(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, (RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. NOTE.-All matter contained in these sketches has been obtained directly from families or individuals cognizant of the facts contained in them. Being thus obtained, those furnishing the information are alone responsible for the facts and dates written. The publishers do not hold themselves responsible for any- statements found in them. A ADAMS WILLIAM, Bedford township, shoemaker, postoffice West Bedford, born in 1320, in Jefferson county. He came to this county in 1834 with his father, John Adams, who was born in 1792, in Maryland. He came to Jefferson county in 1806, and was married in 1818 to Miss Margaret Donley, of that county, who was born in Pennsylvania. He died in 1875, and she died in 1872. They were the parents"of five children, the subject of this sketch being the oldest. He was married in 1855 to Miss Ann McCullough, of this county, who was born in 1827, in Delaware. ADAMS E. W., Roscoe postoffice, farmer and lumber dealer, born January 24, 1832, in Keene township, son of J. Q. Adams, a New Englander by birth and of English descent; married October 3, 1866, to Miss Olivia M., daughter of Alanson Gleason, of Ashtabula county. Their family consists of five children, viz: Lora L., John Q., Dorothy A., Edward G. and Clifford G. In 1872 the firm, Adams & Gleason, lumber dealers, was established in North Roscoe. Their stock consists of both rough and dressed lumber and they manufacture frames and all kinds of supplies used for building purposes. ADAMS THOMAS, White Eyes township, farmer, is a native of this county, and was born in 1839. His father, John Adams, emigrated to this country from Ireland and settled In White Eyes at an early date. Thomas was drafted in 1862, and employed John Bowman, of Columbus, as his substitute. He married November 29, 1866, Miss Angeline Wilhelm, daughter of Samuel Wilhelm. She was born in this county in 1844. They have two children-Ida R., born in 1867; Reo Alva, born 1877. ADAMS G. W., Virginia township, born in Coshocton county, Ohio, February 23,1827; married January 2.1854. Mr. Adams been blessed with eight children, two of whom are married and six are still living with their parents. Mr. Adams is engaged in farming. Postoffice Dresden, Muskingum county, Ohio. ADAMS C. E., Virginia township, born in this county March 15, 1822, son of Beal and Betsey Adams, grandson of George and Anna Adams. He was married January 12,1843. Mr, Adams has been blessed with twelve children, six of whom are living and six are dead. Postoffice Adams' Mills. ADAMS ALEX., White Eyes township, farmer, born in 1847, in this township, the son of John Adams and Jane (McCullough) Adams, who were both natives of Ireland, and came to this country in 1832, and settled in Keene township. They then moved upon eighty acres he, entered in White Eyes, and subsequently bought the Cassady place, where he now resides. August 9, 1877, Alexander Adams married Margaret Cutshall, of Crawford township, the daughter of John Cutshall. They lived on the McBratney place one year, next moved to George county, Nebraska, where Mr. Adams entered a quarter section. After living on that one year, he sold it and bought eighty acres near the same place, on which he lived seven months, and then returned to White E es, where he now resides. They have one chip, Jennie Rosalie, born July 22, 1878. *ADDY SAMUEL, Adams township, farmer, postoffice, Evansburgh; born June 20,1843; son of Anthony T. and Sarah A. (Norris) Addy; grand * Since the above was written, Mr. Addy has gone to Iowa. 628 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. son of Robert Addy and Samuel and Lydia (Hartly) Norris. He enlisted February 22,1864, in Company H, Fifty-first O. V. I, under Captain Samuel Stevens. He took part in the engagements at Tunnel Hill, Resaca, Cassville, Dalton, Kennesaw Mountain, and Peachtree Creek. Arriving at Atlanta, they went to Jonesboro, thence to Atlanta again, thence to Chattanooga, then to Athens, Alabama, from there to Pulaski, thence to Franklin and Nashville, then to winter quarters, thence to Nashville, and from there to Texas, and was discharged November 4, 1865. He was married October 5, 1866, to Miss Sarah J. Norris, daughter of Matilda (Maple) and Jacob Norris. The ancestors were : William and Anna Smyth Norris, William and Sarah (Johnson) Maple, great great grand-daughter of Catherine (Bridgewater) Johnson. She was born in Adams township, December 20, 1848. This union has been blessed with five children, viz : Mary A., born October 14, 1867; Martha E., born September 26, 1869; Amanda E., born May 16, 1872; Matilda, born November 24,1874; Orla, born February 20,1878. ALMACK D. E., Jefferson township, was born October 15,1843, in Perry township, Coshocton county, postoffice, Mohawk Village; son of K. L. and Caroline (Johns) Almack; was brought up on a farm and educated in district schools. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in Company H, Ninety-seventh O. V. I; served three years under Captain C. C. Nichols, in the Army of the Cumberland, Second Division Fourth Army Corps. He was in the battles of Stone River, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Resaca, Dalton, Adairsville, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Columbia, Tennessee, Springhill, Franklin and Nashville. He was severely wounded at Kenesaw Mountain, and was taken to hospital No. 1, Nashville, Tennessee, where he remained three months, when he again joined his regiment at Chattanooga. In 1865, He was honorably discharged at Nashville, and mustered out at Columbus. He was married to Miss Delila Meredith, November 4, 1867, who died September 12,1868. Mr. Almack was mar ried to his second wife, Miss Rebecca Richards, January 4, 1870, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Meredith) Richards. Their children are Francis M., Jay Quincy, and Kinsey D. Mr. Almack has been engaged in merchandising since 1868, in Mohawk Village, where he is doing a good business. ALMACK L. F., Jefferson township, was born January 15, 1846, in Perry township, Coshocton county; son of K. L. and Caroline (Johns) Almack, and grandson of Thomas and Dorcas (Cullison) Almack, and David Johns. He was brought up on a farm, and educated in district schools, and followed farming till 1872, when he began the grocer business in Mohawk Village, and continued tree years, since when he has been engaged as clerk in his brother's store. He was married to Miss Heater Mikesell, February 7, 1869, daughter of Philip and Orpha (Gerrard) Mikesell. James R., born November 6, 1869, is their only child. ALMACK J. W., merchant, Pike township. He was born in 1846, in Perry township. His father, J. C. Almack, was born m 1800, in Baltimore county, Maryland, and came to this county in 1827. He was married in 1826 to Mary Richards, who was born in 1806, in Belmont county, Ohio. Mr. Almack died in 1873; Mrs. Almack, in 1880. They were the parents of eight children. The subject of this sketch, the seventh, was married in 1876 to Sarah Preston, who was born in' this county in 1856. Mr. Almack was in the mercantile business in Mohawk Village and Coshocton prior to locating in West Carlisle, to which place he came in 1878, and where he now has an excellent stock of goods. ALPETER J. J., Crawford township, farmer, postoffice, Buena Vista, Ohio; son of John Alpeter, deceased, who was a farmer and stone mason. He was born January 12,1814, in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany; came to America in 1848, and located first near Rogersville, Tuscarawas county, where he remained nearly two years ; thence to near Carlisle, Holmes. county, where he remained five years; after which he came to the homestead, where he died April 3, 1876. Mr. Alpeter was married in the fall of 1840 to Miss Catharine, daughter of Henry and Charlotte (Miller) Hooprich. They became the parents of seven children, viz: Adam, John (deceased), Frederick, Elizabeth, Caroline, John J. and Henry. Mr. Alpeter began business in America with but $200, but, by industry and good management, he left a good farm for his children and aged widow, who shared the toils and hardships of his early life. ALTMAN B. F., Jefferson township, miller, postoffice, Warsaw; born September 6, 1847, in Holmes county, Ohio; son of Elijah and Mary (Beck) Altman, and grandson of Isaac Altman and Michael Beck. Until the age of twenty-three he attended school and assisted his father on the farm, saw-mill and flouring-mill.He then went to Indiana, then back to Ohio and then to Missouri, and remained there about six months, after which he came home and has been engaged at milling in the following named mills, viz: Becks' Helmeck's, Princeton and Warsaw mills, where he is at present doing a good business. He was married October 17, 1875, to Miss Lydia Cross, daughter of John and Roda (Swan) Cross. They have two children-Flora N., born June 30, 1877, and Rosa N., born November 5,1879. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 629 AMANS BENJAMIN, Oxford township, farmer, postoffice, Evansburgh, Ohio; son of Isaac and Jane (Robinson) Amans; was born in 1843, in this county. He was raised on the farm and has always followed that occupation. bar. Amans enlisted, in 1862, in company C, Fifty-second regiment O. V. I, and served three years. He fought under Sherman and McCook, and was engaged in the battles of Chicamauga, Kenesaw Mountain, Stone River and numerous others of less importance. He was married September 3, 1868, to Miss Anna M. Loos, of this county They are the parents of five children, viz: Isaac (de ceased), John W. (deceased), Ananias, Eliza E., and Rosa A. (deceased). ANDERSON DR. J. & SON, druggists, No. 218 Main street, Coshocton. Dr. Anderson is a native of Guernsey county, Ohio, where he was born September 8,1820. He received his education in the district and select schools of that county, after which he attended the Cincinnati college of medicine and surgery, from which be graduated in 1862. He entered upon the practice of his profession at Port Washington, Tuscarawas county, where he remained one year. He then came to Keene, this county, where lie practiced with success and acceptance some years. In 1868 he came to Coshocton and engaged in the drug business in which he still continues. He occupies pleasant and commodious rooms in Central hall lock, where he keeps a very large and complete stock of pure drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, trusses, toilet articles, fancy goods, paints, oils, varnishes, dye stuffs, miscellaneous and school books, wall paper, etc., etc., etc. ANDERSON GEORGE H., Bedford township, farmer, postoffice, Tunnel Hill, born in 1827, in Muskingum county, Ohio, and was married in 1856 to Miss Elizabeth Story, of Zanesville, who was born in 1835 in Perry county, Ohio. They came to this county in 1862, and are the parents of three children, viz: J. A., Clara E. and Isaac G. ANDERSON WILLIAM, Pike township, postoffice, Fraysburgh, Muskingum county, farmer and stock raiser, born in Maryland, in 1807, settled in this county in 1817 ; son of Joshua and Sarah (Fairall) Anderson. Mr. Anderson's father died in 1809, and his mother in 1880. The subject of this sketch was married in 1831, to Miss Mariah Riley, daughter of William and Hannah (Long) Riley. They are the parents of the following children, viz: George W., Isaac C., Mary J., John H., who enlisted in 1862 in Company A, Seventy-sixth regiment, Captain Lemert ; Phoebe A., Eunice T., Truman B., Joshua B. and Sarah M. All are married. ANDREW'S JOHN, Keene township, farmer, born June 14,1815, in Philadelphia; came to Ohio in 1817, and settled in Steubenville, lived there four years, then came to Coshocton county, Keene township. Mr. Anderson says he remembers distinctly of sending about three miles to get William Boyd and the only ax in the neighborhood, to cut the brush from between the George Beaver farm and Mr. Andrews' present home. He is a son of Gabriel and Catharine (Bechtol) Andrews, and grandson of John Andrews. He was married to Miss Pricilla Snyder April 9, 1840, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, daughter of George and Mary (K ersy) Snyder; grand-daughter of Noah and Hetty (Bechtol) ersy; and great granddaughter of John and Catharine (Ritter) Kersy. The children born to them were Secillia, born January 1, 1843 ; G. G., born March 29,1845; and John L. July 20,1855. ANDREWS G. G., Coshocton; liveryman, of the firm of Snyder & Andrews; was born March 27, 1845, in Keene township, Coshocton county, Ohio; son of John Andrews, American born, of Irish ancestry. Young Andrews was raised on the farm, where he remained until he was about twenty-three years old, when he took a contract from the government to carry United States mail from this city to Millersburgh, Holmes county. He held this route for eight years. In July, 1874, he engaged in his present business, at the corner of Main and Second streets. This firm keep an average of ten horses and suitable rigs, such as barouches, carriages; buggies, sample wagons, sleighs, etc., also keeps a sale and feeding stable Mr. Andrews was married January 12, 1871, to Miss Sarah L. Munn, daughter of Samuel Munn, of Keene township. ANGLE DANIEL, Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh; born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania,. March 18, 1811; son of Jacob and Rebecca (Smith) Angle, and grandson of John Angle and Adam Smith. He went to Cambric county, Pennsylvania, in 1844, and in 1850 came to Jefferson county, Ohio, and after remaining there about thirteen years, he moved to Adams township, Coshocton county, and has remained there since. He was married March 11, 1830, to Nancy Gossaid, daughter of John and Mariah (Keifer) Gossaid, who died October 15, 1853. They were the parents of three children-Daniel, born January 12, 1835, Jacob, born April 6, 1833, and Malachi, born November 5,1839. He was married in February, 1&55, to Sarah Gilly, who died December 2, 1879. They had one child, William, born October 31, 1855. Malachi was married April 12, 1868, to Alice Crawshaw, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Ellis) Crawshaw, born in Chester, England, July 4, 1842. . They have three children-Joseph C., born December 12, 1868, George, born May 22, 1873 and Lucy J., born January 12, 1878. 630 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. ARMSPAUGH GIDEON, Monroe township; was born May 25, 1803, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, son of George and Catherine (Lookenbill) Armspaugh, and grandson of George Armspaugh, who is of German descent. In 1811 he came, with his parents, to Oxford township, Coshocton county, where he lived until 1863, when he removed to Monroe township, and resides there at present on his farm. By honest industry and economy he has acquired and saved enough to keep him in comfort during the remainder of his days. He says he remembers distinctly the first Indian he ever saw, was Chief Doughty, who came down the Walhonding river, crossed the Muskingum to Colonel William's saloon and got a coffee pot full of whisky and returned the way he came. Mr. Armspaugh was married to Miss Mary Groom, daughter of George and Nancy A. (Fletcher) Groom, who were English. Lewis T., born November 21, 1837, is their only child. Mr. Armspaugh is a farmer in Momroe township. He was married to Miss Margaret McPeek. heir children are Marshall and Ids Bell. Mrs. Armspaugh died March 30, 1864. After her death he married Mrs. Pardy, a widow, whose maiden name was Mary Conner, daughter of James and Ann (Douglas) Conner, granddaughter of Cornelius and Anna (Powelson) Douglas. The children by his first marriage are Calvin C., Isaiah, Francis, James, Isaac and Martha I. ARTHURS THOMAS, city of Coshocton ; foreman paper mills; born in 1828 in Ireland; son of Edward Arthurs. Young Arthurs was raised on the farm until 17 years of age, when he came to America and went into a paper mill in, Steubenville, Ohio, where he remained until 1863, when he took charge of the mill where he is at present engaged. Mr. A. was married April 27, 1852, to Miss Anne Kelley, daughter of Gilbert Kelley, of County Down, Ireland. They have had ten children, three of whom-John, Elizabeth and Thomas-have deceased. Their living children are William K., Ellie, Mary Anne, Josephine, Annie, James and Edward. ASCHBAKER JOSEPH, Linton township; farmer, postoffice, Plainfield; born June 28,1853, in Linton township; son of John and Mary Anne (Bordenkircher) Aschbaker, natives of Germany, came to America about 1839 and located on the farm mow owned by their son Joseph, who was married September 14,1875 to Miss Magdalena, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Lash) Shue, a native of Alsace, France. They became the parents of two children-Henry Edward, and Mary Elizabeth. He also had two brothers, David and Jacob, in the late war, in which David contracted the disease which caused his death. Joseph's father died September 22,1857. ASHCRAFT JACOB, Pike township; postoffice, West Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser;. born in this county in 1832, son of Jacob and Martha Ashcraft. He was married in 1857 to Miss Liddie Russell, daughter of William and Harriott Russell. They are the parents of twelve children-William S., George W., Thomas (deceased), Norah, Mary N., Harriott K., Russell E., Arthur and Jacob L. Two are married. AXLINE JOHN, Jefferson township ; farmer;. postoffice, Warsaw ; was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, April 6, 1845; son of Philip and Eleanor (Lyle) Axline, and grandson of Jacob Axline,. and Robert and Ellen M. Lyle, and is of German, Scotch and Irish descent. He attended school and farmed until the age of nineteen ; he them worked in Wise's woolen mills, in Holmes county, for over two years, them in Beck's mills the greater part of three years. After that he worked on a sawmill and farmed for about six years in Holmes county, then moved to Jefferson township, this county, where he has followed farming for the past six years. He was married December 12,. 1866, to Miss Parmelia Wise, daughter of Peter and Esther (Baum) Wise, and granddaughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Tombaugh) Wise, also of Peter and Rachel (Bryfogle) Baum, of Pennsylvania (of German descent), and great granddaughter of George Tombaugh. She was born May 2, 1845. They have three children, viz :: Jesse F., born April 1, 1868 ; Laura E., born August 10, 1871, and William S., Born October 29, 1877. AYRES S. H., born March 18,1841, in Coshocton county, Jefferson township ; son of James and Mary (Killpatrick) Ayers, and grandson of William and Susan (Hall) Ayres, and of Hugh and Sarah (Quick Killpatrick. He was born on a farm and live with his parents till the death of his father, when at the age of eight years he went to live with his brother-in-law where he remained till the age of twenty-one. Being a natural genius he began the shoemaker trade without an instructor, at which he made rapid progress, and soon he engaged as a journeyman for White, of Coshocton, where he worked for some time. He them took up the carpenter trade in like manner. . On the 20th of December, 1878, he was appointed postmaster at Spring Mountain. He was married to Miss Mary E. Conner, December 18, 1868,. daughter of James and Mary (Holt) Conner, and granddaughter of James Conner, B BAAD CHRISTIAN G., Crawford township; boot and shoemaker; postofface, New Bedford,. Ohio; was born December 25, 1830, in Wertemberg, Germany; son of John Godfried and Christians (Schiess) Baad. He came to America in. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 631 1846, and located in Crawford township, and went to his present trade when about sixteen years of age. October 1, 1864, he enlisted in Company G, Thirty-eighth O. V. I, and served one year under General Sherman, and was honorably discharged at Columbus. Mr. Baad has held the office of notary public and several township offices, all of which he efficiently filled. Married January 9, 1855, to Miss Doratha Grammes, and they are the parents of four children, Daniel J., Christian F., John G. and Frederick E. L. Mr. Baad was married the second time May 17,1866, to Mary Anne, daughter of Michael and Mary Anne (Ried) Schweitzer. Their children are George M., Mary A., Lizzie J., Rosalee M., Charles H. and Franklin O. Mr. Baad is an intelligent, first-rate work man. BABCOCK D. W., Mill Creek township; merchant; postoffice, Mound; born in 1838, in this county. His father, Eleazer Babcock, was born in 1801, near Dartmouth college. He came to this county in 1812, and was married in 1831, to Miss Elizabeth Elliot, of this county. She was born in 1809, in New York. He died in 1873. She died in 1859. They were the parents of eight children, the subject of this sketch being the fourth. He was married in 1875, to Miss Sarah Allishouse, of Holmes county, Ohio, who was born in 1849. They are the parents of two children, Nora A. and Londa, Mr. Babcock built the store room he is in, and put in the stock of merchandise in the spring of 1880. He has lots for sale near his store. BACHMAN BARTHOLOMEW, dealer in groceries, provisions and liquors, corner of Second and Chestnut streets, Coshocton. Mr. Bachman is a native of Austria, and emigrated to America in 186?, and located in Coshocton, where he engaged in stone-cutting, which he followed until 1875. He then established his present business. He occupies rooms in his own building, twenty by sixty feet, where he keeps a large, first class stock of staple and fancy groceries, confectioneries, bread, plain and fancy cakes and pie of all kinds, tobaccos and cigars, fruits and vegetables, and dealer in all kinds of country produce stone and wooden ware, sugar-cured and pickled meats, bologna and fish, flour and salt, and a full line of miners' and laborers' wear and supplies Also a large stock of foreign and domestic bran dies, wines, gins, beer, ales and blackberry wine of the best American brands. BAHMER VALENTINE A., Adams town ship; shoemaker; postoffice, Bakersville; born in Bucks township, Tuscarawas county, June 15 1841; son of Valentine and Elizabeth (Thomas Bahmer, and grandson of Valentine and Louis (bleu) Bahmer. He began his trade in the fall of 1856, with John Eckhart, of Rogersville, remaining about two and one-half years. He then worked in Canal Dover about two years, and a short time at Shanesville; then returned to Rogersville and enlisted in Company K, Fifty-first O. V. I, October 13, 1862, and served eleven months, being discharged in September, 1863. He then resumed his trade, working in Mansfield, Ashland, Nashville, Tennessee; Louisville, Kentucky; Cincinnati; Covington, Kentucky; Columbus, Ohio, with Reed, Jones & Co.; Gallion, and Ashland, Ohio; then returned to Bakersville, where he has been carrying on a flourishing business since 1869. He was married January 3, 1866, to Elizabeth Schweitzer, daughter of Valentine and Phebe (Froelich) Schweitzer, and granddaughter of Valentine Schweitzer and Nicholas Froelich. They are the parents of seven children, namely: Phebe, Charles V., William H. (deceased), Lewis, Edward, Harry and Carrie. BAHMER A., Coshocton; livery man; born November 20, 1852, in Tuscarawas county, Ohio; son of Valentine Bahmer, of French ancestry. Young Bahmer spent his childhood on the farm. At the age of fourteen he entered a store as clerk, at Bakersville, this county, and continued six years, when he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and clerked in a provision store until 1877, when he came to this city and engaged in his present business. Mr. Bahmer was married to Miss Sarah M. Mizer, daughter of William Mizer, of Adams township. The result of this union was five children, all living, viz: Freeling H., Harriett Belle, Catherine E., Michael V. and Josephine E. Mr. Bahmer keeps an average of about seven horses, with rigs to suit, such as barouches, buggies, wagons, sleighs, etc., and is doing a very fair business in feeding and caring for most of the best horses in town. He is the owner of Jerry Hadwig, who has a public record of 2:35, trotting, and can to-day beat his record several seconds. BAILEY STEWART, Tiverton township: farmer; postoffice, Gann, Knox county; born December 1, 1853, in this county. His father was born in 1802, in Muskingum county, Ohio; and was married September 11, 1826, to Miss Phoebe Richards, of Homes county, who was born September 7, 1810. He came to this county in 1836.She died November 15,1847. They were the parents - of eleven children. He was married June 20, 1848, to Miss P. W. Humphrey, of this county, who was born April 15,1818, and died January 8,1877. They were the parents of eight children. The subject of thin sketch being the fourth: BAIRD GEORGE, Jackson township ; farmer; postoffice, Roscoe, Ohio; son of William and Nancy Baird; was born May 1, 1808, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. He came to Ohio in 1828, and has since remained. The 632 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. country was then a wilderness of woods, with few settlers and plenty of wild animals. Mr. Baird was married in 1837 to Miss Elizabeth Clark, who was born in Virginia, but principally raised in this county. They became the parents of ten children, eight of whom are living, viz: Keziah, Nancy J., Louisa, Rachel, William, George, John, James (deceased), and Josiah. Mr. Clark's father served in the revolutionary war. He now owns a fine farm in the Walhonding valley. BAKER R. LANE, Linton township; farmer; born in Linton township , November 17, 1818; son of Rezin and Mary (Addy) Baker, daughter of William Addy, one of the earliest settlers of Linton township. Mr. Baker was married in 1849 to Melinda Loos, daughter of John Loos. Five of his ten children survive, viz: Mary Ellen, Barbara Ada, William A., John H. and Jessie. He has served a term of three years as county surveyor, and has just been re-elected to a second term. BAKER ISAAC, Monroe township ; was born February 21, 1836, in Knox county, Ohio. He is a son of William and Mary (Ankney) Baker, grandson of George and Susan (Brother) Ankney; was born and brought up on a farm; educated partly in district schools and partly at Millwood and Danville. He taught school three terms then engaged as clerk with Robert McCloud in a general merchandise store, where he continued for same time. He then bought McCloud's goods and went into the business himself, in 1864, where he remained till 1866, when he sold out and moved to Spring Mountain, Coshocton county, and engaged in the same business with Ed. Lybarger, and is there at present doing a very good business. Mr. Baker was married first to Miss Adelia Shroyer in 1864. The children by this marriage are: Edwin W. and Claude A. Mrs. Baker died October 11,1878. After the death of Mr. Baker's first wife he married Hattie A. Hogle, September 1;1880, daughter of John Hogle. BALCH GEORGE, miller; postoffice, Canal Lewisville, Ohio; was born May 4.1838, in Clay township, Knox county; son of John W. and Ma Linda (Hull) Belch. His father was a native of New York State, and his mother of Pennsylvania Mr. Belch's first occupation was a sawyer, but has successfully followed carpentering, millwrighting and farming. He came to this count in 1852 and remained in the county to the pre ant time, with the exceptions of the years 1865-6-7 he lived in Missouri. Mr. Batch was married September 19, 1865, to Miss Nancy, daughter of John and Elizabeth Boyd, of White Eyes town ship. They are the parents of eight children viz: Charles H., deceased, Emma, (twins), Nannie Eda, Laura Melissa, Lola Jane and Lucius J. The last three are triplets, growing well, of good health and ordinary size. At about eight yearn old they were all of exactly the same weight. At present Mr. Belch is principal owner of the fine flouring mill in Lafayette township, where the Conotten Valley railroad crosses the canal. BALO FRANCIS, Virginia township; born in Switzerland, November 18, 1810; settled in this county in 1853; son of Francis and Susannah Balo. He was married October 24, 1835, to Elizabeth Strum, daughter of David and Anna Strum. Their union has been blessed with seven children five of whom are living and two dead. Abram died in the army. Postoffice, Adams' Mills. BALO STEPHEN, Virginia township; born in Switzerland, in 1836; son of Francis and Elizabeth Balo; married in 1865 to Martha Bird. Their union has been blessed with six children, all of whom are living. Mr. Balo is a farmer. Post-office, Adams' Mill. BALO DAVID, Virginia township; born in Switzerland in 1837; settled in Coshocton county in 1853; a son of Francis and Elizabeth Balo, and was married, in 1860, to Mariah J. Newell, daughter of Alexander and Jane Newell. He enlisted August 2, 1862, in company H, Ninety-seventh regiment Army of the Cumberland, and participated in the battles of Perrysville, Chattanooga, Mission Ridge, Tunnell Hill, Reseca, Dallas, Spermey Camp, Peach Tree Creek, Kenesaw, Atlanta, Jonesboro', Spring Hill, Franklin, Nashville and Lovejoy Station. Mr. Balo was discharged June 15, 1864, at Nashville. He has been blessed with five children, four of whom are living and one dead. Postoffice, Adams' Mills. BANKS BENJAMIN, Linton township; farmer; born in Maryland, in 1821; son of Samuel and Mary (Piper) Banks, the youngest of eight Children. When about fifteen months old, he came with his parents to Linton township. His father died the same year in which he came to Ohio; his mother survived until March, 1870. Mr. Banks was married in 1846, to Elizabeth Johny son, daughter of James Johnson, formerly of this township. Children-Samuel (deceased), Ragan, Sarah Jane, Mary, Martha, Ellen, Dwight (deceased) and Seldom. He was married in 1864 to Frances C. Glenn, daughter of John Glenn, of Linton township. By this marriage, he had four children-Clare, Maggie, Laura and John R. His wife died March 4, 1876. BARCROFT ELIAS B., Franklin township; born in Jefferson county, Ohio, August 30,1820; son of Lee J. Barcroft. In 1836, he moved, with his father's family, to Lafayette township; learned the wagonmaker trade, in Linton township, and BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 633 worked at it for a number of years; moved to Franklin township, in 1856, and has lived here since, engaged in farming. He was married October 19, 1843, to Sarah Rodruck, daughter of Lewis Rodruck, a pioneer settler of Franklin township. Daniel A., Lewis B., William H. Sarah A. (Moore) and John B., are their children. BARCROFT W. H., M. D., Coshocton ; born February 9, 1851, in Linton township, this county; son of E. B. Barcroft, of Jefferson county, and of English ancestry. Young Barcroft was raised on the farm until he was about eighteen years old, when he began teaching school and going to high school in this city. In 1871, began reading medicine with Dr. Ingraham, of this city. On finishing his preliminary reading he entered the medical college at Columbus, Ohio, and attended two years, where he graduated in the spring of 1875, with the title of M. D. The doctor first began professional practice at Jacobsport, and continued there from March, 1875, to November, 1876, when he came to this city, where he has continued his practice to the present writing. Dr. Barcroft was married December 27, 1877, to Miss Susie J. Patterson, daughter of H. E. Patterson, of Detroit, Michigan. BARGE J. D., Adams township ; farmer ; post-office Bakersville ; born March 26, 1844, in Tuscarawas county; son of Robert and Achsah (Foreman) Barge, and grandson of Robert and Elizabeth (Tailor) Barge and Thomas and Elizabeth Foreman.He was married March 24, 1867, to Miss Susanna Myser, daughter of Joseph and Catharine A. (Shanks) Myser, and granddaughter of Jacob and Catharine (Fancier) Myser and James and Christina (Helwick) Shanks. She was born January 4, 1844. They are the parents of two children-Carrie, born April 17, 1868 and Byron W., born September 10, 1870. August 13, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Twenty-second O. V. I, went to Camp Zanesville in September and was mustered into service October 8, and in the latter part of the month went to Marietta, thence to Parkersburg, remained there a few days then went to Clarksburg, Va.., thence to Winchester, arriving there January 1, 1863, where on June 15 our forces were attacked by Early's command, aided in repulsing them. He was one of 200 of his regiment that were left in the fort and was made prisoner, having been detailed to the hospital as nurse for P. Worley. He was marched to Staunton, Va., under guard of the Fifty-fourth N. C. Infantry, thence by rail to Libby prison, at Richmond, Va., remained there four days, was fed on squaw-pea soup, consisting of three pints of water to two, ounces of peas boiled a few minutes, was soon removed to Belle Island and kept there about thirty days, and then paroled and taken to City Point, thence by water to Annapolis, Md., at which place he, with Daniel Shook, S. Daugherty and Samuel Wortz, received a verbal permit to go home until he could be exchanged. Not having a furlough, they avoided all guards through the country, also kept clear of all towns and railroad stations, traveling through fields, over hills and hollows via Baltimore, Chambersburg, Gettysburg,. Brownsville, Pittsburgh, Florence and Steubenville, a distance of 575 miles, in 12 days, and remained at home until notified of his exchange, then went to his regiment at Brandywine station and took part in the engagements at Winchester, Mine Run, Locust Grove, Spottsylvania, Cedar Creek, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. $e lost one brother, L. T. Barge, belonging to the Fifty-seventh O. V. I. ; also had a brother in the Fiftyfirst O. V. I. He was discharged July 1, 1865. BARKHURST J. W., Coshocton, Ohio; managing sewing machine agent, 408 Main street. Born October 8, 1843, in Guernsey county, Ohio, son of James and Elizabeth C. (Welling) Barkhurst. He was brought up on a farm with. his parents, in the southwest corner of Jackson township, where he remained until September, 1861, when he was the first man to enlist in Company D, Fifty-first O. V. I. He re-enlisted Jan. 1,1864, and was discharged on account of a wound received June 22, 1864, at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, After his discharge he returned home to his parents, where he remained about one year, then entered the Ohio Weslyan university, at Delaware, Ohio. He then located in Coshocton, but only remained one year, after which he located at his present residence in Roscoe. Some two years after he gave up his purchase of the home property, his parents made an amicable division of heir effects, and have since made their home with their son, J. W. He was married in the spring of 1868, to Miss Mary Virginia, daughter of George E. and Letitia (Nicholas) Edwards. They became the parents of five children, Charles W., Shelley E., Ada (deceased), and Minnie Harvey. BARNES RICHARD, Jackson township; born in Pennsylvania in 1813; son of Mordecia and Matilda Barnes; married in 1846 to Miss Charlotte Kirker, daughter of William and Ellen Kirker. Mr. Barnes is the father of seven children, five living and two dead. Mr. Barnes departed this life September, 1876. His widow still survives him, and lives upon the old homestead. Post-office, Tyrone. BARNES WILLIAM, Jackson township; born in this county in 1847; son of Richard and Charlotte Barnes, and grandson of Mordecia and Matilda Barnes. He was married in 1871 to Miss Lillie D. Cox, daughter of C. B. and Elizabeth Cox. Mr. Barnes is the father of three children, viz: R. B., O: C., M. M. Post-office, Roscoe. 634 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. BARRETT JOHN, Perry township; New Guilford post-office ; farmer ; born in this county in 1830; son of Hugh and Mary (Neldon) Barrett, and grandson of Hugh and Nancy M Barrett, and of John Neldon; married in 1854 to Elizabeth J. Almac, daughter of John and Mary Almac. They are the parents of twelve children, viz: Mary N., Manda M., Celestia R., Sarah B., John W., Elizabeth E., Margaret L., Dora A., James E. (dead), Cora E., Ira, and Oda F. Three are married. Mr. Barrett enlisted in the 100-days service, in 1864. BARRETT ISAAC, Bedford township ;farmer ; post-office, Mohawk Village; born in 1838, in this count . His father was born 1802, in Ireland, settle in Delaware in 1808 and in this county in 1812. He was married in 1826, to Miss Sarah Todd, of Alleghany county, Pennsylvania, who was born in 1808. They are the parents of nine children. The subject of this sketch was married in 1861, to Miss Mary E. Piersol, of this county, who was born in 1840, in Muskingum county, Ohio. They are the parents of six children, viz Elmer G., Sarah J., Luella A., Melvin, Zora and William W. BARRICK DANIEL, Crawford township; farmer; was born July 20, 1847, in Crawford township; son of Simon and Susan (daughter of William Stall) Barrick. Mr. Barrick started in life for himself f as a hired farm laborer, but now owns a good farm of his own. He was elected ,justice of the peace, of Crawford township, when but twenty-three years of age and served two terms. During this time he married twenty-two couples. Squire Barrick was married September 14,1871, to Miss Margaret, daughter of Henry and Louisa (Baad) Stroup. They have one child-Daniel H. BARTH ANDREW, Crawford township, New Bedford postoflice ; retired farmer; born December 13, 1811, in Wurtemburg, Germany ; son of Frederick and Eve (Long) Barth. After completing the usual school course, at fourteen he went to the tailor's trade, which he followed until he came to America, in August, 1838. He landed at Baltimore, Maryland. and by way of Philadelphia went to Pittsburgh, where he worked on the Beaver and Erie canal with a lot of Irishmen, who, not affiliating with him, treated him very unkindly. Being a stranger, in a foreign land, entirely destitute of money or friends, he endured this rather than beg, and by perseverence, honesty and industry; obtained a good farm, the rent of which affords him ample means to live free from labor in his old age, at a good public house. He worked at his trade (tailoring) in many towns in eastern Ohio, among them Zoar, where he was married in 1840, to Miss Catharine, daughter of Christian Ceogle. The fruit of this marriage was four children, Rachel, Christian Frederick, Andrew and John; all dead except Christian Frederick, who is the head of a large family of children. Mr. Barth lost his help-mate July 20, 1880. Being left alone, be has now a pleasant home at the Commercial hotel, its genial host being Charles C. Hinkle. BEACH D. C., Coshocton; merchant tailor, 412 Main street; born June 12, 1819, in New Brunswick, New Jersey; son of Ebenezer Beach, a native of New Jersey. Young Beach was raised in Newark, New Jersey until fifteen years of age. At the age of thirteen" he went to his trade in Newark, New Jersey; at fifteen went to Brooklyn, New York, and continued his trade, where he remained until 1844, when he removed to Knox county. In 1862 he established business in Mount Vernon as merchant tailor and clothier. In 1863 came to this city and was cutter for different firms until 1872, when he established his present business, which he has conducted to the present time. Mr. Beach was married in 1848 to Miss Lucy Eliza Amadon, of New York State. They have had five children, Alice, deceased), Henry D., Louis Kossuth, Lillie Dale, Frank and James. Mr. Beach is doing a good business, having all that himself and several workmen can do. BEALL C. N., Keene township; farmer; born February 3, 1825, in Harrison county; son of John and Margaret (Noble) Beall, and grandson of Colmire Beall. His mother's parents were George and Mary Noble. In 1850 he came to Coshocton county, settling in Keene township. He was married October 5, 1848 to Martha Milliner, born July 17, 1823, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Randle) Milliner. They have but one child, John S., born July 14, 1849, who was married October 21, 1875, to Sarah J., daughter of John and Seneth (Rawer) Beaver, and granddaughter of George Beaver. They have one little girl, Zura Mary, born March 7, 1878. BEALL J., Keene township; farmer; son of John and Margaret (Noble) Beall; was born April 2, 1828, in Harrison county, Ohio. He came to this county in 1852. Mr. Beall was raised on the farm and has always followed that occupation. He was married October 8,1847, to Miss Rhoda Smith of Washington county, Pennsylvania. They became the parents of six children, viz: William E., Joseph S., Mary J. (deceased), Alva, John (deceased), and Carrie. Mr. and Mrs. Beall are prominent members of the M. E. church at Keene, and are respected by all who know them. Mr. Beall has held different offices in his township for many years. BEALL ROBERT, Lafayette township ; station agent, express agent, postmaster and grain dealer; was born in Harrison county, June 1 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 635 1829; lived on the farm until the fall of 1855, when he went to Doods county, Wisconsin, and engaged in the lumber business, for three years; then went to Illinois, and spent three years in the wagon and carpenter business; came back to Ohio, and spent nine years in the broom business; then, from that, came to West Lafayette, and is now station agent, express agent, postmaster and grain dealer; was justice of the peace, six years; was married, in the fall of 1849, to Miss Rogers, of Harrison county. They have had seven children-Mary D., Sarah E., Frank A. (deceased), Ella, Viola, Rosa deceased) and Jennie. Mr. Beall is kept very busy, attending all his business, but always has time to treat his customers, and others with whom he may come in contact, in a gentlemanly manner; is a cash dealer throughout, and has got what he is possessed of, by honest hard work. BEAM WILLIAM T., Crawford township; post-office, Chili; farmer and stock man ; born September 28, 1835, in Somerset county, Pennsylvania; son of Christopher and Margaret (Deters) Beam. He came to Carroll county, Ohio, when about three years of age. When about eighteen, he began stock dealing in Holmes county, and came to his present residence in May, 1877. Mr. Beam was married May 10, 1877, to Miss Lucinda, daughter of Peter and Cathrite (Neff) Snyder, of Crawford township, but a native of Switzerland. One child (Mary Dell), was born to them. Mr. Beam has had a very extensive experience in stock dealing, having been a successful shipper for many years. BEARDSLEY O. M., Virginia township; post-office, Dresden: born in New York, in 1801, settled in this county in 1837; son of David and Hanna Beardsley. He was married in 1837. Mr. Beardsley has four children, viz : Laura, Charles E., Louisa, and John. BEAVER JOHN, Coshocton county, treasurer; was born January 19,187, in Tuscarawas county; son of George Beaver, born June 20,1800, in Tuscarawas county. John Beaver was raised on the farm, where he remained until September 6, 1880, when he took charge of the office above named, to which he was elected October 14, 1879. Mr. Beaver was married April 21, 1850, to Miss Sarah Reamer, daughter of George Reamer, deceased, formerly of Keene township. This union was blessed with eight children, one deceased (Catherine), and seven living, viz: Mary M., Sarah J., George C., Angeline L., J. D, and Charles. Mr. Beaver's grandfather, John Beaver, when seventeen years old, was with Bouquet's expedition. BECK SAMUEL, miller, Monroe township post-office, Spring Mountain; born in 1847, in Holmes county. He come to Bloomfield, this county, in 1871, and was married, in 1872, to Miss Martha Frederick, of this county, who was born in 1854. They are the parents of one child, Eugene. Mr. Beck purchased the grist-mill, where he now lives, in 1874. He has since attached a saw-mill and can run by water or steam. He does custom work only in the grist-mill. BECK JAMES, Warsaw, Jefferson township; miller; post-office, Warsaw; was born in Holmes county; Ohio, March 18, 1860; son of Benjamin and Julia (Butron) Beck, and grandson of Michael Beck. . He received his education in the district schools in Holmes county. At the age of sixteen he began learning the millers' trade, under Peter Widner, of Holmes county, and two years later he took charge of the Hendrick mills, and acted as foreman of that mill about nine months, when he came to Warsaw and took charge of the Warsaw mills for Beck & Welling, and the business is progressing finely under his management. Mr. Beck is a very promising young man, and possesses more than ordinary ability in his profession BERRY L. F., New Castle township; farmer; post-office, New Castle; was born in Perry township, Coshocton county, September 9, 1850; son of Epoch and Mary E. (Buxton) Berry, and grandson of John and Elizabeth Berry and Francis and. Sarah E. Buxton. He attended school and assisted his father on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age, after which he attended college at Delaware, Ohio, a term of six months, since which time he has been farming, excepting from November, 1876, to November, 1877, during which time he was engaged in mercantile business with his brother and Mr. McKee. He was married December 11,1873, to Miss Emma Lash, daughter of John and Elizabeth Barrow) Lash, and granddaughter of Peter and Catharine Lash and William and Elizabeth Barrow. She was born May 21,1852. They are the parents of two children, Ralph S., born December 22,1876, and Zella. Mabel, born November 6, 1879. His father, Epoch Berry, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, May 1, 1818; son of John and Elizabeth (Yost) Berry, and grandson of John Berry and Peter Yost. He moved to this county in 1828, with his parents, and has remained a resident ever since. He married Miss Mary Buxton, who died in February, 1877; leaving a husband and three children to mourn her loss. She was born in the village of East Union, June 9, 1824. BERRY ENOCH, New Castle township post-office, New Castle; farmer; was born in Belmont county, Ohio (near St. Clairsville), on May 1, 1818; son of John and Elizabeth (Yost) Berry, 636 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. and grandson of Peter Yost, of German-Irish descent. He moved with his parents to this county in the year 1828, has resided here ever since, and is a highly respected and energetic farmer. He was married July 15, 1843, to Miss Mary A. Buxton, daughter of Francis and Sarah Buxton, who was born in East Union, Perry township, June 9, 1824, and died February 5, 1877. They had born to them four children, of whom three are living, viz: Sarah E., John W., and Leonidas F. He was a resident of Perry township about nineteen years, and had received his schooling by going a day or two now and then when his services were not needed on the farm. BERRY JOHN W., New Castle township; son of Enoch and Mary E. (Boston) Berry; was born in Perry township, September 25, 1848. He remained with his parents until the age of twenty-one, attending school and assisting on the farm. At that age he married Miss Elizabeth Copland, daughter of James and Margaret (Bail) Copland, and granddaughter of James and E Elizabeth (Norton) Copland, and James, and Elizabeth Baily. The date of this marriage is October 2, 1869. Mrs. Berry was born May 13, 1852. Her father lost his life in attempting to cross the Walhonding river on horseback, when she was but three years of age. They have been blessed with three children, viz : George, born January 25, 1871; Albert, born August 6,1874; and Wilber, born January 18,1877. BERTON EUGENE, Franklin township; iron worker; post-office, Wills Creek; born April 28, 1853, near Metz, France ; son of Francis and Anne (Beandonin) Berton. At the age of fifteen he went to his present trade in Harnes, France, and remained five years; for the first two he received no wages, he having to board and cloth himself. In July, 1873, he came to his present place in Franklin township. Mr. Berton was married January 26,1875, to Miss Mary, daughter of John and Annie (Grant) Davied. They became the parents of two chit ren, Estella and Francis. Mr. Berton has been eight years in America and is doing a very fair business. BEST JOHN M., Keene township; born March 23, 1845, in Coshocton county. He is a son of Jacob and Susan (Miller) Best, native of Pennsylvania, and grandson of John and Christina (Hootman) Best. He is a farmer by occupation. Married to Miss Malinda Wilson. They have two children: William, born December 22, 1873; Alpha, August 30,1875. BIBLE JACOB, Bethlehem township; farmer; born in 1796, in Rockingham county, Virginia. He was married in 1820, to Miss Elizabeth Richey, of the same county, who was born in 1802. They came to this county in 1821 and located in Keene township, and remained until 1837, when they removed to Bethlehem township. They became the parents of ten children, five of whom are living, viz: Philip, born in 1829, George, born in 1831, Josiah, born in 1834, Hannah, born in 1823 and Mary, born in 1828. Philip was married to Miss Courtright, of this county, and now lives on the old homestead. They have five children, viz : Elizabeth, Catharine, Margaret, Eliza and Jacob. George Bible was married to Miss Randles, of this. county, and now lives in Keene township. Josiah was married to Miss Walton, of this county, and is now living in Illinois. Hannah was married to Mr. Henry Mumford, of this county, and now lives in Keene township. Mary was married to Mr. George Turner, of this county, and now lives in Bethlehem township. Mr. Bible, the subject of this sketch,. was a carpenter in his younger days, but later has followed farming. He was also an old hunter and trapper. He had four sons in the late war at one time, all of whom enlisted from this county. Mrs. Bible died in 1869, aged sixty-seven 'years. Mr. Bible is now in his eighty-fourth year, and is still active in both mind and body. BIGGS WILLIAM, Jackson township; born in this county in 1828; son of William and Hester (Markley) Biggs, and grandson of William and Mary Biggs and Andrew and Mary Markley; married in 1853, to Mary Smith, daughter of Newman and Heater Smith. Mr. Biggs is the father of twelve children, viz : Palms, James, John (deceased), Frederick, Frank (deceased), Joseph, Evalina, Elizabeth, Heater, William, Mary, Samuel. Two are married and living in this county. James is a teacher. BIGGS F. F., Roscoe, Ohio, of the firm of Wright, Biggs & McCabe, general merchandising, West Main street, Coshocton, Ohio. Mr. Biggs was born June 7, 1858, in Jackson township ; son of William Biggs, a native of America, but of Irish ancestry. He was brought up on the farm until nineteen, when 'he began teaching school, and taught three years. Then he became a partner in the above firm. Mr. Biggs was married December 31,1876, to Miss N. E., daughter of John L. Dougherty, of Jackson township. They are the parents of two children, viz: Lelia and Ethel. BIRCH JACOB, Pike township; post-office, blest Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser; born in Virginia in 1805, and settled in this county in 1851; son of William and Nancy (Simmons) Birch. He was married in 1835, to Miss Mary Cooksey. Their children are Eliza A., Mahala, Evaline, Edward and Anderson. Mr. Birch was married to his second wife, Miss Mary Connard, in 1865. They have one child, Elvin. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 637 BLACKMAN HOLDER Dr., Jefferson township; post-office, Warsaw ; born April, 1822, near Haverill, Suffolk county, England; son of William and Susan (Holder) Blackman, natives of England. He came to America in 1832, and settled in Gambier, Knox county, Ohio. He went to school until the age of twenty-one, when he began the house-joiner trade with William Rice, of Wooster, and followed that for about two years. He thin took an irregular coarse at Kenyon college at Gambier for two years. He. then studied medicine with Prof. Homer M. Thrall for two years, attending a course of lectures at the Cleveland medical college during the winter of 1848-49, after which he began the practice of medicine in the spring of 1849, at Walhonding, Coshocton county, and remained there two years. Hi then came to Warsaw, where he is at present, having a fair practice. He was married in January, 1850, to Miss Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of Edward Spencer. They had four children, viz: William R., born November 15,1850; Anna, born June 14, 1853; Frank, born March 25, 1855, and Lillie, born March 1, 1859. BLUCK WILLIAM (deceased), Lafayette township; was born in England, Shropshire county, about 1796; was married to Miss Price, of England. They have had four children, two of whom only are living. His wife dying, he married Miss James, of England, who became the mother of seven children, six of whom are living, as follows: Thomas P., Edmund, Edwin, Joseph, Lucy, Arthur, Lucretia, William and Rose. Edwin was born in England, in 1843, and, coming to this State and county, with his parents, in 1853, located in this township, where hi now resides. He enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Seventy-fourth O. V. I, at Newark, Ohio, and returned home, when peace was declared. He was married, in 1866, to Miss Mary C. Whiteside, of this county, to whom one child F. E., was born August, 1867. Bluck's father and mother died in 1867, at the ages of seventy-one and forty-seven years. BOCK GEORGE J., Coshocton city ; proprietor barber-shop, Main street; was born June 14, 1852, in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. At sixteen, he learned his trade, and worked in the city of Pittsburgh, and in several towns in the Pennsylvania oil region, and in Maryland. In 1875, he established a shop in this city, which he has carried on to the resent writing. Mr. Buck was married May 1,1874, to Miss Mary L. Barer, of Erie, Pennsylvania, who was a native of New Jersey. This union has been blessed with three children, Mary V., Catherine B. and George Jerome Bock. Mr. Buck is doing a very good business. BODKIN AMMI, Perry township, New Guilford post-office; born in West Virginia, in 1841; settled in Licking county, Ohio, 1863; son of John and Rebecca. Bodkin, and grandson of Jacob and Hanna (Stewart) Bodkin. He was married in 1872, to Alice Boyd, daughter of John and Jemima Boyd. Mr. Bodkin is the father of four children, viz: Nellie, John, William and Maud. Mr. Bodkin entered the Southern army in 1862, Company A, Fourteenth regiment, and was engaged to the battles of Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Stone Wall, Scotts Spring,. Fisher's Hill, Gettysburg and others. BOERING JOHN D., merchant; post-office, West Lafayette ; was born in this county, in 1846,. and educated at the public school of Roscoe. He was married in 1880, to Miss Hannah Weatherwax, who was born in Clark township, in 1847. Mr. Boering established the hardware trade in West Lafayette, in 1880, and keeps in stocks general line of hardware, cutlery, etc., and is having a liberal trade. BONHAM T. W., Pike township; post-office, West Carlisle; farmer and stock maser; born in Tuscarawas county, in 1837, settled in this county in 1840; son of Evan and Mary A. ( Worley) Bonham, and grandson of David and Tacy Bonham. He was married in 1866, to Miss Nervy J. Chancy,. daughter of Franklin and Margaret (Gibbins) Chancy. They are the parents of two children, L. M. and Flawra E. BORING P. W., Coshocton ; helper to miller in Empire Mills, Roscoe, Ohio; born January 22, 1852; son of Joshua Boring, a native of Maryland. P. W. Boring was raised on the farm where he remained until 1879, when hi engaged in his present employment where he has remained to the present writing. BOSTWICK W. W., Coshocton; jeweler, 224 Main street; was born January 9, 1847, in Knox county ; son of Nathan Bostwick, American barn, but of Scotch ancestry. Young Bostwick lived on the farm until twelve years old, when he went into a dry goods store as clerk, where he remained seven years. He then attended the McNeely normal school at Hope Dale, one year. On leaving school hi spent the next three years learning his trade with Hide & Young, Mount Vernon. January 15,1870, he came to this city and established his resent business in company with his brother, H. C. In 1872 he became sole proprietor. Mr. Bostwick was married April 16, 1873, to Miss Kate Hay, daughter of H. Hay of this city, which union has been blessed with two children, Houston H. and Frank B. Mr. Bostwick is doing a very extensive business in his line of goods, having the most extensive stock of the kind in the county. BOSTWICK, J. A., jeweler, Main street, near 638 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. depot, Coshocton. Mr. Bostwick is a native of Knox county, born August 24, 1852, and was educated in the public schools of Mt. Vernon. His first business engagement was in learning the jewelry business with H. C. Bostwick, of Newark, Ohio, whom he served four years. He then came to Coshocton and engaged in business for himself, in November, 1875, and in which he still continues. He occupies spacious and elegant rooms south side Main street, where he keeps a very large and well selected stock of first-class foreign and American watches, solid and plated silverware, cutlery, clocks of all styles, and a large and elegant assortment of ladies' and gents' jewelry, all of the latest patterns; also, all kinds of watch, clock and jewelry repairing a specialty. BOWEN, C. J., Crawford township; teacher; postoffice, New Bedford, Ohio; born April 21, 1853, in Holmes county; son of John and Catherine (Limbaok) Bowen. He commenced teaching when nineteen years of age, and has taught to the present time, excepting one year's clerking in store: Mr. Bowen is one of the good teachers of the county, having thoroughly prepared himself for his profession at the National Normal School, at Lebanon. BOWER LORENZO, Monroe township; was born October 22,1833, in Holmes county, Ohio; son of William and Corrilla (Barnes) Bower, and grandson of Leonard Bower and of Nancy Price, also, great grandson of Richard Barnes. He has followed farming all his life. In 1864 he came to Coshocton county, where he yet lives. He married Cordelia McKee, December, 1860, daughter of Andrew and Julia A. (Corns) McKee, and granddaughter of William Corns. She died December 2, 1873. The children are Alex. Q., Silas C., Charles E. and Leonard P. BOWER IRWIN, Monroe township; was born May 9, 1831, in Holmes county; son of William and Corrilla (Barnes) Bower, and grandson of Leonard Bower and Nancy Bower, and great grandson of Richard Barnes. He followed farming in Holmes county till 1861, when he came to Coshocton county. He was married first to Catharine Brightwell October 25, 1854. After the death of his 'first wife he married Mary Wilson, May 6, 1878. BOWMAN G. W., of the firm of Bowman & Shanwecker, merchants; postoffice, New Bedford; born May 27, 1844, in New Bedford; eon of John and Susanna (Noel) Bowman. When a boy, he assisted his mother in a hotel, his father having died when G. W. was nine years of age. In 1865 he enlisted in Company E, One hundred and Ninety-first O. V. I, and served to the close of the war. On his return, he established business with his brother, A. J., firm name of Bowman & Brother, and continued the business together until 1876, when G. W. sold his interest to his brother, who conducted the store one year, then the present firm took charge, and are doing a very satisfactory business. Mr. Bowman was married July 4, 1867, to Miss Mariah, daughter of Daniel and Lydia (Newman) Forney. Lottie, May, Charles W., Ida, Alice and Mary Elizabeth are the names of their children. BOWMAN JOHN, White Eyes Township, is a native of Tuscrawas county; and was born in 1828. His father, John Bowman, came to this county in 1831, and settled at Adams Mills; moved to New Bedford, in 1840, and blacksmithed there. He died in 1853, at the age of fifty-three years, and his wife died March, 1878, aged seventy-four years. The junior, John, learned the blacksmith trade with his father, and worked at the trade for fourteen years. He went to Missouri, in 1852, remained there one year, and returned to Ohio. He went to Iowa, in 1855, remained there one year, and then went on to California, where he staid four years, and returned to Ohio. In 1861, he married Miss Agnes Erwin, of Tuscarawas county. They have three sons-Benjamin, born in 1863; James G., born in 1865, and Erwin F., born in 1871. From 1860 to 1865, Mr. Bowman lived in Holmes county, and then he located on a mill property, south of Chili, where he now resides. BOWN H. E, Virginia township; born in Coshocton county, in 1858; son of J. T. and R. E. Bown, and married in June, 1880, to Miss Theodocia Slaughter. Postoffice, Willow Brook. BOYD WILLIAM R., White Eyes township; born in the county of Donegal, Ireland, October 1801. He came to this county with his parents about 1824, who settled in White Eyes township. He was married in 1836, to Miss Isabella Finley. She was born in the county of Donegal, Ireland, February, 1816. They became the parents of ten children-John F., Jane M., Ramsey W., Margaret A., George B., Alice A., Richard W., Florence R., Alexander F. and Robert E. All married, except Robert E., and Margaret A., who is a widow. George B. enlisted in Company H, Eightieth O. V. L, at Coshocton, in 1861. He was killed at Vicksburg, and was buried on the battle-field. Ramsey W. enlisted in the 190-day service. Jane M. marred Dr Chapman, of this county, and is now living in Woodford county, Illinois, where the doctor has a large practice. Ramsey W: was married to Charlotte Hagle, of Bethlehem township, and is now living in Illinois. Margaret A. was married to John W. Bell, of Wakatomika, who is now deceased. Alice A. married George W. Kraut, and lives near Wakatomika. Richard W. married Lucy Dunemyer, of Illinois, and is now living in BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 639 Keene township. Florence R. married Howard Lawrence, of Keene township. Alexander F. married Pauline Compton, of Roscoe. Robert E. is single and lives at home with his parents. Mr. Boyd and family are members of the M. E. church. BOYD WILLIAM M. Keene township; born March 13, 1803, in Pennsylvania; a son of Robert Boyd, who was born September 5, 1769, died November 28, 1826, and Mary McMaster, born August 27,1779, died January 23,1872, and grandson of William Boyd and James McMaster. Mr. Boyd came to Jefferson county in 1803, and remained there till 1814, when he came to Coshoc ton county to the farm where he now lives. He has traveled considerably in the United States, and was married to Miss Bowl. April 1, 1824, who was born April 12, 1804, died September 3, 1873, a daughter of James and Nancy (Thompson) Bowl. Their children were: Nancy, born February 11, 1825; Gilbert, February 11, 1826, died January 21, 1849; Mary, born April 12, 1831; Robert, September 10, 1833; Sarah, June 28,1836, and John C., February 25, 1841, died December 25, 1852. BOYD ROBERT R., White Eyes township; postoffice, Canal Lewisville; farmer; was born in August, about 1811, in county Donegal, Ireland; son of Robert and Jane (Ramsey) Boyd. He came to America and located with his parents on the farm where he now resides. He was married May 23, 1839, to Miss Mary Anne, daughter of Robert and Jane (Stephenson) Johnson. They have had fourteen children : William J., married to Elmira Elliott, now residing in Caldwell county, Missouri; Jane, married to Thomas Hamilton, residing in White Eyes township; Samuel F., married to Elizabeth Brown, living in the same township; Robert A., married to Mary Jane McMurray, residing in Marion count ; Mary Anne, married to Alexander Adams, residing in Keene township; Hester Ellen, married to James Elliott, residing in Mill Creek township, Elizabeth, married to John Clark, residing in White Eyes township; Daniel, marred to Matilda Compton; Zelma, Carbetta, Evert Richard and Caroline, de ceased. Mr. Boyd has given his entire attention to mired husbandry and agriculture, and by honest industry has obtained a competency. BOYD FRANCIS, farmer; White Eyes township ; Chili postoffice ; born February 10, 1828, in Washington county, Pennsylvania; son of Robert and Margaret (Cassidy) Boyd. His grandfather's name was Robert Boyd, a native of Ireland, and his mother was also of Irish descent. She died in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and is buried at Bethel church, in that county. Young Boyd lived about four years in West Virginia before coming to this county, which he did in 1834, and located in White Eyes township. He was married November 13, 1854, to Miss Jane, daughter of Alexander and Rebecca (Virtue) Lockard, of Irish ancestry. They have four children-Alexander, married to Caroline Carnahan, Robert Dayton, married to Elizabeth Beaver, James D. and Rebecca Jane. Mr. Boyd has devoted his attention to mixed husbandry and agriculture, but principally to wool growing, having a very fine farm well adapted to sheep husbandry. It is kept in good- condition, making .an elegant home for himself and family. BOYD W. S., Virginia township; born in Coshocton county, October 7,1840, and was married April 23, 1862 Mr. Boyd was blessed with five children, viz: Cora A., Emma L., Sarah E., William W., and Edward S. He died in 1875. His widow survives him. BOYD SAMUEL A., of the firm of Wier & Boyd, groceries and provisions, 220 Main street, Coshocton, Ohio. Mr. Boyd was born May 18, 1850, in White Eyes township; is son of Samuel and Nancy (Allen) Boyd, both natives of the county Tyrone, Ireland. William Boyd, grandfather of Samuel A., was one of the first settlers of White Eyes township, having emigrated with his family to the township in 1833. He identified himself with the anti-slavery movement from its beginning, and was one of the strongest advocates of human liberty. He lived a consistent and pious life, and died May 17, 1879. Young Boyd, the subject of this sketch, was brought up on the farm, educated in the public schools of his native township, and at West Minster college, New Wilmington, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania. He began teaching when about eighteen and taught thirteen terms, farming during the summer. In the spring of 1875 he visited Nebraska and taught two terms of school while there. Also in company with a hunting expedition visited southern Nebraska, northwestern Kansas and eastern Colorado, killing buffalo on the plains. He returned to his native home in 1876 and resumed teaching and farming. Mr. Boyd was married December 25,1877, to Miss Nannie G. J., daughter of Robert and Angeline (Hammond) Dickey, of White Eyes township. They are the parents of one child, viz: Charles Hammond, born August 11, 1879. Mr. Boyd established his present business April 11,1881. This firm keeps a first-class assortment of goods in their line. BRECHT VALERIAN, Franklin township; farmer; postoffice, Wills Creek, Ohio; born January 6, 1845, in Baden, Germany; son of Benhart and Catherine (Harwidel) Brecht, natives of Baden, Germany. They emigrated to America in 1854, bringing their family with them, and located near Adamsville, Muskingum county. The father was born in 1799, and died in 1862. The 640 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. mother was born in 1801, and died in 1867. Valerian, the subject of this sketch, began life for himself as a hired hand on a farm, but by economy and industry, he has obtained a good farm. Mr. Brecht was married first to Miss Mary A., daughter of Solomon and Bridget (Rodenburger) Gossman. They became the parents of two children, William Solomon and Annie Varonica. Their mother died July 1, 1876. Mr. Brecht married April 18,1876, Miss Mary A., daughter of George and Elizabeth (Lash) Shue, natives of France. BRINK JOSEPH W., Bethlehem township; farmer ; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio; was born October 1,1830, in Knox county, Ohio. He was married January 15, 1857, to Mrs.. Annie N. Moffet, who was born December 22,1809, in Otsego county, New York. She was married May i4, 1829, to Mr. Samuel Moffet, of Tuscarawas county, Ohio. Mr. Moffet built the brick residence where Mr. and Mrs. Brink now reside, in 1846, It was the first brick residence built in Bethlehem township Mrs. Brink's maiden name was Stone She has been a member of the M. E. church for forty-six years. Mr. Brink is a member of the M. P. church. BRILLHART DAVID, Monroe township; was born October 6,1816, in Buckingham county, Virginia. He was a son of Samuel and Susanah (Whitezel) Brillhart, and grandson of John Brillhart and of Anthony Whitezel. At the age of fifteen he came from Virginia to Coshocton county, Ohio, where he has spent the most of his time since in farming. As he always possessed a natural liking for tools, he learned several trades without an instructor, such as the cooper trade, wagonmaker, blacksmith, and house-joiner. He is a careful, well-to-do farmer, and is the owner of about 1,000 acres of good land in Monroe township. Mr. Brillhart was married to Miss Mary A. Drake, August 5, 1841. She was a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Swollams) Drake. Their children were, Phoebe, Samuel (deceased), Isaac (deceased), Martha, Tobitha, David W., Hamilton R. and William L. (deceased). After the death of Mrs. Brillhart, October 25, 1857, Mr.. Brillhart married Martha Drake, August 7, 1858. Their children by this marriage were, Louella (deceased), John C., Mary F., Milin E., Emma R., Laura L., Hanbie W. and Victor D. BRILLHART HARRISON H., Jefferson township; postoffice, Warsaw; born April 9,.1841, in Monroe township, Coshocton county ; son of Samuel and Mary (Chambers) Brillhart, and grandson of Aden Chambers. His father was a Virginian. He remained with his father until the age of twenty-one, then enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G., and served his engagement of 100 days; came home to Monroe township and began farming, and remained until the fall of 1874, when he moved to his present location in Jefferson township. He married April 2, 1868, Miss Caroline Heaton, daughter of Aaron and Dorcas ( Welling) Heaton, and granddaughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Barrel) Heaton and Thomas Welling. Mrs. Brillhart was born in Bedford township, July 30, 1844. This union is blessed with one child-Charlie; born in Monroe township, May 9,1869: BRILLHART WILLIAM R., Tiverton township; farmer; postoffice, Gann, Knox county; born January 1,1846, in this county. His father, John F., was born in 1818 in Virginia,. He came to this county while yet small, and was married in 1830 to Miss Julia A. Robinson, of Knox county. He died in 1860, and she died in 1870. They were the parents of eight children, William R., being the second. He was married in 1870 to Miss Milinda Burnes, of Knox county, who was born in 1849. They are the parents of four children-Charles O., Royal L, Sarah B. and Maggie. BRILLHART B. F., Monroe township; born April 28,1849, on the farm where he now lives; son of Samuel and Mary (Chambers) Brillhart, Samuel Brillhart was brought up in Brookingham county, Virginia; born in 1795. Mary Chambers was born July 30, 1806, in Fayette county, Virginia. He is a grandson of William A. and Anna ( Smock ) Chambers, and great-grandson of Edward and Mary (Sissel) Chambers, and of John and Margaret Emock. Mr. Brillhart was born and bred a farmer. He is a good citizen and a good neighbor. He has a very fine farm near Spring Mountain, Monroe township, to which he devotes his entire attention. Mr. Brillhart was married to Miss Eliza A. Miller, November 27, 1873, daughter of Saul and Elizabeth Miller. (For ancestry, see the biography of her father, Samuel Miller, elsewhere in this book.) BROADY WILLIAM J., tinner; postoffice, West Lafayette; born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1854, and was married in 1880, to Mary S. Shafer, who was born in this township, in 1858. Mr. Broady learned the tinner's trade in Steubenville; established business in West Lafayette, in the spring of 1881; successor to Frank Familton, and deals in heating and cooking stoves; manufactures all kinds of tin, copper and sheet iron ware. Tin roofing and spouting a specialy. BROWER JOHN JACKSON, M. D., Coshocton, corner of Walnut street and Burt avenue; burn August 17, 1837, in Carroll county ; son of Joseph Brower, a native of America, whose parents were Highlanders. Mr. Brower was raised BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 641 on the farm until twelve years of age, when he entered New Hagerstown academy, and remained four years. At sixteen he began teaching public school. At nineteen he entered Delaware college, at Delaware, and graduated when he was twenty years of age. He then entered Sterling medical college in 1859, and was graduated by that institution in 1860, and began the practice of his profession at Leesville, Carroll county, the same year. In 1861 he was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company I, Seventeenth O. V. I. (thirteen months' men), and reenlisted as surgeon of the Ninety-eighth O. V. I and served till the close of the war. Dr. Brower was graduated at Cincinnati eclectic medical institute in 1868-69. At the close of the wax he established a practice at West Lafayette, where he remained a short time, then came to Canal Lewisville, where he remained until December, 1875, when he came to this city and established a practice and has remained to the present time. Dr. Brower was married February 10, 1859, to Miss Susan E. Benedum, daughter of John Benedum, of Virginia. They had three children, two of whom (Carrie Orea and Burt Sherman Lincoln) have died. Lucy I. A. is their only living child. BROWN JONAS, White Eyes township; farmer ; native of White Eyes, and was born in 1831, on the farm where he now resides. His father, Jones Brown, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1788 ; came to Tuscarawas county when but thirteen years old, and remained in that county until the spring of 1828, when he located in White Eyes. He was the father of nine children, and all are living. All have removed from the county, except Jones. Mr. Brown married Miss Margaret Hamilton, in 1857. She is the daughter of John Hamilton, and was born in 1840. They are the parents of six children, one deceased. Those living are, John L., Levi M., Lewellen, Mary D., Lizzie A. Mr. Brown has always resided in the township, and the people have given him offices of trust. He has been treasurer and trustee of his township, having several terms of each. Mr. and Mrs. Brown be long to the M. E. church at White Eyes. Mr. Brown's mother lives in Madison county, Iowa, and is in her eighty-first year. BROWN JONAS, Crawford township, of the firm of Brown & Craft, hardware merchants; postoffice, New Bedford; born June 5, 1849, in White Eyes township; son of Henry and Rebecca (Snyder) Brown. At twenty years of age he began teaching school and taught and attended school about four years, after which he clerked in store in New Bedford until 7876, when the above firm was established. This firm does a good business in general hardware and farm implements. Mr. B. was elected justice of the peace of Crawford township, in the spring of 1880, and holds the office at the present time. He was married May 27, 1877 to Miss Catherine A., daughter of Nicholas and Jeremiah Fisher. Vernet Orwin, born May 20, 1878, is their only child. BROWN G. J., Bedford township ; real estate and insurance, agent; postoffice, West Bedford; born in 1825 in Jefferson county, Ohio, came to this county in 1851, and was married in 1853, to Miss Lorinda Parrott of this county, who was born in 1833, in New Brunswick: She came to this county with her parents in 1837. They are the parents of nine children, viz : Oswell C., Sara P., William P., Elmer E., Anna B., Dora, Hortense, Robert G., and Howard. BROWNING JAMES, Tuscarawas township; postoffice, Coshocton; farmer; was born in Montgomery county, Maryland, March 12, 1813; son of James and Mary (Smith) Browning. Young Browning was raised a mechanic, and worked at wagon making until he was twenty-four years of age, when he engaged in farming which he has followed to the present time, with the exception of one year spent in Indiana, working. at mill building. Mr. Browning was first married July 13, 1837, to Miss Rebecca, daughter of John Elson, of this county. Their children were Oliver, Mary Jane, Samuel, killed at the battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, James Edward, and Hamilton. Mr. Browning was married to Mrs. Mary Jane Jennings, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Brown) Shrawyer. BROWNING OLIVER, Franklin township; farmer; born in Franklin township, March 6, 1840; son of James Browning; enlisted October, 1861, in Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I, and was in service four years and two months; captured at Stone River, paroled at Murfreesboro, and exchanged about eight months afterward ; re-joined regiment November 12,1863; was in battles of Lookout Mountain, Franklin, Tennessee, Nashville, and all through the Georgia campaign; married in 1866 to Mary E. Gaumer, of Adamsville, Muskingum county, and has five children living, viz: Rebecca Anna, James L., Harvey Allen, Melinda Jane and Eleanor Olive. BROWNING J. E., Franklin township; born in Franklin township, July 23, 1847 ; son of James and Rebecca (Elson) Browning. His father, a native of Maryland, moved from Virginia to thin township about 183. When seventeen years old, in October, 1864, he enlisted in Company E, Twenty-ninth O. V. I, and served nine months ; was with Sherman in his march from Atlanta, Georgia, to the sea. He was married February 4, 1873, to Josephine Conley, of this township, and has two children, viz: Charles H. and Edna. 642 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. BRENNEMAN JAMES, Bedford township; farmer ; postoffice, Tunnel Hill ; born in 1833, in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. He went to Kansas, with a company of 100, in 1856, and came to this county from there in 1857. He went to California in 1849, and remained there eighteen months. He was in the 100~day service. He was married in 1864, to Miss S. S. English, of this county, who was born in 1842. They are the parents of four children, viz : Almira, Susan J., Josephine and Thomas S. David Brenneman, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1800, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and was married to Jane Pinkerton, of the same county, who was born in 1790. They came to this county in 1856. She died in 1868. They were the parents of three children. BRYAN AMBROSE, Pike township; postoffice, West Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county, in 1827 ; son of John and Mary I. (Deyarman) Bryan. Mr. Bryan's father came to this county in 1816, from Maryland, died August 19, 1850. Mr. Bryan was married October 6, 1856, to Miss Mary A. Huff, daughter of Eleven and Louisa Huff They are the parents of five children, viz : Sarah L, Robert B., Elizabeth E., Louisa, Martha J. BURCHFIELD EDWARD, Roscoe village.; blacksmith; postoffice, Roscoe; born March 21, 1835, in Jefferson county; son of Andrew Burchfield, a native of Ohio, of Scotch ancestry. Young Burchfield was raised on a farm until sixteen years of age, when he went to his trade and worked at it until August, 1861, when he enlisted in Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, and served to the close of the war. He was a prisoner about fifteen minutes at Kenesaw, Georgia. Mr. Burchfield came to this county in 1858 and worked journeyman work two years. In 1860 he established a shop and conducted it until his enlistment in the service of his country. At the close of the war Mr. Burchfield resumed his trade, and has followed it to the present writing. He was married first in March, 1860, to Miss Susan McNabb, daughter of Geo. McNabb, of Jefferson township. This union was blessed with six children-Mary, Charles, Martha, George (deceased), Ann and William. Mrs. Burchfield died February 14, 1872, and is buried at West Bedford. Mr. Burchfield was subsequently married to Mrs. Margaret J. Noble, daughter of Major Richard Landing (deceased), of Coshocton city. This marriage was blessed with three children-Ida May, Lottie, Fay and David. BUCKLEW WILLIAM, Clark township; farmer postofiice, Helmick; born in Clark township, February 19, 1818; son of Park and Elizabeth (Methany) Bucklew, and grandson of Andrew Bucklew. He owns a farm of 231 acres, in the southwest corner of the township, where he has lived all his life. He was married, in April, 1848, to Miss Mary Maggs, daughter of Joseph and Eleanor (Stewart) Maggs, of English descent. She was born in Bethlehem .township, March 15, 1826. They are the parents of eight children, viz: Elizabeth, born March 10, 1850; Emeline, born October 20,1851; Francis M., born October 1, 1853; Howard M., born October 21, 1855; Lambert O., born April 19,1858; Joseph O., born January 27, 1860; Ida M., born December 26, 1861 (died May 7,1873), and Lemuel E., born January 9, 1864. BUCKLEW JAMES, Clark township; farmer; postoffice, Clark's; born in Clark township, Coshocton count , April 7, 1844; son of George and Sarah (Purdy) Bucklew, and grandson of John Bucklew. He was married, December 28, 1865, to Miss Catharine Mullet, daughter of Benjamin and Barbara (Zimmermann) Mullet, and granddaughter of John and Catharine Mullet. She was born in Clark township, December 6, 1843, and was the mother of six children-Melinda, born January 6,1867 (died June 21,1879); Cordelia N., born lay 17,1868; Elizabeth M., born August 12, 1870; George A., born December 27, 1873; Edward, born September 25, 1875 (died June 17, 1876); Ella A., born March 3,1879 (died January 18, 1881). BUNN & SON, grocers and confectioners, Main and Sixth streets, Coshocton, Ohio. Alfred Bunn, senior member of this firm, is a native of Sussex county, New Jersey, where he was born, March 13,1817, and emigrated to Ohio in 1845, locating in this county, in which he resided ten years. He then went to Knoxville, Marion county, Iowa, where he resided eight years. In 1864, he returned Coshocton county, and in 1877, he, in company with his son David H. Bunn, engaged in the grocery business, which they conducted until 1878, when they sold to Williams & Co., and in July, 1880, they bought back the stock, since which they have been conducting the business. They occupy pleasant and commodious rooms in Thompson s block, twenty by sixty feet, and have a first-class stock of staple and fancy groceries, confectionaries, tobaccos, cigars, stove and wooden wares, sugar-cured and pickled meats, fish, salt, flour, etc. BURKMASTER PETER, Perry township; postoffice, New Gilford; farmer; born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, in 1807; settled in this county, in 1862; son of John and Rachel (Barns) Burkmaster, and grandson of Joshua Burkmaster and of Peter Barnes. Mr. Burkmaster has been married three times-first in 1830, to Miss Mary Nevill, daughter of John and Elizabeth Nevill. This union was blessed with seven children, viz: Rachel, Rebecca, Peter, Sarah, Mary E., Elizabeth BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 643 (dead), Hester (dead). His first wife died in 1844. He married in 1847, Miss Jane Mattock, daughter of Henry and Jane Mattock. This union was blessed with two children, viz: John R. and S. J. His second wife died in 1858. He was married in 1861, to Sarah Shaw. Mr. Burkmaster's son, S. J., married Miss Martha J. Thorn. They• hove one child, viz : Anna M. BURKLEW B. F., Monroe township; was born October 15, 1848, in Monroe township. He is a son of W, H. and Martha J. (McBride) Burklew, and grandson of Samuel and Hannah Burklew, and of William and Eliza (McKee) McBride. Mr. Burklew was born and bred a farmer, and educated at Spring Mountain academy and Danville high school, of Knox county. At the age of sixty he enlisted in Company I, Fifty-first O. V. I, and served fifteen months in the Atlanta campaign, and under General Thomas, at Franklin, Spring Hill, Columbia and Nashville, where he lost an arm. Since the war, he has spent his time in teaching, farming and selling patent washers. He was married to Miss Sophronia Thomas, in April, 1871, daughter of Uriah and Jane (Crawford) Thomas, and granddaughter of Eunice and Margaret (Cameron) Thomas. Their children are Emery T., born March 22, 1872; Howard L., May 6, 1874; William H., June 17,1876, and Clyde McBride January 20, 1878. BURNS WILLIAM, Jr., jeweler, No. 402 Main street, Coshocton. Mr. Burns is a native of Coshocton; born June 29, 1859, and received his education in the public schools of this city. He engaged ,in the jewelry business in 1877, (having previously served the required time to qualify himself for this department of business), and now occupies a place in Compton's drug store, where he has a ;cell selected stock of first-class American watches, clocks, jewelry, solid and plated silver ware, gold pens, etc. General repairing a specialty. BURNS & ROBINSON, proprietors of Miner's store, Main street, Coshocton. C. F. Burns, managing partner of this firm, is a native of Coshocton, where he received his preparatory education, after which he attended the O. W. U., at Delaware, Ohio. His first business engagement was with his father under the firm name of Burns 6c Son, which continued until his father's decease, after which the business was conducted in the name of C. F. Burns. In 1877 he engaged in the milling business, at the city mills, under the firm name of Balch & Burns, in which he continued until 1873, when he formed a partnership with L. W. Robinson, and engaged in the grocery business, at their present location, where they occupy commedias rooms, twenty-four by sixty-five feet, and carry a large first-class stock, of staple and fancy groceries, confectionaries, wooden and stone-ware, miners' supplies, and deals in all kinds of country produce. BURRELL THOMAS H., Bethlehem township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio; son of S. C. Burrell ; was born in 1845. He was married in 1870, to Miss Amedia Darling of this county. They are the parents of five children, viz : Julia, Charles, Ernest, Bessie and Blanche G. Mr. Burrell owns a fine farm of 150 acres, in the Walhonding valley. He is trustee of the township. He is a member of the I O. O. F. and F. and A. M. BURT JAMES M., retired; postoffice, New Comerstown. He was born in range county, New York, December 11, 1810; was married April 15,1834, to Mary Ann Bradner, who was born December 20, 1813, in the same county, and emigrated to Ohio in 1836. They left their home October 24, arrived in Coshocton county November 9; located first in Bedford township, and remained there till April, 183?, then bought in this township, and was a citizen here forty-one years. He was elected justice of the peace in 1844, and was elected representative in the State legislature in 1848, and re-elected, serving two terms. In 1850, he was elected associate fudge, and continued to hold this position till the constitution abolished the office. He was elected a member of the board of equalization from this and Tuscarawas counties, to 1859-60. He was elected a member of the senate in 1865, re-elected in 1871. They had twelve children, viz: Margaret, now Mrs. Carhart, of New Comerstown ; James B., of this township ; Martha A. (deceased, was married to Perry Keller, and died in Fredericktown, Knox county, on her twenty-ninth birthday; Daniel, (deceased); Caroline, (deceased); Harriet, now Mrs. Rodgers, of this township; Clara, (deceased); Louis., resident of this township; an infant son and daughter, (deceased); Mary, (deceased); William, now resident of New Comerstown, civil engineer and operator. BURT J. B., Lafayette township; farmer; postoffice, West Lafayette; was born in 1837, on what is now the fair grounds; was married in 1865, to Miss Margaret Bell, of this township, and they have had five children : Perry E , Mary, Jennie, Carrie (deceased, in February, 1877,) and James R. Mr. Burt was elected justice of the peace, in 1876, his commission bearing date April 12. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church. Mr. Burt since 1856, and Mrs. Burt since 1866; he has been a deacon in said church since 1866. Mr. Burt owns 200 acres of land in this township, and is one of its representative men. BURT L. P., Lafayette township; farmer; was 644 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. born in this township, the 3d of February, 1856; son of Judge Burt; was married the 15th of October, 1870, to Miss Frances C. Conaway, of Adams township: They have had four children: an infant (deceased), Nellie Bell, James Lewis and Charley Conaway. Mr. Burt lives on his farm of 138 acres in this township, and owns 200 acres in Chase county, Kansas. He is supervisor in this township this year. Mr. Burt and his wife are members of the Baptist church. BUSBY AARON, M. D., Crawford township; Chili; born in Caroll county, Ohio, 1844; son of John W. Busby and Ann (Murryman) Busby, both natives of this State. Dr. Busby was mar ried in 1866 to Rebecca B. Wallace. They have a family of five children; Earl W., Carrie, Grace, Clyde and Wade. The doctor began practicing at Tippecanoe, Harrison county, Ohio, remained there two years, and then located near Perrysville, Coral county, Olio, and came to Chili in 1878, where he is now practicing. BUSH N. C., Perry township ; postoffice, Mohawk Village; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county in 1841; son of John and Anna (Cleget) Bush; married in 1861 to Miss Susanah R. Almac, daughter of John and Mary Almac. He married December 22,1866, Miss Louisa Cullison, daughter of Ephraim and Harriet Cullison. They have one chip viz : Alma. He enlisted in 1862 in Company A, Ninth Ohio Cavalry, (Captain Sims), Colonel Hamilton (commanding), Army of the Cumberland. Mr. Bush was engaged in the battle at Cumberland Gap, siege of Knoxville, Jonesborough and Aikin. This gallant regiment had the honor of fighting the last engagement prior to Johnston's surrender, which occurred near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Colonel Hamilton was promoted by General Grant for gallant conduct during this engagement. BUTLER FELIX, New Castle township; was born in New Castle township, Coshocton county, Ohio, September 10, 1810; son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Severns) Butler, who came to Muskingum County in 1795, and remained there until the following year, when he came to Coshocton county and settled near the junction of the Tuscarawas and Walhonding rivers, where he remained three years, he then removed to New Castle township, where he remained until he died at the advanced age of eighty-four. years. He is a grandson of Joseph Butler, who came to Coshocton county in 1801, from Monongahela county, Virginia. The name of great grandfather Butler was either Joseph or Thomas; was a native of Ireland, and was killed in 1740, in Virginia, by the Indians, at which time his wife and son James were taken prisoners by the Indians. The wife escaped the second night, but. James was kept eighteen months, when he was released by treaty. Benjamin Butler, an uncle of the subject of this sketch, in coin any with Joseph Walker, laid out the town of Mt. Vernon, Knox county, in 1805. He was married in 1852 to Miss Nancy Farquahar, daughter of Enoch and Nancy (Moore) Farquahar, and granddaughter of Samuel Farquahar, who came to Mt. Vernon in 1807, from Frederick county, Maryland. BUXTON LEONE, New Castle township; was born in New Castle township, January 1, 1859; daughter of Thomas and Mary (Butler) Buxton, granddaughter of Thomas and Frances Buxton and James and Elizabeth (Rodehaver) Butler, and great-granddaughter of Thomas Butler. Her grandfathers were both soldiers in the war of 1812. She has one brother and two sisters, viz: James, Constants and Mary. BUXTON N. W., Perry township ; postoffice, West Bedford; born in this county in 1842; son of Noah and Katharine Buxton, grandson of Thomas and Frances Buxton. He was married in 1862, to Miss Hannah Mikisell. Mr. Buxton is the father of six children, viz: J. W., G. B. (deceased), N. D., Warner W., Mary V., Marion and Sarah H. Mr. Buxton's father was one of the early settlers of this county, and still lives, enjoying the fruits of his early toil. BUXTON JAMES, Jefferson township; postoffice, Warsaw ; was born in Jefferson township, Coshocton county, August 13, 1844; son of Thomas and Mary (Butler) Buxton, and grandson of James and Elizabeth (Rodehaver) Butler, who settled in Tuscarawas county, in 1804. He lived on the farm until the age of twenty, then began clerking in a store in Walhonding, for N. W. Buxton, and continued two years. He then engaged as clerk with James Foster, of Warsaw, and remained with him two years; returning to Walhonding, he clerked a year and a half for J. S. McVey, after which he engaged in bridge building for three and a half years, then returned to James Foster's and clerked six months. He then engaged with Nickols & Gamble in merchandising in Warsaw, and has been there near three years. In 1864 he drove 1,200 sheep to Valparaiso, Indiana, and from there went to Cedar county, Iowa, remaining one year. He is a kind, genial young man, highly esteemed and well adapted to business. BUXTON M. W., Jefferson township; born April 15, 1830, in Coshocton county , at East Union; son of John and Elizabeth (Todd) Buxton (distant relation of ex-governor Todd). Mr. Buxton lived in East Union till about the age of nine years, when his parents took him to the farm, where he lived till the age of eighteen, when he engaged in various kinds of work, grubbing, clearing and farming on the shares for three PAGE 645 - PICTURE OF THE CARRIAGE SHOPS OF JAMES R. STEWART, MULBERRY STREET, COSHOCTON PAGE 646 - BLANK BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 647 years, when he went into the grocery business with his uncle, Thomas Buxton, for two years; after that he followed farming in Union county awhile, then moved to Knox county, then back to Coshocton county; was butchering and merchandising some time; then began taking contracts for stone work for county bridges, etc., at which he was very successful. Mr. Buxton was married, in 1853, to Miss Lorinda Butler, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Rodehaver) Butler. Their children are James B: and John M. James married Miss Malinda Trout and resides in Knox county. John is reading medicine under Dr. Russell, in Mount Vernon. After the death of Mrs. Buxton, he married Miss Cadence C. Buxton, in 1862, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Butler) Buxton, and granddaughter of James and Elizabeth (Rodehaver) Butler, and great granddaughter of Thomas Butler. William T., Olive, Mary E., and Gertrude E., were the names of their children. C CAMPBELL THOMAS, (deceased), was born May 21, 1816. in Steubenville, Ohio; attended school while a boy until fifteen years of age, when, with his father, he settled on a farm in Adams township, this county. In 1832 he entered Franklin college, and remained two years. In 1835 he came to this city,, and spent the first year clerking and teaching school. In 1838 he entered, as a student, the law office of James Matthews, and was admitted to the bar March 4, 1841, at Steubenville. In 1842 he commenced the practice of law in this city, and was elected the following year to the office of prosecuting attorney, and was re-elected for the two succeeding terms, serving six consecutive years. In 1852 he was elected probate judge, being the first judge under the new constitution, of the State, term of office, three years. In 1866 he was associated with R. M. Voorhes, firm name, Campbell & Voorhes, attorneys and counselors at law. Judge Campbell was married August 5, 1841, to Miss Martha Wallace, of Miffiin county, Pennsylvania. This union was blessed with six children, two of whom, John and Patrick Steel, died at Corinth, Mississippi. Those living are, Dr. James Campbell, married to Miss Maggie Crimm, of Dennison, Ohio, and now residing in Iowa county, Iowa; Mary Jane, married to Robert A. McKelley, of Upper Sandusky; Isabelle, married to Dr. Robert H. Bradley, now a resident of Marshal county, Illinois; and William F., residing in Iowa county, Illinois. Judge Campbell died very suddenly on Wednesday morning, July 6, 1881. Up to the time of his death he was in his usual health. He had been at work about his office table the same morning. A moment before the final summons he walked to a front window, looked out and remarked upon the probability of a rainfall during the day, and then turned and stretched out his hand in the direction of a chair, when he suddenly fell to the floor. Charlie Hunt, a law student, was the only person in the office. He hastily stepped into the hail and called to Mr. Bargar, who was in the next room. Mr. Bargar and Mr. Triplett in an instant were at the side of the prostrate form. His collar was loosened and the body straightened to an easy position, but by the time this momentary work was done there was no sign of life. The vital spark had fled with his fall to the floor, so quickly, perhaps, that no sensation of pain came to the body before the spirit had flown. Life went out as suddenly as the light of a candle is extinguished. CARHART J. M., tanner and leather dealer, of the firm of J. & H. Carhart, Main street, Roscoe; born May 10, 1841, in Roscoe; son of John Carhart (deceased). J. M. was raided in his native village. At eighteen he went into the dry goods store of J.. G. Stewart as clerk, and remained until April, 1861, when he enlisted in Com any A, Sixteenth O. V. I. (three months' men) and served to the close of his enlistment. In September of the same year he enlisted as musician in Regimental Band Fifty-first O. V. I, in which he served about ten months. In July, 1863, he reenlisted in Company M, Ninth O. V. C., and was appointed first sergeant of the company, and, subsequently, commissioned second lieutenant, which office he resigned in March, 1865, on account of the lop of the left eye. He engaged in the present firm December 6, 1874, which does a general tanning business, and deals extensively in leather of all grades. Lieutenant Carhart was married February 8, 1864, to Miss Emily C. Taylor, of Roscoe. They are the parents of three children-Estella, Gertrude and John E. Carhart. CARNAHAN WILLIAM, Coshocton; farmer; was born February 24, 1829, in White Eyes township; son of John and Sarah (Marshall) Carnahan. Sarah Marshall's grandparents (Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell), were killed by the Indians, in Washington county, Pennsylvania. Her sister was taken prisoner, by the savages, and kept four-teen years, but escaped, on an armed vessel, at Quebec, disguised as a soldier. John Carnahan, father of William, came to White Eyes township, in 1826, being one of the eight who were the only inhabitants of the township. He assisted to organize the township for official and election purposes, and also was one of the first justices of the peace. ace. Esquire William Carnahan owns the old homestead on which he lived forty-five years, but, in 1874, he built his present residence, corner of Orange and Eighth streets, which he has occupied to the present time He was elected justice of the peace, in 1864, and served until his 648 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. removal from the township, having been elected four times. He was married May 22, 1850, to Miss Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Thomas Miller, of Holmes county. Mary Alma is their only child. CARR MICHAEL B. (deceased), Linton township; born January 18, 1824, in Massachusetts; son of James and Hannah Carr; when about twenty-one years old, moved to Linton township; here married Jane Glenn, born January 4, 1830, in Jefferson county, daughter of John and Jane (Lamb) Glenn. Mr. Glenn was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and moved from Jefferson to this county in 1832. Mr. Carr was a shoemaker and followed his trade in Plainfield, except four years-1849-53 spent in Ottawa, until he moved to the farm where Mrs. Carr now resides, in 1866. He died March 13,1875. His children are John Calvin (deceased), James C., Sarah A., William B., Hannah J. (Jones), Thomas, Ward, Clark M., Sarah C., Mary Bell, Elizabeth A., Elias Glenn, George M., and Berths Alice. Four of his sons are school teachers. James C., the oldest has taught nine years; he was married April 3, 1872, to Eliza J. Tedrick, daughter of Reed and Amelia Tedrick, and has three children, Charlie Reed, Earnest M: and Mary Belle. CARR E. C., M. D., Coshocton, Ohio, Main street. Dr. Carr was born April 17, 1850, in East Union, Coshocton county, Oho; son of Dr. James G. and Eliza (Bond) Carr, of English and Irish ancestors. He received his education in the public schools of the county, Newcomerstown high school and Mt. Union college. His first profession was school teaching, which he followed three years. In 1872 he began reading medicine with his father. He was graduated in the science of medicine in the spring of 1875. His first professional practice was at Millersburg, Holmes county, with Dr. Pomerene; after which he practiced at Holmesville until April, 1881, when he came to Coshocton, Ohio. Dr. E. C. Carr was married July 6, 1875, to Miss Anna M., daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Holmes) Jack, of Pitts burgh, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of three children, viz : Jas. G., Ehza H. and Emma P. CARR J. S., M. D., Clark township; postoflice, Clark's; born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, March 19, 1825; son of Thomas and Orpha (Seaward) Carr, and grandson of John and Margaret (McGuire) Carr, and Eli and Ellen Seaward. His father's ancestors were from Ireland, and his mother's parents were Puritans. His father was a minister of the M. E. church; was admitted to conference in 1820, and remained in active service until 1848, then served as supernumerary until 1856, when he died. Mr. Carr began the study of medicine with Dr. A. E. Bassett, of Portage county, Ohio, in 1846, and, after reading three years, he attended lectures at the Western Reserve Medical College, of Cleveland, Ohio, and, in the spring of 1849, began practice in East Union, Coshocton county, where he remained five years, then moved to Bloomfield, where he has had a successful practice since. He enlisted during the war in Company I, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth O. N. G., in the capacity of assistant surgeon, and was also a pointed as assistant surgeon in Twenty-sixth O. V. V. I. He has been thrice married, the first marriage. hero on the 12th of April, 1849, to Miss Caroline E. Bond,. daughter of Jones and Elizabeth Bond, who was born July, 21, 1826, and died July 3, 1851. She was the mother of one child-Edmund C., born April 17, 1850, who is now a practitioner of medicine. Mr. Carr's second marriage was on the 8th of January, 1852, to Anna McCaughan, daughter of A. and Ann McCaughan, by whom he had one child-James Mc., born October 14,. 1852, died February 4, 1863. His last marriage occurred February 15, 1858, with Elizabeth B.. Stover, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Story) ) Stover, and granddaughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth Stover, and Ephraim and Jemimah (Clark) Story. She was born in November, 1824,. in Canterberry, Conneticut. CARROLL RICHARD, Linton township; shoemaker; residence, Plainfield; born March 1,1820,. near Belfast, Ireland; son of Richard and Martha (Hobson) Carroll. His mother's parents were Quakers, but she was converted to Methodism when eleven years old. His father was weigh-master of the grain market at Belfast and land steward of the large estates of Stephen May. Mr. Carroll learned the shoemaker's trade in Belfast and conducted a large trade there. In 1856, he emigrated with his family to Plainfield, and has carried on his trade there since. He entered service, September 6, 1864, in company F, Fifteenth O. V. I, performing detailed duty in Sherman's eastern campaign, and was discharged June 8, 1865. In 1842, he was married to Jane Russell,. born at Port Adoun, Ireland, daughter of James Russell. Their children are Margaret Jane (Tedrick), John, Sophia C., Richard, Sarah Flora, Anna B. (deceased), and Thomas Benjamin (deceased). CARROLL J. C., Lafayette township ; boot and shoe manufacturer; born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1847, and came to this country in 1856; was married, in 1872, to Miss Agnes McCune. They have had four children: Thomas, Maggie, an infant, and Charles. Mr. Carroll took an active part in the late war, going out in company H, Eightieth O. V. L, and served with that regiment fifteen months, and served three years in the regular army afterward; was census. enumerator of this township in 1880, and is an enterprising: and skillful workman. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 649 CARSON JAMES, Keens township; farmer; born in Steubenville. Ohio, December 11, 1818; son of John and Ann Carson; grandson of James and Esther (Reed) Carson and of James and Ann Swain. His father's family consisted of four children: Father, William (deceased), Sarah and James. .1t the age of three he was brought to Coshocton county, and remained here till 1854, and then went to California and spent five years in Bute and one year in Sierre county. He next moved to Virginia City, Nevada, where he engaged in the lumber business about two and a half years, then returned to Coshocton county and has followed farming here since. CASSINGHAM J. W., county auditor ; was as born June 22, 1840, in Coshocton city; son of George F. and Elizabeth (Wilson) Cassingham. His paternal ancestry is English, and his maternal Irish. Mr. C. began business as clerk in the county treasurer's office, in 1857, where he remained until 1868, when he engaged in the grocery business, firm name of Cassingham & Crowley. This firm dissolved in 1874, when Mr. C. engaged in the coal business, firm name of Prosser & Cassingham. Mr. C. withdrew from this firm in the spring of 1881. From 1872 to the present time he has been partner in the Coshocton Paper Company. Mr. Cassingham was elected to his present office, auditor of the county, in the fall of 1881. He was married November 5, 1863, to Miss Caroline, daughter of Samuel and Julia (Crowly ) Lamberson. They are the parents of two children, viz : Charles L., and George W. CASSINGHAM GEORGE F , was born April 19, 1872, in Kent county, Ireland; son of Thomas and Phebe (Ford) Cassingham ; came to America in the fall of 1818, and located in Muskingum county, Ohio, where they remained until the old gentleman's death. He had eight sons and four daughters, viz: Thomas, Richard, James, John P., Henry, William. Ford and George F., the subject of our sketch. The names of the four daughters are as follows: Phebe, Elizabeth, Sophia and Mary Jane. In 1833, George F. came to this city, and engaged in shoemaking. In 1345, he was elected justice of the peace, and, in 1846, recorder, and held both offices nine years, and, in 1879, was again elected justice of the peace, which office he now holds. Esquire Cassingham was married May 23, 1835, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Wilson. They became the parents of four children, viz: Julia (deceased), Sarah, Mary Jane and John W. CASTEEL THOMAS, Perry township; postoffice, West Carlisle; born in. Pennsylvania, in 1796; son of Jesse and Sarah Casteel. Mr. Casteel has been twice married; fist, in 1816, to Miss Rutha Dickers. His fist wife died in September, 1836. They had ten children, viz: Amos, Darcus (deceased), Jessie, Eliza E., John W., Urias, Perry, Druzilla, Etha and Ruth. In 1836, he married Susannah Bottomfield, daughter of Henry and Rachel (Flagle) Bottomfield. They have seven children, viz: Rachel. Jackson, Jacob (deceased), James M. (deceased), Sarah, Susan and Thomas. Mrs. Casteel has lived n this county fifty-six years, and has been in the town of Coshocton only once in all that time. CATON GEORGE R., White Eyes township; farmer; postoffice, Chili, Ohio; born December 18, 1831, in White Eyes township; son of Thomas and Mary (Ringer) Caton; a native of Pennsylvania, but came to White Eyes township among the first settlers of the township; George R. was brought up in the township. Mr. Caton was married in February, 1855, to Miss Lucinda, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hughes McCoIlum, formerly of Pennsylvania. They became the parents of nine children, viz: Franklin, Lafayette, Mary Alice, married to Michael Sherman, now residing in White Eyes township, Sarah Jane, Thomas J., Elsworth C., James L., George W., Solemma Bell and U. S. Grant. Mr. Caton has succeeded well as a farmer, having a good home for a large family. CATON A. S., Roscoe postoffice; merchant, of the firm of Moore & Caton, White Woman street; born June 28, 1852, in Berrin county, Michigan ; son of Andrew Caton, American born, of German ancestry. When one year old he came to this State with his parents, and settled on a farm in Marrow county, and after a few removes, settled in Knox county. At seventeen years of age, he began teaching school and taught two years. He then entered the Ohio Wesleyan college, at Delaware, and attended three years. On leaving college, in company with his brother-in-law, settled on a farm in West Bedford township, where they remained one year, when they exchanged the farm for the building and stock of goods owned by A. Pettit, and continued the business at the place named above. This firm has been very successful, notwithstanding their having had no previous mercantile experience. Their business has increased largely in the last few years. Mr. Caton was married September 11, 1874, to Miss Dottie Moore, daughter of William Moore, of West Bedford township. CHADWELL JAMES T., Linton township; farmer; born in Tuscarawas county, July 25, 1825; son of George and Ruth (Taylor) Chadwell, both grandfathers were English born. His grandfather, Thomas Taylor, was brought to America as an English sober, during the revolutionary war, but deserted the ship before he landed and swam ashore. He was the only one of three to reach the shore. His grandfather, John Chad- 650 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. well, settled in Virginia. His father, born in Loudon county, Virginia, came to Jefferson county in 1814, when sixteen years old, and afterward moved to Tuscarawas county, where James was raised. In 1850, April 6, Mr. Chadwell married Miss Sarah, daughter of James and Magdalena (Minnick) Updegraff, born in Carroll county, and at five years of age was brought to Tuscarawas county by her parents. Their children are Mary (Welker), Jane (Marlatt), Samantha (Marlatt), Phoebe (deceased), Maria (deceased), and Ella May. In 1853 Mr. Chadwell moved to Ross county, and lived there eleven years. He spent the summer of 1865 in Tuscarawas county, and has resided in Linton township since. He entered military service in May, 1864; as a member of Company F, One Hundred and Forty-ninth O. N. G., serving four months. CHAMBERLIN O. P., Linton township ; born in Lafayette township, May 1, 1842. His father, John G., emigrated from Vermont about 1838. His mother, Gertrude Shaffer, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Shaffer, was born at Albany, New York. He was married February 7,1861, to Miss E. J. Moore, daughter of Rev. John and Rosanna Moore ; born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. Her grand parents were Joseph and Eliza (Glenn) Moore, both of Irish nativity, and Henry and Jane (Lyle) Donnell, of Vir inia birth. Mr. Chamberlin has two children, live P. and Gertrude R. He enlisted February, 1862, in Company K, Eightieth O. V. I; mustered out September, 1865. He participated in the siege of Corinth, battles of Iuka and Corinth, siege of Vicksburg, battle of Mission Ridge, and Sherman's engagements in Georgia. In 1873 he moved to Linton township, and has lived here since. CHALFANT H. M., farmer; Washington township; postoffice, Dresden; born in 1840, in this county. His father was born in 1807, in what is now Perry county, and came to this county with-his father in 1808. He was married in 1830 to Miss Delilah Hayes, of this county, who was born in 1813. They are the parents of eight children, five of whom are living. H. M. Chalfant, the subject of this sketch, was married in 1861 to Miss Elizabeth Mossman, of this county, who was born in 1840. They are the parents of seven children, viz: D. A., Lena L., Sybil J., John C., Mary L., George W, and Ins M. CHANEY JONATHAN, Pike township; postoffice, Frazeysburgh, Muskingum county; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county in 1850; son of Emanuel and Margaret (Ashcraft) Chaney, and grandson of Joseph and Elizabeth Chaney. He was married in 1876, to Miss Mary E. Moran, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Moran. They are the parents of two children, viz: Flaura B. and Charles E. CHANEY S. F., Pike township; merchant; born in 1854, in Muskingum county, Ohio; came to this county in 1860. He was married in 1879 to Nancy E. Forrest, of this county. She was born in 1842, in this county. They are the parents of one child-Otto Clay. He bought an Interest in the store of L. V. Cox, in 1878, who died in March, 1879. In the same year he purchased his interest of the heirs, and now continues the business alone, dealing in dry goods, groceries, hats and caps, boots and shoes, queensware and notions. Sole agent for Rambo's woolen goods. CHAPMAN DR. BARZILLAI W., Adams township, Bakersvillie, Ohio; was born October 2, 1835, near Washington, Pennsylvania; son of Richard and Catherine (Updegraff) Chapman, who were the parents of thirteen children, nine sons and four daughters. The father was of Irish and the mother of German descent. Dr. Chapman was brought up in Washington county, Pennsylvania. At twenty years of age, he began reading medicine with Dr. Solomon Beers, of Newcomerstown, Ohio. He began the practice of his profession at New Albany, Ohio, in May, 1858. In 1862, he went to Morristown, where he remained until 1864, when he came to his present residence. He was first married, December 20,1855, to Miss Mary A., daughter of Samuel and Isabella (Major) Spencer. By this union he became the father of three children, viz: Alexander L., who died March 30,1859, Isabel C. and Lucinda B. Their mother died January 5, 18-. The doctor was married, April 10,1873, to his present wife, Miss Catherine, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Winger) Zimmerman, natives of Bern, Switzerland. They are the parents of one child, viz : Edwin B., born August 16,1874. The doctor's grandfathers, to the fifth generation, have all borne the name of "Richard:" He has a relict of his grandfather which is here given, verbatin: "That Richard Coppmann and his wife, Sarah Coppman, alias Patterson, are Protestants, regular members of this congregation; honest and sober and free from scandal or ground of church censure known to us, is, by order of session, certified at Castleblaney, county Monaghan, Ireland, September 12, 1783, by James M. Attley, District Minister." CHASE LESLIE, Clark township; hardware merchant; postoffice, Clark's; born in Bloomfield, Coshocton county, June 22,1857 ; son of John and Rebecca (Lewis) Chase. He learned the tinner's trade with Mr. D. St: John, of Cardington, Monroe county, Ohio, and worked in his employ for three ears; then came to Bloomfield and engaged In the hardware business in the fall of 1876, in which he has been engaged since. In connection with his store he has a tin-shop, in which he carries on his trade, paying particular attention BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 651 to roofing and spouting. He does a fair business, both in hardware and at his trade and is an accommodating, practical business man. He was married October 18,1878, to Miss Emma Duncan, daughter of William and Fannie (Elliott) Duncan. They have one child, Fannie, born May 30, 1880. CHURCH JOHN R., Monroe township; was bore November, 1850, in Tiverton township; son of Benjamin S. and Margaret E. (Cox) Church; grandson of Lemuel and Elizabeth (Simmons) Church, who are natives of Fall River, Massachusetts. Mr. Church lived in Tiverton Center till the age of twelve years, when he went to farming and attended country school. His education was completed in the Spring Mountain academy. At the age of twenty-one he began teaching, which he has followed in the winter seasons ever since. Mr. Church is a thriving young farmer and resides at present in Monroe . township, Coshocton county. He was married to Miss Rachel A. Bantam, October 25, 1876, who was born in 1851, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Easter) Bantum, and granddaughter of John and Anna Bantum, and of George and Elizabeth Easter. She was educated at Warsaw and Spring Mountain, is a member of the Evangelical church. They have two children, Robert V., born December 10, 1877, and Nelly, born October 6, 1880. CLARK JOHN, Tuscarawas township ; farmer; postoffice, Coshocton; was burn April 28, 1814, in Fawn township, York county, Pennsylvania. He came to his present farm residence about the year 1863. Mr. Clark was married January 1, 1866, to Miss Mary Ellen, daughter of John and Lucy (Swaringum) Morgan, of Lafayette township. This union was blessed with one child, John James, Loin October 29, 1868. Mr. Clark has by honest industry possessed himself of a good farm, from which he realizes a comfortable living for himself and family. CLARK JOHN, Bethlehem township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio ; son of Samuel Clark was born in this county, in 1813. His father came to this county in 1510 or 1811, and was of Irish descent. He was one of the oldest citizens of Coshocton county. When he came to the county, he found it a wilderness, with here and there a cabin, surrounded by a small lot of cleared land. He was county commissioner two terms, and served as justice of the peace in his township for a number of years. John Clark was married February 3, 1842, to Miss Elizabeth N. Skillman, who was born in New Jersey, in 1819. They became the parents of eleven children, viz : James A , Nary W., Margaret J. (deceased), Thomas, Isaac M, John A., Anna C., Emma, Lizzie and Edward E. Lizzie follows the profession of teaching. Mr. Clark owns a fine farm in Bethlehem township, and is esteemed by all his neighbors. He and his wife are prominent members of the M. E. Church. CLARK JAMES W., Franklin township; farmer; born in Linton township, November 17, 1829; son of James Clark, born in 1811, and grandson of William Clark, a pioneer of this county. He has always lived in Linton and Franklin townships, except a year spent just across the Muskingum: Taught school nine. years, beginning in 1850; then opened a store in Maysville, which he conducted for six years, then engaged in farming , married in 1853, to Mary Ann, daughter of Henry Piper, of Muskingum county. Of his eleven children, only four survive, viz: William Albert, Elizabeth Olive, Richard Oliver and Stella Ann. Walter, in 1877, at sixteen years of age, was drowned while bathing in the Muskingum river. Nancy Jane, died in 1878, of consumption, aged eighteen years. The other children died young. CLARK WILLIAM W., Franklin township; farmer; born in Tuscarawas township, April 18, 1813; son of William and Nancy (Valentine) Clark. His father, born in 1775, came to Tuscarawas township from Virginia before 1809, was a soldier in 1812, and died May 11,1842. His family consisted of Margaret (McCleeary), Hugh, James, Nancy (Bainter), John, Elizabeth (Preston), William W. (the subject of this sketch), and Samuel. Only the youngest three now survive. Mr. Clark married Dorotha N., daughter of Sylvester and Hannah (Snyder) Preston. Her father emigrated with his family from New York in 1838. She was the youngest of eleven children, viz: Sarah (Bouton), Zerah, Robert W., Zachariah S., Lewis B., Otis A., Joseph W., Harriet ( Wilcox), Mary J. (Wilcox), Julia A. and Dorotha, Mr. Clark has had eight children, four of whom survive, viz: James P., Elizabeth P., Hannah, Jane (McCollough), of Guernsey county, Mary Catharine (Emler). CLARK WILLIAM M., Franklin township; farmer; born in Linton township, June 2'7, 1825; son of James, and grandson of William Clark; one of the earliest settlers of the county; emigrated from Maryland, and moved to Franklin township in 1864; was married February 12,1850, to ,Rebecca A. Bryan, who was born in Franklin township, and is the daughter of Stephen K. Bryan. Their family consists of six -children, viz: Martha Jane, Mary, James, Stephen, John and Thomas. CLARK BENTON, Jackson township; farmer; postoffice, Roscoe, Ohio; son of Archibald and , Sarah (Hogland) Clark; was born September 29; 1837, in this county. His father was of Irish de- 652 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. scent, but was born and raised in this county. His mother was of English descent, and was also born and raised in this county. They were among the oldest pioneers of the county. Mr. Clark was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He was married to 1857, to Miss Elizabeth Thompkins, of this county. They became the parents of four children, viz : Henry, Archibald, James and Adam. Mr. Clark owns a fine farm in the Walhonding valley. CLARK S. B , Jackson township; born in this county, in 1839; son of William and Hannah Clark, and grandson of Samuel and Rachel Clark; married, in 1863, to Nancy E. Boring, daughter of Kinzy and Margaret Boring: Mr. Clam is the father of five children, viz: William C., H. K., Marion, Wealthy and Milton. Postoffice, Rosco. CLARK JOSHUA, New Castle township; farmer; postoffice, New Castle; was born February 10, 1808, in Harrison county, where the town of Harrisville now stands, and which was, at that time, in the woods. He is the son of John and Mary (Booths) Clark, who were the parents of ten children. His father was Welsh and his mother of English descent. They were Quakers, from the neighborhood of Philadelphia. He came to New Castle township, with his father, when he was eighteen years old, and settled on the land now occupied by the village of New Castle, and, about three yearn later, his father laid out the village of Liberty (now New Castle). At the age of twenty-one he married Miss Mary Given, daughter of William and Elisabeth (Bart) Given. She was raised on Wheeling creek, near Wheeling, West Virginia. They then moved to Morrow county, Ohio, and settled in the woods; but their stay here was short, on account of the scarcity of food and labor, being three miles from the nearest settlement where they could obtain the necessaries of life. While there they lived in a cabin with a fireplace in one end, the backwall and chimney being but six feet high, and were therefore in danger of attacks from wolves. They lined the first week in this cabin without its being daubed, and the snow fell about ankle deep. He attended eleven raisings and log-rollings during the first two weeks of his sojourn in that place. At the expiration of about six months they had consume about all the provisions the had brought with them, and then began to thin it time to move, so they returned to New Castle township, Coshocton county, where he is still living. "He is situated nearly two miles southwest of New Castle, at the headwaters of the Wakatomica on a well improved farm of about 500 acres. He has been twice married. His first wife bore him four children, viz : William, Love M., Allen and Elizabeth. William resides near East Union, Coshocton county; Love married William Warton, of Butler township, Knox county; Allen is a farmer of Jackson ,township, Knox county; Elizabeth is the wife of Jesse Mercer, of Jackson township, Knox county. He was married a second time to Miss Eleanor Wilson, on the twentieth of June, 1841, daughter of William and Rebecca (Melick) Wilson, granddaughter; of James and Rebecca (Jones) Wilson; also of John and Eleanor Melick . She was born January 28,1813, in Somerset county, Pennsylvania. This union resulted in eight children, viz Thomas (deceased), Rebecca., Joshua, Martha, Charles H., Robert H., Hannah S. and Samuel Mc. Mr. Clark relates that when his father was moving to this county, they came to Coshocton on Sunday, and had to cross the river on a ferry boat, and that the whole town came down to the river to help them across, and that in ferrying the cattle across they had a good deal of trouble, some of them jumping overboard and swimming back. Among those of the village that turned out to assist them, were Mr. Adam Johnson and Colonel Williams. He also relates, that on arriving in New Castle township, after two days heavy driving from Coshocton, they moved in a house with one or two other families, and lived two weeks there, until they could build one of their own, and that there were about twenty persons in all occupying the house during those two weeks. On the farm where he now hues stands the trunk of an apple tree, that measures ten feet, three inches in circumference, that the seed or sprout had been planted by Johnny Appleseed, who then lived upon the Mohican. The trunk is about seventy years old, and in one specially favorable season, bore 140 bushels of apples. CLARK NATHAN, Pike township; postoffice, West Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county in 1839; son of Manley and Mary Clark. He was married in 1860, to Miss Mary E. Magruder, daughter of Hezakiah and Sarah A. (Lake) Magruder. They are the parents of three children, viz : Rollen, George V. and Iva J. The subject of this sketch died in 1870. His widow still lives on the home farm, together with her daughter and two sons, surrounded by all the necessary comforts of life. Mrs. Clark's father died in 1858, her mother in 1850. She is the oldest of a family of five children. CLARK WILLIAM, Perry township, New Guilford postoffice; born in this county in 1828; son of Joshua and Mary Clark, and grandson of William and Elizabeth (Barn) Giffin, and of John Clark; was married in 1861 to Miss H. L. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 653 Veatch, daughter of Ellis and Elizabeth Veatch. They have nice children, viz: Elmer V., Walter H., Harriet E., Duette, Mary E., William H., T. F., Sylvia M. and Charles H. CLEMMENS W., Coshocton; carriage blacksmith, West Main street; was born July 11, 1841, in Mt. Vernon, Knox county. He is son of William Clemmens, a native of Virginia. Young Clemmens was apprenticed to his trade, at about the age of fifteen, to William Sanderson. When about twenty-one, he came to this city and worked as a journeyman with E. McDonald In 1875, he established his present shop, and is doing a good business in all kinds of carriage-smithing. Mr. Clemmens was married, April 5, 1861, to Miss Mary Taylor, daughter of John Taylor, of this city. They have had five children, two of whom, John William and Allie May, have died, and three, Cora Belle, Clarance Carl and Edith Luvane, are living. COCHRAN JAMES, Jefferson township; born in East Union, Coshocton county, Ohio, December 4, 1838; son of Caleb and Anna. (Duncan) Cochran, and grandson of William Cochran and Matthew Duncan. His grandfather, Duncan, came to America, at twelve y ears of age, and settled in Maryland. His father was born February 5, 1806 ; died September 28, 1877. His mother was born, February 29, 1812, in New Castle township. He enlisted in Company D, Sixteenth O. V. I, April 15,1861, under Captain McClain, and served three months; then enlisted December 1, 1861, in Company F, Eightieth O. V. I, under Captain Metham; went Into camp at Camp Meigs, then to Camp Jackson, at Columbus, Ohio; from there lie went to Cincinnati; thence to Fort Holt, Ky.; thence to Paduca, thence to the rear of Corinth, and assisted in the siege ; thence to Iuka, Mississippi, and took part in the engagement there; thence back to Corinth, and assisted in the two days' fight between Rosecrans and Price; thence to Holly Springs, and to Memphis, Tennessee, where they took charge of the division train and guarded it to Forest Hill; thence to Helena, Arkansas, via Memphis; thence four miles below, and went into camp on a sand bar to arrange for the Yazoo Pass expedition, and after taking part in the expedition came back to the sand bar, and from there to Young's Point, Louisiana; thence to Hardtimes landing, on the Mississippi; thence via Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hills, Black River, to a position in the rear of Vicksburg. He remained here forty-eight days; thence via Memphis and Chattanooga to the battle of Mission Ridge; thence to camp near Chattanooga; thence. to Bridgeport, Tennessee. He then came home as a recruiting officer, and on the 9th of May, 1864, returned to Huntsville, Alabama, thence to Resaca, and thence to Atlanta, and to the sea with Sherman; to Richmond, Virginia, and from thence to Washington, and attended the grand review; thence to Louisville, Kentucky, and to Columbus, Ohio, where he received his discharge, August 28,1865. He filled all the stations from private to captain, was chosen aid-de-camp for General Rice, also acting assistant inspector general for General James. He engaged in farming in the spring of 1866 and in 1867, went to Illinois, and engaged in teaming, and in the spring of 1869, came to Warsaw and began hotel-keeping, where he remained until the spring of 1875, when he took a trip to California, and visited many places along the Pacific coast and the Pacific railroad, being gone about fifteen months. On his return he again engaged in hotel-keeping, and remained in business until November, 1880. He was married July 1, 1866, to Miss Ada Hayes, daughter of John J. and Susan (Lochary) Hayed, and granddaughter of William and Agnes (Sheridan) Hayed, and Patrick and Sarah (Martin) Lochary, and great-granddaughter of Joseph and Nancy (Moore) Hayes, and John Lochary, and finally, great-great-granddaughter of Anne (Nixon) Hayes. Lulu Gracia, born February 15, 1872, is their only child. COCHRAN JOSEPH A., farmer; postoffice, West Lafayette; was born in this county to 1839, and married in 1864 to Mary Ann Miller, who was born in this township in 1843. They have seven children-Hattie E., Jeremiah A., Samuel M., Charles E., Perry O., William M. and Jesse. He was a soldier in the late war, a member of Company D, Sixteenth regiment O. V. I. and served out the time of his enlistment. COCHRAN JOHN M., Lafayette township carpenter, West Lafayette; born August 9, 1830, in Ellallsville, Jefferson county; son of Jacob Cochran, a native of Pennsylvania, of Irish decent; lived on a farm until about twenty-six years of age, when he commenced his present trade, after which he s spent two years prospecting to the west. In 1861 he enlisted in Company any D, Sixteenth O. V. I, (three months' men) and re-enlisted in Company I, Fifty-first O. V. I, and served two years and nine months, and re-en-listed as a veteran in same company and regiment, and served until the close of the war, getting his discharge late in the fall of 1865, having served nearly five years; was captured twice but soon re-captured by his own comrades. At the close of the war, Mr. Cochran located in West Lafayette and resumed his trade, and has followed it to the present time. Mr.. Cochran was married in 1865 to Miss Eliza Cutter, daughter of Benjamin Cutter, of Lafayette township. They have had four children, Casader, Clesson, Loney and Berdell. 654 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. COCHRAN ALEXANDER, Perry township; postoffice, New Guilford; farmer and speculator; born in this county in 1845; son of Joseph and Mary A. (Underwood) Cochran, and grandson of William and Elizabeth (Huffman) Cochran, and of Joshua and Sarah Underwood; married in 1868 to Miss Mary S. Board, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth A. Board. They are the parents of four children, viz : Charles J., Foy, Maud and Claud Carl. COE WILLIAM H, painter and printer, Coshocton, Ohio; was born December 14, 1834, in Coshocton, Ohio; son of Benjamin and Ruth A. (Decker) Coe. Young Coe was brought up and educated in his native city. At eighteen he went into the Coshocton Republican Printing office, where he remained about three years. From the Republican office he went to the Democrat office, where he remained until he enlisted in Company A, Sixteenth O. V. I, for four months. On his return home he went into the Coshocton Paper Mills, where he remained about three years. Then he followed painting until the Coshocton steel works opened, when he went into these works, where he has continued to the present time. Mr. Coe was elected city clerk in 1862, and re-elected in 1863, 4 and b, and also elected to the same office in 1872 and 3. In 1879 he was elected township clerk and served two years. Mr. Coe was married October 7,1862, to Miss Susan, daughter of Gabriel Clark. They are the parents of seven children, viz: Emma, Mary, Nora, Glen W. (deceased), infants, twin boys, died, not named, and Edna. COE E. V., Coshocton, Ohio; photographer, 226 Main street. Mr. Coe was born December 9, 1837, in Coshocton, Ohio; son of Benjamin and Ruthanna (Decker) Coe, of Orange county, New York. They came to Coshocton about 1833 and were married in the house now occupied by John Burt, Sr. They became the parents of eight children, viz: William H., Elias V., Henrietta (deceased), Benjamin, Annie, Reuben, deceased), and Almeda. All are married and live in this county, excepting Annie, who resides at Dennison, Ohio. Elias V. began the practice of his art September 15, 1862, with G. A. McDonald, with whom he was associated thirteen years and one month. Then he bought out Mr McDonald and became sole proprietor of his present gallery, which is supplied with all the modern improvements and facilities for doing all kinds of photographic work in first class order. Mr. Coe was married June 7, 1868, to Miss Eliza E., daughter of Gabriel and Catharine R. (Rogers) Clark. They are the parents of four children, viz : George B., Agnes M., Stella and Samuel R. COE BENJAMIN, Coshocton, Ohio; dealer in stoves and manufacturer of tin, copper and sheet iron ware; also tin roofing and spouting Mr. Coe was born December 6, 1847, in Coshocton, Ohio, where he has spent almost his entire life. When about fifteen, he began working in the Coshocton paper mills and continued there two years. In 1E64, he began his present trade and worked three years, then went to Oden, Illinois, and remained there but a short time, then returned and engaged with Shaw & Sandswith, of whom he learned his trade. He next engaged with Harbaugh & Smith, with whom he continued until A April, 1869, when he became partner in the firm of Robertson & Coe. In 1871, this partnership was dissolved and Mr. Coe successively became foreman in the shops of Palmer & Robinson, Slayton & Palmer, Palmer & Robinson and G. W. Rickets & Co. Mr. Coe bought the tools of the last named firm and formed a partnership with R. M. Elliott, which firm continued until February, 1877, since which time Mr. Coe has conducted his business alone with marked success. Mr. Coe was married, March 30, 1871, to Miss Katie L., daughter of Urial Mills, of Salem, Marion county, Illinois. They are the parents of two children, viz : Laura A., and Harry W. COFFMAM ADAM, Jefferson township; harnessmaker; postoffice, Warsaw; born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, June 2,1850; son of Frederick and Mary (Swift) Coffman, and grandson of Adam and Elizabeth (Darner) Swift. Mr. Coff man labored on the farm, in his boyhood, until about the age of 17, when he began clerking in a grocery store, for William Baad, in Warsaw, and remained with him about two years. He then engaged as clerk with Shaffner Brothers, and remained one year. He then returned to harnessmaking, which he had learned with his uncle, Charles Senft, between school hours. In December, 1872, he purchased an interest in S: Hook's harness shop, and continued about two years at it; then became the sole proprietor, and is at this writing, doing a very fair business. He was married October 1,1874, to Miss Susan Bumgardner, daughter of John and Mary (Linebaugh) Bumgardner. They are the parents of two children: Wilbert O., born April 10, 1876, and Evert D., born October 11, 1877, died in December, 1877. COFFMAN WILLIAM, Jefferson township; harnessmaker; postoffice, Warsaw; born in Jefferson township, Coshocton county, October 23, 1E54, brother of Adam Coffman; son of Frederick and Mary (Senft) Coffman. He attended school and worked on the farm until the age of twenty-one, when he began learning the harnessmaking business, with his brother, in Warsaw, with whom he is still engaged. Mr. Coffman is a BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 655 fine workman, and makes light work a specialty. He is a promising young man, esteemed and respected by all. COGNION STEPHEN, Linton township; farmer; postotfice, Wills Creek; born June 6, 1852, in Franklin township; son of Stephen and Rosella Cognion, natives of France; came to America about the year 1848, and located in Franklin township, from which he came to his present residence in Linton township, in 1868. They are the parents of tive children; three sons and two daughters. When Mr. Cognion came to America he was poor, but by the united labor and economy of himself and family, they have obtained a good home and farm. Of the children, Mary is married to William Krominaker; John is married to Cathariene Doll; Magdaline is married to John Switzer, Stephen and Nicholas are unmarried. COLLIER THOMAS W., Coshocton; born April 22, 1844, in Carrollton, Ohio; son of Thomas W., a native of Virginia, of English ancestry. at seven years of age he began to set type, and remained six years, then attended school one y ear, and then resumed his place in the printing office. In April, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, Sixteenth O. V, I, and served three months. In November following, he enlisted as a private in Company F, Eightieth O. V. I, and served to the close of the war. He was successively promoted to first sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and appointed adjutant and commissioned Captain of Company A, in October, 1864. He was provost marshal from June 1, 1865, until mustered out. Captain Collier was married April 14, 1864, to Miss Kate Pinehart, of New Philadelphia. This union was blessed with one child, a daughter, Minnie Wylly. Captain Collier was appointed postmaster of Coshocton, in May, 1869, and held the office until 1881. He was editor and proprietor of the Coshocton Age from September 1, 1866, to April 1, 1878. CAGLE GEORGE T., Coshocton; boot and shoe maker, Clerry street, between Sixth and Seventh streets; born August 9, 1842, in Frederick county, Maryland; con of John C., a native of Wurtemberg, Germany. He worked on a farm until he was fifteen, when he went to his trade and served three years ; then established a shop in the spring of 1862, in Uniontown, Maryland. In November, 1865, he came to this city and established a shop, but soon sold out, and was a transient journeyman until 1879, when he established his present shop, in which he is doing a good bus mess, employing several workmen, and working himself, also. Mr. Cagle enlisted in Battery F Third P. V. H. A,, and served until the close o the war. Mr. Cagle was married February 18 1880, to Miss Mattie Brister, of this city. COLLOPY THOMAS, Linton township ; farmer; born in Limerick county, Ireland; the son of Patrick and Catherine (Stanton) Callopy. In. 1825, he married Miss Margaret, daughter of Richard and Nora (Donaly) Bulman. She was born in county Cork, November 10, 1805. In 1826, they emigrated to America, remaining in Albany county, New York, till the fall of 1835; when they came to their present home in Linton township. Their children, ten in number, are as follows : Catherine, Hannah, John, Richard,. Mary J., Margaret, Lizzie; Anna, Michael and Thomas. COMPTON ELISHA, Jackson township; retired farmer ; postoffice, Roscoe ; born in Culpepper county, Virginia, September 9, 1816; son of George and Sarah (Duke) Compton, of Irish ancestry. Elisha was raised on the farm, which business he successfully followed during his long life. Mr. Compton was married December 9, 1841, to Huda Anne, daughter of Jeremiah Hays," of Virginia township. This union was blessed with nine children, John, Mary Ann, R. T., Jeremiah, George, deceased, Harvey, Eliza Jane, deceased, Alice and Camilla, COMPTON A. N., Coshocton, saddle and harness manufacturer and dealer in saddlery hardware; was born November 6, 1846, in Rappahannock county, Virginia; son of A. P. Y. Compton, who was American born, of English ancestry. Young Compton was raised on a farm until fourteen years old, when he was apprenticed to the saddlery and harness trade for three years. He then went to London county, Virginia, and served under instructions three years. In 1868 he opened a shop at Flint Hill, in his native county, and conducted it about four years. In 1872 he came to this county and settled at Roscoe, where he continued his business until April, 1880, when he occupied his present room, which is sixty-five feet long by twenty-two and a half feet wide, being the largest in the county used for like business This large room is well filled with goods manufactured in the establishment, together with a fine stock of saddlery hardware. Mr, Compton was married November 22, 1874, to Miss Mary F. Carroll, daughter of Michael Carroll, deceased, of Roscoe. This union was blessed with two children, a daughter, Annie L,, and a son, Edward M. COMPTON J. A., Coshocton, dealer in musical instruments and sewing machines; was born January 10, 1850, in Jackson township; son of Elisha Compton, born in Virginian of English ancestry. Young Compton was raised on the farm, and left it when about twenty-one years of age and entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, and remained three years, with the exception of teaching school one term. In the year 1873, Mr. 656 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. Compton established his present business, in which he is doing well, haying handled during the past year from 300 to 400 sewing machines, about fifty organs and a number of pianos. COMPTON R. T., Coshocton; piano, organ and sewing machine dealer; born January 19, 1848, in Jackson township; son of Elisha Compton, a native of Virginia, of English extraction; was raised on a farm. At the age of nineteen he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, and remained one year, after which he taught school eight years in Illinois and six years in Ohio, teaching in the towns of Chili, the Valley school, Adams' Mill school, in Muskingum county, and one year in this city. He then traveled two years for George H Grant & Co., of Richmond, Indiana, school furniture dealers. He then engaged with his brother in the present business, and established it for himself in 1850 Mr. Compton deals in three popular makes of organs, three of pianos, and the Eldridge sewing machine. Mr. Compton was married March 11, 1879, to Miss Mary Ellen Dickey, daughter of Hiram Dickey, of Mill Creek township. He was organist in the Roscoe Methodist church for about eight years. In the spring of 1880, Mr. Compton bought a residence on the east end of Chestnut street, which he now occupies. COMPTON JOHN M., Coshocton; attorney; born February 3, 1843, in Jackson township, this county, worked on the farm and attended public school until he was nineteen years of age, when he enlisted in Company K, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, and served to the close of the war. On his return he completed his education by going to school and teaching. In 1867 he entered as a student in the law office of Lee and Pomerene and was admitted to practice in 1869, and since that time he has given his entire attention to his profession. Attorney Compton was elected Mayor of the city in 1872 and re-elected in 1874, serving two consecutive terms Mayor Compton ton was married June 2,1870, to Miss Camilla Burns, of Jackson township. The result of this union is four children, viz : Charles B., William M., Jessie and Edward C. Mr. C. takes an active interest in educational affairs. COMPTON J. F., druggist, 402 Main street, Coshocton, Ohio. Mr. Compton is a native of this county ; was born in Jackson township, December 16,1847, and received his preparatory education in the district of that vicinity, and also took a course at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, and afterward taught school for several years. In 1870 he engaged in the drug business in Roscoe and was burned out in 1874. He then engaged in the insurance business and continued in the same until 1877, after which he engaged w with the firm of Barker, Moore & Co., wholesale druggists, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as traveling salesman. In 1880 he established business for himself at his present location. He occupies a pleasant, commodious room, 26x40, , where he keeps a; large stock of pure drugs s, chemicals, patent medicines, oils, paints, dye stuffs, glass, toilet articles, fancy goods, trusses, surgical instruments, etc. CONE EDMUND, farmer; Washington county; postoffice, Wakatomaka; born in South Wilbraham; Hamden county, Connecticut, in 1810. He came to this county in 1828, and immediately engaged as teacher of the school that was about a quarter of a mile south of the present village of Carlisle. The building was a round-log one, the fireplace extending across one entire end. There was a spelling book for about every five or six scholars, the cost of a speller being a bushel of wheat delivered in Zanesville. He had an attendance of seventy scholars. He commenced the study of medicine with his brother, J. Cone, Jr., who was practicing at this time, and was admitted to practice by the board of censors at Zanesville. He was brat married to Miss Seward, who died, and he married Miss Hawthorne. Both were of this county. CONNER ISAAC, Monroe township; born June 29, 1837, in Monroe township, Coshocton county, Ohio; postoffice, Spring Mountain; son of James and Margaret (Holt) Conner, and grandson of Daniel and Pheobe (Penrose) Conner, and of John and Elizabeth (Conner) Holt; also great-grandson of James and Mary Conner, and of Jesse Penrose. Mr. Conner is a farmer and was educated in the common schools. He was married to Mary J. Bingler, May 12, 1861, who was born November 10,1843, daughter of Michael and Mary J. (Hogbin) Bingler, and granddaughter of Jessie and Catharine Bingler, and of William and Charity Hogbin. Their children are Joseph E., born January 1, 1863; Emily N. and Susie G., September 6. 1866; James S , July 10, 1873, and Mary E., January 28,1879. CONRAD JOHN, Mill Creek township, farmer; postoffice, Clark, Ohio; was born September 25, 1817, in West Moreland county, Pennsylvania; son of Jacob and Mary Conrad; married November 5, 1840,. to Rebecca King, daughter of William and Mary M. King, who was born December 26,1822, in York county, Pennsylvania. The children born to them are as follows: Mary Anne, born November 1, 1841; Margaret, born November 9,1842; Jacob William Henry, born December 24,1845; John Wesley, born February 10,1858; Rebecca Jane, born July 29,1851; Maria Catharine, born August 22, 1854; Henry Washington, born June 22,1856, and Elisabeth Barbara, born April 18, 1861. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 657 COOK D. R.. Linton township, farmer; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania., March 11, 1803; the son of George and Mary (Robby Cook. Ha father was born in Ireland, and emigrated to America when a young man. His mother was a native of Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1811 he came with his father to Guernsey county; there remained till 1831, when he moved to Logan, and carried on farming and milling for sixteen years. In 1847 he took up his residence in Linton township, and has been here since. He was married April 8, 1831, to Catherine, daughter of Thomas Johnson. Ten children resulted from this marriage: Thomas, George, William C., deceased, Nancy ,J,, John, Sarah, Amanda, deceased, Melona, deceased, James H., deceased, and David Y. His wife having died, he was united in marriage with Lydia, daughter of Henry and Sarah Snyder, of Logan county. Their children are, Joseph Snyder, deceased, Mary Isabel, deceased, Catherine J. and Charles T. COOK D. Y., grocer and confectioner, Sixth street, between Main and Chestnut, Coshocton. Mr. Cook is a native of Logan county, O., where he was born February 8,1847, His parents came to Coshocton county when he was quite young, and he has been a resident of the county ever since. He received his education in the district schools of Linton township, and he followed joining as a business until the fall of 1879, when he came to Coshocton and engaged in the grocery and huckster business. He carries a good stock of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries, and deals in all kinds of country produce, and makes a specialty of butter and eggs, in which department he runs a wagon and visits different parts of the surrounding country, in order to supply his custom with freak supplies in this line. He was married to M. E, Hawthorne, by whom he has four children-three daughters and one son. COOKSEY JAMES, Perry township; postoffice, West Carlisle : born in Muskingum county, in 1833; settled in this county in 1857; son of William and Elizabeth (Oden) Cooksey ; married in 1857 to Sarah Lagg, daughter of Harrison and Nancy B. Cooksey. They are the parents o three children, viz : Celestia J.. Izadora B., and Leora M. ; two are married. Mr. Cooksey was raised on a faun, and has continued farming ever since. He also deals pretty extensively in thorough-bred sheep. COOPER JOSEPH, Keene township; son of Ludlow H. and Mary F. Cooper, both of whom were born in Orange county, New York; grandson of Joseph and Susan (Halsey ) Cooper, and of John and Mary (Howell) Seward, who was the daughter of Nathaniel and Ruth (Poppen) Howell. His father enlisted in Captain Freegift's company, in 1814, and served three months. He came to Ohio, in 1834. Joseph learned the blacksmith trade, at eighteen, under C. C. Rawer ; enlisted in Company A, Sixteenth O. V. I, April 18, 1861; was discharged in July following, and re-enlisted. His war record, copied from a memorial, is given below: "Joseph Coo per was mustered as sergeant of Company I, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, August 5, 1862, at Zanesville, Ohio; captain, Martin Wiser; colonel, John Lane; wounded at Murphreesboro', Tennessee, January 2, 1863; wounded again, at Mission Ridge, November 24, 1863, and wounded, at Franklin, Ten nessee, December 8, 1864. The battles he was engaged in, were Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862; Stone River, Tennessee, January 2, 1863; Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 8, 1863; Chickamauga, Tennessee, September 20,1863; Lookout Mountain, November 22, 1863; Mission Rid e, November 25,1863; Buzzard Roost, May 14,18; Altoona, Georgia, May 25, 1864; Dallas, Georgia, May 25, 1864; Marietta, Georgia, May 31, 1864; Peach Tree Creek, June 22, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, June 27,1864; Atlanta, July 21,1864; Spring Hill, Tennessee, December 6,1864 ; Franklin, Tennessee, December 8, 1864, and Nashville, January 24, 1865. He was discharged June 10, 1865, at Nashville, Tennessee." January 6, 1866, he married Lucy C: Cowee, daughter of James and Augusta (Adams) Cowee, who was the daughter of John Q. and Dorothea (Elliott) Adams. Their children, are Charlie, born December 18, 1866, and Mary Augusta, April 13, 1872. CORBIT GEORGE, Adams township ; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh, Ohio; son of Robert and Susannah (Fuller) Corbit; was born December 6, 1835, in Coshocton county, Ohio, and has remained a resident of the county all his life. Mr. Corbit was raised on the farm, and has always followed the occupation of a farmer. His father was of Irish and his mother of German descent, and were old pioneers of this county. Mr. Corbit was married November 29,1857, to Miss Margaret A. Morris, of this county. They become the parents of twelve children, viz: Amanda, William R., Albert, Aaron, Melinda, an infant d not named, Robert H., Mary, Charles, John M., Elmer and an infant not named. CORBIT LEWIS, Adams township; farmer ; postoffice, Bakersville; born in Adams township, June 1, 1821; son of Robert and Susan (Fuller) Corbit, and grandson of Jesse Corbit and James and Catherine Fuller. His father came to this m country about the year 1804, with James Miskimmins, born in May, 1790. He was married August 27, 1842, to Miss Eliza Carp, daughter of Adam and Mary (Cocharn) Carp, born July 21, 1822, in Guernsey county, Ohio. They are par- 658 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. ents of thirteen children, as follows: John, Robert and William, deceased; James, Wilson; Sarah A. deceased; Edward, George W., Adam; Susan, Mary E., Laura A. and Almeda, deceased. COULTER J. M., Perry township, postoffice, New Guilford; born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania; settled in this county in 1814. He was born in 1813, and is a son of William and Susan (McCoy) Coulter. Mr. Coulter's father held the office of county surveyor for twelve years, surveying being his calling the greater portion of his life. J. M. Coulter was a grandson of Thomas and Lydia (Connor) Coulter, and of William and Lydia Connor. Mr. Cooper has been twice married, first to Miss Nancy Pigman, who died in 1847. In 1857, Mr. Coulter married Miss Sarah A. Robinson, daughter of John and Bewly Robinson. Three children, viz : Mary J., J, R. and Joseph, were born of the first marriage ; and four, viz : Bewly, Susan V., Benjamin and Wallace, of the second: Mr. Coulter's son, J. R., enlisted in Company A, Seventy-sixth regiment Ohio volunteers, in 1861, Captain Lemert, participating in the battles of Fort Donelson, Pittsburgh Landing, Corinth, Vicksburg, and others. COX HAMILTON, Virginia township; born in East Virginia, in 1805; settled in this county in 1830, and is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth Cox. He was married in 1831, to Rachael Hardesty, daughter of Edmund and Ruta Hardesty. Mr. Cox has ten children living, and one dead. They are all married and living in this county. Postoffice, New Moscow. COX J. E., Keens township; postoffice, Keene, Ohio; was born, in 1830, on Mill creek, Keene township, Coshocton county, Ohio. He attended the common schools of the township until twelve years old. walking three and one-half miles, morning and evening. When twelve years old, he attended a select school in the village of Keene, taught by Rev. J. D. W'hitham, and received instruction in the higher English branches. He attended this school three years, having to walk over three miles, morning and evening. Mr. Cox began teaching in 1846, and is, perhaps, the oldest teacher in the county. He taught his first school in district No. 4, Clark township, in an old log house, formerly used as a, dwelling. There was no blackboard, no desks, no furniture of any kind. The seats were made of slabs and fence-rails, with wooden pins for legs. The balance of the furniture consisted of hickory withes, used to encourage refractory pupils up the hill of science. Wood was used then instead of coal. Many times the teacher found no wood in the morning, and was either compelled to dismiss for the day, or send and borrow an ax and, by the aid of the pupils, furnish his own wood. After he had finished his first school, Mr. Cox began the study of medicine with Dr. W. F. DeLa.Mater, working part of the time to pay his board and tuition. During the winter of 1846-7, he taught school in White yes township. He then continued the study of medicine under Dr. J. Anderson, teaching in the winter and studying in the summer until he had completed the course required. He then went West to earn money to attend a course of lectures. While in the West he met with an accident which rendered him a permanent cripple, there by changing his intentions in life. He returned home and concluded to follow the profession of teaching, which he has successfully done ever since. His first certificate. is dated March 2, 1852, and signed by Thomas Campbell, Esq., who was then acting as county examiner. The only school that he began and did not finish was in Bethlehem township ; and the failure was caused by a tree falling on the house and rendering it unfit for further use. Mr. Cox has taught in many of the country and village schools in this county. He has always been successful, and has never been compelled to ask the directors to aid him in governing a school, which is something remarkable considering the long time he has been teaching. His last school was taught in district No. 8, White Eyes township, during the winter of 1880-'81. COX W. W., Virginia township; born in this township in 1833; son of Hamilton and Rachel Cox; married in 1856 to Margaret P. Marquand, daughter of John and Martha Marquand. They have had eleven children, ten of whom are living. Mr. Cox has been twice elected justice of the peace of Virginia township. Postoffice address, Dresden. CRAWFORD J M., Coshocton, county recorder; born May 30, 1852, in Roscoe, this county; was educated in the public schools of his native village, and at McNeely normal school. Mr. C. commenced teaching in 1869, and taught until he entered upon the duties of his present office, in 1877. He was re-elected to the office of re corder in 1879. Mr. Crawford was married October 29,1875, to Miss Paulina Biggs, of Jackson township, this county. The result of this marriage is one son, Frank L. CRAWFORD J. R., clerk in the firm of Hay & Morley; born September 27, 1849, in Crawford township; son of Scott R. Crawford, a native of the County Tyrone, Ireland. He was raised on the farm until seventeen years of age, when he began clerking for John J. Stewart and continued a clerk to the present time. He was married in March 1872, to Miss Mary Le Retilley, daughter of George Le Retilly of Roscoe. To them have been born two children, George R. and another. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 659 CRAWFORD WILLIAM, miller in Empire mills, Roscoe ; was born June 18,18x7, in Roscoe ; son of Robert Crawford, born in 1825, in Steubenville, Ohio, of Irish descent. William entered the above mills in 1875, where he has remained to the present time.. CRAWFORD WILLIAM H,, Mill Creek; farmer; postoffice, New Bedford; born in 1839, in this township, His father, Andrew Crawford, was born in County Donegal, Ireland, and came to this county in 1820. He was married in 1837, to Miss Margaret Irwin of this county, who was born in 1813, in Ireland. She came to this country in 1824, and died in 1867. They were the parents of four children. He married in the same year Miss Mary Ramsey of Pittsburgh. The subject of this sketch is the oldest child. He was married in 1865, to Miss Mary Colloredo, of Holmes county, who was born in 1844. They are the parents of three children, viz : Sarah, Angle and Augusta. CRAWFORD JAMES, Mill Creek township; farmer; postoffice, Mound; born in 1836, in this county. His father, Oliver Crawford, was born in 1808, in Ireland. He came to this county in 1819, and was married in 1831, to Miss Jane Ir win, of this county. She was born in 1813, in Ireland, and died in 1855. They were the parents of eight children, the subject of this sketch being the third. He was married in 1862, to Miss Jane McCormick, of this county, who died in 1864. They were the parents of two children. He, in 1874, married Miss Lucinda Babcock, of this county. They have one child. CRAWFORD J. W., Pike township p ; farmer and stock raiser; postoffice, Frazeysburgh, Muskingum county ; born in this county, in 1847 ; son of John and Rebecca (McCann) Crawford. He was married in 1874. to Hiss Sarah M. Anderson, daughter of William and Mariah Anderson. They are the parents of three children, viz: William J. and Clide. Youngest is not named. CRAWFORD O., Pike township ;farmer ; born in 1841, in this township. His father, John, was born in 1806, in Ireland. He came to this country and county in 1813, and was married in 1832, to Miss Rebecca. McCann, of Muskingum county. She was born in 1807, in Strasburg, Virginia He died in 1851. They were the parents of six children. The subject of this sketch was married in 1862, to Miss Margaret Moore, of this county. She was born in 1839, in this county. They are the parents of four children, viz : Edmund, Loretta., Mary B., Rebecca E. CRAWFORD ANDREW, Clark township; farmer; postoffice. Clark's; born in Crawford township, June 3, 1830; son of James and Mary (Rothwell) Crawford, and grandson of Thomas Crawford, who came from Ireland. He was married February 14,1860, to Miss Marian Shilling, daughter of Joseph and Nancy (Howenstine) Shilling, and .granddaughter of George Howenstine and Joseph Shilling; she was born in Medina county, Ohio, July 13, 1838. His father was one of the first settlers of Crawford township. Their children are as follows: Walter W , born December 15, 1862; Cora, born September 28, 1864; Frank H., born January 19, 1868; Charles, born May 22, 1870 ; James P., born February 11,1872; Jesse L., born March 10,1874; Frederick, born September 4, 1876; Stella, born September 5,1878, and Richard, born March 20, 1880. CRIDER JAMES, laborer; Tiverton township; postoffice, Union, Knox county ; born June 15, 1854, in Holmes county. He came to this county in 1868, and was married May 18, 1876, to Miss Alvira Stricker, of Holmes county, who was born in 1860, in this county. They are ' the parents of two children, viz :Anna O., born April 9, 1877, and Joseph A., born March 7, 1879. CRILE MICHAEL, Crawford township; farmer; postoffice, Chili; born March 21, 1833, in Holmes county ; son of Conrad and Elizabeth (Holderbum) Crile. Mr. Crile was married, January 24, 1856, to Miss Margaret, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Rider) Deeds, of Pennsylvania. They have had eight children-Mary E., married to George W. Everhart, Jacob C., Margaret M., married to Byron Johnston, Michael A., George W., Austin D., Cora CJ and Caroline F. Mr. Crile has a comfortable home for himself and family. CRISWELL JOHN, Linton township; wagon-maker at Plainfield; barn in Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1833, son of James and Margaret (Miller) Criswell. His mother's parents emigrated from Ireland. His father came to Guernsey county about 1836, and to Oxford township about 1847. John remained on his father's farm there two years, then learned his trade with his brother Robert, at Adamsville, and, after working in Coshocton six months, he, in 1854, opened a wagon shop in Plainfield. During the greater part of the year 1864, he was employed by the government, in the wagon department, at Nashville and Chattanooga. In March, 1865, he enlisted in the service and was discharged the following November. Since that time, he has followed his trade in Plainfield. He was married, October 4,1855, to Mary, daughter of John Bonce, born in London county, Virginia, and emigrated with her mother to Muskingum county when a young girl. His children are Sarah Jane, deceased; James H., deceased, Mary Alice, Nar. O,, David Martin and Delora May, twins, and Susan. CRITCHFIELD MARION, Tiverton town- 660 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. ship; farmer; postoffice, Yankee Ridge; born in 1834, April 22, in Knox county. He was married October 7, 1858, to Miss Mary S. Block, of the same county, who was born October 24, 1841. They came to this, count, in 1867, and are the parents of one child, Clinton A., born July 8, 1858. CROFT CONRAD, Crawford township; farmer; postoffice, Chili; born March 3, 1843, in Millreek township; son of John and Catherine (Conrad) Croft; came to Crawford township in the spring of 1868, and to his present residence in 1872. He married December 5,1867, Catherine, daughter of Christian and Rebecca (Lower) Fisher. Sarah Ellen is their only child. Mr. Croft has succeeded well, having a comfortable home for himself and family. CROFT JOHN J., Crawford township; postoffice, New Bedford; of the firm of Brown & Croft, hardware dealers; was born April 20, 1841, in Mill Creek township, son of John and Catherine (Conrad) Croft. He followed farming until 1876, when the present firm was formed. Mr. Croft was married April 16,1872, to Miss Mary Ann, daughter of Henry and Rebecca They have three children, Milton H., Percy A. and Claudius O. CROFT SOLOMON, Mill creek township; farmer; postoffice, New Bedford, Ohio; born in Mill Creek township, October, 30, 1847; son of John and Catherine Croft; was married November 11, 1875, to Amanda Olinger, daughter of Isaac and Sarah Olinger, who was born May 18, 1857. The children born to them were as follows: John F., born October 28, 1876, and Catharine, born March 25, 1881. CROFT FREDERICK, Mill Creek township ; farmer; postoffice, New Bedford, Ohio; was born August 20, 1837, in Mill Creek township ; son of John and Catherine Croft; was married in 1868 to Lucinda Keehn, who was born in Holmes county, February 1, 1849, daughter of Frederick and Mary Keehn. CROFT JOHN, Mill Creek township; farmer; postoffice. New Bedford; born in 1809, in Wurtemberg, Germany. He came to this country in 1817, landing at Philadelphia, and came to this county in 1821. He was married in 1828, to Miss Catherine Conrad, of Holmes county, Ohio, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1810. CROSKEY JOHN, Clark township; postoffice, Helmick; farmer; born in Jefferson county, Ohio, December 8,1831; son of Michael and Rachel V. (Lewis) Croskey, and grandson of Joseph Lewis. His father was one of the first blacksmiths in Clark township, and came from Ireland when he was 16 years of age. He was married October 4, 1854, to Emma M. Simpkinson, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Keeling) Simpkinson, who was born in Carroll county July 11, 1836. The are the parents of the following children : Sara L. J., born July 5, 1855; Michael C., June 13, 1857 ; Hannah, January 9, 1859; Emma M., March 5, 1861; Floretta S. P., December 16, 1866, and Elsworth R., born March 13, 1877, an adopted son. Mr. Croskey owns a farm of forty acres on the Killbuck. CROUCH R. B., Jackson township, postoffice, Tyrone; born in this county in 1846, son of Daniel and Elizabeth Crouch, and grandson of Robert and Mary Crouch; married in 1874 to Rebecca E. Gott, daughter of John and Mary Gott, of Jefferson county, Ohio. Their union has been blessed with one child, viz : Mary G. CROUCH DANIEL, Pike township; postoffice, West Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser; born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1815; settled in this county in 1836 ; son of Robert and Mary (Merrit) Crouch, and grandson of Daniel and Nancy (Johnson) Crouch. He was married in 1836 to Miss Elizabeth Brown, daughter of John and Elizabeth Brown. Mr. Crouch is the father of eleven children, viz : Nancy J., John M., Plessey Elizabeth, deceased, Mary, deceased, Robert B., William S., James J., Roda A., Martha and Sarah E. Mrs. Couch died in 1879. CROUL WILLIAM, Monroe township; post-office, Warsaw; was born in Jefferson township, Coshocton county, November 28, 1843; son of Lewis and Elizabeth (Miller) Croul, and grandson of William and Dorotha E. Miller. His father was born in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1802; was one of the first settlers of Jefferson township, and helped build the Walhonding canal. Mr. Croul has always been a farmer, and is a highly respected man. He was married April 3, 1864, to Miss Mary Frederick, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Brillhart) Frederick, and granddaughter of George and Christina (Leaner) Frederick, and of Samuel and Susan (Whitezel) Brillhart. She was born December 9, 1843. They have two children, viz: William F., born January 1, 1865, and Elizabeth S., born May 3, 1868. CROWELL W. S., Coshocton ; attorney; born March 28, 1843, in Morgan, Ashtabula county, Ohio; son of S. B. Crowell, born in the United States, of English ancestry. The son obtained e good rudimentary education in the public schools of his native county, and at the age of fourteen years obtained a certificate for teaching school. From the age of sixteen he taught during the winter, and labored during the summer, until the beginning of the late civil war, when he enlisted to Company D, Sixteenth O. V. I, (the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 661 first company accepted from his county), and participated in the battle at Rich Mountain, West Virginia, one of the first of the war. On his return home, in August, 1861, he re-enlisted, and was elected second lieutenant of Company A, Twenty-ninth O. V. I. (Giddings' regiment). In February, 1862, he was promoted to first lieutenant, being only eighteen years old. In the spring of the same year he resigned and raised Company G, One Hundred and Fifth O. V. I, and was commissioned its captain. He remained with the company through the campaigns of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia, until after the fall of Atlanta, in the summer of 1S64, when, for the first time, he was taken sick, and soon after discharged as unfit for military duty, hating served about forty months. He received honorable mention in the reports of the battles of Perryville, Kentucky, and Milton, Tennessee. On his return home, he entered, as a student, the law office of W. P. Howland, and was admitted to practice in 1866, but his health not being good, he did not enter upon his profession until 1870, at Coshocton. He was married May 4, 1869, to Miss Emily H. Wood, of Keene, Coshocton county, Ohio. Captain Crowell was elected prosecuting attorney, in 1872, and re-elected, with an increased majority, in 1874. Since the expiration of his second term, he has given his entire time to his profession. CROWTHER GEORGE, Perry township; farmer ; postoffice, New Guilford ; born in Maryland, in 1818 ; son of James and Delilah Crowther, and grandson of Jesse Cullison ; married in 1839, to Miss Elizabeth Cullison, daughter of Carlton and Hanna Cullison. They are the parents of three children, viz : Caroline, William and Alonzo. All are married. One lives in Knox county, Ohio, the others live in this county. Mr. Crowther has taken into his family a little girl, named Nerva Rush. CROWTHER JESSE E., Perry township ; farmer and stock raiser; postoffice, New Guilford; born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1825; settled in this county about the year 1829 ; son of James and Delilah (Cullison) Crowther, and grandson of Jesse and Nettie Crowther. He was married in 1557, to Miss Mary A. Mills. Mr. Crowther is the father of three children, viz: Lina L., Frank and William L. CRAWFORD THOMAS W., Oxford township; farmer; White Eyes Plains postoffice; son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Wilson) Culbertson, both of this county. Mr. Culbertson was raised from the age of ten years by Mr. Solomon Vail, one of the pioneers of this county. The subject of this sketch was born in Keene township, in 1836, ant was married to Miss Martha J. Rehard, of this township. They have had seven children, as follows: Ellsworth, two years, deceased; Clara B., Walter, Leonie, Charles, deceased; Lucy and Ora O. Mr. Crawford went out in Company any E, One Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G., for 100 days; then, in January, 1865, he enlisted in the Eighty-eighth regiment, and served five months and twenty days, until mustered out by order of the secretary of war. Mr. Crawford and wife are members of the Protestant Methodist church, and are highly respected by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. His daughter, Clara, is also a member of the same church. He owns a good farm of ninety-seven acres in this township, and is an enterprising citizen., His mother passed away in 1851, and his father afterward married Miss Jennie Powelson, who died in April, 1858, and he died in May, 1859, one year and one month after his second wife. CULLISON MARTIN, Bedford township ; farmer; postoffice, West Bedford; born in 1828, in this county. His father, Carlton Cullison, was born in 1795, in Mar land, and was married in 1818, to Miss Hanna Passingham, of the same State, who was born in 1798. They came to this county in 1825. He died in 1865, and she died in 1873. They were the parents of nine children, the subject of this sketch being the fourth. He was married in 1852, to Miss Emily Clark, of this county, who was born in 1834, in this county. They are the parents of five children, four of whom are living, viz: Ami, Harvey V., Mary J., Martha E. CULLISON JOSEPH A., Perry township; postoffice, New Guilford; born to Harrison county, Ohio, in 1828; settled in this county, in 1833 ; son of Abner and Lydia Cullison, and grandson of Joseph and Teritia (Shepard) Cullison, and of William and Susannah McCoy. Mr. Cullison has been twice married, first to Miss Katharine Bayley. They had seven children, viz Willis, Edgar, William C. and Lydia E., deceased; Charles W. and George W. He was married in September, 1872, to Miss Margaret Wolf, daughter of George and Sarah Wolf. CULLISON N. W., Perry township; postoffice, New Guilford; born in Maryland, in 1834; settled in this county, in 1836; son of Wheeler and Katharine (Watts) Cullison, and grandson of Shedrick and Margaret Cullison, and of Nathaniel and Mary Watts He married Evaline Birch, daughter of Jacob and Mary Birch. The have three children, viz: Sylva B., Laura V. and Lizzie M. CULLISON T. W., Perry township; postoffice, New Guilford ; born in Baltimore county, Maryland, in 1820; settled in this county in 1835; son of Wheeler and Catherine (Watts) Cullison, and grandson of Shedrick and Margaret Cullison, and 662 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. of Nathaniel and Mary Watts. Mr. Cullison. has been twice married ; first, in 1840, to Miss Nancy Cullison. They had one child, J. W. His second marriage was in 1849, to Louisa J. Lee. They have eleven children, viz: Austin C., John N , Sanford, Charles F., Harvey W., Rolls L., Ellmer E., Milton S., Thos G., Adda W. and Etta A. CULLISON EPHRAIM, Perry township; postoffice, Mohawk Village; farmer and stock-raiser; born in Baltimore county, Maryland, July 11, 1822; settled in this county, in 1824; son of Carlton and Hannah Cullison, and grandson of Jessie and Notie (Wheeler) Cullison; married, in 1843, to Miss Harriet Wantling, who died May 10, 1880. Mr. Cullison is the father of six children, viz: Mary E., William, Louisa, Hannah, deceased, Daniel and Caroline. CULLISON JAMES W., Franklin township; born in New Castle township, July 16, 1831; son of Moses Cullison, who was born in Maryland, and married there Mary Wantland, of Connecticut, both of English ancestry. His grandfather Cullison was. an emigrant from Scotland. In 1836, he moved to Perry township, where his mother died the following year. In June, 1841, 'his father's household was scattered by the marriage of his eldest daughter, and James found a home with William and George Given, of Jefferson township Two years later, his father died, and he was bound out to the Givens till he was eighteen, when he began the struggle of life for 'himself, working on the farm in summers, and attending school in winters, first in the country, then several years at the West Bedford academy. He then learned the carpenter trade with his cousin, Jeremiah Cullison, worked at it during summer and taught school in winter till his marriage, December 30,1858, with Sarah A., daughter of George A. McCleeary. Since then he has been farming, also dealing in stock and selling agricultural implements extensively. His children are William Bell, deceased, Seth McCleeary, George Harvey, Kinsey Sherman and John Elmer. CUNNINGHAM MAHLON, Washinglon township; farmer; postoffice, Tunnel Hill; born in 1836, to this county. His father was born, in 1808, in Fayette count, Pennsylvania. He was married, in 1827, to Miss Rebecca Trego, of the same county, who was born in 1805. They are the parents of nine children. Mahlon Cunningham was married, in 1861, to Miss Catherine Masten, of this county, who was born in 1840. They are the parents of two children, viz: S. E. .and Mary J.. CUTSHALL SAMUEL, Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh; born in Carroll county, Ohio, January 18,1818; son of Jacob and Elizabeth (West) Cutshall, grandson of Nicholas Cutshall and Robert West. Grandmother Cutshall lied to the advanced age of 110 years. Mr. Cutshall came to Coshocton county in January, 1841, located in Adams township, and has resided here ever since. He was married, in 1841, to Miss Margaret A. Boop, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth ( Winnings) Boop, and granddaughter of Jacob and Margaret (Sigman) Boop and Samuel Winnings. She was born February 1, 1822, in Jefferson county, Ohio. They are the parents of six children, via: Elizabeth A., Rachel, Mary, . George W., Harriet A. and Emma. D DAILEY FRANK B., Coshocton, Ohio; carriage wood-worker for V. O. Jeffer's factory. Mr. Dailey was born in Lancaster City, Pennsylvania, August 21, 1847 ; son of John and Julia (Delano) Dailey. His. paternal ancestors are Irish,. and his maternal French: He enlisted August 2, 1862, Company G, One Hundred and Fifteenth Pennsylvania V. I, and served until July 3, 1865. During his service he participated in thirteen general engagements; among them m the battles of Malvern Hill, second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spottsylvania and before Petersburg, besides many skirmishes. He came out of all these unscathed. When the war was over, he went to his present trade, at Lancaster City, Pennsylvania, where he remained until July, 1871, when he came to Coshocton' which has since been his home. Mr. Dailey was married December 26, 1872, to Miss Annie M., daughter of Andrew Denic, deceased, formerly of Roscoe. They are the parents of three children, viz: Frank, Edward and Mary Agnes. DARLING ISAAC, Bethlehem township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio; son of Isaac Darling, Sr.; was born December 7, 1839, in Coshocton county. He was married December 8, 1865, to Miss Almeda Butler, of this county, who was born August 18,1843. They are the parents of five children, three of whom are dead. Jeanette was born March 21,1867; Glendora was born October 6, 1878. Mr. Darling was raised on the farm, and has always followed the occupation of farmer. He and his wife are prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Darling has served as trustee and clerk of his township for several years. DARLING WILSON; deceased, Beth1ehem township; farmer; son of James Darling ; was born in July, 1830. He was married in 1850, to Miss Barbara Frederick, of this county, who was born January 19, 1835. They became the parents of four children, viz : Mary P., born in December, 1853; Camille L. and Colons, twins, born July 23, 1858; William F.; born August 10, 1860. Mr. PAGE 663 - INTERIOR VIEW OF W. W. BOSTWICK'S JEWELRY STORE PAGE 664 - BLANK. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 665 Darling was raised on the farm, and always followed that occupation. He died very suddenly on October 18, 1580, of apoplexy. Mr. Darling s father was one. of the old pioneers of the county. Mr. Darling was a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Darling is still a member. Mr. Darling was esteemed and honored by all who knew him. DARLING AARON, Bethlehem township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio: son of James Darling ; was born in 183?, in Coshocton county. His father came to this county in 1806 and was one of the old pioneers. Aaron Darling was married in 1861, to Miss Nancy A. Moore, who was born June 18, 1839, in Coshocton county. They are the parents of three children, viz : Florella B., Charles and William. Florella B. is engaged in teaching school. Mr. Darling was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He owns a good farm and is esteemed by all his acquaintances. DARLING L. C., Bethlehem township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio; son of Jacob and Harriet A. (Spurgeon) Darling; was born January 14, 1849, in this county. His parents were of Irish descent. His father came from Virginia and his mother from Knox county, Ohio. Mr. Darling was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He was married January 8, 1874, to Miss Mary A. Bantum, of this county, who was born March 23, 1848. They are the parents of one child, viz : Cora, who was born September 31, 1874. DAUGHERTY SAMUEL M., Adams township ; farmer ; postoffice, Evansburgh ; born in Keene township, July 2, 1826; son of John and Jane (Mitchell) Daugherty, and grandson of James and Jane (Lawson) Daugherty, and Samuel and Nancy (Lyons) Mitchell. His grandparents came from Ireland to America in 1778. His father was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1788, and moved to Keene township, this county, in 1818, where the subject of this sketch was born. He began the carpenter trade at the age of eighteen, and continued until the age of twenty-three; then moved to his present location, where he worked at the trade and farmed for about six years. He was then bereft of his companion, and compelled to quit housekeeping, but worked at his trade three years; then turned his attention to farming, and is still following that business. He lives on a farm of two hundred acres, pleasantly located in the southern part of 'the township. He has also a farm of two hundred and seventy-four acres one and one-half miles east of the home farm. He was married November 29, 1849, to Miss Mary Beaver, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Clous) Beaver, of Irish and English descent. Mrs Daugherty died February 23, 1856. She was the mother of or e child, Mary, born February 4, 1856. Mr. Daugherty was married February 3, 1859, to Miss Eliza Watson, daughter of Robert and Agnes (Munce) Watson, and granddaughter of John and Mary (Neely) Watson, and Thomas and Margaret (McKnight) Munce, and great-granddaughter of Mary Moultrie. Mrs. Daugherty is of Irish and Scotch parentage. She has a son, Robert W., born March 25, 1860. Mr. Daugherty is a gentleman of high standing, and is at present filling the office of county commissioner. DAUGHERTY J. L., Jackson township; Roscoe postoffice; born in Keene township, in this county, in 1829; son of John and Jane (Mitchell) Daugherty; married in 1851, to Nancy Karr, daughter of J. W. and Mariah Karr. Mrs. Daugherty died in 1880. Mr. Daugherty is the father of seven children, viz: Priscilla A., William T., Marian J., Nancy E., G. C., Emma B., Lula M. Four are married and living in this county. Mr. Daugherty enlisted in the army as captain of Company G, One Hundred and Forty-third Ohio regiment, in 1864-Army of the Potomac. DAUGHERTY ROSS, Oxford township; White Eyes Plains postoffice; farmer; was born in this township in 1831; son of James D., a native of Wilmington, Delaware, of Irish descent. His mother was a native of this township. Both parents have died. The subject of this sketch was married to Miss Sara Wurtsbaugh, of Keene township, daughter of Harrison W. and Lucinda (Spira) Wurtsbaugh. They have had six children, as follows : David Peatt, deceased, aged eleven months; Martha Ann, Byron, Mack, John, Jennie May. Mr. Daugherty took part in the war, going out in Company A, Eighty-eighth Ohio V. L, and and served two years and eleven months. He owns sixty-three acres of good land, and is honest and well spoken of by all: They are members of the Baptist Church. DAUGHERTY ROBERT M., Oxford township; farmer; postoffice, Plainfield. Mr. Daugherty was born May 19,1830, in Harrison county, Ohio. He was raised on the farm, and had followed that occupation all his life. In 1839, he went to Tuscarawas count , and remained two years. He then went to Jefferson county, and lived there two years; then came to Coshocton county, and has resided here ever since. Mr. Daugherty was married, April 9, 1859, to Miss Mary Jones, of this county. They are the parents of seven children: Seth, Charity J., Willis, John, Frank, Mary and Clara B., all of whom are living. One, Charity J., is married. His oldest son, Seth, is engaged in teaching, haying taught ht successfully for five years. Mr. Daugherty 666 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. always been esteemed and honored by his own township. He has served as trustee for twelve years, and has held other offices. DAVIED JOHN, Franklin township; born January 22, 1814, in Vittoncourt, Faulguemont Canton, Moselle Department, France; son of John Davied. In 1847, he emigrated to America, landing at New Orleans, and coming up to Zanesville, by water. He had been a stonemason, in France, but engaged in farming here, the first two years in Muskingum county; then a year in Fountain county, Indiana; next in Franklin township. Married, in 1855, to Ann Grand-Girard, born in Voinehaute, France, January 25, 1825. By a former marriage to John N. Daniel, she had two children, viz : John N , born January 14, 1854, and Margaret (Burton), born November 30, 1851. Mr. Davied's children are Ferdinand, born April 23, 1856; Mary (Burton), born April 3, 1858; Anna (Collet), March 31, 1860, John, November 20,1861; Leo, March 14,1863, and Matilda, March 14. 1866. DAVIS BENTON, Lafayette township; farmer; Plainfield postoffice; only son of John Davis; was born in this township, in 1846; was married to Miss Blanche Beelsford, of Linton township, who became the mother of four children, viz : Beelsford, Stephen, Mary and Blanche. The subject of this sketch was educated at Vermillion Institute, Ashland county, and is a progressive young farmer. DAVIS JOHN N., Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh; born in Adams township, Coshocton county, Ohio, April 26, 1850; son of James and Rachel J. (Kimball) Davis, and grandson of John and Ann Davis and Abner and Nancy (Jeffries) Kimball. He remained with his father until twenty-three years of age, when he married and began farming for himself. The date of his marriage is September 15, 1874, to Miss Hannah McFarland, daughter of Ezekiel and Isabella (Corbit) McFarland, and granddaughter of Robert and Ann McFarland, and Robert and Susan (Fuller) Corbit. She was born October 30, 1845. They are the parents of three children: George C., born July 10, 1875; Richard G., born January 19,1877, and Isabel J., burn July 15,1878. DAVIS J. T., Oxford township; physician; Orange, Evansburgh postoffice; son of Thomas Davis; was born in 1845, in this county, and after receiving a good high school education, he too up the study of medicine about the year 186b under Dr. Bates, of Wheeling, and finished under Dr. Chapman, of Bakersville and commenced the practice in 1869, in Harrison county. After prose outing his profession in that county about two years, he met with misfortune, losing his entire accumulations by fire, and his next location was at his present place, where, by strict attention to business, he has had a flattering degree of success. He has a goal practice, and is surrounded by the comforts of a good home. He was married in 1866, to Miss R. E. S Spurgeon, of Knox county, and they have one child, a boy, Charles H., now in his twelfth year. The doctor finds time to handle better road horses than any body in this part of the county, and is a genuine lover of a good horse, of which he has handled a good many. DAVIS JAMES R., Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh ; born in Herefordshire, England, November 4,1818 ; son of John and Ann (Baily) Davis. He came to America in June, 1832, on the Sarah., of Petersburg, Virginia, landed in New York, from thence he came to Adams township, Coshocton county, via Hudson river, Erie canal, Lake Erie and Ohio canal, and has been a resident of this township since. He was married May 5, 1841, to Miss Rachel J. Kimball, daughter of Abner and Nancy (Jeffries) Kimball. They are parents of eleven children, viz : Emily A., born December 20, 1842, died October 19, 1867; Myra J., born September 29, 1844; Curtis, born October 19, 1846; Charles W., born August 17, 1848, died October 17, 1875; John N., born April 26,1850; Abner T., born February 18, 1852, Ernest J. S., born December 1, 1853; Eleanor M., born March 28, 1856; Hereford H. C., born December 12, 1858; Horace F. H., born November 8, 1860, and Laura L., born August 14, 1863. John is married and living in Adams township; Abner and Ernest are farming in Kansas; Curtis is in Knoxville, Iowa. He formerly lived in Idaho and while there was representative two y ears. Mr. Davis' father died in September 1833, and his mother died September, 1840. DAWSON MARCUS, Virginia township; born in East Virginia, in 1808; settled in Coshocton county to 1829; son of William and Hanna Dawson. Mr. Dawson has been married three times. His first wife was Mary Reed, who bore him four children. His second wife was the mother of eight children. His third wife was Katherine Clark. Postoffice, Willow Brook. DAWSON WILLIAM, Jackson, township; born in this county, in 1833; son of Marcus and Mary Dawson; married November 2, 1861, to Augusta M. Adams, daughter of John Q. and Lovina Adams. Their union was blessed with nine children, one of whom is dead, viz : J. Q., Murrell E., Effie L., Ora B., Aba M., Kate L., William M., Clide W. Postoffice, Roscoe. DAY WILLIAM H., Tuscarawas township; farmer ; Canal Lewisville : born March 15, 1833, in Wayne county, Pennsylvania; son of Barney Day, of Irish ancestry ; raised on the farm, came BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 667 to this county in the spring of 1847, and settled in Jackson township, near Roscoe, and came to his present residence in 1852, and has followed farming during his entire life. He at present is living with his brother-in-law. DEAN ROBERT, Bedford township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio; son of Samuel and Mary (McCurdy) Dean; was born April 5, 1819, in Jefferson county, Ohio. He came to this county in 1848, and has since remained. Mr: Dean was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He was married April 3, 1851, to Miss Margaret J. Hamilton, of this county. They are the parents of five children, viz: Charlotte J., Mary A., John H., William L. and Wilbur S , all of whom are living. Mr. Dean owns a good farm, in Bedford township, and is respected by all his neighbors, as a man of integrity and business qualities. DECIOUS CORNELIUS, Jackson township; Roscoe postoffice; born in Page county, Virginia, in 1813, settled in this county in 1843; son of Frederick and Magdaline Decious; married, in 1830, to Katharine Davis, daughter of William B. and Jane Davis. They have six children, viz: Charles, John, Frank, Lewis, Howard, deceased, and William. All are married but two. Those married are all living in this county. DEAN WILLIAM, Bedford township; farmer; postoffice, Tunnel Hill; born in 1823, in Jefferson county, Ohio, and was married in 1853, to Miss Asmath Starr, of the same county, who was born in 1836. They came to this county in 1853. They are the parents of ten children, seven of whom are living, viz : George H., deceased, Mary DL, John H., Eliza J., William H., Dennis, Nettie, Henry H., Lina, deceased, and Ella B., deceased Mr. Dean ha, lived where he now is since 1868. He is one of the large land owners of the township, having about 325 acres. DEEDS ABRAHAM, Oxford township; farmer; postoffice, Plainfield, Ohio; son of John and Mary (Seabault) Deeds; was born September 23, 1802, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania Mr. Deeds was raised on the farm, and has followed that occupation all his life. In 1830, he removed from Pennsylvania, and came to this county, remaining nine years. He `hen removed to Athens county, Ohio, and resided there six ,years, returning then to this county, where he has since resided. Mr. Deeds was married September 11, 1828, to Miss Agnes Singson, of Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania. They became the parents of ten children, viz; John, Susannah, Samuel, deceased, Sarah, Abraham, deceased, Drusyla, Fannie, Josephus, deceased, and William H., deceased. When Mr. Deeds came to this county, it was generally a wilderness, the few settlers living in cabins, surrounded by a small lot of cleared land. He has by his own industry acquired a good farm, and is prosperous. DENMAN A. D., Tuscarawas township; Coshocton postoffice; of the firm of A. D. & D. F. Denman, farmers and stock raisers. A. D. Denman was born in Springfield, Essex county, New Jersey; son of David and Mary (Lyon) Denman, of English ancestry, and came to his present residence in. October, 1834:: He was married November 16, 1828, to Miss Eliza A., daughter of Moses and Lydia (Munn) Condit; of New Jersey. This union was blessed with three children. George and Matthias died, and only one is living. D. F. Denman, of the above firm, was born April 15, 1830, in Essex county, New Jersey. He was married October 18, 1855, to Miss Matilda W., daughter of C. L. and Sophronia (Hamilton Whiting. This union has been been blessed with six children, three deceased, viz: Alfred W., E. Alida and Emma L. Their three living children are Clara B., Herbert and Matthias. This firm is engaged in stock raising and agriculture, succeeding well in both, having their farm and buildings in first class repair and raising the breeds of stock. The farm now owned by this firm was patented to Matthias Denman, grandfather of the senior member of the firm, April 24, 1816. They also hold patent for lands granted to said Matthias Denman, March 28, 1800, and signed by President John Adams. Matthias Denman was, at one time probably, the largest landholder in the State. He was also one of three partners who founded the city of Cincinnati. DEVORE ELI, Tiverton township; farmer; postoffice, Gann, Knox county; born in 1844, in Holmes county, and was married in 1864, to Miss Elizabeth A. Crider, of Holmes county, who was born in 1847, in Knox county. They came to this county in 1868. . They are the parents of five children, viz: Mary F., born February 11, 1865; Nancy J., born March 23, 1867 ; Lucy, born August 24, 1870; James R., born February 12,1875, and Lyman, born November 16, 1877. DEVORE WILLIAM, Tiverton township; farmer; postoffice, Gann, Knox county; born in 1840, in Carroll county. He came to Holmes county with his parents in 1543, and to this county in 1855. He is unmarried, and has lived on the same farm since 1855. DEWITT ISAAC C, Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Bakersville; born in Adams township, Coshocton county, October 14,1839; son of Vincent and Eleanor (Cordray) DeWitt, and grandson of Thomas Cordray. He attended school until the age of maturity, and has since devoted his time to farming. He was married September 668 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. 1, 1864, to Miss Delila Smith, daughter of Bartholemew and Mary A. (Reed) Smith, and granddaughter of George and Elizabeth (Elks) Smith. She was born in Bucks township, Tuscarawas county, July 24, 1845. They are the parents of three children, Asmer A., born June 20,1865; Francis M., born June 20, 1868, and Ira A., born June 17, 1872. DEWITT W. W., Lafayette township; wagon and carriage maker; West Lafayette; was born in Adams township, this county, December 18, 1849; son of Jonathan and Margaret DeWitt. W. W. followed carpentering and cabinet making for about nine years, then engaged in his present business, which he has been conducting seven years, arid in that time has built up quite an extensive trade. He was married in 1877, to Miss Angeline McLain, of this township; they have had one child; Clifford Monroe. DEWITT SOLOMON, Crawford township; proprietor of hotel, Chili; born in Adams township, August 23, 1829; son of Vincent DeWitt and Elenor (Cordray) DeWitt, both of whom were natives of Maryland. Mr. DeWitt left home in 1853 and followed farming until 1870, when he went into the dry foods business at Chili, married Miss Nancy Fisher October 13, 1853. Her parents, Absolem Fisher and Harriet (Johnson) Fisher were both native born. Their family consists of four children; Lenox, Phebe, John, Alice and Frank. DICKEY WILLIAM, Keens township, farmer; born July 28, 1857, in Mill Creek township; son of Hiram and Jane (Ling) Dickey, and grandson of John Dickey. At the age of twenty Mr. Dickey left home and traveled through Iowa, Illinois and Indiana; then came home, but soon returned to Indiana, where he was married July, 1, 1877, to Jennie J. Belser, born June 23, 1860, in Decatur county, Indiana, dau liter of Augustus and Catherine (Hazelrigg) Belser, and granddaughter of Godfrey and Abbie (Dupes) Belser. Her grandmother, Abbie, was a native of Boston, of French descent. Her maternal grandparents were Charles and Caroline (McCoy) Hazelrigg. Karl F., born December 17,1879, was their only child. DICKEY JOHN, Jackson township; born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1810; son of William and Elizabeth Dickey; settled in this county in 1839; married in 1845, to Miss Jane Thompson, daughter of John and Mary Thompson. Mr. Dickey is the father of five children, two of whom are dead, and two are married. The names of those living are as follows: William J., A. W., J. F. Postoffice, Tyrone. DICKEY WILLIAM, deceased, Bedford township; born in 1771, in county Tyrone, Ireland; came to this country in 1785, and was married to Miss Elizabeth Graham, who was born in 1781, and died in 1832, in Steubenville, Ohio. Mr: Dickey came to this county in 1840, and died in 1848. They were the parents of eleven children, only three of whom are living; one in Cincinnati, one the wife of Park Wheeler, of this county, and Fanny, who lives on the old homestead. DICKERSON WILLIAM, Bedford township; farmer and blacksmith; postoffice, Tunnel Hill; born in 1827, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania; came to this county, in 1847 with his father, who was born in 1788, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and was married in 1811 to Elizabeth Doney, of the same county, who was born in 1795. He died in 1874. She died in 1870. They were the parents of ten children ;. the subject of this sketch being the eighth. He was married in 1850 to Miss M. J. Eaton, of this county, who was born in 1832 in this county.. They are the parents of twelve children, all living. DICKERSON JAMES F., Bedford township; farmer; postoffice, Tunnel Hill; born in 1829, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and came to this county in 1847 with his father, who was born in 1788 to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and was married in 1811 to Elizabeth Doney, of the same county, who was born in 1795. He died in 1874,. and she died in 1870. They were the parents of ten children ; the subject of this sketch being the youngest. He was married in 1856 to Miss Margie Fisher, of this county, who was born in 1839, to Harrison county, Ohio. They are the parents of one child, Ida M. DICKERSON JOSHUA, Bedford township; farmer ; postoffice, Tunnel Hill ; born in 1845, in this county. His father was born in 1798, in in Harrison county, Ohio, and was married in 1820, to Miss Nancy Glasner, of the same county, who was born in 1796. They came to this county, in 1820, and he died in 1879. They were the parents of nine children, the subject of this sketch being the seventh child. DICKERSON JOHN, farmer; Washington township; postoffice, Wakatomaka; born in 1822, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania; came to this county in 1831, with his father, who was born in 1783, to Fayette county, Pennsylvania. He was married in 1811, to Miss Jane Morrison, of the same county, who was born in 1792. He died in 1857, she died in 1878. They were the parents of eight children. The subject of this sketch being the seventh. He was married in 1844, to Miss Elizabeth Crumley, of, this county, who was born in 1828, in Harrison county. They are the parents of eleven children, viz : Susan J., Mary C., BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 669 William, Melissa; Telma, deceased; Sarah E., Florida; John E., Evaline, an infant, deceased and Minerva. DICKERSON LEVI, farmer; Washington township; Wakatomaka, born in 1832, in this county. His father was born in 1783, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and was married in 1811, to Miss Jane Morrison, of the same county, who was born in 1792. He died in 1857, she died in 1878. They were the parents of eight children, the subject of thin sketch being the youngest. ' He was married in 1804, to Miss Sarah E. Middleton, of this county, who was born in 1834, in Pennsylvania. They are the parents of eleven children. viz: Morrison, Mary E., Hartley, Emma J., Harriet S., John C.. Charles H., Carrie B., Effie J., Armor and Daniel. DICKERSON JOSEPH, farmer; Washington township; postoffice, Tunnel Hill; born in 1820, in Harrison county. He came to this county in 1834, with his grandfather, Levi Dickerson, his.; father having died in 1821, in Harrison county. Joseph was married in 1841, to Miss Mary Jones, of this county, typo was born in 1821, in Harrison county. They are the parents of eight children, viz: Elizabeth, deceased; Susan, Laving, Sarah J., deceased; Martha, Aaron W., Mary A., Emma O. DICKERSON LEVI, farmer; Washington township: postoffice, Wakatomeka; born in 1827, in this county. His father was born in 1798, in Pennsylvania. He settled in Harrison county, and was married there to Miss Nancy Glasmir, of this county, who was born in 1796, in Pennsylvania. They• came to this county in 1820. He died in 1879. They were the parents of nine children, the subject of this sketch being the fourth. He was married in 1800 to Miss Amy Howell, of Tuscarawas county, who was born in 1825, in Belmont county. They are the parents of seven children, viz: Joshua, Isabelle, Benjamin, David, Nancy, Amy and James. DIEFENBACH A. A., Crawford township; boot and shoe manufacturer; postoffice, New Bedford, Ohio; was born December 10, 1855, in Tuscarawas county; son of Adam and Louise (Greeannabold). He remained with his parents on the farm until eighteen years of age, when he went to his trade and, in 1874, established business in New Bedford with Simon P. Sprenke, and continued the partnership until October 1, 1879, when Mr. Diefenbach became sole proprietor. He is doing a first-class business for e country town. He and two other good workmen being constantly employed. DINGLEDINE SEBASTIAN, Adams township; saddler postoffice, Bakersville ; born in Hesse Darmstadt. Germany, March 18, 182; son of Belthazer and Amea C. Dingledine, and grandson of John Dingledine. He left his native country for America in 1830. landing in Baltimore after a voyage of sixty-four days, then came to Pennsylvania, where he remained about four years, and from ..there came to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where he resided about thirty-seven years, being the second postmaster of that village. Ho then moved to Illinois, and after remaining there about three years, he again moved to Ohio, and settled in Bakersville, where he has resided since, engaged at his trade, doing a fair business. He is at present serving his. fourth term as justice of the peace of Adams township. He learned his trade with Sampson Shalter, of Canal Dover, in 1838. Mr. Dingledine was married May 7, 1846, to Miss Julia A. Gard, daughter of John and Susannah C. (Oswalt) Gard. She died in November, 1867, from injuries received by being thrown from a buggy. By this marriage he became the father of one child, James, born July 5, 1860. He was married September 16, 1864, to Miss Delila Carnahan, daughter of David and Eliza T. (McCune) Carnahan, and granddaughter of James and Margaret Car nahan, and James and Margaret McCune. She was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 15, 1837. They have three children, viz: Agnes C., born September 12,1869; Charles M., born May 25, 1871; Howard S., born December 2, 1877. DILLON ISRAEL, Coshocton; clerk of the courts of common pleas; born June 17, 1819, in Perry township and spent his entire life on the farm until elected to the above office in 1875 and, re-elected in 1878, his entire tenure of office being six years. Mr Dillon was elected a justice of the peace in 1853, and served three consecutive terms, and after an interval of two years again served three consecutive terms, making in all eighteen years of service as justice of the peace. Esquire Dillon has taken an active part in educational matters, having served for a number of years on the board of education of the county. Mr. Dillon was married October 18, 1840, to Miss Elizabeth Jane Fitch, daughter of William and Mary Fitch, of Perry township. This union has been blessed with twelve children, two deceased, viz: Rebecca Jane and William Melville, and ten living, viz: Amos, Mary Catherine, Eliza, Leora, Deborah Anne, Josiah, Samuel, Israel Buchanan, Elizabeth, Emma and Sarah Frances. Mrs. Dillon, consort of Esquire Dillon, died in March, 1870, and is buried at New Guilford, Perry township. Mr. Dillon's second marriage was to Mrs. Isabelle Barren, of Mohawk village, September 24, 1874. The result of this marriage was one child, a ! daughter, Ida Belle. The grandfather of Esquire Dillon was a native of Ireland but came to America and served in the revolutionary war for the independence of the United States. 670 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. DILLON AMOS, Perry township; postoffice, New Guilford; born in this county, in 1841; son of Israel and Elizabeth (Fitch) Dillon, grandson of William and Deborah M. (Meredith) Dillon, also of William and Mary Meredith. Mr. Dillon's great-grandfather was a revolutionary, soldier. Mr. Dillon, in 1865, married Susannah Casteel, daughter of Thomas and Susannah (Bottomfield) Casteel. They have eight children, viz: Sarah E., Israel T., William J., Howard T., Ettie J., Rachael A., Berths L. and John C. Mr. Dillon was engaged in the merchandise business some three years; followed farming since. DILLON F. J., Tuscarawas township; Coshocton postoffice; farmer; born February 10, 1845, in Knox county; son of Thomas and Eliza Jane (Buxton) Dillon. His maternal grandfather was Francis Buxton. Young Dillon was brought up on the farm. When about twelve ,years of age he located in New Castle township. May 2, 1864, he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and forty-second O. V. I. (100-days men); re-enlisted in Company I, O. V. I. for one year. At the close of the war he visited Missouri and soon returned; then went to Illinois and taught one term of school, and again visited Missouri; then home again, and back to Illinois, where he taught school. He again visited Missouri and returned home, and for the third time went to Illinois and taught school, and from there he went to Iowa and taught school; then the fourth time visited Missouri, and returned to Iowa; then went .to Minnesota and remained during the cold winter, and in the spring returned to Iowa, and from there went to the Pacific coast, visiting California and Oregon, remaining one year ; then returned, in 1876, to Ohio, where he has remained to the present time. Mr. Dillon was married first August 18, 1868, to Miss Susan Clark, daughter of John Clark. They had four children, three of whom died in infancy. Willis Glide is their only living child. His second marriage was on October 22, 1879, to Miss Carrie E. Wood, daughter of Andrew Wood, deceased, formerly of Tuscarawas township. DIVAN T. E ,Perry township; farmer; postoffice, West Carlisle ; born in this county in 1850; son of Adolphus and Mary (Hardenbrook) Divan, and grandson of Henry and Mary Divan ; married in 1869, to Miss Harriet Cochran, who died in 1872. He married, in the same year, Anna A: Board, daughter of Thomas H. and Elizabeth A. Board. They are the parents of four children, viz: Ola M., Walter M., Floyd and Arazota. . DOAK ROBERT, Crawford township; farmer; postoffice, Chili, Ohio; born March 9, 1826, in Amwell township, Washington county, Pennsylvania; son of William Doak, of Crawford township. In 1832 he located with his father about two miles east of Chili. He was married May 20, 1847, to Miss Mary Anne, daughter of Thomas M. and Sarah (Hughes) McCollum. She was born August 17, 1826, in Amity, Washington county, Pennsylvania. This onion was blessed with four children, viz: William R., Thomas M., deceased; Adam J. and Sarah E. Mr. Doak has succeeded well, being blessed with a good family and a comfortable home. DOAK WILLIAM, Crawford township , retired farmer; postoffice, Chili,. Ohio; born December 5, 1804, in South Strabane township, Washington county, Pennsylvania. His father and he were both born on the farm, patented to William's father. William is son of William and Nancy (Dill) Doak, of Irish ancestry. Mr. Doak came to his present residence in 1832. The entire country was new then, his farm being nearly all timbered land, but has lived to enjoy the fruits of his toil. The cabin has changed to a comfortable frame, and the forest to fields of pasture, grain and orchards. Mr. Doak was married about the year 1824, to Miss Evaline, daughter of Adam and Elizabeth (Mason) Gardner. They are the parents of seven children, viz : Robert, Adam, deceased, Mary Anne, deceased, Nancy Jane, married to David Ewing; Elizabeth, married to Thomas Wilson ; Andrew, married to Louisa Pocock; and William, married to Sallie E. McNary. Mr. Doak started to provide for himself, without wealth, but has now a competency for himself and wife, who still lives to share the comforts of their united toil in early life. DOAK A. J., Clark township; dry goods merchant ; postoffice, Clark's ; born in Crawford township, Coshocton county, December 1, 1837;. son of William and Evaline (Gardener) Doak. He attended school, and taught until twenty-five years of age, when he began the merchandise business in New Bedford, in the spring of 1862,. where he remained until the fall of 1864, when he came to Bloomfield and engaged in the carne business, and has continued here ever since. He has a flourishing trade, and carries a fine assortment of dry goods, groceries and ready made clothing, hats, caps, boots and shoes, and everything usually found in a general merchandising establishment. He was married February 29,. 1860, to Miss Louisa M. Pocock, sister of Colonel Pocock, of Coshocton, and daughter of Joshua and Catharine (Wilson Pocock). She was born in Keene township May 19,1835. They are blessed with three children-Edgar A., born April 25,. 1862; William C., born August 13,1863; Ella C., born December 23, 1870. DONAGHY CHARLES B., Coshocton; railroad contractor and plasterer ; born January 8, 1849, in Wellsville, Colombians county; son of William Donaghy, born in Lancaster county, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 671 Pennsylvania, of Irish ancestors. Young Donaghy was raised in Steubenville, Ohio, attending public school until seventeen, when he entered Fairfield academy, and remained fwo and a half ' years, then attended Reynoldsville academy, under instruction of D. J. Snyder, two years. Messrs. Donaghy, Sr. and Jr., have been remarkable railroad builders, having completed large contacts on the. Pan Handle, New Salem, Cincinnati and Louisville Short Line, Chesapeake and Ohio, Atlantic and Lake Erie; Springfield, Day ton and Cincinnati Short Line; Cleveland, Mt. Vernon and Columbus ; Pittsburgh, Merietta and Cleveland, and Sciota railroads; also built eight miles of Lancaster and New Salem turnpike. Charles B. first came to this city in November, 187 3, and remained two years, and after an absence of a few years, building railroads, returned, and is now a contractor for plastering, doing a first-class business. DORSEY CLEMENT, Coshocton; proprietor barber shop, corner Main and Fourth streets; born December 25, 1539, in Washington county, Maryland; worked on a farm and canal boating until 24 years of age, when he came to Parkersburg, West Virginia, with I. Cuthberson, a government agent. In June, 1867, he went to Stubenville, Ohio, and followed steamboating; was on the C. E. Hillman when she collided with the Nannie Byers, which sunk at Madison, Indiana., and forty-five lives lost. In September, 1867, he went to Newark and worked in a barber shop and attended school until December 1,1868, when he came to this city and established a shop, and continued his business to the present. Mr. Dorsey was the first colored juror of this county, also the first colored citizen to be nominated for a county office. Mr. Dorset was married, October 14, 1869, to Mrs. Martha Lucas, of Janesville, Wisconsin. This union was blessed with five children, viz: Mildred Effie, Isham C., Jesse C., Gertrude Hays and Clement G. Mr. Dorset came to this city with but $48, but now owns real estate and a goal home. DORSEY ELMOS, Pike township; postoffice, West Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser; born in Muskingum county, in 1842; settled in this county in 1880; son of John and Prudence Dorset. His father settled in Muskingum county in 1812, and died in 1877. His mother died in 1878. The subject of this sketch is the youngest of a family of three children, one living in Missouri and one in Licking county, Ohio. He was married in November, 1870, to Miss Lizzie Magruder, daughter of George and Margera Magruder. DRAPER SAMUEL H., Tiverton township; farmer; postoffice, Yankee Ridge, Ohio; born September 8, 180 , in Knox county. He came to this county in 1830, and was married in 1837, to Miss Elizabeth Smith, of this county; who was born in November, 1818, in Pennsylvania. She died in 1844. They were the parents of three children. He was married in 1845, to Miss Catharine Horton, of this county, who was born in 1823 and died in 1852. They were the parents of three children. He was married in 1852, to Miss Elizabeth Huey, of this county, who was born in 1823 and died in 1871. He married, in 1871, Miss Isabella Lockard, of this county, who was born in 1825. DRESHER JACOB, Crawford township , postoffice, New Bedford; blacksmith; born May 24, 1842, in Hesse-Homburg, Germany; son of Frederick and Margaret (Kline) Dresher; came to America in 1855 and first located in Adams county, next in Crawford township, went to his trade in 1858, and has followed it to the present time. He came to his present residence to 1876. Was married June 22, 1866, to Miss Louisa, daughter of John and Catharine (Lyman). Kesler. They have five children: John Frederick, deceased, Emily M., Caroline R., Karl H. and Augustus Jacob. DUGAN WILLIAM, Linton township ; farmer : born in January, 1833, in Philadelphia,. Pennsylvania; son of Francis and Ann (Smith) Dugan, who emigrated from county Down, Ireland, in 1833, remained in Philadelphia a few years, then came out to Harrison county, lived there about ten years, and moved to Guernsey county. There Mr Dugan remained till he came to Linton township, in 1875. He enlisted in January, 1862, in Company I, Eightieth O. V. I, and served three years in the army. He was under fire at the siege of Corinth, battle of Corinth, Iuka, siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Champion Hill, etc. He was married in 1855, to Hannah Walgamot, daughter of David and Sophia Walgamot, of I Guernsey county. Their children are Jemima Ellen, Jane, Mary, Lincoln, William, David, Sophia, Alva and Samuel. DULING DAVID, Linton township; saddler; postoffice, Plainfield ; born October 18, 1845, in Lafayette township; son of William and Rebecca P. Dulling. His grandfather, Edmund Duling, came to this county in 1815. His maternal grandparents, David and Lucy Richardson were early settlers in the county. coming from Vermont. His father, a Protestant Methodist minister, died at Steubenville, in 1854. He lived in Linton township from that time until October, 1861, when he enlisted in Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I, and remained in the army four years, seeing active service at Stone river, Chickamauga, the numerous battles in the Atlanta campaign, Franklin, Nashville, etc. After his return he kept a grocery in Plainfield one year, then, in 1867, enlisted in the regular army for three years, and 672 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. was stationed at Atlanta, Georgia, Huntsville, Alabama, Jacksonville, Alabama, Columbia, South Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina. After his discharge he owned a saddler shop in Coshocton till 1875, then moved to Plainfield, and has been running a shop here since. He was married in 112, to Christina Weisser, daughter of Jacob Weisser, of Coshocton. His children are Lizzie, deceased, and Maud. DULING HIRAM W., Linton township; farmer; born April 4, 1829, at his present home in Linton township; son of Edmund and Mary (Dean) Duling, and grandson of William Dining and of Thomas and Jane (Gilmore) Dean. His father emigrated from Hampshire county, Virginia, to Linton township, in 1815.Mr. Duling has always lived in this township. He was married February 18, 1869, to Sarah Catharine Lawrey, daughter of Joseph and Jane (Platt) Lowrey. Their children are, Uriella, Joseph L., James Edmund, and Lowel Mason. He was a member of Company E, One Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G., and was in service about four months in Virginia. DUNCAN JONAS, Keene township; farmer; born June 27,1843, in Mill Creek township ; son of John and Elizabeth (Long) Duncan. He was married April 30, 1868, to Amanda Shannon, whose ancestry is as follows : Parents, Nathan and Mary (Endsley) Shannon; grandparents, Isaac and Jane (Porter) Shannon, and John and Jane (Blane) Endsley; grest-grandfathers, Robert Shannon, born in Ireland, Thomas Porter and Thomas Blane. Mr. Duncan's family consists of five children: Mary E., born August 4, 1869; Joseph A., January 9, 1871; Sophia L , October 18, 1872; Cynthia Grace, September; 1874, and Martha, January 11,1878. DUNCAN T. D., Keene township; born July 9, 1846, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; son of Robert C. and Nancy (Patterson) Duncan, of Scotch and English descent. His childhood and early youth was spent on a farm in Beaver county, Pennsylvania; from seventeen to nineteen he attended the academy at Beaver, then took a course at Washington and Jefferson college, Washington, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1869. 'The following two years he spent at the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny City, and after a year spent as principal of Callensburg academy, Clarion county, Pennsylvania, he returned and completed his theological studies, graduating in the spring of 1874. The next year he was engaged as principal of the Verona academy, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, then in the spring of 1875, he received a call from Clark Presbyterian church, Bloomfield, which he accepted and was ordained in May. He remained there as pastor until April, 1879. After traveling for some time he accepted a position in August, 1880, as principal of the public schools and academy at Keene. He was married in June, 1876, to Miss Ella, daughter of George and Jane (Douglas) Craig. They have one child-Robert C., born July 5, 1877. DUNLAP JOHN, Bedford township; farmer; postoffice, Tunnel Hill ; born in 1839 in this county. His father, James Dunlap, was born in 1796, in Pennsylvania, and came to this county while yet unmarried, and was married to Miss Hannah Baker, of this county. He died in 1879. She died in 1839. They were the parents of eight children; the subject of this sketch being the youngest. He was married in 1861 to Miss Rachel H. Philips, of this county, who was born in 1844. They are the parents of four children, viz: Samuel L., deceased, Charlie, Sarah E., and John. DUSENBERRY JOHN, Bedford township; farmer; postoffice, Tunnel Hill; born in 1850 in this county. His father was born in 1799 in eastern Pennsylvania, and came to this county in 1832. He was married in 1835 to Miss Rebecca Stevens, of this county, who was born in 1810. He died in 1879, and she died in 1880. They were the parents of seven children, the subject of this sketch being the youngest. He is unmarried, and lives on the old farm. DWYER JOSEPH W., Tuscarawas township; was born in Coshocton, Ohio, October 6, 1832; married Emma A., daughter of John G and Emma (Denman) Titus, October 21,1858. Has one child living, named David G. Commenced life as a merchant. Owned and published the Coshocton Age from 1856 to 1866. Appointed postmaster of Coshocton, Ohio, by President Lincoln in March 1861, declined, and was appointed clerk in treasury department at Washington City in same month, and for a while was assistant private secretary to Secretary Chase, subsequently, being promoted through the various grades to be chief in charge of commissary accounts in the treasury department. Resigned this office to accept the office of pension agent for the Columbus, Ohio, pension district. It being a new district, he entered upon the new duties and organized the office in September, 1864, which office he continued to hold until June, 1869, with the exception of an interim of six months, during President Johnson's swing around the circle. His successor failing of confirmation by the Senate, Dwyer was reappointed by President Johnson. At the close of his second and last term as pension agent at Columbus, he received notice from the chief accounting officer of the treasury department at Washington„ that his accounts were closed on the books of the department, and that BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 673 "during his last term of office, he disbursed nearly two millions of dollars to pensioners, with promptness and efficiency that meets the entire approbation of this department." Allen Rutherford, third auditory of treasury department, on closing up his accounts and turning over the office to his successor, was appointed; by President Grant, chief of supervisors and detectives in the internal revenue service, headquarters at Washington. Holding this office until December, 1869, when a vacancy occurred by the death of Charles Hedges, of Mansfield, Dwyer was appointed supervisor of internal revenue for Ohio and Indiana, with headquarters at Coshocton, Ohio, holding this office until July 1, 1872, when his resignation was accepted by Hon. John W. Douglass, commissioner of internal revenue, in the following words: "I regret that you feel compelled to take this step, not only on account of the pleasant personal relations which do now and ever have existed between us, but chiefly because the Government is about to lose the services of an intelligent, courageous and incorruptible officer." On retiring from the foregoing office he was appointed one of the three United States commissioners to visit, inspect and accept, if completed in accordance with the law, the Central Pacific railroad. He met Messrs. Sullivan and Brown, his fellow commissioners, at San Francisco, California, from whence they made a minute inspection of the whole road and all its branches, culverts, bridges, grades, etc., and upon their report the government accepted the road as finished, and gave to its company the subsidy of bonds and lands voted by congress. This ended his services in official position. He accepted employment with the Atlantic and Pacific railroad company and was their agent at Washington, and among other duties, endeavored to induce congress to organize the Territory of Oklahoma out of the present Indian Territory and open it up to white settlement, and to this end invited both houses of congress to visit the Territory. Over two hundred members accepted the invitation and made a trip to that country, extending their visit to Galveston, Texas and to New Orleans. Nothing came of the organization of the Territory, but the building of the Eads' jetties below New Orleans at the mouth of the gulf was the outcome and result of this excursion. During his official career he found time to devote to farming and stock raising, and for a time, when pension agent at Columbus, published the Farmer's Chronicle. He engaged actively in whatever would improve and interest the farming community, and to this end was one of the promoters of the "Patrons of husbandry " in its infancy, and has now in his possession the third charter, issued by the originators of the institution, authorizing the late secretary Klippart, of the State Board of Agriculture, Dugan and others, . to organize a grange at Coshocton. He is now a farmer and stock raiser near Coshocton and a ranchman in New Mexico. He, with his partner, Mr. John S. Delano, of Denver; have upon their New Mexico ranch over 1,400 cattle, 6,000 sheep, and 200 horses. E EARLEY WILLIAM M., Oxford township ; farmer; Evansburgh; was born in this township in 1854, and was married September 21, 1873, to Miss Emma McIntire, in Pennsylvania. Their children are, Rebecca Jane, deceased, Desmond, deceased, and Seburtis Mack. They are members of the M. E Church in West Lafayette. EASTER DAVID, Bedford township; farmer ; postoffice, Tunnel Hill; born in 1820 to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and came to this county in 1830. His father was born in 1783 in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, and died in 1839, his wife in 1871. They were the parents of ten children ; David being the eighth .child. ECKELS RICHARD, Jackson township; postoffice, Roscoe; born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1816, settled in this county, in 1822; son of Thomas and Margaret (Porterfield) Eckels, and grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Eckels, and of Gabriel and Jane Porterfield; married in 1842 to Martha Porterfield (first wife), and in 1849, to Mary E. Nichols, daughter of John and Rachel Nichols. Mr. Eckels is the father of ten children, seven living and three dead. Three are married, two living to this county, one in Columbus, Ohio. ECKERT C. C., Coshocton; proprietor of C. O. D. store, grocer, baker and dealer in produce, No. 430 Main street, Coshocton, Ohio. Ms. Eckert was born in Ragersville, Tuscarawas county, August 22, 1850. His first business engagement was with his father under the firm name of C. A. Eckert & Son, in general merchandising, in which he continued about six years. He then went west and engaged in dealing in groceries and miner's supplies at Central City, Dakota, where he remained one year, after which he returned to Coshocton in 1877, and established his present business. He occupies pleasant and commodious rooms in the Eckert block, where he carries a large, firs class stock of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries. He also deals in all kinds of country produce, and has a large bakery attached, where he does an extensive business in baking bread, plain and fancy cakes and pies of all kinds. He also roasts all grades of coffees, which are of a very superior quality. EDWARDS J. T., M. D., Pike township; born in 1830, in this county. His father was born in 674 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. 1799, in Baltimore county, Maryland, and came to this county about 1825. He was married in 1828, to Miss Catharine Lee, of this county, who was born in 1804, in Pennsylvania. He died in 1875, she died in 1874. They were the parents of two children, Dr. Edwards being the oldest. He began reading medicine in 1853, under Dr. Russell, of Mt. Vernon, and attended his first course of lectures in 1855-6, and graduated in 1857. He has been here ever since. He was married in 1847, to Miss Sarah S. Marquand, of this county. She was born in 1833, in this county. They are the parents of five children, viz: Belle B., Russell C.; Birdie, deceased, Edwin S. and Gracie. EHRICH HENRY, Crawford township; shoemaker; born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1850. Son of Nicholas Ehrich and Margaret (Nye) Ehrich, both natives of the State of Bavaria. Mr. Ehrich emigrated to America, February 23, 1869, and located in Massillon. He worked as a hand in the shop, until 1873, when he opened a shop of his own to Chili, and still continues to work at his trade there. In August, 1873, he married Catharine Shoemaker, of Crawford township. Her parents, William Shoemaker and Margaret (Wentz) Shoemaker, are both of German ancestry. Mr. Ehrich has a family of three children: Charles Jacob, born June 12, 1874; Margaret, August 23, 1877 ; Eliza J., January 23, 1879. ELDER CYRUS, Jefferson township ; born January 25, 1834, in Jefferson township, Coshocton county, Ohio, on the farm where he now lives; son of John, a native of Antrim county, Ireland, and Esther (McConnell) Elder, and grandson of John Elder and John McConnell, natives of Ireland. Mr. Elder came to Virginia in 1804, and remained there till 1806, when he came to Coshocton county, where he lived till his death, in 1852. At that time his sons, Cyrus and William, became possessors of the home farm. They have since divided it, Cyrus getting the homestead, 310 acres. He was married to Miss Mary A. Waite, October 4, 1S66, daughter of John and Mary (Boyd) Waite, and granddaughter of William and Sarah (Maines) Boyd, and of William and Margaret (Milligan) Waite. Their children were Elwood, William J , Honorah M , John F., and James H. Mr. Elder was in the 100-day's service, a member of Company E., One Hundred and Forty-third regiment, O. N. G. ELLIOTT MISS KATE, Tuscarawas township; teacher; postoffice, Coshocton, Ohio. Miss Elliott received a good common-school education, also attended the national normal school, at Lebanon, Ohio She taught the first school in the Barnes district, Keene township, in 1869, and has been constantly employed ever since, often teaching as much as nine and ten months in the year. She has been a successful teacher, having taught two years .in the Coshocton schools. She has taught many schools in different parts of the country, always giving satisfaction. She is at present engaged in the Lafayette schools. ELLIOTT SIMON, Jefferson township; moulder; postoffice, Warsaw; was born in Millersburg, Holmes county, Ohio, December 15, 1832; son of Thomas and Lucy (Sanders) Elliott, and grandson of John Elliott, and Nathan and Mary Sanders. Mr: Elliott is of Irish descent Until about the age of sixteen he attended school and worked with his father in the wagon shop. He then began the moulder's trade m the foundry at Roscoe, and remained there about two years. He went to Walhonding in 1848, and remained until the year 1864, and the neat spring went to Kansas, where he followed farming fourteen years, and on account of his wife's ill health he returned to Coshocton county and resumed his trade. He has a small foundry in Warsaw, and has a very fair line of custom. He married, October 3,1857, Miss Elects Butler, daughter of Allen and Margaret (Smith) Butler. Edward L., born August 25, 1866, in the Osage Indian Reserve, in Kansas, is their only child. Mr. Elliott is a nephew of Charles Elliott, the founder and editor of the Western Christian Advocate, of Cincinnati, who never went to school, but was master of five different languages, and was at one time elected a college president. ELLIOTT R. M., Lafayette township; tinner; postoffice, West Lafayette; learned his trade in Coshocton, and has worked at the business about seven years, and at the present time is working for F. M. Familton; was married, in 1877, to Miss Miller, of this township. They have had two children: William, two years of age, and Agnes, an infant. Mr. Elliott has lived in this township about two years, and is steady and industrious. ELLIOTT ANDREW, Perry township; postoffice, New Guilford; born in West Virginia, in 1798 ; son of John and Charity Elliott ; married in 1525, to Miss Margaret McLewee, daughter of George and Katherine McLewee. Mr. Elliott died in 1858. They had eleven children, viz Charlotte, deceased ; Simon, Katherine, deceased ; George, Isabelle, John, James, deceased; Jane, deceased; Andrew, M. E. and Francis A., deceased. Mrs.. Elliott still lives upon the old homestead. ELLIOTT GEORGE, Perry township: postoffice, New Guilford; born in this county, m 1831; son of Andrew and Margaret (McLewee) Elliott, and grandson of John and Charity Elliott, and of George and Katherine McLewee. He was married in 1861, to Miss Margaret Dengan, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Dengan. Mr. Elliott BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 675 sheaf come six years of his life in the gold region: of California. He sailed front New York on the ship northern light, in October, 1853, and returned to 1869. Mr. Elliott at one time came near being buried alive. while engaged in mining operations in California. ELLIOTT WILLIAM B.; White Eyes township; farmer; was born in the State of New York, in 1825, and came to this county, with his parents, in 1828. His father, John H. Elliott, emigrated to this country from Ireland, about 1823, and located in Keene township. He removed to White Eyes in 1832. William B. began working at the carpenter trade in 1847, and followed his trade for about thirty years. He taught school daring the winters for fifteen or sixteen terms. In 1851, Mr. Elliott married Miss Mary Boyd, daughter of William M. Boyd, who was born .in 1831, in Keene township. They have two children: Milton, born in 1852, and Almarinda, born in 1855, both of whom are unmarried and live at home. Mr. Elliott bought and located on the farm where he now resides, in the spring of 1852. Mr. Elliott has served in the office of township assessor two terms, land appraiser, one term, and one term each of clerk and treasurer of township.. His father is deceased, and his mother, who is a very old lady, lives in the township. ELLIOTT COLONEL JOHN S., Coshocton, of the firm of Elliott & Marx, 114 and 116 Main street, is a native of Keene township; born May 11, 117 ; son of Findley and Catharine (Strong) Elliott, of Irish ancestry. He was raised on the farm. At the age of twenty-three he was elected justice of the peace of his native township and served nine consecutive years. Esquire Elliott was appointed by Governor Corwin lieutenant colonel of the State troops, and served until the forces were disbanded by act of the Legislature. He came to this city in 1862. and has served two terms as mayor ; also, president of the National Temperance Christian Union of this city three year, and president of the Coshocton Agricultural Society for a number of years. He was married first to Miss Margaret, daughter of George McCaskey, of White Eyes township, and by this union had one son-Alonzo Milton. His second wife was Miss Margaret Morrison, who died come thirteen years since. The above firm is doing a very extensive business in farming implements and heavy machinery. In 1880 they sold three thousand two hundred pounds of wire to bind grain cut by machines sold by them. ELLIOTT & MARX, General Agency, Nos. 414 and 416 Main street, Coshocton. This house was first established in 1860 by William Elliott, deceased, and was conducted by him until 1860, when, in consequence of his demise his brother, John S. Elliott, succeeded to the business which he conducted and greatly enlarged during the years of 1878-9, after which J. W. Cullison was associated with him under the firm name of Elliott & Cullison. This firm continued until 1871, when Mr. Cullison was succeeded by H.. Marx, changing the firm name to Elliott & Marx. This firm carries a large stock of agricultural implements and does a general agency business in which they furnish repairs for all kinds of machinery promptly on receipt of order. They keep posted to all the improvements of the age, and steal in the best articles in the market. They also furnish on lowest rates and best terms, mowers, reapers and binders, grain drills, plows and points, field rollers, sulky cultivators, hay rakes, corn planters, straw cutters, cider mils, corn crushers, farm and church bells, past hole diggers, wood pumps, churns, clothes wringers, washing machines, road scrapers, threshing machines,. farm engines, wheelbarrows, sewer pipes, fruit dryers and bakers, ceiling and sheathing paper, etc.. ELLIS GEORGE W., Tuscarawas township; farmer; postoffice, Canal Lewisville; born January 18, 1841, in Keene township; son of Andrew Ellis, and grandson of Samuel Ellis. His mother's maiden name was Mary A. Crablet, daughter of William Crablet. George W. was raised on the farm. When about eighteen he learned the shoemaking trade and followed it about three years: and has spent his entire life to the present time m this county. He came to his present residence in 1867, and has remained to the present time. He was married March 11, 1869, to Miss Annie E. Reynolds, daughter of Abraham Reynolds, whose father's name was Abraham. Her mother's maiden name was Eliza Binning. Mary S. is their only child. ELY JONATHAN, Crawford township; teach er; postoffice, Chili; born February 19, 1857, in Crawford township; son of Fredericl: and Diary Magdalena (Yost) Ely. He was educated in the public schools and national normal school at Lebanon, Ohio. He has successfully taught two terms of school, beginning his first teaching October 13, 1879, and is succeeding first rate. EMERSON ANDREW, Keene township; farmer; born December 3, 1838, in Keene township; son of George and Olive. Emerson, and grandson of Jacob Emerson, a native of Massachusetts, Andrew and Lydia (Fulton) Weatherwax. He was married December 21; 1858, to Phoebe, daughter of John and Phoebe (Stonehocker) Dickey. They had the following children: George, born December, 1859; Ella., died, February 28, 1861, and Angeline, February 1, 1863. EMERSON .W. H., Oxford township; deceased; was born in this county, in 1833 ; is a son of Timothy Emerson, and was married to Miss Ann 676 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. Norris, in 1855. The result of this union was seven children, as follows: William F., Mary Anara, Timothy G., Henry Siegel, Sherman Elmer, U. S. Grant, Sheridan and Alverton. She is a member of the M. E. church, at Wesley chapel; her father's name was William Norris. Mr. Emerson owned, at the time of his death, 253 acres of good land in this township, and was respected as an honest, upright man, by a large circle of friends. He died on the 17th of April, 1874. ENGLISH J. M., Bedford township; farmer; postoffice, Tyrone ; born, in 1830, in this county. His father, Patrick English, was born, in 1800, in Pennsylvania. He removed to Harrison county, and was married, in that county, to Miss Susannah Dickerson, of the same county, who was born in 1796, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. They came to this county in 1827. He died in 1857. She died in 1870. They were the parents of eight children, the subject of this sketch being the sixth. He was married, in 1852, to Miss Isabella Stephens, of this county, who was born in 1837. They are the parents of twelve children, eleven of whom are living, and two are married. EVERHART DAVID, White Eyes township; Chili, postoffice; farmer; born March 8, 1834, n White Eyes township; son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Miser) Everhart, formerly of Washington county, Pennsylvania. David was married, January 16, 1862, to Miss Sophia, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Stilgenbower) Gonter, a native of Pennsylvania. This union has been blessed with six children, five living, Calvin, Mary, Elizabeth, Saloma, Walter, Maggie, Ellie, and one died in infancy, not named. Mr. Everhart has obtained a comfortable farm home, and exerts a good moral influence in his community. EVERHART SAMUEL, White Eyes township; farmer; born in this county in 1832. His father, Henry Everhart, came to this county from Tuscarawas county. Samuel remained at home until he was twenty-five years old, and married Miss Florinda Hoobler, of Tuscarawas county, in 1857. Mrs. Everhart was born in 1839. They have had a family of six children. one of whom is deceased. Those living are Eliza J., born in 1858, is married to Peter Farney, and lives in Tuscarawas county; Isaac B., born 1859; Catherine, born 1864; John A., born 1872; Dells M., born 1879. Mr. Everhart has always resided in this county. EVERHART CHARLES, West Water street, Coshocton ;livery man; born September 1, 1856, in Franklin township; son of Michael Everhart, native of Virginia, and of English ancestry. Young Everhart was raised on the farm, where he remained until he established his present business at this place, in August, 1880. He keeps on an average seven good horses and rigs to suit, such as carriages, buggies, etc. EXLINE H. A., Washington township; farmer; postoffice, West Carlisle; born in 1822, in this county. His father was born in 1777, in Loudon county, Virginia, and was married in 1805, to Miss Elizabeth Betz, of the name county, who was born in 1789. They came to this county in 1818. He died in 1850 and she died in 1860. They were the parents of three children, the subject of this sketch being the youngest. He was married in 1844, to Miss Mary Gault, of this county, who was born in 1827. She died in 1856. They were the parents of three children, viz: Elizabeth E., Elsie A. and Flora B. He afterward married, in 7861, Miss Elizabeth A. Yunker, of thin county, who was born in 1833. They are the parents of three children living, viz: Nora M., John H. and Charlie B. F FAIR DANIEL, Clark township; farmer; postoffice, Clark's; born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, August 4, 1831; son of Charles and Catharine (Keefer) Fair, and grandson of Christopher and Elizabeth (Hofman) Fair. He moved to Holmes county, Ohio, with his parents in 1836, when he was but five years of age ; and at the age of eighteen he began to learn the blacksmith trade with Shrock & Miller, in New Carlisle, Holmes county; remaining about nine months. From there he went to South Bend, Indiana, where he finished his trade with Pres. Whitten, remaining about eighteen months. He then went to Mishawauka and engaged with Graham & Japen, and remained about six months. From there he came to Farmerstown, Holmes county, and began business for himself, where he remained nine years; then sold his shop and began the mercantile business, and continued at that six years, when he sold his store and purchased his present farm of 237 acres, in Clark township, and has engaged in farming since, and is a successful and energetic farmer. He was married April 4, 1854, to Lucinda Snider, daughter of Abram and Mary (Fox) Snider, and granddaughter of Abram Snider and Jacob and Mary Fox. She was born October 14, 1829, in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county. They have six children: Phineas F., born January 21,1855; William H., born August 5, 1857; Charles B., born February 11,1860; Lorenzo D., born March 24, 1863 ; Lyman S., born December 24, 1866 ; Bellmina, born January 15, 1870. Mr. Fair is a member of Millersburg Lodge No. 126, F. A. M., of which he was made a member in 1864. FAMILTON JOHN, Linton township; merchant at Plainfield; born in Tuscarawas county, July 3, 1854; son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Mid- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 677 dleton) Familton. His father moved from Port Washington, Tuscarawas county, to Lafayette, in , 1869. John remained with him there till 1875, when he purchased Osborn's store, at Bacon postoffice, this township. He remained there till the fall of 1877, at which time he moved his stock of goods to Plainfield and opened a store there. The following year a partnership was formed with Lewis Carhart, which was dissolved in 1879, and Nicholas Familton, his brother, was then admitted as a partner. Nicholas died February, 1880, and since then Mr. Familton has conducted the business alone. He was married June 4, 1878, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of William Gorseline, of Lafayette township. FAMILTON T. H., Lafayette township; merchant; born in Harrison county, in 1829, and came to West Lafayette in 1869; was married to Miss Elizabeth Middleton, of Tuscarawas county, in 1852; they have had six children: Nicolas, deceased; Dora, deceased; John, Frank, George and Will. Before he started business here, a pound of coffee or a yard of cloth could not be purchased in the place, but in his store to-day, you can find anything usually kept in a first-class dry goods and grocery house. His numerous patrons have found him an honest and obliging gentleman, and his prices compare favorably with any house in the county. FARQUHAR FRANKLIN, Perry township; postoffice, New Guilford; born in this township m 1835; son of Caleb and Katharine Farquhar, and grandson of Samuel and Phebe (Yarnall) Farquhar, and of John and Ellen (Murray) Yarnall. Mr. Farquhar is one of a family of ten children, six of whom are still living. FARQUHAR SAMUEL, Perry township; post-office, New Guilford; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county in 1838; son of Samuel Y. and Mary (Trimble) Farquhar, who came here from Maryland; grandson of Samuel and Phebe Farquhar, and of John and Ellen (Murray) Trimble. He was married in 1869 to Miss Harriet Blue, daughter of Daniel and Clara Blue. They have five children, viz: Rollie M., Mary L., Lyman L., Minnie P. and. Carrie. He enlisted in 1861 in Company K, Twenty-fourth regiment O. V. L, Captain Ginnis, and participated in the following battles: Greenbriar, Nashville, Pittsburgh Landing, Stone River and Chickamauga. He was discharged in 1864. FELLER GOTTLIEB, Crawford township; proprietor of a tannery at Chili ; born in Naflen, Kirchdorp, Amt Belb, State of Switzerland, July, 1835; son of John Feller and Barbary (Krebs) Feller, natives of the same place. Mr. Feller emigrated to America in 1854, and settled on Stone creek, Tuscarawas county, and started tannery at Chili in 1863, where he has followed the business successfully ever since. In 1863, he married Catharine Lebold, of Tuscarawas county. They are the parents of the following named children: John, born November 3, 1863; Mary Ann Senora, August 31, 1865; Jacob Edward, August 10, 1868; Catharine Amelia; October 28, 1870; Frederick Albert; September 11. 1872; Clara Matilda, March 21,1876, and Lissette Caro line, August 4,1878. One died in infancy, Jacob Henry. Mr. Feller owner quite an extensive tannery, the largest in that section of the county He also carries on the saddlery and harness making business in connection with the tannery. Mr. Feller and family belong to the B. M. church at Chili. FELVER PIZARRE, Oxford township; carpenter; Orange postoffice, Evansburgh; was born in 1840, to the town of Coshocton; son of John Felver, a cooper by trade, who died in 1842. The subject of this sketch was married in 1861 to Miss Josephine Richmond, of this township. They have three children, as follows : Alice, deceased, aged eight months and six days; Harriet, aged seventeen, and Edward, fifteen years of age. Mr. Felver has been working at his present trade about five years, having worked first at coopering under James Butler. He is a natural mechanic, and is honest and well spoken of. He has followed several vocations, starting out at boating, then coopering, then railroading, and was m Terre Haute, Indiana, for some four years, where he was, for some time, on the police force of the city. He has also worked for the Massillon and Canton bridge companies. FERGUSON VINCENT, Lafayette township; farmer; son of Andrew Ferguson, who came from Ireland in 1806 and located in Jefferson county, and was married in this county to Mary Roaderick, January 6, 1825, whose parents were natives of Maryland. He was born in this township in 1843. His father, Andrew F., was born April 2, 1795, and died in 1879. His mother was born October 4,1810, and died in 1866. The subject of this sketch was married in 1866, to Miss Rachel Bates, of Tuscarawas county, who became the mother of three children: Harry, Halston, deceased, and Homer, deceased. Mr. Ferguson keeps good stock on his farm of 438 acres, which his father bought in 1835. He has been township treasurer in his township for the past seven years, and he and his wife are members of the Protestant Methodist church. Of the fourteen brothers and sisters, one brother, and five sisters are living. FERRELL J.. M., White Eyes township;, merchant and postmaster at Avondale; born in McConnellsville, Morgan county, April, 1833; son of Joseph Ferrell, who was born in Mercer county, a Pennsylvania, about the year 1801, and emigrated 678 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. to Morgan county in 1826. He married Hannah Daugherty, in 1827; returned to Pennsylvania, in 1836; lived there two years; moved to White Eyes, and settled on a farm purchased of Elisha Swigart. His wife died in 1864. He married Mrs. Mary Johnson, in 1867, and died in 1879 J. M. Ferrell married Nancy M. Maxfield, of Orange, and lived in Orange until 1856, when he moved to Kansas. On the breaking out of the rebellion, he left Kansas, and returned to White Eyes. He enlisted in the Fifty-first O. V. I., in Company I, under Captain Heskett, and served three years. After the close of the war, he located in Avondale, and sold goods. His wife died in 1873. Their children are, Hattie, born in 1856, married David Tipton, in 1877, and now resides in Johnson county, Kansas; J. E., born in 1866, clerks in the store, with his father; Emzy, born in 1869, and Walter, born in 1872. Mr. Ferrell married Miss Mary Funk, in 1875. Mr. Ferril has been longer in business, in Avondale, than any other person doing business there now. FERRELL JOHN, Coshocton; street commissioner; born July 13, 1819, in County Donegal, Ireland; son of William and Nancy (Lane) Ferrell. He came to America in 1849, landing at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he remained two years and fired an engine. He came to this county in 1851 and located in Keene township, where he mined coal about five years, then came to this city, in 1861, and remained several years, then returned to Keene township and farmed until 1872, when he again came to this city and has remained to the present time. Mr. Ferrell was appointed street commissioner in April, 1874, and has been reappointed until he is now serving his fourth term. Mr. Ferrell was married in the fall of 1842, to Miss Jane, daughter of John McGee, of Scotland. This union was blessed with four children, Matilda, married to Henry Ondian, now residing in Porter county, Indiana, Agnes, William; married to Miss Ella Mateer, of this city, and John. FILLMAN PETER, New Castle township ; postoffice, New Castle ; was born in Oldenburgh, Germany, on the 3d of May, 1832. He is a son of John and Catharine Fillman, and grandson of David Fillman. He attended school from the age of five until he was fourteen, after which he began to learn the tailoring trade with Bartholomew Ludwick, in Fishback, Germany, finishing his apprenticeship at the end of three years. He then traveled for four years on the Continent, seeing the sights, of which he gives many interesting narratives. After he finished his rambles, he entered the German army to serve his time there, but at the end of eighteen months he made good his escape, and embarked for America, landing in June, 1855, in the city of New York, remained there until the following September, when he came to Port Washington, Ohio, and engaged with Charles Detman to work at his trade remaining there until the summer of 1857, when he went to Dresden, Muskingum county, and worked for Alexander Marten, and in the fall of the same year came to New Castle, Coshocton county, where he has remained ever since, following his occupation. He is also proprietor of the Buckeye hotel; and, is doing well, both at tailoring and hotel keeping. He married Miss Mary Fulks, daughter of John and Jane Fulks, who was born in Coshocton county. Their union has been blessed with four children, viz : John, Dorca, Sophia, and Mary. John was born September 22,1861; Dorca, July 28,1864; Sophia, December 19,1868; and Mary, March 6,1870. Mr. Fillman was made a member of the Masonic fraternity in the year 1868, and in the year 1872 he joined the I. O. O. F. He is a kind, genial man, and welcomes rich and poor alike to his hospitalities. FUNK DAVID, White Eyes township; Chili postoffice; farmer; was born September 20,1842, on the farm on which he now resides. He is the son of Jacob and Anne-daughter of Abraham and Margaret (Peck) Miller-Funk, who were the parents of eleven children, six living : Abraham, Morgan, Margaret, Ellen, Sarah and David. The latter was married May 14, 1872, to Miss Harriett A., daughter of Simon and Sophia (Grimm) Stough; born January 18, 1850. This union has been blessed with two children, John Grant and Ellma Dottie. Jacob Funk, referred to before, is a native of West Virginia, but when about four years of age was taken to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until about 1845, when he came to his present residence with only about $700, but now has an ample competence for his old age, raising and assisting to start in the world his family of sons and daughters. FINLEY R. E., D. D. S., of the firm of Finley & Wernett, Coshocton; was born August 28,1840, in New Salem, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Eli H. Finley, and grandson of Ebenezer Finley, one of the first settlers at Red Stone "Old Fort," near the Monongahela, in Western Pennsylvania. He there shared the perils, hardships and privations of pioneer life in the wild forest, infested with savage Indian warriors. Young Finley sent his childhood and youth on the farm with his father. At twenty-three years of age, he entered Dunlap's creek academy, and on completing his studies there, in 1865, commenced the study of dentistry with Dr. R. J. Cunningham, of Wooster, Ohio; next read with Dr. William Mitchell, a graduate of Philadelphia dental college. He next formed a partnership BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 679 with Dr. C. M. Kelsey, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, I ; and remained with him, studying and practicing in the adjoining country and villages, until October. 1870, when he, entered the Ohio dental college. at Cincinnati. and was graduated with the usual honors of the class of 1810 71. On receiving his diploma, he located at Dresden, and entered into partnership with Dr. F. A, Wernett, a student of the Ohio dental college. Soon after forming the new firm. they came to this cite and succeeded Dr, Moffitt, corner Main and Fifth streets; their present location. Drs. Finley & Wernett have greatly improved and furnished their parlors in a most elegant and tasteful manner, FINLEY JOHN A., Clark township; farmer ; post-office Clark's; born in Holmes county, Ohio, October 18, 1851; 51 ; son of George and Priscilla (Vanbuskirk) Finley, and grandson of Aaron and Alice Finly, and Joseph Vanbuskirk, Ills father was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, his mother in Carroll county, Ohio, His grandfather came from Ireland. He spent his youth attending school and assisting his father on the farm. At the age of nineteen he began a two-years course at Vermilion institute, in Haysville, Ashland county. After that he engaged in farming, and has continued successfully to the present, He was married August G, 1874, to Miss Martha Frizell, daughter of William H. and Elizabeth (Sowash) Frizell, and granddaughter of John and Ellen (Kelly) Frizell and Daniel and Catharine (Spring) Sowash, also great great granddaughter of Jacob Spring and Absolom Frizell. She was born December l2, 1851, in Holmes county, and became the mother of three children, viz: Emma, born May 18, 1875; George C,, born October 3, 1878, and William W,, born August 10, 1880. FISHER HON. J. C., Coshocton ; editor of the Democrat; was born December 15, 1840, in Muskingum county, Ohio. At thirteen years of age he moved. with his father, to a farm in Licking county, where he remained until 1866, when he took charge of the above named paper, which he has conducted until the present time, His education was obtained in the public schools and teaching schools, also a four years course at the Denison university. He was elected to the State senate from the eighteenth district in 1873, and re-elected in 1877. He was also, by Governor Allen, appointed, ,in 1875, member of the Ohio State Fish Commission, for three years, and by Governor Bishop re-appointed, in 1878, for a like term. He was married December 15, 1869, to Miss S. A. Hawthorne, of Coshocton, The result of this union is two daughters, viz: Annie and Shirly, Mr. Fisher has succeeded well as an editor and Legislator. FISHER GEORGE W,. Franklin township; stone mason; born August 20, 1850, in Muskingum county ; son of Clark and Mary (Myers) Fisher. His great-grandfather, Daniel Fisher, was born in Milford, Massachusetts, in 1752, and died in 1820, was the owner of a large estate, exceeding 1,000 acres, at Newfane, Vermont. Daniel Fisher, son of the above, was born February 16, 1776, and died August 17, 1862. He married for his first wife, Millicent Durren, of Newfane, Vermont, in 1797. Clark, the eldest child by this marriage, born April 23, 1798, died July 1, 1874, engaged in farming in Vermont, and in 1833 moved to Canada East, in the spring of 1835 he removed to New I York, and in 1838 came to Coshocton county; remained till 1849-except one year, 1846~7, spent in Mercer county then went to Muskingum county, having engaged in teaching school since he quit Vermont. He kept a boarding house in Zanesville a while, then on the pike near Sonora, The subject of this sketch was reared in Muskingum county, and about 1872 came to this township, He was married, April 11, 1875, to Martha E. Adams, born May 8, 1852, daughter of Charles and Susan Adams, of this county. They have two children-Charlie Clark, born June 10, 1876, and Berths Elsie, born October 6, 1879. FITCH JAMES, farmer; Tuscarawas township ; Canal Lewisville postoffice ; born November 30, 1844, in Lafayette township; son of John M. Fifth and grandson of David Fitch, of Irish ancestry. His mother's maiden name was Hester McCleary, daughter of Abraham McCleary, a native of Maryland. James was raised on the farm and has always lived in this county. He came to his present residence in 1878. He was married August 11, 1860. to Miss Lucy Jane Babcock, daughter of Abel Babcock, of Linton town ship. His children are, Samuel H., Jesse, Clarinda and Wilbert A. FITCH JOHN M., deceased, Lafayette township; son of David Fifth; was born in Guernsey county, in 1820. He was married in 1845, to Miss Hester McClurg, who was born in Virginia, in 1823. Their children were James, Elizabeth, Lucinda, Louisa, John, Margaret, Hannah, David, Sarah, Susannah, George, Hattie, Frank and Hester. Six are married, the rest are at home. Mr. F. died in 1874, aged fifty-four years. He was a man of good principles, honest in alI his dealings. He has always' hued in this county and since their marriage they have lived on the farm, where his widow now lives. By his own industry he acquired the home he left to his family. They are a prosperous family and have the respect of ail their acquaintances and friends. FLEMING ALFRED, plasterer; postoffice, West Lafayette. He was born in this township, in 1854; learned the plastering trade with Mid- 680 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. dleton Brothers; is an ingenious mechanic, and doing an extensive business, His father was a native of Virginia, and was married to Eliza A. Gorseline. They had eight children, viz: William, John B, Franklin, Alfred, Simpson, Heater, deceased, Charlie and Persian, deceased. The father, Thornton Fleming, has deceased. FLYNN JOSEPH, engineer at paper-mills; born March 13, 1847, in New York city; son of Patrick Flynn, a native of Ireland. Young Flynn, when a small boy, sold newspapers at the newsboys' home, New York city.. When about sixteen years of age, came to this county, and worked for Washington Darling, about two years; also worked for Anthony Wimmer, about one year; then came to this city, and engaged in the mill where he is now employed, Mr. Flynn was elected constable, in 1869, and re-elected, in 1880, which office he now holds. He was married, July 19, 1868, to Miss Mary Reynolds, daughter of Abraham Reynolds, of Canal Louisville. Their children are, Susan, William, Eliza, Ellie, Josie and Matilda. FORBES J. P., Coshocton ; born A ril 28,1855, in Tuscarawas county, Ohio; son of T. J, Forties; American born, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He obtained a rudimentary education in the public schools of Uhrichsville, Ohio, and finished his studies at New Hagerstown academy, Carroll county, Ohio, and benison university, Granville, Licking county, Ohio. In 1877 Mr. Forties entered, as a student, the law office of F. Douthitt and read one year, and then came to this city and finished his reading with G. H: Barger, and was admitted to practice by the supreme court of the State of Ohio, March 4,1879. In the same year he formed a partnership with his recent preceptor, under the present firm name of Barger & Forties. Attorney Forties was married December 30,1879, to Miss Maria E. Hay, daughter of Robert Hay, deceased. FORKER W. R., Coshocton; insurance agent, Norris block, Main street; born August 28, 1849 in West Carlisle, Pike township ; son of Daniel Forker, of English ancestry. W. R. was brought up on the farm till seventeen, when he began teaching school and taught three terms. At twenty-one he began clerking in West Carlisle, and remained two years. In February, 1854, he went to California, but returned in July, 1855, and formed a partnership with his brother Samuel in the mercantile business at West Carlisle. In 1858 he went to Missouri and taught school one term, but returned in the fall of same year. In the spring of 1859 he came to . Coshocton and served as deputy auditor for his brother Samuel four years. He also served as city mayor and justice of the peace of Pike township. In 1866 he was elected county auditor, and re-elected in 1868. In 1874 he engaged in the hardware business, which he continued till 1878 when he established his present agency : Mr. Forker was married April 11, 1866, to Miss Sarah E., daughter of N. R. Welch, of this city, Their children are Julia A,, Grace W., Early and William. FORNEY A. Z., Linton township; farmer; born in Linton township, April 14, 1828; son of Joseph and Susan (Miskimen) Forney ; grandson of Abram and Polly (Forney), and of James and Catharine (Bartmess) Miskimen. His grandfather Forney moved his family from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1812. His father settled in this county about 1826. Mr, Forney is the oldest of six children. He was married October 7, 1849, to Huldah Doty, daughter of Isaac and Maria (Shaw) Doty, born in New Jersey, and came to this county when a little girl. His children are Clark D., Harriet, Joseph W., Franklin, John, Sarah, and Rachel. FORSYTHE JAMES, Oxford township; farmer; postoffice, White Eye Plains; was born near Nashville, Tennessee, in 1847; son of Samuel and Mary (Whiteside) Forsythe; came to this county with his parents when about six years of age, where he has since resided. He was married to Rebecca Lisk, of this county, in 1851, who was the daughter of James Lisk. His father passed away in 1872; his mother is still living. He has been township treasurer of this township. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church: He owns two hundred and fourteen acres of land in the best part of this township. FORTENBACHER CASIMER, Jefferson township; wagonmaker; postoffice, Warsaw; born in Londenbach, Baden, Germany, March 8, 1840; son of Andrew and Gertrude (Weimer) Fortenbacher. He commenced work at his trade at the age. of eighteen; and at the age of twenty-ane he enlisted, October 10,1861, in Company B, Forty-sixth O. V. V. I, and was mustered out of service July 23,1865, at Louisville, Kentucky. He took part in the following engagements: Battle of Shiloh, siege of Corinth, battle of Vicksburg, Mission Ridge, the campaign to Atlanta, Sherman's march to the sea, and the battle of Goldsborough. He was never wounded. After the war he took a trip west, but being disappointed he returned to Columbus, Ohio, and carried on a shop about five years. After leaving Columbus he located in Warsaw, this county, and has been carrying on his shop to advantage since, having a very fair trade. He married, November i6, 1876, Miss Emma Buckalew, daughter of William and Mary Buckalew. Two children, Ignatius and Lamburt, were born to them. FORTUNE .ISAAC, Jackson township ; born in Coshocton, in 1537 ; son of Isaac and Lucinda BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, - 683 Fortune; married in -, to Susan Johnston, daughter of James and Ellen Johnston, Mr. For tune has been to ice married. His second wife was Gordie Hanna. He had two children with each wife, Postoffice, Roscoe, FOSTER CORNELIUS, Jefferson township; bore in March, 1844, in Coshocton county; son of William R, and Elizabeth (Davis) Foster, and grandson of Miser and Hannah (Randles) Foster, and of William. Davis. Mr. Foster was brought up on a farm and educated in district schools. He lived at home with his parents till about the age of twenty-eight, when he married Miss Caroline Speckman, to March, 1572, daughter of John and Rose (Fredrick) Speckman, and granddaughter of George and Christina (Davis) Fredrick. He now owns a small farm, and by honest industry makes a good living for himself and family. Angeline, Charles P, and Viola G,, are the names of their children, FOSTER JAMES, Jefferson township; merchant; postoffice, Warsaw ; born in Jackson township, Coshocton county, October 12, 1830; son of William and Sarah A, (Drake) Foster. Mr, Foster was brought up on a farm, and, at the age of twenty-one, he went to school at West Bedford, and attended there two years, then went to Jackson and attended a select school for six months, after which he began teaching common schools, and continued ten years. He then engaged as clerk with Dr. Stanton, in a dry goods store, and continued about one and a half years, then formed a partnership with Isaac Hogland, purchased the goods of Mr, Stanton, and, to 1874, Mr. Ebenezer Foster became his partner, He afterward purchased his partner's share, and since then has been doing the business himself. He has a good paying custom, His average sales are about $15,000 per year, Mr, Foster was married October 24 1872, to Miss S, S. McCoy, daughter of Uriah and Elizabeth (Wolfe) McCoy, and granddaughter of William and Harriet (Walraven) McCoy, and James and Sarah (Meredith) Wolfe, This union has been blessed with three children-Louis A., born in September, 1873, died March 14, 1877 ; Gladys Pearl, born October 10, 1874, and Glenwood Mc, born March 14, 1878. FOSTER RALPH, Keene township; farmer; horn February, 1822, in Keene township; son of James and Nancy (Ford) Foster, and grandson of John and Catherine (Blain) Foster and of William and Jane Ford, all natives of Ireland. He was married December 2, 1845, to Madeline Wilson, daughter of John P. and Grace (Vale) Wilson. Their children were Catherine, Augusta, Etta, William E. and Mary. FOWLER RICHARD, Linton township; farmer; born July 22, 1818, on the farm he now occupies, in Linton township; the son of Richard and Jane (Elson) Fowler, His father was an early settler in the county, Mr. Fowler was married July 13, 1842, to Sarah, daughter of Francis Wells, of Tuscarawas township, The children born unto them are John W., Richard; Isabel, deceased ; Francis, Jeremiah; Mary, deceased; Hiram and William Albert. FOSTER JOHN, Monroe township; son of John and Catharine (Boyd). Foster; was born February 9, 1823, in Donegal, Ireland, came to America with his parents in 1825, and settled in Coshocton county, where he has since lived; is a farmer; was married in December of 1855. to Miss Ann J., daughter of W, H. and Martha (McBride) Burklew; are the parents of two children, FOX MARTHA, Clark township; postoffice, Helmick; widow of Ira Fox; was born in Ireland, June 13, 1841; daughter of Thomas and Jane Buchannan, who came from Ireland, in 1847. She was married to Ira Fox, August 21, 1861; son of Ely and Louvina (Andrews) Fox; born January 25, 1816; died, February 8, 1879. She is the mother of seven children, viz: James H., born December 14, 1862; Thomas L, born July 6,1864; Isabel J., born June 5, 1866; Cora E,, born January 9, 1869; Joseph D,, born January 9,1872; Wilmer M,, born July 18, 1874; George, born April 26, 1878, FOX EDWIN, Clark township; postoffice, Helmick; born in Clark township, Coshocton county, November 23, 1852; son of Ira and Roxanna (Davis) Fox, and grandson of Ely and Louvina (Andrews) Fox, He was raised on the farm, and has spent most of his time at farming. but has also worked at carpentry, and is, at present, partner in a saw-mill, with George Lowe and Henry Markley. He was married, February 23, 1873, to Miss Mary J, Akin, daughter of James and Sarah (Moore) Akin, She was born in Bethlehem township, July 24,1852, They are parents of four children: George, deceased; Cora E,, Ira N, and Rose. FOX ELY, Clark township ; farmer ; postoffice, Helmick: born May 8, 1827, in Clark township on the farm where he now resides; son of ely and Louvina (Andrews Fox, His father and mother were both born to Hartford, Connecticut, his father in 1789, and his mother in 1794, They moved to Clark township in 1822, entering a tract of land of one thousand acres, two hundred and fifty of which is now owned by the subject of this sketch, and on which he now lives. His father was a ship carpenter, and lived in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1812, and assisted in building the first (Buckingham) bridge. His grandfather were both soldiers of the revolutionary war. He was married February 17,1849, to Elizabeth Mc- 684 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY, Coy, daughter of John and Sarah McCoy, from whom he was divorced. He was married again May 17, 1862, to Ann M, Bills, daughter of William A, and Almira (Fulton) Bills, and granddaughter of Allanson Bills and Sampson and Elizabeth (Quigly) Fulton, who was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, July 18, 1832. They are parents of seven children, viz: Ivey L, born March 7, ---- ;Mary, February 23,1863; William A., June 19, 1864; James E., September 24, 1865, deceased; Hannah A., July 20, 1867; Edwin G., December 16, 1868; and Martha J., December 29, 1876. Mr, Fox was a soldier in the late war, belonged to Company E, One Hundred and Forty-Second O. N, G,, and served about four months. FOX AMOS, Clark township; farmer; postoffice, Helmick; born in West Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, June 29, 1801; son of Eli and Louvina (Andrews) Fox, and grandson of Amos Fox. He removed from Zanesville with his parents, to Clark township, when he was ten years of age, where he has resided ever since. He is one among the oldest settlers of the township, and owns a farm of 356 acres Mr, Fox was married October 19, 1837 to Miss Chrissa Ann Stover, daughter of Michael and Phebe Stover. She was born in Virginia, December 14, 1806, and came to Ohio at six years of age. They are the parents of eight children, John, deceased; Thomas, deceased ; Ira, Michael H,, Louvina, Matthias and Rebecca. John belonged to Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I, under Captain James Crooks. He enlisted September 17,1861, and died October 26,1863, near Chickamauga, Tennessee, where he is buried. FERGUSON S. T., manager of Coshocton Commonwealth, of the firm of Ferguson Bros,, publishers and general job printers; born in Harrison county, Ohio, August 24, 1848; resided there until between sixteen and seventeen years old, when he enlisted in the One Hundred and Eighty-fifth O: V. I, and served as a private in Company I until the close of the war, then served on the Pan Handle railroad in the capacity of brakeman, freight conductor and passenger conductor, for over eleven years. He was married in January, 1874, to Miss Maggie Ferguson, of Canonsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has one child Carrie, who is now six years of age, In the year of 1878 he left the railroad and engaged in the foundry and machine business at Newcomerstown, Ohio, and was burned out shortly after engaging in that business, when he located a Coshocton, Ohio, and is one of the partners o that popular sheet called the Coshocton Common wealth, The paper was started on January 1 1880, the most inauspicious time for such a enterprise, but, through his efficient manage ment, it has been entirely successful, and reached the acme of excellence, and far surpassed the expectations of the proprietors, It will, in the near future, become the paper of Coshocton county. FERGUSON W. M., editor Coshocton Common-wealth ; of the firm of Ferguson Brothers, publishers and general job printers; native of Harrison county, Ohio, and was born July 29, 1857; youngest son of Benjamin M. and Cynthia (Haskins) Ferguson. Went to school until about fifteen years old, when, without haying ever been under instruction, took up the "art preservative," in company with a younger companion, and published a small paper. In two years he left home and engaged in the office of the Cadiz Sentinel, serving a three years' apprenticeship, being, however, promoted to the foremanship after first six months. He next went to Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas county, there establishing a paper called The Eye, and successfully managing it for over a year, when be disposed of his interest and retired for a short time, next, with his brother, purchasing an office in Coshocton and starting, January 1, 1880, the Coshocton Comamonwealth, which, as a result of their industry, energy and persistent efforts, has now grown into a large, influential, independent weekly, ranking among the very best county papers to Ohio. The prosperity of the Commonwealth is evinced in the fact that a newpower press and outfit of type has just been added to its office. FRECK W. C., New Castle township; postoffice, Walhonding ; was born in Holmes count , August 25, 1851; son of Christian and Julia (Miser) Freck. He attended school until the age of fourteen, at which time he be an to learn the shoemaker's trade with Henry H. Geiger, of New Bedford, Coshocton county, From there he went to Meadville, Pennsylvania, and engaged with Carpenter & Mathews in building the courthouse of that place. He then went to Garretsville, Ohio, and assisted in building the college and bank in that place, and from there he went to Cuyahoga county, and assisted in building the courthouse in that county; after which he went to Millersburg and served as clerk with R. C. & J. T, Maxwell, in a retail clothing establishment, and remained two years. He then went to Lima, Ohio, and engaged with Koch & Levi, retail clothiers, and after remaining with them one year he went to St. Louis, and engaged in a wholesale clothing store with L. E, Green & Co., and remained with them three years. His health being impaired he took a trip through the West, visiting Colorado and the Hot Springs, and on returning home to New Bedford he clerked for G, C, Brenner in a general dry goods store eighteen months, after which he formed a partnership in general merchandising under the firm name of Freck & Fair, doing busness a year, when he bought the entire stock and moved it to Walhonding on the 1st BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 685 of March, 1879, where he has since been doing a fair business. He was married to Miss Selects C. Fair August 16, 1817, daughter of Fenice and Catherine Fair, who was born July 8, 1859, in Holmes county, Ohio. They have been blessed with two children, viz: Charles and Mollie. FREDERICK J, M,, Jefferson township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw; born in York county, Pennsylvania, July 13, 1825; son of Jacob and Christina (Frederick) Frederick, who came from Wurtemberg, Germany, and grandson of Casper and Barbara Frederick, who came to Monroe township, Coshocton county, when he was but eight years of age, He never received any schooling, as there were no schools until he was fifteen years old. He was married, November 19, 1846, to Miss Sarah Parrot, daughter of John and Dora (Bateman) Parrot, who came from Ireland, She was born March 13, 1826, died June 19, 7854, They had four children, viz: Robert C,; born October 4, 1847; Dorenda A,, born September 3, 1849; Martha J,, born October 6, 1851; and William W,, born November 8, 1853. He was married, November 20, 1854, to Mrs. Phebe Brillhart, daughter of Samuel and Susan (Whitzel) Brillhart, born June 12, 1833. The children of this marriage were; Mary J,, born February 18,1857; Samuel J,, born August 14, 1859; Sarah L,, born September 3, 1862; Elizabeth A,, born January 22, 1865; Laura M,, born August 18, 1867; Rosa C,, born October 13, 1869; Emma C,, born April 14, 1872; Harriet G,, born October 10, 1875, died June 19, 1879, Mr, Frederick is a member of the M, E. church and has been for the past thirty-five years; is a highly respected, pious man, and has raised a large, intelligent family, FREDERICK BENJAMIN J,, Bethlehem township; farmer; son of John C, Frederick;. was born August 27, 1856, in Bethlehem township. Mr. Frederick was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He was married February 12, 1878, to Miss Katie Layman, of this county, who was born in February, 1860. They are the parents of one child, James Clayton, born in August, 1880, Mr. Frederick's father and mother died in January, 1879, aged respectively eighty and sixty years, They were among the first settlers of the township. FREDERICK JOHN G., Bethlehem township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio ; son of John C. and Mary A. (Frieze) Frederick; was born, April 10, 1828, in Bethlehem township, Coshocton county. Mr. Frederick's father was one of the old pioneers of the county. John G. Frederick was married, October 31, 1850, to Miss Emma Curran, of this county, They are the parents of five children, viz: Laura E,, born December 11, 1852; Silva F,, born May 14, 1859; Millie S,, born July 16, 1863; Perry W., born October 19, 1865; Carrie A., born June 10, 1871. Two, Laura E, and Silva F,, are married. Millie S. was educated at the National normal school, at Lebanon, Ohio, and is now teaching school. Mr. Frederick was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He has, by industry, , secured a fine farm, in Bethlehem township Mi. and Mrs, Frederick are prominent members of the Methodist Protestant church, and are esteemed by all who know them. FREDERICK R. C., Jefferson township; was born in Coshocton county, Ohio; son of John M. and Sarah J. (Parrott) Frederick. He lived on a farm until the age of sixteen, when he accepted the position of clerk in W, & J. W. Stanton's dry goods store, where he continued till the dissolution of that firm, when he engaged with Jackson Hay, of Coshocton, in the same business, where he labored for five years. In 1870, he engaged in the hardware business, in partnership with G. R. Gamble, and in 1872, he sold his hardware interest to his partner, then formed a partnership with James Frederick, and opened up another hardware store, which they managed successfully till 1874, when they had a burnout and lost every thing. He then traveled with J, Kitzmiller & Co., of Canton, Ohio, for four years, on a salary of $6,00 per day. After this he went into the hardware business again, under the firm name of C. Kaser & Co., and are at present doing a lively business at Warsaw, Ohio. Mr. Frederick was married to Miss Lizzie Myers in March, 1870, daughter of Henry and Wilhelmina Myers. Their children are Clara, May and Russell C. FREDERICK JOHN, Jefferson township; born in Wurtemberg, Germany, January 21,1813; son of John George and Christina (Deanery Frederick, and grandson of Casper and Barbara Frederick and John Deaner. He came to America at the age of nineteen, landing in Baltimore after a voyage of eleven weeks on a Holland vessel. From there he came to Bethlehem township, Coshocton county, and after remaining there about two years, moved to Jefferson township, where he has resided since. He is one of the first settlers of the township, is a highly 'respected citizen, owns a farm of 320 acres, well improved. Mr. Frederick was married September 10, 1837, to Miss Elizabeth Brillhart, daughter of Samuel and Susan (Whitezel) Brillhart of Buckingham county, Virginia. Mrs. Frederick died December 3, 1879, He is the father of ten children, viz: Susan; Samuel, deceased; Pollie, George; David, Louis, William, Benjamin; Christina, and Julia, deceased. He has twenty-four grandchildren. and one great-grandchild; FREESE WILLIAM L., farmer; postoffice, Mohawk village; born in 1845, in this county. His father was born in 1808, in Frederick county, 686 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. Maryland, and came to this county in 1834. He was married in 1835 to Miss Annie M. Weatherwax, of this county, who was born in 1815, in New York. They are the parents of ten children, the subject of this sketch being the fifth. He was married in 1877 to Miss Mary J. Ogle, of this county, who was born in 1855. They are the parents of one child, Asbury. FREW W. C., M. D., Coshocton ; born, October 31, 1844, in this city; son of John Frew, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, of Irish ancestry. He was raised, and received a primary education, in his native city. In 1862, he entered the University of Michigan, at Ann Harbor, and was graduate in 1866. In the same year, he began the study of medicine, with Dr. Harris, of this city. In 1867, he entered Long Island college hospital, at Brooklyn, New York, and attended three courses of lectures, receiving the degree of M. D , in 1869, and served one year in the Long Island college hospital house, as physician and surgeon. He began practice in this city in 1870, and has continued to the present time (1880). Dr. Frew was married, January 2, 1877, to Miss L. V. Hackinson, daughter of Robert Hackinson, of this city. FREY FREDERICK, New Castle township ; postoffice, Walhonding; born September 3, 1820, in Pfalz of Bavaria in Germany; son of George and Elizabeth (Eresman) Frey, grandson of Frederick and Catherine Eresman, all natives of Germany. Mr. Frey came to America with his parents, on the 17th of August, 1837, stopped in Buffalo a month, then came to New Castle township, Coshocton county, and has lived here .ever since. The first four years of his sojourn in this county were spent working on the Walhonding canal, then in process of construction. After its completion, he engaged with Mr. Noah Butler to work on the farm, and remained several years, then began farming for himself, and has been successful. He has a good farm of 160 acres in the northern part of New Castle township. He married Miss Dorothy Branstool, June 13, 1846, daughter of Godfrey and Elizabeth Branstool, who was born in the year 1827, in Alsace, France. They have eight children, all living, viz: George, born May 24, 1848; Elizabeth, born December 1, 1849; Mary, born March 6,1852; John, born February 12, 1856; Lewis, born October 25, 1857; Caroline, born February 29, 1862; William, born October 20, 1865, and Clare, born January 10,1870. FROCK MICHAEL, Keene township; farmer; born October 28, 1847, in Coshocton county, Ohio; son of George, born May 21, 1824, and Rachael Sheneman, born September 29, 1829, grandson of Michael, born May 9,1785, and Elizabeth (Seldenright) Frock, and of Christian and Catherine (Moore) Sheneman. He was married to Miss Mary McCaskey, born April 4,1844. She is a daughter of William and Eliza (Graham) McCaskey, and granddaughter of George McCaskey. Their children were-William G, born April 7, 1875 ; Solernma D., December 24, 1876,. and Donella May, August 22, 1878. FROCK GEORGE, White Eyes township; farmer; born, on the farm where he now resides, in 1824. His father, Michael Frock, was born, in Chester county, Georgia, in the year 1795, and was married m Georgia. He emigrated to Tuscarawas county in 1814, and came to White Eyes township in 1818; bought eighty acres of land, and entered the balance of the 200 acres where his son George now lives. He was the fifth settler in the township; came here before it was organized, and had to cut his way through the woods, from Sugar creek to his farm. He was the first justice of the peace, and served in that office three terms. His son George has his first docket, which is quite a curiosity. It is made out of coarse, unruled paper, and is bound in buckskin and pasteboard. The first entry was made in 1824. The first law-suit was against James Henderson. Pat. Revenscroft charged him with killing a dog and scalping it, and drawing on it the premium paid by the State for wolf scalps. He was bound over to the court of common pleas. In the same year, a Sabbath-beaker was fined seventy-five cents. Another was charged with "swearing two finable oaths," tried, found guilty, and was fined fifty cents, twenty-five cents for each oath. He styled some of his cases "assault and struck;" and in several places where an adminstrator was plaintiff, he entered it thus: "A. B., administrator for the State of C. D., deed:" A large portion of the docket was filled with suits for bastardy. The following is a fair specimen of some of the entries: "Appeared before me, Michael Frock,. a justice of the peace for said township, on the 7th day of August, William Cutshall personally appeared and paid one dollar for to fight fisticuffs with John Shook, on the 23d day of July Received by me, Michael Frock, J. P." This docket is highly prized by the family, and they have also many other ancient papers that are interesting to the antiquarian. Michael Frock was of German descent, and had e good German education; but, judging from his papers, his English was defective. He served the township as trustee several terms; was an honorable gentleman, and highly esteemed. He enjoyed hunting, and was fond of relating his adventures with the wild animals that prowled through the woods that surrounded his home in pioneer times. He was drafted in the war of 1812. He died in 1871, a e eighty-five years, and his wife, who was well known in the community as an obstetrician, died in 1856, at sixty-nine years. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 687 of age. Their family consisted of the following children: Anna Mary, married Jacob Nihart and lives in Williams county; Jacob married Catharine Sompsel, and are both deceased; Michael, married Susan Nihart, and they are both dead; John, died when about fifteen years old; Daniel, nutrried Catharine Lint, and lives in Indiana; Christina, was married to Wash Richardson, and has deceased; George, married Rachel Shoneman, June 25, 1846, and their children are : Michael, born October 33, 1847, married Mary McClosky in 1370, lives in Keene township, and his wife lots deceased ; Margaret, born November 14, 1850, married Denied Arney in 1879, and lives in Clark township; Leah E., born January 24, 1853, married Thomas Doak in 1873, and is a widow; John, bore September 8, 1855, married Sarah Sampsel in 1879, and lives on his father's place; Rachel, born December 17, 1862, is unmarried, and lives art home. FRY J. P.. New Castle township; was born in December 1838, in Pfalz, Bavaria, in Germany; son of George and Elizabeth C. Eresman Fry, grandson of William Fry and Frederick Eresman, all natives of Germany. In August, 1837, he arrived in America, stopping in Buffalo until September, when he came to Coshocton county and worked on the canal and farm for seven years. He then leased land, cleared, and farmed until 1843, when he purchased a small firm, since which time he has been gradually advancing and now hats over 400 acres of hind. He was married to Miss Anna Braustool, cm the 29th of June, 1849, daughter of Godfrey and Elizabeth Braustool, and they Nave had seven children, viz : William, John, Jacob, Levi, Elizabeth, Elvina and Louie. Mrs. Fry died November 2, 18G1. He afterwards married Miss Barbary Breidenbucher, daughter of George and Margaret (Olier) Breidenbucher, granddaughter of George and Barbery (Weimer) Olier, natives of France, and by their marriage had five children, viz : Daniel, Franklin, Samuel, Edward and Otto. FRY W. S., Perry township; born in this county in 1840, Son of Samuel and Darcus (Cullison) Fry, grandson of John Fry and of Jesse and Notie Cullison. He was married in 1861, to Miss Caroline Crowther. They are the parents of three children, viz: William A., Willis and Emmet. FRY JONAS, Jackson township; postoffice, Warsaw; was born in this county in 18311; son of Jonas and Mary (Crowther) Fry, and grandson of Enoch Fry and James and Delilah Crowther. Married in 1860, to Miss Sarah F. Hughes, daughter of William Hughes. Mr. Fry is the father of three children, viz ; Lincoln, Joshua and William F. G. GAMBLE SAMUEL K., groceries and provisions, East Chestnut street, at the intersection of Chestnut and Main streets, Coshocton. Mr. Gamble is a native of Cookstown, Tyrone county, Ireland, where he was born June 12, 1846. He emigrated to America in the spring of 1865, and located in Coshocton, where he engaged as salesman in the grocery of W. G. Moffit, where he remained one year. After this he engaged in railroading and coal mining, until 1879; when he established his present business. He carries a good stock of staple and fancy family groceries and confectioneries, stoneware, woodenware, sugar-cured and pickled meats, salt fish, flour, salt, and all kinds of canned goods; also deals in all kinds of country produce. GAMBLE G. R., Jefferson township; merchant; postoffice, Warsaw ; born in New Castle township, Coshocton county, Ohio, August 8, 1842; son of Romulus and Margaret (Riley) Gamble. He was raised on a farm, and educated in the graded schools of New Castle ; remaining on the farm until twenty-six yearn of age. In the spring of 1870 he opened a hardware store in Warsaw, in partnership with R. C. Frederick, and continued in that business until 1878, when he sold his interest in the hardware, and purchased the half interest in Nickol's store, where he is at present, doing a lively business. They deal extensively in grain also. He was married in December, 1868, to Miss Lizzie Cratz, of Coshocton, daughter of Leopold and Marilla Cratz. They are blessed with four children : Romulus, Milla, Maggie and Lou Ella. Mr. Gamble is a gentleman of standing, a thorough business man, and respected by all who know him. GAMBLE LEVI, Jefferson township; teacher and civil engineer; postoffice, Warsaw; born in Huron, December 10, 1834; son of James and Elizabeth (Ashley) Gamble, and grandson of William and Nancy (Robison) Gamble, and of Warden and Susannah (Turner) Ashley. His grandfather, Gamble, came from Ireland, in an early day, and settled near Philadelphia Pennsylvania. From there he came to Zanesville, and, after remaining therefor some time, moved to Delaware county, and thence to Huron county, where he died, He was father of twelve children, of whom James the youngest, moved to Coshocton county, in 1837; located m New Castle township, and served as justice of the peace, for about twelve' years: He was sent to the Legislature, from this county in 1860, and served one term, and; in 1862, was elected member of the board of public : works, in which capacity he served until March 18, 1864, when he died, in his fifty-eighth year. Levi is the only son, and followed teaching, from the age of . 688 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. twenty, to 1864, at which time he was appointed civil engineer on public works, and served one year. He was appointed county surveyor, by the county commissioners, in June, 1865, and served twelve years. Mr. Gamble is at present teaching. He was married, January 6, 1868, to Miss Mary A. Bucklew, daughter of Nathan and Mary A. (Chambers) Bucklew, and granddaughter of Parker and Elizabeth (Mathena) Bucklew, and of William A. and Anna (Smock) Chambers. She was born September 30, 1845 in Clark township. They are the parents of three children: James H., born December 16, 1869; Nathan Ward, September 21,1871, and Clyde A., March 9, 1873. GARDNER SAMUEL, leather and findings, Sixth street, Coshocton ; was born in Saratoga., New York, December 22, 1823; son of Jabez and Sarah (Brone) Gardner, of American ancestry. Young Gardner lived until nine years of age, at Troy, New York, from thence moved to Utica, New York, from which lace he came to this city, in 1844. Mr. Gardner earned the shoemaking trade when about eighteen years of age, and has followed it as a secondary business to the present time. About the year 1849, he learned telegraphy and was an operator about five years. He was appointed collector of tolls on the Ohio and Walhonding canal, June 1, 1861, and served to April 15, 1880. In April, 1871, he was elected justice of the peace, and served three consecutive terms. He was also elected county infirmary director and served two terms. He was married September 1, 1844, to Miss Margaret E:, daughter of Henry and Jennette (McFarland) Vanvalkinburg, New York State. They have brought up a family of seven children, viz : Clinton J.; Jennie and Julia, twins; Kate, Benjamin, Mamie and Ellie. GARDINER JAMES A., Pike township; postoffice, West Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser ; born in this county in 1829; son of Archibald and Martha (Stewart) Gardiner. Mr. Gardiner's father settled in this county in 1819, and died in 1868; and his mother died in 1879. He is a grandson of Hugh and Barbara (heal) Gardiner, and of William and Anna Stewart. He was married in 1852 to Miss Minerva J. Beckham, daughter of William and Nancy Beckham. They are the parents of five children, viz : William H., Samuel A., George N., Martha E., and Nannie A. One is married and lives in Licking county. GAULT JOHN, Pike township; postoffice, West Carlisle ; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county in 1837; son of Adam and Sarah Gault, and grandson of Adam and Margaret Gault. He was married in 1867 to Miss Susan M. White, daughter of Lewis and Sarah White. They are the parents of three children, viz : Sarah L, Darl F., and Tilden A. GAULT ADAM, Perry township; postoffice West Carlisle; born in Mercer county, m 1806, settled in this county in 1814; son of Adam and Margaret (Stewart) Gault, and grandson of James and Margaret Gault, and of William and Margaret (Neat) Stewart. He was married, in 1831, to Miss Sarah Miller, daughter of Francis and Isabella Miller. Mrs. Gault died in 1876. They had nine children, viz: Isabella, Margaret, John, Anna; William, Eliza and George. GAULT W. R., Coshocton ;attorney; born January 20, 1848, in Pike township, this county; son of Adam Gault, who, at an early day, came to this county from Washington county, Pennsylvania. In his childhood and early youth he faithfully performed the duties of a farmer boy. His rudimental education was obtained in the public schools of his native county. In 1869, he entered Wittemberg College, Springfield, Ohio, and was graduated in 1873. In the same year he entered as a student in the law office of Messrs. Nicholas & James, and was admitted to the bar July 20, 1875, since which time he has pursued his profession. June, 1879, Mr. Gault was appointed a member of the board of school examiners, which position he now honorably fills. GEESE GEORGE, Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Avondale ; born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1808; son of George and Catharine (Stall) Geese, and grandson of Conrad Geese, who was of German descent. He came to White es township, Coshocton county, in 1837, remain there two years, then moved to Crawford township, remained there one year, then came to his present location, where he has been a resident ever since. He was married in May, 1831, to Miss Mary McFadden, daughter of Thomas and Barbara McFadden. She died April 1, 1854. They became the parents of fourteen children, eight of whom are living, viz: William, Samuel, George, Jacob, Christian, Henry, Sarah and Jane. He married, in February, 1855, Misa Margaret Wimer, who died in 1863. He then married Mrs. Sarah Fuller, daughter of John and Susannah (Noel) Bowman; and granddaughter of Nicholas and Mary (Slonacre) Noel, of German descent, and became the mother of two children, Alonzo and Harry. GEESE CHRISTOPHER, White Eyes township; a native of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania; emigrated to this county about 1837. April 27, 1845, he married Miss Jennie Kimble. She was a native of Jefferson county, was born in 1818, came to this county with her parents, who were among the first settlers of White Eyes. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 689 Mr. and Mrs.. Geese were the parents of four children, two of whom are living, viz: Columbus and Washington. Columbus was born March 22, 1846, in White Eyes; remained at home until he was married, which was in 1868, to Miss Catherine Endlich, she is a native of the county, was born in 1847, and is of German ancestry. They have four children-Elmer E., Clarinda C., Laura J., Cordelia M. Washington Geese was born August 22, 1845, and is married to Elizabeth Cutshall. Christopher Geese bought the farm, where his eon Columbus now lives, in 1857. Before Mr. Geese came to this county, he followed navigation. He made eighteen trips across the Atlantic, and was captain of a crew on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers for some time. He was on the water about twenty-eight years, and came to this county in 1845. He, at one time, owned about 800 acres of land in White Eyes. The elder Geese died September 26, 1870, aged sixty-five years, and his wife died October 21, 1863, and they are both buried at Kimbles. Columbus Geese was elected clerk of White Eyes and is serving out his term now, he is also a notary public. GEIDEL CHARLES H., of the firm of Hack, Geidel & Co., general merchants, Roscoe, Ohio. Mr. Geidel was born June 28, 1852, in Newark, New Jersey; son of John Conrad and Maria L. (Beatzel) Geidel. In 1856 they came to Roscoe, where young Geidel was brought up. In 1871 he entered the room (where he is now partner) as a clerk. In September, 1880, he entered the railway mail service on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway. This position he resigned November 6, 1880, and became a member of the present firm January 1, 1881. Mr. Geidel was married December 29, 1881, to Miss Sadie A. Huthchins. GEIGER HENRY H., Crawford township; boot and shoe manufacturing; postoffice, New Bedford, Ohio; born in Somerset, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, August 27, 1830; son of Henry and Susannah (Hess) Geiger. In 1840 he came to Holmes county, and in 1845 to Crawford township, and in 1849 located in New Bedford where he has since resided, excepting six years spent at Coshocton. Mr Geiger was mail carrier between Coshocton and New Bedford from 1861 to 1863. He was married January 6,1856, to Miss Drusilla, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Kreiger) Srenkle. By this union he had four children : Ellen S., Elmer E., Elizabeth A. and Henry S. Mr. Geiger was appointed postmaster at New Bedford in 1864 and held the office two years, and was reappointed in 1877, and has since held it. GETZ ERNHEST, Crawford township; of the firm of Getz & Brother, marble cutters; postoffice. New Bedford. Ohio; born June 18, 1859, in Berlin township, Holmes county; son of John and Annie Mary (Schiller) Getz. His childhood and early youth were spent on the farm and attending school, one term of which was at the Lebanon n normal school. When about twenty years old he began his present trade. Mr. Getz takes an active part in the present literary society of New Bedford, being the editor of the society's paper. The above firm is doing a fine business to cemetery and other work in their line. GIANQUE DAVID, Clark township; farmer and shoemaker; postoffice, Helmick; born in Holmes county, Ohio, in September, 1850; son of David and Sophia (Williard) Gianque, and grandson of David Gianque. His father came from Switzerland. He learned his trade with Benjamin Gessaker of Wilmont, Holmes county , remained there two years, then came to Clarke township and after remaining four years removed to Holmes county, where he remained three years. He then moved back to Clark township, purchased a farm and has been here since, working at his trade and farming. He has a very fair trade. He was married November 10, 1873, to Miss Caroline Fulmer, daughter of George and Mary (Shedecker) Fulmer, who was born November 11, 1848, to Wayne county, Ohio, where her parents settled on coming from Switzerland. They have two children-Benjamin F., born May 25, 1875, and Nellie May, born August 30,1878. GIFFIN FRANKLIN, Perry township; postoffice, New Guilford; born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1846; son of Hiram and Mary (Trimble) Giffin, and grandson of William and Elizabeth Giffin, and of Wlliam and Anna Trimble. He was married in 1869, to Miss Laura J. Blue, daughter of Peter and Mary Blue. Mr Giffin is the father of six children, viz : Charles E., Alice M,, Edward H., John W., Raymond D. and Lloyd E. GILMORE H. W., Washington township ; farmer ; postoffice, Wakatomaka; born in 1856, in this county. His father was born in 1830, in Green county, Pennsylvania; was brought in same ear to this county, and was married in 1855, to Miss Ells J. McAdow, of this county, who was born in 1836, in this county He died in 1877. They were the parents of four children, the subject of this sketch being the oldest. He was married in 1877, to Miss Ettie McGinnis, of Muskingum county, who was born in 1856. They are the parents of two children, viz : Oscar E., deceased, and Charlie. GIVEN WILLIAM, Jefferson township; born in January, 1806, in County Tyrone, Ireland; son of John and Rebecca (Moore) Given, and grandson of James and Sarah (Boak) Moore: He followed farming in Ireland until the age of twenty-six, when he came with his mother and brother James, and settled in Brooke county, Virginia, 690 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. where he remained until 1840, when he came with a colony of twenty-eight persons, his mother and brother James included, to Coshocton count . They purchased large tracts of military land, mown as the "Bell section," and in a short time all became rich. Mr. Given married Miss Margaret Alexander in 1832, daughter of James and Rebecca (Hamilton) Alexander. The children of this marriage are: Rebecca A.; Isabelle, deceased, and Sarah. Mrs. Moore died in Virginia in 1839. Mr. Moore then married Miss Margaret McFarland, who was born in 1824, and died October 27, 1853, being the daughter of Robert McFarland. Their children were : John J., Robert and William, all living in Coshocton county. John married Miss Nora McNabb, in September, 1877, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, daughter of John and Susan (Adams) McNabb, and granddaughter of Jacob and Rachael (Powell) Adams, and of John McNabb. William and an infant son that is not yet named, are their only children. GLAZE ZACHARIAH, Franklin township; born October 7,1837, in Montgomery county, Indiana. His great-grandfather emigrated front England to Delaware, and his grandfather from that State to Montgomery county, Indiana. In his youth he clerked in a store. In January, 1862, he married Anna Engle, of Frederick county, Maryland, who died two years after. In 1864 he came to Ohio. In 1867 he enlisted in the United States army, and served three years, eighteen months at Florida Keys and eighteen months at Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. In March,1874, he married Mrs. Elvira Simon, and is the father of two children, viz: Albert Alonzo and Milber J. GLOVER JOSIAH, Coshocton ; dealer in books, sheet music, etc., 421 Main street. Mr.. Glover is a native of this county, and was born October 30, 1830; son of Joel and Elizabeth (Shannon) Glover. He was educated in the public schools of this county and at Smithfield, Jefferson county. At Smithfield he learned the carriage and wagon making trade. On completing his trade he traveled for some time in Illinois, working at his trade at different places. In 1850 he returned to Coshocton, and in 1853 he resumed his trade, which he followed utitil1871, when he established his present business in which he has been successful, having a fine stock of school and miscellaneous books, sheet music and musical instruments, pictures and picture frames. Mr. Glover is one of the pioneers of this county in music, and has done more than any other to develop this fine art, having been a teacher since 1850. He was married, first, in September, 1853, to Miss Malona L., daughter of William W. and Louisa (Lee) Jamison. By this marriage he had two children, viz : Samuel L., deceased, and William J. Mr. Glover was afterward married to Diiss Leonora E., daughter of Timothy A. and Diary A. (Woodruff) Condit. They are the parents of eight children, viz: Alfred, deceased; Edwin W., Ada L., Frank E., Mary and two infants, (twine), not named, died in infancy. Timothy A. Condit, named above, was one of the early settlers of Coshocton county. He was born in Orange, Essex county, New Jersey, in November, 1809, and came to Coshocton county in October,1834. He identified himself at once with every plan that would advance his adopted county and State. In politics he was a strong Whig, and had the distinctive honor of being the only member of the legislature from this county elected b the Whig party. This was in 1850. He was a Mend of education and always ready to held the poor, which geve him a leading position with the beat men of his community. He died leaving a wife and four daughters, all of whom moved to the West excepting Mrs. J. Glover. Mrs. Condit and one daughter, have deceased. GOODIN S. R., Jackson township ; postoffice, Roscoe; born in this county, in 1844; son of Amos and Katherine Goodin, and grandson of Samuel and Sarah Goodin; married, in 1874, to Mary Underwood, daughter of Lewis and Lucy Underwood. Mr. Goodin is the father of two children, viz: Sylva and Willie. GOODIN SAMUEL, Jackson township; postoffice, Roscoe; born in Perry county, Ohio; son of Amps and Katherine Goodin, and grandson of Samuel and Sarah Goodin; married, in 1866, to Katherine Rush, daughter of Daniel and Mary Rush. Their union has been blessed with two children, viz: John and Charles. GORHAM WILLIAM, New Castle township; born November 23, 1808, in Kent county, Parish Westwell, England ; son of Thomas and Sarah (West) Gorham: He followed farming in his native country till his twentieth ,year. He left Liverpool April 7,and landed in New York June 15, 1828 ; settled m Middlefield, New York, and moved from there to Cherry Valley, New York; then to one or two other places, including Putnam, Muskingum county, Ohio, New Castle, Dresden, Coshocton, and finally to New Castle in 1835, where he yet remains. In 1834 he began to study astrology, which he is now practicing. Before this he had no particular trade. He now has correspondence from all parts of the United States as a fortune-teller. He married Miss Sarah Scott February 20,1840, daughter of Arthur Scott, who was a native of Pennsylvania. Their children were Elizabeth, deceased; Mary A., Adeline C., Ebenezer S., Louisa Jennie, Raphael A., and Amelia L. He cleared a great deal of land in New Castle. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 691 GOSSER MICHAEL, Franklin township; farmer; postoffice, Wells Creek, Ohio. Mr. Gosser was born May 29, 1543, in Linton township; son of George and Magdalene (Long) Gosser. Mr. Gosser enlisted in Company G, Eightieth 0. V I, and served nearly four years. He was married November 19, 1867, to Miss Margaret, daughter of Henry and Barbara (Haag) Hennel. They are the parents of two children, viz: Barbara Catherine and Henry Edward. Mr. Gosser is of German and Mrs. Gosser of French ancestors. GOSSER GEORGE, Coshocton; manager grocery, bakery and boarding-house, Second street, between Chestnut and Main ; was born in France December 17, 1833; son of George Gosser. In 1340 he came to America, with his parents, and settled with them in Linton township. At the age of fourteen he began life for himself, and worked at several occupations. In 163 he came to this city. Mr. Gosser was married April 2, 1857, to Miss Annie Michael, daughter of David Michael, of Linton township. They have had seven children, one of whom (David), is dead. Their six living children are William, George W., Samuel, Charles Clarence and Frank. GORSELINE WILLIAM, Lafayette township merchant; postoffice, West Lafayette; started his present business in 1873, dealing in dry goods and groceries. Previous to 1878, he taught school eight yearn, three years in the graded schools of West Lafayette and three years in Frazysburgh. GOULD JOSEPH H , Keene township; born October 11, 1842, in Summit county, Ohio; son of J. T, and Eunice Gould, and grandson of John and Olive Gould. and John and Rachel Walker. At the age of thirteen he came to Coshocton county, and tins employed on the public works. He enlisted in Company D, First O. V. A., September, 1867, served about a year and was mustered out, on account of disability. He applied to reenlist, but was rejected. In 1865 he learned the blacksmith trade in Mill Fork, and has worked at it since in various localities in this vicinity, and also in Illinois, for three years. He is at present situated in Keene. Married May 26, 1866, Mary E. Hughes, daughter of Absolom and Susan (Hawk) Hughes, born August 4, 1846. Their children are Sarah E., born September 28, 1867 ; Eunice V., October 13, 1868; Cora E., July 24, 1871, deceased; William J., October 25, 1873; Rachel E., August 1875; Joseph M., July 21; 1877, and Emma J., April 8, 1879. GRAHAM CHARLES H., Tuscarawas township; postoffice, Canal Lewisville; merchant of the firm of Henderson & Graham, Canal Lewisville; was born July 7, 1850, in the county of Sligo, Ireland ; son of Thomas Graham. His mother's maiden name was Charlotte Martin. They came to America in 1853, and located in Franklin township. Young Graham was raised on the farm, where he remained until about twenty-one years of age, when he entered the store of Burns & Hack as clerk, with whom he remained three or four yearn, and subsequently clerked for C. F. Burns, and for Hamilton Brothers and Balchire & Burns. In 1880, the present firm was established, which carries a general stock of goods suited for the retail trade. They also deal extensively in grain. Mr. Graham was elected justice of the peace April 5, 1880, which office he now holds. He was married, April 10,1879, to Miss Lizzie Clendening, of Canal Lewisville. This union has been blessed with one son-Bernard. GRAHAM THOMAS, Clark township; farmer; postoffice, Clark's; born in Ireland, June 25,1828; son of Thomas and Mary (Wilkinson) Graham, and granddaughter of James Graham and Elizabeth Wilkinson. He came to America when he was nine years of age with his mother, four brothers and one sister, and settled in Clark township, where he has resided since. He was married July 25, 1854, to Miss Massey Casey, daughter of John and Hannah Casey, who was born in Holmes county, March 20, 1830. Her father was a soldier in the war 1812. They are the parents of six children-John T., deceased ; Mary H., deceased ; Hannah M., born March 3, 1860; Martha, born December 7, 1863; William J., born September 12, 1868; Nannie M., born October 18. 1871. GRAHAM ROBERT, Clark township; farmer; postoffice, Clark's; born in Ireland, June 25,1826; son of Thomas and Mary (Wilkinson) Graham, and grandson of James Graham and Elizabeth Wilkinson. He came to White Eyes township, Coshocton county, in 1839, and remained until 1842, when he moved to Keene, where he learned the shoemaker trade with John Boyd, and followed that occupation twenty-three years; from there he moved to Bloomfield and worked at his trade seventeen years; then purchased the Bloomfield mills, and followed milling six years; then moved to Medina county and dealt in grain two years; then came back to Clark township and purchased a farm, and has been engaged in farming since. He was married April 19, 1847, to Miss Mary Ramsey, daughter of Henry and Margaret (Cullen) Ramsey. She was born in Keene, August 15,1829; died June 21, 1852 They were blessed with three children : Richard, born March 19,1848 ; Mary J., April 27, 1850, and William T., June 11, 1852. He was married June 22, 1853, to Marian Edwards, daughter of Jesse and Harriett (Lilley) Edwards, and granddaughter of Jourdan and Mary (Wren) Edwards, and John I and Frances (Smith) Lilley ; born June 22, 1830 692 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. in Sussex county, Virginia, and has been the mother of six children : F. O., born August 23, 1854; Walter, born October 7, 1856, died July 6, 1858; Delano E., born November 6, 1860, died March 8, 1865; Cora A., born December 8, 1862, died March 21,1865; Robert, born May 2,1867, and Herbert, born August 26, 1872. Mr. Graham joined the F. and A. M., at Coshocton, in 1854. GRAHAM JAMES, Clark township ; farmer ; postoffice, Clark's; born in Ireland, March 29, 1818 ; son of Thomas and Mary ( Wilkinson) Graham, and grandson of James Graham and Elizabeth Wilkinson. He came to America in 1839, settled in White Eyes township, and remained there until 1846, when he moved to his present location, where he has remained since. He was married in Ireland, April 13, 1839, to Catharine Peoples, daughter of James and Catharine (Bonner) Peoples, who is a second cousin of Mr. Bon ner of New York. They are the parents of eleven children, seven of whom are living, viz Catharine B , Mary, Margaret, John, Rebecca, Hannah M., and Francis. GRAHAM JOHN C., Pike township; postoffice, West Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county in 1847; son of William and Elizabeth (Crawford) Graham. He was married December 24, 1868, to Miss Mary M. Norris, daughter of Thomas and Mariah Norris. They are the parents of four children, viz: George E., Etta M., Ollie B. and Luna E. The subject of this sketch is a grandson of Alex. and Jane Graham, and of John and Nancy Crawford. Mr. Graham's father emigrated from Ireland to this country at a very early day, and died April 9, 1880. GRAHAM ALEX., Pike township; postoffice, Wakatomaka, this county; farmer and stock raiser; born in 1844; son of James and Matilda Graham, and grandson of Alex. and of John and Isabella McKee. He was married in 1865 to Miss Sarah A. McKee, daughter of James and Isabella McKee. They are the parents of three children, viz : James E., Lenna B. and George C. GREER JOHN, Jackson township; Roscoe postoffice; born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1820 settled in this county in 1849; son of John and Mary Greer, and grandson of William and Mary Critchfield. Married in 1850, to Mary Finnell daughter of Thomas and Nancy Finnell. Mr Greer is the father of seven children, three o whom (Many F., Alexander, Martha) have deceased. The living are Emma E., Charles W., Robert A., Mattie B. GROSS JOHN, Tuscarawas township; grocer postoffice, Coshocton, Ohio; born in Bavaria Germany, December 24, 1818; son of Martin and Barbara (Huffman) Gross. Mr. G. was an enlisted soldier in his native country for seven years, but was exempt from active military duty owing to the general peace of the kingdom at that time. In 1847 he was married to Miss Catherine, daughter of Philip and Christian (Kuegler) Metzger. They became the parents of ten children, viz : Philip P., Margaret, married to John Ingham ; Martin, married to Sophia Schumacher; Elizabeth, deceased; Peter, married to Catharine Gass; Christian, deceased; John A.; Matthias and George, deceased. The first four named of these children were-born in Germany. Mr: G. located first in Cleveland on his arrival in America in 1850, next in New Philadelphia, afterwards in Coshocton, where he arrived in 1857. He has occupied his present residence since 1865. GROVE W. H , Jefferson township; born April 5, 1845, in Jefferson township, Coshocton county, Ohio; son of David and Mary (Stagger) Grove. Mr. Grove was brought up on a farm and educated in district schools. His parents died when he was quite young, and left him to battle with the world among strangers. At the age of fifteen he began school teaching, and followed teaching in winter and farming in summer until the age of twenty-one, since that time has devoted his entire attention to farming and threshing. He has established quite a reputation as a thresher. He was married May, 1867, to Miss Elizabeth Hohenshell, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Kenter), Hohenshell. Martin L., Emmit O., Lulu G. and William, are the names of their children. GUENTHER FRANCIS JOSEPH, Coshocton ; engineer; was born in 1839, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; son of Francis Joseph and Vaberga (Waggoner) Guenther, who was of German ancestry. Young Guenther, when a boy, began doing work about an engine, and has followed the same to the present time. He is now engineer at the Coshocton planing-mills. Mr. Guenther was married about the year 1863. GUITTARD FRANCIS JOSEPH, M. D.; postoffice, New Bedford; born September 28, 1828, in Alsace, France, now Germany; son of Joseph and Genereuse (Georer) Guittard. He came to America in 1847, and located in Erie county, New York, where he worked on a farm a few years. About 1849 he came to Middletown, Holmes county, and clerked in store, and read medicine during his leisure time, until 1853, when he began reading with Dr. Pomerene, and attended the Cleveland medical college in the winter of 1854-55; commenced practice in March, 1855, in New Bedford. He was subsequently graduated at the Cleveland hospital medical college, and received an Ad eundem degree at Wooster university medical department, at Cleveland. Dr. Guittard was married in Octo- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 693 ber, 1856, to Miss Lydia, daughter of George and Sarah (Tambough) Myers. They had eight children: Rosa Lee; C. O., deceased; Alvin M., Victor G., Francis G., Virgil D., Sarah E. and Claud B. The doctor has been successful in his profession, haying the confidence and respect of the community. H. HACK M. G., postoffice, Roscoe; merchant, of the firm of M. G. Hack & Co., Main street; born April 7, 1843, in Roscoe; son of Peter Hack, a native of Germany. M. G. was raised in his native village. At sixteen years of age he went into a store as clerk for Le Rettilley, McClintock & Co., and remained until 1871, when he became partner in the firm of Burns & Hack, at Canal Lewisville, where they conducted business until 1874, when they moved to this place, and continued the business in Roscoe until 1878, when the present firm was formed. Mr. Hack was married September 20, 1876, to Miss Alice E. Burns, daughter of John Burns, of Roscoe. They have two children, Rosa Lena and Burns Raymond. This establishment has a. full stock of dry goods, groceries, queen and glassware, boots and shoes, lists and caps, carpets, clothing, trunks, etc. HACK T. B., merchant tailor, 415 Main street, Coshocton, O. He was born January 3, 1852, in Roscoe, and brought up in his native village. At the age of thirteen he began the tailoring trade with his father. At twenty-one he became cutter for several establishments. In 1877 he became traveling salesman for Goodheart Bro. & Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio, and did business for this firm until August 6, 1850, when he established his present business. This house is one of the first-class business places of the city, employing ten tailors, two clerks and one cutter. HACK CAPTAIN PETER, cutter for his son, T. B.. merchant tailor. Captain Hack was born April 7, 1816, in Odenbach, Bavaria; son of Michael Hack. Peter was brought up on a farm until fourteen years of age, when he went to his trade. In 1837, came to America and located at Roscoe. In 1861, enlisted in Company G, Eightieth O. V. I, and was commissioned first lieutenant, and after serving one year he was commissioned captain of Company F, same regiment, and served to the close of the war. It is but justice to state here that Captain Hack was never an inmate of the hospital, but always at his post of duty. At the close of the war, Captain Hack returned to his home in Roscoe, since which time he has followed his present trade. He was married June 29, 1845, to Miss Rosalena, daughter of Gotleib Adams, a native of Prussia. They are the parents of nine children, viz: Albert W., M. G., John M., T. B., Louisa, C. H., Edward P. ; Charlotte, deceased, and Mary. HAGER G. W., Coshocton ; tobacconist and cigar manufacturer; was born June 14, 1849, in Greene county, Pennsylvania. His father, Jacob Hager, was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, of German ancestors. Young Hager remained at home until he was about twenty-one years old. Then he engaged in several employments for a few years, after which he went into the cigar shop of Isaac Hooper of Waynesburgh, the county seat of his native county, and remained about three, years ; then worked in several shops in this and his native State. In 1879 he established his present shop in this city, where he is doing a good business manufacturing cigars and dealing in tobacco and smoking supplies. Mr. (lager was married September 16, 1879, to Miss Emma H. Fitz, daughter of John Fitz, of Muskingum county. HAHN ADAM, Franklin township; born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, December 27, 1838; son of Peter and Margaret (Marhofer) Hahn, who emigrated from Germany, in 1833. He learned the blacksmith trade, with his brother Peter, in Rogersville, Tuscarawas county. When about twenty-one years old, he moved to Franklin township, Coshocton county, and followed his trade, at Wills creek, until about 1873; then turned his attention to farming. He was married, in 1863, to Elizabeth, daughter of Michael and Catherine (Sandels) Strohecker, who emigrated from Alsace; France, to Muskingum county. By this marriage, he had four children, viz : John Henry, George Valentine, Mary Catherine and Howard Edward. HAINS JOSEPH R., Bedford township ; farmer; postoffice, Tunnel Hill; born, in 1852, in this county. He was married, in 1877, to Miss Arminta Taylor of this county, who was born in 1853. They are the parents of one child, Salina. HAINS SAMUEL, Bedford township , farmer; postoffice, Tunnel Hill; born in 1850, in this county. His father, Amos Haina, was born in 1820, in this county. He was married in 1840 to Miss Rebecca Drake, of this county, who was born in 1823, in Virginia. He died in 1854. They were the parents of six children, Samuel being the fifth. He was married in 1873 to Miss Annie Morris, of this county, who was born in 1855. They are the parents of three children, viz: May B., George o., and Edgar B. HAINS LEVI, Bedford township; farmer; postoffice, Tunnel Hill; born in 1817, in this county. His father was born in 1782, in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. and was married in 1803 to Miss Hannah Lybarger, of the same county, who was born in 1784. They moved to Licking county in 1810, and to this county in 1811. The Hains' cabin was the third in the township, 694 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. Richard Shelton's being the first, and Ezra Norton's the second. Mr. Hains died in 1863; his wife in 1849. They were the parents of eight children, the subject of this sketch being the sixth. He was married in 1843 to Miss Lucinda Troutman, of this county, who was born in 1818, in Knox county, Ohio. They are the parents of eleven children, nine of whom are living. HAINES HIRAM, Bethlehem township; farmer; son of Daniel Haines; was born in 1834, in Coshocton county, Ohio. Mr. Haines' father came to this county in 1802, and was one of the earliest settlers. When he came to this count it was generally a wilderness, inhabited by Indians and wild animals. He died November 6, 1878, at an advanced age. Hiram Haines was raised on the farm and has always followed that, occupation He was married in 1860, to Miss Mary C. Milligan, of thin county, who was born in 1836. They became the parents of two children, viz : Uriah F., born November 8,1862, and Emma D., born December 27, 1863. Mr and Mrs. Haines are influential members of the Evangelical church at Princeton, Ohio. HAINES HENRY, Bedford township; teamster; postoffice, West Bedford. HALLER BROTHERS, GEORGE J. & C. J., 252, Main street, Coshocton; butchers; born and raised in this city ; sons of Adam and Catherine (Mank) Hailer. George J. learned the plasterer's trade, and worked at it one ,year. He was married November 30, 1879, to Miss Sarah E., daughter of George and Mary (McGigen) Moffitt, of this city. The father of these two brothers was a butcher, and the sons were brought up to their present occupation. They took possession of their present shop January 4, 1881, and keep a fine assorted supply of sausages, fresh and cured meats. HALL JOHN H., Lafayette township; farmer; postoffice, West Lafayette; was born in West Virginia, in 1821; son of Dennis Hall; came to Ohio in 1865, and located in Linton township, and came to this township in 1870; was married in 1846, to Miss Ingraham, of West Virginia, daughter of Jacob Ingraham. They have had ten children, Elihu W.; Jacob L, deceased in 1866, in his seventeenth year ; Nancy A., Edith M., Mary V., J. H., William M., Arthur Lee, Sarah J. and Anderson Monroe. Mr. Hall is industrious and well spoken of by all. HALL WILLIAM R., Coshocton; proprietor of coal mine ; was born April 2,1821, in County Darham, England; son of Lancelet and Eleanor (Jackson) Hall, and grandson of Lancelet Hall and William Jackson. He landed at New York September 1,1549 ; located at Massillon until August 16,1850, when he came to this city, where he has remained to the present time. He was married February 11, 1843, to Miss Mary, daughter of George and Mary Lamb, of Darham county, England. This union was blessed with eleven children, viz : Luke, married to Mary Bassett; Mary, burned to death when about three years of age ; William, died on the sea when about eight months old ; Lance let, married to Mary Elizabeth Frazie; Isabelle, married to John Conley; William R., married to Clare Rice; John, Mary Anne; George, deceased, and Alice. When Mr. Hall started business in America he had only one sovereign, but, by honest industry, he has secured a comfortable home, and raised a large, moral and respectable family. HAMERSLEY ISAAC L., Linton township; farmer and shoemaker; born in Linton township, June 18, 1817; first child of Peter and Lydia (Fuller) Hamersley, and grandson of Isaac and Mary (Wirick) Hamersley and of Thomas and ___ (Hayes) Fuller. His great-grandfather, John Hamersley emigrated from the northern part of Ireland, in pre-revolutionary times, and six of his seven sons were soldiers in the revolution. Mr. Hamersley's father was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1795, and, in 1805, moved with his father to Belmont county. One year after, they moved to Guernsey county, and, in 1816, he married and settled in Linton township, In the fall of 1825, Isaac's father and grandfather built a pirogue on Wills Creek and moved their families by. water to Lawrence county, Indiana. They remained their till 1833, then returned to this county. On their way home, while encamped at the month of the Wabash river, they witnessed the grand meteoric display of that year. Mr. Hamersley, in 1841, married Sarah Ann, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Johnson) Fuller. Their children are Henry, deceased; Thomas, deceased, and Peter. Two of his boys gave their lives to their country. Thomas died at home shortly after his return from the seat of war, from disease contracted there. Henry fell a victim of typhoid fever, at Winchester, June 4, 1863. Both were members of company any B, One Hundred and Twenty-second O. V. I. HAMILTON JOHN, White Eyes township farmer ; was born, in 1805, in the county of Tyrone, Ireland. He married Miss Mary Fair, of the same county. They came to this county, in 1842; settled in Keene, but afterward located in White Eyes, on the farm where he now resides. They have had seven children, two of whom have deceased. Margaret, born in 1840, is married to Jones Brown. Thomas, born 1842, is married to Miss Margaret Boyd, daughter of R. R. Boyd, and lives in White Eyes. Claudius, bore in 1848, is married to Angie Jack, of this township, and is BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 695 now living at Bakersville. Mary Ellen, born July 4, 1853, is single, and lives at home. John, born in 1859, lives at home. Mr Hamilton and his family are members of the White Eyes Methodist Episcopal church. HAMILTON CLAUD, White Eyes township; farmer, born in 1804, in the count' of Tyrone, Ireland. In 1832 he married Miss Mary A. Johnson, who was a native of the same place, and was bore in 1814. They have a family of six daughters and two sons-Margaret, Matilda J., Elizabeth, Mary A., John A., Lucinda. D., Sarah J. and Thomas .J. All are married, except, Mary, Sarah and Thomas, who are at home. Lucinda married Dr. R. A. Calvin, of Pennsylvania, and is now living in Crawford county, Pennsylvania; John married Miss Libby Miser, daughter of Joseph ;Miser, and is living in this township; Matilda married Rev. J. N. Crawford, a minister of the M. E, church, and they reside in Pennsylvania; Elizabeth married William Calhoun, a farmer, who lives in Oxford township. Mr. Hamilton and his family came to this country in 1872, and located on the place where he now lives, within the limits of Avondale. Mrs. Hamilton died January, 1866. Mr. Hamilton and family belong to the M. E. church at Kimbles. HAMILTON SAMUEL, White Eyes township; farmer; born October 10, 1835, in Keene township; son of William and Mary (McCaskey) Hamilton. His father was a native of Ireland, and his mother was born near Steubenville, Ohio, and he came to this county when but a child with his parents. The parents of Mrs. (Adams) Hamilton were natives of Ireland, emigrated to the United States about the year 1821, settled in Jefferson county, and came to this county in 1833. They were married about 1833, and located on the farm in White Eyes township, where Mrs. Adams now resides. On July 4, 1860, Samuel Hamilton married Miss Adams, who was born in .After their marriage they moved upon a farm of eighty acres in White Eyes township, which Mr. Hamilton inherited, and subsequently added to it the 163 acres on which he now resides. They became the parents of the following named children: Monterville, born August 23, 1863, died when six and a half years old ; Emma Florinda, born November 26, 1864; Olive Vests, born May 23, 1870 ; Elmer, born May 17, 1872; Edgar Lloyd, born August 21,1877; Leroy, born October 23, 1879. HAMERSLEY THOMAS J., Linton township; farmer: born in Guernsey county, Ohio, March 24, 1825 ; son of Peter and Lydia Hamersley. (See sketch of Isaac L. Hamersley). Mr. Hamersley has lived in Linton township during the greater part of his life. He was married in 1860, to Mary Adams, daughter of Francis and Charlotte (Hogle) Adams, of Columbiana county, and has four children, Charlotte, Lydia, Lizzie and Francis. HAMILTON C. C., Adams township; merchant; postoffice, Bakersville: born in Keene township, Coshocton county, Ohio, February 21, 1845 ; son of John and Mary (Fair) Hamilton, and grandson of Thomas Hamilton. He remained at home with his rents until twenty-one years of age; graduated at Eastman's business college, at Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1866, and in 1867, began business as a merchant, at Avondale, Coshocton county; remained there about ten years, when he traded his store for land, and attended to insurance business for about two years. He then traded his land for a store in Bakersville, where he is at present doing a very fair business, keeping everything usually kept in his line. He was married December 24, 1868, to Miss Angie Jack, daughter of John and Jane (Ford) Jack, and granddaughter of George Ford. They are the parents of six children, viz : Edwin, deceased ; Jennie M., Alfred E., Wilford C., William A. and Mary M. HAMILTON J. P., Washington township; farmer; postoffice, Wakatomaka; born in 1826, in Harrison county, Ohio, and came to this county in 1831, with his father, who was born in 1792, in Fayette county, PennsyIvania. He came to Harrison county in 1805, and was married in 1816, to Miss Alfreda Bailey, of that county , who was born in 1793, in Boston. She died in 1863. They are the parents of nine children, the subject of this sketch being the fifth. He was married in 1868, to Miss Susan Cornell, of this county, who was born in 1840. They are the parents of five children, viz: Robert L., Maria A., William W., Lucinda .T, and Albert D. HAMMONTREE FRANKLIN, Monroe township; was born April 5, 1821, in Loudon county, Virginia; son of Samuel and Sarah (Brown) Hammontree, and grandson of David and Mary (Beech) Hammontree, and of John and Lydia. (Burson) Brown. The Bursons and Browns were revolutionary soldiers. He lived in his native State till about the age of fifteen, when he went to Belmont county, Ohio, and remained there two years;. from there he went to Washington county, Ohio, near Beverly, where he remained about twenty-three years, in the cabinet business. After leaving there he went to Coshocton county and bought a farm, where he has been engaged in farming ever since. He married Miss. Eliza J. McDonald in August, 1842, who was born June 12, 1822, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Featherston (Haw) McDonald, and granddaughter of Thomas Wilkison Hazard Featherston and Margaret (Poland) Haw: Their children are: Rufus, born July 3, 1850; Ruth A., born June 11, 696 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. 1845; Elmer P., born May 10, 1853; Frank L., born January 9, 1856; Hattie M., born May 21, 1859; Nanny M., born December 10, 1861, and William E. F., born June 30, 1868. Mr. Hammontree enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-third Regiment, O. N. G., in May, 1864, and was discharged in September, 1864. HANKINS DANIEL, Franklin township; farmer; postoffice, Wills Creek. Mr. Hankins was born, February 15, 1828, in Franklin township, on the farm now owned by McBane; son of William and Amelia (Pigman) Hankins; a native of Virginia, of English ancestry. He came to Franklin township, at a very early day. He was a farmer, and renowned auctioneer. He was peculiarly adapted to this profession, being sought many times to go a great distance to auctioneer important sales. He was born April 14,1787, and his wife was born October 11, of the same year. They were married June 24, 1813, and became the parents of eleven children, viz : Lucinda, deceased; Jane, formerly married to Elijah Duling, now deceased ; Moses P., emigrated to Missouri; Anne, married to Lewis Rodruck; Nathaniel L., deceased; Mary, married to Orange Hagle; Cassandra, married to John G. Parker, and John (the last three live in Minnesota); Daniel, Elizabeth (Daniel's twin sister), married to John C. McBane, of Franklin township; Catherine, married to Martin B. Hewett. now resides in Iilinois. Daniel, the subject of this sketch, was married, October 7,1852, to Miss Louisa, daughter of Isaac and Nancy (Barrow) Shambaugh. Mr. Shambaugh was a native o Virginia, of German descent; and a soldier in the war of 1812. Daniel's children are, Nancy C., married to William Fitz, of Zanesville, Ohio; Alice A. B., married to John L. Ganner, of Franklin township; Mary Ellen, Isaac Edward and Elizabeth J. HANLON WILLIAM, Keens township ; born in Jefferson county, Ohio, May 13,1818; a son of Allen and Susan (Ford) Hanlon, natives of Ire1and. He lived in his native county with his parents till 1852, when he came to Ohio and bought the farm where he now lives. He was married January 29, 1845, to Miss Mary Stark, daughter of James and Elizabeth McGee. They had the following named children : Edwin M., born December 3,1845; Eliza J., March 23,1849; Susan J., December 8,1850; Robert R., March 23, 1853; Mary V., May 16,1855; Usher A., November 21, 1858; Ida M , June 2,1863; infant son died September 30,1865. HANLON HON. ALEXANDER, Coshocton; judge probate court; born March 2,1816, in Jefferson county, near Steubenville; lived on a farm until twenty years of age, then worked at the carpenter's trade two more years, and came to this county in 1841, and engaged in farming and carpentering until 1875, when he was elected judge of probate court; was reelected in 1878. He married Elizabeth Mitchell, of Mill Creek township, June 17, 1854, and is the father of six living children, viz : John A., F. H., W. B., Clara, Laura and M. L. L. His parents came to America from Ireland when about twelve years of age, and were educated in the public schools of Jefferson county. HARDMAN JAMES, Bedford township; farmer ; postoffice, West Bedford ; born in 1835, in this county. His father was born in 1790, in Pennsylvania, and married Miss Hannah Hains, of the same county. He died in 1851; she died in 1864. They were the parents of eleven children, the subject of this sketch being the youngest. He was married in 1859, to Miss Nota J. Richard, of this county, who was born in 1842, and died in 1870. They were the parents of two children, viz: Leonard and Belle. He, in 1872, married Miss Matilda Lydick, of this county, who was born in 1839. They are the parents of two children, viz : Alice E. and Bertha. HARDY HON. JOHN, Oxford township, was born January 31, 1825, near the village of Warrensburgh, Warren county, State of New York; son of William and Mary (McCoffrey) Hardy. He is of Scotch-Irish parentage, his father and mother having emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, to New York in 1824. When about twelve years of age he removed with them to Ohio, when they settled in the wilderness near Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas county. By perseverence and close application young Hardy acquired about as go an education as our log-cabin school-houses could bestow. From the age of sixteen to eighteen he was employed as clerk in a store by the firm of Minnich, Nugen & Co., in Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas county, after which he attended two terms at the Green field Academy, in Fairfield county, Ohio. He afterwards engaged in teaching a district school and taught for six years consecutively in the same district. On giving up teaching he engaged in the employment of the State of Ohio as assistant engineer on the northern division of the Ohio Canal, until the state leased the public works. He afterward acted as superintendent at different places for the lessees till the breaking out of our civil war in 1861. In 1864 he married Miss Emily Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, of Washington township, Tuscarawas county, Ohio. In 1865 he bought the farm in Oxford township, Coshocton county, on which he built his present residence, where he now resides. He was twice elected representative of Coshocton county, first in the fall of 1877, to the Sixty-third General Assembly, and was re-elected in 1879 to the Sixty-fourth. He is at present living rather re- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 697 tired. He sacs he has had enough of public life, that he has his boat safely and quietly moored in Shady Bend of the Tuscarawas river and has no desire to again launch it out on the cross currents of men's interests and passions. HARRAN CHARLES J., Crawford township; farmer; postoffice, Chili, Ohio; was born in December, 1851, near Biron, Germany ; son of Jacob and Margaret (Portz) Harran. Young Harran came to America in 1853. His parents located in Tuscarawas county, where he remained until about 1866, when he came to his present residence in Crawford township. His father died in June, 1868. Mr. Harran was married October 2. 1880, to Miss Catharine, daughter of William and Nancy McCaskey, of White Eyes township. Mr. Harran has given his entire attention to farming, in which he has succeeded well. HARRIS JOSIAH, M. D., Coshocton; descended from a very ancient family of New England ; and is from the seventh generation from Thomas Harris, an associate of Roger Williams, whose name first appears on the records of Providence, Rhode Island, in 1736. Dr. Harris was born July 19, 1807, at Winthrop, Me., and was accustomed in childhood and youth to the hard farm labor of the New Englander. At the age of eighteen he entered Monmouth academy, and remained one year; then entered the Wesleyan college, Kennebec county, Maine, and spent four years there studying and teaching. In the spring of 1850 he went to Georgetown, D. C., and taught in a private family for a short time. Then traveled in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia. In the fall of 1830 he settled at Luthersburgh, Washington county, Maryland, and took charge of Luthersburgh seminary, and remained there until 1837. In the meantime he attended medical lectures in the University of Maryland at Baltimore, and was graduated with the honors of M. D. in 1837, in which year he came to this city, where he has continued the practice of his profession until the present time (1880).Dr. Harris held the office of associate judge for several years prior to the adoption of the present State constitution, which abolished said office. The doctor possesses good literary and scientific attainments, and has been a member of the school board of examiners both in the county and city. Dr. Harris has been married three times first, May 27, 1841, to Miss Magdalene Zigler, daughter of Lewis Zigler, Washington county, Maryland ; the result of this union was one child, a son,. Lewis, who died in infancy. Dr. Harris was neat married January 16, 1844, to Miss Amelia D. Lewis, daughter of Dr. Webster Lewis, of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. His last marriage was on April 12, 1855, to Miss Caroline Frew, daughter of John Frew, of Coshocton, Ohio. The result of this marriage was four children, two of whom are deceased, viz: Charles and Frank; and two are living, viz: Mary Louise and John Marshall. Dr. Harris has a wide professional reputation, and is highly respected at home for his moral and social qualities. HARTSOCK JOHN, Tuscarawas township ; blacksmith; postoffice, Canal Lewisville. Mr. Hartsock was born August 29, 1884, in New Castle township; son of Henry Hartsock, and native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and Mary, daughter of Ivan Rogers. John was brought up on a farm; went to his trade at the age of eighteen, in Walhonding; came to his present village in 1855, but worked as a journeyman in Warsaw and Walhonding, returning to his adopted home in 1857. Mr. Hartsock was married August 24, 1856, to Miss Jane, daughter of Abraham and Caroline (Parker) Brink. They are the parents of three children, viz: The first died in infancy, , William and James L. are living. Mr. and Mrs. Hartsock took a child from John T. Simmons, which they named Andrew Jackson, and raised him to maturity. HAVERICK VINCENT, Monroe township; was born in February, 1825, in Bavaria, Germany ; son of Aloysins, who was born in 1785, arid Mary A. (Ament) Haverick. He learned the boot and shoe and stonemason trades in Germany; He came to America April 22, 1842; and settled in Jefferson township, Coshocton county, where he lived five ears. From there he moved to Knox county, were he remained about twelve years, then returned to Warsaw and worked at the boot and shoe trade until 1867, when he removed to Monroe township, where he has followed farming ever since. His brothers and sisters are Michael J., born in 1809; Mary A., Roduck, Francis' and Helena. Mr. Haverick was married to Heater A. Majors, November 25, 1846, daughter of William and Margaret {Sapp) Majors. Their children were James L., a merchant in Iowa; William, Mary A., George H., Margaret J: Frances; Lewis, deceased, and Normanda, deceased Mrs. Haverick died in March, 1863, and in April, 1864, Mr. Haverick married Miss Accy Foster, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Davis) Foster, and granddaughter of William Davis, and of Moses Foster and Elizabeth (Raymond) Foster. Elizabeth; Kernelons, Joseph and Clara were the names of their children. HAWK, ANDREW, Adams township farmer; postoffice, Bakersville, Ohio . Mr. Hawk was born February 4, 1825, in Carroll county, Ohio. His parents are of German descent; his father a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother of Jefferson county, Ohio. Mr: Hawk was raised on a farm, and came to this county in 1827. When he 698 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. came to this county it was generally a wilderness, with now and then u cabin surrounded by a cleared lot. Mr. Hawk was married May 5, 1848, to Miss Mary J. Walters, of Guernsey county, Ohio. They became the parents of five children: Mary E., Margaret A., Rachel E and Tolethe E. are living. The other one died in infancy. His wife died February 8, 1863. He was married May 10, 1865, to Miss Lavina Landers, of Coshocton county. Her father was of German and her mother of Swiss descent. The are the parents of seven children: William Sherman, Howard A., Edgar K., Avilla, Charles, Rutherford B. Hayes, and John, all of whom are living. Mr. Hawk was in the mercantile business during 1850 and 1851, in Bakersville, Ohio. He has since followed farming, and has acquired u good farm and property. HAY JAMES, Coshocton; born in the County Derry, Ireland, January 6, 1806, and, at eleven years of age, came to America with his parents, and settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Hay was married October 6, 1834, to Miss June Burns, daughter of Samuel Burns, of this city. By this marriage he became the father of six children, four of whom are deceased, viz : Houston, Samuel, Elizabeth and Mary; and two are living, viz: Sarah, married to James Wilson, of this city, and William, not married. Mr. Hay has been u very successful business man. Mr: Hay died Saturday evening, September 24, 1881. HAY GEORGE A., Coshocton ; mayor and notary public; was born November 16, 1855, in Coshocton; son of Houston Hay, American born, of Irish descent. Young Hay received u rudimentary education in the public schools, and, at the age of seventeen, entered the preparatory department of benison University, at Granville, and was there four years. When twenty-one years old he entered the Junior class of Princeton college, and was graduated in June, 1879. Mr. Hay was elected mayor April 1,1880, and took the oath of office on the 20th. HAY JOSEPH H., Coshocton; boot and shoe dealer; was born February 21, 1848, in Canal Lewisville, this county: He is a son of Jackson Hay, native of Ireland. Young Hay's first schooling was obtained in his native village and finished in this city. Mr. Hay obtained practical business knowledge clerking for the firm of R. & H. Hay, also in the hardware store of S. Harbaugh, both of this place, then in his father's dry goods store in his native village. In 1865 he came to this place with his father and continued with him as clerk until the business was sold out to the firm of Meyers, Pocock & Co., Mr. Hay continuing with the new firm until 1874, when he engaged as clerk in his father's bunk (First National), and in the same year ear established his present business which he has continued to date. Mr. Hay curries a. large stock of boots and shoes, huts and caps, umbrellas, etc. Mr: Hay was married August 10, 1870, to Miss F. E. Ranna, daughter of Joseph Ranna, of this city. This union was blessed with two children, both living, viz: Hurry, born July 10, 1872, and Charles S., born October 15, 1875. HAY HOUSTON, Coshocton; merchant; of the firm of Hay & Mortley; corner of Second and Main streets; also proprietor of the Coshocton iron and steel-works, for the manufacturing of springs and axles; was born, February 4, 1818, in Washington' county, Pennsylvania; son of John Hay, who was u native of Ireland. Young Hay remained on the farm until ten years of age, when, with his father, he moved to Eldersville, Washington county, Pennsylvania, and remained there three years; then came to this State, and located at Martinsburgh, Knox county, where he lived two years. In May, 1835, he came to this city, and entered as u clerk in the store of Renfrey & Hay, where he remained ten years. In 1843, he engaged as a clerk with Hamilton Meek, and remained two years. In 1845, he was appointed collector of tolls on the Ohio canal, at Roscoe. In 1852, he became one of the firm of R. & H. Hay. In 1867, James S. Wilson was taken into the firm, which continued until June 1879, when the present firm was formed. The building of this firm, on the corner of Second and Main streets, is forty-five feet by sevens-five feet, three stories and basement, and all occupied. They curry large and complete stock of dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, carpets, seeds, etc. In 1874, Mr. Hay purchased the Coshocton iron and steel works, for the manufacture of springs and axles. This shop averages forty pairs of springs and 100 axles per day. Mr. Hay was married, July 1, 1852, to Miss Delilah C. Roberts, of Licking county. The union was blessed with four children, ail living, viz : Kate, George A., John H. and Warner. HAYS JOHN E., Tiverton township; farmer ; postoffice, Yankee Ridge, Ohio; born, in 1844, in this county. His father, Zachariah Hays, was born, in 1814, in England. He came from England to Rhode Island, and was married there; his wife was born in England also. After marriage, he removed to this county, and died, in 1859 They were the parents of four children, the subject of this sketch being the second. He was married, in 1867 to Miss Delilah Draper, of this county, who was born in 1847. She died in 1870. They were the parents of one child, Delilah. He was again married, in 1879; this time to Miss Elizabeth Reese, of this county, who was born in 1860. PAGE 699 - PICTURE OF THE RESIDENCE OF HUSTON HAY, MAIN STREET, COSHOCTON PAGE 700 - BLANK PAGE 701, 702, 703 & 704 MISSING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 705 HEBALL W., Jackson township; postoffice, Roscoe; born in Maryland in 1820; moved with his father to Coshocton the same year, where he has continued to live even since. He is a son of John and Anna Heball; married in 1866, to Dolly Bible, daughter of Philip and Mary Bible. HECK HENRY, Bethlehem township; farmer; was born in 1832, in Germany. He came to this county in 1838, and located in Monroe township. He was married in 1856, to Miss Nancy Burrell, of this county. They became the parents of six children, viz : Emma H., born November 10, 1861: Richard C., born July 17,1863; Rebecca J., born in 1865. The other three are dead. Mrs. Heck died in 1866. Mr. Heck's second marriage was in June, 1867, to Miss Mary J. Darling, of this county ; who was born July, 1837. Mr. Heck has always followed the occupation of a farmer, and has a good farm. He has also cleared all his land, it being a wilderness when he came to this county. HEFT PETER, Pike township; postoffice, West Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser; born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1805; settled in this county in 1838; son of Peter and Mariah (Schoch) Heft, and grandson of Peter and Elizabeth (Dihel) Heft, and of Jacob and Magdaline Schoch. He was married in 1845, to Miss Margaret Gault, daughter of William and Sarah Gault. They are the parents of ten children, viz: George W.; Sarah, deceased; William H., Anna M., Perry O., Mary J., Amanda E., John C., Adam T. and James M. Five are married. HEINZLE JOHN, grocer and confectioner, Main street, Coshocton. Mr. Heinzle is a native of Australia, and emigrated to America in 1871. He first stopped a short time in Cincinnati, after which he came to Coshocton and engaged in quarrying stone, in which he continued until 1876, when he engaged in the grocery business, in which he still continues. He has a good stock of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries, and a first-class stock of restaurant goods, consisting of brandies, wines, gins, beer, ales and whiskies of the best American brands, and im ported brandies, wines and gins. He also has a street stand, where he sells candies. nuts, fruits, cigars, etc. HENRY PROFESSOR E. E., Coshocton ; superintendent Coshocton public schools; born August 8, 1841, in Bainbridge, Geauga county, Ohio; son of John Henry, who was American born o Scotch ancestry. Henry spent his childhood an early youth on a farm. At eighteen, he entered the Eclectic institute at Hiram, James A. Garfield principal. On April 23 1861, he enlisted in Company A, _____ O. V. I, being one of the first two students who enlisted from that institute, in the three months' service, and re-enlisted for three years; was mustered out in 1864; was wounded at Antietam and was for several months an inmate of Libby prison. At the close of the war, he returned and resumed his studies, and was graduated by the Western Reserve college, at Hudson, Ohio. His first teaching was done in this State; he also taught in Indiana three years, and in Kansas City three years. Was married May 16,1872, to Miss Annie Langworthy, of Worthington, Indiana: HENRY CHARLES P., Coshocton; barber, of the firm of Henry & Hill, 234 Main street ; was born January 29, 1847, in Newark, Licking county; son of William Henry, a native of Rockbridge county, Virginia. At twelve years of age Charles went to his trade with his father. At seventeen he enlisted in Company K., Forty-second U. S: Colored Volunteers, was commissary sergeant and served fourteen months, when he was honorably discharged at Nashville, Tennessee. On his return he attended school during the day and worked in his father's shop evenings and mornings, until October, 1869, when he came to this city and became' partner with C. Dorsey, and continued the partnership, until 1874, when Mr. Henry continued the business alone until September 6, 1880, when the above firm was formed. Mr. Henry was first married August 29,1872, to Miss Mary L. Norman, of Newark. This union was blessed with three children, one, Mary Louise, deceased, and two living-Ora D. and Blanch E. Mrs. Henry died August 31, 1878. Mr. Henry married January 12, 1880, Miss Eva Norman, of Newark. He came to this city without any financial means, but has become the owner of a good real estate property. HENDERSON A. M, Franklin township; physician at Wills Creek; born in Carroll county March 2, 1839, son of William H and Mary Henderson. He came with his father to Tiverton township when about six months old, and lived there. on the farm till he was twelve years old, when his father moved to New Castle township, where Mr. Henderson remained till he was twenty-two, when he began clerking in Edward's dry goods store in Coshocton, at the same time reading medicine and reciting to Dr: Ingraham. This he continued more than three years. In 1867 he attended lectures of the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, graduating February 26, 1869. He came to Wills Creek March 26, 1869, and has practiced medicine successfully: there since. Married July 3, 1867 to Miss Henrietta d Lynch, daughter of. Hugh Lynch, of Coshocton: They have had three children, viz: Mabel A., deceased, Hattie A. and Nellie M. HENDERSON JAMES, White Eyes township; 706 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. farmer; born in White Eyes, in 1840; is the son of George Henderson, and is of Irish descent. Mr. Henderson was married in 1868, to Miss Emma Ross, who was born in this county in 1844. They are the parents of four children Henry J., Isaac R., Catherine M., and William Mr. Henderson has always resided in White Eyes. HENDERSON B. F., White Eyes township; farmer; was born in this township in 1847, and is the son of George Henderson. Mr. Henderson married Miss Malinda Normon, daughter of Christian Normon, in 1868. Mrs Henderson was born in 1850. They became the parents of four children, one of whom has deceased. Hat tie, Edmond, and Christian are living. Mr. Henderson and wife belong to the U. B. church. HENDERSON FRANK, Oxford township; farmer; postoffice, Evansburgh; son of Alexander Henderson; was born in Muskingum county, October 20, 1840, and came to this bounty in 1868; was out five months in company any H, One Hundred and Sixty-second O. N. G. He was married, March 20,1865, to Mary Wolf, daughter of John Wolf. Their children were Dora, William, Frank, Leroy and Myrtle. He is a member of the M. E. church, has been school director for several terms, owns eighty-six acres of land in this township, and is a highly esteemed citizen. HESKETT J. W., M. D., Bedford township; postoffice, West Bedford; born, in 1851, in this county. His father, B. F. Heskett, was born, in 1823, near Martinsburgh, Virginia; came to this county in 1836, and was married, in 1848, to Miss Hannah M. Barcroft, of this county. She was born, in 1828, in Jefferson county. He was killed in battle at Murfreesborough, January 2, 1863. He was captain of company C, Fifty-first O. V. I. She died in 1854. They were the parents of three children, the subject of this sketch being the second. He entered the office of Dr. H. C. Dicus, of Martinsburg, Knox county, but now of Utica, Licking county, as student, in 1870, and attended a course of lectures at the Cincinnati College e of Medicine and Surgery in the winter of 1872-3. He came back and read another year, when he attended another course, receiving a diploma in the spring of 1874. He was married, in 1874, to Miss A. E. Coulter, of Martinsburgh, Knox county, who was born in 1858, in Jefferson county, Ohio. They are the parents of two children, Leo B. and Daisy V. HESLIP JOSEPH S., Linton township; farmer; born December 22,1827, in Linton township; son of Joseph and Eleanor (Walgamot) Heslip; has always hued in this township; enlisted in 1864, in Company K, Nineteenth O. V. I; served on detailed duty as headquarters guard for Sherman in his Georgia campaign. Married August. 13, 1857, to Esther J. Lovill, daughter of John W. and Eliza J. (Gillespie) Lovill; her father emigrated from London, England, in 1830; her mother was from New York. Mrs. Heslip was born in Ashtabula County, March 24, 1838, and moved with her parents to Guernsey county when six months old. Their children are Eliza. Ellen, William Osborn, Clara Jane, Ada Elizabeth, Elma Susan; Sadie Bell, deceased; Berths,: deceased, and Matilda Ann. George Milton Stone, the son of a deceased sister of Mrs: Heslip, is their adopted child. HICKSON WILLIAM postoffice, Roscoe;: manufacturer of boots and shoes ; born in the county of Meath, Ireland, December 2,1845. At twelve and one-half years of age, he began an apprenticeship to a shoemaker, and upon ifs completion in 1861, while yet a mere youth, left his native land and his friends, and sailed for America. Arriving at New York, he found employment there at his trade, and worked at it till 1865; he then came to Roscoe, and has here followed his vocation uninterruptedly since. April, 1880,. he was elected justice of the peace for Jackson township; was married April, 1863, to Miss Bridget, daughter of James Meady, and has a family of three children, Margaret A., William,. James and Maria Isabelle. HILL WILLIAM M., Coshocton ; barber, of the firm of Henry & Hill, 234 Main street; was born March 20, 1850, in Taylor county, West Virginia; son of John Hill, deceased. William M. was raised on the farm until fifteen, when he became servant to Lieutenant Colonel Pierpont, and remained with him four years, and until the close of the war. In 1870 he went into the barbershop of George Mickens, at Grafton, West. Virginia, and remained one year, after which he successively worked at Mannington, West Virginia; Bellaire, Ohio, and Newark, Ohio. August,1878, he came to this city and worked with Mr. Henry, of the above firm, until September 6, 1880, when he became partner. Mr. Hill was married, March 30, 1880, to Miss Lucy Clinton, of Zanesville, Ohio. HILL A. J., Coshocton ; insurance agent; was born in Guernsey county, July 4, 1834; son of David M. and Elizabeth (Gorden) Hill. A. J. was brought up and schooled in town and city. His life has been principally spent in merchandising. In June, 1853, Mr. Hill was married to Miss Annie E., daughter of Adam and Mary (Hufman) Kimble. They have been the parents. of the following children, viz:Ray T. Osten D., M. Lizzie, Ernest C., George e F., Jennie A., Annie B. and Sarah B., decease In 1868 he formed the firm of McCleary & Hill, wholesale grocers, Cambridge, Ohio, and did a very successful business. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 707 He was also partner in the firm of Thompson & Hill, boot and shoe dealers, Cambridge, Ohio. From this place he went to Massillon, Ohio, and was proprietor of the Tremont House for two years. Then he moved to Newcomerstown, where his wife died, November 2, 1876. He came to this city in 1877, and the spring of 1880 took the agency of the Jelloway Mutual Aid Association, in which he is doing a very satisfactory business. HILL GEORGE ROSCOE ; teacher; born January 23, 1840, in Roscoe, Coshocton county, Ohio ; son of James and Catharine (Dunlap) Hill, natives of Ireland, who came to America in 1832 and located at Lockport, New York. In 1837 they came to Roscoe, where the father died, November 16, 1861. Young Hill obtained a good elementary education at the public schools of his native village: At the proper age he began brick laying, at which he worked about ten years, during the summer seasons. When about twenty-five he began his present profession, in which he has been very successful. HIMEBAUGH WILLIAM, White Eyes township; farmer; born in Harrison county, February, 1818. His father, Peter Himebaugh, was a native of Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, and was of German ancestry. William remained at home until he was eighteen, when be apprenticed himself to a cabinetmaker at Cadiz. In 1840 he came to this county, and he and his brother, Peter, started a shop at Chili, where they continued in the furniture business for eight years, William teaching school during the winter. In 1843 he married Miss Sarah Alexander, daughter of John Alexander. Mrs. Himebaugh is a native of the county Tyrone, Ireland, and was born April, 1825. Her father, John Alexander, was educated at Dublin. He studied medicine at the same place. but never practiced his profession. He came to Buffalo, New York, in 1825; lived there a short time, then moved to Pittsburgh, where he staid a couple of years; then came on to White Eyes township and purchased the farm on which he resided till his death, in 1854, at the age of eighty-four. He was the second justice of the peace in the township, and held that office until he was too old to serve. He was a ready writer, and an occasional contributor to the newspapers. Mr. and Mrs. Himebaugh became the parents of two children-Milton, born July, 1845, enlisted December, 1861, at camp Meigs s in Company G, Eightieth O. V. I. He was killed at the battle of Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1863, at the age of seventeen years and ten months. He was clerk of the brigade commissary department, but at the battle of Jackson he took a musket and went into the battle, and received a ball near his heart while fighting. He was patriotic and brave, and a young man of great promise. William A, was born May 28, 1857, is reading law, and is the only child living. Mr. Himebaugh moved to Washington county in 1848, and returned to Chili in 1852. He was elected county auditor in 1854, was installed in March, 1855, and was re-elected in 1856. He is the only Republican in the county who has held a county office two terms in succession, and the only one who has ever held the office of county auditor. In 1861 he bought and moved on to the old Alexander place in White Eyes, remained there until 1875, when he went to Avondale, and in 1877 located on the farm where he now resides. Mr. Himebaugh was a strong and influential union man. June, 1863, was appointed by the provost marshal enrolling officer of a district including Crawford township. The most interesting event that occurred while discharging his duty in Crawford, took place on Madison's run, in the vicinity of where a lodge of the "Golden Circle" was in the habit of holding its meetings. He called on a young man who was working in the cornfield for the purpose of enrolling him. When asked for his name and age he replied, "I don't go mit dis abolition war. I fights nix for de nigger. I gives no name and I gives no how old." Mr. Himebaugh replied, "All right, sir, there is another way of getting your name and age," and turned to go to his horse. While passing from the field to the road he saw two other persons cross the fence, with clubs in their hands, and join the Dutchman in the field. When about 200 yards away he heard some loud swearing from the Dutchmen, but could not understand what they were saying. He had to go by the Dutchman's house in order to get to his horse, and the three followed him, keeping at a distance, and pretty quiet until Mr. Himebaugh was past the house, then they hastened their pace, and as soon as they saw they could reach the house, the Dutchman interviewed in the field, began swearing, "Now you're as far as you gets, for I shoots you." He then went into the house and came out with a gun on his arm, still swearing that he would shoot. Mr. Himebaugh stood on the opposite side of the fence with his hand on his revolver waiting for a motion from the Dutchman, and telling him at the same time that he was ready to open the ball at any time. The other two were afraid to show themselves after they got into the house. However, the Dutchman did not shoot, but continued his murderous threats, while Mr. Himebaugh walked deliberately to his horse that was hitched a few rods distant, when he found the saddle girth was cut. One of the trio was then immediately dispatched post haste to a magician in the neighborhood, and got him to use all his 708 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. power in the black art to put a stop to "din enrolling bizness." But, regardless of the shot-gun and the conjurations of the charmer, the enrollment of Crawford was completed. The Dutchman was indicted by the United States grand jury at Cleveland, was arrested and lay in jail and the dungeon for a long while at that place. The other two ran off and have not made their appearance since. From 1862 to 1869 Mr. Himebaugh was United States revenue assessor. He has been justice of the peace in White Eyes township for twelve years, and holds that office at present. HINDS ELISHA, deceased, Adams township; farmer; son of Ezra and Elizabeth Hinds; was born August 28, 1801, near Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He came to Steubenville, Ohio, and remained thirteen years; he then removed to Carroll county, Ohio, and remained until April, 1836, when he came to Coshocton county, and settled in Adams township, where he remained until his death. Mr. Hinds was married February 10, 1822, to Miss Nancy Berry, of Steubenville, Ohio. They became the parents of nine children, viz: Elias, Westley; David, deceased; May J.; Elisha, deceased ; John ; Hannah, deceased; an infant not named, and Lewis. His wife died February 6, 1864. He was married August 8, 1854, to Miss Margaret Huff, of Brownsville, Pennsylvania. They became the parents of one child, James, who was born. December 4, 1855. Mr. and Mrs. Hinds united with the M. E. church, December, 1840, and remained members until death. They were descendants of the " Pilgrim Fathers." Mr. Hinds' father served in the revolutionary war. HOGAN DANIEL, Coshocton ; restaurant, grocery and liquor dealer, 446 Main street; was born May, l, 1850, in Waynesburgh, Virginia; son of Patrick Hogan, a native of Ireland. Mr. Hogan came to this county in 1860, and clerked for J. G. Stewart three and one-half years, and for L. R. Miller four years. From Rascoe he went to War-saw and established a grocery ; in a few years he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and established a restaurant, from whence he came to this city and established his present business, in 1873, after haying shipped horses a short time. Mr. Hogan was married July 12, 1873, to Miss Nancy Painter, daughter of John W. Painter, of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. This union was blessed with three children. Wellington, Pearl and Belle. Mr. Hogan commenced life for himself a poor boy, but has succeeded well in his business. HOGLE JOHN, Bethlehem township; farmer; son of Michael and Polly (Langdon) Hogle; was born November 7, 1816, in Bethlehem township, Coshocton county, Ohio; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio. Mr. Hogle's father came to Bethlehem township in 1814, and found it a wilderness, inhabited by Indians and wild animals; ha was of Holland Dutch descent. John Hogle was married April 12, 1842, to Miss Lydia A. Skillman, of this county, who was born February 22, 1822, in New Jersey. They are the parents of seven children, viz : Wilhelmina S., Leander, Charlotte L., Harriet, Mary, Lizzie, Annie W. Mr. and Mrs. Hogle have been influential members of the M. E. church forty years. Mr. Hogle has been justice of the peace in his township twelve years; and is esteemed by all who know him. He owns one of the finest farms in this county. HOHENSHELL JACOB, farmer; Washington township; postoffice, Wakatomaka.; born in 1810, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania.. He was married in 1832, to Miss Sarah Keister, of the same county, who was born in 1813. They came to this county in 1854. They are the parents of fourteen children, seven boys and seven girls; three boys and five girls are still living. HOLL RICHARD S., Newcastle township; postoffice, Newcastle; was born in Lancaster, county, Pennsylvania, in December 25, 1829; son of Jacob and Lydia (Potts) Holl, grandson of Peter and Christina (Miller) Holl, and Ephriam and Esther Potts. He attended school during his youth, and at the age of sixteen began to learn the carpentry and pumpmaking trade, serving the proper time. He has been engaged in carpentry ever since. He came to Newcastle in 1855, and on August 5, 1862, he enlisted in the U. S. service under Captain Nichols, Company H., Ninety-seventh regiment, O. V. I. He went with his company to Camp Lew Wallace, Covington, Kentucky, and while there received an injury while assisting in unloading of medical stores, and was taken to West-End Hospital, Cincinnati, until he became convalescent and was then removed to Camp Dennison, where he remained until he received his discharge on December 25, 1862; and came home. He has never recovered from his injury. After coming home he was unable to do anything for a year, and since then he is able to perform only light work about half his time. He was appointed postmaster in Newcastle, in October, 1869, and has filled that office since. He was married to Miss Mary R. Spindler, on the 31st of January, 1850, daughter of Frederick and Sarah (Campbell) Spindler. Mrs. Holl was born August 18, 1828, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. They have had seven children, viz: Lydia, born November 20, 1850; Sarah, born November 6, 1852, died August 23, 1878; Thomas J., born September 9,1854; Mary E., born July 15, 1856; Hortense, born January 26, 1859, died July 12, 1859; Richard A., born March 8,1861; Loyd N., born March 12, 1865, died October 16, 1870. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 709 HOOD OLIVER T., White Eyes township; born . in Ireland, in 1832; came to America in 1842, and to this county in 1852, and located in White Eyes township He commenced the mechanical trade as a machinist in his eleventh year, entering a large machine shop in Glasgow, Scotland, but afterward turned his attention to engineering. He came to Montreal, Canada, and took charge of the steamer Rollin Hill, on the St. Lawrence river. In the spring of 1847, he came to Oswego, New York, and had charge of the steamer Victoria, running on the Bay of Fundy in the summer of 1847. In the fall of 1847, he went into a machine shop at Niagara Falls. In the spring of 1848, his parents moved upon a farm in Canada, where he remained with them until 1850, when he came to Erie, Pennsylvania, and took charge of a steamer on Lake Erie, a here he remained until 1852, when he came to this county. He was married, September 16, 1852, to Mary J. Graham, who was born in Steubenville, the daughter of Benjamin Graham, a resident of this county. They are the parents of six children, five living. S. W, was born in 1854, in this county. He was married, July, 1880, to Miss Sadie Mar shall, of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. She was born in 1856. S. W. is a saddler by trade, and is carrying on business at Avondale. The names of the other children are as follows, viz: Maggie, Rebecca, Jane and Sarah K., and are all at home. Mr. Hood has followed carpentering since 1865. He has been elected justice of the peace of White Eyes township, and is holding that office at present. He and his family are members of the U. P. church at Avondale. HOOK ISAAC, Bethlehem township; farmer; son of John Hook; was born December 16, 1826, in this township, and has always remained a resident. His father came to this county in 1812, and located in Bethlehem township. He was one of the old pioneers, the township being generally a dense forest when he came here. Isaac Hook was married, in 1850, to Miss Kezia Burrell, of this county, who was born in 1829. They are the parents of nine children, viz: S. M., born in 1851; Annie, born in 1853; Howard M., born in 1855; Susan, born in 1857; Jennie, born in 1859; Harvey, born in 1862; William, born in 1868; Mildred, born in 1870, and George, born in 1872. All the children are residents of this count. Mr. Hook has always been a resident of this county, and has followed agricultural pursuits. HOOTMAN HENRY JACOB, Lipton town ship; farmer; born December 9, 1824; son of Henry and Eleanor (Farmer) Hootman. (For ancestry see Isaac Hootman). When three years old his father moved to Oxford township, where Henry remained till he was twenty-one ; he then lived in Lafayette township until 1859, when he moved to Linton township ; married November 27, 1850, Miss Mary, daughter of Andrew and Mary Rodruck) Ferguson, of Lafayette township. Their children are Henry B., Emma D., Andrew H., and William Tecumseh Sherman. Mr. Hootman enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Ninety-fourth O. V. I, February 15, 1865, and served eight months. HOOTMAN ISAAC; farmer ; born in Lafayette township October 27, 1818; son of Henry and Eleanor Farmer) Hootman. His maternal grandfather. Frederick Farmer, was Irish born; his paternal grandfather, Christopher Hootman, was a Hessian, and was drafted into service when only fourteen years old; belonged to a regiment as drum-major employed by the English in the American war, and was wounded and taken prisoner at Trenton. When released at the close of the war he adopted America as his home, and settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he died. His son Henry, father of Isaac, came to Lafayette township in 1815, and about 1828 moved to Oxford township; he afterwards sold out here and moved to Lawrence county, Illinois, where he died. Except a few months spent in Indiana, Isaac has always lived in this county. He was married in 1841 to Sophronia Hammersly, born October 22, 1822, daughter of Peter Hammersly, of Lipton township. Their children are Henry, Ruhama, Thomas ; Eliza Ellen, deceased ; Seth ; Jacob, deceased; George, Lydia, Manda, Dora; Eber, deceased. HOOVER CHRISTIAN, Crawford township; farmer ; postoffice, New Bedford ; born October 18, 1841, in German township,. Holmes county, in the house in which he now resides; son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Snyder) Hoover. He has spent his entire time on the farm where he was born. He was married March 16, 1863, to Miss Mary, daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth (Varnse) Gouser. Five children were born to them, viz: Francis M., Rebecca Elizabeth, Martha, Albert A. and Mary Margaret. Mr. Hoover has a comfortable home for himself and family. HOSELTON WILLIAM, Coshocton; saloon and restaurant, Third street, between Main and Chestnut; was born April 22, 1832, in Circleville, Pickaway county; son of Joseph Hoselton, Sr., a native of Pennsylvania; served as major in the war of 1812, and was present at the surrender of General H Hull. Young Hoselton was raised in his native village. At fifteen he began canal boating, which he followed about fifteen years. He spent the years 1866-7 in the West. In 1861 he learned the carpenter trade, and followed lit and butchering until 1877, when he established his present business. Mr. H Hoselton was married May 9, 1859, to Miss Eveline Prescott, of Circleville. This union was blessed with five children, 710 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. viz: Charles D., Fannie E., Emma L., William J. and Samuel T. Hoselton. HOSTETTER A. J., Keene township; born January 12, 1840, in Keene township; son of Jacob and Harriet (Martin) Hostetter, of German birth. At the age of five years he moved to Holmes county, where he spent about twenty years, and then three in Ashland county. He next moved to Indiana, where he remained until 1876, when he returned to Coshocton county. He has followed cabinetmaking for thirteen years. Mr. Hostetter enlisted in 1862 in Company B, Sixteenth regiment O. V. I, and was discharged in 1864. He re-enlisted in Company, B, First regiment O. V. I, and remained in service until the close of the war, having been engaged at Mill Springs, Cumberland Gap, and in the numerous battles which were fought in Sherman's Georgia campaign. He was married February 20,1867, to Susan E. Beaird, born in 1850, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Miller) Beaird. HOUSER CHARLES, farmer; Washington township: postoffice, Wakatomaka; born in 1814, in Hampshire county, Virginia. He came to this county in 1819 with his father C. D. Houser. He was born in 1769, in Germany, and came to Virginia in 1785. He married Marion Thompson, of the same county, who was born in 1773. He died in 1853; she died in 1851. They were the parents of nine children. The subject of this is the sixth. He was married in 1832 to Miss Rebecca Garee, of Licking county, who was born in 1818. HOWE A. D., Coshocton ; foreman in axle department of steel works; was born March 16,1850, in Lodi, Otsego county, New York; son of George H. Howe. At the age of thirteen he went on a farm, where he remained two years. In April, 1865, he commenced his present business, at Springfield Center, Otsego county, New York, and remained two years, then worked two years in Herkimer county, New York. He came to this city in 1871, and was one of the first who worked in the present works, becoming foreman in September, 1878, which position he has held to the present time. Mr. Howe was married July 19, 1868, to Miss Mary, daughter of Isaac Sparts, of Menden, Herkimer county, New York. They have two children, Clarence D. and Mildred M. HOWE GEORGE H., Coshocton; boxmaker, in spring and axle works ; was born in Otsego county, New York, in 1827 ; commenced work in cotton factory at the age of fourteen, and continued four years; then learned the carpenters' trade, and followed it until he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-second N. Y. V. I. He was honorably discharged in July, 1864, and returned to New York and engaged in buggy axle manufacturing, where he continued until 1876, when he engaged in his present position. Mr. Howe chose Harriett, daughter of Leonard Perkins, of Oneida county, New York, for a partner to share the joys and sorrows of life with him. They were blessed with five children, viz : Albert, Charles, Ids, George, and Eggert, deceased. HOWELL JOHN, fruit grower; Washington township; postoffice, Wakatomaka; born in 1814, in Belmont county, Ohio. He came to this county in 1827, with his father, who was born in 1767, in Virginia. He was married in 1797, to Miss Elizabeth Bonham, of Virginia, who was born in 1777. They came to Belmont county in 1814. He was in the war of 1812. John was married in 1837, to Miss Phoebe A. Seward, of this county, who was born in 1813, in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. She died in 1879. The are the parents of eight children. Mr. Howe has thirty acres of orchard. His gross sales for 1879 were $2,000. HOWLETT JOHN, Sr., Bedford township; carpenter; postoffice, West Bedford; born in 1819, in Ohio county, West Virginia. He was married in 1848 to Miss Elizabeth J. Steele, of the same county, who was born in 1829. They came to this county in 1861. They are the parents of nine children, viz: Franklin, Albert; Gabriel, deceased; John, James; Charles, deceased; Sarah E., Harry and Ida May. Mr. Howlett is a carpenter, haying worked on many fine buildings. HOWSER A. B., Jackson , township ; Roscoe postoffice; born in this county in 1851; son of Jacob and Elizabeth Howser, and grandson of Andrew and Mary (Carson) Lockard; married in 1875 to Mar A. Norris, daughter of William and Rebecca J. Norris. They have one child-Curtis S. HUGHES JAMES, Bedford township; farmer; postoffice, West Bedford; born in 1809 in Belmont county, Ohio, and came to this county in 1821, with his father, who was born in 1767 in New Jersey. He married Miss Francis Launney, of Winchester, Virginia, and died in 1824. She died in 1867. They were the parents of seven children, the subject of this sketch being the third. He was married in 1860 to Miss Rebecca Hardman, of this county, who was born in 1822. She died in 1863. He was married in 1872 to Miss Lottie Robinson, of this county , who was born in 1839, in Harrison county. The are the parents of three children, viz : Luella J., James A. and Francis U. HUGHES JOHN D., Keene township; carpenter; born June 26, 1840, in Pittsburgh, Penn- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 711 sylvania; sun of John and Eliza J. Hughes, and grandson of Robert and Mary A. (Robinson) Hughes, and of John and Nancy (Hasson) Duncan. He remained in Pittsburgh, till 1875, when he came to Keens, and married Miss Rebecca Fullerton, of Irish extraction, who was born June 20, 1844; daughter of Robert and Anna (Aiken) Fullerton, and granddaughter of Robert Fullerton. Three children have been born unto them: William, February 2,1864; Eliza J., October 15, 1871, and Mary E., October 12, 1874. Mr. Hushes enlisted in the Thirteenth Pa. V. I, Company F, and was discharged August 28,1861; re-enlisted September 6, 1861, in the One Hundred and Second Pa. V. L, Company L, and mustered out September 9, 1864. He was engaged at Williamsburg, Antietam and Fredericksburg. . At Williamsburg he was severely wounded. He was a member of the militia that helped to suppress the great Pittsburgh riot, in 1878. HUGHES WILLIAM H., Coshocton; carpenter and contractor; was born April 9, 1840, in Muskingum county. He is a son of Henry C. R. Hushes, American born, of Irish ancestry. Young Hughes was raised on the farm until about fifteen years of age, when he began to learn the cabinet trade, which he followed until 1861, when he enlisted in Company A, Ninth O. V. C., and served until the close of the war. On returning from the war he resumed his trade at Roscoe, where he followed it until 1869, when he changed to his present trade. In 1871 he came to this city, and has successfully followed the carpenter and contracting business to the present. Mr. Hughes was married August 8, 1866, to Miss Jennie Mirise, daughter of John Mirise, deceased, formerly of Roscoe. This union has been blessed with five children, viz : Frank G., Alice Blanche, Edie Belle, Charles H, and William Longdon. HURLBUTT L. H., Coshocton; manager for D. M Moore, custom clothier, 422 Main street; was born in 1832, in the State of Connecticut; commenced his trade when fourteen yearn of age; at twenty he established a shop at Norfolk, Connecticut, and continued business six years. His health failing, he went south and remained two years, then returned and located at Stanford, Connecticut, and remained twelve years. He was employed as cutter in Dunkirk, Newark and Dayton. In 1875 he took his resent position. He was married in 1853, to Miss E. Holcomb, of Water bury, Connecticut. Their children are William L., J. A. and Perry. This establishment employs twenty-five hands, and turns off from twenty-five to thirty suits per week. Mr. Moore buys direct from the mills. This is a branch of the Newark store, which employs from fifty to sixty hands. HUTCHINSON W. S., Coshocton; grocer, corner of Walnut and Sixth streets. Mr, Hutchinson is a native of this city, born December 31, 1848; was educated in the public schools of Coshocton, and made his first business engagement as salesman with William Ward, in general merchandising. He afterward served the firms of Hay & Wilson, D. Brelsford & Co., and J. H. Klosser, when in February, 1878, he purchased the stock of Williams Bros., since which he has been engaged in the grocery business. He carries an extensive and first-class stock of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries, stove and woodenware, sugar-cured and pickled meats, fish, flour and salt, also deals in all kinds of country produce. INGRAHAM J. B., Coshocton, Ohio; physician and surgeon ; born November 9, 1821, in Harrison county, Virginia; son of Jacob and Maria (Modisett) Ingraham. His paternal ancestors are English, and his maternal, Welch and French. He was brought up a farmer-boy until eighteen, when he began teaching school, and taught three schools. In 1844, he located at Athens, Athens county, Ohio, and at once began reading medicine with Dr. Carpenter, and began practice at Savannah, Athens county, Ohio, in 1847 ; his next location was at Logan, Hocking county, Ohio, where he was married, March 7, 1847, to Miss Sarah E., daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fielding) Guthrie. They are the parents of nine children, viz : Maria, Olivia, now Mrs. Dr. T. J. Smith; Sarah E., Charles M., Frances Ellen, now Mrs. Dr. H. L. Mann ; Emma G.; John G., deceased; Rose E., Edgar, Floyd and Robert Jay. June 4, 1848, Dr. Ingraham located at Plainfield, Coshocton county, Ohio, where he practiced until April 1, 1864, when he came to Coshocton. He has been eminently successful in his professional practice, especially as a surgeon. IRVINE J., Coshocton; attorney at law; was born December 24, 1822, at Wooster, Ohio, where he remained until he was ten ,years old, when with his parents he went to Fredericksburgh, where on finishing his education he began teaching school. . He taught in Ashland county, and also in the schools at Fredericksburgh At the age of twenty-four he entered as a student the law office of Sapp & Wilker, and was admitted to practice about the time war was declared between the United States and Mexico. In May, 1847, he enlisted in Company G, O. V. I as second lieutenant, and to September ,of the same year he was elected captain of the company at Matamoras, Mexico, and was honorably discharged in ]848 at Cincinnati, Ohio: On receiving his discharge he came to his present location, end taught school one year; then resumed his present law profession. In April, 1861, he enlisted as colonel of the. Sixteenth O. V. I. and served three 712 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. months. In 1863 he recruited company M, Ninth O. V. C., and was commissioned its captain, and subsequently major, and served until August 2, 1865. In June, 1853, Col. Irvine was married to Miss Annie Humrickhouse. They became the parents of two children, Samuel and Mary. J JACQUET JOHN M., Coshocton; pastor of St. George congregation; born. August 20, 1817, in France; son of Claude Jacquet; educated at Lyons, France, and ordained there in 1844; came to America in 1845, and was employed in the diocese of Nashville, Tennessee, until 1855, in which year he became pastor of St. Mary's church, at Batesville, Noble county, Ohio, where he remained till 1869; he then removed to Coshocton, and has remained here since, officiating as pastor of the St. George church, in the city; and, in addition, having charge of five small missions, viz: One in Franklin, one in Linton, and one in Monroe township, this county; one in Dresden, and one in Muskingum township, Muskingum county. JAMES E. W., Coshocton; attorney; born February 11, 1837, in East Union, this county; son of Thomas James, who was American born, of English ancestry. Young James spent his early life on a farm and going to public schools. In 1854, he commenced a more thorough course of education, during the summers attending successively West Bedford academy, Oberlin college, Spring Mountain academy and Meadville college, Pennsylvania, and teaching in the winters. August 15. 1861, he enlisted as a private in company K, Thirty-second O. V. I. During the first year he rose successively to second and first lieutenants. In February, 1863, he was commissioned captain. He resigned soon after the fall of Atlanta, Georgia. Captain James was appointed judge advocate on General Legget's staff and received several honorable mentions during his military services. In the spring of 1865, he entered, as a student, the law office of Messrs. Nicholas & Williams. During his reading, he took the law course at Michigan university, and was graduated in March, 1867, soon after which he commenced the practice of law, forming the firm of Nicholas & James. Captain James was married, May 16, 1871, to Miss Cornelia A. Denver, daughter of Patrick Denver, of Clinton count , Ohio. The result of this union is one chip a daughter, Mary. JAMES THOMAS, Bedford township; postoffice West Bedford : born in 7812, in this county. His father Elias James was born in 1785 in Loudon county, Virginia, and was married in 1806, to Miss Nancy Fry, of the same county, who was born in 1785. They came to this county in 1809. He died in 1860, she died in 1863. They were tire parents of six children, the subject of this sketch being the third. He was married in 1833, to Miss Sarah O. Cochran, of this county, who was born in 1815. They are the parents of eight children, only one of whom is living E. W. was a member of the Thirty-second, O. V. I. He went in as a private and rose to the rank of captain. The names of the. deceased children are James F., Melvina, Rebecca J., Rachel V., Ruth. V., Nancy E., and Sarah K. JEFFRIES V. O., Coshocton; carriage and wagon manufacturer, north Second street; born November 22, 1841, in White Eyes township; son of William Jeffries. Young Jeffries was raised on the farm, where he remained until he was twenty-one ears of age, when he went to his trade with E. McDonald, after which he worked with Conrod & Shepler, of Marysville, Union county; and four years under instructions at Columbus; also for A. D. Manners, of this city. In the spring of 1876 he established his present shop, where he is receiving a full share of the patronage in his line of business. Mr. J. keeps eight or ten hands employed at his shop. Mr. Jeffries was married December 21,1880, to Miss Ada L., daughter of George Morgan, of this city. JELLEY ROBERT D., Keens township ; farmer; born December 1, 1841, in Mill Creek township; son of Samuel and Lydia, Jelley, and grandson of James and Mary (Hazlett) Jelley, and of Robert and Elizabeth Davidson, natives of Ireland. He was married October 22, 1867, to Christina, daughter of Jacob and Susannah Best, and granddaughter of John and Christina (Revenaugh) Best, and of Peter and Susannah Miller, of German lines e. They have one child, Elizabeth M., born September 1, 1869. JENNINGS JOSEPH, Franklin township; farmer; born in Coshocton county, September 23, 1845; son of Joseph Jennings, Sr., an early settler of this county; enlisted in Company M, Ninth O. V. C., October 22,1863, and remained in service until mustered out in 1865. Among the engagements he participated in were Decatur, Alabama, those about Atlanta, Aiken, Chappel Bill, Nashville, Tennessee, etc. Since his return he has engaged in farming. He was married September 8,1870, to Rebecca Simon, born April 27, 1847, daughter of William Simon, who was born in Fairfield county, and whose parents emigrated from Germany. His children were, Arminta, Viola, William Marshall, John Barley, Sara Bell and Olvy Pearl. JOHN E. Y., deceased, Tiverton township; born March 1,1821, in this county, and was married in 1848, to Miss Hannah Spurgeon, of this BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, - 713 county, who was born in November, 1824. He died March 12, 1875. They were the parents of four children, only one of whom, Polantes, is living. Mr. John followed the business of salesman, selling goods in Walhonding and Warsaw. JONES SAMUEL, Lafayette township; farmer; postoffice, West Lafayette, Ohio; son of David P, and Margaret (Hunt) Jones: ; was born April 20, 1842, in England: He came to this country in 1845, and located in Linton township, this county. He was raised on the farm, and has always fol lowed that occupation. Mr. Jones was married June 29, 1865, to Miss Debby J Wiggins, of this county. They are the parents of six children, viz: Rosella, bore June 29, 1866; Ida M., born August 23, 1867; Charles H., born August 26, 1869; Samuel H., born January 19, 1872; David P born December 9, 1877, died March 8, 1873, and Debby P., born January 21, 1876. Mr. Jones served four months as a private in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-second O. V. I, under General Butler. JONES SMITH, Oxford township; farmer; White Eyes Plains postoffice; son of Wesley and Mille A. (Medley ) Tones, both natives of Ohio. The subject of this sketch was born in Belmont county, in 1841; and came to this county when about three years of age. He was married to Miss Margaret Ann Wolf, daughter of Samuel Wolf, deceased They have not been blessed with any children. He is at present township trustee, being elected on the Republican ticket, although the township is Democratic, which shows his popularity. He took part in the late war, going out in Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth O V. I, and serving twenty months, going out as a private and discharged as a sergeant. Mr. Jones and wife are members of the Protestant Methodist church of this township, acid are both highly esteemed by their neighbors. He owns fifty-three acres of good land in this township. JONES REV. A. P., Virginia township. The subject of this sketch was born at Westfield, Medina county, Ohio; son of Sylvanus and Alvira Jones. Mr. Johns was brought up on a farm till the ago of eighteen years. He then wont to school at Baldwin university, at Berea, Ohio, he also spent two years at the Wesleyan university, at Delaware, where he graduated. He then entered the North Ohio Conference, of which he remained a member until 1863, when he enlisted in the Thirty-fourth Regiment O. V. I, Army of the Cumberland, served about eighteen months as a. private. He afterward served in various capacities : first as clerk, then in the executive department of the hospital, then as chaplain till he was mustered out of the service. On his return he again entered the conference, and is still a member of it. He married Miss Cordelia Thatcher, in August, 1859. JOHNSTON J. H., Jefferson township ; was born September 10, 1834, in Scotland, and while yet an infant, he was brought by his parents to Canada, where he wag brought up on a farm, and educated in a Canadian free school. At the age of twenty, he came to the United States, and settled in Hancock county, West Virginia, where he learned the blacksmith trade, under John Dixon, and followed it, in Virginia, about seven years; then went to California, worked at his trade about sixteen months; then returned to Coshocton county, Ohio, worked at his trade until 1875, when he went to Texas, to look for a location; remained there about fifteen months, and followed farming; then returned to Jefferson township, Coshocton county, where he is now pursuing his old occupation of blacksmithing. He was married to Miss Rebecca J. Neptune, September, 1857, who was born June 3, 1834; daughter of Davis and Elizabeth (Hull) Neptune, and granddaughter of Benjamin and Sarah Hull. Their children were, Elizabeth, deceased; John T., born January 2, 1862; George D., August 2, 1863; Alice M., September 28, 1865; James H., September 2,1863; Charles G., February 2,1871; Samuel A., September 7,1862, and Sarah J., May 20, 1876, born in Texas. Mr. Johnston enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G., and served his country 100 days. JOHNSON JAMES, Franklin township; born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 10, 1815; son of John and Rebecca Johnson. In 1818, his father, a weaver, moved to Trenton, New Jersey, and seven years later to Utica, New York James remained here till he was twelve years old, then worked on the Erie canal till he was twenty-five, when he learned the cooper trade, working at it, in Newark, Wayne county, and Phelps, Ontario county, New York, till the fall of 1848. He then moved to Roscoe, this county, and followed his trade till the spring of 1852, when he moved to Franklin township He built a cooper-shop at Conesville, doing the cooper work for the distillery, and also shipping his barrels. .About 1868,. ho quit coopering and engaged exclusively in farming. He was married, in 1841, to Matilda Cornell, daughter of John Cornell. His two children were named John and Sarah Minerva. JOHNSON HENRY, deceased; Lafayette township; was barn in Orange county, New York, in 1800, and came to Ohio to 1837 ; previous to coming here, he run a dairy in Orange county, noted the world over for its butter and buttermakers. He was married October 23, 1822, to Miss Clarinda Burt, of Orange county, New York. They had three children, viz : Sarah, Catherine 714 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. and Clara. Mrs. Johnson passed away in 1873, and Mr. Johnson in 1879, his death resulting from being struck in the breast by a horse which was scared at a steam thresher. bars. Johnson was a cripple the best part of her life from rheumatism, caused principally, by the hard work incident to an early settler's life. Clara, the youngest daughter, owns the home farm of 200 acres, which is the one first settled upon by her father, and owns 240 acres south of the home farm. The house where she is at present living is the oldest frame house in the valley, at one time a tavern, in the early days of this county, and was the place for holding elections for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were both leading members of the Baptist church here, in fact, Mr. Johnson may truthfully be said to have built the Baptist church in this place, and his home was sometimes called the "preacher's home," on account of the hospitality extended to them. JOHNSON JESSE, White Eyes township; farmer; born in Jefferson county about 1817, and was the son of Derrick Johnson. Jesse was married in 1841 to Miss M. J. Dennison of Jefferson county ; she was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. They had nine children, all of whom have deceased except the three youngest, two boys and one girl-Charles, Ernst and Grace. Grace is married to John Adams, a stock dealer of Coshocton, and resides at that place. Charles lives at home with his mother, and farms the place. Ernst has been attending school at Coshocton for the last three years. Mr. Johnson came to this township in the spring of 1861, and located on the farm were his widow resides. He died September 15, 1868, aged 62 years, and was interred at Kimbles. They lost four of their children within two weeks. JOHNSON DR. MARO, Roscoe, Ohio. Dr. Johnson was born March 14, 1810, in Cheshire county, New Hampshire; son of Adam and Martha (Breed) Johnson, who were of English ancestors. The doctor's grandfather was a soldier in the French and English wars of 1754-55, and also in the revolutionary war. Young Johnson was brought up on a farm, where he remained until he was twenty years of age, when he began reading medicine with Dr. Samuel Lee, the first physician in Coshocton, Ohio. After three years study he attended a course of lectures at the Ohio medical college at Cincinnati. On his return from the lectures he became a partner with his preceptor, with whom he remained six years, and since which time he has practiced medicine at his present place, Roscoe. Dr. Johnson was married November 15, 1838, to Miss Eliza L., daughter of Thomas L. Rue, of Coshocton, but formerly of Pennington, New Jersey. They became the parents of four children, viz: Sarah L., Jane, married to John M. Adams, of Jackson township; Elizabeth, deceased, aged 19 years; Guy, married to Miss Lone, now residing in Iowa. Mrs. Johnson died in 1854, and is buried in the old cemetery at Roscoe. JOHNSON WILLIAM A., clerk; Coshocton; was born June 28, 1823, in this city; son of Adam and Sarah Williams, daughter of Colonel Williams the pioneer settler of this city. Johnson, Sr., was a native of Maryland. At the age of thirteen young Johnson began the printing business in the Coshocton Democrat, and in 1845 he became owner of half the office, which he held about one year. In 1846 he became editor and proprietor of the Crawfordsville Review, in Indiana, and conducted it. one year, then removed to Iowa and located at Ottumwa, Wapello county. He afterwards purchased the Des Moines Republican, and conducted it nearly two years. Then returned to his native city a wiser if not wealthier man, and became foreman of the Coshocton Age, which position he held under Burt, Hillyer, Dwyer & Harris. He was appointed postmaster by President Lincoln, but was victimized by President Johnson. In 1861 he enlisted as musician of Fifty-first regimental band, but was discharged by act of congress in 1862. He also served under the government as assistant assessor, also as assessor, then again assistant assessor of internal revenue, also deputy provost marshal of this county, after which he retired to private life. Mr. Johnson was married in April, 1845, to Miss Doratha, daughter of John and Susannah (Jennings) Ostler. This union was blessed with eleven children ; three died in infancy, not named; Louisa, Mary V., Luella, William A.. Jr., George W., Charles M.; Adah, deceased; Mary A. and Paul B. JOHNSON C. B., New Castle township; postoffice, New Castle; was born in Tompkins county, New York, April 30, 1840; son of Henry L. and Ocee Ann (Brown) Johnson, and grandson of Robert and Mary (Carney) Brown. He worked on the farm and attended school until the age of eighteen, at which time he came to West Bedford, this county, and learned the harness-maker trade with Philips, and from there he came to New Castle, and worked with William Lyons. In June, 1861, he volunteered in the United States service in Company D, Twenty-fourth O. V. I, under Captain Givens, and remained in the service until January, 1863. His first encampment was at Camp Chase, four miles west of Columbus, and in July, 1861, was removed from there to Bellaire; thence to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; thence to Clarksburg, West Virginia, where he was taken ill and was sent to the hospital; and was there several days. He then, with three comrades, followed the command to Cheat Mountain, a distance of 104 miles, camping each night among the. enemy. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 715 From Cheat Mountain he went to Greenbrier, and there took part in the fight, then came back with his regiment to Cheat Mountain, and from there was ordered to Clarksburg, and thence to Louisville, Kentucky, under General Wilson. From Louisville he went into winter quarters at Camp Wickliffe. and, in February, 1862, was ordered to West Point, Kentucky, and down the Ohio to Paducah, thence up the Cumberland to Fort Donelson, expecting to assist in the fight at that place, but didn't reach there until the morning of the surrender. From there he went to Nashville, Tennessee, where he was taken sick and sent to the hospital, and afterward detailed to hospital No. 14 as hospital clerk, and remained nine months and twenty-seven days, when he received his discharge and went home. He was never wounded He then went to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, and worked at his trade with George Hawk for nine months, and in 1864 moved to Bladensburgh, Knox county, and from there to Roscoe and carried on a shop for two years, and in the fall of 1867 moved to New Castle, where he has resided ever since. In 1874 he patented the diamond trace buckle, for which he received about $1,000. He has served three terms as justice of the peace in New Castle township, and is at present proprietor of Union Hotel, doing a fair business. He has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Martha Baltzall, to whom he was married March 7, 1863. She was the daughter of Joseph and Lydia Baltzall, and died July 12, 1865. He married his second wife, Miss Charity E. Fulkerson, July 7, 1867, daughter of Thomas and Lydia Fulkerson, who is the mother of four children, three of whom arc living viz: Blanche, born July 6, 186S; George, born October 10, 1879; Robert, born February 21, 1877. JOHNSON ROBERT L., New Castle township ; postoffice, New Castle ; was born March 15, 1833, in Tompkins county, New York; son of Henry and Ocee Ann (Brown) Johnson, and grandson of Robert and Mary (Carney) Brown. He attended school and assisted his father on the farm until he was twenty years of age, at which time he went to Illinois, remaining there about ten months, working for Mr. Williams, of Crawford county, then came to Virginia township, Coshocton county, and from there went to Bedford township, and worked with Elias James, and at tended school during the winter of 1859. In the spring following, he went to West Bradford, and in the fall, to Simmons' run, near Xenia, Ohio, and worked there until the spring of 1861, when he came to New Castle, and worked with Jesse Nickols, until the first of June, when he enlisted in the United States service, Company K, Twenty-fourth O. V. I:, under Captain Given ; went to Camp Chase ; from there to Bellaire, and thence to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; was then ordered to Clarksburg, West Virginia, and thence to Cheat Mountain; from there went to Greenbrier, and took part in the engagement at that place; from there he returned, with his regiment to Cheat Mountain; from thence to Clarksburg; thence to Louisville, Kentucky, and from there to winter quarters, at Camp Wickliffe, and, in February, 1862, went to West Point Kentucky; from there to Paducah; thence: up : the: Cumberland, to Fort Donaldson, to assist to the engagement there, but did not arrive until the morning of the surrender. From there he went to Nashville, Tennessee, thence to Savannah, Georgia, then to Shiloh, expecting an attack. On the morning of the 8th of February, he marched with his regiment against the enemy, had a battle and routed the enemy. From there he went to Corinth and assisted in the siege, thence to Beech bottoms, thence to Iuka Springs, thence to Nashville and Murfreesborough, Tennessee, where, on account of sickness, he was taken to convalescent camp, remained there about six weeks; was then detailed as teamster to Bowling Green, then to Louisville, thence to Nashville; when he: was taken to hospital on account of injuries received from a mule, where he remained until he was discharged, January 27,1863, and then came home. He married Miss Mary A. Smith, August 17,1865. He then learned the harnessmaker trade, in New Castle, with his brother, Charles, with whom he was a partner about four years, when he sold his interest and went into the barbering business at Mount Vernon, Knox county, and, after a time, came back to New Castle, where he is at present engaged at harnessmaking and barbering, doing a fair business. JOHNSON JOHN, Pike township ; postoffice, West Carlisle; farmer and stock raiser ; born in this county in 1846; son of John and Mar y Johnson, and grandson of John Johnson, and of Joseph and Mary Hawker. He was married in 1868 to Miss Elizabeth Frampton, daughter of Garrettson and Eliza A. Frampton. They are the parents of two children, viz: : Clarence G. and Stephen D. Mr. Johnson enlisted in 1864, in Company F, Ninety-seventh O. V. I, Capt. Lemmert, Army of the Cumberland. Mr. Johnson participated in the following battles, to-wit: Rocky Face Ridge, May. 9, 1864: Resaca, Georgia, May 14 and 15, 1864; Adairsville, May 17, 1864; Burnt Hickory, May 27, 1864; Muddy Creek, June 18, 1864, Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864; Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864; Atlanta, Georgia, July 22 and 23,1864; Jonesborough; September 1, 1864; Lovejoy Station, September 2, 1864; Spring Hill, November 29; 1864; Franklin, November 30, 1864; Nashville, December 15 and 16, 1864; Missionary Ridge, Stone River, and Chickamauga. He 716 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. was wounded at Nashville December 16, 1864; and was mustered out at Powder Horn, Texas, October 21, 1865. JOHNSON WILLIAM, Pike township; post office, Fallsburgh; farmer and stockraiser; born in England in 1819; came to the United States in 1852, and settled in this county in 1870; son of Daniel and Mary (Topps) Johnson, and grandson of William and Mary Johnson, and of Thomas and --------- Topps. He was married in 1858 to Miss Levina Lane, daughter of Joshua and Sarah Lane. They are the parents of six children, viz: Mary and Sarah, both deceased; Margaret, John, Terrissa, George E., Harriett, and Elizabeth. The father of the subject of this sketch died in 1867. K KANE FRANK; was born in Herkimer county, New York, July 18, 1828; lived on a farm, and went to Fairfield academy until the age of fifteen, and then went to learn the currier trade; followed it three years, then moved to Otsego county, New York, and followed pattern making for twelve years. After this he left New York and went to Schenectady City, and resumed his trade of pattern making for a time, after which he returned to Otsego and followed the same business for two years; then came to Coshocton, Ohio, and has worked at pattern making for the Iron and Steel Co., up to the present time. Mr. Kane married Julia H., daughter of Philip Baker, of Richfield Springs, Otsego county, New York. This union has been blessed with two children, viz : Charley B. and Cora Kane. KASER CHRISTIAN, Jefferson township; postoffice, Warsaw; born in Wurtemberg, Germany, November 23, 1815; son of Frederick and Johanna (Stumf) Kaser. In his youth he learned the shoemaker trade, and, at the age of eighteen, began doing for himself, worked at promiscuous work for twenty years, then came to America in 1848, landing in New York after a voyage of eighteen days. From New York he went to Dutch Bedford, remained there a short time, then came to Jefferson township, Coshocton county, where he has resided since. He was married February 29, 1849, to Miss Sophia Gamertsfelder, daughter of Christian and Johanna (Verner) Gamertsfelder. She was born November 3, 1814, in Stiltzbaugh, Wurtemberg, Germany; came to America in 1833, landing in Baltimore after a voyage of eighty-one days, on the vessel Elizabeth. They are the parents of two children-John and Christian. John was born in Mill Creek township May 25 1851. He attended district school and assiated his father until the age of twenty-one, since which time he has farmed for himself. He is an energetic young man, respected by all who know him. He was married January 1, 1875, to Miss Anna E. Miller, daughter of John W. and Caroline Miller, who was born June 3,1852, in Jefferson township, died May 31, 1879. This union was blessed with one child (Samuel), born September 29,1875. , KASER C., Jefferson township ; was born May 2, 1855, in Jefferson township, Coshocton county. He lived on a farm until the age of eighteen when, after attending school for some time at Warsaw, he began teaching and taught one year, then went back to the farm where he remained two ,years, after which he attended the Ohio Central Normal school, at Worthington, Franklin county. He is now engaged in selling hardware in partnership with R. C. Frederick, at Warsaw, where they are doing a good business. Mr. Kaaer was married to Miss Louisa Meyers, May 5, 1880, daughter of Henry and Wilhelmina Myers. C. Kaser is a son of C. and Sophia (Gamertsfelder) Kaser. KASER JOHN C., Jefferson township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw, Ohio; son of Christian and Sophia F. (Gamertsfelder) Kaser; was born May 25, 1851, in this county. He was raised on the farm, and has always followed that occupation. He was married December 31,1865, to Miss Annie E. Miller, of this county. They became the parents of one child, viz: Samuel, born September 29, 1866. His wife died May 30,1879. Mr. Kaser's second marriage was on February 24, 1881, to Miss Maggie Fisher, of this county. He is farming his father's place at present. KETCHUM SAMUEL, deceased ;the only son of Abner and Clarinda (Belcher) Ketchum ; was born in Moroe, Orange county, New York, November 8, 1827, and came here with his parents in May, 1840; was married February 24, 1851, to Eleanor L. Lowry, of Linton township. They had four children, as follows : Abner, Laura, Robert and Hattie. Mr. Ketchum died June 29,1871. KERNS W. P., Adams township; postoffice, Bakersville ; wagonmaker ; born in Holmes county, Ohio, May 3, 1851; son of John and Sarah (Snider) Kerns, and grandson of Mary Snider. He began his trade at the age of fifteen, with his father, and remained seven years, after which he took charge of the shop himself and continued it for some time. He then worked at carpentering for about three years, after which he came to Bakersville and resumed his former occupation, where he has a very flattering trade. He is a firstclass mechanic, and manufactures wagons, buggies and everything in his line in the very best style. Mr. Kerns was married in 1875, to Miss Emma Hixon, daughter of Jonathan and Susan Hixon, and granddaughter of Abraham Hixon. She died April 10,1878. They have two children, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 717 viz: Harden W. and Orlando C. He was married November 5, 1880, to Miss Ella Steward. KEISER MICHAEL, Clark township; miller; postoffce, Clarks; born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, March 15, 1844; son of John and Louisa (Kerstetter) Keiser, and grandson of Daniel and Mary Keiser and Michael Kerstetter. He learned his trade with Daniel Schaef, of Bakersville, and, in 1874, he became proprietor of the Bloomfield mills, where he is at present, doing a very fair business. He was married, April 5, 1868, to Miss Sarah Beck, and is father of three children: Benjamin, born February 16, 1869; Sarah, born January 2, 1874, and Almira, born October 6, 1876. Mr. Keiser served three years in the late war in company E, One Hundred and T'wenty-sixth O. V. I. KEIST WILLIAM C., Linton township; farmer ; born in Linton township, November 5, ]837; son of Nathan and Elizabeth B. (Clark) Keist, grandson of William R. and Catherine (Williams) Clark, and of Philip and Nancy (Holt) Keist; His grandfather Keist was born in Germany, and settled in Loudon county, Virginia. His grandfather Clark, during the war of 1812, emigrated from Washington county, Maryland, to Franklin township, and worked a short time on the Miller section, then enlisted in the army, and participated in the battle of the Thames; returning, he settled in I Linton township, where Mr. Keist's mother was born. H is father was born in London county, Virginia, and about 1833 came to Muskingum county, and two years later to Linton township. Mr. Keist, April 14, 1859, married Alcinda Gale Ingraham, born in Harrison county, Virginia, daughter of Jacob and Maria (Modisette) Ingraham. Their children are James B., born February 22, 160; Clark, deceased, born January 22, 1862; Ella V., July 22, 1864; Benjamin F., December 31, 1866; Arthur G., deceased, February, 13, 1868 ; Olivia R , Ma 24, 1871; Mary L., March 2, 1875, and Louis M., March 13, 1880. KITCHEN J. T., Coshocton ; city marshal ; born March 14, 1837, in this city; son of Joel Kitchen, a native of Virginia, of Irish ancestry. When about twelve years of age he was employed in the coal works of Jewitt & Co., and subsequently in another company, making about twenty-one years. He was elected to the office which he now holds April 1,1878. Mr. Kitchen was married, first, December 27, 1859, to Miss Adeline Uffner, daughter of John Uffner, of Licking county. This union was blessed with nine children, one of whom, Joseph, is deceased. The eight living children are: Charles T., Clara, Frank, Milton, Herbert, William, Niona and Harry. Mrs. Kitchen died June 24, 1877. Marshal Kitchen's second marriage was on June 19, 1880, to Miss Catharine Reed, of this city. KING W. H., Coshocton, Ohio; of the firm of King & Ferrell, foundrymen, North Fifth street. Mr. King was born February 1,1841, in Lancaster county. Pennsylvania; son of William King. W. H. enlisted, to 1861, in Company F, Fifty-first O. V. I, and reenlisted as a veteran, in 1864, and served to the close of the war. He was wounded in the hip, at the battle of Chickamauga, which disabled him for a few days. He was in ever engagement of his corps (twenty battles), besides many skirmishes. He was discharged at Galveston, Texas, but was not mustered out until he returned as far as Columbus. At the close of the war, he engaged in the Foundry business, at Roscoe, with the following successive partners, viz: Hiram Taylor, James Hay and James Mirise. In the winter of 1881, Mr. King established business, atone, at his present place, and, April 25, of the same year, the present firm was formed. This firm starts under very favorable auspices, both members of the firm being skilled workmen, and having large experience in their business. Mr. King was married, December 25. 1855, to Miss Margaret, daughter of Daniel King, of Crawford township. They are the parents of seven children. KIME JOSEPH, Oxford township ; farmer; Evansburgh postoffice; son of Daniel and Catherine (Canel) Kime; was born in 1830, and came from Knox county to this county in 1851; was married in 1854, to Miss Sarah Wolf, of this township, and they have one child, George P., who has been a great sufferer for the past five years. Mr. Kime was county commissioner from 1863 to 1869, and is one of the leading citizens of the township. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church. KINSEY J. L, Monroe township; was born December 18, 1839, in Tiverton township, Coshocton county; son of Samuel and Susannah (Beam) Kinsey, and grandson of Jacob Beam. He was brought up on a farm, and at the age of twenty-one he began farming for himself, and followed it for ten years. Since that time he has followed huckstering, and has acquired wealth enough to keep him and his family comfortably. He was married to Miss Harriet Lanning, in April, 1865, daughter of Israel and Susannah (McCoy) Lanning, and granddaughter of Jacob and Margaret Moore, and of William and Harriet (Walraven) McCoy Their children are Alberta, born February 12,1866; Blanche, May 7,1872, and Clare, August 8,1875. KIRKER GILBERT, Jackson township; postoffice, Roscoe; born in Jackson township, Coshocton county, June 8,1831; son of William and El- 718 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. moner (Welling) Kirker; married September, 1852, to Miss Rhuellen McCoy, daughter of Joseph and Sarah McCoy. Mr. Kirker is the father of nine children, viz: W. H.; Louisa, deceased; Sarah ; Mary E., deceased ; Joseph M., Martin D., Charity, Gilbert S., Emma S. KLINGLER MATHIAS, Jefferson township; born June 13, 1837, in Wurtemberg, Germany; son of Mathias and Elizabeth (Spade) Klingler, and grandson of George and Rosannah Klingler, and of Christian (Plowfelder) Spade. Mr. Klingler followed furniture making till the age of twenty-three, when he learned engineering, and run an engine on the Minden railroad for three years and six months. In 1866, he came to the United States, lived in Philadelphia six months, spent one year in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, then came to Crawford township, Coshocton county, Ohio, where he has followed the carpenter trade with good success. He was married, in June, 1866, to Miss Elizabeth Shy, daughter of Frederick and Catharine (Shoemaker) Shy. Frederick, Henry, William, Jacob and Catharine are the names of their children. KLINE CHARLES, Crawford township; shoemaker ; postoffice, Chili ; born in 1843, in Bavaria, Germany; son of George and Christina (Shaw) Kline, both natives of Bavaria. Charles Kline emigrated to America in 1860, located in Phillipsburgh, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, and apprenticed himself to a shoemaker there. He worked in shops in several places in the State until 1868, when he came to Chili and opened a shop for himself, where he has worked at his trade up to the present time. In 1868 he married Elizabeth Miller. Their children are : Mary, George, Amelia, Elizabeth, Lilly, Christina Margaret and Charles Frederick. Mr. Kline and family are members of the Reform church. KLEINKNECHT CHRISTIAN, Crawford township; farmer and carpenter; postoffice, New Bedford; was born February 27, 1852, in Holmes county , son of Jacob and Catherine (Baad) Kleinknecht. When a child he came to Crawford township, in which he has resided to the present time. At the age of nineteen, he went to the carpenter's trade, which he has principally followed to the present. Mr. Kleinknecht was married December 25, 1873, to Miss Mary Margaret Price. They are the parents of two children viz : Jonathan and Mary Alice. KNIGHT GEORGE, New Castle township; farmer and tanner; was born in Harrison county, Ohio, April 6,1810; son of Peter and Elizabeth (Fivecoat) Knight, who both lived to a great age. His father was born and raised in the city of Philadelphia; was a blacksmith by trade, and a member of the English Protestant church; and his grandfather was a German Reformed minister. Mr. Knight is one of six children, three sons and three daughters. His brothers are both living, one in the city of Baltimore, the other in Iowa. One sister is also living. His father died the year that he was born. He has an English education, such as could be gathered in his time. He began the tanner trade at the age of sixteen with William Frost, of St. Clairsville, Belmont county, Ohio, and worked with him about four years, then went to New Athens, Harrison county, Ohio, and engaged with Mr: Hawthorn, from thence to Wooster, Wayne county, and worked with Mr. David Robison, and from there he went to Millersburg, Holmes county, and formed a partnership with Lyman Shafer, which lasted four years. In the fall of 1833 he received a new partner,. Andrew McMonagh, and remained partner with him eighteen months, when he sold his interest and came to New Castle, and formed a partnership with his old partner, Lyman Shafer, in a tannery, saddler shop and store, the partnership lasting about twelve y ears. He then sold his interest in these, returned to Millersburg, bought a tannery, and for eight y ears did the most successful business of his life. He then returned to New Castle, bought a farm, and opened another tannery, and has been tanning and farming for the past twenty-five years, in New castle township. He has been successful thought life, has never drank any intoxicating liquors from his boyhood. He and his wife united themselves with the Presbyterian church when they were about twenty years of age, and are still faithful,. and highly respected by all. Mr. Knight had an uncle who was a soldier in the war of the revolution, and another a soldier in the war of 1812.. He was married March 6, 1835, to Miss Keziah Boggs, daughter of Ezekiel and Mary (Tipton) Boggs, granddaughter of Alexander and Sarah Boggs, and Absolam and Keziah (Boran) Tipton. Mrs. Knight was born in Belmont county, June 26, 1815. They have had nine children, viz :: Margaret A., born September 18, 1837, the wife of a Presbyterian minister (Rev. Mr. Belden, of Centreville, Iowa), she is a graduate of Washington, Pennsylvania, Female seminary ; William S., born August 17,1839, graduated at Washington College, Pennsylvania, and at the Western Theological seminary at Allegheny, and is a minister of the Presbyterian church, at Carthage, in Jasper county, Missouri ; Hervey B., born July 20,1841, also a graduate of Washington college and Western Theological seminary, at Allegheny, and is a Presbyterian minister ; Lymon S., born November 7, 1843, is a professor of music and teacher of the higher branches in Congress, Wayne county, Ohio; Mary E., born November 19, 1845, graduated at Steubenville Female seminary and is teacher in the Coshocton schools; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 719 Peter B., bore March 17, 1848, graduated in Pittsburgh Business college and is clerking in a wholesale establishment in Atchison, Kansas; Maria J., born December 3, 1850, wife of Dr. Richardson, of Monravia, Iowa; George L., born July 25, 1853, attended school at Wooster university, and is at present reading law with Campbell & Vorhees, Coshocton, Ohio. They are all members of the Presbyterian church. Two of Mr. Knight's sons volunteered in the U. S. service during the rebellion. KRAUSS JOHN D., Franklin township; farmer ; postoffice, Wills Creek; born April 16, 1850, in Licking county ; son of Christian and Henrietta (Keller) Krauss, natives of Germany, who came to America about the year 1842. Mr. John D. Krauss was married January 10, 1875, to Miss Eliza Anne, daughter of John G. and Catherine ( Hackney) Kaufman, natives of Germany.They are the parents of one child, named Clara Ulalah. They located at their present residence March 8, 1878. KRAUSS THOMAS C., Franklin township; farmer; postoffice, Wills Creek; son of Christian and Henrietta (Keller) Krauss. Mr. Thomas C. Krauss was married September 25, 1875, to Miss Mazie Jane, daughter of Moses and Martha A. (Suckles) Wilkins, natives of Ohio. Mrs. Krauss was born on the farm on which she now resides. They became the parents of three children, viz: Henrietta, Clemence W. and Lillie Frances. Mr. Christian Krauss, mentioned above, was born November 3, 1819, in Wurtemberg, Germany. On completing his education, he learned the shoemaker's trade, at which he worked in Switzerland and France. His widowed mother needing his a assistance, he returned to her, with whom he remained the two years previous to his coming to America, where he landed July 6, 1842, and located at Newark, Licking county. Here he met his betrothed, with whom an engagement had been made in Germany, several years previous, on condition that she would come to America, which she did in 1841, landing in New Orleans. But both being true to their plighted troth, they were married when they met at Newark. They became the parents of the following children: Annie C. W., deceased; Elisha, Catherine; Henrietta C., deceased. Mr. Krauss lived at several places in Coshocton and Licking counties. In 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., and served about six months, receiving an honorable discharge on account of sickness. Some years ago, by the imprudence of a railroad conductor, he was seriously injured, for whit the company, after a long and tedious litigation was compelled to pay him $2,200. L LACEY GEORGE, Franklin township; farmer; born in Farquier county, Virginia, August 20, 1823; son of William Lacey. In the spring of 1832 his lather moved his family to Muskingum; county, and three years later to Virginia township, where Mr. Lacey, December 15, 1843, married Phoebe Tilton, who was born in Virginia township, and is the daughter of Joseph and Phoebe Tilton. About the year 1848 they moved to Lafayette township, and lived successively in Lafayette township; Richland county, Illinois; Lafayette township ; Tuscarawas township; Franklin township; Muskingum county, and back again to Franklin township two years ago. Mr. Lacey has seven children living, viz: George W., Nancy Elizabeth (Donaker), Jesse Sanford, Susie Ann, Lawrence L., Ida B. and May Eleanor. He has lost two boys, Joseph T. and James R. The former enlisted in the Ninety-seventy O. V. I., Company I, in 1862, and was killed in the battle of Mission Ridge ; James died in early childhood. Mr. Lacey was married a second in February, 1880, to Marinda Frost, of Licking county. LAHM JOHN A., of the firm of J. A. Rimer & Co., merchants; postoffice, New Bedford, Ohio; born January 10, 1853, in Germany; son of Simon and Catharine (Miller) Lahm. Young Lahm was raised on the farm until seventeen, when he began working in a woolen factory and attended school. His first experience in merchandising was clerking at Beck's mills, Holmes county, where he remained four years. He next clerked at Millersburgh a short time. Also clerked at Helmick about three years, after which he attended the commercial college at Zanesville, and obtained a diploma. He subsequently clerked at Barnesville and Helmick, and at New Bedford for George A. Rimer, where he was employed when the above firm was formed, January 21, 1879. This firm is doing an extensive business, having a full stock for a combination village store. LAHNA JACOB, Linton township; farmer; postoffice, Bacon Run, Ohio; born June 6,1843, in Adams township, Muskingum county; son of Jacob and Rosanna (Sandel) Lahna, a native of Alsace, France. He came to America with three children, and located in Adams township, Muskingum county; and came to Linton township, Coshocton county, about 1847, and located on the farm now owned by his heirs. Jacob Lahna enlisted in February, 186b, in Company I, One Hundred and Ninety-fifth O. V. I., and served until December of same year. Mr. .Lahna was married June 10,1867, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Michael and Anne (Lash) Wagner, who .is of 720 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. German ancestry. They became the parents of eight children: Mary A., Rosanna; Elizabeth, deceased; Matilda, deceased; Agatha, John M. and Sarah Adaline. LAKE JOHN, Pike township; postoffice, Frazeysburg, Muskingum county; farmer and stock raiser; born in this county in 1854; son of Joseph and Jane (Riley) Lake, and grandson of Spencer and Martha Lake. He was married in 1876, to Miss Laura McConnell, daughter of Daniel and Mahalay McConnell. They have one child, viz : Ura. LAMBERSON SAMUEL, Coshocton; of the firm of Barney, DeMoss & Co., Empire Mills, Roscoe, and proprietor Washington Mills, Tuscarawas township; born March 14, 1814, in Virginia; son of Samuel Lamberson, deceased. When young Lamberson was only four years of age he was sadly bereft of the kind care and influence of a loving mother, she being suddenly killed by the falling of a chimney. When yet a child he came to New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county. When about twelve years of age he went to the hatter's trade with Samuel Burns, and served about seven years, after which he went into the store of Smeltzer & Ransom, of Roscoe, where he remained about seven years. He then became partner with Arnold Medbery in a store at Canal Lewisville. This firm continued about four yearn, when Mr. Lamberson became sole proprietor, and conducted the store about twenty years. In 1872 he came to this city and bought his present residence, 671 Main street. Mr. Lamberson served one term as county commissioner, and declined to be a candidate for a second term after having been nominated. He also served as treasurer, the unexpired term of Samuel Ketcham, one year, and was elected and served the succeeding term in the same office. Mr. Lamberson is the father of four children, viz : Caroline, married to John Casaingham, Esq., of this city; Louisa, Charles and Samuel Lamberson; Jr. LAMBERSON CHAS. A., Coshocton; packer in Empire Mills, Roscoe, O.; was born September 11,1861, in Canal Lewisville ; son of Samuel Lamberson, a native of Virginia. Young Lamberson attended public schools until May, 1880, when he came into the above mills, where he is now employed. LANNING SILAS, Monroe township; born August 30, 1846, in Monroe township, Coshocton county, O.; son of Israel and Susannah (McCoy) Lanning, and grandson of Jacob and Margaret (Moore) Lanning, and of William and Harriet (Walraven) McCoy, and great grandson of John and Rebecca McCoy. He was brought up on a farm, and educated in district schools and Spring Mountain academy. At the age of 23 he began the blacksmith trade under George Osburn, of Marion county, Iowa; served an apprenticeship of two and a half years, then returned to Spring Mountain, where he is now working at his trade. Mr. Lanning was married, November, 1866, to Miss Phoebe Wing, a native of New York, daughter of Charles and Phoebe (Titus) Wing, granddaughter of William R. and Phoebe (Cuthburt) Wing, and granddaughter of Stephen and Phoebe (Marsh) Titus. Their children are: Darvin, born October 20;1867; Mond, February 14, 1869; Alva, March 25, 187], and Harold, December 16, 1874. At the age of 17 he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G., and served 100 days. LAPP MICHAEL, Franklin township; born in Alsace, France, September 28, 1829; son of Henry and Magdalena (Zimmer) Lapp. In June, 1830, he arrived, with his parents, at Zanesville; was raised in Muskingum county; is a carpenter by trade, and worked at it many years, when a young man. In 1854, he moved to Lipton township, and, three years later, to Franklin, township. In connection with farming, he does a general saw-mill business, sawing more lumber than perhaps any man in the county. He is also a contractor for bridges, school-houses, etc., and has constructed and prepared lumber for many buildings. Mr. Lapp has been twice married; first, to Dorotha M. Spite. born in Tuscarawas county, daughter of John T. Spite. By this marriage, he had ten children, viz: Henry, John F., Louisa, Mary D., William, Solomon C., Alice E., Caroline, Albert and Frank. His second wife was Lucinda Miller, who was born in Virginia, and came to Ohio about 1864; daughter of Stephen Miller. Harvey, David, George and Anise are the issue of this marriage. LA SEERE J. J., grocer and provisions, No. 146 Second street, Coshocton. Mr. La Seers is a native of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio to 1839, and located at Putnam, Muskingum county, where he remained until 1848, when he come to Roscoe, wire he followed coopering, and, in June, 1880, he established the grocery business at his present location, where he carries a good, fresh stock of staple and fancy groceries, confectioneries, provisions, fruits and vegetables, sugar-cured and pickled meats, sliced hams, fish, flour, bread, and all kinds of canned goods; also deals in all kinds of country produce. LAURIE J. H., Coshocton; proprietor saloon and restaurant, corner Main and Third streets; was born January 11, 1839, in Bavaria, Germany; son of Christopher Laurie. Young Laurie attended school until fourteen years of age, when he en- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 723 tered Kaiserslantern seminary, and remained two years, then .returned home and remained one year. In 1856 he came to America, landing at Baltimore, Maryland. Soon after his arrival he became a steamboatman on the Adriatic, plying between Pittsburgh and New Orleans, and remained on this boat three years. He was successively a bridge builder on the Pan Handle railroad, coal miner, near Steubenville, Ohio, and oil operator, near Marietta, Ohio, from thence he came to this city in 1861, and mined four years. Then engaged in merchandising, which he followed until 1872, when he purchased and fitted up the Central House, and was proprietor for two year, when he sold out his hotel and established his present business. Mr. Laurie was married in August, 1861, to Miss Catherine Stone, of Washington county, Ohio. This marriage was blessed with four children, two deceased, Willie Edward and Clare; and two living, Tillie and Haddie Laurie. Mr. Laurie is now doing a good business. LAUDENSCHLAGER THOMAS, Crawford township; farmer; postoffice, New Bedford, Ohio; bore October 10, 185?, in Crawford township ; son of John and Elizabeth (Sheets) Laudenschlager, natives of Germany, but came to America in 1846. His father died in 1859, leaving his mother a widow, with three children, David, Elizabeth and Thomas. Afterward, his mother married Michael Link, with whom Thomas, the subject of this sketch, now resides in Crawford township, LAWRENCE G. W., Clark township; postoffice, Clark's; farmer; born in Cheshire county, New Hampshire, November l5, 1823; son of Jesse and Susannah (Farwell) Lawrence, and grandson of Martin Lawrence and Richard Farwell, all of Scotch descent. He came to Keene township, Coshocton county, with his parents in 1826, remained there about one year, then came to Mill Creels township, and lived there about thirty-three years, after which he moved to Clark township, where he has remained since on a farm of 113 acres, adjoining the village of Bloomfield. He has been twice married, the date of his first marriage being May 28, 1848, to Miss Lydia Ross, daughter of Nathan and Sarah Ross; born December 11, 1824, and died March 12, 1862. They were the parents of two children; J. Ross, born March 1, 1850, and Harry, born January 20, 1853. His second marriage was on :March 5,1863, to Miss Rachel Cox, daughter of Elijah an Christina Shepler. She was born in Harrison county, Ohio, March 8, 1832. They are parents of three children; Don Carlos, born February, l2 1864; Willie G., born April 26, 1868, and Jesse B. born September 1, 1875. LAWRENCE L. H., New Castle township farmer ; postoffice, New Castle ; was born in New Castle, Coshocton county, Ohio, March 11, 1831; son of George P. and Phoebe. (Butler) Lawrence, and grandson of Jonathan and Mary (Horten) Lawrence, and Thomas Butler, one of the first settlers of the county. He attended district school and worked on the farm until the age of eighteen, then attended college at the Ohio university at Delaware one year. His father was one of the first occupants of the village of New Castle, then called Liberty: He is now one of " the oldest residents of New Castle township. He was a partner in a store at the age of nineteen, with A. S. Lawrence and J. K. Leighow, and remained about two years; then engaged in mercantile business with Jonathan Coggins, and continued a partner with that gentleman three years, when he sold his interest and turned his attention to farming and stock raising, and has continued in that business up to this time. He has been successful through his entire career; is kind, genial, and highly esteemed by all his acquaintances and neighbors. He resides on a farm one and a half miles southwest of New Castle. His paternal ancestors were Pennsylvanians, and his mother was of Irish descent. He was married August 9, 1855, to Miss Eliza Nichols, daughter of Eli and Rachel (Lloyd) Nichols, of Belmont county, who was born August 9, 1833, in Loydville, Belmont county. They have but one child, Eugene, born April 18, 1857, who is now farming and dealing in stock in Kansas. LAWSON WILLIAM, Coshocton; photographer; was born in Monongalia county, West Virginia, February 29, 1842; son of Alexander Lawson, American born, of Scotch ancestry. Young Lawson spent his childhood on the farm, and, when twelve years of age, he entered a store as clerk, and, at twenty, began to learn the art of photography, with Snedeker, of Mattoon, Illinois. He was also employed at Gallion, Ohio, and in London Ohio, before he came to this city, and took charge of his brother's gallery. Mr. Lawson was married, March 15, 1877, to Miss Mary, daughter of Dr. De Long, of Hardin county, Ohio. One child, Georgie E., was born to them, January 16, 1878, in Galion, Ohio. Mr. Lawson's rooms, located in the Hays building, on Second street, are well fitted up, with all the modern instruments and accessories, making it a first class photograph gallery. LAWSON ELISHA, Coshocton; liveryman; was born February 7,1842, in Virginia; son of Alexander and Susannah (Gould) Lawson, of Scotch ancestors. Elisha left home when about nine years of age. He has traveled extensively in the South and West. June 11,1861, he enlisted in Company I, Eighth Pennsylvania Reserves or Thirty-seventh Pa, V. I., at Waynesburg, Penn- 724 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. sylvania, and served three years At the battle of the Wilderness he received two wounds in the right arm; he was once captured, but soon recaptured, at the second Bull Run battle. At the close of the war, Mr. Lawson engaged in photography, and followed it about twelve years; he then determined to go to South America, but when he reached Matamoras, Mexico, he was taken sick with fever; and, advised by his physician to return north, which he did, stopping in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky, where he remained until he regained his health. Then he came to Ohio and resumed the photographic art, and followed it for five years or until the fall of 1880, when he engaged in his present business. Mr. Lawson is a special admirer of fine horses, which would be readily inferred by any one visiting his stables and seeing his stock; especially two blooded mares, Hazards, his favorites. Though the Hazards, by many, are considered very wild, vicious and unmanageable; Mr. Lawson believes them to be pretty as a gold dollar, generally as sound as a silver dollar, fleet as the wind, harmless as a dove and kind as a kitten. Mr. Lawson was married October 4,1873, to Miss Hersey daughter of James Alfred and Mary (Borlan) Mackey. They are the parents of two daughters, viz : Edna and Frankie. LAWSON DR. DAVID, Jefferson township; postoffice, Warsaw; was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in April, 1824; son of David Lawson. Mr. Lawson went to school until the age of twenty; then went to Muskingum county in 1835, engaged at weaving for some time. He began the study of medicine, at the age of nineteen, with Dr. David Barnes, of Coshocton county, and read three years and attended lectures at the Western Reserve medical college at Cleveland, O. He began the practice of medicine in 1849 at Elizabethtown, Licking county, and continued there one year; then came to Warsaw, and has been practicing here since. In 1872 he opened a dry goods store in Warsaw, since which time he has partially withdrawn from practice. He is doing a very fair business and is highly esteemed by all his numerous acquaintances. Dr. Lawson was married in 1852 to Miss Mary J. Magaw, daughter of James and Matilda Elder. They have had three children-David J., Edgar J. and Willard J. LAYMAN D. A., Lafayette township, postoffice, West Lafayette, O. Mr. Layman was born December 24, 1854, in Keens, O., and has re married a resident of this county all his life. His parents were of German descent. Mr. Layman was raised 'on the farm until sixteen years old, when he learned the blacksmith trade, which he has since followed. Mr. L. was married August 23, 1877, to Miss Isabella Frederick, of this county. They became the parents of two children, viz Irvin, born April 11, 1878, and Nora C., born October 15, 1880. Mr. Layman has followed his occupation in Millersburgh, Warsaw, Spring Mountain and Manchester. He came to West Lafayette in the fall of 1879 and has since remained, controlling the wagon and blacksmith shops, doing a good business and giving satisfaction in all his work. LAYMAN JAMES N., Keene township; born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, July 22, 1829. Both his parents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Swagerd) Layman, were Pennsylvanians by birth Since he was fifteen years old he has followed black smithing. He came to Ohio, locating in Keene when twenty-three years of age; married September 1, 1850, to Catharine Spigler, born November, 1831, daughter of Peter and Margaret (Witseman) Spigler. Their children were Sylvester, born July 25, 1851; James A., May 16, 1853; David A., December 25, 1854; William C., deceased, June 30, 1856; Margaret M., deceased, June 10, 1858; Catharine M., February 22, 1860; Mary K., August 5, 1861; George W., October, 1863; Charles E., August 4, 1868; Grant N., August 31, 1872; Minnie Recrisca, August 3,1874, and Martha B., August, 1876. In 1860 Mr. Layman united with the Methodist Episcopal church. LEAK THOMAS, Coshocton; dealer in boots and shoes, hats and caps, Main street; born December 25, 1846, in Gloucestershire, England ; son of Stephen Lear, deceased. When fourteen years of age, he came to America with his parents, landing at New York City in 1860, and immediately went to Frostburgh, Allegheny county, Maryland, and from there came to this city, in November, 1862. Mr. Lear followed mining until 1876, when he established a grocery, which he continued until August, 1879, when he established his present business. Mr. Lear was married September 3, 1871, to Miss Mary Higgs, daughter of John Higgs, of this city. They have had five children, one (Thomas) deceased; the four living are Annie Laurie, John S., Mary Annie and Thomas Lear, Jr. Mr. Lear is doing a moderate business. LEAR HENRY, Coshocton, Tuscarawas township; miner; was born December 29, 1840, in Gloucester county, England; son of Stephen and Mary (Nat) Lear. Landing at New York in 1860, he afterward located in Allegheny county, Maryland, and remained there until 1867, when he came to his present residence. Mr. Lear was married in September, 1862, to Miss Sarah Louis, of Maryland. They have been blessed with eight children, viz: Rosanna; James Henry and Stephen Marshal, twins; Clara Jane, Thomas Milford, Mary Elizabeth, Charles Emery and Minnie. Mr. Lear has succeeded well in the land of his adoption. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 725 LEAVENGOOD I. N., Monroe township ; teacher; postoffice, Spring Mountain, Ohio; son of Daniel and Mary E, (Lower) Leavengood; was born May 14,1862, in Monroe township, Coshocton county. Mr. Leavengood was raised on the farm until fourteen years of age. He then attended school two years, at Princeton and Spring Mountain. In 1878, Mr. Leavengood removed to Iowa, and remained two years, engaged as bookkeeper with the St. Louis and Council Bluffs railroad. In 1879, he made a trip through Kansas. and Nebraska, returning to Ohio January, 1880. In April, 1880, he removed to Mansfield, Ohio, and is at present engaged in teaching. He has also been engaged as clerk in the Mansfield savings bank. He taught his first school near Mansfield, Ohio. LEE DR. S. H., druggist, No. 132 Second street, Coshocton. Dr. Lee is a native of this city, and was born January 16, 1820. He received his preparatory education from a lady instructor whom his father, with three other families, had employed to teach their children, after which he entered the freshman class of 1838, at Kenyon college, where he was a class-mate of R. B. Hayes. He then entered the sophomore class at Marietta college, and was graduated in 1842; after which he returned home and read medicine with his father and attended lectures at New York City, and was graduated by the New York medical college in 1845. He then entered upon the practice of his profession at Canal Dover, where he practiced about four ,years, after which he went to Peru, Indiana, where he served the people with success and acceptance for seven yeas. He then returned to Coshocton, where he has remained ever since with the exception of two years that he was surgeon in the United States army. He was commissioned assistant surgeon of the Eightieth O. V. I., after which he served as contract surgeon, and in 1864 he was commissioned surgeon of the One Hundred and Forty-third O. N. G. He returned home in 1865 and established the drug business, in which he is very pleasantly located, and keeps a large first-class stock of pure drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, toilet articles, fancy goods, notions, school books, paints, oils, dye stuffs, varnishes, etc. LEE GEORGE C., Coshocton ; residence on Chestnut street; was born in New Castle. this county, May 12, 1855; son of Benjamin S. Lee, a native of New York State, and Elizabeth (Shafer) of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He came with his parents to this city when about seven years of age, and received a good education in the public schools of the city. In 1876 he was appointed deputy sheriff of the county, and served two years. During his term he assisted at the hanging of Ept, September 29, 1876. He was elected city clerk in April, 1878, and served two years. Mr. Lee's father died August 2, 1874. Since his death, George C. has had charge of his father's estate. LEE H. W., Perry township; New Guilford postoffice; born in this county, in 1826; son of William and Isabelle (Richard) Lee, grandson of Ezekiel and Mary Lee, and of Henry and May Richard, and married in 1861, to Miss S. E. Bonnett, daughter of Lewis and Mahaley Bonnett. Mr. Lee is the father of eight children, viz: William G., Lewis H., M. B., J. W., Katherine J., Laura L., and Henry, Harrison. Mr. Lee's grandfather was a revolutionary soldier. LEE J. W., Perry township; New Guilford postoffice; born in this county, in 1828; son of William and Isabella (Richard) Lee, grandson of Henry and Elizabeth Richard. He was married November 7,1850, to Miss Elizabeth Wolf, daughter of Absalom and May Wolf. They have three children, viz: M. F., C. A., and M. B. One of his sons is a practicing physician and surgeon of Columbus, Ohio. LYBARGER E. L., Monroe township ; born September 27,1841, in Wayne county, Ohio; son of James T. and Aimelia (Cruet) Lybarger, and grandson of Andrew Lybarger, who came to Coshocton county from Pennsylvania in 1808, and settled in the town of Coshocton. He was a soldier under Captains Harris and Williams, and was under Hull at the time of his surrender. His great-grandfather, James Thompson, was a revolutionary soldier, and also a pioneer settler of Coshocton county. Mr. Lybarger was born in Blatchlysville, Wayne county, and lived there till the age of four yeas, when his parents moved to Millford, Knox county, where he lived till 1861, excepting two yeas he lived at Danville. He enlisted in Company K, Forty-third Regiment, O.V. I., under Captain Walker and Colonel J. L. Kirby Smith. The battles he participated in are as follows : Capture of New Madrid, Island No. 10, Ft. Pillow, first battle of Corinth, Iuka, second battle of Corinth, Vicksburg, Dalton, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, the capture of Atlanta, Pokataligo, Salkehatchie, Bentonville, Columbia, and the surrender of Joe Johnson at Raleigh. He was mustered out July 18, 1885, at Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. Lybarger enlisted as a private, and gradually rose in rank till he became captain. After the close of the war he returned home and pursued the study of law two years then engaged in the mercantile business at Spring Mountain, where he has continued ever since. He . was married to Miss S. W. Rodgers, in January, 1866, daughter of Dr. and Catharine (Hewn) Rodgers, of Millwood, and granddaughter, John Hawn, who was a settler of Knox county, and also a 726 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. wealthy man. Mr. and Mrs. Lybarger are of Irish and German descent. LEIGHNINGER ASA, Lafayette township ; farmer; was born in this county in 1836; son of George Leighninger ; was married in 1860 to Miss Sarah Foster, a native of England, who came to this country when quite young. They have had six children, viz : Norah, U. Grant, Ernest, Ida; George, and an infant, both, deceased. He and his wife are members of the Protestant Methodist church. Mr. Leighninger owns 130 acres of land in this township, and twenty-four acres in Oxford township, and is an enterprising farmer. LEIGHNINGER HIRAM, Lafayette township; farmer; postoffice, West Lafayette; was born in this county in 1822; son of George and Mary Leighninger; was married to Miss Susannah Loos, daughter of Daniel Loos, October 30, 1847, and had the following children, viz: an infant, deceased ; Seldan ; Emma J., deceased; Clara, an infant son, Diana ; Olive and an infant son, both decried; Elmer and Alta Carvetta. Mr. Leighninger is a prosperous farmer, and owns eighty-eight acres of fine land ; has held offices of trust in his township, and he and his wife are members of the Protestant Methodist church, Mr. Leighninger having been a member for the past thirty years. LEIGHNINGER B. F., Lafayette township; postoffice, West Lafayette ; was born in this township, in 1838; son of George and Mary (Wolfe) Leighninger. His father died in 1841; his mother is still living, aged eighty-four years. He was married, in 1870, to Nelia Conaway, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth (Lovelace) Conaway, both Virginians. They have three children : Ells M.; Charley C., deceased, and Clyde H. Mr. Leighninger was a member of Company E., One Hundred and Forty-second O. N. G., holding the commission of Second Lieutenant; was in general hospital, at Fortress Monroe, three weeks, with the typhoid fever, and had charge of forty of the sick and disabled, in their transportation home. In 1866, Mr. Leighninger, in company with B. F. Fleming, was engaged very extensively in the lumber business, in Southern Indiana; running their own mill, buying and selling, and carrying on quite a successful business, when he was stricken with the lung fever, and remained sick four months ; and, seeing he could not endure the exposure and hardships incident thereto, he sold his entire interest to Mr. John Grove, of Harrison county. In early life, Mr. Leighninger, with his brothers Levi, Asa and Lewis, formed a partnership, with the home farm of 180 acres, after they had bought out the heirs, as their capital, and worked together until 1856, when Levi withdrew and located on a hill farm in Oxford township, known as the Mushrush farm. In 1859 Lewis withdrew, the possessor of a fine farm of 100 acres near West Lafayette ; the partnership between Isa and B. F., continued until last spring, when the stock was divided between them, giving to each a fine farm, well stocked and improved. The farm owned by B. F. was bought April 1, 1867, and known as the Ralph Phillips farm, Mr. Phillips having entered it and owning it until the purchase by the Leighningers. The farm is one of the best improved in the county, and is set off by one of the prettiest houses on the plains, supplied with all the modern improvements, and everything in fact, tending to make a pleasant home. There never was a more prosperous and happy combination, all things considered, than this, inasmuch as there never was a jar during the years that their interests were a common one, and was the means of giving them all comfortable homes. LENNON ANTHONY, farmer; Tuscarawas township; postoffice, Canal Lewisville; born May 27, 1836, and brought up on the farm which he now owns. His father, James, was a native of Kildare county, Ireland; his mother, Keziah Thompson, was daughter liter of Samuel, and granddaughter of James Thompson, who was a revolutionary soldier. he was born April 13, 1809, in Ashtabula county, the same year. Anthony was married January 28, 1860, to Miss Emily, daughter of William and Lydia (Butler) McGiffin, of Keene township. This union has been blessed with one child, Carrie Rose. LENNON JOHN, White Eyes township ; farmer; a native of Tuscarawas township; bore in 1833. His father, James Lennon, was a native of county Kildare, Ireland; emigrated to Canada, and lamed at Quebec in 1818; remained there about two years, and then removed to Lockport,. New York, where he worked on the Erie canal two years. He next came to Ohio, worked on the Disarm canal, and came to this county after the letting of the Ohio canal, about 1826, on which he was a contractor. After the canal was finished, he bought a farm in Tuscarawas township, on which his widow now resides, and lived there until his death, which occurred in 1854. His widow was born in this county, in 1807. Her ancestors were New Englanders, and were from Trenton, New Jersey. In 1858 John Lennon married Miss Lydia Sowers, a native of Jackson township. He located on a farm in Tuscarawas township, and was elected sheriff of Coshocton county, in 1873, and was installed in January, 1874. He was re-elected in 1875. Ept, the murderer of young, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 727 Wertheimer, was the only criminal ever hung in the county, and Mr. Lennon officiated at his hanging. After serving two terms he moved upon his farm, in White Eyes township, in 1880, were he now resides. He now holds the office of assessor of White Eyes township. He has a family of three children, James, born December 4, 1860, William born July, 1863, and Howard, born April, 1868. LENNON JAMES. farmer; Tuscarawas township; was born March 7, 1833. September 10, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Fifty-one O. V. I, and served three years. Mr. Lennon was married October 10, 1867, to Miss Emeline, daughter of Amos and Mary (Coyle) Markley. They are the parents of seven children, viz: Samuel, Anthony, Mary E., Ualosia B.; two infants, deceased, and Amy M. LENHART JACOB, Crawford township; merchant; Chili; born in Shanesville, Tuscarawas county, in 1836; son of Peter Lenhart and Magdalena (Deeds) Lenhart, both natives of Pennsylvania. He left home in 1857, clerked in dry goods stores in Bedford and Illinois for a number of years. Enlisted March, 1865; and was discharged at the close of the war same year. Mr. Lenhart married Miss Emma Winklepeck, of Chili, May 18, 1870. They have one child, Edward Stewart, born April 29, 1880. Mr. Lenhart has been owner of a dry goods store at Chili for a number of years, and he and Charles Stein are in partnership now. LE RETILLEY JAMES, retired merchant, Main street. Roscoe; was born April 26, 1821, in Muskingum county ; son of James Le Retilley, a native of the Isle of Guernsey, came to America in an early period, and located in Guernsey county, and engaged in the manufacture of salt. In 1826 James Le Retilley, Sr., with his family, came to Roscoe and engaged in merchandising, which he continued until his death in 1851. Young Le Retilley's mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of William Taylor, a native of Virginia. Young Le Retilley was trained to the mercantile business from boyhood, having assisted his father in the store at a very early age. He has had an active, varied and successful business experience, having been an active partner in the firms of Burns & Le Retilley, Burns & Co., and Le Retilley & Burns. He also conducted the mercantile business alone for several years ; contracted for and built four miles of the C. C. & I. C. R. R., which he completed in two years. Mr. Le Retilley was married October 27, 1845, to Miss Eliza Ferguson, daughter of Matthew and Mary Ferguson, of Roscoe. They became the parents of four children, viz; Berths and George, deceased; Edward and Elsworth. LEVENGOOD JOHN, Crawford township; postoffice, New Bedford ; teamster; was born May 10,1842, in New Bedford. In 1858, he went to the shoemaker's, trade, at which he worked until enlisting, in September, 1861, in Company H, Fifty-first O. V. I., in which he served during the war, having re-enlisted as a veteran, January 1, 1863. He was actively engaged in all the battles in which his regiment participated, and was wounded in the leg, by a gun-ball, near Kingston. Mr: Levengood was married; February 25;1863, to Miss Magdalena, daughter of Josiah and Elizabeth (Bowman) Rinehart. Mr. Levengood has adopted a child of Emmanuel Rinehart, named Louisa Alice. LEVITT SYLVESTER, Keene township; was born August 6, 1831, at Kingsville, Ashtabula county, Ohio ; son of Gideon and Mary (Stickler) Levitt, and was a farmer. He enlisted to Company H, One Hundred and Forty-third O. V, I., May 1, 1864 ; died, in West Chester county, New York, July, 1864. He had married Miss Mary, A. Whittemore, November 26,1856; daughter of Daniel B. and Lavina (Goodhue) Whittemore. Their children were Julius M. and Sylvester G. Julius is married to Florence Baldwin, and lives in Hopedale, Ohio, engaged at school teaching. Sylvester is going to school LINK MICHAEL, Crawford township; farmer; postoffice, New Bedford; born October 11, 1817, in Wurtemberg, Germany; son of John and Rosanna (Wegerle) Link. After quitting school, at fourteen years of age, he worked in a vineyard until he was twenty years old, when he entered the military service, and served six years in the infantry. After his discharge he worked most of the time in a vineyard, until September 1, 1852, when he landed in New York City, and immediately located in a country locality of said State, where he remained thirteen years, after which he came to his present residence, to Crawford township, in 1865. Mr. Link was married June 17, 1844, to Miss Magdalene, daughter of Charles and Catherine (Frihofer) Graft They have four children, three of whom are dead. John is now residing in the State of New York. Mr. Link was married to Mrs. Elizabeth, daughter ;of Conrad and Elizabeth (Fink) Sheets. They have one child, Emanuel, born June 2, 1866: Mr. Link has succeeded well in America, having a good farm and comfortable home. LING HARRISON,. Keene township; farmer; born November 11,1840, in Keene township: can of Peter and Darcus Ling, and grandson of Peter and Elizabeth Ling, and of Charles and Mary (Umphort) Russell. He was brought up on a farm and received only a common school education. January 26, 1871, he married Anna M., 728 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. daughter of Samuel and Catharine Munn, and granddaughter of Samuel and Anna (Thomas Munn, and of Frederick and Sarah (Patterson Yant. Ora May, born November 8, 1872, is their only child. LINT JACOB, Clark township; postoffice, Helmick; farmer; born in Holmes county, Ohio, April 4, 1839; son of Conrad and Sarah (Quig) Lint, and grandson of Henry and William Quig. He has always been a farmer and owns a farm of 106 acres. His dwelling was destroyed by fire April 1, 1878. On the 25th of August, 1864, he married Miss Eleanor Teeling , daughter of William and Matilda (Rush) Teeing, granddaughter of Robert and Eleanor (Morehead) Teeling and Nathaniel Rush. She was born, April 16, 1841, in Holmes county. They are the parents of three children-Mary Ellen, born February 4, 1867 ; Eda C, born April 12,1870, and Emma, born September 9, 1878. LODER ISAAC, Jackson township; born in Jackson township Coshocton county, Ohio; son of Aaron and Rebecca Loder. Mr. Loder's father came from Allegheny county,. Pennsylvania, to this county, in 1816. The subject of this sketch was married, December 16, 1879, to Miss Mary E. Baughman, daughter of Jacob and Margaret Baughman. Mr. Loder is one of a family of nine children, all living but two. Mr. Loder is a graduate of Delaware university. He is engaged at present in teaching. Postoffice, Roscoe. LONG JAMES, teacher in Coshocton public schools; was born April 12, 1855, in New York City; son of John and Annie Long. Young Long was left an orphan at the age of six years. He resided with a married sister until about twelve years of age, when he privately left for the west in quest of fame and fortune and landed in Coshocton, Ohio, in the spring of 1867, soon after which he engaged to work on a farm in Franklin township In the fall of the same year he engaged with Joseph Royer with whom he remained about five years and worked on the farm and attended school the two last winters. In August, 1873, he entered Otterbein university, at Westerville, Ohio, which institution he attended two or three terms. December 8,1873, he took charge of his first school (district school No. 1, Adams township). June 20, 1879, he was elected a teacher in the Coshocton public schools, which position he now holds. In the fall of 1878, he entered as a law student in the office of Attorney W. S. Crowell, of this city. LOOS WILLIS, Lafayette township; harness-maker, West Lafayette; was born May 14,1857; son of Charles W. Loos, of this township; learned his trade in Coshocton, with Stirensan & Son ; deals in everything in his line, and by strict attention to business and square dealing has built up an excellent trade. LOOS DANIEL, Oxford township; farmer ; West Lafayette, Oxford township; was born in Middletown township, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania., December 20,1807; son of George Loos, who was a Pennsylvanian, as was his mother. Mr. Loos came to his present home with his father, in 1811; was married October 11,. 1827, to Miss Sarah Waggoner, and they were blessed with nine children, as follows: Hiram, born August 14, 1828, and died October 28, 1828; Adam, born December 23,1829; Susannah, born August 2, 1832; George, born July 16, 1835, and died August 21, 1838; Rebecca J., born November 2, 1837; Isa H., born March 11, 1842; Henry, born August 21, 1846, and died same year; Jeremiah B., born May 13, 1848, and Emily, born March 5, 1851. Mrs. Loos passed away September 14, 1869. Daniel Loos was married to Fredrica Long, January 25, 1869, who was born in the kingdom of Bavaria, June 6, 1819, daughter of Michael Velger. She was married to Frederick Long, in 1840, the year of her arrival in America, and settled in this county. At the age of fourteen she joined the Lutheran church, and in 1869 became a member of the Methodist Protestant church. Mr. Loos united with the same church in 1843. He has represented his circuit twice as delegate to conference, and has filled in a most satisfactory manner all the offices of the church, and has held other offices of trust in his township. LOOS ASA H., Oxford township; was married to Sarah H. Whitmire, November 30,1865. Their children are Ira M.; Irvin A., deceased at the age of three years, and Virgil. He and his brother Jeremiah own 140 acres of good land in this township. LOOS JEREMIAH, Oxford township; was married to Elizabeth J. Wolf, in 1868. Zelma C. is their only child. LOOS PHILLIP, Oxford township; farmer; postoffice, West Lafayette ; was born in Middleton township, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania,. in 1799, and was married to Sallie Ann Haines, a Virginian, in 1827. Their children were William H., Harriet, George H., Levi, Mary C., Alfred B., John Emery, Adam, Joseph and Franklin. His sight failed him some years ago, and for the past four years he has dwelt in almost total darkness. He owns eighty acres of land, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Protestant church. LOOS ADAM, Oxford township ; farmer; Evansburgh ; was born in Cumberland county,. Pennsylvania, in 1803, and came to Ohio when. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.. - 729 about eight years of age. He was married to Miss Wiggins in 1838, and they have had six children, as follows : Louisa, deceased ; Sarah Jane ; Becky Ellen, deceased; Susannah, deceased; Margaret Ann and Elmira. The three living are married to well-to-do farmers. Mrs. Loos is a member of the Methodist Protestant church, and Mr. Loos gives it his support. He is a man well preserved for one of his age, and is esteemed by his fellow-citizens. LORENZ GEORGE, grocer and baker; Fourth and Main streets, Coshocton. Mr. Lorenz is a native of Bavaria, Germany, where he was born January 4,1849. He emigrated to America and located at Chili, Ohio, where he engaged in shoemaking, having learned that trade while in Germany. He remained in Chili about one year, and then went to Hamilton, Dayton and Portsmouth. He came to Coshocton in 1873, and established the grocery and baking business in which he still continues, and has a large stock of staple and fancy y groceries and confectioneries, also deals in all kinds of country produce. He has an extensive bakery in connection, where he produces a large amount of bread, plain and fancy cakes and pies of all kinds. LORENZ JOHN, merchant; Chili, Crawford township; son of John and Christina (Enter) Lorenz, natives of Bavaria, Mr. Lorenz was born in Oderheim, Bavaria, January 12, 1844. When fifteen years old he emigrated to America, and clerked in a store in this state, until he went into the mercantile business at Chili, in the spring of 1865, where he has continued in business up to the present time. Mr. Lorenz began at Chili with a small capital, but by industry and close application to business, he has succeeded in building up a good business and has accumulated considerable property. He married Maggie Slarp, in 1868. Her parents, Peter and Elizabeth (Zinkhon) Slarp, are both of German ancestry. They have a family of six children-Mary Elizabeth, Ellanora, Charles Edwin, William Henry, Minnie, and Laura. Mr. Lorenz and family are members of the Evangelical church. LORENTZ HENRY, Coshocton; restaurant and saloon and grocery, 450, Main street; is a native of Bavaria., Germany; worked on the farm until twenty-one years old, when he entered the Bavarian army, serving four years, during which time the army was engaged in the French and Prussian war. At the close of the service, he came to America, landing in New York City, and came immediately to this city. After working on the railroad two years, he established hi present business, in November, 1873. Mr. Lorentz was married, March 11, 1874, to Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, of this city. The union was blessed with three children; Henry J., William C. and Susannah. Mr. Lorentz has succeeded well in business. LONSINGER JOHN G., Tiverton township; postoffice, Yankee Ridge, Ohio ; born in 1851, to this township. His father, F. W. L. Lonsinger, was born in 1823, in Wurtemberg, German. He came to New York, in 1846, and to this county, in 1848. He was married, in 1850, to Miss Magdaline Bower, of this county, who was born in 1830, in Bavaria They are the parents of fourteen children, the subject of this sketch being the oldest. He was married, in 1874, to Miss Elizabeth Kirch, of this county, who was born in 1852, in Bavaria. They are the parent's of three children: Clara; Nettie P., deceased, and Lucy. LOVELESS ALEXANDER, Adams township; farmer and stock dealer ; postoffice, Newcomers town; was born April 27, 1828; son of Stephen H. and Eleanor (Armstrong) Loveless, and grandson of Samuel Armstrong. He began the blacksmith trade at the age of nineteen, with John R. Dunlap, of Shanesville, Ohio, remaining with him about two years; then worked at different places about a year ; after which he began business on his own responsibility, in Bakersville, which he continued for fifteen years. He then sold his shop and bon ht a farm, and has been devoting his time to arming and stock dealing since. He is an energetic and highly respected citizen. He was married September 11, 1851, to Miss Martha Watson, daughter of Robert and Agrees (Muntz) Watson. She died September 1, 1859. They had two children. viz: Stephen H. and Agrees J. He married November 14, 1861, Miss Susannah Conaway, daughter of Charles and Frances (Arnold) Conaway, and granddaughter of Charles and Rachel Conaway, who was born September 24, 1837. They have five children, viz : Charles R., born December 20, 1862; Frances E., December 4,1866; Frederick J., July 20, 1868; Eloise T., March 11, 1872; and Garfield, November 5,1880. LOVE JOHN, Keene township ; farmer; born July, 1806, in Ireland; son of James and Jane (McKee Love, grandson of Samuel and Susan (Kirskadden) den) Love, and of Thomas McKee., Mr. Love followed farming in Ireland till the age of twenty, when he came to America and settled on the farm where he now lives. He was married, January, 1838, to Miss Jane McConnell, born in Ireland, June 8,1812, daughter of John and Sarah (Rodgers) McConnell. Their children were Sarah J., born December 28, 1838; James, deceased, October 28,1840; Mary A., deceased, September 2,1842; Catharine, deceased, September 2, 1842; Samuel. May 5, 1846; Ellen F., deceased, July 12, 1849; Emma, September 1, 1854; John 730 - HISTORY OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. M. May 2, 1&57, and Miranda, October 23, 1859. Mrs., Love died, May 8, 1876. Alice Love, sister of John, was born, January, 1818, in Ireland. LOVE JOHN, Keens township, more commonly called John O'Love; was born in February, 1795, in Molinmore parish, Donegal, Ireland; son of Thomas and Susan (Osborn) Love, and grandson of John and Nellie (McKee) Love, and of John and Bees (Ellis) Osborn, and great-grandson of Elizabeth Forquer. He was married to Eleanor Love, who was born in March, 1798, in Molinmore parish, Donegal county, Ireland; daughter of James and Jennie (McKee) Love, and granddaughter of Samuel and Susan (Kirskadden) Love, and of Robert and Fannie (McKee) McKee. They were married February 19, 1821, and are both yet living. Their children were as follows: Jane, born February 15, 1826, married to Joseph Love, and resides in Iowa City, Iowa, the husband and one child dead ; Ann, born September 10, 1828, married in April, 1847, to William R. Johnston, resides in Galesburgh, Illinois, with two children-husband and two children are dead ; James, born January 8, 1833, died March 15, 1852; Thomas, burn July 8, 1835, married January 18,1872, to Mary J. Endaley, who was born May 11, 1845, daughter of Thomas and Matilda (Karr) Endaley, and granddaughter of John and Jennie (Blaine) Endaley, and of John and Nancy (Welch) Karr. Their children were: Robert, born April 1, 1873; Susie, born January 28, 1875; James R., born January 27, 1877; Thomas, born April 27, 1878, and Carrie B., born November 26, 1879. Susan Love, born August 24,1838, was married in A April, 1859, to Andrew Karr. They had seven children, all living in Coshocton county. Thomas enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Forty-third Regiment, O. N. G., in July, 1863, and was discharged in May, 1864. LOVE JOSEPH, Linton township; farmer; born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 1,1836. His father was born in county Donegal, Ireland, and emigrated in 1834 to Philadelphia, and in 1846 to this township. His three brothers followed him to America and preceded him to this county. William and Alexander, two early settlers of Linton township, were great-uncles to Joseph. He began teaching in 1855, and has taught in this and adjoining counties for fifteen years. He was married August 22, 1861, to Margaret Rusk, a lady of Scotch-Irish descent. Her father, William Rusk, emigrated from Antrim county, Ireland, to Guernsey county, Ohio, about 1840, and to this county in 1858. Mr. Love's family consists of seven children, William, Ella Jane, Margaret Ann, George Rusk, Robert M., Emily S. and Bessie. LOWER JEREMIAH, Crawford township; farmer and sewing machine agent; postoffice, Chili, Coshocton county, Ohio; was born in Crawford township, March 26, 1836; son of George and Susannah Lower; was married February 28, 1856, to Mahala Lower, daughter of Benjamin and Catherine Lower, born in Crawford township October 28, 1836. Children born to them were as follows: Amanda Rachel, born September 12, 1857; Mary Ellen, born April 22, 1860; Susannah Catherine, born June 13, 1862; George Francis and Elizabeth Anne, born January 19, 1865; Clara Etta, born May 11, 1867; Sarah Jane, born September 16, 1872; Oscar Warren, born June 21,1875. Mr. L, commenced teaching school in 1855, and taught for twenty-one years. The confinement not agreeing with his health he gave up teaching and commenced farming and selling the American sewing; machine. He was elected and served as a justice of the peace for the term of three years; was a Democrat from his youth to the present, casting his first presidential vote for Stephen A. Douglass. LOWERY DAVIS, Jackson township; postoffice Tyrone ; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania; settled in Coshocton county, in March, 1835; son of Thomas and Mary Lowery, and grandson of James and Mary Lowery. Mr. Lowery's people are of Irish descent. He was married January 13, 1842, to Martha Foster, daughter of Moses and Hannah Foster. Their union was blessed with six children, five of whom are living, viz: James M., Thomas C., J. W., Davis J., Martin S., all married and living in this county. LUKE I. D., Crawford township ; attorney at law, notary public and insurance agent; postoffice, New Bedford; born August 28, 1831, in German township, Holmes county; son of George and Mary (Davidson) Luke. He was brought up on the farm by his grandfather, Jacob Luke, until about fourteen years of age, when he came to New Bedford and assisted his uncle in the hotel until seventeen years of age, when he taught one term of school, after which he clerked for different parties in stores, for several years, then, with Ludecker as partner, conducted a store at Nashville, Holmes county, and subsequently a branch store at New Bedford. On closing out these stores, he again clerked in New Bedford until 1856, when he went to California and sought the precious metals by placer mining. In June, 1859, he returned to New Bedford and resumed clerking. Soon after he entered as a student the law office of Messrs. Barcroft & Voorhes, attorneys, and was admitted to practice at Millersburg, in June, 1861. In September, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company H, Fifty-first O. V. I., and served until the spring of 1864, when he resigned on account of disability. During his service he BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. - 731 was appointed sergeant-major of the regiment, and commissioned second and first lieutenant of his company. In June, 1865, he went to St. Louis. Missouri, and remained one year. Then he crossed the plains to New Mexico, and was allured by the glittering stories of the placer mines of Grant county to seek their treasure. At these mines he remained about a year and a half; thence to Arizona, and from there to Fort Mogave, where he entered the quartermaster department of the U. S. regulars, and remained six months. Quitting this position, he engaged with the Colorado River Steam Navigation Co., at the company's yards at Sonora, Mexico, and remained there three years. In the spring of 1872 he returned to New Bedford. Attorney Luke was married first in the fall of 1872, to Miss Barbara, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Krieger) Sprenkle. By this marriage he had three children: Harvey, Clifford D. and Paris D. Mrs. Luke died in 13.5. He was married February 5. 1876, to Miss Pauline, sister of his first wife. This union has been blessed with two children Benjamin R. and George A. LYNCH A., Perry township; West Bedford postoffice; bore in this county, in 1834; son of William and Elizabeth (Wolf) Lynch, and grandson of Peter Lynch ; married in 1862, to Miss S. E. White. daughter of Lewis and Sarah White. Mr. Lynch is the father of two children, viz: Florence E., and William L. LYNCH CORNELIUS, Perry township; postoffice. West Bedford; born in this county, in 1837; son of William and Elizabeth (Wolf) Lynch; grandson of Peter Lynch Mr. Lynch's father settled in this county in a very early day, and sunk the first well ever sunk in Bedford township. He was a hatter by trade. Mr. Lyinch, in 1856, married Miss Darcus A. Fry. Mrs. Lynch's grandfather was a revolutionary soldier. Their union was blessed by three children, viz: Sarah V., William, and Lewella. LYNDE EZRA H., tinner; Main street, Coshocton, Ohio; was born April 23, 1823, in Dunkirk, New York: son of William R. Lynde, American born, of French descent; raised on a farm until fourteen year; of age, when he went to Newark, and, at the age of sixteen, entered Granville college, where he remained eighteen months; learned his present trade with Chancy Humphrey. After completing his apprenticeship, he worked for his brother in Newark three years; also worked three years in St. Louis. Missouri; after working in other places, and after leaving St. Louis on account of the cholera, came to this place, in 18411, and followed daguerreotyping one year, then returned to his present trade, establishing hi business in the present location, in 1852. In 1855, he moved to Burlington, Iowa, where he followed his business about three years, then returned to the place he left in 1852, and is now doing a good business. He was married, September 18,1854, to Miss Anna M. Ransom, daughter of Alonzo Ransom, of this place. They have had three children, viz : Francis, deceased; Charles E., deceased, and William R. LYONS WILLIAM, Adams township; farmer; postoffice, Bakersville, Ohio. Mr. Lyons was born March 19, 1840, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and was raised on the farm. He removed from Washington county in 1844 and settled in Tuscarawas county , Ohio. In 1860 Mr. Lyons lost his right arm by an accident at a threshing machine. He commenced teaching school in 1859, and taught successfully for five years. Mr Lyons was married December 31, 1869, to Miss Nancy J Stonehocker, a school teacher of Coshocton county. They are the parents of five children: Mary A., Louisa J., William H., Eliza W. and John C., all of whom are living. Mr. Lyons came to this county in 1874, and has remained ever since, following the occupation of a farmer. LYONS GEORGE, Perry township; postoffice, West Carlisle; born in this county to 1843; son of John and Matilda (Crawford) Lyons. He was married in 1864, to Miss Elizabeth Gault, daughter of Adam and Sarah Gault. Mr. Lyons is the father of three children, viz: Fannie, Anna and Edmund.