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300 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. what is now the National road or Fair street. In December, 1825, Philip Rosemond, John Gibson and John Davenport, joint proprietors, platted an addition containing eleven lots, and in October, 1827, they platted a second addition containing nineteen lots, thus doubling the town in area. The deed records indicate that the best of these lots usually sold for sixty-five dollars. "By 1828 the National road had been completed through Guernsey county, and from this time onward Fairview greatly prospered for many years, until that great highway was superseded, in a great measure, by the railroad which passed south of it through Barnesville. It was a division point in the stage traffic, did a large merchandising business, possessed several taverns, and, along in the fifties, when what has been described as the "county-seat fever" existed, had an ambition to become the county seat of a new c0unty which was to be called Cumberland and should be made up of the eastern part of Guernsey and the western part of Belmont. "The township as it now lies is hilly, but fertile, much of the land being strong limestone soil, and the whole being well watered. The great part of the township is underlaid with c0al, and some shallow seams are worked for domestic use, though no commercial mine has been attempted, partially for lack of railroad transportation. "The citizenship of the t0wnship has, as a rule, ever been of high order. From the beginning churches and schools have been provided and maintained. Before the public school system was established, about 1825, private, or 'select' schools, where pupils paid for their teaching, were maintained. As early as 1818 there was a stone church ab0ut where Fletcher church n0w is, and there was one at Fairview as early as 1820. These were Ref0rmed Presbyterian churches, but in 1832 the Methodist Episcopal society established itself at Fletcher. A public school was established in the southeastern part of the township in 1832, and in 1839 another was located just southwest of Fairview. The school houses of that day were log cabins, with puncheon floors, slab seats and unglazed windows. At St. Clairsville was an academy, to which children were sent from Oxford township for a better education than the public schools afforded. "The earliest tax duplicates for this township cannot be found among the public records. In 1834 there were in the entire township, large as it then was (according to the tax duplicates), only ten houses that were separately valued, together with four grist mills valued at four hundred and seventy dollars, six saw mills at five hundred dollars, three distilleries at one hundred and twenty-five dollars, and three tanneries at two hundred and eighty-five dollars. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 301 "In August, 1880, what was called the Pennyroyal Reunion was held close to Fairview, and it was established as An annual event and has been kept up. In the beginning old men still living had been among the pioneers and narrated from their own experience incidents of that early time; but no concerted effort to perpetuate their recollections as a whole was made. The region yields the pennyroyal plant in abundance, and for many years the oil has been distilled in domestic stills, hence the name Pennyroyaldom for Oxford township," FAIRVIEW. This village is on the east line of Guernsey county, on the southwest quarter of section 2, township T0, range 7, platted by Hugh Gilliland, March 24, 1814. It is the first station point on the famous National pike, as it enters Guernsey county from the east. Many of the old time men, includillustrious politicians, have stopped over night or for their meals at this place in the long-ago years. It has been a postoffice point ever since staging was known in the county. Thirty-five years ago and more the office was kept directly opposite from where it is now kept. It was then in the Gilbreth hotel, on Main street. The office now has an annual receipt of about four hundred and twenty-five dollars. The mail is received here twice a day each way, by stage. Among the latter year postmasters may be named Thomas Bond, Dr. James Holt, W. B. Benson, D. E. Morris, E. E. Bond. Fairview is among the incorporated towns of Guernsey county. Since 1839 (as early a record as can be obtained) the mayors have been : 1839—William Robinson. Beymer. 1844—P. B. Ankney. 1847—Thomas Beaham, 1849—Joseph Evitt. 1850—Josiah Conwell. 1851—Joel F. Martin. 1852—A. Y. Robinson. 1854—Alfred Skinner. 1860—William Barton. 1863—J. M. Patterson. 1877—J. S. Umstot. 1877—J. S. Umstott. 1882—V. D. Craig. 1886—W. R. Scott. 1887—William Lawrence. 1888 Samuel B. Clements. 1890—Robert McBurney. 1892—Samuel W. Colley. 1894—Robert McBurney. 1896—Benjamin Paisley. 1898—S. B. Lawrence. 1903— F. W. Steele. 1905—S. B. Lawrence. 1907—L. L. Young. 302 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. The 1910 municipal officers are: Mayor, O. G. Sheppard; clerk, W. L. Anderson; treasurer, W. L. Gleaves; marshal, G. A. Kupfer. The council is made up of these gentlemen: T. K. Peck, T. B. Bratton, John I. Anderson, W. K. Byrd, Fred Johnson and W. H. Griffin. The city hall, on Main street, has been in use many years. The only protection against the ravages of the fire-fiend is the volunteer company and a hand-pump service given by the citizens. BUSINESS INTERESTS. The commercial interests of Fairview in 1910 were as follows: The J. W. Frost Cigar Company, that has been in existence about twenty years, and which consumes much of the native tobacco which is produced in quite large quantities in the immediate vicinity. The cigar making industry was first started here by Saltsgaver & Frost. The coal mining interests are quite extensive and are named in another chapter with other mines in Guernsey county. Among the most important mines in this section are the Brown, Riggle, Loy, Cowgill and Carnes mines. There is also a good creamery, belonging to the United Dairy Company. Other interests are the general stores of E. E. Bond and W. L. Gleaves; the groceries of Dillion and Mrs. Benson ; Morton Sisters, millinery ; livery barns by Doctor Arnold and Charles Ault; T. B. Bratton, stock dealer, and a meat market conducted by J. W. Ault. Middleton, on the National pike, in Oxford township, was platted on the north half of section 31, township to, range 7, September 1, 1827, by Benjamin Masters. It has never been a place of much significance, a mere post trading place on the pike, formerly having mail facilities. It now has two general stores, J. W. Long and I. Y, Davis, and one excellent hotel. Benjamin Masters, just 'spoken of, had eighteen children. He erected a mill of the horse type and the date of its construction was 1805, near where Middleton now stands. In 1810 he built a water mill, CHAPTER XXVI. LIBERTY TOWNSHIP. Liberty township was organized in 1820, ninety years ago. It is the second from the north and second from the western line of the county, and contains about twenty-five sections of land, being five miles square. Wills creek meanders through its territory and through its beautiful valley runs the Pennsylvania railroad line ( formerly the Cleveland & Marietta). This is a good agricultural section of the county and the people seem both prosperous and contented. The groundwork for this contentment was possibly laid in the labors and self-sacrifice of the earlier settlers, who felled the first trees and plowed the first furrow in the township, long before the sound 0f the iron horse had ever been heard within Guernsey county. A record was made many years since of the persons who, in 1876, were seventy-six years of age or older, then residing in the township, which list is as follows : Robert Bell, Henry Matthews, James Boyd, George B. Leeper, Ann Milligan, Elijah Phelps, Adam Miller, Thomas Stockdale, James Lacham, James Gilson, William De Harte, George Bell, Alexander Robinson. Residents who lived in Liberty township away back in the sixties, seventies and eighties, included these : Thomas Alexander, born in Guernsey county in 1815. Joseph C. McMullen, a native of Ireland, born in 1793, emigrated to Ohio when quite young and died in the state in 1865. James Bell, a native of Ohio county, Virginia, born in 1776, married and came to Ohio and lived in Liberty township during the remainder of his days. They reared five children, of whom Robert was prominent in the history and development of his township. The Bell farm consisted of three hundred and twenty acres of land in Liberty township. R. R. Miller, born in Canada in 1822, was the son of Adam Miller, a native of Ireland, born in 1795, and who married in 1821 and came to America. He settled in Guernsey county, first in Jefferson township, then in Liberty township, where he remained until his death in 1877. This couple had five children. The Miller family bore well the part of enterprising, energetic citizens. William Gibson, Sr., the first settler, immediately after his marriage in 304 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. 1794, moved close to Wheeling, West Virginia. He was then just at the age of manhood, while his wife was three years his junior and both descended from good old Pennsylvania stock. Six years later they resided in Belmont county, Ohio, and there remained five years. In 1807 they obtained two canoes at Cambridge and, going down Wills creek, landed where Liberty township is now. They were the only inhabitants of the country round about and here they built a rude hut, or log cabin, later a much better one. They continued to reside there until he died, in 1849, and the good wife in 1873. They were the parents of fourteen children. James, one of their sons, born in Belmont county in 1804, married in 1833 and conducted a hotel in Liberty for thirteen years. He also had a two-hundred-acre farm of well improved land, and finally lived a retired life. John Gibson laid out the village of Liberty (now Kimbolton). Joseph Bell came from Virginia to Ohio in 1807 and settled in Liberty township. He was a native of Ireland, born in 1775. He died in Liberty township in 1839 and hiS wife followed in 1842, leaving a family of five children. David and George settled in Liberty township and became men of enterprise and thrift. Robert Forsythe, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1796, spent his youth there and in 1818 married Elizabeth Bell. Soon after, with his wife and mother, he came to Ohio, settling in Liberty township, where he remained until 1832, then moved to Wills township, near Washington village, and in 1869 went to Cambridge, where he died in 1873. This truly worthy couple had seven children to h0nor their names. James Beggs, one of the sons of the Emerald isle, and his wife, Ellen (Miller) Beggs, also a native of Ireland, emigrated to this country in 1798 and settled in Jefferson township, this county, but soon after located in Liberty township, where he died in 1867. Mrs. Beggs passed away a short time before. Their children were Elizabeth, wife of Gilbert McCully, and James. The latter was born in Ireland in 1817 and in 1841 married Margaret Parkison, of this county. They reared a large family of children. The old Beggs farm contained three hundred acres. Naphtali Luccock, a native of England, was born in 1797 and in 1819 embarked for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in which city he engaged in a commission business. The next two years he worked in a stocking factory in Germantown (near Philadelphia), and in 1822 married Jane Thompson, who was born at Fort Sea, England. They settled in Wooster, Ohio, and for three years he taught school there. The next four years they lived in Coshocton county, Ohio, and in 1831 finally settled in Guernsey county. One of GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 305 the sons of this pioneer was named Thomas, b0rn in 1823, married in 1848. He served as representative from this county in the Ohio Legislature from 1875 to 1879. He owned twelve hundred acres of land in this county, waS an extensive agriculturist and conducted a general store in Liberty township. TOWNS AND VILLAGES. Kimbolton (formerly Liberty) is within this township, situated on section 23, in the northern tier of sections of the township. It was platted by William and John Gibson, August 2, 1828. When incorporated, November 5, 1884, it was named in the articles aS Kimbolton. Its name is after a place like-named in England. It was the birthplace in England of Naphtali Luccock, the first postmaster, hence he called this place after it, when the postoffice was to be named, about sixty or more years ago. Among the postmasters and postmistresses who have served here are : Naphtali Luccock, Miss Anne DeHart, J. L. Davis, W. H. Ludley, S. D. Ross, 0. J. Berry, Mrs. Ida A. Berry. From this postoffice there are four rural routes, extending out about twenty-five miles each. The first was established about 1903. The mail at an early date was carried to and from here on h0rseback twice each week. There are now two daily mails each way, by rail. A city hall was provided in 1907. The only fire of importance in the place was when the mill burned in 1909, entailing a loss of about five thousand dollars. The present council and officers are : William H. Gibson, John A. Chambers, E. E. McKim, Lafayette Miller, Thomas Morris, B. D. Bumgardner, council ; M. V. McKim, mayor ; 0. J. Berry, clerk ; C. F. Rhodes, treasurer. The present marshal is F. M. Fowler. The business interests of the place are : Two general stores, A. Ledlie & Son, S. A. Clark ; grocery, L. J. Van Sickle ; livery, R. R. Warden ; hotel, Central House, by R. R. Warden ; steam flouring mill, by M. T. Kennedy. The churches (see Church chapter) are the United Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal. The present physicians are Drs. D. L. Cowden and William Lawyer. CHAPTER XXVII. RICHLAND TOWNSHIP. Richland is on the south line of the county and the second from the eastern border line on the east. It is irregular in shape, containing about twenty-seven sections of land. The main line of the great Baltimore & Ohio railway system passes through the extreme northern portion of this sub-division of the county, with its Cumberland branch traversing the township fr0m north to south, passing into Valley township on section 3. Richland township was organized July 18, 1810, the first election being held on that date, at the house of Samuel Leath, when township officers were duly elected. EARLY SETTLERS. Perhaps no better insight into who were among the vanguard of pioneers in this part of Guernsey county can be obtained than to publish the names 0f those over seventy-six years of age residing in the township in 1876, the same having been compiled for a centennial history of the township: Mrs. Payne, Mary Halley, George Gooderl, Robert Dilley, Ann Thomas, Mary Morrison, Mrs. George Gooderl, John Dollison, Mrs. Hull, Mrs. Stiers. Mary A. Foreacre, Mrs. John Squib, Mrs. Samuel Lent, Jacob Shafer, Susan Shroyer, Elizabeth Alexander, John Frame, Henry Ledman, Mrs. A. Laughlin. Mrs. Bennett, Eleanor Medley, James Buchanan, John Potts, Almira Mc- Clary, James Hartup, Benjamin Winnett, John Winnett, Laban La Rue, William G. Keil, Samuel Gibson, James Miller, Mary Baldridge, John Mosier, John Squib, Samuel Lent, Thomas Hunt, James Stranathan, Nancy Arndt, Mrs. F. Goodern, Elizabeth Oliver, William Potts, Lydia Clark, Lucinda Dollison, Margaret Lowry, Catherine Ledman, Henry Popham, John Laughlin, James R. Boyd, Tamer Gooden, Tressa Jones, Lydia Lowry, Scott Emerson, Mary Jackman, Raphiel Stiers, Lucretia Buchanan, Ebenezer Harper, Jeremiah Sargent and Margaret La Rue. John Laughlin, father of Alexander Laughlin, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1777. He married in his native state and in 1808 started for the West, locating in Richland township, Guernsey county, Ohio. In 1818, he removed to Centre township, where he died in 1851. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 307 Samuel M. Dilley, son of Robert Dilley, was born in New Jersey in 1794 and in 1816 he, with a brother, came to Ohio, settling in Senecaville, Guernsey county—at least near where the town now stands. James Gibson, a native of Ireland, born in 1806, came with his parents to the point that is now known as Gibson station in Richland township. He lived on the old homestead until his death, in 1860. He was both a farmer and merchant and his landed estate consisted of between five and six hundred acres. John Frame came with his parents from Wills township, settling in Richland township in 1830. George Gooderl, a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, coming to Ohio in 1817, resided seven years in Belmont county and then located in Richland township, this county. He died here in 1880. Richland township was settled up by the above named persons and families and what was once a howling wilderness has come to be one of the richest sections in Guernsey county. The present people of the township are happy, contented and generally very prosperous. TOWNS AND VILLAGES. The only village plattings of Richland township are Senecaville, a portion of Lore City and New Gottengen. Lore City was platted June 8, 1903, in both Centre and Richland townships, on Leatherwood creek. Hence it has made but little history. A post-office by this name has been in existence since a very early date. It is now a fourth-class office, the postmaster furnishing his own building, light and fuel. At one time the office was held in the depot. For the past thirty years the postmasters have been as follows and in the order here enumerated : Jacob Younger, Joseph Arnold, Albert Morris, Aaron Luzater, Will Cale, Aaron Luzater, Will Cale, William Arndt and Harry Ferguson. There are three rural, mail routes running out from this postoffice, the first of which was established March 1, 1903. During the past year this office has been broken into three times, but no loss of money in any one of the cases. The annual report of the office, June 30, 1909, showed yearly receipts of one thousand five hundred dollars. There are now eight mails daily. Lore City was incorporated in 1906 and the town officers have been but few, the present mayor, Roland Potts, having served tw0 consecutive terms. The present officers are : Roland Potts, mayor; Cale Cross, clerk ; W. H. Ferren, treasurer ; C. F. Milligan, marshal. The council is composed of : 308 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Rufus Totten, F. E. Bird, William P. Lowry, Watt Dugan, James McMahon and 0. D. Chester. The town is without water-works or fire protection. The churches, a history of which appears in the church chapter, are the Methodist and Presbyterian denominations. There is a prosperous lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, mentioned in the history of civic societies. The 1910 business interests of Lore City are conducted by the f0llowing firms : Agricultural implements, John Bond ; general dealers, Lou Longstreth, Andy Chegogg; furniture, Lou Chegogg; groceries (exclusive), William Ferren; millinery, Mrs. Oldham; livery barn, John Bond ; drug store, Doctor Arndt. The physicians of the place are Drs. F. E. Bird and H. W. Arndt. Lore City is situated on the main line of the Baltimore & Ohi0 railroad and is a sprightly town for its size and age. SENECAVILLE. Senecaville is the largest place within Richland township. It is situated on sections 21 and 22, in the southern part of the township. This town was platted on the banks of Seneca creek, by David Satterthwaite, July 18, 1815— hence has a history running back almost a century. It is situated on the line of the Cumberland branch of the Baltimore & Ohio railr0ad and is within the rich coal mining belt of Guernsey county. The name has been a familiar and household word for three generations, including the pioneer band. The post- office has been kept in its present location since 1893. It appears that not many have held the postoffice at this point, as will be observed by the following list of postmasters and the Presidents under whom they have been commissioned : J. M. Rainey, under President James Buchanan; D. M. Bryan— the "War Postmaster"---under Lincoln ; Wils0n Scott ; J. C. Rose ; H. F. Gordon, under Grover Cleveland ; N. Le Page, under Benjamin Harrison; H. F, Gordon, under Cleveland the second time; N. Le Page, under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt ; G. S. Kaho, under Roosevelt and he iS the present postmaster. One rural route extends out over a distance of twenty-four miles from Senecaville and was established July 1, 1903. The annual receipts from this office at last report was one thousand and twenty-one dollars and seventy- four cents. There are three mails at this office daily, one in and two out. The first mail that reached Senecaville was carried on horseback from Wheeling. H. F. Gordon is the present assistant postmaster. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 309 INCORPORATION. Senecaville is incorp0rated and its present officers are : Mayor, J. S. Moorehead; clerk, H. M. Beemer ; treasurer, G. F. Pollock ; councilmen, S. H. Moorehead, J. L. Dilley, John Stevens, J. T. Day, J. R. Davidson; city marshal, Frank Morrison. The churches of Senecaville are the Methodist, Presbyterian, Wesleyan, and Free Methodist. The lodges here represented are Odd Fellows, Master Mechanics and Knights of Pythias. BUSINESS INTERESTS IN 1910. Today the business interests of Senecaville are in the hands of the following persons : Physicians, Dr. C. Bates and Dr. R. H. Cleary ; dentist, H. M, Shafer; grist mill; one bank, the First National ; the general stores are conducted by John Keller and the Morris Coal Company ; furniture, Thomas Morrison ; grocery, J. M. Rainey ; hardware, Brown and Lepage; hotel, Mrs. Brown ; millinery, Mrs, E. D. Fell and Clara Dilley ; milling, Campbell Brothers; livery barns, John Connor, F. H. Campbell; planing mill, with lumber yard, Charles Spaid ; meat market, Thomas Morrison. The only drug store in the place was owned by I. K. Hill, who died in October, 1910, but it will soon be reopened. Natural gas is piped in from West Virginia, by the Ohio Light and Fuel Company. Robert Thompson, in 1895, gave the following account of this township: He was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1808 and moved with his parents to Senecaville in 1811, when there were but three log cabins. David Satterthwaite and William Thompson were the earliest settlers in that section. Ephraim Dilly also came about that date. James Richardson was proprietor of the first tavern. The first church in Senecaville was the Presbyterian, The first store stood on ground later occupied by the Methodist Episcopal church. The same writer in 1886 wrote for the l0cal press : Senecaville was laid out in 1814 or 1815. There were salt springs on the edge of the creek near the Greenwood bridge, from which brother William boiled salt at a furnace containing about thirty-six kettles. It is doubted whether there were any other salt works this side of the Ohio river. People came a long ways to procure it and paid three dollars a bushel for the same. Many rough characters were about here then and a favorite sport election days was to get drunk and then fight until one side said "Enough." 310 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Coffee was then fifty cents a pound and it was only used when the preacher came. A pound might last six months. Pork was worth one dollar and a quarter a hundredweight and calico from twenty-five to thirty-seven and a half cents a yard. As there was no communication by rail, the produce collected was taken to Baltimore in huge covered wagons drawn by Six horses. The j0urney t0ok about three weeks each way. Senecaville was named from Seneca creek and that was named from the springs of coal oil which oozed forth 0n the waters. Seneca 0il was so named from the Seneca Indian tribe in New York and Pennsylvania, who many ages ago used this oil for its medicinal qualities. Later, it developed to be what we now so well know as petroleum. CHAPTER XXVIII. MILLWOOD TOWNSHIP. The southeastern township in Guernsey county is known as Millwood and it was organized about 1834. 1t contains twenty-four sections of land and is four miles north and south by six east and west. It is rich in agricultural and mineral resources. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad passes through this township on its east and west course, with three station points, which are described later in this article. There are many small streams running through the territory now being described as Millwood township. The township is bounded on the north by Oxford township, on the east by Belmont county, on the south by Noble county and on the west by Wills township. It is a well developed section of Guernsey county and was settled by a class of industrious, enterprising and religious people who have certainly left their imprint 0n the present dwellers of the southeastern portion of Guernsey county. No better record of its first settlement can now be given than to name the aged persons—those exceeding seventy-six years of age—who were living within its borders in 1876. These names include men and women who were the first settlers and who were the parents and grandparents of many of the present population and will recall to the citizens of the township many a scene of early days in Millwood and Quaker City. This list is as follows : Mary Hall, Henry Hall, John D. Hall, Noah Hartley, Sarah Hartley, Michael Creighton, Samuel Ruth, Isaac Spencer, William Rose, James R. Johnson, Priscilla Johns0n, George Emerson, Hannah Hague, Jesse Coles, Washington Clary, Nathan Hall, George Falmer, Thomas Mills, Elizabeth Mills, Josiah Outland, Francis Linn, William Crouse' , James Fillett, Jacob S. Brill, Albina Sayre, John Rimer, Isaac Webster, James Hart, Mary Wolford, William Hyde, Joseph Dunlap, Elizabeth Brill, John Hague, James Whitcraft, John Stotts, George F. Fox, Ann F. Harvey, Susannah Arnold, Michael Aubmire, Sarah Perego, Clarissa Shuman, John Shuman, Samuel Carter, John Addison. C. McCormick and Hannah Scott. The Hartley family deserves special mention in this connection. William P., the eldest, was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1786 and when he reached manhood he moved to Warren county, New Jersey, and there followed school teaching for thirty years. He married, in 1817, a daughter 312 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. of Jonas Parke and in 1837 they moved to Guernsey county, Ohio. They had eight children. James, their eighth child, was first lieutenant in the One Hundred and Twenty-second Regiment and was killed at the battle of Cold Harbor. William P. Hartley, Jr., was born in New Jersey in 1821 and lived nearly all of his days in this township. He was sheriff of Guernsey county in the seventies, was a Democrat and in church affiliations was of the Christian faith. The Hartleys are still numerous and influential in these parts of Ohio. Of the Hall family, it may be said that Isaac Hall was the second son of John Hall, who came from North Carolina in 1805, and purchased a tract of land near where now stands the village of Quaker City. He married in 1807 and they were the parents of eight children, of whom Isaac W. was one. He was born in 1810 and educated in the common schools of his county. In 1839 he engaged in mercantile business at Quaker City, then styled Millwood. He married three times and 'was the father of three children, two of whom matured. Mr. Hall was the originator of the National Bank at Quaker City. In religion he was a Friend and in politics a Republican. John P. Hall, another son of the old pioneer John Hall, was born and brought up to farm labor in the old-fashioned way of bringing up children. In 1841 he married in Belmont county and raised a family. In 1880 he owned a fine farm of about three hundred acres in Millwood township. Of this numerous Hall family, there were, Eli, John D., Cyrus, Amos and other prominent members, who made each a distinct history here for themselves. John Smith, son of William and Elizabeth Smith, of Yorkshire, England. where he was born in 1814, when an infant came to this country. His father was a mason and worked on the Capitol at Washington. The family consisted of seven children. John was reared on a farm and in 1840 married Margaret Temple, who became the mother of eleven children. Mr. Smith was a Democrat in politics and in religious belief of the United Presbyterian church faith. His homestead was two and a half miles north of Quaker City. James White and John R. Hunt, as well as Hugh Keenan, were settlers 0f Millwood township at an early time. The Cowden family were also representative citizens here. W. N. Cowden was the only son of David Cowden, 'who came to America with his father, William Cowden, from Ireland in 1810. David upon his arrival purchased a tract of land a mile and a half northeast of Quaker City, and in 1835 married Margery Kennon, sister of Judge William Kennon, of Belmont county. Among the children born of this union was William Newell Cowden, who GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 313 entered Muskingum College. He was, in 1882, largely interested in Sheep raising and wool producing. He owned over five hundred acres of land in Millwood township and for Several years was president of the Quaker City Fair Association and vice-president of the Quaker City National Bank. He was an elder in the United Presbyterian church and a very pronounced Democrat in his politics. Thomas McFarland, another 0ne of the quite early settlers in Millwood township, came from Ireland with the father'S family in 1835. He resided at various places until after his marriage, when he settled here. He married Mary Ann Graham in 1840 and reared a family. Jesse Doudna, eldest son of Noas and Hannah (Webster) Doudna, was born in 1808, in Belmont county, Ohio. He purchased a six-hundred-acre tract of land. In 1862 he married Rachel L. Benson, who was born in Maryland in 1827. Mrs. Rachel (Lancaster) Benson was the daughter of Jesse and Mary Lancaster, of England, a minister to the Society of Friends, after whom Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was named. Jesse D0udna died at Spencer Station. He waS an extensive farmer and stock raiser. John Doudna, another son of Noas Doudna, above mentioned, became a well-to-do farmer of Millwood township. Robert McCormick, son of Robert and Catherine (Brill) McCormick, of Tyrone, Ireland, became prominent here. His father landed in Philadelphia in 1800 and clerked in a store five years. In 1805 he moved to Somerset, Pennsylvania, and there taught in the district schools. He married and reared a large family of children. He came to Guernsey county in 1815, and bought land here and farmed during the summer seasons, teaching school in the winter. Robert, Jr.. was brought up on his father's farm and educated in the common schools. He married Sarah Brill, by whom several children were born. He became a large land owner in this township. TRUE PIONEER HALL, ETC, To speak more specifically of Mr. Hall, the first settler in this now well developed township, it may be stated that he came from North Carolina in 1805, with his father's family, and located three miles west of Barnesville. On August 4, 1806, having reached his majority, he took up the grubs 0n a tract of land preparatory to erecting a cabin, on the northwest quarter of section 13, in what is now Millwood township. He spent the first night by the root of a white oak tree, near his building site. He erected a scaffold near by, on which he kept his provisions and cooking utensils, which consisted of a 314 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. knife and fork, a pewter plate, one spoon, a pot and Skillet. He also had some salt and pepper, a flitch of bacon, a loaf of bread and a sack of corn meal. He had a tray that was of an oblong shape, about twenty inches cross the smallest way, made out of the half of a buckeye log split in two, that answered to lay provisions in, and was covered for safe keeping. The balance of hiS provisions were made up of game, killed as needed, which could be had in abundance at almost any time. Sometimes he slept on a scaffold under the sturdy boughs of an oak. His nearest neighbor was John Reed, to the east, who lived by the old high trestle on the Central Ohio railroad of later years. His next nearest neighbor was Joseph Williams, five miles westward down the Leatherw0od valley. The land office, then at Steubenville, included in its sales the lands of this township. John Webster and family came on August 10, 1806, and entered ten half sections of land,—Congress lands,—being eighty acres for each of his ten children. The present Baltimore & Ohi0 road runs precisely along where Webster's d0uble log house stood. In the summer of 1807, J0hn and William Webster built a mill on Leatherwood creek, above the present Quaker City depot grounds. J0hn Webster died in eighteen months after his settlement, aged fifty-seven years. A certain species of wild nettle grew in great abundance ab0ut this locality, and at an early day from it was Spun material that took the place of linen threads and with this a fabric was woven and finally made into clothing. The first settlers near Quaker City were from Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New Jersey and Maryland, and were Friends, 0r s0-called Quakers. In 1811 there were of this class fifty-nine persons. The Friends' first meeting house was erected in about 1812. Services were at first held at private houses, but the church later built stood on the hill east 0f Quaker City. William Mott, in 1821, taught school there. SHROUD AND COFFIN. Jesse Cole, of Millwood township, has a reputation in his community, that should, in honor to the old gentleman, be extended beyond the bounds of Millwood township. He was born near Reading, Pennsylvania, and is in his eighty-fourth year. He claims that he has yet sixteen more years to live, aS it is his intention not to shuffle off this mortal c0il until he reaches the even one hundred. Mr. Cole settled. in Millwood township in 1823. In due time he was married and raised a large family of boys and girls. After the death of his first wife, he removed to the neighborhood of Sarahsville, Noble county, GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 315 where he built a cabin and kept bachelor's hall. This was necessary because his children had all married and had homes of their own. While there he got along very well, until he was taken with a bad spell 0f SicknesS. It would have gone hard with him, he says, Were it not for an excellent old maid, who lived within "hollerin' " distance of his cabin. This kindhearted creature took the best care of the widower, and finally brought him through all right. During the worst of his sickness lie thought his time had come, and that the right thing to do was to prepare himself for burial. To this end, he got the old maid to prepare his shroud and hang it away in a convenient place, and on his recovery he tenderly cared for it, and when he married his second and present wife, he handed the garment over to her for safe-keeping. About eight years ago, he made further preparation for his last journey on earth. While in a good state of health, he went to Quaker City, and gave orders to one of its citizens to take his measure for a plain but substantial walnut coffin, to be ready at a certain date. At the appointed time, in company with a son, he took the coffin home on a sled. On its arrival, it was carefully raised to the loft of the loom house, where it now sets safely, beyond the gaze of the curious, patiently awaiting the time when its owner will be laid therein for an eternal rest. An evilly disposed person some time since circulated the report that the family had made kindling wood of the coffin, and also that it was a receptacle for dried apples, but we are glad to be in a position to state positively that there is not a vestige of truth in either rumor. May the years be many and happy before the old gentleman shall need either the coffin or the shroud.—Jeffersonian, August 20, 1885. TOWNS AND VILLAGES. Millwood township has had several village plattings, including old Millwood (now Quaker City), Spencer's Station and Salesville. The first village platted was Millw0od, by Jonah Smith, on section 20, township 9, range 7, in what was then styled Beaver township. The date of filing this plat was February 18, 1835. It retained this name many years, but before it was incorporated, in 1871, it was changed to Quaker City, it being in the midst of a very large and thrifty settlement 0f Friends (Quakers). Salesville was platted in 1835 by George Brill, on section 32, township 9, range 7. It was on the "Clay Pike," as then known. It was incorporated in 1878, as a village. Spencer's Station was platted in 1892, as a railroad station. Being near Quaker City, it has never grown to much extent. Of Salesville, it may be stated that the settlement at that place was begun 316 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. in 1806—one hundred and four years ago. The pioneers there were for the most part from the states of Virginia and Pennsylvania, with now and then a family from the Old World. The lands in this section of Guernsey county were found to be of great richness and fertility. Through them flowed the waters of the Leatherwood creek, skirted by wide, beautiful bottom lands. The waters of this and other streams flowed with enough fall to furnish an abundant power for water mills and factories. Springs of water gushed out from hillsides here and there, all of which made the surroundings attractive to the home-seeker of that long-ago day. Prominent among the first settlers may be now recalled the Brills, Pulleys, Frames, Williams and kindred. The religious sentiment was here divided among many creeds and church polities. But all had a deep religious feeling and all wanted a place in which to worship the true and living God, hence agreed to erect a large log meeting-house, which was accomplished and designated as the "Temple," by which it was always known. Here, in 1816, when this house was erected, of hewed logs on the hill overlooking the present village of Salesville, a quarter of a mile from the banks of the Leatherwood creek, Settlers met regularly to worship, in their own chosen method. ThiS was the beginning of church life and activity in this part of Guernsey county. Some were Methodists, some United Brethren and other denominations were well represented. SALESVILLE OF 1910. Today (October, 1910) this place has a population of about two hundred and fifty. The postoffice was at first held in the dep0t, since which time it has been on the move. It has, however, been at the present location, in the store of S. C. VanKirk, for ten years. Three rural routes run from this postoffice, averaging twenty-four miles each. The annual office receipts are seven hundred and fifty dollars at this time. Five mails are daily received here. In an early date of this office mails came by stage lines, on the old pike. As far back as the memory of the oldest residents can reach the following have served as postmasters, in their order : Louis Turnip- seed, thirty to forty years ago ; W. R. Gardner, G. H. Bates, Thomas Durbin, M. R. Perry, George W. Brill, S. C. VanKirk. The history of the Salesville municipal incorporation dates back to 1878 and is classed as a village. The mayors have included these : LouiS Turnipseed, W. A. White, J. A. Perry, Jasper Dollison, W. H. Long, Sumpter Long, R. D. St. Clair. The present village officers are : Mayor, R. D. St. Clair ; clerk, John G. Stoneburner ; treasurer, S. C. Van Kirk; marshal, W. E. Ankrum. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 317 There is no organized fire department, but a hand pump iS kept in readiness for emergencies. The churches of Salesville are the United Brethren and Methodist Episcopal. BUSINESS FACTORS OF 1910.. Agricultural Implements and Hardware—B. H. Runyan. Boarding House—Mrs. Otie Tillett. Hotel—Central Hotel, Mrs. M. Mendenhall. General Dealers—Sol. Rimer, Stoneburner & Dillon, E. E. Atkinson. Grain Dealer—S. C. VanKirk. Livery—Jacob Linton. Millinery—MisS Mary St. Clair. Physician—Dr. W. A. White. QUAKER CITY. Quaker City, originally Millwood, was incorporated in 1836 as Millwood, and as Quaker City between 1864 and 1870. It now has a population of approximately one thousand. The postoffice being established, and then the name changed to Quaker City, has since made the place better known to the world. The postoffice has been in its present location Since 1890, before which date for many years it was on the opposite side of the street, just before that date in the B. J. Johnson building, and still earlier in the old Lochary building. There are six rural routes extending out from this postoffice, all of which are over twenty-four miles long. There are seven mails daily now at this office. The record of postmasters iS not fairly clear, but it is known that the following have held the position in about the order given here : Patrick Lochary, Millard Marsh, A. H. Hamilton, H. B. Cox, J. M. Gallagher and W. W. Dowdell. The city is protected fairly well from fires by a volunteer fire company and a hand apparatus consisting of wagon, hand-cart, three pumpS, etc. Natural gas is used here, the same being pumped in from Noble county from the Dudley field. The surrounding country is devoted largely to sheep raising. The Schools of the place are a high and grammar school, mentioned in the educational chapter of this volume. The only newspaper at Quaker City is the Independent, established in 1875 by J. D. Olmstead & Sons. The present proprietors are J. W. and A. B. Hill, who took charge in 1882 and have never missed an issue since that 318 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. year. Job work, advertising calendars and novelties are special features of this office. The lodges of the town are the Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. The churches here worshiping are the Christian, Methodist Episcopal and Friends. The mayors who have served here are inclusive of the following: 187172, J. C. Steele ; 1872-74, George W. Arnold; 1874-1885, J. B. Lydick ; 1885-86, L. J. Heskett; 1886-88, D. S. Scott; 1888-94, L. M. Hartley ; 1894-98, F. B. Doudna ; 1898-1900, J. B. Hartley; 1900-02, Isaac E. Stubb; 1902-03, John S. Moore ; 1903-05, J. B. Lydick ; 1905-07, William Wesley: 1907-10, J. B. Hartley; 1910, to present time, Frank Reed. It will be observed that Mr. Lydick served longer as mayor than any other man, M. L. Hartley and J. B. Hartley c0ming next in point of length of service. Among those serving as clerks during the period from 1871 to 1911 were T. M. Johnson, J. A. McEwen, I. P. Steele, M. C. Hartley, Robert Boyd, J. G. Moore, A. H. Hamilton, C. A. Bowles and Ross Hay. The length of service as corporation clerk and also as township clerk, is perhaps unprecedented in the case 0f Robert Boyd, who has served twenty- one years as clerk of the corporation in Quaker City, and his term ending December 31, 1911, as township clerk, gives him twenty-five years in that office. The village officers in 1910 are : Frank Reed, mayor; Ross Hay, clerk, and H. B. Garber, treasurer. 1910 DIRECTORY. Agricultural Implements—W. H. Hartley & Sons, W. A. Lingo & Company. Bank—Quaker City National Bank. Confectionery—Charles Sharrock, employing thirty-five men touring in season of fairs, with his goods. Furniture—C. W. Eberle. General Dealers—O. W. Hunt, E. B. Galloway, Oscar Finley, Mrs. M. A. Lochary, Moore Bros. & Company. Grocers—Miss Verna Boyd. Hotel—Quaker City House. Hardware—W. A. Lingo Company, W. H. Hartley & Sons. Livery—Cline & Eberle. Millinery—Ella M. Watson. Shoes—T. M. Johnson. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 319 Drugs—W. H. Tope. Meat Market—Emmet Wright, Clyde Eagon. Physicians—S. G. Bay, O. S. Bay, E. W. JoneS, J. B. Hollingsworth. Opera House—D. M. Lingo, manager. Grist Mill—John R. Hall. Planing Mill—A. Cochran Company. Mines (Coal)—E. B. Galloway, John Montgomery, Waldo Webster. Produce—Quaker City Produce Company. CHAPTER XXIX. MONROE TOWNSHIP. Monroe township was cut from Jefferson township in April, 1818. It is on the north line of the county, and bounded on the east by Washington township, on the south by Jefferson, 0n the west by Wheeling. It is five miles square and hence contains about twenty-five sections of land. It is a well watered and drained portion of the county, devoted mostly to farming and stock raising. New Birmingham is the only village platted within the borders 0f the township. This was an early-day platting, but was re-platted in 1860, for assessment purposes. It is located on section 11, township 4, range 2. Here a postoffice and a few business houses were erected and maintained for years. It is now an inland place of little, if any, business importance. As one passes through this portion of the county, today, in search of historic facts concerning the early settlement of this particular township, he cannot fail to be impressed with the fact that time changes all things earthly, and that none are now living who witnessed the first efforts at making a home within this part of Guernsey county ; the pioneer has completed his mission and rests from the cares of life. However, as late as 1876, when a census was taken of the oldest persons in this township, the following were found still residents, and none were then less than seventy-six years of age : Thomas, Sarah and Thomas I. Moore, Jane Moore, Hezekiah Moore, Mary Engle, Benjamin Culbertson, Solomon Colley, Lydia Colley, Aneas Randall, Annie McDonald, Archibald Little, Delphi Grimsley, Sarah White, William Wornick, Jane Wornick, Sidney Little, William Thompson, Sarah Thompson, Sarah Anderson,. Daniel Clark, James Neil, John Neil, Sarah Richards, Amos Richards, Sarah Gray, Elizabeth Clark, Isaac Beal, Andrew Thompson, Margaret Willis, George Willis, Nancy Virtue, Martha Aiken, Lydia Lanning, Sarah Edwards, James Crossgrove, J. Hollingsworth, Margaret Shaw, John Smith, Eleanor Campbell, Rebecca Burnworth, Matthew Johnson, and Pleasant Tedrick. Oakley Lanning moved to this township from Monroe in 1834 and became a prominent, permanent citizen of the precinct. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 321 Isaac M. Lanning was born in New Jersey in 1788 and bought land in this county, but had the misfortune to lose it by reason of a defective title. He married Lidie Fuller and moved to the farm he had selected here. He died in 1867. He had held the office of justice of the peace for more than twenty years in this township, hence was well known and highly popular. Frederick Braninger, a native of Maryland, was born in 1788 and after his removal to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, he married Susannah Hayes, and fifteen years later located in this township. He was a devoted member of the Protestant Methodist church. Samuel Virtue was born in Ireland in 1775, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He married in 1799 and in 1816 made the long sea voyage to this country. He settled in Ohio county, West Virginia, where he lived for fifteen years, then located in Monroe township, this county, and spent the balance of his days here on a farm. He raised a large and highly interesting family, who have gone forth to different callings in life. Isaac Beal, a native of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, born in 1796, lived there until he married Martha Todd, and then removed to this township, where the remainder of his days were spent. Eight children were born of this union, who survived to manhood and womanhood. Osborn, the sixth child, was born in 1828 and married Amanda M. Randall and they then set up another household within the township. He was a trustee of Monroe township a number of years and held other offices. When he settled here Beymerstown had only one house. CHAPTER XXX. MADISON TOWNSHIP. Second from the north and second from the eastern line of Guernsey county is situated Madison township, which sub-division of this county is five miles square, having twenty-five sections of excellent land within its borders. This township was organized and its first township election held July 18, 1810. It contains the usual amount of good, aS well as much rough, untillable land. About one-third of a century ago the residents here, who had reached or passed their seventy-sixth mile-post were as follows: Benjamin Berry, James Copeland, Mrs. F. Parker, Samuel Tannehill, James Weyer, Mrs. C. Lanfesty, Elias Burdett, Mrs. S. Anderson, MrS. E. Cramer, Mrs. Mary Johnson, Mrs. Stanley Shaw, Mrs. E. Teitrick, Mrs. E. Shoeman, Mrs. Anne Farrell, Mrs. E. Pritchard, Mrs. R. Harris, F. L. Hafford, Samuel Lindsey, Mrs. M. Lindsey, William Scott, John Smith, Mrs. Mary Smith, William M. Jenkins, John Sheridan, John Jones, Wesley Gill, Mrs. S. Nichols, Henry Nichols, Isaac Ricker, Mrs. Amy Ricker, Mrs. Weirick, Andrew F. Linn, Mrs. Grizelle, George McCormick, J. W. Mills, Mrs. M. Stockdale, John Stockdale, James Stockdale, John Saviers, Bennett Harding, Elias Burdett, and James Weyer. Of others who made settlement, or were born here and performed well their parts as good citizens in the up-building of the township, it may be narrated in this connection that George W. Yeo, a native of Maryland, was born in 1813, and when of age he came to this township, having first resided near Barnesville until about 1845. Daniel Tettrick was born in New Jersey in 1783 and came to Guernsey county when seventeen years of age. In 1810 he married Jenny Scaddon, by whom he had seven children. His second wife was Mary Passmore, by whom seven more children were born to him. He became one of the stanch men of his township and lived to a ripe old age. Samuel Cunningham, a native of Ireland, was born in 1759 and in 1832 the family moved to Guernsey county, Ohio, having first remained in Washington county nine years, Their son James was born in Ireland and survived all other members of the family. He married Elizabeth Cunningham in 1838 and they were the parents of twelve children. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 323 Edward Bratton was without doubt the first white man to locate in this township. He was born in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, in 1784, and in 1799 removed with his father t0 the new territory northwest of the Ohio river, then just opening up f0r settlement. It was late in the month of December when they reached Wheeling., then comprising but a few illy-built huts and houses built around the public square. Crossing the Ohio river, the Brattons made their way westward to the forks of McMahon's creek, three miles below where the town of Belmont now stands. From this place, in 1802, they moved up to the Zane Trace, near what later became known as the Milner property. In the spring of 1803, or 1804, Joseph Wright, father of Nehemiah Wright, emigrated from Ireland and located near the Brattons. He employed Edward Bratton, then a stout, young man, nineteen years of age, to make him some rails with which to fence or pen up his stock, in order to protect them from the wolves and bears, which were then very troublesome. His work suited so well that he was hired to make more rails to fence in a patch of ground. These young Bratton made at the rate of fifty cents a hundred and boarded himself. In 1805 he married, and taking the trail used by General Broadhead in 1780, when that officer marched from Wheeling on the Coshocton campaign against the Indians, he followed it as far as the present town of Antrim, then diverged and went to the present site of Winchester, where he pitched his tent. The nearest settlement was where Cambridge stands today, but there were five Indian families, including two brothers named Jim and Bill ( for short) and whose last name was Lyons ; Joseph Sky, at the mouth of Brushy Fork ; one Douty, who had a but between MrS. Culbertson's and Newman's Lake, and who had two squaws; and one Indian named Hunter, who was squawless. The first grist mill in the county was built on Salt fork, then in Madison, now in Jefferson township. The first store was kept by George Wines at Winchester, and there was also the Methodist church building. CHAPTER XXXI. SPENCER TOWNSHIP.
Spencer is the extreme southwestern township in Guernsey county. It was organized in 1819, having been taken from the west end of what was then Buffalo township. Its first election for township officers was held in March, that year. It is bounded by Noble and Muskingum counties and by Westland and Jackson, with a portion of Valley townships. It contains about twenty-nine sections of land. It is exceptionally well watered by numerous small streams and many pure springs are found gushing out here and there along the rugged hillsides. Its chief commercial point is Cumberland City, on the Cumberland branch of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. The county is very largely devoted to mining and Stock raising. Its citizens are, for the most part, enterprising, thrifty people, wh0 have descended from old families who settled there at a very early day and have grown up and assisted in developing the county to its present state of perfection. Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania all sent forth many of their sons and daughters to effect this settlement in the 'wilds of Guernsey county. They came ahead of railroads, pikes, mails or milling facilities, and really "they builded better than they knew." With none too rich a soil, and far from markets, they set to work, with the true spirit of frontiersmen, to hew and to dig out their own fortunes. Money has not been made easily here, but the present generation are the better for having been reared in a country where money was not plentiful, as they now know the real value of a dollar and make the best possible use of it. Good homes, of refinement and culture, are to be seen throughout this goodly township—the one extending the farthest to the south of any within the county.
PIONEER NAMES.
Perhaps no better account of the first settlement of this part of Guernsey county can be had than to give a list of citizens who in 1876 had reached the good old age of seventy-six years and upwards and were still residing in the township. These facts appeared in a centennial history in 1876 during the Philadelphia exposition : John Hawes, Reuben Stevens, Mary Shively, Juni-
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etta Stone, Rebecca Blackstone, Jane Forsythe, Vincent CockinS, Jacob Dennis, Nancy Connor, Elizabeth Young, Jac0b Conkle, Annie Inlay, Hiram Ingle, Amelia Ingle, ThomaS Henry, Samuel Finley, Catherine Finley, E. Daniel, Robert Barton, Nancy McClelland, Thomas N. Muzzy, Larinda Muzzy, Thomas Crawford, Michael Cusick, William Stuart, Michael Joice, Mary C. Connor, Jane Bay, Elijah Blackstone, Henry Cosgrove, William Rabe, William McKelvy, Nancy Harper, William Shaw, Sarah Rabe, Martha Bemis and Mary Johnson.
From these persons have grown up many of the present day families who now carry on the affairs of Spencer township, with honor and credit to themselves and their ancestors.
Vincent Cockins was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1802 and married in 1835 and settled in Spencer township, where they reared ten children. Some 0f these children bore arms in the Union cause during the Civil war.
Jacob Hulin was also a native of Pennsylvania, born in Fayette county in 1780. He moved to Wills township, this county, and five years later removed to a farm tract—the present site of Cumberland—and raised corn where now Stands the city. He died in 1847 on his farm, three miles to the north of Cumberland, to which he had moved.
John M. Frazier was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1817 and accompanied his parents to Muskingum county, Ohio, where he married and resided many years. One of his sons, Martin L., was born in 1844 and when seventeen years old came to Guernsey county and married Mary L, St. Clair. After living two years in Muskingum county they moved to Spencer township, this county, and became permanent and useful citizens.
Hugh Moore, father of James A. Moore, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania. In 1836, he moved to Opossum creek, three miles from Senecaville. Two years later he m0ved to Center township; Still later he lived in Belmont county, where he and his wife died. The Son, JameS A., moved to Spencer township in 1842.
James White was born in PennSylvania in 1825 and moved to Spencer township in 1848. He reared eleven children. In his early days he taught school.
Thomas Bay, Jr., came here with his father, Thomas Bay, Sr., from Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1812, and entered a large tract of land in the vicinity of present Cumberland. He was born in 1782 and died in 1859.
William M. Dolman was born in 1802, in Washington county, Penn-
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sylvania, and came to Ohio with his father, when ten years of age. He married and settled in Cumberland until 1838, when he removed to Washington county, Ohio. He was an overseer at the building of the lock in the Muskingum river.
FIRST PIONEERS.
The first man to hold land title in this township was a Mr. May, who entered eighty acres on the Covert farm about 1806, made small improvements, and died soon thereafter. This was long known as the "May's deadening." In 1808 Esquire Lattey claimed land later owned by McCleary, but he sold to Mr. Lewis in 1813. He was the first justice of the peace in this part of Guernsey county. Mr. Wolfe was a squatter and cleared a field at the east end of Cumberland in 1809. Finley Collins entered an eighty-acre tract just east from Cumberland at the same date and sold to Thomas Bay in 1812. The first permanent settler was Thomas Bay, of Pennsylvania, who settled on the present site of Cumberland in 1812, purchasing a large tract of land near there. He and his sons entered the wild, dense forests and soon, erected a commodious cabin home and, with ax and mattock in hand, began to clear up their lands. Then Wheeling and Pittsburg were but small villages. However, these places and Zanesville afforded a ready market for the maple Syrup made by these Guernsey county settlers, who in some instances made enough in this way to enter their lands.
The second permanent settler was Eli Bingham, of Vermont, who located adjoining Mr. Bay's land in 1813. He waS full of Yankee thrift and ingenuity and erected the first brick residence in his part 0f the country ; the same was standing in 1890 and may be now.
In 1814 came Thomas N. Muzzy, who also claimed land next to Mr. Bay's. He came from Boston and not only improved his lands, but soon set about constructing a mill for grinding grain and sawing lumber. He it was who taught the first School and the first Sunday school class in his neighborhood. He also laid the foundation for the first church and organized the first temperance society in his beautiful little valley. He was in the war of 1812, and in 1848, the date of the first survey of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, volunteered to make a survey from Wheeling to Zanesville through Cumberland, and came near locating that road up his valley. He came from Spencer, Massachusetts, and hence named the township after his old home. In 1882 Mr. Bingham was the oldest resident in hiS township.
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THE TOWN OF CUMBERLAND.
Cumberland, the third town in point of commercial importance in Guernsey county, was platted April 24, 1828, on section 32, township 9, range 10, by James Bay. It is an incorporated place and full of the best business enterprise. Its railroads are the Baltimore & Ohio (Eastern Ohio division) and the Ohio River and Western line from Zanesville to Bellaire. The excellent high school building now in use was erected in 1892; it is a two-story, six-room brick building.
The town is an incorporated one, and its present population is not far from seven hundred and fifty. Its municipal officers in 1910 were: William H. Young, mayor ; Dr. S. M. Moorehead, treasurer ; Fred S. White, clerk ; Frank Waller, marshal. The following have served the incorporation as mayors : William H. Young, B. S. Lukens, William H. Young, B. S. Lukens, Phil Johnson, Dr. C. M. St. Clair, W. H. McCloy, T. G. McCortle, Dr. C. Draper, 'William H. Young. Possibly others may have served a term.
The churches of the town are the Buffalo Presbyterian, Cumberland Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist. At one time a Baptist church was sustained here, but has now been abandoned. The civic societies of Cumberland are the Masons, Odd Fellows, Maccabees, United Mechanics and Grand Army 0f the Republic. The Eastern Star and Rebekah degrees of the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders are also represented.
The Cumberland Echo was established in the autumn of 1885, by W. A. Reedle ; its present proprietor is W. G. Nichols. (See press chapter.)
Of the Cumberland postoffice it may be stated that the date of its institution is not certain, but probably thiS office was established about 1830. The following have served as postmasters, with others whose names have been lost sight of with the passing years : D. W. Forsythe, William Howe, Samuel Connor, J. C. McClashen, T. G. McCortle, W. M. Crozier, present incumbent.
There are now seven rural routes diverging out from Cumberland, of about twenty-four miles each. The first was established September 2, 1901. The Cumberland office was made a third class office in 1908. It has remained in its present quarters since 1902. There are five mails received daily. The first mail was brought here by an old Cambridge pioneer, George Green, who ran a stage line. The present annual receipts of the Cumberland postoffice is $2,500.
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BUSINESS FACTORS OF 1910.
Banks—The Cumberland Savings Bank. Buggies, Harness and Monuments—L. R. Harper. Blacksmith—Harry Luke. Brick and Tile Factory—J. C. Bay & Company. Clothing—Connor & White, V. J. Shott. Drugs—M0ore Brothers, 0. Garlington. Dentist—S. F. Moorehead. Doctors—F. P. Bird, H. W. Holmes, W. K. Bolan. Furniture—S. W. McClelland. Grain Dealer—M. Young & Company. Gr0ceries—Allison & Young, E. E. Prouty. Hardware—Petty & White, J. B. Beckett. Hotels—Mrs. Mary Fulton, Fulton House ; Globe, Miss Ella Kennedy. Harness Dealer—J. R. Stewart. Jewelry—H. M. McKee, H. B. Zoller. Livery—S. P. McClelland, Frank Blackburn, A. G. McClelland. Produce—Lyne & Given. Millinery—Mrs. A. E. Walters, Mrs. Ida Roberts. Meat Markets—V. L. Glass, W. L. McCracken. Mills—M. Young Milling Company, flouring mill, J. C. Bays, W. H. Stevens, planing mills. Newspaper—The Echo, W. G. Nichols. Photograph Gallery—J. C. Crumbaker, Stock Dealer—Spooner & McCracken. Shoemaker--Elza Johnson.. Wool Buyers—The St. Clair Company.
CHAPTER XXXII.
WHEELING TOWNSHIP.
Wheeling township, organized in September, 1810, is in the extreme northwestern corner of Guernsey county, and is seven and a half miles long, from east to west, and four mileS Wide in the narrowest place; it contains about thirty-three sections of land. Coshocton county is to its west, Tuscarawas to its north, Monroe township, east, Liberty and Knox south of it.
Wills creek is its principal stream. The line of the railroad now known as the Pennsylvania follows the creek valley down through this township and on into Liberty township, en route to Cambridge. The villages of this sub-division of the county are Bird's Run and Guernsey, both station points on the railroad.
The history of the schools and churches will be found in the general chapters, while the village history, plattings, etc., will be found farther on within this chapter.
The first settler was Robert Atkins0n, who settled on section 21, but some one from Belmont county entered the section before Atkinson, whereupon he removed across Wills creek and located on a part of the same section. At this time his only neighbor was a man named Bird, who had located at the big spring where John Booth later resided, and where he had built a shanty and cleared up a small piece of timber land. This was eight miles distant and over in Tuscarawas county. The man Bird had neither family nor principle. Atkinson's wife died, and Bird and some of the Indians helped him bury her, after which Atkinson went back to Virginia to get another wife, leaving Bird there to take care of the property he had. During his absence, Bird loaded the household effects into a boat and went down the stream into the Muskingum river and forever disappeared, Hence the creek was named "Bird's Run."
In 1806 William Gibson settled on Wills creek, three miles above, and 1807 found Philip Shoff a resident. In 1810 came three Virginia families— Paul Dewitt, John Hodge and Abraham Furney. All was a wild wilderness and Indians lived in rude huts and fished and hunted along the streams. These tribes left about 1812. Until 1815 land could not be taken up here in less than quarter sections.
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The first school in the township was near present Bridgewater. The first church was the Baptist in 1820, near Bridgeville.
Among the pioneer band who settled in Wheeling township, and their sons and daughters, may be named the following list of persons who, in 1876, were recorded as being at that date Seventy-six or more years of age : George Shroyock, Alexander Mitchell, Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, Jacob Banker, George Gibson, Mrs, Jane Gibson, David Walgamott, Mrs. S. Walgamott, Elizabeth Carr, James Mercer, Amanda Hamilton, N. Chamberlain; Zachariah Black, E. Johnson, William Leech, Joel Brown, Fred Bristol, W. Anderson, John Lytle, Sr., Richard Leverson, Henry Wilson, ,Mrs. C. Wilson, James Miskimmin.
William Vansickle, Jr., born in this county in 1840, married Elizabeth Redd and settled on a farm in Wheeling township, becoming a permanent settler there.
John Marlatt was born in Virginia in 1794, and lived in C0lumbiana county, Ohio, until 1809, when he married and resided in Coshocton six years. From that time to 1869 he lived in Wheeling township. He and his wife were the parents of twelve children, six of whom survived until 1882. Mr. Marlatt owned four hundred and thirty acres of land and held numerous local offices in his township and county.
Other early corners to Wheeling township were James Mercer, John Alloway, Joseph Furney and John Keast. The last named was from Cornwall, England. These pioneers found a rough, wooded country and all had to be hewed and grubbed out fr0m a forest in order to provide suitable fields for the cultivation of crops and good building sites. This took a great amount of hard work and of a character of which the present-day young man knows nothing. The fathers and grandfathers opened up and made it possible for the dwellers of the twentieth century to live and enjoy what they do.
TOWN OF GUERNSEY.
This is a platted, incorporated place of some commercial importance. It was platted in section 4, township 2, range 3, of the military school lands, by John Fordyce, J. W. Robins and Madison R0bins, November 7, 1872. A postoffice was established here almost a half century ago. It is now located in a general store belonging to E. C. Lawyer, the present postmaster. There are numerous dwellings and a neat church building, that 0f the Protestant Methodist denomination.
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about forty years ago. It is now kept in the general store of L. D. Carrothers, postmaster. There are two churches represented here, the Baptist and the Methodist Episcopal.
UPON A HIGH HILL.
Upon a high hill in Wheeling township, near the county road leading from Guernsey to Bridgeville, is a rock whose strange formation and majestic appearance excites wonder in every beholder. It resembles an immense haystack in shape, being about forty feet in height, twenty-five feet in circumference at the base, thirty-five feet at the bulge, and thirty feet at the top. The view from the summit extends over four counties and is said to be grand. The sides of this peculiar rock are carved with hieroglyphics that would make an interesting Study for the student 0f aboriginal history. We are indebted for these facts to D. F. Stanley.—Jeffersonian, March 8, 1883.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
WESTLAND TOWNSHIP.
Westland township is one of Guernsey county's original townships, hence dates its precinct history from April 23, 1810; its first election for t0wnship officers took place in June of that year. It is in the southwestern part of the county, bounded on the west by Muskingum c0unty, on the north by Adams township, on the eaSt by Jackson and Cambridge townships and 0n the south by Spencer township and Muskingum county and contains twenty-five sections of land, it being five miles square. Crooked creek, the old National pike and the Baltimore & Ohio railroad pass through its northwestern corner. Like other townships in Guernsey c0unty, this is quite rough, hilly and broken by valley and ridge. Its 0nly platted village is Claysville, an inland platting described elsewhere with other plattings. Once thiS township embraced much more territory than at present, for in 1819 Knox township was formed from parts 0f this and Wheeling townships.
EARLY SETTLERS.
To have been a pioneer in this section of Ohio meant hardship and an iron constitution. The names of some of the families who thus blazed the way to civilization and present enjoyment, and who resided in the township in 1876, being advanced to the ripe old age of seventy-six years or older, are as follows : William B. Stewart, Thomas J. Freeman, Ephraim Barnett and wife, Susan Galloway, Joseph Kelly, Elijah Wycoff, John Hammond, James Sterling, J. Amspoker, Mrs. Wilson, R. R. Moore, Thomas E. Connor, W. B. Crawford, Mr. Best, Maria White, James Lawrence and a Mrs. Sterling.
The following paragraphs will speak of others who sought out a home and became go0d citizens in this part of Guernsey county :
John Hartong, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1808, married, in 1835, Ruth Terril. In 1836 they removed to Centre township, this county, and later became residents of Westland township. They reared five children who matured and helped to Subdue this part of the county.
James Amspoker, son of John Amspoker, born in Brooke county, Vir-
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ginia, in 1807, remained in his native state almost a half century and in 1859 settled in Westland township, this county. He married and became the father of six children, well known in this county to the older residents.
Lewis Caius McDonald, one 0f the first children born in Westland township, the date being 1817, married Melissa Boyd and had five children; he was supervisor a number of terms in this township.
In 1850 came the Best family to Westland township from Pennsylvania. Mr. Best died in 1880, leaving a family of grown children. The John Best farm of this township contained almost two hundred acres.
Robert R. Moore descended from William Moore, who was born in Ireland in 1791. After living twenty-four years in Pennsylvania, the grandfather removed to Wills township, this county. He had nine children. Robert R. was born in Pennsylvania in 1810, moved to Perry county, Ohio; and in 1843 on to this county, locating in Westland township.
William Bennett, born in Ireland in 1801, emigrated to Pennsylvania at the age of eighteen years. He married, spent four years in Union township. Muskingum county, Ohio, and in 1838 made a permanent settlement in Westland township, where he died in 1842. The children of this pioneer family numbered eleven, and are now heads of numerous families throughout the country.
George McCreary, Sr., was born in Ireland in 1790, emigrated to America in 1812 and married, in 1823, Sarah Mills. This worthy couple located in Westland township, where they passed the remainder of their lives, the wife dying in 1847 and he in 1873, leaving seven children.
Ephraim Barnett, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, born in 1801, married and moved to Westland township, this county, in the spring of 1839. He died in the autumn of 1879. This worthy man and wife were the parents of eleven children, most, if not all, of whom are now deceased.
William B. Stewart, born in Ireland in 1804, landed in Baltimore in 1830 and went direct to Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1832, then removed to Oxford township, Guernsey county, Ohio. From 1835 to 1872 he led a wandering life, but at the last named year settled in Westland township, just off the National road. He was thrice married and reared a large family. Horatio Grumman was a son of Isaac Grumman, who settled in Westland township when the country was so new that each settler almost led the life of a hermit. Isaac was born in New Jersey in 1777. He married in 1798 and six years later moved to Fort Henry (now Wheeling), and in 1806 came to Westland township, this county. He died in 1845 and his wife in 1858. They had nine children to revere their names.
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David St. Clair was born in Maryland in 1797, and during the war of 1812 with Great Britain, went to Baltimore to sell produce, and was there during the engagement with the British. He accompanied his parents to this county and settled in Spencer township, where the family entered land on warrants.
William Cosgrove, a native of Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, was born in 1812 and in 1827 came to Ohio with his parents, living near Freeport, Harrison county, three years, then went to Cambridge where he mastered the cabinetmaker's trade. In 1833 he removed to Cumberland where he engaged in chair making until 1868, when he engaged in the hotel business, being the proprietor of the old Eagle hotel. One peculiarity of this gentleman was that he never failed of taking a mid-day nap, which he argued gave great strength and long life.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
LONDONDERRY TOWNSHIP.
Londonderry is the extreme northeastern township in Guernsey county. It is six miles square, containing thirty-six sections of land, good as the county affords. It is bounded on the north by Harrison county, on the east. by Belmont county, on the south by Oxford township and on the west by Madison and Washington townships. It has numerous streams coursing through its territory and is well suited for grazing and stock raising. Its schools and churches are treated under the general chapters on these topics.
OLD RESIDENTS.
This section of the county, in 1876, had fully its share of aged men and women, as will be seen by observing the following list compiled at that date for a centennial history of the t0wnship, which gave the persons who had reached seventy-six years or over : Samuel Wilkin, Edward Carpenter, William Francy, Henry Crusoe, Jackson Gracy, R. F. Campbell, Robert Campbell, Samuel Bratton, Andrew Hyde, Robert Madden, John Logan, Mrs. A. Logan, Mrs. C. Carpenter, Mrs. S. Madden, Mrs. S. McElroy, Mrs. S. Smith, Mrs. E. Rankins, Mrs. J. Walker, M. Walker, Robert Blackwood, T. G. Brown, Wilham Hartgrave, Mrs. J. Franey, Mrs. E. Mack, Mrs. Sarah Hunt, Mrs. S. Rosengrants, Mrs. E. Davis, Mrs. S. Wilkins, Mrs. Decker, Mrs. Romans, Mrs. H. Briggs, Mrs. J. Kirk, Mrs. Ingle, Mrs. S. B. Smith, Simon Rosen- grants, Jacob Baker, William Wilson, William Morrow, James Thwaite, Samuel B. Smith, Henry Briggs and Joel Kirk.
The father of John Downer was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1790 and came to Guernsey county in 1813 and entered land in this township and cleared up a good farm from out the dense forests. He married Elizabeth Work and by her reared twelve children, the eldest of whom was John, born in 1818, and who spent his entire life in the township. He owned a quarter section of land and was a township official.
Other early settlers who aided in felling the forests and making the wilderness to blossom like the rose, were William Morrison, a native of Pennsylvania ; Thomas Neilson, a native of Ohio ; Absalom Frizzell, of Belmont county, Ohio ; John Mack, a native of Ireland; John Stewart, born in Ireland, coming to this country in 1835 ; Robert Mack, who was born in Indiana, and
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accompanied his parents here when young; George Smith, born in Virginia in 1795 and in 1809 went to the vicinity of Flushing, Belmont county, and in 1819 he and his father entered eighty acres of land in Londonderry township; John Greenfield was a native of Harrison county, Ohio, born in 1820, and came to this township in 1846, settling on what was subsequently styled the Kirk farm, the most of which he helped to clear up from the native forests ; others whose names should not be forgotten as pioneers in Londonderry township were Amos Hibbs, Church Cox, George Smith, William Kirk, Alexander L. Crusser, Robert Wilkins and John Stewart.
PLATTING OF LONDONDERRY.
The only platting of a village within this township is Londonderry, platted by Robert Wilkins, August 19, 1815, on section 20, in the northern part of the township. It never grew to a place of more importance than a country hamlet, with a postoffice and a store and small collection of houses.
Among the early settlers of Londonderry township were Cornelius Duddall, James McCoy, Henry Dillon, Anthony Arnold, Edward Carpenter, Mathew Law, and George Anderson. Edward Carpenter was born in 1761 in Pennsylvania, and died here in 1827, having settled in this township in 1802, with his wife, Catherine (De Long) Carpenter, who died here in 1845. Their son, Edward, Jr., was born in this township in 1802, and was a justice of the peace for thirty-two years,
A society of Friends (Quakers) was organized in this township in 1819, a half mile south of Smyrna. The first building, a log one, was burned in the winter of 1856-57, and a small frame structure took its place. In 1880 this was removed and a large, commodious church erected.
In 1801 Edward Carpenter, son of John Carpenter, one of the pioneers who crossed the Ohio in 1781 and built what was known as "Carpenter' Fort," a short distance above Warrenton, took a contract for cutting out eighteen miles of the road extending from Big Stillwater to within seven miles of Cambridge, for which he received the sum of three hundred dollars. As thus opened, the road passed through where Londonderry now stands. Here Mr. Carpenter settled about 1807.
The early-clay school facilities here were anything but good. About 1819 or 1820 the pioneers succeeded in employing Robert Jamison, an Irish schoolmaster, who taught the first school in this township, and to whom Mr. Carpenter paid thirty-six dollars a quarter and a Mr. Wilkins as much. Today school houses are in evidence everywhere and education and religious elements predominate equal to any part of the county.
CHAPTER XXXV
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
Washington township, one of the northeastern townships of this county, is a five-mile-square, twenty-five-section sub-division of Guernsey county, and is bounded on the north by Tuscarawas county, on the east by Harrison county and a part of Londonderry township in thiS county, on the south by Madison township and on the west by Monroe township. It is well watered and drained by numerous streams and flowing springs of the purest water. It is devoted largely to agriculture and haS many fine and thrifty looking farms within its borders. This civil township waS organized in 1823, its early settlement preceding this a number of years. It is one of the townships without town or hamlet.
ITS EARLY SETTLERS.
Just who was the first white man to unfold the virgin soil and clear away the first tract of farm land, as well as erect the first cabin in this township, may never be recorded correctly in history, the matter having been so long neglected. But fortunately there was, during the Centennial Exposition year, a list made of the persons then residing in this township, and who at that date —a third of a century ag0—were seventy-Six years, 0r more, of age. ThiS constituted many 0f the original band of settlers in this part 0f the county. This list is as follows : Robert Vance, Sol Shers, John Allison, Louis Myers, Jonah George, John Williams, Finley McGrew, Robert Maxwell, Benjamin Temple, Edward Logan, James Hastings, Miss Ediburne, Mary Burris, Mrs. A. McKinney, Mrs. S. McKinney, Mrs. R. Vance, Mrs. Louis Myers, Mrs. J. Williams, Mrs. F. McGrew, Mrs. P. Smith, Mrs, William Hastings, Mrs. Nancy Frazer, Mrs. R. Maxwell, Mrs. 0. Brashar, Mrs. W. Smith, Mrs. B. Temple, Mrs. E. Logan, and Mrs. J. Logan. These women, for the m0st part were wiveS of some one 0f the early pioneers.
John Owens, a native of Wales, born in 1773, at the age of seven years settled in Sherman's valley, Pennsylvania, and came to this township in 1844. He married in 1813 and had ten children, including J. W. Owens, who was born in 1836, in Trumbull county, He came to thiS county and permanently
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located in 1844. He married Cynthia E. Galligher. Mr. Owens in the early eighties owned almost three hundred acres of land, waS an excellent farmer and held many local offices.
Robert Vance, born in Maryland in 1791, spent his youth in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and came to this township in 1825. He married and was the father of twelve children. Robert, Jr., was born 0n the old homestead in 1823 and ever after lived in the township. In 1845 he married Eliza J. Campbell, by whom eight children were born. Mr. Vance was a successful farmer and stock raiser.
George Frazer, born in 1786 in Maryland, moved to Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1795 and in 1837 settled on section 13 of Washington township, this county, and remained until his death on the farm of which he was owner. He married and was the father of thirteen children, one of whom was George. Jr., born in 1830 in Trumbull county, Ohio, and who came to this township in 1837. He married in 1867 and they had four children. Mr. Frazer served three years and two months in the Union army during the Civil war. After his return home, he resumed farming and stock raising, in which he was highly successful.
Levi Williams, a native of Virginia, horn near Winchester in 1777, settled in Belmont county in 1796, and moved to where the town of Washington, this county, stands in 1800. There he did the first clearing up the native forests. He married in Virginia and was the father of eight children. He was one of the men who assisted in cutting the National road through the heavy timber from Wheeling to Zanesville.
The reader is referred to the general chapters of this w0rk for an account of the schools and churches of this township.
Washington Scott was the first justice of the peace and the first clerk of the township and became state senator.
It is claimed by some that Levi Williams was the first settler in this township. Then came the pioneers, Robert Carnes and James Anderson. In 1815 and 1816 came several families and then the township was organized by eighteen voters. Thomas Hannah received seventeen votes at the first election for representative to the Ohio Legislature. In 1882 there were two saw mills and two grist mills; a United Brethren and Protestant Methodist church. The first church, however, was the Methodist Episcopal, formed in 1816.
Of the first settler, Levi Williams, let it be recorded that he located in 1796 where Washington now Stands, and did the first clearing in Wills township. He was a great hunter and was a first lieutenant under "Mad" Anthony Wayne in the Indian war, also under Harrison in 1812. The general
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opinion is that the first three men in this county were Messrs. Graham, Williams and John Mahoney, all coming at about the same dates.
John W. McBridels father, Frederick McBride, was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, b0rn in 1806, and at the age of ten years accompanied his parents to this county and here he grew to manhood and became a prosperous farmer and the head of a large family.
Another of the sturdy men of his day and generation was William Logan, born in the Emerald isle in 1771; he married and in 1817 came to America, first locating in Canada, where he lived one year and then moved to a point about ten miles from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, but in 1826 came to Guernsey county, Ohio, and chopped a handsome farm from out the big woods of this county. He had ten children, bringing seven to this country.
Robert Campbell, born in Ireland in 1797, lived with his father in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, while learning the carding trade. He there married and they had eight children. John M. was born in Londonderry township, but when two years of age the family removed to Madison township. He married, in 1847, Mary McBride and they had six children. His father, Robert, became a large farmer and stock raiser, was commissioner and representative for two terms each, and died suddenly in Iowa. He had been married thrice, but had no children except by his last wife.
George B. Carlisle, born on the Juniata river in Pennsylvania in 1813, came here in 1819 and ever afterwards made this township his home. In 1834 he married Elizabeth Hanna, a native of Guernsey county, and they reared eleven children. John H., one of the children of this union, was born here in 1835 ; in 1880 he married Mary E. Bridgman. He farmed until 1876, when he engaged in mercantile pursuits. He served as a lieutenant in Company A, Ninety-seventh Ohio Infantry, three months during the Civil war, and later became a captain in Company B of the same regiment.
James Stockdale, Sr., married, in 1825, a Miss Phebe Lening, eighteen years of age, and she became the mother of eleven children. Mr. Stockdale owned a good farm in this township, consisting of two hundred and sixty-five acres. He farmed all his life, except ten years when he was engaged as a merchant. In an early day he taught school and sat on one end of the backlog and the scholars on the other end.
William May made this township his permanent home after 1836. He was a farmer and stock raiser and worked at the carpenter's trade.
James English, born in this county in 1793, married Rachel Rolston in Washington county. Pennsylvania, in 1816. They had nine children; James, the eldest, was a native of Guernsey county, born in 1817.
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Jacob Baker, a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, born in 1774, moved to the old Gottengen farm, where he died some years later. He married and had nine children born to him by his wife, whose maiden name was Rebecca McCutchin. He served his country in the war of 1812. His children all became important factorS in the township of their birth.
Isaac Bonnel, a native of Maryland, was born in 1800 and when twelve years of age he and his father cleared up a farm and laid out Winchester. In 1824 he married Sarah, daughter of Samuel Lindsey, and had eleven children born to him. John M. waS born near the old homestead in 1832 and married Elizabeth Orr, by whom eight children were born.
John Hanna was born on the banks of the blue Juniata river in Pennsylvania, in 1777, and came to this county in 1806. He built the first mill run by horse power in Washington township, and later built a water mill on the Salt fork 0f Wills creek. He married Rebecca Harris in 1805, near Warren- town, Virginia. Henry Hanna, a son, was born on the Madison township homestead in 1813 and in 1838 married Phebe Carlisle. Mr. Hanna owned a two-hundred-acre farm in 1882 and was accounted an influential man of his township.
TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
The two town site plattings within Madison township are Antrim and Winchester. Antrim was laid out by Alexander Alexander, March 1, 1830. on lot 12 in the first quarter of township 3, range 1, of the United States military school lands. It is in the northeastern portion of the township and has never materialized to be a place of much importance, being inland and some distance from the National road and also from railroad communication. It has long been a convenient postoffice for that section of the county and haS at various times had some small st0res and shops, with a collection of a few houses.
Winchester, the other platted village of this township, was surveyed for village purposes on section 14, township 3, range 1, August 18, 1836, by itS pr0prietor, Isaac Bonnell.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
WILLS TOWNSHIP.
Wills township is located just east of the central portion of Guernsey county and, when first organized April 23, 1810, waS one of the original subdivisions of the county. As now constituted, after having undergone many changes in form, it contains about thirty-nine sectionS of land in one of the best portions of the county. The National pike runs through this township from east to west, with villages, named Washington and Elizabethtown, upon its course, hence it has not been altogether unobserved and for the last four score and more years has been the passage way of thousands going over the "Pike" headed for the "far, illimitable, ever-changing West." There are numerous streams coursing through its domain, affording an abundance of pure water. It is of such shape that it is bounded by six townships. Of the schools, churches, etc., the general chapters of this work will go into detail.
At an accounting in 1876, there were the following persons aged seventy- six years and over residing within Wills township. The list includes many of the more prominent early settlers : William Campbell, Mrs. W. Campbell, Lemon Ferguson, Mrs. L. Ferguson, P. Blazer, William Englehart, Mrs. W. Englehart, George Chance and wife, Thomas Boyd and wife, William Richards and wife, William Garey, Robert Weaver, Edward Hall and wife, Robert Perry, Moses Frame and wife, John McCurdy, James Gattrell, Mrs. James Gattrell, John La Rue, Elijah Lowry, Joseph Williams, Mrs. W. D. Frame, William McElhaney, and wife, William Norris and wife, Mrs. I. Parlett, William McElhaney and wife, William Norris and wife, Mrs. I. Parlett, Mrs. L. Waddel, Mrs. Clary, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Forsythe, John Webster, John Doyle, Matthew Doyle, Mrs. J. La Rue, Mrs. Jenkins, Mrs. Flemming, Mrs. Arch Shipley, Mrs. Totten, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Ransom, Mrs. John Craig, Mrs. J. Dorsey, John Kendall, Christopher Sutton, C. McDowell, Albert Vorhes, Thomas Stillions and wife, Lewis Ransom, Joseph King, Roland Swan, J. Montgomery, Mrs. Denoon, Mrs. McBurney, Robert Dunn, Jacob Heiner, G. Hixenbaugh and wife, Mrs. E. Carlisle, Mrs. Connor, Mrs. Jordon, Mrs. Barton, Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Moss, John Bonnell, Mrs. A. Vorhes, Hezekiah Clements, Mrs. Harkness, George Razor, M. Bumgardner, Mrs. Donahoo.
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WOOLEN FACTORY.
Bigger and McLeran,
Respectfully inform the people of Guernsey and adjoining counties, that their machinery is now in full operation—that they are prepared to manufacture. either on shares, or for pay by the yard, the following kinds of goods :
Cloths, Cassimeres, Cassinetts, Tweeds, Jeans, Flannels, Blankets, Lindseys, etc., etc.
of any color, stripe or mixture, that may be desired by customers. Those who wish their wool carded and spun only, can have it clone for fifteen cents per pound, and lc per pound for reeling.
WOOL CARDING
will also be done by them, in the best manner, at 4c per pound, for all grades below half-blood merino or Saxony, for the higher grades 5c will be charged.
Their carding machines are in excellent order, those therefore, who favor them with their custom in this line, may confidently expect good rolls, provided their wool is well cleansed from gum and other filth.
CLOTH DRESSING, attended to as usual.
Wool, and other approved country produce will be taken in payment in either of the above branches of business, or in exchange for goods of their manufacture.
Washington, May 8, 1846.
—From the Guernsey Times, July 24, 1846.
PIONEERS.
Matthew Doyle was a native of Ireland, born in 1765, and emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1790. He married and left Pennsylvania in 1814, moving to Wills township, this county, and there entered a quarter section of land. He lived on this land until his death, in 1835. His wife died in 1847.
John Franie and wife, both born in 1772, settled in Wills township in 1810, thus being among the first pioneers. He was born in Pennsylvania and his wife in Ireland. When they arrived in Wills township they found a desolate region, but lived to see a goodly settlement spring up around them. He died in 1863, she having passed from earth's shining circle in 1848. They had seven children.
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George Cook was born in Ireland in 1778, came to Pennsylvania and married there when a young man. After a few years there they moved to Ohio, settling in Wills township, this county, where he died in 1836 and she in 1867, They reared nine children.
Elijah Lowry was a native of Maryland, born in 1802, came to Ohio when a young man with his parents and settled in Richland township, Guernsey county. He married Mary Richey, who was born in 1810, and soon after their marriage they moved to Wills township, where Mrs. Lowry died in 1868. They had five children.
Col. William Cochran was born in Hickory, Pennsylvania, in 1793, and in 1797 the family moved to their new home in Wills township, this county. There the son William lived until married and in 1818 moved t0 a place two miles south of Middlebourne. In 1863 he moved to that hamlet. He died in 1878. having been twice married.
John La Rue, a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, born in 1801, accompanied his parents to Richland township, Guernsey county, in 1808 and there the parents spent the remainder of their days. John married Rebecca Ballard, born in Guernsey county in 1811, and they selected a home in Wills township, where he died in 1877. They reared ten out of the twelve children horn to them.
Thomas Law was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, January 18, 1793, and, with his parents, came to Wayne township, Noble county, Ohio. His marriage took place in 1822. He died on a farm near his father's in 1834, after which Mrs. Law moved to Wills township. They had six children, five of whom grew to maturity.
William D. Frame, born in 1790„ married Susanna Frame and they settled on a farm in this township, where he died in 1872.
Rev. John Rea, D. D., was born in Ireland in 1773, went to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where he married and in 1794 settled in what is now Harris0n county, Ohio, where he died in 1856, his wife passing away a year prior. They had ten children, including a son Francis, born in 1808, who graduated from Miami College and practiced medicine. He settled in the village of Washington, Wills township, and reared a family.
John Baird, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1789, remained with his parents after their removal to Wills township, this county. In 1815 he married Jane Frame and settled on a farm in Wills township, upon which they resided sixty years. He died in 1875 and she in 1874. They were blessed by twelve children. This family were devoted United Presbyterians in their religious faith.
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William Beveard, born in Ireland in 1756, came to Maryland, married, and in 1810 settled in Oxford township, this county. They had a son William in Wills township, with whom they spent their last days. Both died in 1856.
James L. Smith born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1807, married and settled in Cambridge, this county. He drove stage from Cambridge to Washington seven years, then returned to his native state. In 1846 he began to keep hotel at Washington, Guernsey county, and kept it more than a quarter of a century.
Archibald Wilkin, born in 1823, was left an orphan at an early age, remained in Pennsylvania until 1842, when he settled in Wills township. married Mercy Miller and located on a farm. They reared a good sized family.
John Cunningham, a native of Guernsey county, born in 1814, married Martha Todd in 1841 when she was but sixteen years of age. They located in Wills township, where he died in 1872. They reared a family of ten intelligent, useful children.
Richard J. Clark, born in Maryland in 1818, accompanied his parents to Cambridge in 1826. There he married Anna M. Beymer in 1843 and they moved to Washington, Wills township, where he embarked in the merchandising business. They reared five children.
TOWNS AND VILLAGES OF THE TOWNSHIP.
Within Wills township there are the following business points : Washington, an incorporated town, and Elizabethtown.
Elizabethtown, on the National pike, platted by Jacob Weller on March 7, 1832. This never grew to be a place of much note and is a mere hamlet today, with a few scattering houses.
Washington is the place around which clusters many a fond memory of historic days along the pike, when it was the great thoroughfare for travelers going westward. It was platted by George and Henry Beymer, September 28, 1805, at a time when this county was yet a part of old Muskingum county, and a year before Cambridge was platted. It is the second town plat in Guernsey county. It is near the west line 0f the township and twelve miles from Cambridge. It was started for the purpose of making it the county- seat town and a good fight was put up by its proprietors to secure the prize.
This is an incorporated place and has a city hall on Main street. While there is no regular organized fire department, the village is comparatively secure from fires by the protection afforded by the hand pumping apparatus and the villagers' volunteer company. The place is nicely illuminated by
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means of natural gas, piped in from a gas well about a mile and a half out, located on the farms of H. C. Beemer and J. J. Griffith. This company is styled the Central Guernsey Company, all the stockholders being residents of Washington township and vicinity. The gas well has been in operation since the spring of 1910 and the gas is soon to be piped to Lore City.
The present officers of the municipality are : L. L. Young, mayor ; D. A. Watson, clerk ; John H. Taylor, treasurer ; Jess Lunsford, marshal.
The present population of Washington is carefully estimated at four hundred and fifty. There has been a postoffice here from an early date and it is now located in the store of John H. Taylor, the preSent postmaster. No rural routes are as yet established from Washington. Mail comes by stage, daily. The postmasters have included the following : Mrs. Harriet McKisson, D. E. Patterson, Mrs. Mary A. Craig, J. F. St. Clair, W. O. Moore and John H. Taylor.
The religious element is not wanting here. There are three churches, the Methodist, Presbyterian and United Presbyterian.
The general business of the place may be summed up in October, 1910, as being in the hands of the following persons : Dr. J. M. Thompson, practicing physician; the Washington Roller Mills (steam) ; a planing mill, with cider works attached in season, also feed grinding, all operated by L. L. Young; agricultural implements, R. M. Laughman; general stores, by John H. Taylor, R. C. McCrearen and C. C. Law ; hardware, R. S. Frame; shoe store, S. B. Lawrence; drugs, J. A. Warfield; grocery, D. E. Patterson ; hotels, Washington House, by R. M. Laughman; millinery, Miss Mattie Crawford ; meat market, W. J. Chapman.
An account of Washington in early times was written in a collection of historic sketches by a local writer in 1882 which reads as follows and throws much light on the pioneer village of this county :
"The pike runs through the village from east to west and the structures on either hand are the most ordinary, rude cabins, the only notable exceptions being the residences of the Lawrence’s and Doctor Rea, which loom up in strange contrast with their surroundings. The residence of the late William Lawrence is beyond question greatly superior to any ever constructed in this county. In the rear of Mr. Lawrence's mansion and a few rods to the left is the neat little cemetery where the early fathers of the hamlet sleep. On the pike, some four hundred rods east of town, are the county fair grounds In the village are two large dry goods stores kept by ladies, a large and handsome shoe store known as Lawrence's, a first-class implement house and hardware store, of which Roland S. Frame is proprietor, several hotels and
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churches, and the usual number of business places of various kinds which are found in a town of this size. There are, however, no industrial establishments.
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The town was originally named Beymerstown, and its founder changed its name when the town was incorporated. It is in the center of the county. On the present site of the Ark stood a tavern, which was kept first by Mr. Frazey, then by John Murphy, Mrs. McCreary and her son James, and afterwards by E. D. Withers. This property was then sold, the east lot to Joshua Martin and the west lot to John Lawrence. Martin demolished the old rickety buildings standing on the lot he bought, erecting in their stead a large brick building, now known as the "Ark." Mr. Lawrence used the old tavern building for various purposes for Some years, and sold the premises to the Old- School Presbyterians, and they erected a fine church thereon. Just west of the old tavern was the tan-yard of Jacob Saltsgaver. On a portion of this tan-yard now stands the mansion of D0ctor Rea, who settled in the place in 1852. Andrew McCleary, a carpenter, came early and lived in a two-story hewed log .house, which stood where James McDowell's shop later stood. He was sexton of the old Associate Reform church for many years. West of McCleary's was the old tavern Square, and on the east corner a blacksmith's shop, occupied by William Haines. Next to his shop was a great gate for wagons to drive through to the back of the yard. On the lot west of this stood the old tavern, the first part of which was erected by Henry Beymer, in early times. It was later kept by John A. Roe, and during his administrati0n an animal show tent was spread in the rear of the tavern. Afterwards the tavern was run by John and David Miskimmons, and then Frazey took it.
At the east end of the town is what is known as Robb's addition, on which lived David Robb. He moved to Zanesville, and his landed estate on the south side of the National road was then Sold to John Barton, and all on the north side to Alexander Frew and son-in-law, William Anderson, Mr. Withrow was a blacksmith who came to the place in 1842 and after about twenty years his wife and eldest daughter were instantly killed by lightning. William Englehart came here before 1812 and is still (1882) here, aged ninety years. He is the oldest person in the village, and is a Presbyterian in religion, a Democrat in politics and by trade a carpenter. At first, he was a clerk in the only dry goods store here, kept by Thomas Hanna. 'Squire Peter Omstot, the owner and occupant of the two lots west 0f Mr. Barton, was an honest Dutchman, who waS almost the first justice of the peace and postmaster here, and held both 0ffices for thirty years. He used to make wooden
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plows. His office was located about where the "Ark" was later built. 'Squire Omstot caused the expulsion of the famous "Leatherwood God" from this county. He closed his earthly career at his favorite amusement. The old gentleman had just finished singing "Auld Lang Syne," accompanied by R. J. Clark on the clarionet, in the store of the late John Craig, when he took off his spectacles, put them in his pocket, and, turning to go, fell dead on the floor.
FRANKFORT.
There was, however, an older village than all of these named and one that had the distinction of being the pioneer place of Guernsey. This was known as Frankfort. This plat was made in 1804, when this was still Guernsey county. It was located on lands later owned by J0hn Doyle. It had been the property of the McNutts and the Moores. The town was laid out by Joseph Smith, and grew until it had a population of about two hundred souls. It had two stores, a mill and a distillery. At that date there were but about thirty families in this county. When Washington, Cambridge and the National road were established, Frankfort began to decline and finally was abandoned. The last old tavern was torn down about 1867 and in the foundation stones were found several gold sovereigns of the time of Queen Anne.
VILLAGE OF DERWENT.
Derwent post-office, which was established about 1898, is a fourth-class office, and was first kept in the railroad depot. The only two having served as postmasters are first, M. L. Spaid and the present postmaster, J. L. Davis. An attempt was made in 1909 to rob this office, but the thieves failed to secure anything of value. Four mails go and come from Derwent daily now.
Derwent was platted on a part of section 4, township 8, range 9, by Eliza Dickerson, August 10, 1898.
The Imperial coal mine has been in operation since about 1892, but it is supposed that the coal supply at that particular place will hold out but about two years longer. The Puritan mine, farther down, has been running two years and, being comparatively new, will doubtless last many years yet.
There is but one church at Derwent, the Methodist Episcopal. The business of the village is carried on by the following persons: A planing mill by C. J. Spaid ; two general stores, Secrest & Turner and C. J. Spaid ; a grocery and lunch-room, by J. L. Davis; stock dealer, Justice Laughlin.
About the time of the Civil war there were large amounts of tobacco produced in this t0wnship. It was cured and many tons of it shipped to
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Baltimore and other cities, but of late years but little is raised. It was hard on the soil and waS not considered as profitable as in the sixties and seventies, hence was abandoned as a farm crop, save in few instances where it is still cultivated for smoking tobacco.
The township was also famous for its sheep at one date. As high as twenty-five thousand were kept in 1880, but now not more than fifteen hundred can be found in the township.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
VALLEY TOWNSHIP.
Valley township is on the southern line of the county and contains about twenty-one sections of land. It is of an L shape and is the territory where rise the first waters of Wills creek. The territory is traversed from northeast to southwest by the Cumberland branch of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. This township was organized by the board of county commissioners, March 25, 1815. Not being am0ng the original townships, it comprises territory formerly embraced within other subdivisions of Guernsey county. It is within a rich mineral country and today the chief wealth comes from the coal mining and kindred industries. There are numerous small towns and hamlets, all of which are mentioned in detail in this chapter. Some of the first settlements in the county were effected by the pioneers who came in from various eastern states at a very early day and endured the hardships coincident with early settlement life. Their sons and daughters are now old men and women and their grandchildren by no means in the days of their youth, and these are now reaping the reward for the toils and sacrifices made by earlier generations.
Among the first to come to the limits of this township may be named Peter D. Robins, son of John and Mary Robins, who were natives of the isle of Guernsey, France. The father came to this country in 1807, lived in Wheeling for a time, then moved to Coshocton, Ohio, where he engaged in salt making. He settled in Valley township in 1810.
William Spaid was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, and emigrated to this county in 1819, with his parents, George and Margaret (Cail) Spaid.
John Heaume, son of Peter Heaume, was of French descent ; his father was born in the beautiful isle of Guernsey in 1788 and came to Ohio in 1832, first settling in Muskingum and then Stark county, Ohio. In 1850 he removed to Guernsey county and died there in Valley township in 1865.
Stephen Secrest, son of Nathan Secrest, a native of Virginia, was among the number who helped to develop Valley township. His parents had ten children. The father waS born in 1807 and died in 1850.
Others whose names should not be left out of a record of pioneers were, |