," " the Valley Forge day s repeated," etc. Their subsequent experience of the hardships and privations of the soldier's life threw that night's "frolic" far into the shade. The regiment remained at Fort Lyon, busily engaged in strengthening the fortifications and perfecting its drill, until the 5th of June, when orders were received to report to General Abercrombie at White House Landing, on the Pamunkey river. Among the men some astonishment was expressed that they should be selected for duty at the extreme front; but as good loyal soldiers, they felt gratified at the confidence reposed in them. The regiment took steamer at Alexandria on the 7th of June, and arrived at the White House Landing, Pamunkey river, on the 9th of June about midnight, and went into camp in the open field. The wounded from the battle of Coal Harbor, then in progress, were being brought in a gloomy reception to inexperienced soldiers. Without rest, the regiment, carrying six days' rations, left all its baggage and marched, at 4 o'clock in the morning, to guard a supply train through the Wilderness„ to General Grant's front, near Coal Harbor, a distance of sixteen miles. Arriving there in the evening, Colonel Cooper reported to General Meade, who ordered him to report his regiment to General Butter, at Bermuda Hundred. This point was reached, by water, on the 13th of June, where, without being permitted to land, it was conveyed on transports to Point of Rocks, about five miles below Petersburg. Here it was landed, and marched about six miles to the extreme right of the national line. Thinking to get a night's rest, the tired soldiers lay down on their blankets, but just as they had lapsed into dreamy forgetfulness, the long roll was sounded. Leaving its tents standing, the regiment was marched three miles on the double-quick, through a dense pine forest, dark, and filled with stumps and underbrush, over which the men often stumbled and fell. The point to be defended was reached, and the men were immediately placed in rifle-pits, in which exposed position they passed about a week. They were then detailed to destroy a line of earthworks from which the enemy had been driven. While engaged in this duty, they were resisted by the rebels, but the regiment, with the aid of other troops on the line, not only effectually completed the destruction, but drove the rebels from the field. Hardly a day passed without the regiment or detachments from it being detailed to perform picket and fatigue duty. At one time the whole regiment was detailed to build a fort at Turkey Bend, on James river, which duty it performed with credit and dispatch, although incessantly annoyed by shells from a hostile battery. On the 19th of August it received orders to repair to Washington City, as its term of service had about expired. It accordingly embarked on transports, at Bermuda Hundred and reached Washington City on the 21st It then went by rail to Camp Chase, Ohio, and was there mustered out of the service of the United States on the 2d of September, 1864. The One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio National Guard was principally raised in the county . of Knox, and was composed of men from all the various departments of life. The farmer, the mechanic, the lawyer-aye, and the minister-all ceased their vocations for a time, and offered their services-and their lives, if need be to insure the perpetuity of the Union and its institutions. Out of an aggregate strength of eight hundred and forty-five men the regiment lost fifty, mostly from disease incident to camp life, excessive fatigue and exposure. 394 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. The One Hundred and Forty-third regiment was formed by consolidating the Eighteenth Battalion, Ohio National Guard, of Columbiana county, with the Sixty-ninth Battalion, Ohio National Guard, of Coshocton county. It was organized at Camp Chase, Ohio, on the 13th of May, and on the 15th left for Washington City. On its arrival it was assigned to Haskins' division, Second Army Corps, and was placed on garrison duty in Forts Slemmer, Slocum and Stevens, north of the Potomac. On the 8th of June the regiment embarked for White House, but without debarking, it was ordered to Bermuda Hundred. It was assigned to the Tenth Army Corps, and was placed in the intrenchments at City Point, where it remained until ordered to Fort Pceahontas. It was relieved from duty at Fort Pocahontas, August 29, and proceeded to Camp Chase, where it arrived on the 5th of September, and was mustered out of service on the 12th. The two companies of the Sixty-ninth Battalion O. N. G., which were assigned to the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio, had much severer tasks assigned them than fell to the lot of the three companies forming part of the One Hundred and Forty-third. The causes are worthy of notice. The two regiments pursued the same route and were passing through similar experiences until the 5th of June, when both regiments were ordered to White House Landing, on the Pamunkey river, to re-enforce General Abercrombie. On this passage, while the boat, named "Iolas,"-which contained the three companies of the One Hundred and Forty-third, among others-was on its route, at ten P. M., it was run into by a large schooner, and part of the deck swept overboard. Fortunately no one was up, except Captain N. R. Tidball and Private Lewis Smith, and there was in consequence no personal injury, although the boat was so much damaged, she was lashed to the schooner, and in the morning, was ordered back to Washington. The incident separated the two regiments, and orders did not call them together again during their hundred days service. While Company E, of the One Hundred and Forty-third, was acting as garrison for Fort Stevens, about four miles north of Washington city, an incident occurred that excited some consternation among the men. Quite a number of the men, upon eating rice, were attacked with sickness and vomiting. Fifteen or twenty gasping, choking victims created quite an excitement in the mess, and it was thought that an effort had been made to poison the men, but no serious results following, and the attempt not being repeated, the matter was passed by without investigation. During the month of June the One Hundred and Forty-third built a pontoon bridge across the Appomattox; the regiment was then encamped at City Point. It was arduously engaged in this labor, and also in the building of heavy fortifications at Fort Pocahontas, at which point earthworks of the most extensive character were being constructed. These were mainly built by the One Hundred and Forty-third. The mortality among the men was very heavy, owing partly to the sudden change of climate and water in the hot months of the year, and partly to the heavy exertions required in the building of fortifications and the exposure requisite to their completion. Company E of the One Hundred and Forty-third lost eight men, all of whom died from exposure and heavy work, even though cared for in the best wards of the hospitals. The first member of the old Sixty-ninth Battalion who lost his life in the one hundred days' service was Elias West, who had been assigned to Company E of the One Hundred and Forty-third. His death was followed by those of W. E. Butler and A. C. Hay, at Fortress Monroe; John Dennis, Reuben Jennings and Thomas C. Scott, at Wilson's Landing. The following item, published in the Age of date July 23,1864, will serve to show how heavy was the tax of climate and labor on the boys during their brief, but memorable, one hundred days' service F. C. Ricketts, of this place, returned a few days ago from a visit to Washington, and reports the following boys on the sick list. His report may be relied upon: Company H-W. A. Carnahan, in general hospital, Alexandria, Virginia;. Andrew Karr and T. J. Karr, in Howard hospital, Washington, D. C.; Samuel Stonehocker, James Overholt, W. G. Jack, E. Spangler, Joseph Ling, S. Leavitt and J. HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 395 E. Reed, in Hampton hospital, Fortress Monroe, and N. S. Glover, at Wilson's Landing, Virginia. All the above are convalescent. S. E. Bechtol and J. A. Williamson, at the same hospital, are very sick, cases doubtful. T. C. Saver deed at Fortress Monroe, and Eli Seward at Wilson's Landing. Company G-Sick in Hampton hospital, Fortress Monroe: A. Wright, S. S. Waddle, J. North, J. Dawson, J. Barcroft, H. Wright and J. Forums; sick in cam : L. Cain, W. Austin, W. H. Cox, A. Ogle, W. H. Bradfield, A. McCullough and William Peoples. Company E-Sick in hospital at Fortress Monroe: Lieutenant D. F. Denman, J. P, Randles, J. R. Stone, A. Donohew, L. Marlatt, T. J. Wells, O. Leeclair, E. Hastings and W. H. Williamson. Captain N. R. Tidball and W. S. Tidball are at Washington, and arc convalescent. J. Vinsel and George Gilbert are in the hospital at Alexandria, Virginia. In camp hospital at Wilson's Landing: Robert Sands, E. McMichael, W. Marlatt, A. P. Perkins, D. F. Meyers, J. C. Glover and W. S. Lutes. The following extracts from letters from the boys of the One Hundred and Forty-second and One Hundred and Forty-third, will show how they demeaned themselves and how proud they felt of the old Sixty-ninth batallion. CAMP CHASE, COLUMBUS, OHIO, May 12, 1864. Owing to detentions along the road we did not reach Columbus until about twelve o'clock at night. After floundering around the freight depot until nearly two o'clock, e. M., we were ordered to repair to Tod barracks where we obtained quarters till morning. As the night was cold, and the men pretty well soaked with the rain, our slumbers were not as pleasant as we liked, but a good breakfast in the morning fixed matters all right, and at 11, A. M., we marched for Camp Chase, four miles from Columbus, and by dark we were arranged comfortably. In organizing one of the companies of the old Sixty-ninth, Company B, of Spring Mountain, suddenly vanished and ceased to exist. Owing to some of the companies being below the minimum strength, it became necessary to consolidate, and Company B, being the smallest it was divided among the others as follows: one man to Company A, one man to Company C, nineteen men to Company D, fourteen men to Company E, eleven men to Company F. Captain Wetherwax, of Company B, was offered, and accepted, the position of First Lieutenant in Company E, to fill the vacancy caused by the withdrawal of Lieutenant Reherd, who goes home. A consolidation has been effected by which companies A, C and D, are attached to Columbiana county battalion, forming a regiment Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas retains his position, as does also Surgeon S. H. Lee. We regret the loss of Major George Marshall, Lieutenant S. L. Edwards and Quartermaster George Ridgely, who. are thrown out by the consolidation and are obliged to go home much against their will. They had the honor of going with us as far as they were able. The old Sixty-ninth is no more for 100 days these arrangements lasting only during the time we are mustered into the Unite States service, after which the Sixty-ninth will be herself again. The following is from the Age of May 28,1864: HARPER'S FERRY, VA, We left Columbus Saturday evening, and after a long and tedious ride reached Martinsburg, about twenty miles from Harper's is Ferry: We had the pleasure of meeting William A. McKee, formerly superintendent of the Coshocton Union School. He is stationed at Martinsburg with two companies of his regiment as guards Other regiments of Ohio National Guards are constantly arriving and are being transported over the river in a common open flat boat or a rope ferry. Our two Coshocton companies of the One hundred and Forty-second are considered by Colonel Cooper as the beat in the regiment The Colonel is from Mount Vernon and is an older brother of Dr. P. L Cooper, formerly of Coshocton, Much surprise is shown among the people ogle here along the line of the railroad, at Ohio being able to send so many new troops into the field. One, on being informed that the national guard numbered 40; 000 men, all under marching orders, replied, "dey must be lots of you-uns up in 'Hio dar." Again in the Age, bearing date July 2,1864, appears the following: WILSON"S LANDING, VIRGINIA, June 22,1864. EDITOR AGE: Having a little leisure time, I will give you all the news we have. We hear General Grant giving his batteries a little exercise at the rate of about one hundred shots a minute. We hope to hear of the fall of the rebel capitol pretty soon. We are .at present stationed at a very nice, healthy place, situated about twenty-five miles below Richmond, on a high bluff overlooking the James river. "Uncle Abe" has been up, to the front and" is now passing this place on his way back, We have been to the front, but were sent here to guard the "Cracker Line." Our regiment is all on fatigue duty, and, if we stay here long, we will have this place well forti- 396 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. fled; in fact it is very strong now, and if the "Johnnies" wish to give us a trial, they will receive a hot reception. We were \with the One Hundred and Forty-second, the other day, at Point of Rocks. Several of our boys are under the weather; our long trip on the water helped make the most of them sick. Lieutenant Denman has been unfit for duty for several days. The most of the one hundred days' men take to soldiering like ducks to water, and it would be hard to tell them from veterans. The Age, of date July 23, 1864, publishes as follows WILSON"S LANDING, July 14, 1864. ED. AGE: By request of the members of Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third Regiment O. N. G., I write to you, to let our friends in Coshocton county know how we are getting along. Our regiment is doing guard duty at this place, along with the One Hundred and Sixty-third O. N. G., and two batteries of artillery from New York State. When we came here, the fortifications were only about half completed, and we were called on to do a considerable amount of fatigue duty, to put the place in a more perfect state of defense. Our defenses are now about perfect, and it will require a considerable amount of courage on the part of the rebels to make a successful assault on us. Our sick list has been very large, but it is now getting down to a very few names; it has been up to forty-three. Also, in same issue: In a letter just received, from A. F. Fritchey, Quartermaster of the One Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G., he writes as follows of that regiment Our boys, as a general thing, are contented, and take pleasure in doing their duty, and although we have seen a little rougher times than we did at home, yet we have been favored in every way, when we compare our situation with the veterans who have been here with us. Our food is good and plenty-all receive the regular rations of pork, fresh beef, soft and hard bread, beans, hominy, etc., etc., and the Sanitary Commission, God bless it, has not overlooked us. A number of our boys have been sent to the hospital, sick, but we find the health of our regiment is remarkably good, especially Company G, from Warsaw, Coshocton county. . And again, in the issue of August 13, is the following BERMUDA HUNDRED, AUGUST 8, 1864. ED. AGE : As we are here at Bermuda Hundred, in front of the enemy, in connection with a few other regiments, holding our works from the James river in sight of Fort Darling across to the Appomattox, the old troops relieved by us having gone forward with General Grant's main army, I am glad, and I think that every hundred days' man that ever called himself a "Union man" will be proud that the government has palled upon us to perform some actual service. The government has called upon us to go out in front of our last breastwork, in front of the enemy, to perform picket duty: The boys do this part of their work the most cheerfully and willingly of any, and the more so because it is not generally connected with garrison duty, which was understood to he the extent of the duty required of us when called out from Ohio. As we become more accustomed to a soldier's life we feel its roughness less. We have frequently been called out in line of battle, and the call has always been obeyed with as much alacrity apparently as a call to dinner. We may be attacked any day; if so, I believe the One Hundred and Forty-second will acquit herself honorably. If our soldierly qualities are not put to such a test before we come home, we want no reception but a friendly shake of the hand-your honors should be reserved for the veterans. CHAPTER XLIV. WAR OF THE REBELLION-CONCLUDED. Cavalry and Artillery-History of the Ninth Ohio Cavalry Roster of Company M-Correspondence from the Front- History of the Twenty-sixth Battery-Its Organization from the Thirty-second Infantry-Petition of Veterans, and En- dorsement of Coshocton County-Military Committee for New Organization. IN the Ninth Ohio Cavalry, Coshocton found a representation in Company M, which was recruited by Colonel James Irvine, formerly colonel of the first organization of the Sixteenth O. V. I. Its muster roll at enlistment was as follows OFFICERS. James Irvine, Captain. Joseph McCulloch, First Lieutenant. James Stonehocker, Second Lieutenant.. John Carhart, Jr., First Sergeant. Sylvester A. Ellis, Quartermaster. Thomas Carnahan, Commissary. James M. Humphry, First Sergeant. William Wicken, Second Sergeant. Charles M. Pike, Third Sergeant. HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 397 John E. Snyder, fourth Sergeant. Samuel P. Mingus, Fifth Sergeant. Stephen Novels, First Corporal. Martin W. Griffin, Second Corporal. Caleb S. Ely, Third Corporal. Robert E. Tavener, Fourth Corporal. Alexander Carnahan, Fifth Corporal. J. A. Williamson, Sixth Corporal. Thomas Richards, Seventh Corporal. Frank H. Pen, Eighth Corporal. John Glass, Saddler. Privates.-J. Allen, William Allen, L. W. Barton, J. Bible; S. H. Black, S. Borden, T. Buttler, N. S. Carnahan, S. Collier, M. Comstock, C. H. Critchfield, J. W. Davis, R. H. Deems, T. Dickerson, G. Dusenberry, P. Donoho, T. J. Edwards, W. Enwright, A. Evans, G. Fisher, H. Fivecoats, F. D. Forker, J. T. Frazee, A. Green. G Green, J. Greer, P. Hazle, T. J. Hardesty, :1I. Harrington, C. W. Harrington, G. Hibbetts, S. Hoglan, J. Hoglan, S. Hook, M. Infelt, J. Jennings, A S. Joy, L. Keever, M. Lear, A. Leclair, D. Leech, Long baugh J. H. Luse, J. S. Mankin, F. McCoy, William McLaughlin, S. Michael, Israel Perry, J. Porter, J. Rider, C. F. Sohneid, G. W. Slusser, C. Smith, W. Smith, J. Smith, J. Smith 2d, W. C. Starkey, J. T. Stonehocher, L. Stokes, A. Taylor, D. H. Thocker, J. Thomas, William Thomas, J. Tinsman, A. Wells, J. Wicken, J. Wines, B. F. Wright. On the 3d of October, 1862, Governor Tod received instructions front the President to raise three regiments of cavalry, to be known as the Eighty-Ninth and Tenth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. A short time previous to this Captain W. D. Hamilton, of the Thirty-second Ohio Infantry, then stationed at Winchester, Virginia, had been ordered from the field to recruit another company for that regiment. He had enlisted fifty men for that purpose, when the regiment with a number of others was captured by Stonewall Jackson. September 15, 1862, Captain Hamilton reported for instructions to the Governor, who assigned the duty of organizing a cavalry command, to be known as the Ninth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. The men recruited for the captured regiment formed the nucleus, and the remainder was raised in the eastern portion of Ohio. They rendezvoused at Zanesville. On the 1st December seven companies were ready for muster, but three of these companies were transferred to complete the Tenth Ohio Cavalry, then organizing at Cleveland. The four remaining companies were designated the First Battalion of the Ninth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and were ordered to Camp Dennison. Here the battalion was equipped and remained under drill until April 23, when it was ordered to report fur field duty at Lexington, Kentucky. It was then ordered to Clay county„ to drive out a rebel force and protect the country. The battalion, consisting of 300 effective men moved forward, driving the enemy from the mountain regions, and established its camp at Manchester. The command remained in this region, having frequent skirmishes with the enemy, until the 16th of June, when an expedition was planned to penetrate into East Tennessee, to ascertain the condition of the inhabitants, and to destroy some extensive factories below Knoxville. The whole force consisted of about 2,000 mounted men, in which were 200 of the battalion. On the night of the 16th of June, this force crossed the Cumberland river at Williamsburg, and moved toward Big Creek Gap, a rebel stronghold commanding one of the entrances into East Tennessee, between Cumberland Gap and Knoxville. The main road to this point crossed a spur of the Cumberland mountains at Pine Mountain Gap a strong pass which was held by the enemy. By a strategic movement, the rebels were surprised and nearly all captured, without firing a gun. Next morning the command moved toward Big Creek Gap, and when within about twelve miles-the first battalion of the Ninth Ohio, being in the advance-the enemy was encountered, and skirmishing was kept up until he was driven within his works at the Gap. The enemy evacuated, and without opposition, the command accomplished its designs. The battalion returned to London, Kentucky,, where, on the evening of July 5, an order was received to report to Stanford, Kentucky. It traveled all night and arrived at Stanford, a distance of fifty miles, at three o'clock next day. It 398 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. was then ordered to Danville to check the progress of General Morgan. He having avoided Danville, the battalion was ordered back to Wild Cat, near London, to watch and embarrass the progress of the rebel General Scott, who, it was reported, had entered with a cavalry force, by way of Cumber land Gap, to support General Morgan. General Scott took a circuitous route to the right and a force hastily organized at Camp Dick Robinson was sent in pursuit. In the running fight of ten days the battalion, part of the time, marched at the rate of fifty-seven miles in twenty-four hours -the men living chiefly on blackberries, which they gathered by the roadside while the horses were resting. On the 1st of August the battalion proceeded from Stanford to Glasgow, Kentucky, a distance of one hundred miles, where a cavalry brigade 'was organizing under orders of General Burnside, which was destined to take the advance of his expedition into East Tennessee. On the 17th of August this brigade moved forward and crossed the Cumberland river near Burkesville, where it was met by General Burnside in command of the infantry. The cavalry took the advance across that portion of the Cumberland mountains supposed to present the fewest obstacles to the passage of an army. During this march both men and horses were, sometimes, two days without food. Knoxville was taken with but little opposition. Major Hamilton was appointed provost marshal of the city, and the battalion was assigned to patrol and guard duty around the suburbs. During this time very strong efforts were made in the North to obtain recruits for the army. An order had been issued to raise two more battalions to complete the Ninth, and Major T. P. Cook, formerly of the Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was assigned by Governor Tod to take charge of the recruits at Camp Dennison. On the 6th of November, the second battalion for the regi ment was organized. On the 16th of December the regiment was completed by the organization of the third battalion. The two battalions, raised to their maximum number, together with one hundred recruits for the old battalion, were at once furnished with horses, were armed and equipped with sabers and Smith carbines, and were carefully drilled in camp until February 6. 1864, when they were ordered to proceed by water to Nashville, Tennessee. They embarked at Cincinnati, upon seven steamboats, and proceeded as far as Louisville, Kentucky, where, by reason of the reported presence of some guerrillas in that State, they, disembarked and marched through the country to Nashville. The march was made without opposition. The regiment was then attached to the left wing of the Sixteenth Army Corps and ordered to report for field duty at Athens, Alabama. Here the two battalions were assigned the duty of watching the movements of the enemy along the Tennessee river. At this time Colonel Hamilton proceeded to Knoxville with orders for the first battalion to join the regiment. The severe campaign, through which this part of the regiment had passed, rendered an entire equipment necessary. For this purpose the men were sent by rail to Nashville, where, after much trouble and delay on account of the difficulty of procuring horses this battalion took the field and joined the others at Athens, Alabama. Four companies were ordered to the shoals of the Tennessee river, twenty-five miles from Athens, to examine the islands in that portion of the river reported to have stock and pro visions secreted there. This occupied nearly a week. During this time Company G was sent to the vicinity of Florence, Alabama, twenty-five miles further down the river, to examine the country and collect stock. On the night of the 13th of April an Alabama regiment surrounded a barn, in which the men were sleeping, shot two of the sentinels, and, after a short struggle, succeeded in capturing Captain Hetzler, Second Lieutenant Knapp, and thirty-nine men. The remainder of the company escaped and reported at headquarters near the shoals, where they arrived the next evening. The remaining three companies were pushed forward with all speed but they failed to rescue the prisoners. The non-commissioned officers and men were sent to Andersonville prison. Eight months after the capture, Orderly Sergeant Kennedy reported that twenty-five of the number had died. Captain Hetzler and Lieutenant Knapp were sent to Columbia, South Caro- HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 399 lina. Lieutenant Knapp, after two unsuccessful efforts to escape, in which he was retaken by the aid of bloodhounds, finally succeeded in reaching Knoxville, Tennessee, after traveling three weeks, principally at night, securing food and assistance from the negroes. At one time he heard the hounds on his trail, and again would have been captured but for the generous assistance of a negro, who, after giving him something to eat, said :"Now, bress de Lord, Masse Yank, you jist trust to me, and we'll fool dem dogs You trot along fust, den I'll come, too, steppin' in your tracks. Go 'bout half mile, den you come to some watch ; you take to de right, fro dat, den I'll keep on t'other way.See, dem dogs is used to huntin' niggers ; dey knows de smell, and likes to follow de black man's foot " "But," said the lieutenant, surprised at this singular but devoted offer, " but the dogs will catch you, and probably tear you to pieces." "Oh, massa," said he, "let this nigger alone for dat; I'se fooled dem dogs afo' for de Yanks ; and, bress de Lord, I'll try it again. Now trot along, massa, for I hear dem dogs a comin:" Shortly after crossing the pond the lieutenant heard the hounds howling in the direction taken by the negro, and he was no longer disturbed. He afterward joined the regiment at Savannah, Georgia, in January, 1865. Captain Hertzler remained a prisoner until near the close of the war, when he was exchanged. Another battalion of the Ninth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry was sent out in the vicinity of Florence to patrol the river and keep watch of the movements of the enemy. In this work the regiment was engaged for about three weeks, living upon the country. The river was guarded for a distance of fifty miles, and frequent skirmishes with the enemy took place. The regiment was ordered to report at Decatur, Alabama, where it arrived on the 5th of May. On the morning of the 8th, the enemy made an attack upon the place. The Ninth moved out to ascertain the strength of the enemy, upon the skirmish line, a half a mile from the works: The country was about equally divided between tim ber and level, open land. The rebels formed on the open ground, and, as the regiment swung around the timber, a battle took place, in which the rebels were driven back in confusion. The Ninth had one man killed and three severely wounded. For weeks the enemy's pickets were posted within two miles of the town, and cavalry skirmishes were of daily occurrence. About the 1st of June the regiment was sent to Pulaski, to re-enforce the Seventh Illinois Infantry, which had been driven from Florence. After driving the enemy back beyond Florence and remaining a few days, it returned to Decatur. When it became known that the rebels received large supplies over the Atlanta and West Point railroad, it became necessary to destroy it. Of the 2,500 men chosen to effect this, 700 were from the Ninth Cavalry. The command started as secretly as possible, desiring to strike the road anywhere between the extreme point guarded by General Johnston's troops, and Montgomery, Alabama. It left Decatur on the 10th of July. For three days the command was unmolested, except by bushwhackers. In the evening of the third day the command reached the Coosa river, and found a force of the enemy preparing to dispute its passage. A contest ensued in which the enemy suffered severely. On the evening of July 17, the command reached the village of Sochopolka, upon the railroad, thirty miles east of Montgomery, and about 200 miles south of Decatur. It was almost exhausted, yet it went immediately to work to destroy the road. For a few days the command was engaged in this work, and was attacked several times, in rear and front, by the enemy. This expedition traveled, on an average, twenty hours per day, effectually destroyed twenty-five miles of an important railroad, 100 miles beyond the rebel lines, and sustained, comparatively, a small loss. That of the Ninth cavalry amounted to twenty-six men, mostly captured white foraging. Having accomplished its purpose it started in a northeasterly direction, and reached General Sherman's lines, near Marietta, on the 22d of July. Two days after arriving at Marietta, the regiment was ordered to report to Brigadier General McCook, who was starting upon a raid around the right and rear of Atlanta: Upon arriving at the Chattahoochie river, thirty miles below the city, the horses of the regiment were found to be too much jaded to attempt to make the raid. It remained, therefore, at the river, guarding the pon- 400 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. toon bridge which had been brought to effect a crossing. The enemy sent a force to destroy the bridge, but did not succeed. After defending it until the evening of the next day, the regiment lifted the bridge and returned to the national lines. After a week's rest at Viningo Station, it was ordered to report to Colonel Garrard, commanding a cavalry division upon the extreme right of General Sherman's army in front of Atlanta. Here it remained on duty until the fall of that city, one battalion doing service at the battle of Jonesboro'. Four hundred and fifty men of the regiment, who had been dismounted while with Garrard, were ordered to Nashville to procure horses. On the night of the 2d of September, while the train containing men was passing Big Shanty, Georgia, it was thrown from the track, and six cars were demolished. The enemy, concealed beside the track, opened fire on the wreck. The fire was returned and the cowards fled. One man was killed and three were wounded, by the accident, and two killed and five wounded, by the enemy's fire. Failing to procure horses in Nashville, the regiment proceeded to Louisville, where it obtained them, and returned to Nashville, en route to the front. About ten hours after arriving at Nashville this portion of the regiment formed a part of the force sent out to check General Forrest, who was reported about twenty miles from the city. After various encounters, during a period of ten days. the enemy was compelled to retire beyond the Tennessee river, below Florence, Alabama. This portion of the regiment then proceeded to Chattanooga, en route for Atlanta,. Here a dispatch was received, that the Ninth had been designated as one the regiments comprising a new cavalry division, in the reorganization of the army under General Sherman, and that this portion of the regiment should march to Marietta, as rapidly as possible. On arriving at Marietta, the regimen found the city vacated and partly burned. Push ing on, it arrived at Atlanta on the morning o November 17, having passed over a distance o eighty miles in thirty-six hours. The city being evacuated, the regiment proceeded to McDowell seventeen miles southward, where it joined the other portion of the Ninth. Although the regiment had suffered some severe losses, in killed and wounded, captured and sickness, yet its strength was sustained by recruits, and it was able to number seven hundred men present for duty. From this time the \inch was identified with the cavalry division of General Sherman's army to the coast, It had almost daily encounters with the enemy. Its duty was to cover the march of the infantry, make false marches to deceive the enemy, and at all times prevent him from harassing the columns. On the 20th of November, the third day of the march, skirmishing commenced and continued, more or less, until December 4, when a general engagement took place at Waynesboro, in which the regiment made the second charge and broke the rebel lines. After driving the rebels within their works around Savannah, and while the siege was progressing; the regiment, with part of the cavalry command, moved in a southeasterly direction on the Savannah and Gulf railroad, destroyed parts of it as far as the Alabama river, and succeeded in burning a portion of the extensive trestle-work and bridge across the swamp and river. The expedition returned to Savannah, where the army remained until the latter part of January, 1865. At this time, 150 men of the Ninth, who had been attached to General Thomas' army at the battles of Franklin and Nashville, joined their regiment. On the night of the 3d of February, the cavalry division crossed the Savannah river at Sister's Ferry, forty miles above the city, and commenced the decisive campaign of the Carolinas. Most of the night was occupied in crossing a swamp seven miles wide. On the 6th the regiment, having the advance, encountered the rebels at a. swamp near Barnwell. The men dismounted,. waded the swamp, under cover of the timber, and drove them from their position: From this point, during the march, the enemy made several attempts to check the cavalry under General Kilpatrick, and harassed the infantry. The cavalry was ordered to cover the movements of the army, by making a feint upon Augusta, Georgia. Striking the Augusta and Charleston railroad e at Blackwell, February 9, it tore up the track HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 401 within five miles of Aiken, and twenty-five miles from Augusta. At Aiken the regiment was engaged and assisted in driving the rebels beyond their lines. Orders came to fall back, and the Ninth guarded the rear and protected the ambu lances and artillery. During the march through the Carolinas, the frequent scarcity of grain, as well as the number and character of swamps encountered, rendered a large number of the horses unfit for service, and as the enemy prevented the capture of others, many of the men were dismounted. These were organized into a "dismounted command." On the night of the 9th of March, General Kilpatrick went into camp with the third brigade and the dismounted men, about three miles in advance of the remainder of his command. The Fourteenth Army Corps was about, two miles on the right, and the rebel cavalry, under General Hampton, about the same distance on the left. On the 10th, the rebels dashed in upon the camp and captured the wagons, artillery and many of the officers and men, before they had time to dress themselves. The dismounted men rallied, returned, and opened a close and heavy fire upon the rebels, who were pillaging the camp. A rapid and irregular fight ensued, during which the artillerists recovered their cannon and opened on the enemy. After a short contest, in which twenty-five national and seventy-five rebel soldiers were killed, all the stores were taken by the national forces, and the rebels held at bay until the arrival of the second brigade. After this brigade arrived the rebels were driven from the ground. In the battle of Averysboro on the 15th of March, which was fought by infantry and cavalry on both sides, the Ninth supported the right flank of the Twentieth Corps, and was hotly engaged. At Bentonville, North Carolina, where the final battle was fought, General Kilpatrick's entire division occupied the left flank. After the victory the army moved forward to Goldsboro, North Carolina, where it remained until the 10th of April. General Kilpatrick led the advance upon Raleigh, skirmished a little and on the 14th of April, entered the capitol with but little opposition. On the morning of the 18th, a portion of the left wing of General Johnston's army occupied the village of Chapel Hill. It was protected by a brigade of General Wheeler's cavalry, stationed at a swamp, through which the road passed. At daylight the regiment was ordered to advance and, if possible, effect a crossing. Upon arriving at the swamp the second battalion was dismounted and moved forward through the water, under cover of the cypress timber, until the enemy was brought within range of the Spencer carbines A spirited conflict then. ensued which resulted in the enemy's being driven from his position, leaving a captain and staff officer of General Wheeler and three men dead on the ground. Orders in the meantime had arrived from General Sherman suspending hostilities. After the final surrender of the rebels, the command was ordered to Concord, North Carolina, where it remained on duty until the last of July. The services of the cavalry being no longer necessary, the Ninth, was ordered home. On the 2d of August, 1865, the regimental colors and property were turned over at Columbus, and the regiment was mustered out of service. The following correspondence from the Ninth cavalry, or concerning it, is of interest, and sheds some light upon its record. It was published at various dates in the columns of the Age: CAMP DENNISON, January 25. I suppose it will be of interest to some of your readers to know how the Ninth Ohio Cavalry, or, at least, how Company M, of Coshocton county, is getting on. The boys are In fine spirits and good health generally. Some of them have the mumps and bad colds, but none are in the hospitals. We have had our horses only a month, but have neither saddles nor bridles, as is the case with the entire Third Battalion. This is admitted to be the star company of the regiment. It has never yet been censured by the commanding officer for negligence in any way, and on inspection has always been complimented for its neat and soldier like appearance. J. STONEHOCKER, Second Lieutenant, Company M, Ninth O. C. The following is published in the Age, as copied from the Nashville Times: The most imposing military pageant we have witnessed since the earl days of the civil war appeared in the streets ot Nashville on Saturday a afternoon. It was the Ninth Ohio Cavalry, on its way to the front; it was a war-like troop, com- 402 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. posed of grim, stalwart soldiers, whose bronzed complexion had evidently caught its hue from the pencil of many a sun. The musicians were mounted on cream-colored horses, the first company on black horses, the second on white horses, and the third on bay horses. The martial aspect of this troop excited general admiration. DECATUR JUNCTION, ALABAMA, JUNE 25, 1864. ED. AGE : As none of our boys have written you for a long time, I thought I would post you and our friends through your columns. We are patroling the Tennessee River as far down as Brown's Ferry, a distance of twenty miles below Decatur. Occasionally a rebel patrol tries. to cross the river, but our patrol puts in an appearance, and back goes Mr. Reb. A few nights ago a party of us, under the command of our kind old captain (James Irvine), took a rebel picket post about eight miles in front of Decatur, and returned to Decatur next morning about four o'clock. I think our company is composed of some of the best men that ever left Coshocton county - men who, when called upon to perform any duty, it makes no difference what kind, are always ready and willing to do it without a grumble. As a company, we are proud of the officers appointed over us. They are men that you are acquainted with, and in whom we can place confidence. We are sorry to record so many deaths in our company since we left Ohio. The following is the complete list : Corporal Robert E. Tavener, died March 26, at Athens, Alabama; Samuel Bor den, March 27, at Athens, Alabama ; Patrick Vickers, March 23, at Nashville, Tennessee; Thomas Richards, April 19, at Athens, Alabama; Abraham Spur, April -, at Nashville, Tennessee; John Glass, saddler, April 10, at Athens, Alabama; Lewis W. Barton, May 27, at Athens, Alabama : Daniel Senter, at Mooreville, Alabama.. The rest of the boys are in good health, and are ready at any time for a shot at the rebs. Yours, truly, O. S., Company M, Ninth Ohio V. C. TWENTY-SIXTH OHIO INDEPENDENT BATTERY. The artillery record of Coshocton county is included in the record of the Twenty-sixth Ohio Independent Battery and in an effort that was made (in combination with a petition from the veterans) on the part of the military committee of the county. The record of the Twenty-sixth Ohio Independent Battery is compiled from the official records. The nucleus of this organization was a detachment from the Thirty-second Ohio Infantry (in which Coshocton county had two solid companies). Its complement of men was completed by Captain B. F. Potts (afterward Colonel of the Thirty-second Infantry and Brigadier-General United States Volunteers) at Augusta, Carroll county, in the month of August, 1861. After completion, it was attached to the Thirty-second as Company F, and served with that regiment until July 20, 1862. At that time it was detached for artillery duty at Winchester, Virginia, fully armed and equipped as a battery of light artillery, and called "Potts' Ohio Battery:' On General Pope's retreat, in 1862, Winchester was evacuated and its garrison, including the Twenty-sixth Ohio Battery, retired to Harper's Ferry on the night of the 11th of September. On 'its arrival there one section was immediately ordered to Sandy Hook, an important point on the road leading to Harper's Ferry, and about five miles below that place, where for two days it skirmished with the enemy. On the 13th of September the enemy brought to bear upon this section six pieces of artillery, which it withstood for a time, and until an order was received to fall back toward the Ferry. This order was very difficult of execution, as the national forces had evacuated Maryland Heights, and the enemy had gained a position on the flank of the section in order to prevent it from joining the main force; but, with the aid and support of a Maryland regiment, the section fought its way to the garrison. On the 14th a fierce artillery duel was kept up, in which the entire battery was engaged constantly from 10 A. M. until dark. It was exposed to a fierce fire from Loudon Heights, and an enfilading fire from Maryland Heights. During the same evening the position of the battery was changed to the extreme left of the national line, where the enemy was massing a force with the intention of making a vigorous attack. At sunrise on the 15th the rebels opened upon the battery, front, right and left, with twenty-four guns, and for upward of an hour this unequal contest was continued, and for some time after the white flag had been raised by the national forces. In this engagement the battery occupied an exposed position in an open field, and it was within HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 403 ten yards of its position that Colonel Miles received the wound from the effects of which he died. After the surrender, the battery, with other troops composing the garrison, were paroled, and sent to Chicago, where the company was rejoined to the Thirty-second Ohio Infantry, which had also been surrendered at Harper's Ferry. On the 21st of January, 1863, being exchanged, the battery company again left for the field, in company with the Thirty-second, and served with it through General Grant's Mississippi campaign, until May 16,1864. At the battle of Champion Hills, the brigade to which the Thirty-second was attached charged and turned the enemy's left, capturing a battery of six guns. General John A. Logan, having been informed of the proficiency of Company F in artillery practice, issued an order that these guns should be placed in their charge, and to have them in readiness for action next morning. Notwithstanding, more than one-half the horses had been killed, the harness cut and torn throughout, and numerous damages to repair, yet, by the industry and perseverence of the officers and men, the battery entered the column next morning at daylight, ready for action. The company was now called "Post's Captured Battery," and during the entire siege of Vicksburg was actively engaged. Its position was on the left of Logan's division, but it was afterwards transferred to the right of the same division, and in front of rebel Fort Hill, an extremely exposed position, within three hundred yards of the enemy's works. Although destitute of the facilities of a regularly organized battery, this company endured the dangers and hardships of the entire siege, and received high compliments from Generals McPherson and Logan. On the 3d of August, 1863, the company was again remanded to the Thirty-second Infantry, but was soon after agar again temporarily detached one half with Battery D, First Regiment Illinois Light Artillery, and the other half with the Third Ohio Battery, and was associated with them in the expedition from Vicksburg to Canton, in October, 1863, the first named battery, commanded by S. D. Yost and Lieutenat O. S. Lee, of the Third Ohio Battery. In the expedition both batteries were engaged in several skirmishes. On the recommendation of General James B.. McPheraon, the War Department gave authority to Governor Tod to transfer the company from the Thirty-second Ohio, and on the 22d of December, 1863, it was made into a distinct organization, and designated as the Twenty-sixth Ohio Battery. The Twenty-sixth Ohio Battery, becoming entitled to veteran furlough, it was, on the tat of January, 1864, ordered home to Ohio, where it. remained the customary thirty days. On the 3d day of February, 1864, it returned. to the field at Vicksburg, with recruits sufficient to bring it up to the maximum strength. The battery was a participant in a number of expeditions from Vicksburg and Natchez, resulting in skirmishes. The first raid ( in July, 1864,) made by the battery and other troops, was led by General Slocum. The second was a cavalry raid from Vicksburg to Natchez, in October,. 1864, commanded by Colonel Osband. It was a very rapid and fatiguing march, accompanied. by daily skirmishing. On the 8th of November, 1864, the battery was ordered to report at Natchez, Mississippi, for garrison duty. This was the last of its active service, excepting an occasional brush with guerrillas in the vicinity of Natchez, and across the Mississippi river. After the close of the war it was attached to the Texas expedition, and served on the Rio Grande until August, 1865, when it ,was ordered to Ohio, and on the 2d day of September, 1865, it was mustered out of the service at Tod barricks, Ohio. Following is a list of Coshocton county soldiers who sleep upon Southern soil James Cooper, Company H, Fifty-first O. V. I,. died at Annapolis, Maryland, 1864, from effects of starvation at Belle Isle. William Wales, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I, killed at Stone River, December 29,1862. . George Murphy, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I, killed at Stone River, December 31,1862. Christian Meek, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I, killed at Stone River, December 31,1862. John Mills, Company H, Eighthieth O. V. I., 404 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. killed at Jackson, Mississippi, May -, 1863. Served in the Mexican war and in three months' service in the civil war. Elias West, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died at City Point, Virginia, June, 1864. John N. Henderson, Company F, Eightieth O. V. I, died at Corinth, 1862. John Jennings, Company K, Twenty-fourth O. V. I, died at Andersonville, 1863. George Traxler, Company G, Eightieth O. V. I, died at Paducah, April, 1862. James Laughead, Company G, Eightieth O. V. I, died at Vicksburg, July, 1863. Peter Ray, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, died at Murfreesboro, May, 1863. William T. Ray, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, killed at Mission Ridge, November 25,1863. Joseph Lacy, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, killed at Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863. Jacob Leech, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, killed at Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863. Alonzo Barton, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, died at Danville, Kentucky, October 17,1862 Charles Funk, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, died at Pulaski, Tennessee, November, 1864. William Rogers, Company H, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, killed at Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863. William Doyle, Lieutenant Company H, Eightieth O. V. I, died at Rienza, Mississippi, April, 1862. Jonathan Longshore, Company G, Eightieth O. V. I, killed at Mission Ridge, November 25, 1863. Eli Cross, Company H, Eightieth O. V. I, died at Rock Island, 1863. Adam Weisser, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, died at Nashville, February, 1863. Joel C. Glover, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died at Wilson's Landing, Virginia, September 6, 1864. Benjamin D. Day, Company H, Fifty-first O. V. I, died at Murfreesboro, September, 1862. John Blackburn, Company H, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, killed at Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864. John Flagg, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, died at Bowling Green, Kentucky, November 1862. Reuben Jennings, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died at Wilson's Landing, Virginia, July, 1864. William Welch, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I, killed at Stone River; December 29, 1862. David Owens, Company H, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, killed at Mission Ridge, November 25,1863. Joseph Thornsley, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, died at Chattanooga, December, 1863. Julian Suitt, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, died at Silver Springs, Tenn., November, 1862. Ezekial Norman, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, died at Nashville, February, 1863. Addison Hay, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G ,died at Wilson's Landing, July, 1864. The following is a list of Coshocton soldiers buried in the Coshocton Cemetery John Watson, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, died December 28, 1863. John Gosser, Company I, Eightieth O. V. I, died March, 1872. James E. Beebe, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I, died May 26, 1878. John Lynch, Company A, Sixteenth O. V. I, died February 13, 1862. Samuel Lynch, Company H, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, died April 6, 1863. John B. Crowley, Mexican soldier, died October 24, 1857. William Crowley, died March 8,1874. Albert A. Donahue, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died May 20, 1870. Thomas Parsons, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died July 28,1877. John Wilcox, Company M, Ninth O. V. C., died May 6, 1874. John Taylor, Mexican soldier, died May 15, 1848. Frederick Schweiker, Mexican soldier, died September 8, 1862. Joseph Richards, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died August 4,1869. John Moore, Company H, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, died November 30,1869. Thomas Hartley, Michigan Volunteer Battery, died July, 1869. William Webb, Sixty-first Tennessee, Confederate soldier, died June 12, 1863. HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. -409 George Mahew, Company K, Twenth-fourth O. V. I, died April 4, 1866. Fernando Wright, Company F, Eightieth O. V. I, died February 20, 1872. John Allen, Company G, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died August 13, 1875. A. H. Sell§, Mexican soldier, died January 12, 1854. Richard Lanning, Major Eightieth O. V. I, killed at the battle of Corinth, Mississippi, October 4, 1862. Thomas Scott, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died July 1, 1862. Oscar Bunn, Company L, First Iowa Cavalry, died March 5, 1864. James M. McMichael, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I, died February 13, 1862. Edward McMichael, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G., died August 19, 1864. William Weisser, Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, died January 19, 1863. Patrick S. Campbell, Company H, Eightieth O. V. I, died September 28, 1862. Methias Denman, Fifty-second O. V. I , died March 16, 1863. Thomas Southwell, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. L, died September 22, 1874. George Wilson, First Ohio Artillery, died November 6, 1863. James P. Davis, died February 3, 1880. Martin D. VanEman, Company H, Eightieth, died Joseph O'Donnell, Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-second O. V. I, died July 8,1877. Wils W. Batch, Lieutenant Company F, One Hundred and Ninety-first O. V. I, died January 24, 1881. David H. Bunn, Company G, Fifteenth Iowa Volunteers, died August 25, 1880. Bradley Burt, Company I, Twenty-sixth IIlinois Volunteers, died April 22, 1881. D. C. Johns, First Ohio Sharp-shooters, Company B, died John Barney. Messrs. S. A. Boid and Isaac Ferrel furnish the following list Captain B. F. Hesket, Company C, Fifty-first O. V. I, died January 2, 1863, from the effects of wounds received at the battle of Stone River, January 2, 1863. John Q. Winklepleck, Orderly Sergeant, Company C, Fifty-first O. V. I, died at Nashville from the effects of wounds received at Stone River, January, 1863. Both of Chili, Coshocton county, Ohio. Robert Dewalt, Company C, Fifty-first O. V. I, died in 1862, in hospital at Nashville, of diarrhoea; buried at Nashville, Tennessee. Everhart Caton, same company and regiment, died in hospital at Camp Wickliffe, Kentucky, 1862; buried at Camp Wickliffe, Kentucky. Henry Crossgraves, same regiment and company, killed at battle of Stone River, January 2, 1863. George Matson, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I, killed at battle of Mission Ridge, 1863. David Carnahan, Company C, Fifty-first O. V. I, died in camp hospital at Wickliffe, Kentucky, February, 1862. Buried at Camp Wickliffe. David Gibson, Company H, Fifty-first O. V. I, died in hospital at Washington, in 1862. James Brister, Company H, Fifty-first O. V. I, died in hospital at Nashville, 1862. Lester P. Emerson, buried at Chili, Ohio, Sergeant Company C, Fifty-first O. V. I, died in hospital at Nashville, Tennessee. W. R. Wilson, Company C, Sixty-seventh O. V. I, furnishes this list: David Carnahan, White Eyes township, Company C, Fifty-first, died in Camp Wickliffe, Kentucky, 1862. Lanceon Kimball, Company C, Sixty-seventh, was accidentally shot and killed by a comrade while in line of battle in 1864. Jacob Clarman, Company C, Sixty-seventh, died in Indiana since close of war. Eli Seward, Company H, One Hundred and Forty-third, died at Wilson's Landing, Va., 1864. Thomas C. Seward, Company, Thirty-second, was drowned while trying to run a boat through the blockade at Vicksburg. Samuel Bechtel, One Hundred and Forty-third, O. N. G., Company H., buried at Hampton Roads, 1864. George McCrary, Company I, Ninety-seventh, buried at Nashville, Tennessee. 410 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. George Adams, Company H, Eightieth, buried at Resaca, Georgia, 1864. Daniel Overholt, Company H, One Hundred and Forty-third, buried at Portsmouth, Virginia. John Beall, Company K, Thirty-second, was killed at Atlanta, Georgia. John Bechtol, Company H, Eightieth, died at Memphis, Tennessee. John Waiters, Company H, One Hundred and Forty-third, buried at Portsmouth, 1864. John Clark, Company -, One Hundred and Forty-third, buried at Hampton Roads, 1864. John Dennis, Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third, buried at Hampton Roads. Charles Infield, Company H, Eightieth, buried at Clear Creek, Mississippi. James S. Wilson, Company I, Ninety-seventh, buried at Jeffersonville, Indiana. William Shannon, Company H, Fifty-first, killed at Mission Ridge. Sylvester Levitt, Company H, Eightieth, buried at Manchester, New York, 1864. William Steward, Company H, One Hundred and Forty-third, buried at Wilson's Landing. John P. Davis, Company G, Eightieth, buried at Brandy Station, Virginia. William Nash, Company G, Eightieth, shot and killed himself accidentally at Corinth, Mississippi. John Wise, Company G, Eightieth, killed at Vicksburg. Henry Ross, Company G, Eightieth, killed at Mission Ridge. Jabez Norman, Company, Ninety-seventh, buried at Nashville, Tennessee. Cassaday, Company I, Ninety-seventh, killed by rebels, while in line of battle. Charles Norman, Company, Ninety-seventh, died at home, while absent on sick furlough, in 1863. John Hout, Company G, Eightieth, died at Cairo. John Armstrong, Company H, Fifty-first, died South. B. Cullison, Fifty-first, died in Texas, in 1865. James Atkins, Fifty-first, buried in the South. Frank Landers, Company H, Fifty-first, died in Nashville, Tennessee. John Fox, Company H, Fifty-first, died at Nashville, Tennessee, 1863. John McCluggage, Company H, Fifty-first, died in the South. Abram Balo, Company H, Ninety-seventh, killed at Mission Ridge. Jackson Hughes, Company D, Seventy-sixth, died at Nashville, Tennessee. George Ferguson, Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I, died in 1865 at Macon, Georgia. Mr. John M. Carhartt furnished the following additional matter: We, in Roscoe, have erected in our cemetery a beautiful wooden monument, painted white, in honor of our fallen comrades that are buried in the South, and a beautiful wreath adorns that monument every Decoration Day in honor of those dear comrades of ours who fell defending the glorious old flag and our country's honor. I will now give the names of those heroes from this county that belonged to Company M, Ninth O. V. C., whose bodies lie buried in the South John Glass, died at Athens, Ala., April 10,1864. Lewis W. Barton, died at Athens, Alabama, May 27, 1864. Daniel Senter, died at Moresville, Alabama, June 8, ]864. B. F. Wright, drowned on the Sultana, 1865. Albert Wells, killed by guerillas, 1865. Robert Deems, killed by guerillas, 1865. Lewis Longbaugh, killed by guerillas, 1865. One other boy, whose false friends at home were the true cause of his death. He went home on leave of absence from Camp Dennison, O., and through the influence of enemies of our noble cause, did not return on the expiration of leave of absence. He was, after several attempts, arrested by the proper authorities, and taken from one camp to another until he finally reached the company at Vining Station, Georgia, sick, downhearted and discouraged, and was taken to the hospital, where he died September 23, 1864. He told me that he was sorry that he did not report to the company at the proper time, and denounced those who caused him to remain away. That soldier's name was Franklin Felton. The above list is evidently incomplete, and the reader is referred to the general history for additional names. HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 411 CHAPTER XLV. EARLY HISTORY OF COSHOCTON. Its Site an Indian Village-Early Settlement-Colonel Charles Williams-Ebenezer Buckingham-Dr, Samuel Lee-Tradi- tion of Louis Phillippe-The Cold Plague- A Lost Child- The Whoo-whoo Society-Journal of Colonel Williams. COSHOCTON is built upon the site of an old Indian village, which was centrally located in the region occupied by the Delaware nation, and was for a time its capital. Up the valleys of the Walhonding and Tuscarawas and down the Muskingum valley, at short intervals, were other villages, so that the selection of this place, situated in the heart of the nation, as his residence by the great chief, Netawatwees, was a happy one. It was often visited by the famous councilors, White Eyes and Killbuck, as well as by the leaders of surrounding tribes, making it, without doubt, the seat of many councils where questions of state policy, involving war or peace, life or death, were debated or determined. In Thomas Hutchins' map of General Bouquet's expedition it is designated simply as "A Delaware Town:" According to DeSchweinetz, its name was Goshackgunk ; according to Heckewelder, Goshochking. The dwellings were built in the cabin and not in the usual wigwam style. The village extended from the river to Third street, and the principal street corresponded with the present Second street of Coshocton, the cabins standing close together, in two long rows on each side of it. The remains of their fire-places, which are said to have been at the north end of each of the cabins, could be easily discerned by the fiat white. settlers of the place. The village was burned by General Brodhead in 1780. The town of Coshocton was laid out in April, 1802, by John Matthews and Ebenezer Buckingham, Jr. In their survey they were assisted by Gibson Rook, and two town lots were given him for his services. The town was christened Tuscarawa, but the name was changed to Coshocton by act of the legislature in 1811. Charles Williams is generally regarded as the first settler of Coshocton. In March, 1801, he and Isaac Hoagland moved with their families from Denman's prairie, situated several miles up the Walhonding river, to the site of the future town. They erected a temporary abode on the now vacant lot on the river bank, below the Tuscarawas bridge, where there was a fine sugar camp. This house was the first erected in Coshocton. It was built of buckeye logs; was twelve feet square, and for a few weeks occupied by Charles Williams and Isaac Hoagland, with their wives and several children. During this year Mr. Williams built a log house near the northeast corner of Water and Chestnut streets, and removed his family to it. On the 11th day of February, 1809, the house was consumed by fire, and two children, one of Mr. Williams and one of his brother James, perished in the (lames. All the household goods were also destroyed. In 1800, John Matthews and Ebenezer Buckingham, who were the principal surveyors of much of the land in this part of Ohio, located the Bowman section of land upon which Coshocton now stands. During the same year that the Williams house was built, Matthews and Buckingham, intending to make a permanent location, erected a log house somewhere between 'the river bank and the Central House-corner Second and Main streets. It was also about this time that Dr. Increase Matthews, one of the proprietors of Putnam, Muskingum county, visited Coshocton, being invited by his brother to engage in build ing a mill on Mill creek. He found in Coshocton the two houses already mentioned; but speaks of having seen here on that occasion his own brother, John Matthews, Stephen Buckingham, Ebenezer Buckingham, jr., and a sister, afterwards Mrs. Fairland, keeping house for them. This intended settlement by the Buckingham's, was in the fall of 1802 abandoned, and they removed from the county. The reason of this removal was principally the prevalence of malarial diseases. For many years the place bore the name of being very unhealthy, and many who came here with a design to settle, left on that account. Both the proprietors of the town soon abandoned it, and in some way disposed of their interest in it. John Matthews went to Zanesville, was for a time interested in a store there, but finally built Moxahala mills, on Jonathan's creek, where he died sometime after. 412 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. After Matthews and Buckingham left the place, William Scritchfield purchased and occupied the Buckingham house, as it was called. About the year 1801, William Whitten, a blacksmith, and afterwards the first justice of the peace, settled here, and lived in a cabin a little back of the present residence of William Burns, on Second street. About this time Calvin Bobbett also built a cabin just north of this, on lot 219. Not far from this date George McCullough and Thomas Evans removed to the place. The former married a daughter of William Scritchfield and lived in the Buckingham house. "This was perhaps the first wedding in the county. What would we not give to be able to describe it. But the memory thereof has faded away, and there is no one to tell the story. Imagination must be left to picture it to the reader, for there has been no chronicler of the events of that memorable day." Thomas Evans was a shoe maker and carried on his craft in a cabin which stood on Second street, excepting such times as he went from house to house with his kit,"cat-whipping," as it was then called. About the year 1808, Andrew Lybarger, a tanner, moved into the place. He lived for a time on the northeast corner of Second and Walnut streets, carrying on the tannery just across Second street. In 1808, Zebedee Baker, a saddler, settled in the town. Several years later he moved to Mills Creek, and yearn afterwards returned to Coshocton. In 1809 or 1810, Abraham Wisecaver and James Colder settled here. Wisecaver was a hatter, and lived on or near lot 170, Second street. James Colder was a merchant, and exhibited his goods on lot 214, Second street. This was no doubt the first attempt at merchandizing in the place. Colonel Williams, however, had previously kept on hand a stock of goods, which he traded with the Indians for paltry. Adam Johnson also brought here in 181 and exposed for sale a stock o goods, in the log house which stood on the north east corner of Water and Chestnut streets. In March, 1810, Captain Joseph Neff came t this place. He was by trade a tailor and for man years followed the business. Owing to removal because of the unhealthy climate and other causes, at the time Mr. Neff came, there were but four families of those already mentioned still living here. Much of Main street was at that time covered with hazel bushes. In June, 1811, Dr. Samuel Lee, the first resident physician, settled in Coshocton. In the spring of 1811 Wright Warner, and in the fall of the same year Aaron Church, the first two resident lawyers of the village, took up their abode here. The career of Church was of short duration and unfortunate in its termination. He was the son of a New England clergyman, and received an education at an eastern college. Upon its completion he read law, was admitted to the bar, and opened an office at Hartford, Connecticut, soon acquiring a good reputation as a lawyer. He married well and settled into a remunerative practice. Drink was his enemy and proved his downfall. He neglected his business, quarreled with and separated from his wife and came West to begin life anew. The opening in Coshocton was promising and he settled here, soon gaining a practice which extended into the surrounding counties, but his appetite again gained ascendancy over him and soon made him mentally and physically a wreck. He died of °`cold plague" in the spring of 1815. Adam Johnson came 1811, married a daughter of Colonel Williams and was associated with him in business for many years. He was the first clerk of the court and recorder, captain of a company in the war of 1812 and a prominent and influential citizen up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1829. About 1815, the town began to settle up more rapidly. In the fall of that year, John Crowely came from Maryland; he was a carpenter by trade, was for a time ferryman for Charles Williams, and was afterwards sheriff of the county. About the same time John Darnes, also a carpenter, emigrated from Virginia, near Washington City. Richard Stafford was here at this time, coming from the South Branch of the Potomac, f Virginia. He was a wagonmaker, and served as an early justice of the peace. Albert Torry, a blacksmith, from the State of Maine, was also living in town at this time. He afterwards settled on Killbuck creek. James Renfrew, Sr., an early merchant, came about 1815. William and Alexander McGowan came in 1815, with their HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 413 mother, from New Jersey. Their father, a Baptist minister, was killed, near Mount Pleasant, while they were on their journey hither, by the accidental upsetting of the wagon. Mrs. Mc Gowan died in 1816. The boys were long known as the proprietors of the hotel, corner Second and \lain streets. Abram Sells, a cabinetmaker, came from Marietta, in 1814. He was for some time a justice of the peace, and also coroner of the county. He died in 1869. Samuel Burns moved here from Philadelphia, in 1816. He was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and was a hatter by trade. He purchased the tools of Abraham Wisecaver, who had previously removed to Muskingum county, and followed his calling for a number of years. For sixteen or eighteen years he was a justice of the peace in this township. He died in 1802. A few more years brought in Benjamin Ricketts, Otho and Daniel Cresap, John Forrest, Hezekiah Robinson, John McCullough, William Carhart, Garrett and Joseph Buckingham, John Smeltzer, Sanford Madden and others, and by 1820, the population had probably reached one hundred and fifty. No statistics are at hand, but this is the estimate of several old settlers who were living here at the time. The earliest pioneers of Coshocton deserve a more extended account, and of a few, concerning whom information is had, short sketches are herewith given. Charles Williams, the first resident of the county seat, was among the first emigrants to cross the Ohio, and the principal personage in the first company that made a permanent settlement within the present limits of Coshocton county. He was born near Hagerstown, Washington county, Maryland, in 1764. His parents were of Irish and Scotch descent, and during the Revolutionary war removed to Washington Bounty, Pennsylvania; at as close they moved a little farther west, in the vicinity of Wellsburgh, Virginia. This was then the frontier, and Williams grew to manhood here amidst the perils of border warfare. At twenty or twenty-one he left his father's house, crossed the Ohio into what is now Jefferson county, and soon after became engaged to Susannah Carpenter, one of seventeen children connected with the principal family of the settlement in wealth and influence, her father having given his name to the settlement, "Carpenter's Fort," or Carpenter's Station, as it was sometimes called. The attachment of the parties was mutual, but the stern old gentleman refused his consent, and was inexorable. Consequently an elopement was determined upon. The good old man was decoyed from home one day, upon one pretense or another, by Samuel Morrison, who was among the first settlers of this county, and afterward brother-in-law to Williams, and the young couple made good their escape, crossed the Ohio and were married in the usual everyday dress of early settlers. After changing his place of abode several times in different parts of Ohio, he came to Muskingum county and engaged for a while in the manufacture of salt. Not succeeding here as he desired, in the spring of 1800 he removed to Coshocton county. There came with him his wife and two children, his brother-in-law, William Morrison, and Isaac and Henry Hoagland, with their wives and one or two children each. Their place of settlement was on Denman's prairie, several miles up the Wolhonding from Coshocton. This spot of open prairie land seems to have been especially inviting in the midst of the dense forest which surrounded it. It began near the mouth of what has since been called Stone creek, and extended several miles up the river, varying in width according to the course of the stream. The margin of the river was skirted with timber. The settlers ran a fence between the prairie land and this strip of timber. They were unable, from the fewness of their number; to erect cabins immediately, and dwelt for some time in a kind of tent. The cabins, when built, stood away from the river at the foot of the hills, which bounded the prairie at the north. The following year, as already mentioned, Mr. Williams removed to Coshocton, where he remained until his death, August 2, 1840. The life of Colonel Williams is intimately associated with the early history of Coshocton. He was a successful trapper, hunter, Indian scout and trader, and held every office, being almost all the time in some position in the county, from road supervisor and tax collector to member of 414 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. the State legislature. He was famous as a tavern keeper, and in that and other capacities became very popular. Clever, genial, naturally shrewd, indomitable in purpose, not averse to the popular vices of his day, and even making a virtue of profanity, he was for forty years a controlling spirit of the county, and for twenty-five years the controlling spirit. He was a man of great natural ability, though he never learned to read or write till he came to Coshocton. Squire Whitten gave him what little assistance he needed in learning to read and write. He was a man, too, of many good qualities, generous, enterprising and possessed of a commanding influence over others, so much so that he was familiarly known as " King Charlie." He obtained his military title from a promotion to the office of colonel in the militia of the State. Ebenezer Buckingham, Sr., was born at Greenfield, Connecticut, November 1, 1748. His father having been lost at sea while Ebenezer was yet a youth, he lived with his brother-in-law, Albert Sherwood, until he became of age. He was married at his native place in 1771, to Esther Bradley, daughter of Rev. Elanthan Bradley. After living at several places in New York, he determined in 1799, to move West. Two sons, Ebenezer, Jr., and Stephen, the former of whom had gone to the settlements at Marietta, Ohio, as early as 1796, followed not long after by Stephen-returned home to Cooperstown, New York, with such glowing accounts of the beautiful and fertile country on the Muskingum river, that they all concluded to emigrate to that land flowing wit milk and honey. They left Cooperstown, December 25, 1799, on two sleds drawn by one yoke of oxen each, leaving the two oldest daughter who were married, and taking ten children wit them. A Mr. Spencer and wife, accompanied them with another sled across the mountains to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by the way of Cove Gap, where they waited six weeks for the ice on the Ohio river to break up, when the cattle were sent by land through what was then a wilderness under the care of his son Stephen, to Middle Island, on the Muskingum above Marietta, while the balance of the family with their goods and effects, descended the Ohio on a flat boat, reaching Marietta in March, 1800. They poled the boat up the Muskingum, passing Zanesville, with its two or three cabins (the cattle going up by land), and finally settled at the mouth of Killbuck creek. It is said they were accompanied by one or two other families from Marietta, whose names are unknown. They immediately put up their cabins, made of logs with clapboard roofs and dirt floors. The doors were hung with wooden hinges and not a nail or piece of iron was used in the construction of the cabins. Here they traded with the Delaware Indians, the older ones of whom were very expert in the use of the bow and arrow. They raised fine crops of corn and. potatoes the first spring, and also in 1801 and 1802. He probably occupied for a while the house at Coshocton, built by his son, Ebenezer, Jr , and suffering much from sickness here in the fall of 1802 he removed to the mouth of the Hockhocking on the Ohio. Here he raised a crop of corn, then settled in Carthage where he resided until his death, October 24, 1824. His widow removed to Putnam, Muskingum county, where she remained with her son, Ebenezer, till her death, several years later. Dr. Samuel Lee settled in Coshocton as a regular practicing physician in June, 1811. He was born and spent his boyhood on a farm near Pultney, Vermont, studied medicine at Castleton, Vermont, and, in 1809, came to Ohio in company with Rev. Timothy Harris, of Granville, Ohio.. The journey was performed on horseback through the wilderness. On the route they encountered Indians and swollen streams, and camped out at night by watch-fires. The doctor stopped first eat Granville nearly two years, where he married Miss Sabra Case; then resided a few months in h Mount Vernon. He came to Coshocton in search of an strayed or stolen horse. The town was of then a mere hamlet and wanted a physician, and he removed at once with his wife and one child. He lived during a part of the first year in a small cabin on Second street, built by Mr. Neff for a tailor shop, but about Christmas of the same year he removed to a small cabin on the southeast corner of Main and Fourth streets, then surrounded d by a thick growth of hazel bushes. Surgery was g a more prominent element of practice then than: HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 415 at present. Fighting was common almost universal and bruised or broken limbs must often be mended. Among the doctor's first patients were two men who had been fighting, one having his ear bitten off and the other his eye gouged. Nor were his services always called into requisition in those self-reliant days. Witness the fol lowing: An individual was thrown into spasms one day at Charlie Williams' tavern, and fell writhing to the floor. The doctor's residence was some distance away, and the case seemed to demand immediate action. The inquiry, "What is good for fits?" passed through the crowd assembled there, and the prevailing opinion seemed to be that bleeding was the proper remedy. Accordingly, an energetic, muscular man seized the prostrate patient by the hair with his left hand, raised his head from the floor, and, with his clenched fist, dealt him a powerful blow upon the nose as the most available point and nearest the supposed seat of disease. This heroic treatment was successful, and the man speedily recovered his senses. At the time the doctor came here there was no other physician within the radius of thirty miles and a ride of this distance and even farther was of common occurrence, often necessitating an absence from home of several days. He remained a lifelong citizen of Coshocton and died March 19,1874, having completed within four months his eighty-ninth year. Dr. Lee had undoubted adaptations for his time and place. The roughness and freedom and economy of pioneer life did not misfit him. He was very genial; could tell a good story and crack a joke with the jolliest of the men and women of that day. Although holding public office but twice that of county treasurer in very early days, and that of State senator in 1826-27 - he was always interested in public affairs. There are abundant evidences of his friendly disposition in his readiness to go on their official bonds, and otherwise stand for his neighbors. His conscientiousness and diligence in his profession none have questioned. He had a quick wittedness and strong common sense that often stood in lieu of profundity of attainment. He was not what might be called a scholarly man but always the friend of intelligence. His shrewdness and strict honesty in business transactions were prominent features of his character. His creditors were generally few and debtors many. The doctor at an early day owned almost the entire square bounded by Fourth, Fifth, Main and Walnut streets. He had a farm just east of town ; but his residence was for the most of his life in the brick house at the corner of Fourth and Main streets. One of the cherished traditions of Coshocton is that Colonel Williams once kicked out of his tavern Louis Phillippe, afterward king of France. The story runs somewhat as follows : Louis was putting up at the tavern and was not satisfied with the accommodations. An altercation ensued between him and the tavern-keeper, ending in his telling Williams that he was heir to the French throne, and would not, as the coming sovereign, condescend to bandy words with a backwoods plebeian. Williams replied that in this backwoods of America there were no plebeians. "We are all sovereigns here," said he, "and I'll show you our power," and suiting the action to the word, he kicked Louis Phillippe out of the house, at which the"sovereigns" loitering around the tavern gave three cheers. The statement that he was once in Coshocton rests upon the fact that when George W. Silliman, attorney at law in Coshocton, visited Paris, in a reported interview with Louis Phillippe, then on the throne, the king told him that he once went to a point in the Northwest Territory, where two rivers came together, and gave such a description of the place and the landlord of the tavern, who, he said, treated him very shabbily, as, to satisfy Silliman that Coshocton was the place and Williams the tavern-keeper. Colonel Williams, on being spoken to about it afterward, stated that he recollected the occurrence. It is a historical fact that Louis Phillippe came to America in 1796, and it seems to be well established that he visited the Muskingum valley, but it is equally true that he sailed from New York to England, reaching it in January, 1800, before Colonel Williams kept tavern in Coshocton. Coshocton in its infancy was frequently visited t by the Indians, upon trading or other excursions, and sometimes difficulties arose, but nothing more serious than an occasional fight. Just as 416 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. the war of 1812 was breaking out, they came several times, in war paint, to Col. Williams' tavern, where they were accustomed to trade, and boasted of the depredations they were about to commit upon the whites. After the war opened, most of the able-bodied citizens of Coshocton and vicinity were drawn off in military companies and stationed at different points in the northern part of the State. A rumor was spread abroad one day that the town was to be attacked that night by a force of savages, and the people congregated at Colonel Williams' cabin for safety, but it proved a false alarm. During the winter of 1814-15, the town was visited by what was called "the cold plague:' It was a most fatal disease, of which many died, sometimes whole families. On Cantwell's run, in Roscoe, Andrew Craig's whole family perished, and some forty or fifty persons are said to have died in Coshocton and the country around. The consternation which its ravages produced was great. The same disease reappeared in 1823, or about that time, but was less fatal in its attacks. The following narrative of a lost child, in Coshocton, in pioneer times, is from the pen of Rev. H. Calhoun. It well represents the " condition of things," as they existed here years ago: It was a cloudy, September day in 1812, in the early history of Coshocton, when bialona Lee, an only child, eighteen months old, was lost. The country was then all very new; Indians were often seen, and at night hungry wolves were heard howling near the settlement. There were but few people then in the place, perhaps not over fifty all told, and these were scattered in some ten or twelve families over nearly all the present limits of the town (in 1850). Between many of the cabins and log houses, for there were only one or two frame houses, there were acres of ground covered with hazel thickets, and a narrow foot path might here and there be see running from one cabin to another. There w a road which ran along the river bank, and an other which ran out into the hills in the direr tion of Cadiz. Besides these two roads and the foot paths we have mentioned communicating between the dwellings in different parts of the settlement, there was another, which had bee cut out for the purpose of getting wood by the inhabitants, and which extended out a mile and a half from the river east, and was lost in the dense forest beyond. The residence of Dr. S. Lee was situated about midway between this wood path and the Cadiz road, some distance from any neighbor. The doctor had been engaged during the day in his professional business, and, having returned home late in the afternoon, went into the garden to secure some vegetables which were growing there. He had not been there long when Mrs. Lee called to him to know if he had seen Malona. The reply was that he had 'not, when she returned and made further search for her. Not being alarmed, the doctor continued his work, thinking nothing more of it, for he had seen the child in the house as he passed through on his way to the garden. After some time Mrs. Lee again returned to the garden, saying that she had searched the house and been to the neighbors', but could hear nothing of the child. By this time both were much concerned about her safety, knowing that if she were lost in the hazel thickets, in the midst of which they lived, it would be impossible for one so young to find her way home, and next to impossible for them to find her. Both now set out in a new, thorough and anxious search for the lost child; for lost in earnest, she seemed to be. Again they made search all over their premises, and all the child's resorts for play, and again they went through the town, call upon every one to know if they had seen the child. But it was all in vain. It was now growing dark, and no trace of the lost one was yet found, and the dreadful thoughts of their only child lost in the wilderness around them, with all its dangers, filled the hearts of the anxious parents with an almost breathless solicitude, and with distressing for bodings for her safety. Nearly the whole settlement were soon alarmed, was and without respect to age or sex, gathered at the house, every heart beating with sympathy for the afflicted parents. It was resolved at once to e commence the search of the thickets north of the house. It was a very still and cold, though e cloudy and dark night. Candles and torches were soon lighted up, and every individual taking one in hand, they formed a line a few feet HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 417 apart from each other, and commenced their march north through the thickets, every one carefully searching on every side until they came out to the Cadiz road. Several times they passed through and through, until they became satisfied that the child must have wandered away in a different direction. And now the search began south of the house, down the river road running out into the hills and forests before referred to. All the hazel thickets were examined carefully in that direction. :it length the impression of her little foot was found in the sand, in the road nearly south of the house from which she had innocently strayed away. A few impressions only were found and all further traces of her were lost, and again all was bewilderment and anxiety as before; for a child so young was as likely to forsake as to follow the beaten path. By this time it was far on in the night. Nothing had as yet been found to allay in the last the solicitude for the child's safety. It was a grand spectacle which those fathers of the present generation and hardy pioneers there formed. The deeply solicitous father, the distressed mother, with lights in hand, hurrying ing to and fro, and many anxious parents around them feeling almost as though it were their own child. Scattering out on each side of the way they now conclude to search and follow the road out into the deep forest; for the traces found indicated she had gone in that direction. A few rods further on brought them again upon the tracks which the child had made ; and not far from that she had lost a little shoe which lay in the road. It was a cloth shoe of her own mother's contrivance, just such a shoe as the ingenuity of a kind mother had readily contrived amid the stern necessities of a pioneer life. Thus they follow on, finding no more traces of the child until the road is lost in the hills and deep forest. Then the search was suspended; while some busied themselves in kindling large fires to give light and warmth, and as defense from wild animals, and others continued their examinations, believing the child to be somewhere in the vicinity. It was now the dead of night. The fires were blazing high among the trunks and branches o the heavy forest trees, and the scene was distressing, gloomy and grand enough. But none slept the woods were all alive with fires and the torches of those hurrying here and there, still continuing the search. In vain was the anxious mother entreated to return home to reek Though worn down with fatigue, none moved swifter to and fro and continued the fruitless search with seemingly so little sense of fatigue as she did, so absorbed were her thoughts in her care and solicitude for the child-her only child, Many were coming and going on all sides with lights and torches, and many anxious inquiries were made as they passed, if any trace of the child had been found. Old Squire Whitten, a hardy blacksmith and the first justice of the peace of Coshocton county, having carelessly examined a cluster of underbrush, and being dissatisfied with his search went back to look again, and lo! there was the dear object. of all their search, folded in the arms of sleep lying upon the leaves, unconscious of her danger or of the many friends so near. Awakened by the noise she looked up, and discovering the Squire, she exclaimed in her joy,"Pretty Papa!" "Pretty Papa!" A shout was raised by the overjoyed man, a genuine Indian war-whoop, to which the ears of many of the early settlers were familiar. When the friends and father and mother gathered around, the lost one was enjoying the caresses of the good man, sitting upon his knee, stroking his hardy features, and saying "Pretty Papa!" "Pretty Papa!" There was no indication that she had so much as shed a tear-probably falling asleep from over-fatigue. A famous organization in the early annals of Coshocton was the "Whoo-whoo Society," which was organized in 1828, on the 8th day of January. For many days a heavy storm of mingled wind, rain, sleet and snow had poured down, and its effects were soon visible in the melting of the previous snow and the rapidly rising streams. The waters of the Walhonding and Tuscarawas were swollen beyond all precedent. They soon left their accustomed banks and completely flooded the low lands in the forks. Residents on the low lands by the river began to look about for a place of refuge. Some sought a home among hospitable friends, while others packed themselves away in their cabin lofts and the second stories of their 418 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. dwellings fastening a canoe to the upper window as a last resort. Timber, drift-wood, hay and grain, farming implements, hogs and cattle in one confused medley, went hurrying by. Apprehensions being entertained that there might be distress in some of the cabins, a skiff was manned and started up the river for the cabin of John Elder, two miles from the forks, partly from sympathy and partly for the sake of adventure. Arriving at their destination, the crew found that the family had deserted the cabin and found safety on high land. On the return, as the expedition promised nothing more romantic, the adventurers made an inroad upon the turkeys and chickens, which, chilled With the cold, sat on the limbs of the trees down almost to the Water's edge; and arriving safely among their friends with the trophies, gave out that they had fallen in With a flock of "owls." The nation's memorable day and its honored hero must not be forgotten. The materials for a sumptuous feast were at hand, Night came on, the tables Were covered With the smoking viands, alias "owls," and the word was out for all, far and near, to come and partake. A night of revelry succeeded ; merrily the bowl went round, the swaggering song was encored, the welkin rang With huzzahs for the chieftain of the day General Jackson forever and all Were too much " half seas over " to tell when the carnival ended. So auspicious a beginning was not suffered to end thus. There was organized, forthwith, what was called the " Whoo-whoo Society of Coshocton," which was to meet annually on the 8th of January, in honor of the day and its hero. It is impossible to give a full account of What was done by this strange and novel organization, nor would it be desirable if possible. The genius of the institution was a bacchanalian, reckless and extravagantly boyish hilarity. The presiding officer was known as the great " Whoo-whoo Owl," and a monstrous bird of this species always stood at the head of the table by his side. The second officer was called the "Little Screech Owl," and a bird o this kind stood by him. No citizen of the place and no stranger who might chance to be in town was permitted to be absent, and was as surely in toxicated as present. Those Who declined to at tend Were often forced along against their Will Once assembled, at the direction of the master of ceremonies, folly and madness reigned supreme, and strange modes of amusement were contrived by minds half frenzied with the fumes of intoxication. The members array ed themselves in grotesque costumes, representing celebrated characters or various animals, and the initiate was introduced to these severally. At one time the story of "the babes in the Woods" was enacted in a most ludicrous manner. Great and over-grown men lay down in an arbor as babes in the Woods, while another with huge wings, representing an angel, was let down from above them by ropes, to cover them With leaves. The chapter is closed With a journal Written by Colonel Charles Williams of his life and travels. It perhaps affords a better insight into the character of Coshocton's first settler than could he conveyed by another. A small portion is omitted and in some instances the phraseology has been modified, but the Writing in the main is as it originally stood. CAPTAIN WILLIAMS' JOURNAL. Started from Fifteen Mile Creek, Maryland, October, 1779, crossed the mountains barefooted and came to a place called Brush Run, seven miles west of What is now Washington Town; there I staved under my father's control. In the spring of 1781, the Indians captured a family and killed some of them about one mile off from our place. In the same spring my father moved to Cox's Fort. There We lived upon boiled wheat and hominy; in the fall We lived very well on cashaws, pumpkins and milk; We had nothing but gourd cups and horn or wooden spoons. The Indians Were killing or taking somebody almost every Week. Here I soon became able to carry a gun. In 1783, I moved With my father into the country on Cross creek, three miles from the fort. In a short time I became a hunter and killed bears and deer, and other animals. After some time, I began life for myself. The Indians killed one Yankee in my hearing; then we raised about twenty men and followed them, and overtook the Indians in Sugar creek plain at the mouth. There I killed one, I think, and we got the White man's bible and a deed for some land, and returned home safe. Then, I think in the year 1784, I crossed the river When, I understand, there Were but eight men in the State of Ohio. After sometime I engaged in the ranging business. Those were very troublesome times. I lived hard but HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 419 free. Then I married a girl named Susanna Carpenter. I had to steal her away,. and, as we were poor, I was unable to get a marriage license for want of money; but all came right. There was a justice of the peace in Virginia, and he agreed to marry me for a buckskin, and we went over the river in Ohio and got married on a big rock in the woods; some who were present were barefooted; then we went home and had a fine dance. In the next winter I lost my mare, by carrying a heavy load of meat, and then had nothing but my gun and dog I moved over the river Into Ohio, I think, in the year 1787; there engaged in the ranging business; followed the Indians and hunted for a living, for several years, living happily, though the Indians were very troublesome. I lived at a place called Carpenter's Station, one mile up Short creek. We had tine times; nothing to do but dance, and eat hominy, and guard ourselves. Then, after some years, thought I would quit this kind of life, and got work. I went down the river to Manchester, in this State (Adams county), and thought I wool work for my living. I began to raise a crop, , but had not been there long until a party of men carne along who were going after some prisoner who had been taken on Flat river, Kentucky about thirty women and children. Nothing would do, but I must go with them, and I at last agreed to do so. On the second, day we fell in with a party of Indians, and attacked them, an killed perhaps three. I shot one, who happened to be a white man. raised with the savages from < chi ld, and was going to war then, to the mouth o the Scioto, to hack boats, steal property and kill people, as they had taken many boats there. h the above attack, I lost one man; he fell against me. His name was Joseph Jones, a fine soldier. Four of our party thought it best to run in the camp, with our knives and tomahawks, and did so, and lost Jones. It was in the night. Jones had not yet expired when I left him, but we ha to run for our own safety, as we supposed flier were more Indians near by. Sure enough, it was so, and we returned home. I thought would quit fighting the Indians, but in a shot time they took three horses from me. Then m ambition was raised against them, and I started out with a party of surveyors, who were going t survey the Virginia Military Land, beyond t Scioto, and lay out, without fire, sixty odd nights, with one blanket. The greater part of the time, there was snow. We would cook before nigh then I would gather brush, scrape away the snow and lay my brush or bark on the ground; spread my blankets upon this, and put on dry socks an moccasins. There I slept very well, about ha awake, not knowing what might happen to that night. After being out for some time, we met an Indian in the woods, as the surveyor was running a line, and the Indian ran off, and we gathered together all our force, which was, I think, twenty-one, most of them young lads; perhaps ten or eleven with guns. In the morning, after breakfast, we started with intent to strike the camp, but missed it a little, but fell on their trail and found they were too many for us. Our company was very much alarmed on account of the young lads. Colonel Nathaniel Massie, who was with us, would not permit us to attack them. I was put before. We went about two miles, when we found the trail of about eight Indians. I told Massie that we would follow them, as they went our course ; then he took the precaution to push up for fear of what might be behind. At sun-down we came to the place where the Indians were encamped for the night. We soon caught their horses, and waited patiently until dark; then myself and four others, who were to attack the camp, creped up to within a few feet and fired upon them. Two were killed; the rest escaped. We went fast for home through fear of those we had passed that day. We went about four miles; there we stayed all night, cooked and ate our breakfast; then started for home, killed two buffaloes, and reached home in safety the next day. Then I determined to go with Anthony Wayne, and started ; reached him at Cincinnati, where I was given $2 a day to go about twelve miles to take care of cattle for the use of the army. It a was very dangerous, for the Indians were plenty watching the army. After some time I got word that my wife was very sick and I returned home found my wife very low. In the spring we t moved to a piece of land in Ohio which I had bought, on Brush creek, with a family with me by the name of Hoglin. He died a short time after, and I moved back to the station. When we were at the land it was very dangerous. After some time I moved up the river where I came from, Carpenter's Station, on Short creek. I then had some money and two horses. There was peace with the Indians by this time, and I thought I would repay them for the damage they y had done me. Following them many miles, I reached New Comerstown; there, I and three others, fell in with thirty or forty Indians; we gave them a small keg of whisky and kept one to trade on. They got pretty high, and soon came to take my bread. One got hold of the bag and ran, but I soon overhauled him and took it from him. Soon after they came to get more whisky, and I sold it to them for $1 a quart, one-third water; thus I was paying them up. In two or three days I got done trading and went home in us *Adams county, Ohio. 420 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. fine heart, thinking what I would do nest trip. I soon started out again with several horses loaded with articles for trade and one loaded with whisky, as it would make nearly two horse loads. I came to the camp and found many Indians there eager to trade, and made good bargains for myself. I found a white man there named Robert Higgins, and the Indians and I got an old woman willing to marry him; then the buck's foot and corn were handed about, and the marriage was over. We put them to bed on a bearskin. Then I started home; had made a good trade and brought some Indians home with the. My father-in-law had been wounded and taken prisoner by the Indians, and was very angry at them. It was hard work to save them from him, but I did it. I sold off my trade and lived high, played cards and ran horses. I spent my money as fast as I made it, but took good care of my family. In the spring I took my brother-in-law with me; took plenty of trade, especially whisky, as it was good trade that would sell when cash and all skins were gone, for the best of clothing. This was full of lice, but we would wash it and sell it again to others who had skins. Then the Indiana got very troublesome. They wanted to take my whisky, and I fought for it, and Carpenter left me alone. I had to work to save my property, but none was taken. In a few days I sold all out and started for home. About fifteen or twenty went with me. Then I began to understand them a little, which made trading easier for me. I traded eight ,years with them, and my wife, too, understood them before I was done trading. Then, after some time in the next fall, I determined to move to the Muskingum Salt Springs, where Chandlers made salt. I started down the Ohio to the mouth of the Muskingum, then up it to the salt works. On the way I got the ague, and had it two months, or thereabouts; landed at Duncan's Falls, where there were thirty or more Indians waiting for me. I had a barrel of whisky great joy for them. Soon they got drunk. There were no persons with me but my wife and three children. My hands had gone up to the salt works. We had to move our bed and barrel of whisky seven times that night to keep from being robbed, as they always found us. Daylight came at last. I had hard work to save all but did so. After some time in the day my hands came for me. They stole off the barrel of whisky and left it out in the woods, then came back for the family. When we had gone about two miles I took sick and they left me under a tree with a blanket over me. Up came a very hard rain but I was not able to get up. In the evening they came for me with a horse; we went about four miles, there came to my wife and children, with no shelter except a small tent. Those were hard times. There was no person to work for me and I laid sick for about two months with out bread or any other food except meat. It was a very hard winter. After some time I gut able to go for some provisions, and brought several horse loads. I had to fetch it about eighty miles through deep snow. There was no road, but at last I got home, and we had bread. There were some young men who had been trading with the Indians. They came to see us and the Indians were all very dry. They sought to have a frolic and had one. I had to keep very steady. All got pretty high. Solomon McCulloch and William Morrison cut a hole in the ice, or it was cut, and poked one Indian in it. I ran and took him out. By that tithe they had stripped one more all but one leggin and breech clout. He broke away and ran to the woods where he stayed all night. The snow was deep and it was very cold. My wife and I followed but could not overtake him. In the morning he came back and was not frozen as we expected he would be. He had lain under a bank where there was a spring. The nest night the Yankees played a trick on one of I our hands; they got a rope around his neck and swore they would draw him up the chimney, I abed heard them, spoke to them and they let him go. My neighbors were Indians, but in a short time I had two neighbors who were white men, William McCulloch and Henry Crooks. Then I made money making salt and keeping provisions for travelers. I spent it all in cutting a road so as to keep the road by my house. I then sold out and moved to the Whitewoman. The Indians came there and robbed me of my best clothes from under my head. They stole my horse, and several others. I went with the owners of the horses and got two back again. Then they stole more horses. I felt very willing to follow them, took two Indians with me and started. I overhauled the one that had stolen my clothes, but he had lost them at gambling. The chief told me to take him but I thought it best to leave him. The Indians had sent the horses he had stolen to where I lived. Then the next morning I started and came to a place called Helltown,* a small Indian town. I was treated very well but there were no news of stolen property. The next morning I went on to Lower Sandusky. There I found them very much alarmed on account of two Indians that had stolen two horses, and three men had followed and killed them. The white men's names were Elias Hughes, John Ratliff and John Bland.t At * In Richland county. t This was in April, 1800. See Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio, page 292, or Graham's History of Licking county. HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 421 Sandusky the Indians had a feast, about 300 were there. I thought my chances were bad, but good or bad I bolted up in the midst of them, told the chief what my errand was to have the horses returned and the stealing stopped, and that then there would be no more killed. They agreed to give up all the horses, and I got eight or nine home for their owners. That put a stop to horse stealing by the Indians to this day, 1831. I then had the ague for nine mouths almost every day. Then I moved to Coshocton, here I have lived thirty-two years. I thought when I calve that I would try to make something to live on in my old days. I kept a tavern for about twenty-eight years, and drove hogs and cattle, and made money on all sides. Before I left the salt works the Indians robbed my wife of one keg of whisky and stole two horses when I was away from home. When I returned I followed them with two other men, and we overhauled them on White Woman river. That was in time of peace. I think I was gone five days. About twenty-one years ago I had my house burned and two children, one of my own and one of my brother James', burned and everything but a mere trifle lost. In about one month I was doing business as good as ever, keeping tavern and droving. After a time the last war came on. I thought I must see what was going on. At Hull's surrender I was ordered out with 100 men or thereabouts, went on to Mansfield. Before I got there I had some trouble with the Indians, to get them to tell what they would do, go to the British or go to our army, and my men killed one. They came o us after a day or two ; we stay ed at Mansfield. In a few days, the Indians came within a few miles and killed two old persons, man and wife, I think they were seventy or upwards, and their daughter and one other man I and four or five more went where they were killed, found them dead and scalped. In the course of the day they were buried without coffins. In a few days, about fifteen or twenty Indians came where there was a family and some military men, about one mile distant from where they had killed the others, and killed, I think, four persons. I was sick at the time. Sent twenty men after them but could not overhaul them. After a month, I was ordered home with my men. CHAPTER XLVI. GROWTH OF COSHOCTON- PRESS - FRATERNITIES. Location of Tuscarawa-Description of Original Plat-Ad- ditions to Coshocton-Increase of Population-Incorpora- tion-List of Mayors-Postmasters-City Hall-The Press- The Coshocton Republican-Spy--Democratic Whig-Pro- gressive Age-Coshocton Age-Castle of Liberty-Western Horizon-Democrat-Practical Preacher-Young America -Saturday Visitor - People - Commonwealth- Farmers' Home Journal-W'ochenblatt-Secret Orders-Masons-Odd Fellows-Red Men-Knights of Honor-Patrons of Husbandry. THE original proprietors of the town of Tuscarawas must have had high anticipations of the future importance of the place, if the extent of its boundaries be any indication; and, indeed, the location was amply sufficient to warrant glowing expectations of eminence. It was situated at the headwaters of one of the most beautiful and noted rivers of the West, in the midst of a luxuriant and classic valley, readily accessible by water crafts, then the only means of extensive Transportation The town plat embraced a territory perhaps three-fourths of a mile square, extending southward three squares beyond Mulberry street, and eastward as far as Fifth street, including 308 lots. Besides these, there were forty-seven large outlots, No. l to 23, inclusive, east of the town plat proper, between what are now Fifth and Seventh streets ; 24 to 35, west of Muskingum river, and 36 to 47, north of Tuscarawas river. Three squares, of just four acres each, were donated to the public; one, occupied by the north buildings for school purposes, and two for the public use. One of these is now occupied by the court house; the other lay directly south of it. The land between the town and river, several hundred feet in width, was to be used as a common, reserving to holders of lots fronting on the common the right of building warehouses and wharves in front of their lots, between lots 229 and 240, provided a street four rods wide be left between the lots and wharves, and provided such, wharves and warehouses interfere not with any usual ford or any ferry that the proprietors may establish; the proprietors reserving all rights to ferries within the bounds of the town. The State legislature, January 13, 1811, passed an act authorizing that the name of Tuscarawas be changed to Coshocton; that the portion of town south of Mulberry street (including 132 lots) be vacated, and that the county commissioners subdivide into lots and sell the public square lying between Main and Walnut streets. This 422 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. latter was divided into fourteen lots (309-322) and sold soon after. At the same time the proprietor re-subdivided a portion of the plat as vacated by the act into what is known as the south out-lots, and also revised the plan of the east out-lots, lying between Fifth and Seventh streets. The various additions made to the town of Coshocton are as follows: R. M. Lamb, in May 1837, made a subdivision of land lying east of " east out-lots "into what was called Location lots. It is now known as Lamb's Addition, and was surveyed by John Fulks, deputy county surveyor. William F. De La Mater laid out an addition in March, 1854, comprising east out-lots 13 and 14; surveyed by John C. Tidball. James M. Burt's addition was laid out in March, 1862, from parts of out-lots 13 and 14; surveyed by John C. Tidball. Samuel H. Lee's addition was made in May, 1866, from a portion of lot 12, section 1. September, 1867, James R., David M. and Thomas H. Johnson made an addition including parts of east out-lots 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 It was survey ed by Thomas H. Johnson. John Burt, Sr., made an addition from a portion of lot 12, section 1, in November, 1866; surveyed by Hunt and Johnson. Spangler's addition was made in April, 1868, by E. T. and A. H. Spangler and Joseph Burns, from parts of east out-lots 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20; surveyed by R. A. Cunningham. Daniel Triplett's addition, comprising parts of out-lots 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13, was made in August, 1868; surveyed by William Humrickhouse. John B. Elliott's addition was made in March, 1872, from a part of section 1. It was surveyed by John A. Hanlon. The Coshocton Iron and Steel Company's addition was made in April, 1872, from portions of east out-lots 6, 7 and 8; surveyed by John A. Hanlon. In August, 1872, Thomas Willard subdivided lot 9, and A. M. Williams and Martin Weisser, lot 8 of Triplett's addition. The Coshocton County Agricultural Society, in December, 1872, subdivided the fair grounds a part of lot 12, section 1-J. A. Hanlon, surveyor. W. E. Hunt, Daniel Triplett and Anthony Wimmer, in February, 1873, subdivided in-lots 37, 38, 39 and 40. Ricketts' additions were made in April and in December, 1873, by T. C. Ricketts, Houston Hay and F. Barney from portions of east out-lots 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; John A. Hanlon, surveyor. In March, 1873, Willis Wright subdivided lot 13, of Lamb's Location lots. The growth of the village was at first extremely slow. At the end of ten years there were scarcely a dozen families living here. Directly after the close of the war 1812 settlers began to arrive more rapidly, and the estimate of several pioneers is, that in 1820 Coshocton contained probably one hundred and fifty people. The census for 1830 gives it three hundred and thirty-three inhabitants. The Ohio canal had just been building, and it served to increase the population of Coshocton, though to a less extent than Roscoe. In 1833 there were in Coshocton a brick court house, a jail, two printing offices, five mercantile stores, four taverns, four lawyers, three regular and two Thompsonian practitioners of medicine, a number of mechanics, a large steam mill with four run of buhrs, and two saw mills, owned by Renfrew & Company. The population was computed at four hundred. In 1840 it had increased to six hundred and twenty-five, and 1850 to eight hundred and fifty. From that date it began to increase more rapidly, and 1860 it had reached eleven hundred and fifty-one. Ten years later it was seventeen hundred and fifty-four. The census returns for 1880, however, indicates the most marked advance in population, for in that year it was three thousand and forty-eight. Coshocton was incorporated by act of legislature, January 21,1833. The early records are lost or destroyed, rendering it impossible to give a com plete list of the mayors of the village. Since 1847, E they have been as follows: Thomas Campbell 1847-51; John C. Tidball, 1851-52 ; J. Irvin, 1852-54; John C. Tidball, 1854-56; Welcome Wells, 1856-58; A. J. Wilkin, 1858-59; John C. Winn, 1859-60; C. H. Johnson, 1860-63; G. F. Wilcoxon, 1863-64; J. C. Pomerene, 1864-65; W. R. Forker, 1865-66; William Ward, 1866-67; J. S. Elliott, 1867-68; L. L. Cantwell, 1868-69; J. S. Elliott, 1869-70; Hiram Beall, 1870-72; John M. Compton, 1872-76; L. L. Cantwell, 1876-78; Thomas C. Ricketts, 1878-80; George A. Hay, 1880. The following list of postmasters at Coshocton since the formation of the county is believed to be correct and complete. If there was an office HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 423 at this point prior to 1811, diligent inquiry has failed to reveal it: Adam Johnson, from 1811 to about 1826; Wilson McGowan, from about , 1826 to 1830; William K. Johnson, 1830-45; C. H. Johnson.1845- 49; R. F. Baker, 1849-53; Samuel Rich, 1853-54 ; H. N. Shaw, 1854-61; Asa L. Harris, 1861-64; A. H. Fritchey, part of 1864; W. A. Johnson, 1864-5; R. M. Voorhees, 1865-69; T. W. Collier, 1869-81; J. G. McGaw, present postmaster. In 1828 the office yielded an income of about $62 per annum. It was held by Adam Johnson in his store room on Water street. After his term of service, it was usually located at some point on Second street, until within a few years, since when it has been kept in various rooms on Main street. Its present commodious quarters are in one of the rooms of the Opera House. The city hall, standing on the northwest corner of lot 140, Main street, is a handsome and creditable public structure. It is built of brick, with stone facings, and is two stories in height. The upper floor contains a large audience hall and two front offices, one of which is occupied by the mayor. Below are two large store-rooms, and in the rear is the dismal apartment which is best known to offenders against the peace and dignity of the village. The erection of the building was begun in 1877 and completed in 1878, the contract for which was awarded to H. Waggoner for $9,793. The first printing press and newspaper in the county of Coshocton was established at Coshocton in 1827. It was a small sheet about twelve by eighteen inches, styled the Coshocton Republican, and issued with considerable irregularity. Dr. William Maxwell was editor and proprietor. After a brief career of little more than a year the proprietor became so much involved that he was obliged to dispose of the establishment. It passed into the hands of John Frew, who had furnished supplies from his store for some time He continued its publication under the name .of the Coshocton Spy. Washington O'Hara was placed in charge of the paper as foreman, and, notwithstanding the efforts of Mr Frew, it failed to be self-supporting, and he was obliged to steadily pay a little for the honor of its publication. It was Whig in its politics, and remained in Frew's possession until 1844. Burket E. Drone then purchased the press and issued the paper for a few years, calling it the Democratic Whig. At length he also became involved and the press was sold for debt. The paper was then suspended for a year or more, until 1850, when it was again revived under the name of the Coshocton Republican, by Joseph Medill, afterward famed in Cleveland, and still later and more greatly in Chicago, as editor of the Tribune and mayor of the city. Medill soon after removed from the county, and the paper became the property of H. Guild, who at length suspended publication as most of his predecessors had done. After some time the office became the property of R. W. Burt, now in the Internal Revenue service at Peoria, Illinois. The progress of the paper under his control, as set forth in a letter from him, published in Hunt's Historical Collections, is as follows: In August, 1853, Mr. H. Guild, the editor and proprietor of the old Whig newspaper at Coshocton, called on me, and desired to sell me his interest in it. He had ceased the publication, two or three months previously, having lost hope of its success. I told him I was not a Whig; had been a Democrat, but was now a Free Soiler; that my party in Coshocton only included about fifty people, and that I saw little or no prospect of establishing a paper in advocacy of my own principles. I also distrusted my ability to do justice to my own cause, never having had any experience as an editor, nor even' as printer. I gave him no encouragement and he went away. But, in truth, he had awakened a desire in my mind to engage in the work of publicly advocating my principles, which I believed would finally triumph. I thought over the matter, talked with my father and some leading Whigs and independent Democrats, and finally embarked in the enterprise. I was assisted greatly by Hon. James Matthews, and his brother-in-law, Thomas W. Flagg, was taken in as associate editor. I called the paper the Progressive Age. The first number was published in September, 1853, and was outspoken on the subject of slavery extension and the fugitive slave law, and strongly advocated temperance. William A. Johnson was foreman in the printing office.I sent the paper to all the subscribers of the old Whig paper and also to all the Democrats whose names could get. I soon found plenty of papers returned, " not taken out of the postoffice." In two months, however, after my first issue, I had only about 250 subscribers; but I did not get discour- 424 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. aged. In a few months, by most persistent efforts, my subscription list was greatly enlarged, and at the end of the year it had reached 700. The following year, the Age tool; part in the formation of the Republican party, and the new party having succeeded in electing nearly all their candidates for county offices, the Age came in for a share of the public printing, which gave it a firmer footing. I continued the publication about three years, and the Republican party was in power in the county, when I sold the paper to A. R. Hillyer, who published it about a year, and then sold it to J. W. Dwyer. I assisted Dwyer about a year and then left the county. J. W. Dwyer, made very little pecuniary gain out of the paper, and left it to take office in the Treasury Department under S. P. Chase. Asa L. Harris become the proprietor of the paper in 1861. He changed the name from Progressive Age to Coshocton Age, which title it has retained ever since. About the time of the close of the war, Harris received the appointment of postmaster at Atlanta, Georgia, and went South. The paper after being for a short time under the management of J. W. Dwyer and W. A. Johnson, became in 1866, the property of Captain T. W. Collier. He retained possession of it until April 1,1878, when it was purchased and edited by A. W. Search and J. F. Meek. . This firm was dissolved in February, 1881, Mr. Search disposing of his interest to Mr. Meek, who is now sole proprietor. The circulation of the Age is considerably in advance of any other paper published in the county. It is reported at 2,000 copies. In 1831, John Meredith began the publication of a paper at East Union, which gloried in the warlike cognomen of the Castle of Liberty and the Battle Axe of Freedom. It was removed the following year to Coshocton, and was published until after the presidential election in that year, when it was discontinued. It advocated democratic principles and the re-election of General Jackson to the presidency. James Matthews assisted in the editorial department for a time. In 1835 the publication of a democratic paper called the Western Horizon was begun at Coshocton by William G. Williams. Mr. Williams was at this time county treasurer and he was assisted in the editing of this paper by Russell C. Bryan. He was succeeded in the editorial chair by Joseph F. Oliver. In no great length of time he in turn was succeeded by T. W. Flagg and Chauncey Bassett. They were the publishers in 1840 when the paper was about one-half the size of the present Democrat, and by them the name of the paper was changed to the Coshocton Democrat. They were succeeded by Messrs. Avery and Johnson, who after a year or two disposed of it to James F. Weeks. From his hands it went back again into the possession of Chauncey Bassett, one of its former editors. After him it was edited and published by Dr. A. T. Walling, since congressman from the Columbus district. In 1853 Rich and Wheaton were publishing it. In the spring of 1856, Asa G. Dimmock, who had edited the Cadiz Sentinel and the Cosmopolite at Millersburg and had just finished his service as warden of the Ohio penitentiary, became editor and publisher. When nominated for prosecuting attorney in 1862, he disposed of the paper to A. McNeal, a young man from Bethlehem township, who had just served as county recorder. He was drowned while fishing in the Tuscarawas river, a few miles above Coshocton in August 1862. Wash. C. Wolfe ran the paper from McNeal's death until after the election, when Dimmock resumed, and soon thereafter (November, 1861), J. McGonagle, formerly of the Cadiz Sentinel, became a partner with Dimmock, and continued for some two years. He removed to Shelby, Ohio. In the spring of 1866 the present publisher, John C. Fisher, of Licking county, became a partner with Dimmock. The health of the latter was at that time seriously broken. He spent the most of the summer in visiting among friends, and died that fall at the home of his brother in Montrose, Pennsylvania, and Mr. Fisher became the proprietor and editor of the paper, continuing as such unto this writing, except that during Mr. Fisher's absence in the State senate it was edited by W. R. Gault and other temporary editors and that during the summer of 1875 for a few months W. C. Brownlee was associated with him: It is understood that in its earlier history the paper frequently required the help of its party friends, and none of its numerous publishers have been able to retire with a large fortune. Its appliances are better now than in any past period of its history. Its circulation is reported at 1,175 copies. The Practical Preacher was the name of a three- PAGE 425 - PICTURE OFFICE OF THE "COSHOCTON COUNTY COMMONWEALTH," PAGE 426 - BLANK HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 427 column, sixteen page, semi-monthly paper, the publication of which was begun at Coshocton in the fall of 1849. Each number contained "an original sermon by a living minister," in addition to other religious reading. It also contained much miscellaneous matter, including some local news. A series of historical sketches of Coshocton and vicinity, written by Rev. H. Calhoun, ran through the first volume and a few numbers of the second, forming one of its leading features. It was edited by Rev. C. E. Weirich, a Methodist minister, stationed at Plainfield, and Rev. H. Calhoun, the pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Coshocton. At the end of the first year, Mr. Weirich removed to Washington, Guernsey county, and the paper was published at Coshoc ton and Washington co-jointly. With the close of the second volume, Mr. Calhoun withdrew from the paper and its publication was conducted for several years at Washington only, all connection with Coshocton county being severed by the withdrawal of Mr. Calhoun. In the spring of 1853, S. M. Rich and J. V. Wheaton began the publication of Young America, Mr. Rich as editor, Mr. Wheaton as printer. It was a large five-column paper, neutral in politics, unsectarian, and devoted to the beautiful in literature, the elegant in art and the useful in science. No advertisements were inserted, the space being wholly filled with choice selections. Like many another worthy enterprise, its career was brief. Lack of support caused it to suspend publication indefinitely within a year of its first issue. In the fall of 1869, the Saturday Visitor was ushered into being by H. D. Beach, who soon after associated with him in its publication L. L. Cantwell. It was purely a literary and local paper, letting politics severely alone. In 1871, the publishers sold the paper to W. A. Johns, who removed to Newcomerstown and continued its publication under the name of the Newcomerstown Argus. In 1874 H. D. Beach began the publication of an independent newspaper at Coshocton called the Coshocton People. After a brief and fitful career of between one and two years it expired. The first number of the Coshocton County Commonwealth was issued January 1, 1880. Its publishers are the Ferguson Brothers; its editor, W M. Ferguson. The paper is a weekly publication, independent in politics, and devoted to the news and interests of the county. Though at this writing it has barely begun its second year, it has already secured a paying subscription list of seven hundred, and bids fair to obtain a permanent position of rank in the press of Coshocton county and vicinity. The Farmers' Home Journal, a monthly publication of sixteen pages, devoted to the interests of the agricultural population, was started in October, 1880, by L. L. Cantwell. The Coshocton Wochenblatt is a weekly newspaper published in the German language, by L. L. Cantwell and Henry Mining. Its first number was issued October 2, 1880. It is still in its infancy, but the publishers report a constantly increasing circulation. Coshocton Lodge, No. 96, of the Masonic Fraternity, was instituted in 1846. There had previously been a lodge of this Order at Coshocton, Clinton Lodge, No. 42, which had suspended in 1836. The Coshocton Lodge was organized at Ricketts' Hall, northeast corner of Chestnut and Second streets, and was composed of the following charter members: David Spangler, Master; Joseph W. Rue, Senior Warden; William McFarlin, Junior Warden; Josiah Harris, R. M. Lamb, William B. Decker, Thomas C. Ricketts, Samuel Lee, R. C. Bryan, M. Ferguson, T. P. Jones and William Carhart. At this writing, the lodge is officered as follows : George Shrigley, Master; William H. Robinson, Senior Warden; Fulton Sears, Junior Warden; Henry Davis, Treasurer; Calvin Skinner, Secretary; Willard Sears, Senior Deacon; H. Cramlet, Junior Deacon, and R. B. Black, Tyler. The lodge hall is 1ocated in the McLain building, on Chestnut street, and the membership considerably exceeds one hundred. Samaritan Chapter, No. 50, of Royal Arch Masons, was chartered October 22, 1852, with the following membership: Josiah Harris, High Priest; Samuel Hutchinson, King; Smiley Harbaugh, Scribe; Jacob Nichols, Thomas P. Jones, John Taylor, David Spangler, Thomas Harrison, b- and Benjamin Bonnett. There are now about fifty members. For .the term beginning with 428 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. 1881, the officers are : W. W. Bostwick, H. P., Lewis Demoss, King; Dr. Josiah Harris, Scribe; William Hughes, C. of H.; Theodore Agnew, P. S.; C. F. Burns, R. A. C.; George Agnew, First V.; Thomas McConnell, Second V.; M. G. Hack, Third V.; J. G. Magaw, Secretary ; E. McDonnald; Treasurer ; Samuel Taylor, Guard. Of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows` there are two lodges and one encampment in Coshocton-Coshocton Lodge, No. 44; Sarah Lodge (Daughters of Rebekeh), No. 25, and Coshocton Encampment No. 191. The first was instituted by Thomas Spooner, Special Deputy, August 2, 1845, with the following charter members: John Lamb, Francis Fritchey, E. L. Stevens, James Relf, John Arentrue, James S. Clark, James K. Walker and F. Kirk. The first meetings were held in the Ricketts Hall, corner Chestnut and Second streets, then in the McClain block, a little farther east. Their hall is now in the Sheik building, on Main street. The membership is 135, and the officers at this writing are Conrad Mayer, Noble Grand; John Tish, Vice Grand; Joseph Wilson, Recording Secretary; Josiah Harris, Permanent Secretary; E. McDonnald, Treasurer ; Thomas Campbell, John Cassingham, Lewis Demoss, John Carhart and Joseph Stanford, Trustees. Frank Kane is Deputy Grand Master. The dispensation of Sarah Lodge was granted January 10, 1870, to E. H. Lynde, Mrs. E. Lynde, E. McDonnald, Mrs. E. McDonnakl, Mrs. P. Hack, John H. Lowrie, Seth McClain, Mrs Seth McClain, Mrs. D. Harris, Mrs. Thomas Love, Thomas Campbell, Frederick Schnide, E. Collrado, Mrs. L. Demoss, and one other. Its membership is now about fifty, and its officers, Mrs Mary Fritz, Noble Grand; Mrs. John Carhart, Vice Grand; Mrs. Joseph Wilson, Recording Secretary ; Charles Kane, Permanent Secretary. The Encampment of Patriarchs was instituted July 7, 1875, with the following membership: Peter Hack, Lewis DeMoss, Joseph Hosleton, James C. Harrison, L. E. Karnes, John Burt and Herman Mueller. Conrad Myer is Chief Patri arch; David Jones, Senior Warden; Benjamin Richards, Junior Warden; George Lorenz, High Priest; W. H. Coe, Scribe; John Burt, Treasurer Thomas Campbell is Deputy Grand Chief Patriarch. The membership is twenty-eight. Ouargo Tribe No. 87, of the Improved Order of Red Men, was chartered October 29, 1874. The original members comprised W. W. Bostwick, Herman Mueller, James B Manner, W. H. McCabe, Theodore Agnew, Luther L. Cantwell, C. F. Burns, John E. Tingle, T. H. Burrell, W. S. Wood, F. S. Faulkner, D. Laffer, P. H. Moore and George Palm. The officers at this writing are: W. S. Wood, Sachem; David Laffer, Senior Sagamore; W. H. McCabe, Junior Sagamore; R. D. Waite, Chief of Records; H. S. Faulkner, Keeper of Wampum. The chief executive office has been filled from the organization of the tribe to the present by the following members successively: W. W. Bostwick, W. H. McCabe, Judson Bunn, G. B. Manner, George C. McNeil, William McNaughton, J. N. Collier, D. S. Wagner, Joseph Wilson, Henry Max, Irwin Miller and W. S. Wood. W. W. Bostwick is Deputy Sachem of the State. The membership is thirty-two. The hall on the second floor of the Ricketts building, Main street, was first used as the place of meeting, but the hall in the Morris bluck is now occupied by the tribe. Guiding Star Lodge, No. 1742, of the Knights of Honor, was organized August 27, 1879, with the following charter members: W. W. Bostwick, W. H. McCabe, F. A. Wernett, A. W. Search, G. M. Mortley, G. C. McNeal, G. W. Seward, W. H. Robinson, J. H. Hay, John B. Crowley, William Ward, W. H. Barcroft, G. J. Bock, A L. Ayres, G. H. Howe, J. W. Cullison, A. D. Hove, Harrison Hawn, L W. Robinson and Joseph Burrell. It is now officered by the following: A. D. Howe, Past Dictator; W. H. Robinson, Dictator; Richard Walker, Vice Dictator; G. G. Ridgely, Reporter; W. H. Coe, Finance Reporter; Thomas Page, Treasurer; William Ward, Chaplain; John M. Connel, Guardian; Albert Ayres, Guide; Tames Moore, Sentinel. The lodge was organized in the Morris block, but now meets in the Ricketts building. Besides these a number of orders have been represented by lodges in Coshocton, which are now dead. Among them was Coshocton Lodge of the Knights of Pythias. Crescent Camp of the HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. -429 Independent Order of Knighthood was organized a few years ago, but survived a few years only. It was originally Council 7, but afterward became Council 5. The order is now estinct in this State, and the Coshocton lodge was the last to expire. Equitable Council, No. 310, of the the Royal Arcanum, was chartered April 17, 1879. It met in ! the Norris block, and after a brief career of a year or two gave up the ghost. Coshocton Grange, No. 1313, of the Patrons of Husbandry, was organized May 31, 1879, by Joseph Love, County Deputy, with a membership of thirty. The number has now reached fifty. D. F. Denman is the present Master. CHAPTER XLVII. MERCANTILE AND OTHER INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS. Early Taverns-Present Hotels-First Store-Early Merchants -James Calder-Hedge and Hammond-James Renfrew- Benjamin Ricketts-Robert Hay-Present Business Direc- tory-Banking-The Johnson Brothers-Ricketts Bank- First National Bank--Commercial Bank--Savings and Build- ing and Loan Association-Ferries-Coshocton Iron and Steel Works-Paper Mill-Various Other Industries-Past and Present. TAVERN-KEEPING is one of the first occupations in a new country. Houses of public. entertainment were plentifully scattered throughout this county while it was yet very thinly settled. They were often the precursors of hamlets and villages, and always among the earliest features of a locality that aspired to something more than rural environments. Charles Williams, the earliest settler of Coshocton, engaged at once in this pursuit, and for a number of years was without a rival in providing for the public wants. His tavern stood near the northeast corner of Water and Chestnut streets. An invariable attendant of the early tavern was the bar, which doubtless was a source of greater income than the tavern proper, The journal of Colonel Williams was written upon a few leaves of an old ledger, and from them are obtained the names of several of his early customers between 1810 and 1820. The principal charges are for whiskey or ferriages, and, if the accounts speak truly, many of them have never been paid. One of the earliest accounts is that of James L. Priest, who is credited with twenty-eight days' work, per son William, at nine dollars per month, nine dollars and sixty-nine cents. In 1811, Joseph Mulvain, Israel H. Buker, Benjamin Burrell, Solomon Vail, Chrisley Wise, Allen Moore and Jarret Moore each have a running account. The other charges were made from 1816 to 1820. The names are John Maholm, Samuel Clark, Jesse Cunningham, Peter Darne, John Barto, Elisha Elliott, Levi Rodruck, James Davis, William Carr, Thomas Harkum, John Michaels, William King, Ephraim Thayer and Strong Thomas. In 1816, Wright Warner was keeping tavern at the northwest corner of Main and Second streets, now the Central House. Solve time before this, Asa Hart was running a tavern on the east side of Second street, a few rods north of Chestnut. He died here in 1815, of cold plague. Warner was a lawyer and had been the first prosecuting attorney of the county. He had come here from one of the New England States, and in a few years removed to Steubenville. Thence he went to New Philadelphia, where he was innkeeper for some time. He was succeeded by William Whitten, a blacksmith, and first county treasurer, who is described as a short, stoutly built man, of excellent judgment and great natural abilities, though somewhat addicted, as was nearly every one at that time, to the flowing bowl. Wilson McGowan followed Whitten, as proprietor of this hotel. He was a zealous Baptist and often had preaching at the tavern while it was in his charge He was a quiet gentleman, with winning, persuasive manners, and possessed the elements of leadership. He was afterwards clerk of the court, for a few years; then engaged in mercantile pursuits, at Coshocton, with his son-in-law, Rufus Eklridge. During these early years there was quite a strife between the denizens of Water street and those of Second street. Water street was first settled, and far a long time embraced the main portion of the town. Colonel Williams, who resided here, was at first a Federalist in. politics, but afterward became a Democrat, and was the acknowledged local leader and champion of that party. His tavern became the rendezvous for those of like political faith, while the tavern on 430 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. Second street developed strong Whig tendencies, and in its proprietor was recognized the leadership of that party. The political warfare which was engendered did not flow and ebb with the coming and departure of elections as at present, but was maintained with rancor throughout the entire year. To such an extent was this carried that separate Fourth of July celebrations would be held by the two factions. Each would prepare a big dinner, and the respective adherents of the two parties were accustomed to arrive early in the morning, and spend the day in rough out-door sports and games. An oration would sometimes be prepared and delivered-oftener in the Whig assembly than the Democratic. Colonel Williams usually held his meetings in a sugar grove on the river bank, just below the bridge, and would terminate the festivities of the day with a grand dance. Abundant and excellent music was always provided, and under its entrancing strains and the mirthful sport which accompanied it, the night would glide swiftly away, and the peep of another day ushered in much too soon for the wakeful scions of liberty. The youthful Whigs, who had spent the day in the opposite camp, and come at night to enjoy the dance, were invariably hooted and driven away. Colonel Williams' house was afterwards kept for a while by his son-in-taw, Adam Johnson and then by Thomas H. Miller, another son-in-law. A Mr. Johnson also was proprietor here for a while. A number of buildings on Second street have been used for this purpose. A brick house, built in 1816, occupying the northeast corner of Chestnut and Second streets, was for a long time one of the principal taverns. Ellis D. Jones was among the earliest proprietors. He subsequently removed to Roscoe, where he remained but a short time, then returned and took charge of the Central House. After Mr. Jones' removal to Roscoe, Oliver Barrett took possession of the house he had vacated and remained there several years, then returned to Zanesville, whence he had come. Judge B. R. Shaw was proprietor here for about five years, beginning about 1838. Alexander McGowan, Alexander Hay and Mr. Pees, from Tuscarawas county, at different times kept tavern here. On the southwest corner of the same streets, now occupied by Buchanan's grocery, stood a frame building in which Samuel Morrison, Mr. Bowers and others kept public house. Thomas B. Lewis for a few years provided entertainment in a rough log building which stood on a lot on Chestnut street, now occupied by the Spangler residence. A number of fugitive slaves were passing northward through this county at one time, under the guidance of a Quaker, and were concealed in a cornfield in Bethlehem township. Their hiding place was discovered by several rowdies in that vicinity,. and, hoping to receive a reward for their capture, the ruffians pounced upon the negroes and beat them severely, then brought them mangled and bleeding 'to Lewis' tavern. Public indignation was aroused at the shameful treatment the slaves had received, and the rowdies were obliged to flee the town without their prey. The slaves made good their escape, but were subsequently recaptured in Knox county. The Central House, at the corner of Main and Second streets, is the oldest tavern in Coshocton. Except during a few years, when it was rented as a tenement house, it has been used as a tavern for nearly seventy years. Seward & McCabe have been its proprietors for several years, and it has recently passed into the hands of William Shaw. The large brick standing on lot 215, Second street, was occupied as a hotel for about twenty years. It was built by John, Joseph K., and William K. Johnson, in 1840, but not used for hotel purposes until 1856, at which time William Tidball took possession of it. He was succeeded by Thomas McBride, and Mr. McBride, in 1865, by W. H. H. Price, who remained its proprietor until 1876, when he left it to take charge of the new Price House. It has since been used for other purposes. The hotel at the northeast corner of Main and Fifth streets was, built in 1854. The addition fronting the railroad was erected two years later. Until 1867, it was the railroad eating house. Its first owner and proprietor was "Aunt Letty Thomas," a colored woman, who was brought to this county when sixteen years old, from Washington City, by Colonel William Simmons. In 1860 or 186], the property was sold to Mr. Sauerbeck, of Alliance; and his son-in-law, Robinson, HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY, - 431 became its proprietor. Since his connection with the house was dissolved, the proprietors have been as follows : Allison Williamson, Seth Gardner, Mr. Hoover, John Christy, Mrs. Hackenson, and G. A. McDonald. Seward & McCabe, the present proprietors, took charge in April, 1881. The spacious three-story brick hotel on the northwest corner of Sixth and Walnut streets, was erected in 1875, by A. M. Williams and M. Weisner. S. L. Gardner was its proprietor for six months, and was succeeded by W. H. H. Price, who continued at its head until his death, which occurred April 1, 1880. Then, after a few months, S M Price, his son, took charge of the house, and is its present proprietor. James Calder came to Coshocton in 1809 or 1810 and opened a regular country store on the west side of Second street, a few doors north of the Central House, on the site now occupied by Shaw's queensware store. He remained a few years, became involved in business and was obliged to suspend mercantile operations. Removing across the river he founded Caldersburg, now Roscoe, and soon after moved to a farm about two miles west of that place. There and in Caldersburg he spent the remainder of his life. Mr. Calder was the first merchant of Coshocton. Charles Williams had for a few years previous kept a very limited stock of dry goods at his tavern but the amount scarcely warrants him at that time the title of merchant. His granddaughter, Mrs. Oliver, residing on Water street, has the old day-book kept by Trim in 1807. The usual charges are for lodging or liquor but scattered through it are a few for calico and other staple dry goods. Hedge R Hammond was the next mercantile firm at Coshocton. Josiah Hedge and Charles Hammond were citizens of St. Clairsville, Ohio, and in October, 1810, they entered into a contract with Adam Johnson, also of that place, to open a store for there at. Coshocton, commencing Octo ber 29, 1810, he to receive $230 for his services as clerk during the first year. The store was erected on the northeast corner of Chestnut and Water streets, the first goods being sold about the 1st of November. The first books of this firm are also in Mrs. Oliver's possession, in a good state of pres ervation. In 1815, the goods were sold to Williams & Johnson, who remained in business for some years and then disposed of the store. Adam Johnson was a leading character at Coshocton at the time the county was organized, and for years thereafter. He was born in Pennsylvania, and prior to his removal to Coshocton, had spent some time in St. Clairsville as a clerk. He married a daughter of Colonel Williams, and became associated with him in business. He was the first. clerk of the court, auditor and recorder, and was at the same time postmaster. He was distinctively a self-made man, and won his way to a position of influence in county affairs, which he kept up to the tune of his death in 1829. John Frew was afterward merchant at this corner, and continued in business here many years, afterward removing his store to the opposite side of Chestnut street. He came to Coshocton about 1818, and was well and widely known as a prominent business man. James Renfrew was the next merchant. It was about 1815 that he opened a store, in a frame building, on lot 215 Second street, later occupied by the old Price House. He was born at Lisburn, County Antrim, Ireland, in 1767. In 1820, while in Pittsburgh, where he was accustomed to purchase goods, he married Mrs. Johnson, a widowed sister of Dr. Kerr, of the A. R. Presbyterian church, in that city, and mother of John, Joseph K. and William K. Johnson, well known citizens of Coshocton, at a somewhat later date. William Renfrew, quite prominent as a merchant, and James Renfrew, Jr., were children of Mr. Renfrew by a prior marriage. Mr. Renfrew died in 1832, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. In 1817, Benjamin Ricketts began mercantile life at Coshocton, in the building previously occupied by James Calder, for the same purpose. He was born near Cumberland, Maryland, July 30,1786. During Benjamin's boyhood, his father died, and he learned the trade of a hatter in that place, with Colonel Blair; married Nancy Taylor, and with their little earthly effects, they crossed the mountains, and Mr. Ricketts opened a shop at Zanesville, soon after removing to Putnam. Too close confinement to his occupation made serious inroads upon his health and, under the advice of his physicians, he abandoned the trade 432 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. and opened a store in West Zanesville. He did not remove to Coshocton until the spring of 1820, for a few years prior to that date operating a store both at West Zanesville and at Coshocton, the latter under the management of his son, T. C. Ricketts, and John Smeltzer. Mr. Ricketts' success in business was attested by the accumulations attending it In 1827, he disposed of his store to his son, Thomas C. Ricketts, who continued in business uninterruptedly until 1856, and has since resumed it. Subsequent to 1827, Benjamin Ricketts turned his attention to stock and land dealing, and acquired a large estate, in the vicinity of Coshocton. He was always averse to a political life. He was elected and acted as justice of the peace, during his residence in Zanesville; in 1825, was placed in nomination as county commissioner. He and the opposing candidate received a tie vote and, by lot, the office devolved upon Mr. Ricketts. He died July 1, 1857. His wife survived him twenty-three years, dying in her ninetieth year. John Smelzer was a Pennsylvanian by birth and of German descent. He moved to Zanesville when quite small, with his parents, and there served an apprenticeship in the hatter shop of Mr. Ricketts; but steady application to this business proved injurious to his health. and he was induced to quit it and accept a clerkship in Mr, Ricketts' store. He came to Coshocton in that capacity in the fall of 1818. and was afterward a partner for a short time, but about 1826 he removed to Roscoe, where he was engaged in mercantile pursuits for many years. Alexander Renfrew was associated with him in business for a while, and afterward Ransom and Medberry. He finally removed to Piqua, Ohio, where he died. He was a man of prepossessing appearance, a fluent speaker of both English and German tongues, and very popular. He served one term as sheriff Mr. Thomas C. Ricketts has in his possession the set of books kept in his father's store from 1818 to 1823. In them are found the accounts of early settlers from all parts of the county. Whisky was one of the chief commodities, retailing at twenty-cents per quart, or seventy-five cents per gallon. Powder and lead were staple in trade. The latter was sold in bars at nineteen cents per pound; powder for one dollar a pound. Coffee was worth forty-five cents a pound; tea, two dollars. Calico was sold at fifty cents per yard; muslin at thirty-seven and one-half to seventy-five cents. Tobacco was thirty-seven and one-half cents per pound; sugar, twelve and one-half ; iron, twelve and one-half ; steel, forty-four cents ; nails, nineteen cents; salt, two dollars per bushel; dried apples, two dollars per bushel. German almanacs are quoted at twelve and one-half cents; English almanacs at six and one-fourth cents; spelling books at twenty-five cents; flints at two cents. Coal was indirectly dealt in to a limited extent, and brought eight cents per bushel. From the credits it is learned that wood was worth from twenty-five to thirty-seven and a half cents a load; wheat, thirty to seventy-five cents per bushel , corn, twenty cents ; oats, fifteen cents; hogs, two cents per pound. Robert Hay was probably the next merchant in Coshocton. He was born in County Derry, Ireland, in February, 1801. He came to America in 1817 and was employed in stores in Pittsburg for two years, and then came to Coshocton in the employ of James Renfrew. After a clerkship of several years he became a partner with Mr. Renfrew. He soon after opened a store on the east side of Second street, lot 170 or 171, on the site now occupied by Dr. S. H. Lee's drug store and subsequently formed a partnership with William Renfrew. For fifty years he was in business. He was in his store when taken with his last illness No man ever stood higher in the community for truthfulness, honesty, promptitude, and careful, application to business. Trained in the old school of merchants, he was a strict disciplinarian, and despised all trifling and trickery. He always was himself to be found at his business in business hours and expected a conscientious devotion to his interest, on the part of his employ es, whom he always regarded with kindly interest. For the worthy poor he had always much sympathy, and was especially ready to help them to help themselves. He served the county for several years as county treasurer but was never inclined to public station. In the regular prosecution of his business as a merchant and distiller he steadily increased his worldly estate, and by the vast accretions in connection with the excise tax in the earlier part of the war, left at his death the largest estate ever administered upon in Coshoc- HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 433 ton county. He married Miss Mary Corbin, of Granville, Ohio, in 1858. She and one child preceded him to the grave and two children survived him. He died, after a few days' illness, May 3, 1889, at the home of his brother James, which for some time he made his home.-Hunt's Collections. It would be impossible and undesirable to give a complete list of the merchants of Coshocton, but among the more prominent of a later date may be mentioned W. K. Johnson & Co., Bachelor & Lamb, Humrickhouse & Co., Jarret Hawthorn, John G. Stewart, Abraham McGowan and Jackson Hay. Mr. Hunt mentions the following as the merchants in Coshocton in 1856, all the stores being on Second and Chestnut streets T. C. Ricketts, dry goods; R: &, H. Hay, dry goods; H. Meek, dry goods; A. N. Milner, dry goods; J. W. Dwyer, dry goods; Dryden & Co., drags and books; William McKee, drugs and books; S. Harbaugh, hardware; F. X. Fritchey, grocery; Mrs. E. Hawley, grocery ; H. N. Shaw, boots and shoes ; Cassingham & Shaw, leather and findings; G. F. Wilcoxen, boots and shoes; J. Waggoner, furniture, and R. M. Hackenson, drugs. Since then the increase in the number of mercantile houses has been large, and the business of Coshocton, as it existed in the spring of 1881, is hereunto subjoined: Dry Goods-Hay & Mortley, J. Pocock & Sons, Mrs. W. W. Walker, Sturgeon & Selby, Wright, Biggs S McCabe, J. Klein. Groceries-C. C. Eckert, Rue & Son, George Lorenz, Ed. Mortley, George Ayres, Alfred Bunn, W. S. Hutchinson, Charles Eckert, Samuel Gamble, F. LaSere, Boyd & Wier, Maro Smith, B. Bachman, Mrs. C. Schweiker, C. Zugschwert, B. A. Stevenson, John Heinzle. Drugs-Dr. S. H. Lee, W. A. Johns, Dr. J. Anderson R Son, J. F. Compton, M. W. McNaughton, L. K. Anderson. Clothing-T. B. Hack, D. M. Moore, A. Berkowitz, I. Wertheimer & Co. Boots and Shoes-J. G. McGaw, Joseph R. Hay, Thomas Lear, E. Martter, William Watson. Hardware-Ricketts &, Jacobs, E. McDonnald, Bonnet Brothers. Jewelry -W. W. Bostwick, W. W. Burns, John A. Bostwick. Furniture-J. Waggoner, D. Rose & Son. Stoves and Tinware-Benjamin Coe, A. Weisner, E. H. Lynde. Millinery-Mrs. George Lorenz, Mrs. H. Murphy, J. Duncan, Miss Sallie Clark. Chinaware-B. R. Shaw. Music and Books-J. Glover. Agricultural Implements-McDonald & Hanlon, Elliott & Marx, S. H. Moore, Bonnet Brothers. Saddlery-A. N. Compton, S. J. Stevenson. Grain and Lime-A. H. Thompson, J. Mulligan. Wholesale Liquors-M. McManus, A. Hertzberg Pumps and Gas Fixtures-C. A. McNary. Marble-Thompson Brothers. Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines-J. A. Compton, R. T. Compton, J. W. Shaw. Sewing Machines-J. A. Jones, John Barkhurst. Meat Markets - Haller Brothers, Charles Hozleton, Shaw & Tidball, C. W. Handel, Hughes & Mirise. No regular banking was done at Coshocton prior to 1&52. Many years before this date, however, owing to a great scarcity of change, it was customary for merchants to issue their scrip, or '° promise to pay," in very small amounts, ranging perhaps from five to seventy-five cents. They were made payable when presented in sums of five dollars or more. They proved a great convenience to the merchants and to the public as well, and had an extended circulation. The principal merchants, too, were accustomed to receive deposits from their customers and buy and sell eastern exchange. The business continued to grow on their hands until it culminated in the establishment of a regular banking business by W. K. Johnson & Co., about 1852, and by T. C. Ricketts in 1853. The Johnsons, consisting of three brothers, William K., John and James K., were representative business men in Coshocton county during the period of its rapid development. They were from Tyrone county, Ireland, emigrating to America in 1818. After a brief stay in Baltimore, the family came to Pittsburgh, where a brother of Mrs. Johnson - Rev. Dr. Kerr was living. In 1819 or 1820, Mrs. Johnson was mar- 434 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. ried to James Renfrew, and the family removed to Coshocton, where the boys received a business training under the guiding hand of their step-father. Of William K. Johnson, Mr. Hunt says in his Historical Collections: He had the confidence of the whole community, and his name was a synonym for integrity, sobriety, diligent application to business, and great prudence. By all the sons of the Emerald Isle, especially, he was looked to as a wise counselor. His approbation of any matter of town and county, interest was regarded as quite important to its accomplishment. His views and actions have very largely shaped the social and business affairs of the region where for nearly forty years he lived and labored. He was for many years a member of the board of education, and of the town council of Coshocton. He was postmaster for some fifteen years. He was connected with the Steubenville and Indiana railroad, as a director, from its organization until his death. While not uninterested in political affairs, he had little ambition in that line. He married, in 1836, Miss Elizabeth Humrickhouse, who, with six children, survived him. He died Monday-having been in his place of business the Saturday previous-December 10, 1860, aged fifty-one years. John Johnson learned the tanners' trade under the direction of Mr. Renfrew, and also worked at saddle and harness making. He represented the district of which Coshocton county was a part in 1842 and 1843 as State senator, and was also a member of congress in 1851-53. He was a member of the convention which framed the present State constitution. His health was not firm for some years before he died, and on this and other accounts he was not so much engaged with public affairs in his later years as in earlier ones. With limited education, his industry and native shrewdness and caution enabled him to achieve a considerable degree of business and political success. He died February 5, 1867. After the death of William K. Johnson, the banking firm became J. K. Johnson & Co., John Johnson being junior partner. After the tatter's death, David and John H. were received into the firm, and the business was thus conducted until their removal to New York City, about the tat of January, 1872. Since then the bank has been operated by John G. Stewart, on the southeast corner of Main and Fourth streets. The banking house of the Johnsons was at this place. T. C. Ricketts started his banking house in the Hawthorne building, on Chestnut street, and at first in the room occupied by his store, but in a short time it was removed a few doors west, to the corner of Chestnut and Second streets. He afterwards removed it to Main street, near Fifth, continuing in the banking business individually until January, 1872, when the First National Bank was organized, with T. C. Ricketts, president, and Baxter Ricketts, cashier. It commenced business in March, 1872. Two years later the First National Bank was organized, Jackson Hay becoming president, and H. C. Herbig, cashier. These officers continue to the present. The orignal capital was $50,000; this was afterwards increased to $110,000 in order to meet the demands of business, but it has since been returned to its original amount. In March, 1881, the bank withdrew its circulation and has since become a private banking house, doing business under name of Commercial Bank. In August, 1868, the Coshocton's Savings, Building and Loan Association was incorporated. Its directors have been F. E. Barney, James M. Burt, William E. Hunt, Hiram Beall, Thomas Campbell, T. C. Ricketts, E. T. Spangler, J. B. Ingraham, J. G. Stewart, D. L. Triplett, H. Hay, J. C. Pomerene, and J. S. Wilson. J. W. Cassing ham was secretary through all its history. J. M. Burt, J. G. Stewart and D. L. Triplett, have served as president, and T. C. Ricketts and J. G. Stewart, as treasurer. It practically discontinued business in 1875, having at that time, by installments of stock and profits, nearly $100,000 of assets, which were paid out to the stockholders. The present bridges over the Tuscarawas and Walhonding rivers were finished in the years 1837 and 1833, respectively. A bridge across the Tuscarawas had been built in 1832, through the efforts of a number of the citizens and petitions to the county commissioners, but it survived the floods only one year and was then swept away. Before that the main reliance for crossing the river was by ferry. The streams were then higher and deeper than now, and high waters prevailed during a much greater portion of the year. The HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 435 river was scarcely ever fordable in winter, and for only a part of the summer. It has been mentioned that the proprietors of the town reserved to themselves the right of all ferries within the bounds of the town plat. John Matthews, one of the original proprietors, transferred this right to Colonel Williams during Matthews' lifetime only, it seems. Colonel Williams did not attend to the ferry personally, but employed men to run it for him. One of the earliest of these was Abraham killer, son of George Miller of Lafayette township. Somewhat later, John Crowley performed these duties, and after him Samuel Morrison, a nephew of Williams. The ferry under Williams was at the foot of Chestnut street, and was one of the most remunerative occupations then attainable by the residents of Coshocton. The authorized charges were, for footman, six and one-quarter cents ; horse and rider, twelve and one-half cents; loaded two-horse wagon, seventy-five cents. At Matthews' death the ferry was sold to a company consisting of Robert Hay, William K. Johnson, Samuel Burns and Joseph Burns. By them the ferry was moved farther up the stream and a rope ferry established. These men were heartily in favor of a free bridge, and lent their aid to its erection. The Coshocton Iron and Steel Works, located on South Fifth street, is the largest and most extensive manufacturing establishment in the county; it has been in operation about ten years. A stock company was formed in May, 1861, for the manufacture of springs, axles and iron bridges, and duly incorporated. The principal holders of the company were Houston Hay, T. C. Ricketts, F. E. Barney, Lewis Demons, J. W. Shipman, E. T. Spangler, John Davis, J. A. Barney, Coshocton Planing Mill Company, Rue & Son, T. H. Burrell, J. B. Ingram, Willis Wright, N. Renfrew, W. J. Moffat, J. D. Nichols, Samuel Moore, J. C. Pomerene, William Stanton and Cassingham and Crowley. The officers elected were-Houston Hay, president; F. E. Barney, vice-president; T. C. Rickets, treasurer, and they, with Lewis Demons, John Davis, E. T. Spangler and James W. Shipman, constituted the board of director John A. Barney was made secretary. The extensive buildings as they now stand were at once erected, and James W. Shipman, who had previously operated an establishment of this kind in the State of New York, was placed in the general management of the works. After a brief career of between two and three years, the affairs of the company became greatly involved, and in January, 1874, an assignment was made. The causes which led to this were various. The machinery of Mr. Shipman's former establishment had been purchased at a high price, and, proving wholly insufficient, a considerable outlay for new machinery became necessary. The company was organized with a capital of $100,000, but not more than two-thirds of this amount was ever paid in. This was mostly expended in buildings, machinery, etc., and the working capital had to be borrowed, at high rates of interest. High wages were paid, and large salaries for which, in some cases, little service was rendered. High prices, too, were paid for material. A boiler explosion in June, 1872, entailed a loss of about $10,000. The officers remained about the same up to the time of the assignment, except that William Wand was elected director, vice Shipman, and also secretary in place of John A. Barney. Mr. Ward was appointed assignee, and under him the work in progress was finished, requiring about six weeks. The works then remained idle until I they were sold in August, 1874, at the third offer, to Houston Hay for $33,334 Mr. Hay immediately resumed the manufacture of axles, and about six months later work was commenced in the spring department. In April, 1875, J. W. Dwyer associated with Mr. Hay as partner in this latter department but about two years later this partnership was dissolved and Mr. Hay has since been sole proprietor of the works. The manufacture of iron bridges has not been resumed since the failure of the company. The work in the spring department is done under contract. Since Mr. Hay's connection with the works the quality of the manufactures has established a reputation for them which insures an easy and continued sale wherever they are known. Columbus, Toledo, Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago and St. Louis, are the principal shipping points, but the manufactures find their way westward as far as the shores of the Pacific. About ninety workmen are now employed in the works. William Ward has su- 436 -HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. pervision over the works, Farley Connerty is foreman in the foundry, A. D. Howe in the axle department and Horn and Kronenbitter are the contractors in the spring department. The Coshocton paper mill, situated between Fifth street and the Tuscarawas river, was built in 1863 by Thompson Hanna. He soon after turned over the business to his son and son-in-law, Daniel W. Hanna and Robert Sinclair, who operated it until 1866 when they failed. This was caused by a lack of working capital and a boiler explosion in 1866. (By this explosion John Freeman was killed and John Sherrod seriously hurt). After remaining idle about two years the mill was sold to Peter Hough, who ran it for a year or more, became involved and retired from the business. It was then leased temporarily to several parties, and in May, 1871, was purchased by John W. Cassingham and A. D. Harvey of Coshocton, and Hugh McElroy of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1875 Cassingham and McElroy bought Mr. Harvey's interest and are still its successful proprietors. Wrapping paper is the kind manufactured and it finds a market chiefly in Pittsburgh. J. S. Smart, a man well known in paper circles, is the present superintendent of the mill. Thomas Arthur, the foreman, has been connected with the establishment from the start. The Coshocton Planing Mill Company commenced operations in 1869. As originally composed the company consisted of Addison M. Williams, Martin Weisner and W. H. Robinson, Jr. Mr. Robinson soon after withdrew, and Dr. William Stanton was for a while a partner. For some time the firm has been Williams & Weisner. The building first used was Jackson Hay s' old warehouse, from Canal Lewisville, which the company took down, hauled to Coshocton on wagons, and re-erected. Very considerable additions have been made to this original structure. The mill stands on the southeast corner of Walnut and Cherry streets, east of the freight depot. Across Walnut street from the planing mill stands the Coshocton city mills, erected in 1875, by Charles and George Bolch. The latter withdrew in September, 1875, and for a year Charles Bolch was sole owner and proprietor of the mill. C. F. Burns was then received as a partner in the mill, and in November, 1878, Garret Treadway also. In August, 1880, R. F. Sayer, Daniel Snyder, George Bolch and Charles Craig became the proprietors of the mill and owners of the property. The mill contains a run of five buhrs, and does an extensive business, both in custom and merchant work, large quantities of flour being shipped to Baltimore and elsewhere. The gas works were built in the winter of 1873-4 by a stock company, representing a capital of $25,000. The contractor was B. Van Steenberg, now of Logan, New Jersey, and was also at the outset the heaviest stockholder. He soon after disposed of his interest to Houston Hay. The company was organized in 1872, with F. E. Barney, L. Demons, John G. Stewart, H. N. Shaw and W. E. Hunt as directors. At this time the directors are Houston Hay, James Wilson, Joseph Rue, L. Demons and James R. Johnson. J. G. Stewart is president, and Henry Herbig secretary and treasurer. Isaac McNary has been superintendent of the works from the start. The amount of gas furnished by these works has been steadily increased since the works were established. Carriage and wagon manufactories are now carried on by E. McDonnald, V. O. Jeffries and James Stewart. In 1857 Mr. McDonnald and Alexander Manner erected a carriage manufactory on lot 209 West Walnut street. Two years later McDonnald purchased his partner's interest in the works, at the same time selling to Mr. Manner his interest in a hotel, which had become their property. He remained in possession of the factory, except during a few months, when Judson Hughes, of Zanesville, controlled it, until 1569, when he erected the extensive shops now standing on lot 140, Third street, near Main. He has since continued the manufacture of carriages at these shops. During the last ten or eleven years he has built, on an average, about sixty vehicles a year. The works of V. O. Jeffries are located on Second street; between Chestnut and Locust. He has had possession of the shops for several years, succeeding Jeffries & VanAllen. James Stewart built his wagon shops a few years ago near the south end of Water street, and is still operating them there. A carriage shop was built on Sixth street, be- HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 437 tween Main and Walnut, by G. A. Pieffer & Sons, of Dresden. In 1873 Alexander Manner bought , these premises at assignee's: sale, and operated here for a while, but has since ceased manufacturing. George Schley, at one time, was an extensive wagon maker, and subsequently J. Glover, C. W. Frew, A. Fritz and others have also at one time or another been engaged in this business. The Coshocton Foundry, located on North Fifth street, was built about 1871 by Edward Kirk. It afterwards passed into the hands of T. C. Ricketts and was operated by Kirk and Robert Hay, then by Ricketts & Evans, and still later by Hirt, Palm & Evans. After standing idle for two years it was purchased in January, 1851, by W. H. King, who is now carrying on a general and extended line of business here. Probably the first foundry in Coshocton was the one started by George E. Conwell and Morris Burt, The building used was the one now occupied by Mr. Jeffries as a carriage shop, on Second street. It afterward came into the possession of J. C. Maginity, who afterwards entered into a partnership with the Roses. owners of the Roscoe foundry. The Roscoe foundry soon became the principal, and after a time, the only one operated by the firm. another foundry was started about 1868, by Hiram Taylor and W. H. King, near the Tuscarawas river bridge. After a time they removed to Roscoe and it was abandoned. The first tannery was started about 1808, by Andrew Lybarger, on the northwest corner of Second and Walnut streets. This yard afterwards passed into the hands of John and Joseph K. Johnson, who operated it for a series of years. At a still later date it was owned by Andrew J. Wilkin and James Dryden. It was abandoned quite a number of years ago. There is now a. tannery, located on Water street between Main and Walnut, operated by McClain & Koontz. John Taylor erected a machine shop at this place about 1845; and carried it on for many years. The shop then stood idle for some time and was purchased by Cassingham & Shaw, who converted it into a tannery. It was sold to Mr. Loose, and from him passed into the hands of the present owners. A small soap factory was built about 1850, near the Tuscarawas bridge by J. Mayer. In 1871 the establishment was bought by W. H. Robinson, Jr., and C. Skinner, torn down and replaced by a larger building known as the Coshocton Soap Works. For a short time it was owned and operated by D. Adams, but was repurchased, and is now conducted by C. Skinner & Co. T. Hager manufactures cigars, on Main street. G. F. Palm began the manufacture at this place in 1878, and a year or two later, sold out to Mr: Hager. - Gaumer is also engaged in this business, on Second street. J. K. March was the first to manufacture cigars to any considerable extent, beginning in 1870. The first brewery in Coshocton was started in a building on the west side of Second street, between Locust and Sycamore, about 1852, by L. Mayer. In 1866, Lewis Beiber built the brewery on North Fourth street, near the river. It was afterward operated by Charles Boes, but has since been discontinued. Among the manufacturing establishments that have formerly had a place in Coshocton may be mentioned the fanning mill factory which was operated about 1848, for awhile, by William M. Green, on lot 172 Main street, where W. W. Bostwick's jewelry store now stands. Josiah Dewey, for some time, was extensively engaged in the manufacture of chairs, on the northeast corner of Second and Locust streets. Prior to 1850, he sold the establishment to A. Ordway, who continued it sometime longer: James Taylor, about 1840, started a woolen mill, on Walnut street, between Water and Second. He finally went to California, and the mill went down. Dr. Samuel Lee, about 1826, started a carding mill on the lot which is situated at the southeast corner of Main and Fourth streets. It continued in operation for eight or ten years. A grist mill was for a time attached to it. The motive power was furnished by an ox, the machinery consisting of a tread-mill. Many years before this, Charles Williams built a little tread-mill on the lower part of lot 216, Chestnut street, where the grists of many early settlers were ground. The machinery was removed to a small mill on Cant well's run, across the river. In 1832, a large steam flouring mill was built at the southwest corner of Main and Second streets, by James and William Renfrew and Robert Hay. It contained four 438 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. run of buhrs. In 1839, the mill was consumed by fire, but the following year it was rebuilt and operated by different parties, usually with indifferent or ill success until 1850, when the building was leased to Robert Hay, Thomas Love and John Hay, for the purpose of carrying on a distilling business. Love & Hay-Samuel Love and Robert Hay at first, but afterward Thomas Love and Robert Hay-had commenced operations in this line at Roscoe in 1837. The loss of their mill there by fire caused its removal to Coshocton, where the business was conducted on a much larger scale than formerly. In 1865, Robert and James Hay• retired from the firm, and after a little while the manufacture ceased entirely. In its day this distillery was the most active and extensive industry in the village. Its capacity was 300 bushels per day, which would produce, on an average, 1,050 gallons of whisky. CHAPTER XLVIII. SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES OF COSHOCTON. Early Schools-First School Houses and Teachers-Erection of Buildings-Progress and Statistics. Churches-Early Preaching-Presbyterian-Methodist Prot- estant- Methodist Episcopal-Catholic-German Lutheran -Baptist-Episcopal. SCHOOL facilities in Coshocton were meager indeed during the formative stages of its growth, and even for many years after. The then great West attracted many settlers who cared little or nothing for the benefits of education, and made no efforts to provide their children with even the rudiments of learning, and even had they been so disposed, the demands of pioneer life in other directions were so pressing as to forbid much time or attention being paid to it. There were some, it is true, who brought with them from the East a deep conviction of the necessity of education, and who did what they could to implant it in this community; but their resources were limited, and they made but tardy advancement. Rev. Calhoun says: "It is worthy of being noted that, according to the best information we can obtain; five or six years after the settlement of Coshocton, it was destitute of a school of any kind." According to his statement, the first school in Coshocton was established in the year 1807, by Joseph Harris, who had the year before taught a school at the Evans settlement, in Oxford township. It was held in the house of Calvin Bobbet, which seems to have been vacated by him shortly after he built it, situated on lot 219 Second street, just north of William Burns' residence. In January, 1808, some difficulty arose between the school master and his pupils, and he was obliged to seek employment, in his vocation, elsewhere. The nature of the difficulty is unknown, but considering the season of the year, it is probable that the teacher was "barred out" for refusing to treat, as was the custom in those times, on New Years Day. However that may be, Coshocton lost its first pedagogue. In 1809, Charles Roberts taught a school in this settlement a part of the time, in the neighborhood of Fulton's or Cartmell's, and another portion of his time in a house standing on Second street. Israel H. Buker is also recollected as one of the early school-teachers. He was a Revolutionary soldier, was quite acceptable as a teacher and taught several quarters in a house standing on the river bank in the southwestern part of the town, on or near the south line of south out-lot number 1. It would not be desirable, even if it were possible, to follow up each school that has been taught here. Prior to 1828 there was no school-house of any kind, though quite a number had already been built in the neighboring settlements; and the desultory schools that were taught were held wherever the use of a vacant cabin could be obtained, scarcely ever twice in the same place. About 1818, William B. Hubbard, who came here from St. Clairsville, taught a quarter on lot 167 Second street, where James Johnson now resides, in a building which had previously been used by Captain Abram Sells as a furniture shop. Mr. Hubbard, from all accounts, was an excellent teacher; he soon after returned to St Clairsville, and subsequently went to Columbus, where he attained celebrity as a banker, lawyer and railroad magnate. James Madden, from Virginia, taught in a building near the northeast corner of HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 439 Second and Chestnut streets. He was crippled in one arm, but excelled as a penman, and taught ; several quarter:. He afterwards moved to White Eyes township where he continued his chosen occupation. A Mr. Jackson also taught here. He is described as n very irascible and stern individual, who wanted but the slightest provocation to exercise his pedagogical right to flog. He taught in the fall of 1828, when the hero of New Orleans was a candidate for President. An enthusiastic young Democrat innocently hurrahed for Jackson one day in the school yard, and the dignified professor, deeming this a reflection upon his name, administered to the offending youth an unusually severe dose of discipline which rendered him very unpopular to the predominating democratic element of the village. Moses L. Neel taught for a number of years, probably beginning in 1819 or 1820 in a rough cabin, standing just south of the mill on the southwest corner of Main and Second streets. He was impetuous and brilliant, and gave satisfaction as a teacher. He was a remarkably fine penman. The court house, too, was utilized for school purposes for a few years. James Matthews taught a term here in 1831. He afterwards represented the county in the State legislature and served two terms in congress, 1841-5. Moses Neel also taught in the court house. All these were subscription schools. The terms, as gathered from several of Mr. Neel's school contracts for the years 1824-5 and 6, were two dollars per quarter for each scholar. Money must have been a rare article for the subscriptions were made payable in "common country produce" at the cash price when delivered. The subscribers also agreed to "furnish a comfortable school house, benches, scats, tables, fuel cut and split in good order and proper size for the chimney, and delivered at the door " of the school house. The teachers rarely ventured beyond instruction in "reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic," and usually taught only the first principles of these. In 1825, the legislature passed a general bill authorizing, on certain conditions, the levying of a tax, not exceeding in amount $300, for building a school-house. Rate (or tuition) bills could be arranged for and relied on where the tax was insufficient. The minutes of the commissioners show that in June, 1823, "Upon application it is ordered by the commissioners of said county that Samuel Lee and his associates have a privilege of building a school-house on the southwest corner of the public square, in the town of Coshocton (as it was then spelled), 0.," the building to be "a good, decent brick or frame house not to be less than twenty feet square, or larger if they think it necessary." Accordingly a little brick school-house twenty by thirty feet, containing one room, was erected and served as the village school for about twenty years. Among the earliest teachers in the building were Mr.. Barnes and Mr. O'Neal, a law student in the office of James Matthews; among its latest teachers were Messrs. Alexander, James Irvine and James Dryden and Rev. H. K. Hennigh. "In the latter part of this period, say from 1840 to 1850, there was a growing conviction that thorough and extended scholarship had not been attained under the public school system as then ordered by law, and this fact and a higher sense of the importance of the religious element in education gave rise to a number of private schools and academies. In this work at Coshocton were engaged Rev. E. Buckingham, and especially Rev. Addison Coffey, both of the Presbyterian church. The latter built quite a good brick house with the view of making room for boarders, and had for his school-house the building now occupied by W. R. Forker, both buildings being on south Fourth street." The removal from the county of Messrs. Buckingham and Coffey, involved the discontinuance of these institutions. The present graded schools were established under the "Akron law," passed in 1849. William K. Johnson, Joseph C. Maginity, John G. Smith, Joseph Guinther, John Tidball and Jacob Waggoner were chosen by the citizens as the first board of education. As first established, there were three departments in the schools, two primary and a higher one. William R. Powers, formerly of New York, then of Utica, Ohio, was employed as superintendent, assisted in the higher department by Miss Sallie Elder (Mrs. George Dewey). Miss Araminta Bodelle (Mrs. H. N. Shaw) and Miss Caroline Stewart (Mrs.. Samuel Denman) presided over the two primary 440 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY schools. Soon after a secondary school was started and taught by Miss Elder, her place in the higher school being supplied by Miss Delis Roberts (Mrs. Houston Hay). The schools at that time held their sessions in a little frame school-house in the southeast corner of the north school lot, where the little white school-house now stands, and in the basements of the Methodist Episcopal and the Second Presbyterian churches. The little brick school-house on the public square had become dilapidated, and owing to the location, objection was made to repairing it. The following petition is here given, as much for the preservation of names of old citizens attached to it, as for the interest shown in the cause of education. The petition was presented to the legislature by Timothy A. Condit, then a member of that body from Coshocton: To the Honorable, the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, now in session: The undersigned citizens of the school district composed of the town of Coshocton and vicinity, respectfully represent: That with a desire of improving the public school in said district, and of establishing a central county school in which students from all parts of the county might, on liberal terms, enjoy educational advantages superior to those afforded in the ordinary district school, with a view to their employment in the business of teaching, they have established and have now in successful operation in said town a Union School, under the provisions of the "act for the better regulation of public schools,'' etc., passed February 21, 1849, and that the expenses necessarily incurred in the organization and support of said school are so great as to amount to a heavy burden on the taxable property of said district; The undersigned therefore pray that by an enactment of your honorable body, all fines hereafter collected for violations of the criminal law, occurring within the bounds of said district, may be appropriated to the support of said school, to be expended in the same manner as the school fund now provided by law, etc. COSHOCTON, Ohio, February 11,1851. Wm. Sample, Benj. R. Shaw, W. K Johnson, T. S Humrickhouse, David Spangler, Benjamin Ricketts, Josiah Harris, Henry N. Shaw, Thos. Campbell, A. R. Hillyer, G. F. Cassingham, H. J. Rahanser, H. Cantwell, J. Irvine, Jacob Waggoner, John Waggoner, John F. Traxler, John Darnes, Henry Laffer, Jos. M. Traxler, F. Factor, W. P. Wheeler, A. L. Cass, A. N. Milner, J. H. Hutchinson, Josiah Dewey, G. E. Conwell, W. T. Decker, James T. Morris, James M. Brown, Robert Southwell, Jno. G. Stewart, John C. Tidball, H. Meek, Jas. Hazlett, Samuel Moore, Robert Hay, Alex. D. McGowan, Samuel Love, Thos. Dwyer, Edward Maher, Joseph Burns, F. X. Fritchey, J. H. Workman, John Burt, Wm. H. Robinson, D. Trueman, S. B. Crowley, R. M. Hackinson, Thos. C. Ricketts, Joseph Evans, Mahlon Richcreek, J. Medill, W. C. Wolfe, J. C. Medill, Thos. Love, R. F. Baker, J. W. Rue, John Frew. In 1853, it was determined to erect a suitable school-house. A considerable amount of feeling was manifested in regard to the location of it. Some were anxious to have it erected on the quarter block (two original town lots), at the northeast corner of Fourth and Main streets, fronting the public square. Others insisted upon placing it upon the square at the north end of the town, given by the original proprietors of the town for that purpose. The latter carried the day. The building (a two-story brick, thirty by eighty feet, with belfry,) was finished in 1855. A. N. Milner, a merchant and general operator, took the contract at about $4,500. A small allowance was subsequently made, but it was claimed that he was out of pocket very largely, whether by proper cost or through want of management, is disputed. The brick work was done by Henry Davis; the carpenter work, et"., by George Hay. The bell was added six or eight years afterward purchased by the fines paid in that year by the violators of the liquor law. The shade trees which adorn the large school yard, were planted by superintendent W. A. McKee. When this schoolhouse was built, the board of education was composed of B. R. Shaw, J. C. Tidball, Jacob Waggoner, A. L. Cass, H. Cantwell and William Sample. . There are no accessible records, from which to obtain the complete list of names and periods of service of the subsequent members of the board, HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 441 but the following persons have served in this capacity since: John Frew, Thomas Campbell, H. N. Shaw, James Dryden, J. G. Stewart, Henry Davis, W. H. Robinson, A. J, Wilkin, J. C. Pomerine, A. H. Spangler, D. F. Denman, J. M. Compton, J. S. Wilson, C. H. Johnson, T. J. Mad den and W. W. Walker. The board at this time embraces G. H. Barger, Henry Davis, William Crowell, E. J. Pocock, William Carnahan and W, H. Robinson. Following Mr. Powers, the superintendents of the Coshocton union schools have been as follows: W. A. McKee, 1804-7; T. V. Milligan, 1857-9; John Giles, 1859-64; C. Forney, 1864-8; George Conant, 1868-78; E. E. Henry, 1878-81. To meet the demands of a rapidly increasing enrollment the board in 1870 erected a two-story brick on the northeast corner of Walnut and Seventh streets. In 1874 a small frame was erected on the southeast corner of the north school lot, and the accommodations being still insufficient, two primary schools were set up in a private house on Chestnut street, just east of the railroad. In 1876 an imposing three-story front addition was built to the school-house on Walnut and Senenth streets. The plans were furnished by Johnson & Kremler, of Columbus, and the work done by the Coshocton planing mill company Its cost was $15,000. The growth of the schools during the decade which has just ended has been rapid. For the year 1879 -80 there were 681 pupils enrolled an< the average daily attendance was 565. Thirteen teachers are employed. The course extends over a period of twelve years, four in each of the three departments, primary, grammar and high The first graduating class was that of 1879, containing six members; the class of '80 consisted of seven members. Several futile attempts have been made to establish advanced educational institutions in this place, "In 1870 the Presbyter ian Church of Coshocton made a proposition give the frame church building for a school-hour and a strip of ground-now occupied by the parsonage-whereon to erect a boarding house, to board of trustees appointed by the session, but including representative members of other denominations, to the number of two-thirds of the board, if the community would assist in securing not less than $5,000, wherewith to erect the boarding house. Over $4,000 were subscribed-all but $300 by members of the Presbyterian Church, but the community manifested so little interest in this movement to secure the ' Coshocton Female College,' that the church, after waiting a year, withdrew the proposition and proceeded to erect a parsonage with the fund so far as it had been contributed within the church. "A few years later Rev. Mr. Lee, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the president of an institution called the One Study University, undertook to start a branch of that university under the name of `Coshocton College' but the effort also was quite abortive-the concern leading a feeble life for a year or so, and then passing away." In early days preaching could only be had occasionally, and this was usually by ministers either engaged in western missionary work, or passing fortuitously through the county. Prior to 1811, there was probably no preaching in Coshocton. Rev. Calhoun is authority for the statement that, in 1810, " from all we can learn, there was not a praying family in the town, and probably a Christian prayer had never been offered on the town plat." After Dr. Samuel Lee became a resident of the place in 1811, Rev. Timothy Harris, a Congregational minister, of Granville, who had accompanied him from Vermont, used to preach here occasionally. Others, doubtless, whose names are now lost beyond recall, conducted meetings in private houses, from time to time, during the decade that followed the organization of the county. The first denomination to effect an organization in Coshocton was the Presbyterian, Its history has been kindly furnished by James R. Johnson, as follows: The churches of Keene and Coshocton were originally one organization. The date of organization, as gathered a few years later, from the earliest members, is shown by the following entry in the record book, in 1827: As nearly as can now be ascertained this church was formed in the fall of 1818, by Rev. J. Cunningham, of Richland Presbytery. It was called "The Church of the Congregations . of Coshocton and Millcreek;" and at that time was composed of the following members 442 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. James Renfrew, Timothy Emerson, Dr. Samuel Lee, Jacob Emerson, Andrew Henderson, Enos Emerson, William Ford, John Elder, Henry Jewit, Mrs. Jewit, Mrs. Elder, Polly Emerson, Katy Henderson, Catherine Emerson and Mrs. Thayer. Mr. James Renfrew and Mr. Timothy Emerson were chosen elders, and ordained. Church services were held in private houses until after the erection of the court-house, in 1824, and the brick school-house, in 1828; both on the public square. A record was begun July 14, 1827, at which time Rev. Thomas Barr preached, and eighteen additional members were received. From this time the church had preaching more regularly , I the services being mostly held at Keene, as the membership there was much greater than at Coshocton. In 1824, with the assistance of Rev. James Cunningham, the first Sunday-school in the county was started, in Coshocton, under the superintendence of James Renfrew. It met for a time in the currying shop of his tan-yard, on Second street; then in the tavern, corner Second and Walnut streets; then in the court-house, and later in the school-house. In January, 1829, we find fourteen teachers and seventy-six pupils enrolled. This school has been kept up regularly till the present. day. Rev. Samuel Rose, a Congregational minister, preached to the church for a few months, about the year 1827. Rev. George W. Warner (now living in Columbia county, N. Y.,) preached here from November 24, 1828, to April 10, 1831. It was during his ministry, that the first Presbyterian communion service in Coshocton was held, January 15, 1831, in the court-house, Rev. John Pitkins officiating. The church was supplied by Rev. Henry Hervey, of Martinsburg, and others, until the spring of 1834, when Rev. Nathaniel Conkling began his labors here. In April, 1834, a lease, from the county commissioners to Samuel Lee, William K. Johnson and John Porter, as trustees, granted permission to erect a, church building on the pubic square. By a great effort a substantial frame building, thirty by forty-two feet, was erected the same year. It faced Main street, standing back about ten feet from the line of the street, and opposite lot 316. This was the first church building in Coshocton. It had one wide aisle, in which stood two stoves, the pipes ascending straight to the ceiling; in the north end a high box-pulpit; in the opposite end a choir gallery; four very large windows on each side and two next the street., with glass eight by ten inches. The wood-work inside and out was painted white. In later years the ladies' sewing society had the walls papered and green venetian shutters put to the windows, and the pulpit and double front door grained in oak, and a rag carpet placed in the aisle. It had no belfry or bell, the court-house bell being used for court, fires, funerals, school, church and political meetings. During the two years' ministry of Mr. Conkling, the churches of Keene and Coshocton became separate organizations; a good church building was erected at each of these places, fourteen members were added at Coshocton and thirty-eight at Keene. The first year, Mr. Conkling lived at Coshocton, the second year, at Keene: He had five children; one of them, now Rev. Nathaniel Conkling, D. D., of New York City, was born at Keene. Mrs. Conkling is buried at Keene. Mr. Conkling was succeeded by Rev. Joseph S. Wylie, the first minister who was installed as pastor of the church. During the five years of his ministry (1836-1841) some forty-eight members were added at Coshocton, and the church was incorporated by act of the legislature as " The First Presbyterian Church of the town of Coshocton, in Coshocton county." In 1838, some difficulties arose which led to the withdrawal of fourteen members, who were formed (January 12, 1839) into a new school Presbyterian Church, known as the Second church. Mr. Wylie preached at Keene part of his time. Rev. E. Buckingham preached to the second church from 1839 till 1846, in which time eighty-seven members were added and a frame church building, thirty-eight by fifty-five feet, with stone basement, was erected on lot 50, Fourth street, in 1840. The basement was used for service until the audience room was completed, October 14, 1849. Rev. Henry Calhoun (now of Ironton) began preaching in the Second church in the spring of 1846, and remained eleven years. During his ministry sixty-two were added. He also taught school, and preached in Roscoe part of his time. April 25,1857, fifteen members were dismissed to form a separate church in Roscoe.. A very flourishing Sunday-school was another feature of Mr. Calhoun's ministry. This for some years was the largest Sunday-school in town. Rev. Addison Coffey, from Lebanon, Ohio, began preaching in the First church, as stated supply, August 8, 1841, and was installed pastor August 4, 1843. The pastoral relation was dissolved September 2, 1847. Sixty-six were added during his ministry. He built a school-house on lot 87, and a brick dwelling on lot 85, with a view to keeping school boarders. He went to Peoria, Illinois, where he has since died. The shorter ministries of Mr. Hennigh, Mr. Jacob, and others in the First church, and of Mr. Wallace and others in the HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 443 Second church, are mentioned in a table at the close of this sketch. During Mr. Jacob's ministry, a ladies' sewing society was formed in the First church; Mrs. Joseph K. Johnson, president; Miss Isabel Sample, treasurer. A society of the same sort was maintained in the Second church. Mrs. Buckingham, president. Plain sewing and fancy needle work, an annual fair and festival and evening mite meetings have been their sources of revenue. To this time they have contributed for repairs, and toward the erection of a new church and parsonage, some $6,500. Rev. William E. Hunt, the resent pastor, began preaching in Coshocton in July, 1856, and was ordained and installed April 15, 1857. The following events of his twenty-five years' ministry are worthy of special mention: 1. The church became self-sustaining-all the ministers who preceded him being partly supported by the mission boards. 2. The acquisition, in 1857, of the parsonage on lot 314. The lot was the gift of W. K. Johnson & Co., a frame building being erected by the rest of the congregation. This was sold in 1871, to T. C. Ricketts, for $2,400. The house on this lot was burned in the fall of 1877. 3. The purchase, in 1863, of lot 49, corner of Fourth and Chestnut streets, by the ladies' sewing society of the First church, for $1,000. 4. The erection thereon, in 1866-68, of a new church building forty-three by sixty-nine feet, at a cost of $15,500. 5. The reunion, after a separation of thirty years, of the First and Second churches, which was consummated September 11, 1870, after worshiping together for a period of three years under a temporary arrangement; the membership of tire First church being, at the time of the reunion, 112 ; that of the Second church, seventy-five ; the session of the united church being made u of the elders of both churches, Rev. William Hunt, pastor; corporate name, The Presbyterian Church of Coshocton. 6. The erection, in 1871, of a new parsonage, adjoining the church, at a cost of $5,000. Two thousand six hundred dollars of this was raised as a special memorial fund to commemorate the reunion. 7. The accession of 280 members. 8. The sale of the old First church, in 1868, to J. M. Brown, for $400, now used for stores, corner Fourth and Main streets ; and the sale of the old Second church, in 1873, to J. C. Fisher and others, for $3,000, now remodeled and used for printing and lawyers' offices. Besides the regular weekly services of the church, Mr. Hunt has, up to this time, conducted 265 funeral services, and performed 390 marriage ceremonies. The church now has 209 members, with 200 pupils in Sunday-school; and besides the ladies' sewing society, already mentioned, has two missionary societies and a young people's association; is out of debt, and annually raises $1,800 for current expenses, and $300 for missionary and other benevolent enterprises. The list of ministers of the First church is as follows Rev. James Cunningham, 1818; missionary work at intervals. Rev. Samuel Rose, about 1827; a few months. Rev. George W. Warner, 1828-1831; two and one-third years. Rev. Henry Hervey, about 1832; a few months. Rev. N. Conkling, 1834-1836; two years. Rev. Joseph S. Wylie, 1836-1841; five years. Rev. Addison Coffey, 1841-1847; six years. Rev. H. K. Hennigh, 1847-1849: one and one-half years. Rev. Robert Robe, 1849-1850; one-half year. Rev. P. H. Jacob, 1851-1855; three and three-fourth years. Rev. T. J. Taylor, 1855-1856; a few months. Rev. William E. Hunt, 1856; present pastor. Following is a list of ministers of the Second church Rev. E. Buckingham, 1839-1846; seven years. Rev. Henry Calhoun, 1846-1857; eleven years. Rev. - Mussey, about 1858; a few months. Rev. John Henderson, 1859 1860; a few months. Rev. William Bridgman, fall of 1860; three months. Rev. Charles W. Wallace, 1861-1865; four and one-fourth years. Rev. William M. Kain, 1866-1867 ; one year. The list of ruling elders of the First church, is as follows, with date of election and years of service: James Renfrew, 1818; fourteen years. John Elliott, 1832 ; twenty-three years. Jacob Eliot, nineteen and one-half years. Jonathan Fisk, eleven and one-half years. Samuel Wheeler, 1844; twelve years. William Loder, 1844; nineteen years. Rolls Banks, 1844; five years. John F. Trailer, 1844; four years. David Noble, 1844; fourteen years. Joseph K. Johnson, 1849; twenty-three years. William Sample, 1855; seventeen years. William Laughead, 1855; ten years. T. S. Humrickhouse, 1867. T. C. Ricketts, 1567. James R. Johnson, 1867. 444 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. Following is a list of ruling elders of the Second church Samuel Lee, 1839, thirty years. A. R. Hillyer, 1839; twenty-one years. Phineas Tattle, 1843; nineteen years. James Hill, 1843; fifteen years. A. D. Denman, 1860. Josiah Glover, 1860. Chester Wells, 1862; six years. William H Robinson, 1863. Samuel Hiram Lee, 1863. The Methodist Protestant church at Coshocton was organized soon after the disruption in the Methodist church, in consequence of which the Methodist Protestant denomination sprang into being. It was probably in the year 1830 that Rev. Rufus Richason formed a little class consisting of Zebedee Baker and Susanna his wife, David Waggoner and wife, Mary Darnel, and one or two others. The early preaching was held in the court-house. About 1840 the erection of a substantial brick church was begun, and completed a year or two later. It stands on Locust street between Second and Third, and of late years has been occupied by the German Lutherans. During the winter preceding its erection, a noted series of revival meetings were held at the court house by Rev. William Munhall. As a result of these meetings one hundred and thirty accessions were made to the three churches then organized, a large proportion of the converts joining the Methodist Protestant society. Not long after the church began to decline; the membership steadily decreased until within a few years when services were wholly discontinued. The last minister was Joseph Thrapp. Of the early preachers may be mentioned Joel Dolby, Israel Thrapp, Zachariah Ragan, John Burns, N. Sneethen and Rev. Reeves, whose wife also could preach a sermon when it became necessary. Among the more prominent ministerial laborers of a somewhat later day were Thomas Stevens, Phineas Inskeep and Joseph Hamilton. The membership at one time amounted t about one hundred, and for three years the church formed a separate station. A Sunday school was organized soon after the church was built, and for a while was considered the best in Coshocton. The history of the Methodist Episcopal church dates back to the year 1840. Prior to that year different ministers had preached in the town, from time to time, as occasion offered, for a number of years-such as Thomas A. Morris (afterward bishop), David Young, Jacob Young, Robert O. Spencer, William B. Christie, John Dillon and others. A few years ago Rev. B. F. Beazell prepared a historical record of the circuit to which Coshocton belonged, from which most of the following has been taken. Rev. J. N. Baird says: I was sent to Coshocton in the summer of 1840. Found the territory I was to organize into a circuit to be bounded by the Muskingum river, from Coshocton down to the mouth of Will's creek; up the same to the neighborhood of Linton; thence north, to the plains near Evansburg; thence down to the place of beginning. There were societies at East Plainfield, Marquand's and Robinson's. There was no society in Coshocton indeed, but one member was found there, Sister Spangler. Thomas C. Ricketts had, a little before that, united with the church in Roscoe; was yet on probation, and afterwards came to us, when we organized. There was a Brother Conwell, also, who had been a member of the church somewhere, and joined us, when we organized. But Mrs. David Spangler was the only member of the church at the time of my arrival, and to her, as much as to any preacher, perhaps, our struggling enterprise there, is indebted for suttees. Her noble husband, though not a member, was always helpful in every way. I preached in the court-house, and organized the first class of twelve members in the old jury box. I left a considerable society-near seventy members, I think-and was succeeded by Rev. John J. Swayze, at that time the most popular man in the pulpit, in the conference. The twelve members of that first class were Elizabeth Spangler, Thomas C. Ricketts, George E. Conwell, Felix Landers, David Frew, Benjamin R. Shaw, Henrietta Shaw, Nancy Decker, Martha Wallace, Mary Wallace, Abraham Sells and Lucy Thomas. It was organized within a few months after Dr. Baird's arrival. Dr. Baird was a faithful and efficient worker, and at the expiration of his two years' term of service, left the society in a prosperous condition. Preaching was continued at the court-house until the s church was built, This was begun during Dr. n Baird's pastorate. The original record book bears this inscription: "At a meeting held in the town of Coshocton, May 9, 1842, by the friends HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 445 and members of the M. E. church, for the purpose of consultation as to the propriety of erecting a house for public worship-William McFarland having been called to the chair, and R. B. Shaw made secretary on motion of David Spangler, it was unanimously resolved that we take immediate measures to secure a site and erect a suitable building." Accordingly a committee of five persons was appointed to secure a location and solicit subscriptions. Thomas C. Ricketts, James Robinson, David Frew and William McFarland, composed the committee. An additional committee, consisting of James LeRetilley, Theophilus Phillips and Samuel Hutchinson, was appointed to secure subscriptions in Roscoe. At a subsequent meeting, David Frew, B. R. Shaw and George E. Conwell, were elected a building committee. A vote of thanks for the liberal subscriptions of the community is recorded, and then, among other things, the following: "Resdved, That we accept the proposal of Mr. John Elliott to erect said building for the sum of $2,500, as per contract;" at the same time paying him $1,099, the amount of subscriptions then obtained. Four years later, when the building was finally ready for use, little or nothing remained to be paid. The church was dedicated in the early summer of 1846, during the pastorate of Rev. E. P. Jacob, by Rev. Wesley Kenny, D. D., then of Wheeling Since that time it has been repaired and improved at different times at an aggregate expense of not less than double its original cost. Until 1859 the circuit retained, substantially, its original shape, but in that year a division was made. Coshocton, Robinson's and Lafayette formed one pastoral charge, retaining the old name. Lafayette, by request, was nest year placed in the Plainfield circuit. For nine ,years Robinson's and Coshocton constituted one pastoral charge; but, in 1868, the former was included in the Plainfield circuit, since when the latter has been a station. In view of the dilapidated condition of the church, Mrs. David Spangler, who was one of the original members of the church, and has always taken a deep interest in its prosperity, made the following proposition to the members and friends of the M. E. church, of Coshocton, June 12, 1879: "On condition that the sum of $5,000 be raised to erect a Methodist Episcopal church, in the village of Coshocton, I promise to give the south half of lot No. 56, in said village, being situated on the corner of Fourth and Walnut streets, for the purpose of erecting said church edifice:' The offer was unanimously accepted by the trustees a few days later, a subscription paper put in circulation, and the amount speedily raised. The old church building, which stands on Third street (lot 147), between Chestnut and Locust streets, and the adjoining parsonage, which was secured in 1862, built by Charles McCloskey, were sold to D. R. Culbertson for $1,250. It was abandoned by the congregation in the fall of 1880, services and Sunday-school being held in the city hall during the winter of 1880-81, until the new church was ready for occupation. At a meeting of the trustees, December 8,1879, the contract for building the church was let to S. C. Dillon, of Dresden, for $8,603; for which amount he was to finish the building entire except glass for windows, frescoing, heaters and seats in Sunday-school room. The aggregate cost was in round numbers $10,000. The ladies aid society, organized February 17,1873,a very efficient auxiliary to the church organization, has been active and earnest in its support of the new enterprise, and has contributed largely to its success. The church is one of the finest structures in Coshocton. It was dedicated, free of debt, April 24, 1881, by Bishop Warren, of Atlanta,, Ga. The membership of the church is 235. The Sunday-school was organized August 8, 1845, with George E. Conwell, superintendent, Russell C. Bryant, secretary, and W. Wells, librarian. One of the early entries in the "minute book" is this: "It would be much better to have the male and female scholars kept in separate rooms, and we hope the congregation will build a school-house." The earliest record of attendance is five teachers and thirty-five scholars. From that day of small things the school has gone steadily on, with increasing advantages and numbers, doing incalculable good. There are now eighteen classes and over 300 members enrolled. E. J. Pocock is serving his fifth term as superintendent of the school; I. B. Dillon is secretary and Miss Ida Anderson, treasurer. 446 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. A catalogue of the pastors of the church is as follows: 1840-2, Isaac N. Baird; 1842-3, John) Swayze; 1843-4, John D. Rich; 1844-5; Thomas McLeary; 1845-6, E. P. Jacob; 1846-7, James Henderson; 1847-9, D. P. Mitchell; 1849-50, C. Wyrick; 1850-1, D. Truman; 1851-2, C. A. Holmes; 1852-4, J. E. McGaw ; 1854-5, H. Sinsabaugh and R. S. Hogue ;1858-9, T. Davidson and H. M. Close; 1859-60, T. Davidson and J. J. Neigh; 1860-2, S. M. Hickman; 1862-3, W. R. Fouts; 1863-5, W. D. Stevens; 1865-7, E. W. Brady, who, retiring before the expiration of his term was succeeded by J. W. Bushong; 1867-5, E. Birket; 1868-71, S. Crouse; 1871-3, J. D. Vail; 1873-6, B. F. Beazell; 1876-8, W. L. Dixon; 1878- -, J. Brown, the present pastor. The German Lutheran congregation, which now worships in the old Methodist Protestant church, was organized about forty years ago in Roscoe. It appears that no record has been kept and little is known of its early history. The meetings were at first held in the old brick schoolhouse on the hill, but when the Presbyterian church was erected at Roscoe, in 1849, the members of the German Lutheran church contributed $300 to the building fund, and in return had the use of the building each alternate Sunday. The majority of the membership becoming residents of Coshocton, services were transferred to this place. They were held for a number of years in the old Second Presbyterian church on Fourth street, now "Equity Building;" then the present house of worship was engaged and since occupied, and kept in repair by the society. The membership, through dissatisfaction, has been considerably reduced during the last few years, and is now quite limited. Rev. Grumer, of Newark, supplies the congregation at present. St. George Catholic church was built in 1859. Rev. Serge De Stchaulepinkoff- a Russian priest who, on becoming Catholic, had been compelled to leave his country-was sent to Coshocton the year before, as pastor of the several country churches previously established. Soon after he arrived, he organized the church at Coshocton, and the following year, under his direction, this church was erected. It is located on lot 102, Third street, between Chestnut and Locust. Among the earliest adherents to this faith who settled in and about Coshocton, and became identified with the church at its organization, were Thomas Collopy, Mr. Trainer, James Hallesey, George Factor, Joseph Guinther and Joseph O'Donnell. The first pastor continued in charge for some three years and was succeeded at short intervals by Fathers Andres, Rauch and Nordmeyer-all sent by Rev. J. B. Purcell, Archbishop of Cincinnati: In January, 1569, Rev. John M. Jacquet was appointed pastor by the Right Rev. J. H. Rosecrans, who, the year before, had been made First Bishop of Columbus. Through his instrumentality both the church building and the pastoral residence have been much improved, and all debts against the charge paid off. The membership is somewhat limited in number, and for some years has remained about the same. A Regular Baptist church was constituted at Coshocton, August 23, 1834, the services being held at the house of Wilson McGowan (who was a leading member and for many years clerk of the congregation), and conducted by Elders John Pritchard, George C. Sedgewick, William Spencer and William Purdy. Elder Sedgwick Rice was the minister until May 5, 1838, when he was at his own request released. He died some time thereafter, leaving a pleasant recollection of him in the community as a godly man and an able and earnest advocate of his church. After his services ceased, the church was supplied by several brethren for several years, until it seems to have been practically dissolved about 1848. The McGowan, Bryant, Welch, Burt, Coe, Carhart, Farwell, Loder, Miller, Estinghausen, Whittemore, Babcock, Sprague, Elliott, Wright and Odor families seem to have been connected with this movement. At one time there were some thirty-seven members. The services were held in the court-house. Benjamin Coe was the last clerk of the congregation. A recent effort to establish another society of this faith in Coshocton has met with success. Rev. H. L. Gear, financial secretary of the Ohio State Baptist convention, held a series of meetings in the Protestant Methodist church during January, 1878, and on the 31st day of the same HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 447 month a church was here constituted, to be known as the First Baptist Church of Coshocton, with the following membership: Elizabeth Bonnett, Flora Love, Mary E. Gardner, Delilah Henry, Anna Breightman, Sarah Felton, Elizabeth Burt and Alrnedia Coe. The articles of faith and church covenant, as found in J. Newton Brown's Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, were adopted. On the same day a council, composed of members of Dresden, Pleasant Hill, Tomaka and Chestnut Hill Baptist churches, met at the same place. After an examination of the articles of faith, church covenant, and reasons for organizing a Baptist church in Coshocton, the council recognized the organization with the following services: Sermon, by Rev. J. P. Hunter; charge to the church, by Rev. J. Wright; and hand of fellowship, by Rev. H. L. Gear. February 2, Rev. J. P. Hunter was called as first pastor of the church. He entered upon his pastoral duties April 1, 1878, and at the expiration of eighteen months resigned. The church was then without a pastor for a few months, but Rev. D. Trichler was soon called to the charge, and entered upon his work in February, 1880. The church began holding services in Central Hall, in March, 1878, and in the following month it was resolved to erect a house of worship. Within a year a neat and comfortable edifice, substantially built of brick, was completed, at a cost of $3,457. It was dedicated March 16, 1879. The present officers are: Rev. D. Trichler, pastor; E. W. Williams, deacon; John Robinson, E. A. Breightman, and E. Williams, trustees; L. P. Hay, clerk. The church numbers forty members. A mite society is an active auxiliary in benevolent enterprises. A Sunday-school was organized at Central Hall in the spring of 1878, and is now in good working order, superintended by E. Williams. It contains about fifty scholars. Trinity Church, a congregation belonging to the Episcopal Church, was organized at the law office of W. S. Crowell, in October, 1878, by the adoption of articles of association. November 2, following, S. D. Brewster was elected the first rector. The first services were held December 8, 1878, in McClain's Hall, which is still the place of meeting. The financial affairs of the body were managed by a committee appointed for the purpose until January, 1879, when the first officers were elected. James S. Wilson was chosen Senior Warden; W. S. Crowell, Junior Warden; and W. W. Bostwick, L. T. Judd and Thomas Wilson, Vestrymen. Rev. S. D. Brewster continued at the head of the society until February, 1880, when Rev. J. M. Hillyar was elected rector. The original members numbered twenty-seven; there has since been a material increase in membership. A successful Sabbath-school was established July, 1879, which has been under the management of W. S. Crowell since its organization. Its membership is about fifty. PAGE - 452 MAP OF THE TOWNSHIPS HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY - 453 TOWNSHIP HISTORY. CHAPTER XLIX. ADAMS TOWNSHIP. Location-Physical Features-Its Military Sections-0rgani- zation-First Officers - Early Justices-Indian Encamp- ments-Early white Occupation-Settlers-Mills-Oil- Physicians-Schools-Churches-Bakersville. ADAMS township is situated in the eastern part of the county. On the north and east it touches Tuscarawas county, Oxford township on the south and White Eyes on the west. The surface is hilly throughout though not to a degree depriving the land of value for agricultural purposes. The soil is, for the most part, argillaceous or clayey. Some of the hills, however, are cov ered with a sandy loam. It is productive, yielding abundant harvests of corn and wheat, the principal crops grown. The highest land lies in the northern part. Here are the head waters of two streams which flow in a southerly direction draining the entire surface of the township. The more easterly of the two, Evans creek, passes through Oxford township on the south and soon after mingles its waters with those of the winding Tuscarawas. The other, called the East Fork of White Eyes creek, bends to the northwest when near the southern limit of the township and enters White Eyes township. The numerous little brooks that feed these streams, trickling through nearly every dale, attest the existence of many fine springs. The township is five miles square in area, consisting of the sixth township in the fourth range of the United States military district. The eastern half was congress land, which was surveyed into sections of one mile square by Alexander Holmes, in the year 1803. The western half was composed of two military sections of 4,000 acres each. In 1800 military land could be entered only in tracts of 4,000 acres, and it sometimes occurred that a number of persons, each holding an insufficient number of warrants to enter a whole section, would unite their several claims for this purpose, afterward dividing the section among themselves, in proportion to the amount of each one's warrants. Thus it was with both of these sections. The northern one, constituting the northwest quarter of the township, was entered by a company of ten individuals as follows: Jesse and Abijah Hunt, of Hamilton county, holding warrants for 1,500 acres; Ephraim True, with warrants for 600 hundred acres; James Percival, of Connecticut, for 500; Lewis Morris, of Charleston, South Carolina, for 400; Joseph Love-land, of Fairfield county, for 300; Joseph Lockland, for 300, and four others, Henry Ross, of Washington county; John Buel, major in the army; Stephen Smith and Christopher Hamel, for 100 acres each. The section was located and surveyed for the company by John Matthews, he receiving in compensation for his services the one-tenth part, or 400 acres. The other section, forming the southwest quarter of the township, was located for a company of Marylanders, of whom Rezin Davis and O. H. Williams were . the most extensive shareholders, the two owning more than the one-half of the section. S. Herbert, Jacob S. Towson, Richard Pindall, W. VanLear and P. Thomas had lesser amounts. The land in these two sections was not placed in the market for many years, and, as the owners were non-res- 454 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. idents, the settlement of this portion of the township was somewhat retarded. The few pioneers who settled here, did so without title to the soil, and were obliged to abandon their cabins when the legal holders put in their appearance, if they had not already done so. Upon the formation of Oxford township, in the fall of 1811, that territory was embraced in its limits which now constitutes Adams township. In 1823, when White Eyes township was organized, the northwestern quarter of what is now Adams township was taken from Oxford, and made a part of the new township. In 1832, the county commissioners ordered the establishment of Adams township, as it now exists. The completion of the organization, by the election of local officers, is thus recorded in the township book: Agreeably to previous notice, by the commissioners of Coshocton county, the citizens of Adams township assembled at the house of Benjamin Headley, in said township, June 23, 1832, for the purpose of electing the necessary officers for said township, and, after being assembled, did proceed to elect, viva voce, three judges and two clerks, to hold said election, viz.: Thomas Powell. Joshua Wood and Benjamin Headley were appointed judges, and Henry Delong and P. S. Campbell, clerks, who, after being duly sworn, did proceed to open and hold said election, agreeably to law; and, after carefully examining the poll books of said election, found that thirty votes had been given, and that the following persons were elected to the respective offices named, with their names, and did likewise proclaim them duly elected, in the presence of all the voters that were present at the close of said election The persons elected trustees were Thomas Powell, Joshua Wood and Archibald Leach ; township clerk, P. S. Campbell ; constable, James C. Colson; treasurer, Richard Taylor; supervisors, William Curry, William Norris, Jr., and Thomas Powell, Jr.; overseer of the poor, Benjamin Headley, and Vincent Dewitt; fence viewers, Robert Corbit and Leonard Hark. J. P. James was justice of the peace at the time the township was organized, having been elected previously from Oxford township. Patrick S. Campbell was the first justice elected in the new township, his commission dating May 23, 1833. He was successively elected seven times, holding the office until his death, December 4, 1852. Lewis Corbit also has served the township in this capacity for a like number of terms. He was first elected in 1857, and served continuously until 1878. Other early justices were Thomas Powell, John Baker and James Jones. The Indian villages that were situated in Coshocton county were invariably found in the valleys of the larger streams. Hence there were none in Adams township. Several small encampments, however, had a place within its limits. One which, according to the tradition of the earliest settlers, contained three wigwams, stood in the southwest quarter of section 9, close to the present residence of Lewis Corbit. It was located on the sandy knoll of ground across the road, a few rods southeast from the house. An open space of about an acre extended from the knoll to the spring, which gushes forth from the hillside close to the house. Quite a number of Indian relics have been found here, such as arrow heads, stone axes, etc. Mr. Corbit plowed up in this vicinity, over thirty years ago, an old gun barrel so rust-eaten as to be scarcely recognizable. Another encampment of five wigwams stood southeast from this one, near the mouth of Indian Camp Run. Here the first white arrivals found a cleared space of several acres, with only one or two wild cherry trees growing upon it. Deer licks were numerous throughout this region, and were places of frequent resort for the deer at morning and evening. This fact was well known to the hunters of that day, and turned to advantage by them. Instead of roaming the forest in search of game they would lie in wait for it here. A blind would be formed of bushes, behind which they would screen themselves from view, and as the deer unsuspiciously approached it could easily be covered and brought low by the unerring aim of the rifleman. The earliest white occupants of the territory now embraced within the bounds of Adams township were mainly members of that migratory class which continually hover on the extreme frontier of an advancing civilization, white men who could not relinquish all intercourse with their race, yet wishing to rid themselves of the cares and duties of a settled country, preferred the free and easy life of a hunter, cultivating perhaps a little patch of corn, but subsisting HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 455 chiefly upon the game which could always be had for the shooting. As this became scarce, through the influx of settlers, they would gather up their tents and silently steal away to the west beyond. Prior to the war of 1812, there does not seem to hove been any permanent settlement made here, though it was the transient home of several white men. A family named Mulford was the first known to occupy this territory. Mulford built a little cabin on what has afterward Robert Corbit's place, the southeast quarter of section 18, but remained only a few years, removing to Oxford township. William Sparks afterward occupied the same cabin, and was living in it in 1816. Another squatter named Murphy, much given to hunting, settled in the same locality very early; also, Remembrance and Elijah Williams. "Diem" was a notable hunter. They came several years before the war, and both moved west at a later day, Remembrance to Indiana and Elijah to Missouri. Aaron Shipley was another early occupant. James Baker came with his family from Adams county, Pennsylvania, during the war of 1812. He did not become a property owner here, and subsequently emigrated to Arkansas. His son, John Baker, is still living, and is one of the oldest persons in the township. He was born January 25,1796, came west with his father from Pennsylvania, and has always considered Adams township his home, though he has been a great traveler. In his younger days he was extremely fond of the chase, and spent much of his time with the Indians, whom he thinks were among his best friends. Mr. Baker was the founder of Bakersville, and has been one of the largest land owners in the township. His wife Ellen, a daughter of Robert Addy, also still survives. She was born May 20, 1800. Robert Addy, a wild and daring spirit, came from the Virginia banks of the Potomac in 1804, and soon after settled on Will's creek, in Linton township. In 1815 or 1816, he moved to this township, settling in the southwest portion of section 12. He had been drafted in the war of 1812, a short time before its termination, and was on his way to the seat of war when news o peace was received Robert Corbit, one of the earliest permanent settlers, came from Hancock county, Maryland to the Tuscarawas river in Oxford township, with Isaac Evans, in 1804. Not liking the country, he returned to Maryland, but soon after came west again with James Meskimen, of Linton township, and entered his employ, remaining seven years and working for seven dollars a month during the summer, and often for his board in the winter. He then worked for Isaac Evans till the war of 1812 broke out. In one of the earliest drafts John Junkin, a brawny Irish settler on the river, and a man of considerable wealth for those days, drew the fatal ballot which consigned him to a place among the conscripts. Mr. Corbit went as his substitute and remained in the army two years, doing service at Fort Meigs. After his return, he remained with Isaac Evana till 1818, when he married Susan Fuller and settled on the southeast quarter of section 18. He possessed a keen relish for hunting which never cloyed. His dog and rifle were his inseparable companions, and it was not an uncommon occurrence for him to spend the entire night in the woods. He remained a life-long resident of this township, and died July 3, 1878, at the age of eighty-eight years. Robert McFarland came about the same time. He was a Virginian and entered the northeast quarter of section 19. In his earlier days he was addicted to the then prevalent vice of intemperance, but he joined the Methodist church and entirely abandoned the use of ardent spirits. It is said that he placed a tempting flask of whisky upon the mantel-piece of his cabin, in plain view, where it remained untouched to the day of his death, which occurred years afterwards. William Norris and James Jones settled here among the earliest Both were Virginians; the former entered the southeast quarter of section 23, the latter the northeast quarter of the same section, Mr. Norris enjoyed the distinction of being the father of twenty-one children. He died in the township at a good old age in 1841. Some of his descendants still live in this township. Mr. Jones was one of the leading citizens of his time. He was a strictly temperate, church-going man and was one of the earliest justices. He removed to Benton county, Iowa, where he lived up to the time of his decease. Joshua and Benjamin Chance settled 456 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. about 1818 or 1820. They were not holders of real estate. Enos and Samuel Dean and John Norman were the earliest settlers in the western part of the township. They had been here sometime before the year 1816. Mr. Norman's father had located on the Tuscarawas river, and John moved up to the head of White Eyes creek very early. Enos Dean first pitched his cabin down by the creek, but not succeeding as he thought he should he built another cabin on a hill situated on F. W. Powell's upper farm west of the creek, with the expectation of doing better. This place, from this circumstance, was dubbed "Mount Hope," a name which clung to it for many years. Jonathan Tipton soon after came from Harrison county, with a Mr. Kimble; the latter settled in White Eyes township, and Tipton in the western part of Adams. The names of other settlers were James and William Poland, John Lemons and John Mizer. Thomas Powell entered the township about 1819. He was an Englishman by birth, a merchant by occupation, and emigrated from his native land to Richmond, Virginia, and afterwards to Steubenville. He there leased the Campbell place, situated near the center of this township, in the northwestern quarter, and soon after moved upon it. He remained there about ten years; then purchased and settled upon a large tract of over a thousand acres in the southwestern portion of the township. His sons, Thomas and F. W., still reside upon it. James Campbell moved to his property, vacated by the Powells, in 1831. He was originally from Pennsylvania but since 1802 had carried on a large tailoring establishment in Steubenville. He died September 2.3, 1845. Patrick S. Campbell, long a justice of the peace for this township, was a son. Hon. Thomas Campbell, of Coshocton, is another son. Thomas Pinkerton emigrated from Pennsylvania about 1821 and settled upon lot 12, in the eastern part of the southwestern section, later known as the Jennings lot. He removed to Missouri. Somewhat later, John Rodney and George and John Waiters arrived from Guernsey county. George subsequently returned there, and John continued on westward, to Knox county. Edward McGarvey and Vincent Dawitt were two other early settlers in the western part of the township. The former was an Irishman, and by trade a weaver. He settled here about 1816. Dewitt came about 1820, from Muskingum county. S. H. Loveless and Archibald Leach, both from Jefferson county, came together, in May, 1827, and entered the northwest quarter of section 10; Loveless the western half, and Leach the eastern. Both families are still represented in the township. About the time the Ohio canal was built, settlers began to arrive rapidly, and in a few years thereafter the land was all taken up. Adams township contains the oldest person in the county. Mrs. Catherine Albert, residing in the northwestern part of the township has been a centenarian for several years. She is now supposed to be in her one hundred and fifth year. Originally from Pennsylvania she spent a good portion of her long life in eastern Ohio. She then came with her husband, John Albert, to Crawford township. They were among the earliest settlers there. About forty-five years ago she removed to this township and has resided here since. For one of her age she is a lady of remarkable activity. Milling operations have not been very extensive. A saw mill was erected by John Baker on Evens creek a mile or more south of Bakersville in 1834. It has since been in the ownership of Samuel Gorslin, Andrew Hock, Joseph Stonehocker and Samuel alerts. Sawing ceased there six or eight years ago and the mill has been torn down recently. George Werts in 1837 or 1838 built a grist milt in what is now Bakersville. Several years before he had erected a saw mill at the same place. Mr. Werts sold the mill to Jacob Mizer. They were removed many years ago and the bridge now occupies the spot when, they stood. The whisky consumed in Adams township was chiefly of "foreign" manufacture. The only distillery known to have been operated here was owned by Joseph Duffee. It stood in the northern part of the township, and was operated for a few years only beginning about 1840. Oil is found oozing from the surface of the hill- HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 457 side, near a spring on Robert Corbit's place. Wells have been twice sunk here in search of the oil in paying quantities, but each time with ill success. It is often skimmed from the surface of the spring by the neighboring farmers and used by them for lubricating machinery. It is found to be a superior article for this purpose. The earliest physician who settled in this township, of whom any account is had, was an eccentric, though talented, individual named Kellis Hord. He moved here about 1836, from Virginia, where he had been engaged in practice. While still in that State he lost three children by scarlet fever, and through his grief and disgust at his inability to save them he threw his medical works into the lire and determined to relinquish his profession forever, and it was rarely that his services could be brought into requisition. Only in a great emergency, as in the case of a broken limb, and under urgent solicitation, would he apply the medical knowledge of which he was master. He possessed great mechanical powers, which he wan fond of exercising, and many were the devices which he invented. He owned a small tract of land in the northern part of section 12.. Here, at Raccoon Spring, he constructed a diminutive over-shot water-wheel, which furnished the motive power for a turning lathe. He was fond of grafting fruit trees, and afterward started a nursery above Bakersville. He moved to Columbus, and later died at Cleveland while at work on one of his inventions. The next resident practitioner was Dr. William Miller, who came from Pennsylvania. He remained here for five or six years, and then removed to Illinois. He is described as a clever little gentleman, always ready and attentive to his profession Since Bakersville has been laid out, quite a number of physicians have taken up their abode there. Dr. John Conoway was the first. He came from Harrison county, about 1850, and after a practice of six years sought a western field of labor in Iowa. He was succeeded in 1856 by Dr. R. C. Chapman, vvho was born in Washington county. Pennsylvania, and had read and practiced medicine in Tuscarawas county previous t his coming here. He remained a half score of years and returned to Tuscarawas county. Dr. B. W. Chapman, his brother, came in 1866, and has since been in continual practice here. Two other physicians now reside in the village, Drs. E. P. Steward and G. W. Rice; the former came about 1870, from Harrison county, the latter from Tuscarawas county, in 1880. The following physicians also have had a residence here : Drs. Maxwell, Michael Tolen, Michael Conoway, Samuel Gorsline, Isaac Busby and William Craven. The first school-house in the township was built about 1825, on the southeast quarter of section 18, Robert Corbit's homestead. It was the usual log cabin, its dimensions about twenty-two feet square, built in the rough, rude style prevalent in pioneer times; a puncheon floor, paper window-panes, a huge fire-place occupying one entire end of the building, were some of the features of this, as of nearly every other school-house of that age. No portion of the lumber composing it was sawed. Perhaps the most finished piece of workmanship was the door. The split ash boards, from which it was made, had been shaved with a drawing knife to a tolerable degree of smoothness. The merest rudiments of an education could be obtained here at first. Reading and spelling often constituted the entire curriculum of study. Few of the earliest school-masters possessed a knowledge of arithmetic. School-books were rarities, and the few that could be collected were of a motley description. A single leaf sufficed Lewis Corbit during his first term at school. His father had but the one reader in his possession, and this an older sister of Lewis must have; she had attended school before, however, and had made some advancement, consequently the first leaf, containing the alphabet, could be spared. This was torn . out and carefully pasted on a paddle fox Lewis' use. This was the only school held in the township for many years, and the attendance was accordingly very large at times. Among the families represented in the school may be mentioned the McFarlands, Evans; Richmonds, Norrises, Jones,.Corbits, Pinkertons, Powells, Delongs, Shays and Lemons. It was noted for the number of grown up young men who attended-great, strapping 458 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. fellows, who weighed two hundred or two hundred and twenty-five pounds. John Berwick was the first teacher. He was succeeded by Thomas Pinkerton, one of the early settlers of the township. Henry Delong was probably the next teacher. He was of Welsh birth, and had been a glass-blower at Wellsburg, Virginia, for a number of years before coming here. He possessed a fair education, and taught several terms. James Jones, another settler fol lowed Delong. Though a strictly temperate man himself, one of the few who abstained entirely from the use of the popular beverage of the day, he could not avoid treating his soholars to the customary holiday allowance of two gallons of whisky. George Lemons and Thomas Campbell also taught here later. Until 1832, when the township was organized, there was probably but this one school within its limits. In that year, however, the trustees divided the township into three school districts; the first beginning at the southeast corner of the township and ending at Robert Taylor's north line; the second beginning at Robert Taylor's north line and extending to the north line of the township ; the third comprising the western half of the township, the military line being the division between the east and west. This division would indicate that the eastern half of the township was more thickly settled at this time than the western half. Another district was soon after formed, and others as they became needed, until there were eight, the present number. The religious advantages of the earliest settlers were as scanty as the educational. Religious services were first held at irregular periods by itinerant preachers, who visited this region for this purpose, or happened along by chance, as the case might be. The Methodists and Baptists were earliest in the field. Of the former denomination, Jacob Meek was among the foremost to conduct meetings, probably the first in the township. He was a farmer, living in Guernsey county, about six miles below Newcomerstown. He preached regularly once a month, either in the school-house or at Robert McFarland's house, beginning about 1826. These meetings led to the formation of the Taylor Methodist church a few years later. Jacob Mills was another early itinerant exhorter of this persuasion. He was a homeless bachelor from Virginia, who had no disposition for manual labor, but traveled from place to place, and gladly exchanged his religious services for board and lodgment. William Spencer, a worthy farmer, residing somewhere in the western part of the county, is said to have been the pioneer propagator of gospel truth in behalf of the Baptist church. He was holding meetings at the school-house as early as 1828, and succeeded in gathering about him a cluster of Baptists which formed the nucleus of the Baptist congregation organized some years later. The Methodist Episcopal church has always been the most vigorous denomination in this township. Of the four congregations now existing, three belong to this church. The oldest of these is the Taylor church, located in the southeastern part of the township. It was organized about 1832. Meetings were held for several years at the houses of its members and at the school-house; then a hewed log church was built on the old Richard Taylor farm. Its early active members included the names of Richard Taylor, William Currie, S. H. Loveless, Thomas Hayes and Robert McFarland. In time the building became very much dilapidated, many members were removed by death, and others withdrew their membership and united with other Methodist societies which had in the meantime been established in various localities. These circumstances left the church in a very weak condition, and services were suspended for several years, then about ten years ago an effort was made to resuscitate the languishing organization. The present frame house of worship was erected on the site of the old church at an outlay of about $1,600, through the exertions of Ezekiel McFarland, S. M. Daugherty, Elias Hinds, Alexander Loveless and others. The reorganization was effected under the ministry of Rev. S. A. Thompson. During the first year it was connected with the Port Washington circuit; it was then attached to the Bakersville circuit, to which it still belongs. During the winter of 1877-78, under the pastorate of Rev. Philip Kelser, a revival was held which resulted in over forty accessions to the church. HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 459 Previously the membership had been very small, numbering not more than ten or twelve. It now amounts to about forty. A Sunday-school, at present superintended by Isaac Dewitt, is held during the summer, with a. membership of fifty or sixty. The cemetery adjoining this church is the resting place of many of the earliest settlers of the township. Wesley Chapel, another Methodist Episcopal church, is situated at Powell's Cross Roads, in the southwestern part of the township. The building was erected in 1860, at a cost of $2,000. It is a neat frame, thirty-two by forty-two feet in size. At the time of its construction, Rev. Benjamin Heskett was the pastor in charge. He conducted a revival about this time, which resulted in goal to the congregation. He soon after enlisted in the service as captain of Company C of the Fifty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fell at the battle of Stone River. The society was formed about 1843. The greater part of its members had been connected with a congregation at Evansburg and, when they deemed themselves of sufficient strength, separated from it and organized Wesley Chapel. Among the leading members, at the time, were James and John Powell, Thomas H. and Washington Powell, George, Isaac and Andrew Norman, John Sondels and J. R. Davis. John Powell was the first class - leader. The meetings were held in the Powell school-house until the church was built. The church was included in the Newcomerstown circuit, at first., but has since been joined to that of Bakersville. The present class-leaders are Washington Powell and Thomas Hamilton. The Sunday-school is a department of Christian work which has been conducted since the organization of the church. The Methodist Episcopal church at Bakersville was organized about 1845. The earliest meetings were held at the house of Thomas Hayes. After Bakersville was laid out, the place of worship was transferred to the meeting-house in the village, which had been built by Leonard Hawk. Services were held here for five or six years, when the first church was built The present church was built in 1874, dedicated February 7 1875. Stephen Loveless and Thomas Hayes were among the early members. The membership is now about silty. Rev. T. J. Roberts is the pastor. A Sabbath-school was organized contemporaneously with the church. It is now under the supervision of C. C. Hamilton, and is in a prosperous, healthy condition. The Presbyterian church at Bakersville was organized April 23, 1833, by Rev. James Morrow,. of New Philadelphia. Its first house of worship, a log church, stood on an elevated piece of ground one mile south of the village. The present neat, frame structure in Bakersville, was built in 1861. The old church cemetery, near the first church, is still used as the church burial ground. During almost its entire history, this church has been associated with the Linton township church, having the same pastors, except in the case of Rev. John Moore, D. D. The early members were George Welters, John Welters, James Jones, Mrs. Catherine Rodney, Robert Lyons, William Shannon, John Buck and Albert Pillows. The elders have been James Jones, George Walters, William Shannon, Robert Lyons, John Buck, David G. Miller, John Miller, William Hawk and Alexander Fenton. The last two constitute the present session. The number of communicants at this time is about fifty. The Sunday-school has been a living, active institution for many years. John Leach is its present superintendent. Several church organizations have formerly had an existence in the township, that are now numbered with the dead. Among them was Evens' Creek Regular Baptist church, which was organized in 1845, with about twenty members. Joseph Whitaker, Josiah Tipton, Robert Corbit, John Lewis, John Camp, James Randles, Mr. Bechtal, Simon Porter and Samuel Camp, were the prominent members. In ten years the membership was about fifty. From that time the number begun to decrease, and in 1865 they ceased to be a church. They once had a house of worship, which was situated on Robert Corbit's place, but it, too, is gone. The ministers that furnished pastoral service to this church are as follows: R. R. Whitaker, J. G. Whitaker, A. W. t Odor and J. W. Moreland. The Pinkerton Methodist Episcopal church stood in the northwest part of the township. It was a log building erected about 1836. The so- 460 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. ciety lasted only about ten years. Its principal members were the Pinkertons-William, John, James, Thomas and Matthew-Jacob Norman and Jacob Powell A German Reform Church was organized at Bakersville very soon after the village was laid out. Its original membership was quite small, consisting of Philip Myser, Leonard Hawk, Peter Hawk, John Myser, Jacob Myser and perhaps a few others. For several years the society met in the building erected by Leonard Hawk for church purposes. It was then moved a mile or two north of the village into Tuscarawas county where it still exists. A Disciple congregation also worshiped in Leonard Hawk's church during the same time the German Reform Church occupied it. They afterward held services for ten or twelve years in private residences, but finally becoming too weak numerically to maintain an organization they disbanded. Rev. Armstrong was one of its earliest preachers. Thomas Wert, the Dewitts, R. C. Chaplin, Mr. Shores and Mr. Carnahan were early members. A Weinbrenner organization, too, is numbered among the defunct religious societies of this township. It never attained to any considerable strength and lived but ten or twelve years, having been organized about 1836. Its principal members were Samuel Camp, Thomas Cordry, Vincent Dewitt and James Johnson. During pleasant weather services were often held in the forest groves, where the shouting proclivities of some of the members succeeded in attracting large audiences to their meetings. At other times the meeting were held at private houses, no church building ever having been erected. Revs. Beidler, Keller and Lodge ministered to this congregation. Bakersville, the sole village of the township, containing several hundred inhabitants, has a very pretty location in the little valley of Evans creek, in the northeastern part of the township. It was laid out in the spring of 1848, by John Baker; Lane Baker surveying the plat. A village was apparently wanted in this neighborhood for it grew rapidly at first. A solitary log cabin had previously occupied the village site, standing close to the place now occupied by Joseph Mizer's stable. The first building was erected by Leonard Hawk. It is still standing, occupied at present as a dwelling house by C. Smith. It was built for a church and was used in part for this purpose for several years. One end of the building, however, was occupied by Leonard Hawk and Samuel Ferdic as a store-room, the first in the place. A select school was begun soon after the village was laid out, and continued two winters. It was held in a room rented for the purpose. Lewis Travus and James Dunlap were the teachers. A stone schoolhouse was then erected, and the youth of the village instructed therein for seven or eight years, when the foundation sank a little and the building was adjudged unsafe. It was removed and the frame which now subserves the purposes of education placed in its stead. It contains two rooms, both of which are occupied. The first and only post-office in the township was established at Bakersville, by the appointment of Stephen H. Loveless, postmaster, soon after the village was laid out. The appointment is now held by Dr. E. P. Steward. A summary of the present business is as follows: Dry goods-John H. Loveless, C. C. Hamilton and Mizer Brothers. Joseph Ripple has a grocery. There are three blacksmith shops, two wagon shops, two cabinet and three shoe shops. A woolen factory has been in operation about six years. It was built by the Bakersville Woolen bull Company, consisting of H. J. Stonebrook, John W. Peairs, James A. Mizer and Jacob Miller. Mr. Stonebrook now has entire possession of it. It is worked during the summer only, and produces a large quantity of woolen goods. A steam grist and saw mill is located here. It was erected six or eight years ago, and is owned by Levi Miller. The grist mill has three run of buhrs, is run steadily and does a good business Bakersville Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, No. 79, is the only lodge of this order now existing in the county. It was organized December 7, 1874, with twenty-two charter members. Its first officers were : Martin Kugler, Chancellor Commander; B. W. Chapman, Vice Chancellor Commander; A. A. Peairs, Prelate; A. B. Martin, Past Chancellor; Joseph Mizer, Master at Arms; HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. - 461 J. H. Loveless, Master of Exchequer ; Levi Miller, Master of Finance; J. H. Stonebrook, Keeper of Records and Seals. The present membership is twenty-four. At one time there were forty members, but removals have reduced the number. Only one death has occurred in the lodge since its organization, that of Martin Kugler. Bakersville Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars, No. 564, was organized September 4, 1877, with twenty-seven charter members. Within one week of the date of organization 104 names were enrolled as members. Its first elected officers were as follows: A. A. Peairs, Worthy Chief; Mrs. Kate Chapman, Worthy Vice Chief; Levi Duller, Worthy Chaplain; Edward Corbit, Past Worthy Chief; Isaac Carnahan, Secretary; E. P. Steward, Treasurer; J. Stonebrook, Financial Secretary; D. L. C. Wood, Marshal; Allie Peairs, Deputy Marshal. The active membership now amounts to about fifty. Each of the above lodges has a hall on the second floor of the Stephen Hawk block.