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SAILOR, FREDERICK, deceased.--Among the early settlers in Pleasant township was the family of Frederick Sailor. Mr. Sailor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the fourth day of March 1801. On the twenty-eighth day of September, 1830, he married Miss Elizabeth Himes, who was born on the seventh of September, 1804, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. The family emigrated from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1844 to Ohio, and settled on a farm in Pleasant township, this county, near the line of College township. Mr. Sailor died on the thirteenth of May, 1859, m the fifty-eighth year of his age. Mrs. Elizabeth Sailor and her youngest daughter reside on the old homestead farm.

To Mr. and Mrs. Sailor five children were born namely: Henry William, John Bissant, Thomas Benton, Mary Himes, and Ann Eliza.

Henry William went to Iowa in 1853, and on the breaking out of the late Rebellion, joined an Iowa regiment, was taken sick, died, and was buried at Memphis, Tennessee.

John Bissant moved to Iowa in 1867, where he still resides. On the tenth day of April, 1854, he married Miss Mary Ann Walker, of College township. Four daughters are the issue of this marriage.

Thomas Benton went to Pennsylvania in 1861, where he enlisted in the Second Pennsylvania cavalry and served three years. On the twenty-seventh of January, 1862, he married Miss Martha Ann Burgoyne, of Philadelphia, resides in that place, and is the father of three children-two daughters and one son.

Mary Himes was, on the tenth day of August, 1859, married to Mr. Philip Lough, of Pleasant township, and in 1873 they moved to Nebraska. Mrs. Lough died in 1875. One son was the issue of this marriage.

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Ann Eliza, on the first of November, 1864, married Mr. Joshua Payne, who was born in Orange county, Vermont.

SANDERSON, WILLIAM, SR., lumber dealer, corner of High and Sandusky streets, Mt. Vernon. This venerable gentleman-one of Mt. Vernon's oldest citizens-was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1803, where he resided until he was twenty-seven years old (1830). At the age of sixteen, Mr. Sanderson commenced to leant the carriage- making trade, which he followed up to within a few years past. In 1825 he married Miss Hannah Wolf. Eight children were born unto them. With one exception, the children have all married and have children of their own.

Mr. Sanderson emigrated to Ohio in 1830, The journey was made in wagons, and some twenty-four days were spent on the road. There were no railroads at that date. Mr. Sanderson located at Mt. Vernon and established himself at wagon-making. he made the first wagon ever made in the city. Several of his early wagons are yet in existence, and one is in good repair that he made thirty years ago. He carried on business in this city for thirty-two years, during which he manufactured very extensively. During the last three years he built one hundred and seven carriages and one hundred and seven buggies each year, besides making many wagons and sleighs and repairing. He employed constantly from eighteen to twenty hands. Besides his manufacturing branch, his repair department brought in a revenue amounting from two thousand to three thousand dollars per annum. Ill health caused him to transfer his business to his son-in-law, and he moved on to a farm. Here he remained for ten years.

Mr. Sanderson, on returning to this city, engaged in the lumber business with Thomas McCreary, under the name of McCreary & Sanderson. This firm continued for two years, when Thomas McCreary sold his interest to R. B. Creary, and the firm was changed to Sanderson & McCreary. This last firm was successful in business for three years.

At this period Mr. Sanderson bought the interest of his partner, and has continued the business on his own account, and has constantly on hand a stock of the value of between five thousand and six thousand dollars. This large stock comprises pine lumber, building lumber, shingles, lath, flooring, siding, fence posts, etc. His business is large and increasing.

SANDERSON, DAVID, carriage manufacturer, East street, near the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus depot, Mt. Vernon. David Sanderson was born in Mt. Vernon July 7, 1841, and was educated in our city schools. His first business engagement was with his father where he worked at carriage trimming. He worked in his father's shop until he was twenty-three years old. After his father sold out he engaged with S. H. Jackson, with whom he worked four years. He next engaged with Hezekiah Graff, with whom he continued one year. In partnership with his brother he established himself in business in the old Rowley building, northeast corner of Main and Front streets. This firm continued for two years. His next effort was establishing himself in the old Crable shop, where he carried on business for three ,years. He erected the shops he now occupies, which are large and commodious. His building is two and one-half stories, forty by sixty and eighteen by twenty feet. His residence is on the north side of Water street on the same lot with his shop. Mr. Sanderson carries a stock of about two thousand dollars, and manufactures all kinds of carriages, buggies and spring wagons; also, does all kinds of repairing.

SANDERSON, W. H., livery, West Front street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Sanderson was born in Coshocton county, Ohio. His parents moved to Delaware county when he was a child, and still reside there. Mr. W. H. Sanderson's first business engagement was in learning carriage painting with Mr. William Sanderson, sr., Mt. Vernon, which he followed about two years. He enlisted in company C, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served nearly four years. After his honorable discharge from the service he went to Cleveland, Ohio, and engaged with John Anderson of that city as bookkeeper, with whom he continued ten years. He returned to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the livery business, in which he has continued up to this date. He has met with good success. He keeps a stock of from ten to eighteen horses, eight buggies, two sample wagons and coach and carriages. His stock is all first class. He does a business of from three thousand to five thousand dollars per annum.

SANDERSON, WILLIAM, JR., proprietor livery, feed, and sale stable, West Vine street, Mt. Vernon, was born in Cumberland county, Maryland, May 18, 1828, and when about two years old his parents emigrated to Ohio and located in Mt. Vernon in 1830, where they still reside.

Mr. Sanderson is the second of a family of eight children, all of whom are living, and have families. His first business engagement was in the carriage manufactory of his father, where he continued to work until he was about twenty-six years old (1854). He then engaged in the livery business, in which he has remained ever since. He carries a stock valued at about three thousand five hundred dollars, including nine horses and ten vehicles, consisting of buggies, carriages, and hacks, all of which are in good order and afford first class accommodations for the traveling public.

SANDERS, EUNICE (deceased), at time of her death said to be the oldest settler in Knox county, was born .August 12, 1783, in Morris county, New Jersey, and emigrated to this county in 1808, as the wife of Ephraim Lyon. She lived on the farm on which she died seventy-three years. The country was in the hands of the Indians when she came here, and she remembered very well when they used to take refuge in the old Lewis fort, situated where Luzerne now stands. She was the mother of eight children, two of whom went before her to the spirit land. Two daughters are married and are living in the west, while the other four children are living in this township. She remembered all the Presidents, Washington having been inaugurated when she was six years old. For many years she had been noted as being the oldest one living of the first settlers. She lived to see the country that was a wooded wilderness become a land of beautiful homes. For fifteen years she had been unable to walk a step. Her age was ninety-seven years. four months and twelve days.

SAPP, JONATHAN, Howard township, farther, post office, Howard, was born July 17, 1809, in Union township. he was married to Miss Mary Durbin, July 15, 1830. He lived on the old farm with his father thirty years. He then bought the old Bradfield farm just across the line in Howard township, where he still lives.

They had eleven children: Simon, Catharine, Susan, Frances, William, Francis, Edmond, Susanna, John, Timothy, and Sarah Ann. Catharine died at nineteen years of age; William, at thirty; Edmond, at twenty-two; Susanna, at three; Francis, at three; and Sarah Ann, at three.

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SAPP, ROBERT, Union township, carpenter, post office, Gann. He was .born September 10, 1813, in Alleghany county, Maryland, and came here in June, 1818. He settled in Howard township, and lived there until his twenty-second year.

In 1834 he was married to Rosanna Lose, and settled in Jefferson township, where he still remains. His business has been farming and carpentering. He had eight children: Joseph, who died at nine years of age; Margaret, born June 16, 1839; Drusilla, January 19, 1840; Adam, August 21, 1841; Emma, March 4, 1843; M. E., March 2, 1845; H. E., October 30, 1846; Henry, March 3, 1848; Frederick, June 5, 1850; R. D., January 8, 1857; all living and doing well.

SAPP, CALVIN, M. D., deceased, son of Joseph and Drusilla Sapp, was born near Danville, this county, on the twenty-first day of December, 1821. He was educated at Kenyon college. In 1842 be commenced the study of medicine in Danville with Dr. Houtz. He read one year there and then went to Loudonville, Ashland county, where he completed his course with Drs. Fuller and Whitney.

In the winter of 1846-7 he attended his first course of lectures in Cleveland. He then engaged in the practiee of medicine, and continued to practice twenty-three years, and in the winter of 1869-70 he graduated in the Cleveland Medical college. March 4, 1847. he married Miss Sarah B. Baker, born near Danville, this county, in June, 1824, and settled in Loudonville. In the spring of 1847 he became a partner of Dr. Fuller in the practice of medicine, and remained as such about four years, when their partnership ceased.

In the spring of 1851, leaving his wife at home, Dr. Sapp went to California, where he continued in his profession. He located first in Sacramento City, and remained about six months; from thence to Weaverville, where he remained nine months; then went to Portland, Oregon, where he remained about six months. In 1852 he returned to San Francisco and remained there about nine months. In 1853 he went aboard a merchant vessel, as physician and surgeon, bound for Philadelphia by way of China, East and West Indies, reaching Philadelphia in the fall of 1853; and from thence he returned home to his family.

In the spring of 1854 he commenced the practice of medicine in Danville, and continued until 1870, when he moved to Gambler, where he resided until his death. He left a family of five children-Clinton E., Laura C., Dora, Victoria and Luetta. His son, Clinton E., was educated at Gambier, read medicine with his fattier, attended his first term of lectures at Cleveland, and graduated at Cincinnati in the Ohio Medical college in the winter of 1874-5, and is a partner of his father's in the practice of medicine at Gambier.

Dr. Sapp died on Sunday, February 27, 1881. His life was closely devoted to his profession, in which he became eminently successful.

SAPP, JAMES, with the firm of M. C. Sapp, boot and shoe dealer, Rogers' Arcade block, east side south Main street, Mt. Vernon. Mr. James Sapp was born in Knox county, October 2, 1832. He remained on a farm until leis seventeenth year, when he went as an apprentice to the boot and shoe trade, and served three years, and then worked as a journeyman for six months. He then entered the employ of Messrs. Miller & White, at Mt. Vernon, and continued with them for four years. He then went to Cleveland and engaged with the firm of Webster, Spencer & Miller, and remained one year: On his return to Mt. Vernon he entered the boot and shoe store of Nathaniel McGiffin as salesman, with whom he remained two years. In 1860 he purchased the stock of Mr. McGiffin, and continued the business for five years, and then sold out to Mr. W. J. Morion, and went to New York city and engaged with the wholesale house of Howes, Hyatt & Co., with whom he remained one year. He then returned to Mt. Vernon and repurchased the stock he had previously sold to Mr. Morton.

In 1866 he sold his stock in trade to Mr. W. T Patton, and remained in his employ as salesman for ten months. His next engagement was with the firm of Miller & Houston, Columbus, Ohio, as traveling salesman. For one year he remained with the above mentioned fine. He commenced business in his present location in the fall of 1878, and has retained it ever since. He carries a stock of about one thousand five hundred dollars, comprising boots, shoes, and rubbers; also does manufacturing and repairing in all its branches.

SAPP, WILLIAM G., Union township, farmer, post office, Gann, born in Gann, March 3, 1840. In 1861 he enlisted in the Fifty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, company I., and served his full time and returned with the honors of a brave soldier, September 3. 1865. He was married to Margaret Gann, and settled in Union township, where he has since remained. His business is chiefly agricultural. His children are: George, born May 30, 1868; John, November 23, 1870, Sarah Catharine, August 2, 1875; and Samuel, November 20, 1876. Oscar died October 3, 1878, and Samuel, November 22, 1876. The living children are all at home and attending school. William Sapp was wounded in the hip at the battle of Stone River Tennessee. He was in about thirteen battles, but sustained no other injuries, except a deficiency in his eyesight, which has never been removed.

SARGENT, WILLIAM I., Fredericktown, painter, was born in Fredericktown in 1854. He was married in 1876, to Jennie Randall, who was born in Licking county in 1857. They have one daughter, Martha L., born in 1878. Mr. Sargent is a painter by trade and is a skillful mechanic.

SAWER JAMES S., Gambier, retired, a native of England, was born in Suffolk, on the twelfth day of October, 1804. The early part of his life was spent on a farm, in taking care of sheep and cattle. In 1833 he emigrated to America and located in Delaware, Ohio, where he remained one year and a half, then came to Gambier, this county. In 1835 he returned to his native county in England, where, on the eleventh of February, 1836, he-was united in marriage with Miss Sophia Adams, of same county, born June 12, 1806, daughter of George and Elizabeth Adams. On the eighteenth day of February, 1836, they sailed from St. Catharine docks for America, and he returned with his companion to Gambier. They have since made that their place of residence. They reared a family of four daughters, viz,: Margaret E., Emma A., Sophia T., and Sarah. In 1836 he engaged in keeping a place of refreshments for the college, which he continued until 1874, when he retired from business, and is now living a retired Life.

SCHNEBLY, JOHN A., deceased, Pleasant township, was born in Washington county, Maryland, June 26, 1815. He was a son of John and Susan Schnebly; his father died in 1819. In 1829 he came with leis mother to this county and located in Pleasant township. On the twenty-sixth day of October, 1841, he was united in marriage with Miss Rhoda A. Veatch, daughter

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of Peter and Thankful Veatch, who was born in Knox county, Ohio, on the eighteenth day of July, 1820. They settled on the farm in Pleasant township, this county, now owned and occupied by his widow and family, where he passed the remainder of his days. He died March 6, 1872. He was the father of ten children, four sons and six daughters; all were living at the time of their father's death, but two of the number, one son and one daughter, have since deceased.

SCHRIMPLIN, SAMUEL, is a native of Butler township, born on the twenty-fourth day of April, 1815. He was married to Miss Lena Ream in December, 1837, who was born in Pennsylvania, June 30, 1817. They have had eleven children, viz: Elizabeth, John Van Buren, Richard M. Johnson, William Allen, Bruce, Matilda, Anna Belle, George, Lydia, Abraham, and Sarah Catharine.

John Van Buren and William Allen enlisted in 1861 in company K, Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry. John Van Buren was killed at the battle of Corinth, October 4, 1862, and William Allen was wounded at New Madrid, Missouri, was brought home and died May 20, 1864. Bruce enlisted in the Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, in 1861, and died March 23, 1862, at Nashville, Tennessee, of typhoid pneumonia.

SCHROEDER, WILLIAM L., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Wayne township, August 31, 1846, and was married March 30, 1868, to Louisa Alverson, who was born in Middlebury township, May 3, 1844. They have the following children: Corie L., born January 11, 1870; Charlie W., August 9, 1873; Glenn T., March 15, 1877; George, January 22, 1879, died March 11, 1879.

SCHWEIKERT, PHILIP F., was born in Baden, Germany, June 26, 1836, and at the age of seventeen came to New York with his father, where he was apprenticed to George F. Bart, a barber, with whom he remained two years. Upon attaining his majority he went to Quincy, Illinois, where he worked at his trade two years. His next move was to Kansas City, Missouri, where he embarked in an expedition to Pike's Peak. After working awhile in the mines he established the first barber-shop in Aurora-now Denver City-in 1859. From there he went to New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico; thence to Corpus Christi and New Orleans. At the latter place he was, in 1861, induced to serve in the Magnolia Guards, under General Tracy, of the confederate army; and after the occupation of New Orleans by the Federal troops he enlisted in company B, Thirteenth regiment, Connecticut volunteers, under General Butler. He was taken prisoner at Fisher's Hill, October 7, 1864 and sent to Libby prison, where he remained until February, 1865, when he was paroled, and discharged May 25, 1865.

Going to New York, he married Miss Susanna Stephens, by whom he had five children, four of whom died in infancy. Freddie K., the surviving child, was born January 25, 1869.

In 1875 Mr. Schweikert came to Columbus, Ohio, and in 1876 moved to Mt. Vernon, where he has remained until the present time, working at his trade.

SCHOLES, JOHN, Brown township, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, July 27, 1815. His parents removed from Belmont county to Holmes county in 1823; from thence to Ashland county, two miles south of Loudonville, in 1832. He spent the greater part of his life in that county, living with his parents until his father died, after which he proceeded to buy out the interests of the other heirs in the homestead. His mother lived with him until death called her away.

His occupation during his life was farming, although he taught several terms of school during his younger days. He was married in April, 1847, to Lucy L. Shearer, of Ashland county, and a near neighbor of his. This marriage resulted in eight births, viz: Sarah J., Allen, Mary, Charles, `William, James N., Francis H., and Thomas, all of whom are living except William and James N., who died in their youth of scarlet fever. Those living are all married except Thomas.

In the spring of 1865 he removed from Ashland county to Brown township, Knox county, two miles south of Jelloway, the present home of his family. He was a great lover of traveling, having traversed most of the Western States during his life. He joined the German Baptist church in March, 1879, and was an exemplary member. During the last year of his life he was an invalid, being confined to his house most of the time by that fell disease, consumption. Although he suffered a great deal, he bore it with that patience and fortitude which becomes a Christian. Being loved and respected by all his relatives and neighbors, his death left an aching Void which will be felt for years to come. He died May 31, 1880, aged sixty-four years, ten months and four days.

SCHOLES, CHARLES, Brown township, was born January 20, 1855, two miles south of Loudonville, in Ashland county, Ohio. His parents were John and Lucy M. Scholes. He was reared by his parents and removed with them to Brown township, Knox county, two miles south of Jelloway, in April, 1865. Farming is his principal occupation, although he has taught several terms of school. He went to the Centennial exhibition in 1876, and crossed over into New Jersey. He has made two trips to the far west, the last one to Kansas during the summer of 1879, where he spent five months visiting different parts of that State. Then, in company with two other young gentlemen, he made a tour from the central part of Kansas of about six hundred miles, in a wagon, passing through the northeast part of Kansas, through Missouri, and up into the northeast part of Iowa. From there he started home, visiting friends and relatives along the road, arriving home after an absence of seven months.

He was married June 24, 1880, to Miss Laura Richert, a neighbor's daughter, and at present is residing with his mother, on the home farm in Brown township.

SCHOLES, ALLEN, Brown township, was born July 9, 1850, in Ashland county, Ohio. His parents' names were John and Lucy L. Scholes. He was reared by his. parents with whom he lived until he was twenty-five years of age. He removed with his parents from Ashland county to Brown township, Knox county, two miles south of Jelloway, April 4, 1865. Farming is his chief occupation, but he teaches part of the year. In the spring of 1874, he and his father bought one hundred acres of land adjoining the homestead, Allen taking one-half of it.

He was married, at the age of twenty-five yen years, to Mary C. Nyhart, of Jefferson township, Knox county, and immediately moved on his farm, where he still resides. This marriage resulted in three births, viz: Lola M., Charles F., and John E.

He has been clerk of Brown township, for the last five years. In the fall of 1879 he was elected land appraiser of the township without any opposition; he was also census enumerator for Brown township for 1880.

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SCOLES, GEORGE W., Gambier, a native of Knox county, Ohio, and son of Henry and Jemima Scoles, was born in Clay township, near Martinsburgh, April 15, 1826. His father, a native of Ohio, was born February 17, 1799, and came to this county in an early day, where he died about the year 1828. His mother, Jemima Scoles, was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, born January 24, 1799, and emigrated to this county about 1820, where she married Henry Stoles and reared four children, viz: George W., Keziah A., Jackson, and Amanda, and died March 6, 1875, aged seventy-six years.

Mr. G. W. Scoles married Miss Martha A. Thompson March 12, 1848, daughter of Joseph and Nancy Thompson, who was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in April, 1827. They settled in Harrison township, this county, and remained until 1852, when they moved on a farm in College township, where he engaged in farming and followed that as his vocation until in 1879, when he moved to Gambier and engaged in hotel keeping, which is their present business.

SCOLES, GEORGE H., Pike township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in this township in 1840, and was married in 1866 to Rebecca J. Leonard, who was born in this township in 1843. They have two children- Ida Belle, born in 1869, and Alva L., born in 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Scoles are prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has held and filled prominent positions in the church, also township offices. He owns a farm and is one of the active farmers of Pike township.

SCOLES, JAMES, L., Fredericktown, photographer, was born in this county in 1843, and was married April 18, 1872, to Ella J. Hunter, who was born in this county in 1848. They have two sons-L. Guy, born November 7, 1875; Carl Brook, May 19,1878. Mr. Scoles learned photographing in Mt. Vernon, and engaged in that busines in New London, Ohio. In 1873 his property was all destroyed by fire, after which he came to Fredericktown and engaged in the same business. His well arranged and furnished rooms are located over W. B. Cox's shoe store. He is a first class artist, and is building up a paying business.

SCOLES, JOHN T., blacksmith, post office, Mt. Vernon.He was born in Pike township in 1844. In 1868 he was married to Nancy Gower who was born in this county in 1847. They have three children-Amy L., born June 15, 1869; Rebecca A., April 13, 1874; and Etta Edith August 10, 1877, and died August 15, 1879. Mr. Scoles has been engaged working at the blacksmith trade. He is a good mechanic and is doing an extensive custom trade.

SCOTT, REV. JAMES, Mt. Vernon, the pioneer Presbyterian minister of this county and section of the State, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-second day of February, 1773. His father, Josiah Scott, and family came to western Pennsylvania in 1781, and settled on lands which are now the eastern suburbs of the town of Washington, the present site of the "United College of Washington and Jefferson." In early youth he united with the Presbyterian church under the ministry of Rev. Dr. McMillen. Some time after this, his convictions of duty led to the preparation for the Gospel ministry. After completing his preparatory studies, he entered Jefferson college, and graduated in 1805. Having completed his theological studies under the direction of Dr. McMillen, he came to this section of Ohio in. the year 1807.

For the first two or three years he was associated with the Rev. Dr. McCurdy in the superintendency of an Indian school and mission at Upper Sandusky, spending, however, a majority of his time in travelling from that place to Newark, and preaching to settlements on the route.

On the third day of July, 1810, he was united in marriage by the Rev. George Van Eman, to Miss Jane Wilson, daughter of Captain Archibald Wilson, of Newark, Ohio. Soon after his marriage, he removed to the then village of Clinton in Morris township. In 1828 he removed to Mt. Vernon, and in 1829, to the house on Wooster avenue, still occupied by a portion of his family.

For several years previous to the year 1828, he had the charge as pastor of the churches at Fredericktown, Clinton (now Mt. Vernon), and Martinsburgh. From that time until about 1842 or 1843, he gave his whole time to the church at Mt. Vernon, when he resigned the charge, still however, continuing to preach at different places, until some ten days previous to his death, which occurred on the eighteenth day of September, A. D. 1850.

Mr. Scott, as a man, was remarkable for his evenness of disposition. His most intimate acquaintance never saw him give way to anger or passion.

Rev. Mr. Hervey, of Martinsburgh, long his associate and intimate friend, thus portrays him as a public teacher: "As a preacher of the Gospel he was remarkably earnest and sincere. He caused his hearers to feel, because he felt. With him a text was not merely a motto for a sermon (as is the tendency of certain tastes), but it was the brick and mortar of the superstructure, and its adornment also, and while he understood and presented the doctrines of the bible, and peculiarities of that scheme of theology which he held forth as the ground of the sinner's hope, he had acquired the rare excellency (not often attained), of preaching doctrinal truth in a practical and experimental manner. In his private duties, and in the graces of his own soul, he leaves a high example. The consistency of his daily life, in connection with his unfeigned piety, produced such an impression, not only upon the church but upon the men of the world, that the remark was frequently made that if he failed to reach Heaven it would be useless for others to try. His knowledge of the bible was so complete, consequent upon a faithful perusal of its sacred pages, and his wonderfully retentive memory, that he could give invariably the chapter and almost always the verse of any important text it contains."

One distinguished trait of his, it would be welt for ministers in these days to imitate. He made it a point always to be in the pulpit when his congregation had a right to expect him. Possessed of a good, natural constitution, he was known to fail but once to fulfill his Sabbath engagements by sickness during the whole course of his ministerial life.

His remains now rest by the side of his wife, who died in August, 1862, having survived him nearly twelve years. They repose in the cemetery overlooking from the north the city of Mt. Vernon, and the church he so long and faithfully served in the cause of his Master.

Unto James Scott and his wife Jane, seven children were born, viz: Josiah Wilson, who died when about three years of age; Abraham C., now an eminent physician, and residing at Bladensburgh; Ann V., Margaret J., Mary; James Foster, who went as a soldier in the Mexican war, and died in that country in 1847, and Felicia, who married William Tulloss. Mr. Tulloss died in 1806.

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SCOTT, A. C.-Among the old citizens of Jackson township, is Dr. A. C. Scott, who is a native of the county and was born near the village of Clinton, in Morris township, March 13, 1817. His father was the Rev. James Scott, the first Presbyterian minister of the county. He attended the school in his boyhood at Clinton and Mt. Vernon, and was a pupil at the first session of the old Martinsburgh academy, after which he spent one year at Washington college, Pennsylvania. On his return from thence he studied medicine in Mt. Vernon with Dr. J. N. Burr as his preceptor. He commenced the practice of his profession at Centreburgh, in Hilliar township, in April, 1840; was married to Miss Hannah Denny, of Jackson township, on the twenty-fourth day of June of the same year. He has four sons, the oldest of them, Dr. J. Foster Scott, resides at Sarcoxie, jasper county, Missouri; William B. and A. C. Scott, jr., are farmers and reside in the vicinity of Bladensburgh, and Dr. John W. Scott, who is associated in the practice of medicine with his father. His two daughters are Violette and Lizzie. Dr. Scott became a citizen of Bladensburgh in October, 1841.

SCOTT, BALDWIN BANE, Mt. Vernon, a rising physician, was born in Knox county, Ohio, November 10, 1846. His father, Thomas E., is of direct Scotch descent. He came from Culpeper county, Virginia. His mother is of English origin. Her parents came from Brainbridge, Connecticut.

The subject of this notice learned the trade of millwright with his father, and in the winter season taught school. He commenced to read medicine in the spring of 1872 with Drs. J. W. and Isaac W. Russell. He attended his first course of lectures at the Michigan university in 1874-5, and the winter of 1875-6, at the Medical Department of the Wooster university at Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated in the spring of 1876, and the same summer commenced the practice, in which he has been successful. He graduated perfect in his class-one hundred. He was married to Miss Lunetta E. Kost, March 14, 1869, by whom he has had two sons - Walter K., born April 19, 1870, and Edwin J., born May 10, 1872 one of whom is living. He is secretary of the Knox County Medical society. He was elected one of the board of censors of the Medical Department of the University of Wooster, located at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1876, and again in 1881.

SCOTT, JAMES, Milford township, farmer, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1818. His father was a native of Maryland, and his mother of Pennsylvania. Her maiden name was Jane Fitch. They were married in Greene county, Pennsylvania. He came to Ohio in 1837, bringing with him three children, leaving James in Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1841.

They bought land in Bloomfield township, Knox county (now Morrow county), where Mr. Scott died. His wife survives him at an advanced age. Two of the children are yet living James and George.

The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm. When about eighteen years old he learned the cooper trade, and worked more or less at that business for fifteen years.

In 1847 he purchased a tract of fifty-one acres of land and a twenty-one acre tract, which was entirely covered with forest. He cleared up this land, and has resided in Milford township for the last thirty-three years, being engaged in farming.

He was elected infirmary director, serving three years to the satisfaction of the public. He was president of the Hartford Agricultural society, and now is one of the directors. He has held most of the township offices, is a prudent, careful business man and farmer, and has the esteem of the public.

He was married to Miss Sarah Horn in 1838, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, by whom he had five children, viz: Sarah Jane (married to John Williams), Priscilla (married to Thomas P. Fadely), Corbin T., James L., and Chinsworth, a promising boy of nineteen who was killed by a collision on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Independence, Richland county, in 1872. His wife died May, 1879.

SCOTT, JOSEPH, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in England, in 1833, came to Richland county, in 1849, and to this county in 1855. He was married in 1856, to Louisa Ball, who was born in this county, in 1829. They have been residents of Wayne township since 1873. Mr. Scott was formerly engaged in working on the railroad, and filled different prominent positions for twenty-two years. He settled on a farm in Wayne township, and is one of the leading farmers of this county.

SEARL, OTIS, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in New York, in 1818, came to Ohio in 1847, and was married in 1849, to Amelia Livingston, who was born in New York.

He owns a well improved farm with excellent buildings and is one among the best farmers in the township. He is enterprising and always ready to assist in every good cause and work.

SEILER, SIMON, Fredericktown, butcher, born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, in 1845, came to Ohio with his parents in childhood, they locating in Plymouth, Richland county, Ohio. He was married in 1867, to Edessa Cuykendall, who was born in Ohio, in 1848.

Mr. Seiler in company with Dorr Cuykendall owned the Fredericktown mill, and they were engaged in operating it until 1874, when it was burned. They erected a new mill in 1875, sold out to S. S. Tuttle & Co.; then engaged in butchering in 1879. He is a member of the firm of B. F. Seiler & Co.

SEILER, B. F., meat market. He was born in Plymouth, Huron county, in 1848; he was married in Richland county in 1871 to Delphine Brumback, who was born in Huron county. They have two children. Mildreth J. was born in 1873, and Carl in 1880.

Mr. Seiler learned the harness trade and worked at that business for five years, after which he engaged in the painting trade for nine years, then engaged in the butchering business in Fredericktown, where he is a member of the firm of B. F. Seiler & Co. They are doing quite an extensive trade.

SELBY, JOHN, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Richland county, Ohio, December 11, 1817. His father, James, was born in Maryland, and served in the War of 1812. Soon after the war he came to Richland county settling in Perry township. He was married to Miss Elsie Dally, by whom he had eight children; six are living, the subject of this being the oldest child. He came to Hilliar township about 1840, and worked for his uncle, John Dally, on a farm. His first purchase was a tract of land of ninety acres where he now resides. He has since purchased a number of other tracts, and is one of the substantial farmers in Hilliar township. He started in life without the aid of a dollar, but by his industry and perseverance he has attained a competency. He is a good farmer, a good

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citizen, and has the esteem of the commuuity. He was married to Miss Rebecca Debolt, by whom he had eight children, one daughter and seven sons, all doing well.

SELBY, SOLOMON, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Levering; born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1815; came to Knox county in the spring of 1820, and was married in 1844 to Margaret Yates, who was born in Virginia in 1816.

His father, Caleb Selby, was born in Maryland in the year 1783. He was one of the pioneers of this county, and died in Morrow county about 1858. His wife, Nancy Selby, died in Morrow county in 1853.

SELLERS, JOHN, farmer, Morgan township, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in June, 1795. His parents belonged to the farmer class, being industrious and well-to-do people.

The subject of this sketch was one of ten children, only two of whom are now living. He spent his youth on the farm with his parents, attending such schools as were taught in the county in those days. His father purchased a tract of two hundred and fifty acres of land in Morgan township, and in the fall of 1823 Mr. Sellers came to this land and erected a cabin and then returned to Pennsylvania, where he remained until the spring of 1824, when he emigrated to his new home with his family. He worked during the summer of 1824 in subduing the forest the whole tract being heavily timbered.

In the spring of 1825, the noted "Burlington storm" swept over M. Sellers' new home, levelling most of the timber. This was discouraging to him as he was bitterly hemmed in by an almost impenetrable jungle of fallen timber. But what he supposed was a misfortune proved a blessing-from the fact that the fallen timber dried so, that the following year fire did the work of the axeman and the log-roller.

Mr. Sellers, by his industry, prospered, and soon had a good farm, and in the course of time was enabled to purchase more land; until he is now the largest land owner in the township, and among the largest in the county. His success and integrity of character soon made him a leader, and he has always taken an active interest in the affairs of the township and county.

In politics Mr. Sellers is a Democrat of the Jackson type. In 1850 his party nominated and elected him a member of the Constitutional convention of Ohio.

Mr. Sellers is of benevolent impulses, and through his many acts of charity is known as " the poor man's friend." He never sends any one away without supplying their wants. In religion he is a Universalist.

He was three times married. His first wife was Nancy Mitchell, a native of Greene county, Pennsylvania, to whom he was married before coming to Ohio. They had twelve children, five of whom are living: Elizabeth, wife of William Hamilton; Levi, an influential farmer of Morgan township; George M., in Illinois; Mary A., wife of James Elliott, who resides in Texas; and Maria. His second wife was Miss Honey, who died without issue. His present wife was Mrs. Charlotte Rapp, nee Taylor. They have four children, viz: James B., Rufus P., C. L. Vallandigham, and Mitchell.

SELLERS, JACOB, farmer, Morgan township, was born in Morgan township, March 2, 1816. His father, Jacob Sellers, came to Morgan township in 1808 and purchased quite a large tract of land. He was a native of Greene county, Pennsylvania. His wife was Mary Beam, a native of Virginia. They had a family of eleven children, viz: William, Susan (wife of James Honey), Sarah (wife of John Clutter), Isaac, David, John, Jackson, and Mary (wife of. Joseph Bolwine). The above are deceased. The living are Christian, Jacob, and George.

Jacob Sellers, sr., was born in 1785, came to Knox county in 1808, and died in 1846. His wife was born December 18, 1790, and died August 6, 1878. When this couple came to Morgan township they lived in what is called a camp, and while living there built a small cabin on the site of the buildings now owned by John Penick. The farm was en-trely covered with forest, which he cleared off and became one of the good farmers of that Section.

The subject of this sketchwas reared on the old homestead and has always resided on a part of it. He married Miss Cynthia Carmon, and they have a family of four children, viz: Ida M. born May 1, 1859; Delphos S., April 22, 1861; James M., June 12, 1863 (died Scptember 20, 1863); and Jesse H., June 7, 1870.

SELLERS, LEVI, Morgan township, farmer, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1823. He is the son of John Sellers, of Morgan township, of whom mention is made. His father shortly after the birth of Levi came to Morgan township, and settled here. Mr. Sellers spent his youth on the farm, and when old enough assisted in clearing it up. His education was such as the common schools afforded. He remained with his father until he was about twenty-five years of age. In October, 1848, he married Miss Cassandra McLain, daughter of 'Squire Charles S. McLain, of Morgan township. Shortly after his marriage he moved to his present home, where they have resided ever since. Mr. Sellers is one of the well-to-do and influential farmers of old Morgan, and is highly esteemed. He is the father of seven children, viz: Charles W., William H., Ella F., wife of H. B. Hughes, of Clay township; George W., Lizzie M., Jennie M., and Anna L.

SELLERS, GEORGE, Morgan township, farmer, born in Morgan township, May 8, 1824. He is the son of Jacob Sellers, sr., of whom mention is made in the biography of Jacob Sellers, jr. The subject of this notice was reared on a farm, and has always followed farming as his occupation. He resides on a part of the original tract his father purchased when first settling in Ohio.

On March 11, 1847, he married Miss Adaline Hughes (daughter of Jonathan Hughes, a pioneer of Licking county), who was born December 7, 1829. They had a family of eight children, viz: One who died in infancy; Orcelia L., wife of John Oldaker; Zilpah C., wife of Aaron Channel; George H., Jacob O., Rosa D., Mary F., wife of Lewis Hall, and Cora Ettie. Mr. Sellers is a good farmer and citizen.

SELLERS, WILLIAM H., Morgan township, farmer, born October 5, 1850. He is the son of Levi and Cassandra Sellers, of whom mention is made. He was reared on his father's farm, educated at the common schools, and Dennison university, Granville, Ohio. He is a rising young farmer, intelligent and industrious.

He was married August 8, 1878, to Miss Elizabeth J. Campbell, daughter of James Campbell, of Morgan township. They have one child, Gertrude, born March 22, 1880.

SELLERS, JAMES B., Morgan township, farmer, born in Morgan township, March 26, 1858, son of John Sellers, of same township, and of whom mention is made elsewhere, was reared on a farm, and has continued farming ever since. He attended common schools and about a year at an academy.

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He was married to Miss Grizzilda Beney, daughter of William Beney, of Clay township, on December 6, 1877. They have one child, John William.

SELLS, EMANUEL, Union township, farmer, post office, Millwood, born in 1824, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, came to Ohio when ten years old, remained for a time in Ashland, and then moved to Knox county in 1848. In 1861 he enlisted in the Forty-third regiment, company K, Ohio volunteer infantry. He was through a large number of the southern States, and was in several battles and skirmishes. He served his time and received honorable discharge. He then settled on his farm, where he still remains.

In 1867 he was married to Miss Marion Persons. Their children are William, General Logan, Matthew, Charles, and Elmer.

SEMPLE, WILLIAM FINLEY, surgeon dentist, Mt. Vernon, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1834. He is the first child of Alexander W. and Mary F. Semple, nee Finley, who, at the time of her marriage resided at Steubenville, Ohio. The parents removed to Steubenville, where the subject of this sketch spent his youth. His father being a dentist, he commenced the profession at an early age. In 1856 became to Fredericktown, this county, and opened rooms, where he practiced leis profession until 1868, and then located in Mt. Vernon, where he has ever since practiced his profession with eminent success. In December, 1870, he was examined by the State board, who were appointed under the laws of Ohio. He was not compelled to be examined, but submitted to an examination, as he was desirous of having their certificate; he has a large and lucrative practice; he is regarded as a proficient and expert dentist. He was married to Miss Abbie Young, of Fredericktown, September, 1869. Unto them were born three children, two of whom are living.

SEVERNS, JAMES, retired farmer, Brown township, a son of Joseph and Mary Severns, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, on the tenth day of February, 1805. His mother deceased when he was a boy of about nine summers. In 1817 he was brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his father and stepmother (his father having married-again), who located near Millwood, remained one year, then moved back to Coshocton county and located near New Castle, where they lived about two years. In 1820 he purchased four hundred acres of Military Lind from Columbus Delano, in Brown township, this county, on which he made improvements and moved his family the same year, where he remained and followed farming as his vocation until his death, at the good old age of about eighty-eight years.

At the time of his settlement in Brown township there was but one cabin between his residence and Danville; neighbors were few and far apart. Their nearest grist-mill was one known as the Shrimplin mill, near Millwood. The red man was his friend and often called to see him; wild animals were abundant; the forests were full of game of all kinds; he was known as a great hunter and a good marksman. he was married twice, and was the father of twenty-two children, all of whom are now deceased, except James, by his first marriage, who is now living on a part of the old home farm, and two sons and one daughter by his second wife.

James Severns, the subject of this sketch, was reared a farmer and has made farming his vocation through life, and has lived on the same farm since 1820, which is situated two miles west of Jelloway, Brown township. He has been married three times, first to Miss Elizabeth Pierce, of Richland county, January 1, 1832, who bore him one child. Lyman W. She died in August, 1832, and he married Mrs. Armelia Frazier, nee Hughes, of Holmes county, Ohio, in May, 1838, who lived with him eighteen years, and deceased in 1856. He married Jane Sells, of Knox county in 1857, by whom he has had six children, four of whom are now living, viz: Joseph B., Mary E., John B., and James.

SEVERNS, ISAAC D., Pleasant township, farmer, son of Samuel Severns, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, December 23, 1824. Farming is his vocation. On the eighth of October, 1847, he married Miss Elizabeth Mills, born April 10, 1826. daughter of Joseph Mills. They settled on a farm in Coshocton county, where they remained until 1876, when he purchased the farm in Pleasant township, Knox county, Ohio, where they are now living. They have a family of four children, two sons and two daughters.

SEYMOUR, JESSE (deceased), Pleasant township, son of James and Susan Seymour, was born in Virginia, September 8, 1809, and brought tip in Greene county, Pennsylvania. In 1838 he in company with his pareuts and other members of the family, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Clinton township, where they remained a few years, then moved on a farm in Morgan township, where they remained until about 1850, when he purchased, and moved his fathers family, on a farm in Pleasant township, now owned by his heirs, and where his parents passed the remainder of their days. His mother died in 1862, aged seventy-six years. His father died in 1868, aged ninety-one years.

He was a Baptist minister, and preached at the Owl Creek church for many years, also in Mt. Vernon and other places. In 1858 he had the misfortune to lose his sight, and though blind, continued to preach occasionally. He followed farming as his chief vocation.

In 1858 he married Mrs. Rachel Worley, born in Harrison county, Ohio, November 25, 1822; daughter of Jarret and Mary Parrish. They settled on the farm in Pleasant township now owned and occupied by his widow and family, consisting of one daughter and two sons.

He died July 12, 1879. He was a member of the Baptist church many years.

SHAFFER, PETER, Hilliar township, proprietor of Shaffer house, Centreburgh, Ohio, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania in 1826. George Shaffer, his father, was a soldier in the War of 1812, and came to Ohio with his family in 1848 and settled in Berlin township, where the subject of this sketch spent his youth. Mr. Shaffer kept hotel in Mount Liberty and in connection run a farm. At Mt. Vernon he also kept a hotel. He returned again to Mt. Liberty after being in Mt. Vernon, and in connection with farming kept hotel. From Mt. Liberty he came to Centreburgh and opened his present hotel; in connection with the hotel he has a livery stable. From his long experience in the business of catering to the public he has acquired the art of making his guests feel at home. He is doing a good business and is always pleased to see his friends. Mr. Shaffer is pleasant and sociable in his manners, and merits the patronage of the public. He was married to Miss Ellen Thacher, of Liberty township, in 1854, and by this union they had a family of six children, all of whom are living.

SHAFFER, GEORGE M., agent of Cleveland, Columbus &

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Mt. Vernon railroad, Mount Liberty, was born June 6, 1854; he was the son of Peter and Ellen Shaffer, nee Thatcher. His youth was spent with his parents, and when he was old enough he was put to work; his educational advantages were limited, but he acquired sufficient to transact business. He was appointed agent at Mt. Liberty on the completion of the road, and has held it ever since. He makes an efficient and competent agent and is affable in his manners. In connection with his other business he buys grain. He was married to Miss Ella Lyal, daughter of John Lyal of Hilliar township, February 22, 1877. They have one child, Earl L., born June 19,1878.

SHALER, DAVID, Middlebury township, millwright, post office, Levering; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, July 14, 1812, and was married June 12, 1841, to Martha Dwyer. They have the following family: John D., born March 1, 1842; Catharine, August 27, 1843; E. Shauck, February 20, 1845; Martha, June 1, 1847; Mary E., December 22, 1848; Charles, May 31, 1852; Olive, March 18, 1854. Mrs. Shaler died February 22, 1858. Olive Shaler died February 15, 1857. Mr. Shaler was married September, 1859, to Helen Burk, who was born in Martinsburgh, Knox county, July 21, 1861. They have the following children: Charlotte, born July 21, 1861; Frank L., June 8,.1863; Leah D., January 28, 1865; Bertie, February 12, 1870; David, December 16, 1873; William, October 27, 1874.

SHANNON, JOHN, Morris township, farmer, post office, . Mt. Vernon, was born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1830; was married in 1855 to Margaret Davis, who was born in Licking county in 1833. They had the following children: Emma Jane, born in 1860; Alonzo, born in 1862; William, in 1856; Byron, in 1864; Maggie, in 1866. William died in 1861.

John Shannon is a farmer by occupation, and is one of the active men in his township.

Mrs. John Shannon died in Morris township, June 10, 1880.

SHARP, DAVID, deceased, Morris township, was born in New Jersey in 1808, and married in 1832 to Mary Rinehart. They had twelve children: William, born in 1833; Christian, in 1835; Margaret May in 1837; Morris, in 1839; Caroline, in 1841; Anora, in 1844; Samuel, in 1846; Mary, in 1847; Rebecca Jane in 1849; David, in 1853; George and Thomas in 1855. Mrs. Mary Sharp died in 1859. Mr. Sharp subsequently married Margaret Studer, by whom he had four children: Catharine, born in 1860; Fanny Ellen, in 1865; Philip, in 1868; Daniel, in 1870.

Mr. David Sharp died in 1876, at his residence in Morris township. David Sharp, jr., died in 1853. George died in 1858. Morris and William were soldiers in the late war.

SHARP, W. L., Morris township, gardener, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in Morris county, New Jersey, in 1822, and was married in 1852 to Matilda A. Carr, who was born in the same county in 1834. They had eight children: Mary A., born in 1853; Pealey A., in 1855; Anna E., in 1856; Peter C., in 1858; Cyrena A., in 1860; Edward P., in 1862; Margaret J., in 1864; and Pearlie M., in 1869.

The following members of the Sharp family are married: Mary A., to Dennis Jackson, September, 1871, and resides in this township; Anna E., to John S. Cowden, March, 1879, and is a resident of Clinton township.

Mr. Sharp moved to Bureau county, Illinois, in 1854, and remained there seven years. While residing there Pealey A. Sharp died, March 31, 1855. Mr. Sharp moved back to Delaware county, Ohio, and resided there a short time; then came to Morris township, this county, and resides here. He owns a pleasant home, is engaged in raising vegetables, fruits, etc. He is an industrious and worthy citizen.

SHARPNACK, E., Mt. Vernon, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1836, and left there with his parents in the same year and came to Liberty township, Knox county, Ohio, and bas been a citizen of Knox county ever since. He commenced in the grocery business in 1877, March 20, in which he has been engaged ever since. Previous to 1877 he was a farmer; educated at the common schools; doing a business of fourteen thousand dollars per year; married January 9, 1859 to Miss C. Tocam, of Knox county, and has a family of two children.

SHARTLE, DANIEL, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, was born in Centre county, Pennsylvania, in 1811; came to Ohio in 1838, and was married in 1851 to Rebecca Carmichael, who was born in Brown township, this county, in 1826. They have five living children-Louisa E., born in 1852; William H., in 1854; Aaron D., in 1855; Alineda C., in 1861; and Alice M., in 1864.

Their oldest daughter, Louisa E., was married to N. M. Black, and now lives near Danville, in this county. William H. was married in Kansas in 1880 to Miss Phosia E. Zigler, and is a resident of that State. Almeda was married in 1880 to Thomas McDonel, and is a resident of Monroe township. Aaron D. and Alice M. are living with their parents.

Mr. Shartle purchased the farm where he now resides, containing eighty acres, on the east half of the northwest quarter of section twenty, in township eight, range twelve. He paid three hundred dollars for the farm, cleared and improved it, and it is now one of the most valuable farms of this county. He gave his children a very liberal education.

SHAW, JOHN, deceased, Union township, son of William and Charlotte Shaw, was born in Allegheny county, Maryland, August 16, 1787. He was reared on a farm, and made farming his principal vocation. In 1809 he married Miss Charity Rickets, born in Allegheny county, Maryland, in 1792.

They settled in Allegheny county, remained until the fall of 1833, when he, with wife and family, emigrated to Danville, Knox county, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their days.

They reared a family of ten children, viz: William, Benjamin R., Otho, Lavinia, Ruth, Josephus, Parmenas, Henry N., Eleanor and john T. William, Benjamin R., Laviniaand Ruth have died. Mr. Shaw filled the office of justice of the peace for several years, in Union township. He died in 1842, and Mrs. Shaw, in 1855. Their third son, Josephus Shaw, was born in Allegheny county, Maryland, March 27, 1820. He is a saddler and harness maker, served his apprenticeship for three years, with M. L. Dayton, in Martinsburgh, Knox county, Ohio, from 1839 to 1842. He then worked as journeyman at his trade until 1844, when he commenced business for himself, in Danville, in the same county, where he has since lived, being the oldest man in the business in Danville.

In 1846 he married Martha Robinson of Union township. They settled in Danville, where they are living now. Their union resulted in six children, five sons and one daughter.

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SHAW, JOHN, Mount Vernon was born March 4, 1809, in Lancashire, England, where he remained until 1826, when he emigrated to America and located in New Haven county, Connecticut, where he lived four years, then moved to Ohio and settled in Wayne township, Knox county, where he followed farming, but becoming dissatisfied in the spring of 1833, he started for Philadelphia on foot; when he got as far as Chester county he got a job in a cotton factory, where he remained some two years. During this time the railroad had been built, and he returned home by rail. He went east again in the spring, and worked in the woollen factory, in Cecil county, Maryland, but very soon after his arrival, he was taken sick, and when recovered sufficiently, he returned to England and spent the winter, and regaining his health; in the spring he returned to Cecil county, Maryland, and was married shortly after, to Miss Charlotte Porter. He remained in Cecil for three years and then with his family, he returned to Knox county, Ohio, and farmed for four years; he then worked in a woollen factory in Wayne township. In 1849 he came to Mt. Vernon and worked three years in the woollen factory here, then purchased the Marshal factory which he operated for eleven years. In 1864 he returned to Mt. Vernon and rented the Norton factory and has been engaged in various ways to the present time. They have had a family of eleven children, seven of whom are living.

SHAW, THOMAS, Boston boot and shoe house, corner Main and Gambier streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Shaw is a son of one of the pioneers of this city, ex-Senator John Shaw, and was born October 31, 1822. His first business engagement was with the firm of Hill & Woodard, in a general store, where he served two years; he then served the firm of K. Winne one year, after which he was engaged with N. N. Hill for six year;. In July, 1843, he went to New York City and engaged with the firm of Dibblee, Pray & Co., dealers in fancy dry goods, as salesman. he was retained five years, after which he entered the firm of Benedick Hall & Co., boot and shoe jobbers, with whom he remained until 1856, when he went to Boston and engaged as manufacturer and wholesale dealer in boots and shoes, under the firm name of Shaw & Childs, and Thomas Shaw & Co., in which he remained until the fall of 1876, when he returned to Mt. Vernon, and finding the old room vacant that he has occupied when a boy, he decided to go into the boot and shoe business, in which he has since been engaged. He has a stock of from ten to twelve thousand dollars, consisting of boots and shoes, being one of the largest and most complete stocks in the city. .

SHAW, WILLIAM A., deceased, born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1825; was married in 1847 to Emeline Berry, who was born in Waterford in 1830. They had nine childrenHamilton, born September t6, 1848; Jane, August 8, 1850; Sarah, May 5, 1853; Alpheretta, March 7, 1856; Stanley, February 18, 1854; May, September 5. 1859; Douglass, October 16, 1860; Anne Belle, August 21. 1864; Dick, October 25, 1867, and John, February 8, 1869.

William A. Shaw died April 4, 1880; Mary died November 30, 1861; Douglass, May 21, 1877, drowned near Mt. Vernon while engaged in shearing sheep.

Mr. Shaw came to Knox county with his parents when a child; was engaged in farming during life; was a highly respected citizen. Mrs. Shaw resides in this township with her children.

SHEFFER, ADAM, Pleasant township, deceased, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, February 24, 1788. He was a cabinetmaker and joiner by trade, which business he followed as his avocation until 1828, when he turned his attention to fanning which he made his avocation until the time of his death. In 1813 he married Miss Susannah Shaffer, of Greene county, Pennsylvania, who was born in 1794. They migrated to Ohio shortly after marriage and located in Licking county where they remained until 1828, when they moved to this county and located on a farm in Morgan township. In 1836 they moved to Clinton township and located near Mt. Vernon, where he died November 24, 1838, leaving a wife and eleven children. He was a good citizen, an affectionate husband, and a kind father. His companion survived him until April 24, 1877. Of the eleven children only four are now living, viz: Lovina, Lemuel, Lydia, and Burr.

SHEFFER, BURR, Pleasant township, farmer, son of Adam and Susannah Sheffer, was born in Knox county, Ohio on the second day of May. 1833. He has followed farming and stock raising as his avocation. On the eighteenth of February, 1858, he was united in marriage with Miss Catharine Bechtel, born in this county, March 1, 1837, daughter of' Martin and Sophia Bechtel. They settled on a farm in Clinton township, remained there until 1866, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township now owned by Philip Fry. They lived on this farm about eleven years. In 1877 he purchased a part of the Bechtel homestead, on which they are now living. Their union resulted in four children: Ida M., Charles B., Anna S., and Mary M. Mary M. deceased February 11, 1877.

SHELLENBARGER, J. J., Howard township, post office. Howard, was born in Jefferson township, June 4, 1840. He remained at home until he was eight months old when his father died and he was taken to Mr. S. Nighhart's, and remained there until he was fifteen years old. From this time he went from place to place farming, until his twenty-first year. He was then marred to Mary Allen, December 3, 1860; moved on a farm and lived a year in Howard township. In October, 1861, he enlisted in Colonel Cassil's company. Ohio volunteer infantry. He went to Kentucky: The first battle he remembers was the battle of Stone Bridge, where he was wounded in the fight and was laid up for seven months. He met his company at Chattanooga. Not long after they engaged to the battle of :fission Ridge. He was in eleven battles, besides several scouting expeditions. He had seven children: F. M., J. C., Nora Ellen, W. G., J. H., H. N., and W. F. Shellenbarger.

SHEPPARD, GEORGE C., Middlebury township, carpenter, post office, Fredericktown, born in Richland county, Ohio, June 14, 1845, and was married in 1869 to Louisa E. Lukens, who was born in Richland county in 1852. They have two children-Ada A., born September 9, 1872; and Annette May, born March 8, 1875.

Mr. Sheppard was in the late war, a member of company I, Second Ohio artillery. He enlisted July 26, 1863, and was honorably discharged August 29, 1865.

SHERWOOD, HUMPHREY, was born in Rutland Vermont, November 19, 1806, where he resided until 1833, being reared on a farm; came to Ohio in 1833, and engaged to work on a farm for a Mr. Allen during the summer.. He then re-

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turned to his old home in Vermont. Coming back to Mt. Vernon the following October, he bought a farm in company with his brother, which they owned about three years, when they sold it and went to Indiana, where he bought a farm, but sold it shortly after; came back to Mt. Vernon, and in the spring moved to his father-in-law's place (Nathan Johnson) in Clinton township, where he lived thirteen years, he then rented a farm one and one-half miles from Mt. Vernon, where he lived until January 1, 1863, when he moved to his present residence.

Mr. Sherwood was married to Miss Johnson, February 20, 1839, but lost her by death January 20, 1840. His second wife was Miss A. Wing, to whom he was married August 24, 1849. She died August 27, 1871. He married Sarah Lambee, August 23, 1877, who is a native of Howard township, and was born June 19, 1844.

SHERWOOD, STEPHEN H., retired farmer, post office, Frederick town. He was born in Benson, Rutland county, Vermont, February 28, 1811; came to Knox county in 1835; married August 28, 1836, to Mary E. Manly, who was born in Benson county, Vermont, February 13, 1811. They had four children-Julia M., born September 23, 1837; Horace H., June 21, 1846; Herbert A., March 27, 1851; Lucy M.., July 2, 1853; Julia M. Sherwood was married April 16, 1857, to John H. Wilhelm, who was engaged teaching at different places, Cleveland, Fredericktown, etc. Horace H., was married to Anna R. Robinson, February 24, 1869. They had two children-Lua Dell and Herbert R., both deceased. Herbert A. was married September 12, 1878, to Acelia J. Thompson, of Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio. He studied medicine and graduated at the Homoeopathic Cleveland Medical institute in 1876. Dr. Sherwood is engaged in the practice of Medicine in Warren Ohio. firs. Julia M. Wilhelm died May 5, 1861.

Mr. Sherwood is an intelligent and enterprising citizen of this township and county. He has taken great pains in educating his children, and they are reaping the benefits of his efforts.

His son, Dr. Sherwood, is having an extensive practice in his profession, and his daughter Lucy is an accomplished lady engaged to teaching instrumental music.

SHINABERRY, WILLIAM, deceased, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1800. He emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, with his parents in 1806, who located in Clinton township, on land now owned by William O. Johnson and Mrs. Keifer, one mile from Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road. His father was killed by a tree falling on him about one year after his settlement in this county. He was reared on a faun, and followed farming as his vocation. About 1819 or 1820 he married Miss Rebecca Cramer, by which marriage he had two children-Elizabeth and Rebecca-both dead. His companion deceased in 1822, leaving two small children to his care. He married for his second wife Miss Sisson Fisher, about 1823, daughter of Enoch Fisher. They settled in Clinton township, on apart of his father's home, now owned by William O. Johnson, where they lived until 1837, when they moved on the farm now owned by Henry Myers, in same township, remained there two and a half years, and front thence they, in 1839, moved on the farm now owned by James and Isaac Johnson, located on the Columbus road, about two miles from Mt. Vernon. In 1847 he sold this farm and purchased and moved on a small property near the Johnson school-house, where, in 1853, his wife died. In 1853 he moved back on the old farm and there died in 1855. They reared a family of six children-Mary J., Enoch B., Malinda, William B., Ransom, and Nancy C. (who is deceased).

SHINABERRY, ENOCH B., farmer, was born in Clinton township, Knox county, Ohio, September 1, 1826. He married Miss Henrietta G. Gotshall, June 29, 1847, who was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, May 27, 1826. They settled on his fathers home farm, where they lived until 1852, when he purchased and moved on the George Davis farm, where they are now living, located on the Granville road, two miles from Mt. Vernon. Their union resulted in eleven children - three sons and eight daughters. Five of the daughters have deceased. He was brought up on a farm, and has followed farming and stock-raising.

SHINABERRY, WILLIAM B., farmer, second son of the aforesaid William and Sisson Shinaberry, was born in Clinton township, Knox county, Ohio, March 25, 1835. He married Miss Lydia Ann Halsey, March 4, 1858, born in Knox county, February 27, 1840, daughter of D. F. Halsey, esq. They settled on his father's borne farm, remained five years, and in 1863 they moved on the farm now owned by Minard Lafever, in Clinton township, and from thence, in 1866, he purchased and moved on the farm where he is now living, in same township. His companion deceased in June, 1867. He married for his second wife Miss Anna Parrott, March 3, 1868, born in Clinton township, daughter of Edmond and Margaret Parrott, nee Lafever. Their union resulted in one child-Dora. His vocation is farming.

SHIPLEY, AMON MASSENA, Mt. Vernon, deceased, was born in Springhill township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1806. He was reared on a farm, and married Miss Susannah Saddler, about one year his senior, and of the same neighborhood, on the fifth day of April, 1827. They came to Knox county in 1832, and settled on what is known as the Old Hill place in Monroe township, about three miles east of Mt. Vernon, on the Coshocton road, where they met with all the privations and hardships incident to clearing up and improving a farm at that time. Mr. Shipley was for some years engaged in school teaching in the winter and farming the balance of the year. In 1852 he sold his farm in Monroe township and bought the "old Indian fields" in Howard township, containing four hundred and eight acres, where, for many years, he carried on !arming and lumbering.

On the sixteenth of November, 1872, his wife, Mrs. Susannah Shipley, after eight weeks of intense suffering, passed away in great peace, her wonderful patience in suffering being a signal proof of the triumph of the Christian's faith. Soon after his companion's death, Mr. Shipley sold his land in this county and retired from business, and moved to Jackson county, Michigan, where he still resides. He has eight children living, vrz: Minerva, the eldest daughter, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, July 14, 1828, and married William D. Woollison, of Monroe township, who is now a successful farmer in Cedar county, Iowa, and has five children living; Worthington R., was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1829; he is now farming in Howard township; Benedict F. (see biography); Emeline, born July 12, 1838, resides in Spring Arbor, Michigan; Agnes D., born March 13, 1842, married Calvin .Miller, of Clay township, and is now living in Marion county, Illinois; Eugene C., born June 8, 1845, married Miss E. J. Baker, of Monroe township, December 15, 1871, and now resides in Jackson city, Michigan; he is an excellent mechanic, and is a local preacher in the Free Methodist church; Almon

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D., born August 9, 1847, married Miss Elizabeth Hale, of West Windsor, Richland county, September to, 1878; he is a physician and surgeon, and resides and practices near Toledo, Ohio; Robert S., born October 26, 1852, married Miss Ellen Barron, of Brown township, March 6, 1877. He is a very ingenious mechanic and a successful physician and surgeon, and is practicing medicine at Lindsey, Ohio.

SHIPLEY, WORTHINGTON, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Springfield township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1829, and moved to Monroe township, Knox county, with his father in 1832, who lived in Monroe township twenty years, and then moved to Howard township in 1852, where he fired on his farm twenty-five tears. He then moved to Spring Arbor, Michigan.

Worthington Shipley's mother died in Howard township, February to, 1873, on the old farm. March 10, 1857, he was married. He has been engaged largely in lumbering, and conducting milling as well as farming.

SHIPLEY, BENEDICT F., Monroe township, son of Amon and Massena Shipley, was born in Monroe township, Knox county, Ohio, January 29, 1836. His childhood and youth were spent on the farm and in the saw-mill. In 1858 he went to South Carolina, via Baltimore, Washington City, and Richmond. After visiting several places in the southern States he went to Charleston, South Carolina, intending to follow the sea, but after applying to a number of sea captain:; for a berth, he abandoned the idea, and, as he afterwards learned, barely escaped shipping on a pirate craft. In the spring of 1859 he returned home, visiting all the eastern cities except Boston. The following autumn he started south again via Cincinnati, and down the river to Memphis, and across Arkansas on foot to Clarksville, Texas, where he engaged in merchandizing. In this he continued until early in 1861, when he joined an expedition organized by the State, to march against a force of about twelve hundred Indians, under the old chief Hopotholoholo, who with his braves were threatening the border settlements with destruction. The summer and winter of 1861 he spent among the Indians in the territory, teeing with his command in some desperate encounters with Hopotholoholo's band, who were finally routed and scattered. In the spring of 1862, he, with the whole command, was marched to White river, in Arkansas, and turned over to the confederate government as conscripts, and placed under command of General Beauregard at Corinth, Mississippi. Having been promoted to a lieutenancy, Mr. Shipley soon sent in his resignation. It was never accepted, but he was turned over instead to Jeff Davis at Richmond. Having obtained leave of absence on tendering his resignation, he visited Mobile, Alabama, and returned to Texas via Vicksburgh and Monroe, Louisiana. From Texas he returned to Mississippi, and spent the winter of 1862 and 1863 in Tallahatchie county, hunting bear on Tipp's lake, in a large swamp near the Tallahatchie river. . In the following summer, feeling no longer safe from confederate conscription, Mr. Shipley made his way to the Mississippi river, flanked the confederate pickets and appeared in the Yankee lines at Helena, Arkansas. July 16, 1863.

Mr. Shipley returned home, but soon went to California via New York and Aspinwall. Here he engaged in merchandizing at Mugginsville, on Cats-paw fiat, west of Mule-ear divide, in Lyekiyou county, where he remained nearly three years. Mr Shipley returned to Knox county in 1866, and married Mary C. Anderson, of Howard township, September 11, 1866. He now resides in Monroe township, near where he was born. Four children were the issue of this marriage, viz: Marion Eugene, born July 16, 1868; Price McKendree, born June 28, 1871; William Burrk, born June 29, 1873; Lida Ora, born September 20, 1875.

SHIPLEY, GEORGE W.. Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in this township in 1838, and was marred in 1861 to Sarah. J. Rummel, who was born in Worthington township, Richland county, in 1838. They have three children-Mary G., born in 1862; Willard B., in 1865, and Edwin R., in 1870.

His father, Elias Shipley, was born in Maryland in 1791, and was married to Rebecca Phillips, who was born in Maryland in 1796. They had twelve children-Reuben, Catharine, William A., James, Brice, George W.. and Rebecca. The deceased children are Mary Jane, Caroline, Elias, Charles, and John Wesley.

Elias Shipley, sr., died in this township in 1861. They came to Knox county at an early day and settled in this township, and are numbered among the pioneers.

SHIRA, RUDOLPH H., Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, was born in Stark county, Ohio, in 1820; went to Richland county when quite young; remained there eleven years, and was married in 1844 to Catharine Loose, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, m 1825. They have eight children-William, born in 1845; Rob Roy, in 1847; George, in 1849; Emma, in 1854; Amanda, in 1855; Abi S., in 1859; Wilson, in 1861; and Lloyd, in 1867.

The following are married: Rob Roy, to Ellen Shackles, deceased; George, to Mary Penroe; he is a practicing physician at Dunkirk, Ohio. William is engaged in the study and practice of medicine in Scottown, Marion county, Ohio. Amanda Shira was married to Melvin Sweitzer; they reside at Independence, Richland county.

SHOWERS, JEREMIAH, Berlin township, mason, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1841. He came to Ohio in 1856, and located in Berlin township, Knox county, where he was married in 1865, to Sarah Ann Davis, who was born in Berlin township, in 1842. They have two children: Leota, born in 1867; Frank B., in 1870.

Mr. Showers was a soldier in the late war, and was among the first to respond to the call. He was a member of company E, third Ohio volunteer cavalry, and was engaged with this company and regiment three years and six months. He was also engaged in the company of Guthrie Grays for six months. He continued until the close of the war, and was one of the loyal, faithful, and brave soldiers of Ohio.

SHRIMPLIN, ABSALOM, Jefferson township, deceased, son of John Shrimplin, born in Knox county. Butler township, November 27, 1806, where he was reared and received a common school education.

In 1829, June 23d, at the age of twenty-two years, he married Miss Priscilla F. Dial, daughter of Isaac and Hannah Dial, who was born in Pleasant township, Knox county, in 1810, October 28. After his marriage he remained in Butler township, being the owner of one hundred and ninety-two acres of land. In 1849 he sold said land, purchased a farm of two hundred and twenty-two and a half acres in Jefferson township, about eighty rods southeast of the village of Greersville, where he

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then moved with his family, and remained until his death, which occurred the twenty-eighth day of December, 1878, in his seventy-second year. His companion survives him in her seventy-first year.

Mr, and Mrs. Shnmplin became the parents of twelve children, viz: John D., born May 17, 1830; Hannah E., July 25, 1832; Isaac M, May 28, 1834; Oliver B., May 28, 1836, died July 9, 1846; Margaret M., October 6, 1838; Minerva S., December 6, 1840, Edward R., March 26, 1843; James K. P., March 13, 1845, died in Fairfax hospital, Virginia, August 18, 1863; Louis C., September 16, 1847; Silas M. C. D., March 22, 1850; Franklin P., January 31, 1853; Joseph C. B., May 2, 1858, died October 2, 1860. Nine of these are living.

The subject of this sketch is said to be the first white male child born in Knox county.

SHERMAN, ABNER D., farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, born in Middlebury township, August 23, 1837, and was married January 3, 1858, to Elizabeth Tobin, who was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, February 28, 1836. They have one son, Walden L., born April 1, 1859.

His father, Abner Sherman, was born January 29, 1804, in Belmont county, and was married March 26, 1826, to Katherine Kerby, who was born in Maryland March 19, 1806. They had two children: Mary Jane, born December y, 1826; and Abner, August 23, 1837. Mary Jane Sherman was married January 4, 1845, to Luther Mann. 'they reside in Perry township, Richland county.

SHULTS, JACOB, farmer, Jefferson township, post office, Danville, was born in Sommerset county, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1808. In 1809 he came with his parents to what was then known as Stark county, Ohio, but by the changes that have been made in the county lines it is now known as (:stroll county. He lived with his parents in said county until the year 1836, when he married his wife, Miss Mary Breakler, who was born in Germany, December 16, 1808. In 1809 Mr. and Mrs. Shults moved on the farm where they now live. They became the parents of seven children, who grew to be young men and women. Their two sons, Jacob and Christopher, volunteered to defend their country December 8, 1861. Christopher died in Jackson, Tennessee, September 2, 1862. Jacob died at same place, October 28, 1862. Both died of camp disease. Henry also enlisted in the autumn of 1864, in company K, Sixty-ninth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was honorably discharged in 1865. Mr. Shults how resides in Jefferson township, on the farm he entered September, 1833. He is seventy two years old and enjoys good health for a man of his age. Their seven children are still living.

SILLIMAN, ALEX, horse dealer, Fredericktown, was bore in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, March 30, 1839, came to Ohio when quite small, and was married to L. J. Traybern, who was born in Ohio. They have seven children, viz.: Alex S., James A., Samuel Ulysses, Susie, Nellie, Mamie Nannie. 14r. Silliman is engaged in buying and selling horses, and is one of our best judges in this trade.

SIMS, JOHNSON, farmer, was born in Clay township July 8, 1835, and with the exception of four years when he was in Iowa, has resided in Clay township. He was married September 15, 1869, to Miss Harriet Floyd, who was born January 23, 1842. They have only one chid: Hannah May, who was born September 3, 1870, in Yolk county, Iowa.

Mr. Sims was a member of company D, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was severely wounded at the battle of Chickamauga. They are members of the Presbyterian church of Martinsburgh, and Mr. Sims is a deacon in the church.

SIMMONS, THOMAS, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Worthington township, Richland county, Ohio, in 1850, and was married in 1873, to Lorilla Evlyn O'Bryan, who was born in Pike township, this county, m 1855. They have four children: Emerald Alvernon and Sylva Alberta (twins), born in 1873; Samuel Douglass, in 1876; and Estella May, in 1878. Mr. Simmons came to Knox county in 1861.

SIMONS, NICHOLAS, Milford township, farmer, was born in Pennsylvania March 5, 1796. and remained there until about 1825, when he came to Ohio. He worked east of Mt. Vernon for some time. While there, he made the acquaintance of Miss Hannah Devours, and they were married. She was born July 28, 1815, and is a native of Pennsylvania. Soon after their marriage they came to Milford township, where he has resided ever since. He purchased the farm he now owns, which was a wilderness at the time, and built his first abiding place near the site of his present dwelling.

Mr. Simons has been a hard working, industrious man, honest in his dealings, and by his industry he has made for himself a comfortable home wherein to spend his remaining days. They had a family of thirteen children-those living are: Catharine; Barbara, married to John Maker; Jacob; Margaret, widow of David Glancy; Henry, Nathaniel, Lavina, Louisa and Sarah; and the deceased are: John, Elizabeth, Solomon and an infant.

SIMONS M. J., Fredericktown, dealer in dry goods, notions and queensware, was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1832, and was married in 1855, to Alice Smith, who was born in Canada. They hey have three children, viz; Charlie, Fred, and Maude. Two died young.

Mr. Simons was engaged in his business in 1852, has the must extensive store in this place, and has been one of the most successful men in the mercantile business here. He has a very large and complete stuck, and the test the market affords.

SIMPKINS, BENJAMIN F., Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, was born in Monroe township, this county in 1847, and was married November 3, 1867, to Martha E. Hyatt, who was born near Mr. Holly, this cowry, is 1849. They have one son--Isaac E. born August 8, 1868. Mr. Simpkins came to Pike township in the spring of 1878, and has built a residence in Amity. During the summer season he engages in farming, and during the winter in manufacturing axe handles. He is a member of a pioneer family.

SIMPSON, JOHN, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Brown township on the second day of April, 1841, His father died in the year 1846. He lived with his grandfather until he was eighteen years old. He was married in his twenty-first year to Miss Drusilla Clark, and moved to his present farm in 1865. He moved to Union township in 1869, remained there two years, and then went back to his present farm. He has nine children: Slora Jane, Elmer, John, Grant, Olive, Quincy, William, Frank, and an infant.

SINGER, J. W. F., merchant tailor, Hill's block, South Main street, Mt. Vernon, was born in Center, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1819, where his parents resided until he was

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seven years old, when they removed to Clearfield county, and located on a farm where he resided fourteen years, and then emigrated to Pittsburgh, Wayne county, Ohio, where they lived three years, and until April 1, 1840. While living in Clearfield young Singer entered the employ of an elder brother and learned the tailoring trade, where he served four years. His first business engagement in his own behalf was at Pittsburgh, Wayne county, where he started a tailor shop and continued it until 1840, when he came to Mt, Vernon and engaged in the same business, and carried n on until 1852, when he went to Lancaster, Ohio, and engaged as cutter in an establishment there, remaining there two years. On his return to this city he entered the employment of A. Wolff as cutter, which continued eight and a half years, and then -two years with Mark Curbs. He then commenced merchant tailoring, and has carried it on ever since. He commenced with a capital of fifteen hundred dollars, and has been doing a business of about twenty thousand dollars per year. He now carves a stock of five thousand dollars, comprising cloths, cassimeres, suitings, overcoatings, and merchant tailoring in all its branches, and warrants every suit that leaves his establishment.

Mr. Singer was married to Miss Kate Stockwell, of Wayne county, in March 1838.

SLAIGHT, GEORGE, deceased, Union township, was born in Richmond county, New York, June to, 1796. He worked in the coasting trade as a sailor between New York and Richmond, Virginia, when a young man. In February, 1820, he married Mary D. Winant, born in New London, Connecticut, May 15, 1794. They settled on Staten Island, near New York city, remaining until 1828, when they moved to New fork city, where they lived until the spring of 1838. They then came to this county and settled to Jefferson, now Union township, on land now owned by his heirs, where they passed the remainder of their life. They reared four children: Edward T., Henry G., Frances E., and Elizabeth E.; all living.

Mr. Slaight sewed in the War of 1812. His wife deceased May 22, 1853; he survived her until September 17, 1858.

SLOAN, ROBERT R., deceased, was born February 28, 1815, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where his early years were spent. He graduated at Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, in 1841. He has been a citizen of Ohio, with the exception of two years spent in Missouri, since the year 1840. He taught during this time in the Ashland academy with Professor Fulton and Miss Jane Coulter, who, in 1843, became his wife.

In 1844 Mr. Sloan opened a boys' school in Mt. Vernon, beginning with one scholar, and increasing to fifty or sixty in four months. At the same time Mrs. Sloan opened a school for girls, which ripened at last into the Mt. Vernon seminary, under charge of Mr. Sloan as superintendent, and Mrs. Sloan as principal and matron. They continued jointly in the management of this seminary until 1867, when they removed to Cleveland.

In 1861 Mr. Sloan was chosen corresponding secretary of the Ohio Christian Missionary society, which position he filled with great credit to himself and efficiency to the society until 1869, when he resigned.

In 1875 he was elected president of the Ohio Christian Missionary society, which position he filled at the time of his death, which occurred July 30, 1877, in his sixty-third year.

SMITH, DEACON JOHN S., deceased, late of Miller township, was born on the ninth day of March, A. D. 1793, in Tyrone county, in the north of Ireland, and came to the United States with his parents in 1796, who located in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where the subject of this sketch continued to reside with his parents until after his marriage in December, 1817. In May, 1818, he removed to Knox county, Ohio, and located on the farm where he died, having been a resident of the county nearly sixty years.

Mr. Smith united with the Presbyterian church in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, at about. the age of' twenty-two years, of which church his parents were members-uniting by letter upon his removal to Ohio with the Presbyterian church in Mt. Vernon, which church was then under the pastoral care of Rev. James Scott. He served in the capacities of deacon and ruling elder in the church for many years. He was a faithful attendant of the church of his choice until prevented by the infirmities of age, and was greatly attached thereto. He was a devoted Christian, and always felt his dependence on Christ, in whom he trusted for eternal life. That faith which he so long enjoyed did not fail him in the closing days of his life, for he died with a full and clear view of his acceptance with God, and could exclaim "I know that my Redeemer liveth."

This good man died at his late residence, three and one-half miles south of Mt. Vernon, on the filth day of November, 1877, in the eighty-filth year of his age.

The subject of the above sketch was married to Miss Mary Sterret December 4, 1817. She was of Scotch descent, born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1801, and died January 26, 1879, on the old homestead. She was a lady of many Christian virtues.

They were the parents of eleven children, viz: Mrs. Eliza Levering, of Gratiot county, Michigan; Mrs. Mary. Letts, of Utica, Licking county, Ohio; Moses, farmer near Gambier; Robert, who resides on the old homestead; Sarah, who lives on the farm; Mrs. Emily Bebout, Morgan township; William is a lawyer of St. Louis, Missouri. The deceased: John N., died September 24, 1860, on the farm; Catharine B., wife of A. J. Hyatt. of Brownsville, Ohio, died August 15, 1862; Cynthia Tulloss, died January 20, 1864, in Franklin county, Kansas; Nancy Sims, died December 25, 1878, in Delaware, Ohio.

SMITH, JAMES, Pleasant township, deceased (a native of Ireland), was born in 1798. When but seventeen years of age he emigrated to America, and located in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, where he engaged in the mercantile business, and continued in it a number of years.

In 1825 he married Miss Frances Jones, daughter of Abraham and Catharine Jones, born in New Jersey on the fifteenth day of October, 1801. They settled in New Jersey, where they remained fourteen years. Their union resulted in six children, one of whom deceased young.

In 1839; he, with his wife and five children-Mary, Sarah, William L, Frances, and James, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located on the farm in Pleasant township now owned by his son, William J. He then engaged in farming, living on the same farm until his death, which occurred February 9, 1856. He owned a farm of two hundred acres. His companion is still living, at the advanced age of seventy-nine years, enjoying good health. She is living with her son on the home farm. Only two of her children are now living, viz: Sarah and William J. Sarah married Reed Setts, and is now a widow, her husband died in 1876. William J. was born in the State of New Jersey, February 7, 1831. He was brought up on a farm and made farming and stock raising his vocation.

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In August, 1858, he married Miss Susannah Baker, born in Knox county, February 12, 1832, daughter of Peter and Barbara Baker. They settled on his father's home farm, where they are now living. They have a family of five children, two sons and three daughters. In 1878 be erected one of the finest brick residences in Pleasant township, on the old home farm, in which be now resides.

SMITH, JAMES, deceased. There were none of the earlier settlers of Mt. Vernon more generally known, or more prominently connected with every good work tending to promote the interests of the pioneers of Knox county, than the person whose name heads this article. Mr. Smith was born March 6, 1779, at the family homestead near Harrisburgh, Rockingham county, Virginia. His father died during the minority of James, leaving him, the youngest of a large family, to the care of his widowed mother, by whom he was educated. At the decease of his mother, in the distribution and settlement of his father's estate, he inherited eight negro slaves. He married Miss Rebecca Emmett, daughter of Rev. John Emmett, then of Staunton, Virginia.

Impressed with the truth and justice of the declaration "that all men are created equal, and entitled to the enjoyment of personal liberty," he emancipated alt his slaves, and with his wife and child, Jane, who afterwards married Colonel Charles Sager; he removed to Ohio. Arriving in Knox county in 1806, he first settled on the Haines farm, one and one-half miles south of Mt. Vernon.

The journey from Virginia to Ohio was no easy matter, as it had to be made on pack-horses, through an unsettled region, without suitable roads or stopping places. It was a tiresome and fatiguing journey for his young wife and infant child. When he reached Knox county he had expended all his money but fifty cents.

He soon removed to the new town of Mt. Vernon. With a disposition to engage in any honest employment, he was reasonably prosperous; a member of the Christian church, and a local preacher of that denomination, be preached without pay or salary, and his house, for many years, was the stopping place of the ministers of that and other denominations, and especially of the early settlers in other pans of the county visiting Mt. Vernon.

When the county was organized and courts established, Mr. Smith was appointed clerk of the supreme court and court of common pleas, a position he filled to the satisfaction of the judges for a quarter of a century.

A season of great financial embarrassment induced the business men of Knox county, as well as of Licking, Richland and other localities, to engage in banking as a means of relief, and the result was the establishment of banks of issue at this and other localities in advance of legislation, expressly authorizing the issue of paper money. Mr. Smith, Robert Giffin, John Hawn, jr., Samuel Kratzer, and others, organized "The Owl Creek bank," of Mt. Vernon, and were induced to loan upon the notes of solvent persons, a large amount of the money issued by the bank, relying upon the payment of these notes, in addition to the capital paid in for their redemption. The makers of these notes combined, and were able to defeat the expected legislation, and refused to pay their notes; the bank, not having been legally incorporated, could not enforce the collection. The bank bills thus loaned were put in circulation by these borrowers, and the bank stockholders compelled to redeem them; this, by reason of the non-payment of the notes thus given, they were unable to do in full.

Mr. Smith, and the other stockholders, were compelled to redeem those outstanding bank notes, not being able to legally enforce collection of the notes received, and upon the faith of which they were issued. The last payment on the part of Mr. Smith, to redeem those bank bills, required the application of the entire proceeds of the sale of his farm, situated on the Martinsburgh road, near Mt. Vernon. The old case of Luke Walpole vs. Robert Giffin and others, finally closed up this unfortunate banking venture, and virtually ruined most of its stockholders, men who never realized a cent of profit out of it. Allusion is made to this matter in justice to all the parties interested, as the facts have not been fully understood by those who refer to the old Owl Creek bank in terms not complimentary to its originators.

Mr. Smith continued to reside in and near Mt. Vernon until the year 1838, when he removed to Madison county, Ohio, where he died in 1841, in the sixty-second year of his age. His death was occasioned by injuries received in being thrown from his horse. His remains were removed to Mt. Vernon, where they rest near those of his wife, who died of cholera in 1832.

All the children of Mr. Smith, except Jane, were born in Mt. Vernon-three girls and three boys. The daughters are all dead save Airs. Adaline Davis, who still resides in Ohio. The sons, Benjamin, James, jr., and Vispacian, are all citizens of Minnesota, where they have resided since 1856. The desire to "go west," which induced the father to leave Virginia, appears to have, fifty years afterwards, possessed the sons. Whilst they are reasonably prosperous and attached to their homes in Minnesota, they note with pride and pleasure the growth and prosperity of their native town of Mt. Vernon.

SMITH, ISAAC, farmer, post office, North Liberty. He was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1814. He was married to Deliah Smith. They had two daughters, Sarah and Maria. They reside in Iowa. Mrs. Deliah Smith died in this county, September 28, 1858.

Mr. Smith subsequently married Sarah Wallace, who was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, in 1832. They have six children: Eldaah, born in 1860; Arming A., in 1862; Ettie, in 1864; Mary, in 1866; Charlie, in 1868; Milton in 1869. Mr Smith came to this county in 1854, and located in Pike township, where he now resides. He was engaged at the carpenter trade while in Wayne county. He erected his present residence with his own hands. He owns a good farm and is engaged in farming.

SMITH, BENJAMIN, farmer, Morgan township, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1807. His father, James H., was born in Maryland, in 1780, emigrated to Greene county, Pennsylvania, where he married Martha Davis in 1804. In 1811 he came with his family to Ohio, and settled in Morgan township, where he purchased a tract of heavily timbered land; He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and died in 1860. His first wife died in 1828. He afterwards married Martha Honey, who died in 1863. By his first wife he had eleven children, five of whom are living. Mr. Smith made a trip to Ohio as early as 1800. The subject of this notice learned blacksmithing with his father and worked at it for some years. January 17, 1833, he was joined in marriage to Miss Sarah Brown, a native of Virginia. She died September 26, 1870. They had two children, viz: Martha, deceased, and Sarah, living at home. Mr.

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Smith is a man of general information, well informed upon the issues of the day, and a man of considerable genius. He has always been industrious, and cleared up the farm on which he now resides, and is in comfortable circumstances.

SMITH, THOMAS, deceased. He was born in this county in 1816; he was married in 1840 to Ruth Ann Barnhard, who was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1823. They had the following children: Isaac B., was born in 1841; Fidelia D., in 1843; Sheldon, in 1845; john F., in 1847; Columbus W., in 1850; Martha Jane, in 1851; Emma L., in 1854; Mary M., in 1856, and Alice M, in 1858. Thomas Smith died in 1858. Isaac B. was a soldier in the Rebellion; he was a member of the Third Virginia cavalry till August, 1863; he reenlisted in the Second Ohio heavy artillery; he continued till he was killed accidently by the cars near Concord, Tennessee, January 29, 1865. He was second lieutenant. His remains were brought home and interred in the Berlin cemetery.

John F. was married in 1874 to Semantha Beach, who was born in Illinois in 1857. They had two children, Freddie L., deceased, and Myrtle M.

Mrs. Ruth Ann Smith's father, David Barnhard, deceased, was a native of Maryland; he was married to Margaret Walker; she was born in Maryland. They had the following family: Mary, John, Rosanna, and Ruth Inn.

Mr. Barnhard emigrated to Knox county in 1833. He came to his death through an accident; he was engaged in pressing tobacco, when the lever of the press flew back and struck him, and killed him almost instantly.

John F, was a soldier in the late war, a member of company I, Ohio heavy artillery; he was in a number of skirmishes; he was engaged in the service for two years, and was honorably discharged.

The deceased children of the Smith family are: Sheldon, died in 1848; Mary, died in 1857. They both died in Berlin township.

SMITH, JACOB, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1821, and was married to Maranda Kairger, who was born in Berlin township, this county, in 1825. They have four children: Mary A. was born in 1848; Howard, m 1852; Esther, in 1857; John, in 1862,

Mr. Smith came to Ohio with his parents when he was five years old. They located in Stark county, and forty years ago came to Knox county. Mr. Smith is a farmer and stock dealer,

SMITH, M. D., H. W., was born in June, 1826, in Litchfield county, Massachusetts, and came to Ohio with his parents in 1839; received his preparatory education in Mt. Vernon; read medicine with Drs. Russell and Thompson, and graduated at a medical university in New York city, after which he practiced in that city for twelve years; was also engaged in the drug business. He married Miss Cornelia, daughter of Charles Baxter, of New York city, and has a family of six children.

In 1861 he came back to Mt. Vernon and formed a partnership with Dr. Thompson, which continued until the death of Dr Thompson, after which he continued the practice alone, and also engaged in the drug business, in which he continued until his death, December 15, 1875. He was a deacon in the Congregational church for several years.

SMITH, GEORGE L., Liberty township, farmer, was born in New Milford, Litchfield county, Connecticut, October 15, 1827. When he was about three years old his parents, Preserve and Amelia Smith, came to Ohio and settled in Milford township. A notice of them will be found under the biography of F. S. Rowley, of that township.

George L. Smith was the second child. His youth was spent on his father's farm at the Five corners to Milford township, where he also attended school. In 1850 he was seized with the "gold fever," and to the laud of gold he went by the overland route, which means he rode and walked alternately. He remained in California five years. The first eighteen months he was engaged in the mines, the remainder of the time he was employed with a pack-train taking provisions to the mines in the mountains. He came home by the way of Nicaraugua, and resumed farming. Whip in California he saved some money. He commenced poor in life, but he has succeeded in making for himself considerable property. He is a good farmer and an estimable citizen. He enlisted in company A, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio National guards, and served out the term of his enlistment. March 5, 1857, he married Miss Mary W. Pitkin, daughter of Rev. John Pitkin, and shortly after moved to his present home.

SMITH, WILLIAM W., farmer, was born in Washington county. Pennsylvania, September x6, 1816. On the twentyfourth of April, 1849, he married Miss Elizabeth Guy, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1828, daughter of John and Mary Guy. They settled in Washington county. Pennsylvania, where they lived until 1854, when they emigrated to Licking county, Ohio, remained there until 1860, when they moved to Clinton township, Knox county, Ohio, and located on a farm three miles from Mt. Vernon, on the Granville road, where he is now living. His wife died January 12, 1873. They reared a family of four children, two sons and two daughters. Farming has been his vocation.

SMITH, EBER, Milford township, physician, post office, Lock, was born in Delaware county, Ohio, August 30, 1821. His parents were pioneers in Delaware county, locating there about 1810. They were Pennsylvanians by birth.

Dr. Smith is the only son of seven children, was reared on a farm and his early education was that of the common schools. At about the age of twenty years he obtained sufficient education to teach a common school, and he taught several terms, then attended an academy at Westerville, Ohio. He decided to enter the medical profession, but being poor he was obliged to teach in order to obtain funds with which to attend lectures, receiving fifteen dollars per month.

He read medicine with Dr. J. R. Clapp, of Galena, attended the Starling Medical college at Columbus, and graduated there February, 1849.

He first loaned at Lock, where be has since practiced, and has been successful in his practice.

He was assistant surgeon at the Post hospital at Springfield, Illinois, for seven months.

Dr. Smith married Miss Cordelia Stoughton, daughter of B. P. Stoughton, of licking county, in 1850, and they have one son, Willie A.

SMITH, WILLIAM K., farmer, post office, Pipesville, son of William J, and Elisabeth Smith, born in Holmes county, May 17, 1831, where he continued to reside most of the time until 1860. On the twenty-first of June, 1860, he married Susan Kinsey, a daughter of Samuel and Susan Kinsey, born in Coshocton county, December 27, 1835. After his marriage he

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purchased eighty acres of land in Harrison township, Knox county, where he then moved and at present resides.

Mr. Smith is an industrious and enterprising farmer; at present the owner of one hundred and forty-six acres of land. He is the father of two children, one of whom is living, Morris D., born November 24, 1874.

SMITH, MRS. SARAH, was born December 27, 1835, in Franklin county, Ohio, and came to Knox county in 1864; was married to A. R. Funk in October, 1856, from whom she has lately been divorced; has seven children-Mary Jane, Julia C., Finley, Elliott H., Franz F., Allison R., and Lyman B. Mrs. Smith is owner of the new seminary building.

SMITH, WILLIAM H., Liberty township, justice of the peace and stock and wool buyer, Bangs post office, was born in Milford township, June 10, 1836. His paternal grandfather, Henry Smith, was a captain in the War of the Revolution. William H. Smith, his father, was born in Ohio county, Virginia, October 17, 1799.

In 1823 Mr. Smith came to Ohio and bought a tract of land in Milford township. In 1828 he married Esther J. Dill, of Ohio county, Virginia, who was born September, 1811. They had a family of eight children, six of whom are yet living. He worked at tanning for some years. In 1843 he was nominated by he Democrats of Knox county and elected to the legislature, and reelected in 1845. In 1847 he was defeated for the nomination for senator by one vote. This concluded his active political life. He remained on the farm the remainder of his days. He died May 9, 1871

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm and received the education of the common schools. He taught for several terms. He moved to Bangs, Ohio, in 1873. In April, 1858, he married Hannah J. Milligan. They have had eleven children, seven of whom are living, Mr. and Mrs. Smith are estimable people.

SMITH, ROBERT R., farther, Berlin township, postoffice, Fredericktown, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, December 24, 1837, and was married first to Eliza E. Gouser, who was born in Knox county. They had one child, John Henry, deceased. Mrs. Smith died in Harrison township, this county, May 22, 1864. Mr. Smith's second marriage, in 1867, was to Ellen E. Lybarger, who was born in Harrison township in 1846. They had two daughters-Rosa May, born June 30, 1868; and Delia R, November 25, 1870. Mr. Smith has been identified with this county since 1853. He united with the Presbyterian church at Millwood, October 6, 1866, and was a ruling elder while he remained there. He is now a member of the Presbyterian church of Fredericktown, and is one of the official members of that society. Mr. Robert Smith was elected justice of the peace of Berlin township in 1878.

His father, John Smith, (deceased) was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, September 17, 1809, and was married October 6, 1836, to Sarah Crouch, who was born in Harrison county, Ohio, March 30, 1813. When they started housekeeping they located in Coshocton county, and remained there until September 14, 1853, when they moved to Knox county, settled in Harrison township, and moved from there to Union, and to Berlin township in March, 1875, where he died February 2, 1880. He was a worthy member of the Presbyterian church, and attended church in Fredericktown.

They had the following children, viz.: Robert P., Nancy Jane, Mary E., John M. (deceased). Simon S., now a resident of Grundy county, Iowa; Rebecca A. and Sarah E. (married to J. M. Cliffton). They reside in Danville, Knox county. During his membership he was a ruling elder at Millwood, this county.

SMITH, JOHN T., farmer, post office, Howard. He was born in Howard township, September 16, 1849. In 1870 be went to Brown township, and lived there two years. In 1873 be married Sarah Jones, who died in 1874. He then went to Franklin county, Ohio, clerked in a store two years, then married Olive Jones. After a year he came to Howard township, where he has remained. He has one child, Dortha.

SMITHHISLER, MICHAEL, farmer, Union township, was born in France, May 15, 1824. and was brought to America by his parents, Philip and Mary Smithhisler, in 1828, who located in Baltimore, Maryland, remained until 1835, then emigrated to Holmes county, Ohio, and settled in Knox township, two miles northeast of Greersville, where Michael's father died, January 4, 1873. Mrs. Smithhisler survived her husband until May 1, 1874. She died in Knox county, Ohio, near Danville, at the home of her son, Michael. They reared a family of four children-Magdalene, Michael, Anthony, and Philip.

Michael married Mary Milless in 1844, who was born in Alsace, France, June 11, 1827, emigrated to America in 1835, daughter of Jacob and Catharine Milless. After his marriage to Miss Milless they settled in Knox township, Holmes county, Ohio, remained until 1847, then moved to Knox county. He now owns a farm near Danville, Union township, on which they are living. They have a family of eleven children, eight sons and three daughters.

SMITHHISLER, GEORGE. Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, March 18, 1850, moved to Knox county with his parents in 1855.

He was married June 27, 1871, and moved to his farm on which he now lives.

SMOOTS, HARRISON K., Miller township, farmer, was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, May 26, 1822. His parents came to Licking county about 1824, and purchased a farm, where he lived and died. His wife survives him. The subject of this sketch is the oldest child of the family, and was reared on the farm, and worked, as boys usually do, in the summer and attended school during the winter. About 1852 he moved to Miller township, where he has since resided, being exclusively engaged in farming. Mr. Smoots is an enthusiastic advocate of any principle which he espouses; is a leading Democrat of the township. He is affable and pleasant, and esteemed for his many good qualities.

He married Miss Christians Smith, daughter of Benjamin Smith, of Miller township, born May 13, 1857. They had seven children, one of whom died in infancy. The living are Joseph Willard, Nancy E., married to Hiram Fishburn; George Franklin, Charles W'., Mary Emily, and Justice Douglass.

SNIDER, CONROAD, Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Greersville, son of Peter Snider, born in Pennsylvania, April 29, 1813; was brought to Ohio when a child by his parents, they locating near Marietta, and afterwards removed to Muskingum county, where he grew to manhood. In 1841, October 18th, he married Miram Watson, of Knox county, a daughter of George Watson, born in Miltontown, Indiana, and brought to Knox county when a child. After his marriage he located in Zanesville, Ohio, where he remained three years, and then moved

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back to Knox county, locating in Jefferson township, purchasing a farm of forty-one acres, near Danville, where he remained until 1847, when he sold his farm and purchased another of one hundred acres, in Jefferson township, adjoining Ashland county, where he then moved and now resides, owning one hundred and twenty acres. Mr. and Mrs. Snider are members of the United Brethren church.

SNIDER, JONATHAN, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1817. In 1850 he removed to Howard township. In 1845 he was married to Sarah Johnson, who was born in Knox county in 1816. They had three children-Hannah Jane, born m 1848; Samuel, in 1853; Angelina, in 1858. She died in 1876.

SNIDER, CHRISTIAN E., Brown township, farmer, was born on the seventeenth day of June, 1840, in Richland county, Ohio. His father, Philip Snider, was a native of France. His mother, Mary Snider, was a native of Stark county, Ohio. In 1850 he came to this county with his parents, and located on the farm in Brown township now known as the Snider homestead. In 1864 he married Miss Ann Hall, daughter of James Y. and Lydia Hall. they located in Brown township and have since resided in the same township. At present they are living on Solomon Workman's farm. He ownes a half interest in the old Snider farm. They have six children-three sons and three daughters.

SOCKMAN, H. A., Fredericktown, physician, post office, Dunkirk, Hardin county, is the son of Washington and Esther Sockman, of Green Valley, Knox county, Ohio, and was born May 26, 1854. After having completed his common school education, he attended college at Mr. Union, Ohio. .After leaving college, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. S. B. Potter, of Fredericktown. After his office course he attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated at that institution in 1879. He commenced the practice of medicine in Dunkirk, Hardin county, Ohio, and is regarded as one of the leading physicians of that place. He was married to Miss Lura Marple, of Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, August 9, 1880. She was born in Fredericktown February 8, 1856, and is the daughter of Hiram and Martha Marple, who are still residents of Fredericktown.

SPEARMAN, WILLIAM, Liberty township, farmer and boilermaker, was born in Devonshire county, England. May 16, 1835. His father, William Spearman, was born in 1799, came to the United States in 1844, and remained in Mt. Vernon seven years. In 1821 he married Ann Brock. They had ten children, five of whom are living. Mrs. Spearman died on the farm.

The subject of this notice spent his youth attending school. He learned the blacksmith trade and boiler making, which trade he has followed for a number of years. He married Anna Moore, with whom he had two children. His second wife was Mary Maginnis, who had three children.

Mr. Spearman is a good citizen, an industrious man, and is much esteemed.

SPEELMAN, DAVID H., Milford township, farmer, was born in Licking county, Ohio, August 23, 1835. His father, William Speelman, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, March 26, 1806. He came to Greene county, Pennsylvania, with his parents, about 1817. They moved to Fayette county, the same State, where they died. He remained in Pennsylvania until he was twenty-six years of age.

March 18, 1832, he married Letitia Long, and shortly afterward came to Ohio, locating three miles west of Homer. He remained there about seven years, and in 1838 he purchased a tract of land in Milford township, which was unimproved, but is now a comfortable home. By his marriage he had a family of nine children, seven of whom are living.

Mr. D. H. Speelman was raised on a farm, and assisted his father. He enlisted in company B, One Hundred and Fortysecond Ohio National Guards, and served his time. At the same tune he had a substitute serving in the army, and was not, therefore, obliged to serve.

He is a hard-working, honest, upright man, and has the esteem of the public. He commenced poor in life, but by industry and economy he has made for himself a good farm and home. He married Miss Deborah B. Kinsey, December 11, 1858. They had a family of three children: Ida Alice, wife of J. H. Neible; William Lewis; and Eliza Effie.

SPERRY, ISAAC N., farmer, a son of Jacob and Mary Sperry, was born in Morgan township, Knox county, Ohio, on the sixth day of October, 1819. He was brought up on a farm, and has made farming and stock raising his vocation. On November 5, 1844, he was united in marriage with Miss Louisa Lefts, born in the county, September 14, 1827, daughter of Caleb and Maria Lefts. They settled on a farm in Morgan township, in this county and remained until 1870, when they moved on the farm m Clinton township, where they are now living. The farm is located on the Newark road one mile and a half from Mt. Vernon. They reared a family of ten children, two sons and eight daughters, all living.

SPINDLER, N: J., Howard' township, farmer, post office, Howard. He was born in Howard township October 12, 1850. His father came from Pennsylvania in 1812, and lived and died in Howard township. He was sixty-three years of age at the time of his death. His business was farming and cattle dealing. Mr. Spindler's mother was sixty-one years old at the time of her death. He was married to Miss Isabella Dorta in 1872, and settled on their farm. They have one child, Mary.

SPRAGUE, E. H., general manufacturer, and repair shop, corner of Chestnut and Mulberry streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Sprague is a native of Attleborough, Bristol county, Massachusetts, and was born May 31, 1807. He afterwards resided at Hampshire, where he learned the machinist trade, and then at Berkshire, where he worked at his trade on cotton machinery. In the year 1834 he went to New York city, where he was engaged in manufacturing, which included an endless variety of tools, implements, fixtures, instruments &c, in which he was engaged about two years; alter which he went to Allegheny City, where he engaged in the manufacturing of iron fencing, railing, ballustrading, cresting, and erecting doors for safe vaults, to which was added a general line of jobbing and repairing. He continued in this until the year 1872, when he went to Columbus, where he engaged with Peter Hayden, contractor at the Ohio State prison, where he took charge of prison labor, in manufacturing, and in which he continued until 1846, then entered the employ of J. Ridgeway & Co., builders of steam engines, with whom he was engaged on the contract for weights and measures for the different counties of the State of Ohio. In 1849 he went to McConnelsville, and engaged in the machine shop of James L. Gage, as superintendent, in the manufacture

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of engines; after this he served the firm of D. Rolf & Co., manufactures and builders of engines, of Harmar, Washington county, one year. He then went to Beverly, where he engaged in the general manufacturing and repairing of engines, in which he continued until 1853. After this, he went to Zanesville, working for the Central Ohio road (now the Baltimore & Ohio), the firm of H. F. Mandy & Co., builders of locomotives and the firm of Douglas Smith & Co., builders of cars. He then came to this county and engaged at Fredericktown with the firm of J. & T. Craven, manufacturers of saw-mill engines, where he remained until 1859, when he came to Mt. Vernon, where he has been engaged in various ways, and with different firms, and was engaged with the firm of C. & G. Cooper & Co. at different times, until the year 1866. He then established his present shop, where he is engaged in the manufacturing of and repairing of all kinds of novelty work, which consists in part of gunning, filling, and repairing all kinds of saws, and all kinds of light machinery, manufacturing of all kinds of patent models, and light novelty repairing, including everything that mechanical skill can accomplish. Mr. Sprague is a mechanic of fifty-eight years' experience, and as has been noticed has had practical experience in all kinds of mechanical work, in addition to his great natural mechanical talents, which warrant us in saying, that he is one of the most proficient mechanics in the State.

SPROULE, JOSEPH, grocer, Mt. Vernon, was born in county Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1834, came to America in 1852, and settled in Mt. Vernon, then being about eighteen years of of age, tinder the fillet name of Sproule & Watson engaged in the grocery business. By the judicious use of printer s ink and the use of an unique advertisement that attracted the attention of the reading public, the firm soon built up a lucrative trade. By square dealing and attractive goods they retained all their first customers and gained many new ones, which they retained. Said partnership being dissolved Mr. Sproule continued the business, all of which be, in time, sold, and engaged in farming in Liberty township, which he continued for two years. On his return to the city he entered into partnership with Mr. Samuel A. Trott, and opened a new and extensive grocery store in connection with the shipping business, and purchased the block on the northwest corner of the public square, pan of which they occupied. When the partnership dissolved Mr. Sproule retained the business, and has since continued it alone.

Mr. Sproule has been married twice, his first wife being Miss Maria, daughter of John Craft, of Green Valley, this county. By this union three children were born-two sons and one daughter. The two sons are both dead, dying within a short time of each other, aged respectively nine and eleven years. The daughter, Miss Iva, a young lady of fine mind, is now finishing her education at Oberlin college.

He married for a second wife Miss Mary, daughter of the late Rev. John. Mitchell, of this city. They now reside on East Gambler avenue.

SQUIRES, OLIVER, Miller township, pioneer farmer, was born in the town of Pittsford, Rutland county, Vermont, January 20, 1812. His parents, Phineas and Esther Squires, me Rowley, came to Ohio with a family of six children, in the fall of 1812, and settled near Dresden, where they remained about two years, and then came to Miller township, being among the early pioneers. About the year 1834 they removed to Chesterville, Morrow county, where he died. During the time of his residence in Miller he was engaged in farming and clearing land. He would purchase a piece of land m the wilderness and erect a cabin and commence clearing a farm, when he would sell and purchase another piece in the wilderness, and commence again to make a farm; and this he continued during the time he lived in this township, performing as much hard labor as any man living in this country. They had twelve children, all of whom are now dead, except the subject of this notice. Eleven of these children lived to the years of manhood.

Oliver Squires was reared to hard labor. As soon as old enough he was put to work picking brush and other hard laborHis advantages for education were limited. The old log school. house, with its puncheon floor and clapboard roof, with weightpoles, its window of six lights, eight by ten, and the log- fire, was the kind he attended for a few months each winter. He remembers their old home in what is now the village of Brandon. The huge log house; the large fireplace; are distinctly remembered. After he left home he learned the cooper's trade, which be followed for several years, but farming has been his principal business.

He was married to Mary Colopy, daughter of William Colopy, an early settler, October 18, 1841, and in 1842 he removed to his present home, where he has resided to the present time. They have five children, viz: Earl O., farmer; Timothy C., farmer; Ellen, who married jasper Hall; Emma, who married R. Shepperd; Fulton, and Douglas.

Mr. Squires is a man who acts honestly and independently when he is conscious that he is right, he trusting to his own judgment, and acts without fear or favor. In politics he was formerly a Democrat, but when he became fully satisfied that the measures advocated by that party would be injurious to our public welfare, and having no confidence in the Republican party, he became an honest 'advocate of the principles held by the Greenback party. In religion he is Liberalist, freely granting to others the rights and privileges he claims for himself. He is a kind and affectionate husband and father, and a kind neighbor and worthy citizen.

STAATS, ISAAC, Pike township (deceased), born in Knox county, December 15, 1819, and was married in 1844 to Rebecca Giffin, who was born in Coshocton county in 1821. They had three children-Louisa, born in 1846; William Alonzo, in 1848; and Joseph, in 1851. William was marred to Elizabeth Doty, and resides on the old homestead.

Mr. Staats died October to, 1853, at his home in Knot county, Ohio. His occupation was farming, and he owned a good farm in this county. Vies. Staats still resides on the home place in Pike township.

STAATS, JOSEPH, who is a native of Butler township, was born May 8,1823. June 18, 1846, he was married to Eliza Jane McCahon. Their children are: Maria Esther, born March 27, 1847; Margaret Ellen, October 22, 1848; Clarissa Jane, November 21,.1850; Orange Jefferson, December 12, 1852; Catherine, March 27, 1856; Alwilda A., May 8, 1857; Hortense Florence, January 21, 1859; Normandy, October 15, 1865; Joseph B., July 8, 1866. All are living except Maria E. and Joseph B.

STAATS, JOHN, Jefferson township, farmer and stock raiser, post office, Jelloway, son of Joseph and Catherine Staats, born in Butler township, Knox county, March 18, 1827; he received a common school education and continued to farm for his father until 1849, November 10th, when he was united in marriage with Miss Rosannah Horn, a daughter of Jacob Horn,

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bore in Butler township, Knox county, April 10, 1826. After his marriage he remained in Butler township for about nine years, and then moved to Jefferson township, and there purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, where he then moved with his family, and devoted himself to farming, which has been his vocation all his life.

Mr. and Mrs. Staats became the parents of six children, viz: Sarah J., Jacob H., Joseph L.. Calvin F., Edward S., one of whom died in infancy. Five are still living. Mrs. Rosannah Staats, his wife, died August 20, 1863, aged thirty-seven years. On the tenth of March, 1864, he married Miss Hannah Berry, daughter of Joseph and Matilda Berry, born in Wayne county, January 20, 1838. By their union they became the parents of five children, two of whom are dead and three are living, viz: Carrie B., Carresie B., Charles B.

Mr. Staats now resides on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, known as the Marshal farm, two and one-half miles southeast of Jelloway

STADLER, A. M., clothier, Kirk block, corner of public square and Main street, Mt. Vernon. This firm was established in 1877 in Kirk s block.

Mr. Stadler is a native of Champaign county, Ohio, born August 28, 1852. His first business engagement was with Max Stadler, wholesale and retail clothier in New York, where he had charge of the manufacturing department, in which position he was retained five years. After this he came to Mt. Vernon and established the present firm. He carries a large stock, consisting of ready-made clothing, hats, trunks, valises, and gents' furnishing goods. This stock is one of the best in the city, and is conducted strictly on the one price system.

STARR, BARTON, deceased, late of Pleasant township, Knox county, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, on the twentieth day of November, 1816. He emigrated to Massillon, Ohio, remaining there a few years, and then went to Oberlin, Ohio, and graduated at the, Oberlin college in 1846. His intentions were to prepare for the ministry, but the failure of his health compelled him to give up the idea of going into the ministry and seek some other vocation. In 1847 he came to Mt. Vernon and in the following year he engaged in the nursery business. His first nursery was on a farm which he rented, situated on the Wooster road, one and a half miles from Mt. Vernon, where he continued in the business until 1854, when he purchased and moved his stock to the present location of the Mt. Vernon nursery, where he continued the business, making it a success until his death, which occurred April 2, 1874. In 1849 he married Miss Sarah J. Marquis, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Marquis. Mr. Marquis was a native of Pennsylvania, migrated to Ohio and located in Knox county in 1817, where he deceased in 1860. Miss Marquis was born in Monroe township, this county, June 26, 1824. His union with Miss Marquis resulted in your children, viz: Newton, Devella, Mary E., and Edward E. Mrs. Starr and children are sell living on the nursery farm and carrying on the business.

STAUFFER, JOSEPH, of the firm of J. Stauffer & Son, clothiers, Mt. Vernon, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, on the fifteenth day of July, 1817, and resided is that county until he was seventeen years of age. He then removed to Price's Mills, Trumbull county, Ohio, and engaged in selling goods for William Porter, where he remained nearly three years, and then took a stock of goods for Mr. Porter to the village of Sutherington to sell on commission. He remained thus engaged about nine moths, and then went back to Price's Mills and remained some six months. He then went to Greene village, Columbiana county, and engaged in the grocery business, and continued in this bunch of trade for one year. April 17, 1839, he removed to Knox county and purchased a farm in Monroe township, which was all in woods, having only ten acres deadened and five acres grubbed. On this farm he remained about six years, which time was spent in clearing up his farm and farming. After this he went to Monroe Mills, and engaged with Mr. Henry Boynton as salesman in a dry goods store. Here he continued ten years. He then came to Mt. Vernon, and sold goods for Mr. Mark Curtis, with whom he remained seven years, and then Mr. Curtis established a clothing department, and Mr. Stauffer conducted that branch as salesman for some three years. In 1868 Mr. Stauffer bought out the clothing department and engaged in conducting that branch of trade for himself, in which he has continued ever since. He commenced with a stock of six thousand three hundred dollars. He has been doing a successful business, which is constantly increasing in value. The firm always keep on hand, and increase as trade demands, a full and well selected stock of clothing and gentleman's furnishing goods. To the establishment has been added a merchant-tailoring department for all who desire home-made clothing, having for that speciality one of the best cutters in the State in their employ.

This house has met with good success from the beginning. Their annual sales amount to about thirty-five thousand dollars. They now carry a stock valued at about nineteen thousand dollars. This house is the original "one price clouting house." The firm consists of Messrs. Joseph Stauffer, A. J. Stauffer, and R. C. Mitchell.

STAUNTON, JOHN H., Pike township, blacksmith, post office, North Liberty, born in Augusta county, Virginia, in 1850, and was married in 1873, to Catharine A. Rolfe, who was born in Nova Scotia in 1853. They have three children: Marshall C., born in 1874; Albert, in 1875, and Charles, in 1877.

Mr. Staunton came to Ohio in 1871, located in Mt. Vernon, remained about four years, and then went to Brownsville. He remained there three years. He came to North Liberty in 1878, where he now resides. He is a skilful mechanic in all the branches of his trade, horse shoeing being a speciality.

STEELE, J. & H., Fredericktown, liverymen, established the livery business some two years ago, and keep good horses and conveyances. They are good business men, obliging and accommodating, and always ready to wait on those who will give them a call.

STEELE, ISRAEL, Fredericktown, livery, born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1822, came to Ohio in 1848, and was married to Hannah Runkles, who was born in Carroll county, Maryland, in 1822. They had the following children: Richard V.. born in Maryland, and drowned at Cape May in 1877; James J., in Maryland, and died in Knox county in 1865; Albert T., in Columbus, Ohio, and died at that place in 1850; John L., in Ohio, resides in Boston, and is a travelling salesman, and Mary Alice was married to J. A. Bennett, who now resides at Chicago Junction.

Mr. Steele was a soldier in the Mexican war about one year. He was also in the late Rebellion, and continued in the service one year. ,

STEELE, JAMES B., Morris township, deceased, born in

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Wayne county, in 1827, and was married in 1854 to Rebecca Patterson, who was born in Wayne county, in 1832. They had five children: Ida, born in 1855; William P., in 1857; Sarah E., in 1858; Walter S., in 1860; and May Belle, in 1861.

Mr. Steele came to Knox county in 1860, located on the farm where they now reside, is engaged in farming and has been successful in accumulating property. He was a prominent member of the Presbyterian church in Fredericktown; and a worthy Christian. He died at his home, August 31, 1874.

William Patterson, father of Mrs. Steele, was a native of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and was married to Rebecca Findley, a native of the same county. They had seven children: Ebenezer F., deceased; Jane, deceased; Matilda, deceased; Margaret, James, Rebecca, and Martha.

Mr. Patterson died in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1854. Mrs. Patterson is a resident of this township, living with her daughter, Mrs. Steele. They are all members of the Presbyterian church.

STEMM, JOHN W., Miller, Fredericktown, born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, in 1830, came to Ohio with his parents, who located in Seneca county, remained there some years, then moved to Indiana, remained there several years, and then removed to Maryland. He was married in Virginia to Laura V. Smoot, who was born in that State in 1840. They had eight children: William H., Laura V., Mary B., Harriet E., John R., Samuel J., Herenden, deceased; and Jacob, deceased.

After marriage Mr. Stemm located in Altoona, Pennsylvania, erected a flouring-mill, and was engaged at that business several years. He then moved to Wooster, Ohio, engaged in the milling business for seven years, then moved to Wyandotte county, and was engaged there at the same business for three years. He then removed to the Rocky Fork mills, near Mansfield, then to Lucas for one year. From there he went to Ashland county, and engaged in the Charles mill. In 1873 he purchased the Mound City mills, has been successful in doing merchant and custom business. He has a good reputation as a miller.

STEPHENS & SCOTT, carriage works. The business was originally started in 1865 by Messrs. White, Stephens & Barker, who continued five years. After this the firm became Stephens & Co., and continued as such until December, 1879, when the present firm was organized. They have very much improved, remodeled, and made new additions to the works. They have a woodwork department, ironwork department, painting and trimming department, and wareroom in addition to the repository building for the display of finished work.

This company manufacture and keep on hand fine carriages, single and double buggies, barouches, phaetons, spring and platform wagons, and every style of farm wagons. The remarkable perfection in the execution and finish of their work, as well as the substantial materials which they use, enable them with confidence to invite those who contemplate buying to call an examine their stock before purchasing elsewhere. They feel abl to satisfy all of the justice of their claim-that their vehicles ar made of the very best material in use, and put together by workmen of skill and experience. They use in their gearing the best second growth hickory; in bodies, the best poplar and ash; the wheels are the genuine Sarvern pattern, second growl hickory; the springs are Forest City; axles number one; tubular bow sockets, trimmed with good leather, rubber, or flock a customers may desire. Their painting speaks, to all who see it of superior skill, finish, and excellence. All their work is well ironed with the best iron in the market, and is warranted.

Stephens & Scott are able to compete in beauty of work, style, finish, quality, and price with any establishment in this part of the State.

Mr. Stephens is a thoroughly skilled workman of large experience, and a gentleman who stands high in the community, both in business and social circles.

Mr. Scott is a young man completing and perfecting himself in the business under the most advantageous circumstances, and 'with his skill, natural ability, and business qualifications will eventually take a prominent position in the field of business activities. Each of these gentlemen are natives of this State.

STEVENSON, WILLIAM, carpenter, residing in Martinsburgh; was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, January 18, 1807; removed to Mt. Vernon at an early date, residing there until 1861, when he removed here. He was married December 27, 1836, to Christiana Graham. They were the parents of eleven children: Thomas A., John G., William F., Emeline, Anna M., Frank, and Fred A.; the others dying in infancy. John G, and Anna are note the only surviving children. Mr. S. is a member of the Presbyterian church of Martinsburgh.

STEVENS, W. A., of the firm of W. A. Stevens & Co., butter and egg packers, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Stevens is a native of Newark, New Jersey. He resided to that State until he was about ten years old, when his father emigrated to Ohio, locating on a farm near Chesterville, Morrow county, where he resided about ten years. From the farm near Chesterville the subject of this sketch went to Missouri and engaged in the drug and dentistry business in the town of Cameron. Here he remained about four years. From Cameron he came back to Ohio and for one year resided in Mansfield, and then went to Belleville, where he engaged in the dry goods business. In this business he remained some two and a half years. His next remove was from Belleville to Bucyrus, where he engaged in egg and butter packing, with his father and brother. Some two years were thus spent, when he and his brother came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the same business, to which was added the purchasing and shipping of hides, pelts and furs. The firm of W. A. Stevens & Co. is well established and is doing a large and a steadily increasing business. During the first year their business amounted to twenty thousand dollars, and for the year just past amounted to thirty-five thousand dollars, and from the favorable commencement, this year's trade will exceed the amount last mentioned.

STEWARD, DAVID, farmer, Brown township, post office, Jelloway, son of John Steward, born in Brown township, Knox county, May 27, 1827. He remained with his parents until he arrived at the age of thirty-eight years. In 1865 he married Miss Martha J. Workman, a daughter of S. C. and Mary P. Workman, born in Brown township, Knox county, December 25, 1841. During the time he remained at home he made a purchase of the old homestead, containing one hundred and sixty acres, where he remained after his marriage, it being a very pleasant and inviting home. He also owns one-half of eighty-four acres in Brown township, known as the widow Wolfard farm, making in all two hundred and two acres. By their marriage they became the parents of three children: Solomon C., born November 29, 1867; Clinton M. C., May 22, 1871; Mary E., January 31, 1878.

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STILLWELL, OBADIAH, Middlebury township, deceased, born in Pennsylvania, and was married to Sarah Whaford, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1782. They came to Ohio in 1818. They had the following children, viz: Josiah, born December 29, 1804; Charlotte, February 1, 1806, now deceased; John, deceased; Rachel, July 6, 1811; Jackson, January 18, 1815; Arthur, January 9, 1817; Josiah, October 1, 1819.

Obadiah Stillwell died April 8, 1850. Mrs. Sarah Stillwell is still living on the old homestead, with her great-granddaughter, Olive S. Blackford, who was born February 24, 1862.

STILLWELL, JOSIAH, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Levering, born in this township October 1, 1819, was married in 1849, to Mary Levering, who was born in Morrow county, April 7, 1825. They had the following children: Zantha, born November 6, 1852; Zoe, August 13, 1856; Mary, November 29, 1859; Lee V., April 28, 1863; Jay W., June 15, 1866; Jennie L., October 6, 1869.

Mrs. Mary Stillwell died March 17; 1872; Zantha Stillwell is married to George Ireland.

STIVES, JOSHUA N., was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, January 31, 1840 and came to Butler township, Knox county, in 1872. He was married February 16, 1862, to Rosan Smith, who was born July, 1844, in Guernsey county. They have had eight children, viz: Minnie May Bell, born November 11, 1862; Charles W., April 25, 1865; Lillie F., born April 13, 1867; Theudas E., September 14, 1870. Samuel Martin, August 28, 1872, James D., September 25, 1874; John R. Hancock, May 27, 1876; Joshua L., June 7, 1880; all are living except Minnie, who died February 13, 1863. Mr. Stives was a member of company H, Sixteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, served three months and reenlisted in the Ninety-seventh Ohio volunteer infantry.

STOFER. ABRAHAM, Pike township, retired, post office, North Liberty, born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, in 1807; came to Ohio in 1834, and was married in 1836, to Barbara Bearinger, who was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1814. They had fourteen children:. Flora, born in 1837; Joseph, in 1838; Jane, in 1839; Rachel, in 1840; Jacob, in 1842; Nancy, in 1844; John, in 1845; Samuel, in 1847; Allen, in 1848; Harriet, in 1852; Eli, in 1855; Amanda, in 1857; and George, in 1859. The deceased are: Flora. Jacob, Jane, Nancy, and Allen:

Joseph married Margaret Swank; Rachel married James Landes; John married Sarah E. Hipsley.

Dr. Samuel Stofer was married to Lucretia Frances Boals, of Richland county, and resides in Danville, engaged in the practice of medicine.

Harriet Stofer was married to William H. Harris; Henry was married to Adda Loney.

Eli Stofer is engaged in the study of medicine, attending lectures in Cleveland, Ohio.

Mr. Stofer, after marriage, returned to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and remained about three years and then came to Knox county, and located in this township. He has improved and cleared a farm, and by industry and economy has accumulated a competency. He has reared a large and respectable family, and is one of the reliable and respected citizens of this township, everybody esteeming him highly.

STOFER, JOSEPH. Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Fayette county. Pennsylvania, in 1838, and was married in 1869 to Margaret Swank, who was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1838. They have four children living- Amanda, born in 1870; Arminda, in 1871; Alfred, in 1877; and John A., in 1879. The deceased members are infant twins, and Rosa.

Mr. Stofer resided in Indiana from 1864 to 1866, then returned to Pike township, Knox county. He owns a farm in a good state of cultivation, and is a leading active citizen of this township.

Mrs. Margaret Stofer's father, Gabriel Swank, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1795, and was married to Catherine Stone, who was born in the same county in 1797. They had ten children - Henry, born in 1818, was a resident of Richland county, and came to his death by the falling of a tree, which occurred in 1876; Lenah was born in 1820; Zachariah, Elisabeth, Susannah, Christena, Mary. Sarah, Margaret, and Catharine.

Mrs. Catherine Swank died is Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1856. They came to Ohio in 1866, first to Richland county. In 1878 came to Knox county. Mr. Swank resides with his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Stofer.

STOFER, JOHN J., Pike township, post office, North Liberty, born in Pike township in 1845, and was married in 1873 to Sarah E. Hipsley, who was born in Berlin township in 1849. They had two children Jesse L., born April 5, 1874, and died April 24. 1875. Cora May was born April 28,1876.

Mr. Stofer is a farmer, owns a well improved farm, with good buildings, and has been very successful in his occupation, having accumulated rapidly. He bought the farts on which he resides, and made most of the means to pay for it upon the farm.

STOW, HARRISON N., Pike township, carpenter, post office, North Liberty, born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, in 1827, came to Ohio in 1836, locating in Holmes county, and remained there a year; then came to this county and was married in 1851 to Louisa Johnson, who was born in this township. They had six children, four of whom died is infancy. Ampuda Winton and Cora May are living in North Liberty. Mrs. Louisa Stow died at their residence in this township, July 4, 1879.

Mr. Stow is a carpenter engaged in working at his trade in this and adjoining townships. He is a skilful workman and the leading carpenter in this neighborhood. Ampuda W. Stow is engaged in carrying the mail from North Liberty to Independence, three times per week, and is a promising young man.

STREETER, FREDERICK, Union township, teamster, post office, Rossville, was born in Jackson county, Michigan, in 1843, and remained there until his twenty-sixth year. He was then married to Ella A, Howell, who was born is Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1840. In 1864 Mr. Streeter and his wife settled in Harrison township, Knox county, and lived there two years; then moved to Jackson county, Michigan, for two years; then to Columbus, Ohio, for one year; then back to Harrison township for two years, and once more to Jackson, Michigan, for a year, and from there to Rossville, where he has bought a piece of land and is making a permanent home. He has one child, Samantha B., born in 1866.

STRONG, LEWIS, Fredericktown, farmer, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1815, came to Ohio in 1830, and was married in 1839 to Susannah R. Cone, who was born in

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New York. They have one son, Clayton Strong, who was born in 1847. He is now married and resides in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Mr. Strong is a dealer in stock.

STRONG, NORMAN M., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Middlebury township in 1832, and was married in 1856 to Sarah A. Farquhar. They have five children - Wilbur T., Charles F., Edwin Franklin, and Eddie. Mrs. Sarah A. Strong died in March, 1871. Mr. Strong married Ruth Y. Farquhar, who was born in Knox county. Mr. Strong owns an excellent farm, with buildings in a fine condition. His father, Truman Strong, was born in Vermont; carve to Ohio in 1811; was engaged in the War of 1812, under General Harrison, and was among the earliest settlers of this county. When it was all in woods he settled in Middlebury township, cleared up a farm, and was engaged in preaching in the Universalist denomination, and was very conscientious and zealous in his religious faith. He had a charge in Huron county several years, and was familiarly known by many of the early settlers. In 1870 he died in this county, at an advanced age.

STRONG, REV. P. B., was born in Medina county, Ohio, May 3, 1842, and received his preparatory education at Baldwin university, at Berea, Ohio, after which, in 1861, he enlisted during the first call for troops, in company H, Eighth Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served three months. He then enlisted m company H, Ohio volunteer cavalry, in which he served about twenty, months, when he was honorably discharged in consequence of disability. After his return he engaged in the study of law at Elyria, Ohio, where he remained two years, and was admitted to the bar August 29, 1864, but did not engage in practice. He then entered the ministry in the travelling connection of the North Ohio conference, and was ordained to deacons orders in 1867, at Tiffin, Ohio, and was ordained elder by Bishop E. S. Danes (deceased) at Norwalk, September 12, 1869. His first charge was Republic circuit, where he remained one year, then East Townsend, two years, Milan, three years, Fairfield, one year, Troy, two years, Ashland, two years, Sandusky City, three years, and at present is laboring on the Mt. Vernon station. He was appointed presiding elder of the Mt. Vernon district by the conference held at Norwalk in September, 1880, Bishop J. T. Peck presiding.

STRUBLE, JOHN D., Berlin township, deceased, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, in 1792, and was married in 1822 to Mary Hadley, who was born in Norris county, New Jersey, in 1802. They had nine children--Rebecca, born in 1824; Headley, in 1826;' Daniel, in 1828; William J., in 1831; John S., in 1834; Charles S., in 1836; Oscar, in 1839; David W., in 1841; and Edwin Dallas, in 1845.

Mr. Struble located in Fredericktown in 1832. He was an extensive land holder, owning over four hundred acres, and a very active and successful business man, engaged in different enterprises, such as the sale of merchandise and the milling business, superintending all himself.

In 1874 his mill property was destroyed by fire. He did much to improve Fredericktown, and was a prominent member of the Baptist church. He departed this life May 21, 1875.

Mrs. Struble is living with her son, John S., in Berlin township.

STRUBLE, DAVID W., Fredericktown, retired from business, was born in Wayne township, this country, in 1841; was married in x866 to Anne Cummings, who was born in Richland county in 1844. He was a soldier in the late war, a member of company B, Second New York cavalry, and was in the service over three years.

Mr. Struble has been engaged in the mercantile business for some time, but has retired from all business pursuits.

STUDER, DAVID, Mums township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1825; emigrated with his parents to Ohio in 1830, and was married in 1858 to Rebecca Ebersole, who was born in this county in 1833. They have three children-Byron, born in 1859; Albert, in 1864; and Castilla, in 1866.

Mr. Studer's parents first located in Fairfield county, Ohio; also resided in Holmes and Wayne counties, and then came to Knox county. He has since been a resident of this county, and awes a beautiful .farm in this township, with fine improvements.

STULL, MARTIN, farmer and stock raiser, Miller township, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1828. He is the son of George and Elizabeth Scull, deceased, who came to Ohio in 1833, and resided for about seven years in Milford township, when they came to Miller township. They had ten children, viz: Mary, Elizabeth, Catherine, Abram, Martin, Philip, Isaac, Sarah Ann, Lucinda, and Lucina, of whom Mary, Elizabeth, and Philip have since died. Mr. Stull was reared on a farm, and was educated at the district school. In April, 1861, he enlisted in company H, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in several of the engagements in West Virginia, and in the army of the Potomac. He suffered considerable while in the army from chronic diseases, which greatly impaired his health. He was discharged with his regiment. Mr. Stull entered the army upon patriotic principles. Nothing can deter him from expressing his sentiments on the political issues of the day. He is a Democrat from principle, and is well informed upon the policies of the two great parties. Mt. Stull started in life poor, but with a determination to succeed; he has gained the object of his determination. He is a man of strict integrity, and his word is regarded as "good as gold." He has a beautiful home. He was married to Miss Magdalene Ilgenfritz, December 10, 1867. They had seven children, three of whom died in infancy.

STULL, PHILIP, was born in 1840 in Millwood, Knox county, Ohio. He was married to Melissa Darling on the seventeenth of November, 1865. Mfrs. Stull was born in 1847. They have had five children, viz: William, born July 13, 1866, and died July 23, 1866; Ida May, born July 4, 1867; Sherman, born October 2, 1869; Eliza D., born October 15, 1871; Samuel, born February 4, 1874 and died July 6, 1874.

Mr. Stull was a member of company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, enlisting in 1862, and served about three years and until the war was over. Mr. Stull was wounded at Perryville, Kentucky; he was also in the engagements at Crab Orchard, Kentucky; Campbellsville, Kentucky; Chickamauga, Kennesaw Mountain, also in Sherman's march to the sea.

STURGES, FRED D., cashier of the First National bank of Mt. Vernon, was born in Zanesville, Muskingum county, June 1, 1833, where he received a preparatory education, entered Marietta college, and graduated in 1851; came to Mt. Vernon in 1853, and engaged in banking, where he has since lived. He was formerly engaged in a bank at Zanesville and at Newark.

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STYERS, JACOB, of Mt. Vernon, was born in Greenwich township, Warren county, New Jersey, October 31, 1813, about two miles from Easton, Pennsylvania, the Delaware river being the boundary line between the two States. His education was received in the common schools of that day. He has been a hard worker from his youth up to old age, enjoying good health through life. At one early age of nine years he left his father's house and commenced work on the farm of Mr. John Lance, with whom he continued six years. His father, John Styers, was the father of ten children, eight sons and two daughters, Jacob, the subject of this sketch, being the second child. All are living except two of the sons, one of whom died while quite young, and the other was drowned in Wisconsin. The parents are both dead.

In 1832, after leaving the Lance farm, Mr. Styers went south and engaged with his brother Daniel, a carpenter, who had been employed by a New York company to erect houses in the town of St. Joseph, located by them on St. Joe's bay, Florida. Here he remained about one year, when he returned to his father's home in New Jersey. On May 31, 1838, he married Miss Elizabeth A. Andrews, daughter of Mr. Jacob B. Andrews, of Warren county, New Jersey, by whom he had three children: Sarah Ann, who married William A. Rose; Jacob M., who married Miss Callie C. Reed, to whom one child was born, a daughter, and James W., who married Miss Olla Jadden, to whom three children have been born.

Mr. Styers came to Knox county with the family of his fatherin-law, Mr. Andrews, September, 1846. Mr. Styers engaged with the late Samuel F. Voorhies to work on his farm in Clinton township, now owned by the heirs of Jacob B. Andrews, where he worked one year when Mr. Voorhies sold the farm and came to Mt. Vernon, retaining Mr. Styers in his employ with whom he remained six years. Mr. Styers' next employment was at the foundry of General C. P. Buckingham as general teamster, where he remained for six years and until 1859. For the last few years 31r. Styers has been in the employ of Mr. Charles A. Bope, an extensive coal merchant.

SUTTON, GIDEON, Hilliar township, retired farmer, was born in Licking county, December 24, 1807. His father, Jehu Sutton, was born in Uniontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1777. He was married in the year 1801, and in 1804 came to Licking county, being among the early settlers.

He was lieutenant of a company of soldiers during the War of 1812, and went to Upper Sandusky to protect the frontier from the devastations of the Indians. He was esteemed by all who knew him.

He was a consistent .member of the Old School Baptist church for many years, and died at the ripe old age of nearly eighty-eight years. His aged companion died some years later, at the age of ninety-six years. Thus passed away two of Licking county's first and most influential settlers.

They did not live in vain. They left their impress on the minds and hearts of their family, who grew up to be useful and influential citizens.

Gideon was one of their sons. We learn from him that he spent his youth on his father's farm. After leaving home he engaged in cutting stone for the National road, which was then being built. He subsequently contracted for stone work in Newark and surrounding country, in which he was successful.

In the fall of 1834 he came to Hilliar township, Knox county, and the following spring he moved on the farm he now occupies. His first abode on the farm was a cabin near his present dwelling. This he occupied until 1839, when he built his present dwelling. He has been successful in making for himself a competence.

He was elected justice of the peace in 1841, and held the office until 1847. He is a man of good judgment, social and congenial, and makes all who tell upon him feel at home.

We are indebted to him for an article entitled Centreburgh, its Past and Present, which he had written some years previous, and which he kindly lent us.

He was married to Miss Eliza Shaver, of Licking county, March 8, 1832. They have therefore been together for over forty-nine years. They had four children born to them, viz: Rebecca, married to David N. Potter; Jasper N., and Joseph S., and Samantha A., married to Dr. W. S. Pollard.

SUTTON, DAVID A., Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Licking county, Ohio, December 31, 1826. His parents were Elijah and Nancy Sutton, nee Gillespie. born respectively July 24, 1802, and January 8, 1799, They were married February 12, 1824. They had two children, one of whom died when young. Mrs. Sutton dying, he married Sarah Stonebraker, June 4, 1829. They had six children. Mr. Sutton died November 12, 1872, his wife dying some years previous.

Mr. Sutton was from Greene county, Pennsylvania, came to Ohio with his parents, and was a stonecutter by trade. The subject of this notice, after the death of his mother, and when about eighteen months old, was taken by his grandfather, David Gillespie, and by him reared until about eighteen years old, when he went to his Grandfather Sutton's, where he remained several years. June 10, 1851, he .was married to Miss Sarah Emery, and in 1853 they moved to Hilliar township, where he purchased the farm on which he now resides. Mrs. Sutton was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Sutton is a good farmer, a man of fine social qualities, and is respected by the community. They have had three children, all sons, viz: Elijah, Ellmore, and Allen K.

SWANK, GEORGE, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, was born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1825, on the same farm he now resides. In 1851 he was married to Nancy Gilmore. who was born in Pike township in 1829. They had the following children: Christian, born in 1854; Mary Ellen, in 1856; Eliza Alice, in 1858; John, in 1866, and Amanda, in 1868.

Christian Swank was married in 1880 to Irena Garber. Mary Ellen Swank was married to Simeon Betchel in 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Swank are both members of pioneer families. He now owns the old homestead, a farm that was improved and cleared up by the Swank family.

SWETLAND, H. C., dry goods merchant, corner of Main and Gambler streets, Mt. Vernon, was born in Morrow county April 7, 1855, where he resided until he was sixteen years old, and during which he attended school, and assisted his father who was a merchant in the store. He then came to Mt. Vernon, and entered the employ of J. C. Swetland as salesman, where, in appreciation of his abilities and faithfulness, he was retained until 1880, when he bought out his employer, and has since been conducting the business himself. He commenced with a stock of about fifteen thousand dollars, and has been doing a successful business. He now has a stock of about sixteen thousand dollars, consisting of foreign and domestic

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dry goods, notions and fancy goods, and does a business of from forty to forty-five thousand dollars per year.

Mr. Swetland is a young man of character, energy and ability, and his prospects for the future as a citizen and a business man are most flattering, as he-commands the respect of the public generally.

SWETZER, ALLEN, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Richland county in 1833, came to this township when a child, and was married in 1862, to Mary Ann Pound. They had three children, viz: Charles M., born in 1865; Marion, in 1867, and an infant, deceased. Mrs. M. Swetzer died in 1867.

Mr. Swetzer's s second wife was Ruth Ann Kesler, who was born in Pike township in 1837.

SWITZER, JACOB, deceased, Berlin township, was born in Berlin township, this county, in 1836, and was married in 1857, to Alvira Hughes, who was born in Berlin township, this county, in 1839. They had four children: Hiram M., born in 1858; Clayton, in 1860; Freddie, in 1862, and Willie A., in 1865, and died January 24, 1864.

Mr. Switzer studied medicine with Dr. Ring, of Fredericktown, and attended lectures in Cleveland. He engaged in the practice of medicine in Sparta, Morrow county, and in 1836 located in Fredericktown, where he remained until the time of his death. He was a member of the Disciple church.

Hiram M. was married December 29, 1880, to Miss Minnie Gibson. He has been engaged in teaching school in this county for about four years.

Clayton Switzer is teaching school in district No. 4, and is a very promising young man.

Dr. Switzer died March 17, 1867.

SCHINDLER, JACOB, owner and proprietor of the Danville Carriage and Wagon works. These works were established in 1875, in the Collins building, where he carried on the business of blacksmithing, carriage and wagon making, until 1877, when he erected his present shop, in which he is manufacturing all kinds of wagons, carriages, sleighs, etc. Prompt attention given to repairing of all kinds.

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TABOR, CHARLES R., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Rutland county, Vermont, in 1820, came to Fredericktown in 1824, and was married, in 1858, to Eliza Tooman, who was born in Pennsylvania. They have the following children: Alonzo A., born December 25, 1862; Mary J., November 22, 1860; Erie Smeadley, March 16, 1865; Charles R., jr., March 11, 1867.

Mr. Tabor left this county in 1852, and settled in Cedar county, Iowa, remained there eleven years and then returned to Middlebury, and has continued to make that his home ever since. His father, Alanson Tabor, was born in New York, and came to Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, in 1824, remained there for one year, and then moved to Berlin township, where he died at the age of eighty-three years.

TAFT, H. C. & SON, booksellers, stationers, and circulating library, Main street, between Vine and Gambler streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Taft is a native of Northbridge, Massachusetts, born April 12, 1815. In 1830 his parents moved five miles south, to Uxbridge, where he resided with them ten years. He was married June 12, 1839, to Miss Catherine Grout, daughter of Colonel Moses Grout, of Westborough, Massachusetts. They had a family of four children, one only of whom is living, J. Grout Taft, born June it, 1846. Mr. Taft, in consequence of his health failing, emigrated to Georgia in 1854, and located at Hawkinsville, where he engaged in the mercantile business, in which he continued four years. Finding his health considerably improved, he sold out and returned home; and finding his wife's health rapidly declining, he took her west, with a view of her recuperation, but the seeds of death were too deeply rooted, and she died at Chicago in 1850. Mr. Taft brought her back, and her body was interred in the family tomb.

In 1854, failing health again compelled him to seek a warmer climate, and he returned to Georgia and located at Millidgeville, where he remained two and a half years. After which, in April. 1856, he emigrated to Ohio, and located at Mt. Vernon, being attracted thither by the educational advantages afforded by Kenyon college, he having a son, Cheney Taft, that he wished to educate. The boy attended Kenyon college about three months, when he sustained injuries in a game of foot-ball which led to a disease that proved fatal January 5, 1857

Mr. Taft married Miss Sophia Parkman, daughter of lion. Charles Parkman, of Westborough, Massachusetts, by whom he had two children, one of whom, C. Parkman Taft, is living, and was born in Mt. Vernon, July 11, 1856. Mr. Taft engaged here in the cultivation of market produce, in which he continued eleven years. He then engaged in the book business, under the firm name of H. C. Taft S: Son, J. Grout Taft being the junior member. He has always been his father's assistant in business, and is a young man of energy and ability. Although he was so unfortunate as to lose his left arm some years ago, it is interesting to see with what dexterity and expedition he manages to wait upon their large custom. The second son, C. Parkman Taft, is of a classical turn of mind, and is preparing for the ministry. He graduated at Ravine college, Wisconsin, in the class of 1877, taking the highest honors, being selected to deliver the valedictory for his class. Messrs. Taft & Son have an extensive business, and carry a large stock of miscellaneous books, all of which are of a high grade of literature, and are the productions of the best authors. They keep in stock a large assortment of school books, pictures, picture frames, musical instruments, sheet music, brackets, and all the latest and most popular periodicals of the day. They have also a circulating library of about one thousand three hundred volumes, which consists of the most interesting and instructive miscellaneous publications of the period, among which every lover of reading will find that which will be pleasing to them, and at a very trifling expense. Their entire stock is first-class, and their circulating library is the only one in the city.

TARR, JOHN H., was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1801, and was married to Miss Hannah Price in 1824, and reared a family of nine children, seven of whom are now living.

Mr. Tarr emigrated to Ohio in 1850, and settled in Liberty township, Knox county, on a farm, where he lived until 1868, when he retired from business, but still made that his home until his death, May 9, 1872.

Mrs. Tarr is still living. Alexander B., the seventh member of the family was born in December, 1837; was educated at the district school, after which he followed farming until 1869, when he came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the grocery business. In consequence of bad health, after being four years in

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the business, he sold out, since which he has been engaged in various kinds of business.

Alexander B. was married October 31, 1867, to Miss Maria Hyatt, by whom he has a family of three children, two sons and one daughter-Alexander P., born September 7, 1871; Rizpah N., June 21, 1876; and Philip H., June 15, 1878.

TAVENNER, GEORGE N., farmer, Fredericktown, born in Loudoun county, Virginia, May 25, 1813, and was married January 26, 1836, to Elizabeth Jane Hann, who was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, December 24, 1823. They had eight children Joseph H., born June 21, 1840, and was married to Linda Rummel, and now lives in California; David, October 2, 1842, and died July 9, 1863; Jerome B., born in Virginia, March 15, 1844, and was married November 25, 1873, to Louisa Auten, and resides in Wayne township, this county; Richard D., born August 15, 1847, and was married January 1, 1874, to Rebecca Auten, and resides in Berlin township; William C., born October 15, 1849, and died May 16, 1867; Rosa E., born March 14, 1853, and was married to James A. Knapp, and resides in Marion, Ohio; America, born August 13, 1856; and an infant that died February 28, 1861.

Mr. Tavenner removed to Fredericktown, Knox county, March 28, 1855, and since then has resided in Hardin and Logan. but is now residing in Fredericktown.

TAYLOR, SAMUEL, Mt. Vernon, was born April 16, 1800, at Troy, New York, where he remained until June, 1840, when he came to Mt. Vernon, .Ohio, having previously made arrangements to take charge of the coopering shops of J. & J. Slocum, where he remained one year when the firm failed and he established a business for himself, in which he was very successful, doing a very large business. He employed about six hands, and manufactured barrels, meat tubs, butter kegs, etc. In 1870, on account of his age, he gave his son charge of the business. He was married to Catharine Balson in 1825, by whom he had fourteen children, six of whom are living. Losing his wife, he married November 25, 1853, Isabella Bumpus. Mr. Taylor was one of the oldest citizens of Mt. Vernon, having lived here forty-one years and being eighty-one years old.

TAYLOR, STOUGHTON L., of Mt. Vernon, was born in Saratoga county, New York, March 6, 1822. He was born on a farm. He commenced to work on the farm at quite an early age. His father emigrated to Ohio when the subject of this sketch was about fifteen years of age, and settled in Licking county, where he resided up to the time of his death, his wife surviving him for some years. In 1838 Stoughton went to clerk in a store in Homer, Licking county, and shortly after to Utica, same county, where he remained until 1843. He continued clerking up to 1846, when he commenced business for himself, which he continued for a short time. He went from Utica to Logan county and engaged in business, and also acted as agent for the Knox Mutual insurance. company for some nine years. He came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in business here. in 1870 he was elected by the board of directors of the Knox Mutual Fire Insurance company as general agent and adjustor for the company. He has been a member of the board of directors for several years.

Mr. Taylor has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Elizabeth T. Browning, to whom be was married in June, 1849. She was a daughter of the late George Browning. Mr. Browning was born in a block-house in Marietta. He was the son of a daughter of Rufus Putnam. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor had six children, four of whom are living. Mrs. Taylor dud June 6, 1874. He was married June 29, 1876, to Miss Rebecca Rice.

TAYLOR, ALEXANDER, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Greene township, Ashland county, May 8, 1838, and was married April 13, 1862, to Elizabeth Heck, who was born near Holmes county, Ohio. March 30, 1836. They have six children: David W., born January 25, 1864; John R., November 26, 1866; Carrie B., March 10, 1868; James, March 19, 1870; Millie Maud E., August 8, 1872; and Eva M., born September 3, 1875.

Mr. ,Taylor is a son of David Taylor, esq.., of Richland county. In 1821 he settled in Greene township, now Ashland county. They first came to Monroe township and remained there till 1844, when they moved to Worthington township. Mr. D. Taylor has been commissioner of Richland county for two terms of three years.

Alexander Taylor came to Middlebury township, Knox county, Ohio, April 25, 1871, and remained there till the fall of 1880, when he sold out and moved to St. Clair county, Missouri, his post office being Lowery City, St. Clair county, Missouri. Mr. Taylor has been a worthy citizen of this county.

TAYLOR, THOMAS N., farmer, Pleasant township, was born in Logan county, Ohio, August 14, 1844. He was reared a farmer and has made farming his vocation. In 1872 he married Miss Mary E. Bowman, of same county, born in 1854. They settled in Logan county, where they remained until 1876, when they came to Knox county, purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living in Pleasant township, known as the old Park farm, two miles east of Mt. Vernon.

TAYLOR, JOSEPH W., Mt. Vernon, physician and surgeon, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, near Wooster, in December, 1849. He remained in the family until about fourteen years of age, when his parents removed to Mt. Vernon. He read medicine with Dr. Jacob Stamp, of Mt. Vernon, for three years - 1869, 1870 and 1871. He attended two courses at the medical department of Wooster university, located at Cleveland, from which he received his diploma. He returned to Mt. Vernon, and practiced with Mr. Stamp in 1871, 1872 and 1873. He then purchased the drug store of Mr. L. Rowley. After the erection of the Curbs house, in 1877, he moved his store to the room in building where he has since remained.

He came first to Mt. Vernon about 1866. He attended school at Kenyon about one year. He was deputy auditor under Colonel Alexander Cassil for two years. .

He purchased a half interest in the Mt. Vernon Republican in February, 1881, and is the political editor of said paper.

TEETER, GEORGE L., Brown township, was born in Pike township, Knox county, August 11, 1852, being the eldest son of John L. and Elvina Teeter.

In 1854 his father. removed to a farm in Richland county, remaining there until 1864, when he sold it and purchased one in Berlin township, known as the Moltsbaugh farm, where he at present resides. George remained at home assisting his father on the farm during the summer and attending school during the winter until he was twenty-one. By the advice of his friends he adopted school teaching as his profession, teaching in the winter and working by the month during the summer, in the meantime purchasing books and reading them so as to better qualify himself for teaching, so that he is now competent to teach all branches commonly taught in common schools, and is well

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versed in many of the higher branches. He is well informed concerning current events, also in matters of history.

In 1877 he united with the Dunkard church, of which he and his wife are still members. In the summer of 1874 he came to Brown township in the employ of Mr. Elisha Ross. On the third of January, 1878, he was united in marriage with Miss Priscilla Dewitt, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Dewitt, and granddaughter of S. N. C. Workman, since which time he has resided in Brown township. Two children have resulted from his marriage-both daughters. The first was born May 11, 1879, and died the same day. The second daughter, Laura, was born June 28, 1880. In the spring of 1880 he purchased a small tract of land, being a portion of the Moomaw lot near Jelloway, on which he now resides.

John L. Teeter, the father of George, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1824. His parents remained in Pennsylvania until 1830, when they emigrated to Ohio and located nit the farm now owned by the Wallace family, in Pike township.

On the second day of September, 1851, John L. Teeter was united in marriage with Elvina Cramer, who was born near Philadelphia, May 30, 1831, being the daughter of George L. (deceased) and Elizabeth (Henry) Cramer, late of Worthington township, Richland county.

Jacob Teeter, grandfather of George, was born in Maryland in the year 1782. In 1863 he died, and his remains were interred by the side of those of his wife in the Wallace graveyard, Pike township. John Deeter, great-grandfather of George, was born in Maryland, as was also his father.

The original surname of the family was Deitrich. Near the beginning of the eighteenth century a family of the last mentioned name emigrated, some say from Ireland, while others assert that they came from Switzerland, and located in the present State of Maryland. The family, if not German speaking when they came to America, became so afterward. The name Deitrich became corrupted into Deeter in some localities, Deetery in others, Teeter in some places, while a large number of the descendants of the family still retain the original name. The above mentioned facts render it extremely difficult to obtain any accurate information concerning the family.

TERRY, WARNER, deceased. Mr. Terry was born in Cecil county, Maryland, November 18, 1796. During the War of 1812, he served six months, being stationed on Chesapeake bay. Early in the fall of 1826 he removed with his family to Gambler, tend during Bishop Chase's absence acted as his agent, and superintended the clearing of the land and making arrangements for the foundations of Kenyon college and other buildings on the college lands. When the ground on which Kenyon college now stands was prepared fur digging to lay the foundation, Mr. Terry threw out the first shovel full of earth, the bishop do siring him to take a hand in the great work. Shortly after this he removed to a farm nine miles north of this city, where he remained until the year 1831, when he moved his family and personal effects to the house on East Chestnut street, where he resided up to the hour of his death, a period of nearly halt a century. Mr. Terry was not a professional man, but since his residence in Mt. Vernon, turned his attention purely to mercantile pursuits, having been engaged the greater part of the time in the grocery trade. Three years since he was obliged to give up his business on account of an affection of the kidneys, which disease has kept him closely confined to the house. The deceased reared a large family of children, six of whom are still living, viz: Mrs. Emily T. Shipley, residing near Portland, Oregon; Mrs. M. L. Hood, formerly postmistress of this city; Miss Johanna Terry, of this city; Mr. Edwin W. Terry, of this city; Mr. Brook L. Terry, of Columbus, Ohio, and Miss Caroline Warner Terry, of this city. Mr. Terry was taken suddenly worse on Sunday with hemorrhage of the kidneys, and at an early hour on the morning of July 13, 1880,, breathed his last. The funeral services were held in St. Paul's Episcopal church.

THOMAS, HON. JESSE BURGESS, deceased. The Hon. Jesse B. Thomas was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, in the year 1777, and came west in 1799, and studied law with his brother, Richard Symmes Thomas, of Bracken county, Kentucky. During his stay there he married, but was so unfortunate as to lose his wife within a year after their marriage.

Mr. Thomas was full six feet high, florid brown complexion, dark hazel eyes, brown, nearly black, hair, muscular system well developed, and sometimes weighed over two hundred pounds, and was very particular in his personal appearance, having much of the mode and manners of a refined gentleman of the last century.

On the organization of Dearborn county, Indiana territory, March 7, 1803. Jesse B. Thomas located in Lawrenceburgh, the county seat of said county, as a practicing lawyer. The first election of members to the Territorial legislature was held J January 3, 1805, and Jesse B. Thomas was elected a member for Dearborn county. The Territorial legislature was called together by proclamation of the governor (General William H. Harrison, elected President of the United States in 1840), to meet in the town of Vincennes, on the first day of February, 1805, to choose members of the legislative council. They chose ten persons and sent their names to Congress, which body selected five of the ten named to serve as members of the Territorial council. After the council was chosen, and the legislature having been elected as above stated, they were called, by proclamation of Governor Harrison, to meet at Vincennes (the seat of government of the territory), on the twenty-ninth of July, 1805, to discharge their dunes as legislators.

At this first session of the legislature of the Indiana territory, Jesse B. Thomas was elected speaker of the popular branch, and Benjamin Chambers, also of Dearborn county, was elected speaker of the council. On the twenty-fourth of August, 1805, Governor Harrison appointed Hon. Jesse B. Thomas as a captain of a portion of the militia of Dearborn county.

Hon. Jesse B. Thomas served as speaker of the first and second sessions of the first general assembly, closing his service as speaker October 24, 1808, having served as such more than three years, when he resigned to accept the position of delegate to Congress, to which he had been elected by the Territorial legislature.

During his term of service in the Territorial legislature, he made the acquaintance of the young and accomplished widow of the late Colonel Hamtramck, whom he subsequently married. He then removed to Vincennes, but remained there only a short time. After serving as Territorial delegate a year, he was appointed in 1806, upon the organization of the Illinois territory, one of the judges of said territory, by the President of the United States, and then removed to Kakaskia, thence to Cakokia, and afterwards to Edwardsville, and served nine years as a Territorial judge.

On the formation of a State government in Illinois, in 1818,

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Judge Thomas was elected-a member of the convention to form a constitution for the new State, and was chosen president of said convention. He was elected in the same year, by the first legislature of Illinois, one of the members of the United States senate, and being reelected served ten years in said dignified body, retiring in 1828.

Judge Thomas introduced into the United States senate, the once famous Missouri Compromise, (see journal of the United States senate of 1820), which he regarded as one of the most prominent members of the celebrated caucus which nominated William H. Crawford for President of the United States in 1824. At the close of his term of service in the United States senate in 1828, Judge Thomas and his wife, (they had no children), removed to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, where they had large property to interests. Colonel Hamtramck, who died in 1803, left a sun, bearing his father's name, John Francis, born at Fort Wayne in 1797, and who also acquired his father's title, having commanded the First Virginia regiment in the Mexican war. The elder Hamtramck had acquired title to four thousand acres of land, adjoining the tract on which Mount Vernon was afterwards located, and after his death some years, General Harrison and Judge Thomas became trustees for the management of said land, and it has been alleged that they were in no small degree instrumentral in securing the location of the Knox county seat of justice at Mount Vernon.

In this connection it may be stated that the elder Colonel Hamtramck was born in Canada, in 1757; was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, came out of it a captain, remained in the United States army, reached the position of major in 1789, was lieutenant colonel commanding the first sub-Legion in 1793, commanded the left wing under General Wayne, in the battle of the Fallen Timbers, in August, 1794, and became a colonel in the United States tinny in 1802, having sustained until his death, April 11, 1803, at Detroit, the reputation of a gallant soldier and patriot.

His son graduated at West Point Military academy in 1819, remained in the army serving on the frontiers under General Taylor, and as Indian agent; and commanded a brigade in 1847, in Mexico, though holding only a colonel's commission. He afterwards resigned his position m the army, was mayor of Shepherdstown, Virginia, from 1850 to 1854, and served as one of the justices of the Jefferson county court from 1853 until April 21, 1858, when his death occurred.

In 1829 Judge Thomas took an active part in the organization of St. Paul's Episcopal church in Mt. Vernon, and was a member of the congregation from its inception until his death. He made large additions to Mt. Vernon, laying out lots in the eastern and northern parts of the city. .

Judge Thomas, in 1830, took the preliminary steps to make the canvass for a seat in Congress, in the district of which Knox county was a part, but finding that Hon. William Stanbery had a strong hold upon the voters that year, he declined the candidacy before the time of election.

In 1840 Judge Thomas took a lively interest in bringing about the nomination of his old time friend, Governor Harrison, for President, attending the great convention held at Columbus that year, to secure that object, and labored zealously afterwards to effect his election.

Judge Thomas died at his residence in Mt. Vernon, in June, 1853, aged seventy-five years.

He was twenty-five years of age when he began the business of life in Lawrenceburgh, as a lawyer, passing through the various positions of captain of a military company, member of the territorial legislature, speaker of said body more than three years, delegate in Congress, United States judge in Illinois territory, delegate to a constitutional convention, and its presiding officer, and United States senator from Illinois for ten years, which closed his service of twenty-five years of public life, after having held many positions of responsibility, honor, and dignity.

Mrs. Thomas was a lady of marked and distinguished character. She was a Mackenzie, and her early life was spent in Montreal. When she married Major Hamtramck she was the belle of Detroit, where the major was then stationed in command, and where he died some few years later.

THOMAS, DANIEL, Liberty township, farmer, born in Liberty township, July 7, 1812. His father, Jacob Thomas, was a native of Pennsylvania; he married Betsy Kile, a native of Maryland; he came to Ohio about 1810; they had a family of six children, viz: john, Peter, Sallie, Rosanna, Daniel and Polly. Of these John was drowned at Gains mills, on Owl creek; his father also was drowned at the same time. Jacob Thomas was a soldier of the War of 1812. The subject of this notice married Celina Sisk, a native of Virginia, born in 1818. They had four children. Henry was a member of company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio volunteer infantry; he died while in service. Mary E., wife of Cornelius McElroy, of Union township; Morgan S., farmer in Milford township; Francis M., born May 21, 1846. He married Miss Anna Belle Davis, February 27, 1879. She was born January 18, 1851, and is the daughter of John and Susannah Davis, residents of Milford township. They have one child, Walter, born September 15, 1880.

THOMPSON, FRANKLIN P. (deceased), Middlebury township.-Abner Murphy (father of Mrs. Thompson) was born in Pennsylvania, in 1777, and was married to Sarah Gattern. They had the following children: Hiram, born in 1800; Robert, in 1802; William, in 1804; Jane. in 1806; Mary, in 1808; Eleanor, in 1810; Basil, in 1812; Rachel, in 1814; Sally, in 1817; and Elias, in 1820.

Abner Murphy died in 1826, and Sarah Murphy, February 19, 1854; Sarah died August 27, 1840; Albert L., April 19, 1842; Abner E., April 19, 1849.

George T. enlisted in the late war in 1862, was a member of the Ohio volunteer infantry; Tames F. was also in the war, a member of the Ohio National guards, and served his time of enlistment.

Ella O. Murphy was married November 23, 1872, to Franklin P. Thompson, who was born in Richland county. They had the following family, viz: Ora Belle, born November 4, 1874; Alice Belle. February 5, 1876; Karloss, November 4, 1877; and Mabel, August 7, 1879.

Mr, Thompson died February 13, 1879.

THOMPSON, ENOCH, Miller township, pioneer, was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, April 27, 1808. His parents, Cornelius and Rebecca Thompson, nee Baker, tame to Ohio, in 1809, remained one year in Licking county, and settled in the southern part of Miller township, a short distance west of the Vance settlement. Mr. Thompson died here. His widow subsequently married John Row, and died in the township.

The subject of this notice has always resided in the township, except a very few years. He married Rachel Tush in 1830, who was a native of Virginia. They had eight children, two

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daughters and six sons. Two died while young. The living are Virgil, Elisabeth (wife of D. W. A. Cunningham), John, Lewis, James, and Thomas.

Virgil was born April 16, 1831, in Miller township. He went to Iowa in 1856, and remained about five years. He subsequently removed to Indiana and remained until 1869, when he again returned to Miller township, where he has since resided, being engaged in farming. He is successful in his undertakings and reliable in his business.

THOMPSON, ROBERT, president of the Knox County Mutual Fire Insurance company, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, was born in county Fermanagh, Ireland, May 5, 1814. His youth was spent on a farm. His parents came to the United States in 1831, when the subject of this sketch was about seventeen years of age. When about twenty-one years of age he commenced working at the carpentering business, which he followed until about 1850, when he went into the grocery business in Mt. Vernon, and followed that until 1863, when, on account of failing health, he sold out his business. He was very successful in the grocery line. In 1862 he was appointed internal revenue collector of the thirteenth district, (Knox county) Ohio, which he held until 1867, when he resigned. He dealt quite extensively in agricultural implements between 1867 and 1876. In July, 1876, he was elected president of the Knox Mutual, and was also a director of the same company for ten years previous to his election as president. He also travelled for the same company three years as travelling agent. He travels still for the company during the winter season. He was married to Miss Sarah Ney, August 13, 1840, by whom he has had two children, both daughters.

THOMPSON, MATHEW, M.D., Mt. Vernon, was born in Ireland May 10, 1816, emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1831, and located in Knox county. He made a profession of religion, and united with the Methodist Protestant church in 1837. He graduated from the Medical university of New York in 1842, and entered upon the practice of his profession in 1844 in company with Dr. J. W. Russel, with whom he remained until 1861, when he enraged in practice for himself, having established a high reputation as a physician and gentleman. He associated with him in practice, Dr. Smith, deceased, with whom he continued until his death which occured June 19, 1867.

He was married May 15, 1851, to Miss Phebe Veach, of this county, by whom he had a family of four children. Mrs. Thompson was the third daughter of Peter Veach, one among the early settlers of Knox county.

Doctor Thompson, as a physician, was highly proficient and successful, and had the universal esteem and confidence of his brother physicians, and as a man he, in his daily life and conduct, exemplified the Christian character, and was profuse in his liberality to the church in all her various benevolent enterprises, for the advancement of religion and for the amelioration of the condition of man. He was beloved and esteemed by all who knew him.

THOMPSON, JOHN D., of Mt. Vernon, treasurer of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Delaware railroad company, was born in the county Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1821, the fourth son of Irvine Thompson, a farmer.

Having emigrated to the United States in 1831, the family proceeded to Ohio and settled in Mt. Vernon. Although. far from being a wealthy man, Irvine Thompson had each of his five sons well educated, three of them being fitted at his expense for the several professions of their choice-the ministry, medicine and the law.

The subject of this sketch, having received a fair education, and contented to work on his father's farm, did so until he became a farmer on his own land.

In 1852 he went to California, and returned to this county in 1854, and continued to cultivate his farm. ,While thus engaged he was nominated and elected county auditor in 1862, a position he filled with credit to himself and profit to the State. He was the first Democrat that had been elected in the county for the previous ten years. He was nominated to this office without his knowledge, and in like manner he was nominated and elected in 1869 to represent the county in the Ohio legislature. In the same year he was appointed to the office he yet fills. At the close of his legislative term he declined a second nomination, and devoted himself to the interests of the company whose treasurer he is.

Something may be learned of Mr. Thompson's activity in business from the number of responsible positions he held. For while he was treasurer of the railroad he was also treasurer of the Knox County Savings bank, the Mt. Vernon Savings Loan and Building association, the Knox County Agricultural society, the Eagle Mutual Fire Insurance company, and president of the Ohio Mutual Aid association.

He was a delegate to the National convention at St. Louis of 1876, also a delegate to the Cincinnati convention of 1880.

His great modesty of bearing has caused him to decline nominations for various offices his friends and neighbors sought him to fill, including nominations to represent his district in Congress offered him in 1876, and again in 1878, as one of the staunch supporters of the Democratic party.

Although not a professor of religion, he practices the precepts of Christianity in his daily life, being to all objects and enterprises a liberal contributor, and the true and substantial friend of the weak and of the oppressed.

In 1864 he married Miss Priscilla, second daughter of James S. Banning, of Mt. Vernon, and whose family is one of the oldest and most substantial of the county.

THOMPSON, M. D., SAMUEL C., was born in Cadiz, Ohio, January 21, 1824. His father, Robert C., and his mother, Ann Cochran, were born and married in Washington, now Alleghany county, Pennsylvania. They came to Ohio about 1823. They subsequently returned to Pennsylvania and died in their native county.

The subject of this nonce attended the common schools, and several terms at Du Quesne college, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was clerk on a steamboat on the Ohio and Mississippi ricers. At about twenty-one years of age he began reading medicine. He was taken sick, and while confined to his room, his physician, Dr. Sheldon, of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, furnished him with books, which he read. After his recovery he continued reading until he was about twenty-four years of age, then entered the university of Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated in 1849. After he finished his course of lectures he practiced in Louisville; Kentucky, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New Philadelphia, Ohio. In 1864, he came to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, where he has since practiced. In 1854 he changed his practice from allopathic to homoeopathic. He is one of the trustees and the examining physician of the Mt. Vernon Mutual Aid association. In April, 1869, he married Miss Malinda Ward, daughter of Dr. Truman

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Ward, of Mt. Vernon. They had a family of six children, five of whom are living.

THOMPSON, THOMAS, Wagonmaker. He was born in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, in 1830, and came to Holmes county, Ohio in 1834; remained there till 1855, then came to Brownsville, Knox county, where he engaged in working at wagonmaking. In 1868 he moved to Fredericktown. He married Sarah Robinson, who was born in Muskingum county in 1837. They have two children: Lavisa J., born July 7, 1858, and Hattie B., born September 10, 1863. Mr. Thompson is engaged at present in the carriage shops of W. E. Gibson, of Frederick-town, and is a skilful workman. His father, Benjamin Thompson, was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, November 30, 1801, and was married to Sarah Ligget, who was born in Centre county, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1798. They had the following faintly: James, born December 20, 1825; Lavisa, March 17, 1827; George, February 17, 1828; Thomas L. and Davis (twins), December 5, 1830; Margaret, December 28, 1835; Cyrus, deceased, and Mary M., the last of whom was born June 15, 1840.

Mr. Thompson came to Holmes county. Ohio, in 1835, and remained there sixteen years, then moved to .Ashland county, remaining there sixteen years. In 1867 he came to Fredericktown, where he now resides.

THOMPSON, REV. WILLIAM, was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, in 1843, where he resided and received his preparatory education, until about fourteen years of age, when he emigrated with his parents to America and settled at Circleville, Ohio, where he attended school. In 1853 he entered the preparatory department of Kenyon college, at which institution he graduated in 1858. He then entered the seminary, and graduated. in 1861. Shortly after he was ordained a deacon and appointed by the bishop to a mission in northern Ohio, where he remained two years. In 1862 he was ordained priest, and in the fall of 1863 was called to the rectorship of St. Peter's church, Gallipolis, Ohio, where he remained three years, when he was called to Kewanee, Illinois, as rector of St. John's church, where he remained three years, when he received a call to Grace church at Galesburgh, Illinois, where he remained two years, when he went to Cincinnati and took temporary charge of Trinity church one year. In 1872 he came to Mt. Vernon and took charge of St. Paul's church.

He was married September 18, 1865, to Miss Gertrude A. Menager.

THRIFT, ABSALOM, Fredericktown, retired, is a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, came to Ohio in 1808, and was married to Amanda Brown, who was born in Charlotteville, Virginia. They had nine children. He has been longer in business here than any other person. For several years he conducted the leading dry goods trade of the place. In March, 1875, his store, building and contents were consumed by fire, by which he sustained a loss of ten thousand dollars, having no insurance. He was elected sheriff of Knox county in 1842, and reelected in 1844. He filled the office with ability and credit. While filling this position he was also deputy United States marshal, and held this position for eight years.

A. B. Thrift, son of Mr. Absalom 'thrift, now occupies the same store room, in which he carries on the merchant tailoring business. He is a workman of experience and skill and keeps a full line of cloths, cassimeres, suitings, vestings, gents' furnishing goods, ladies' hosiery, cuffs, collars, etc. His goods and styles will always be found up with the times, and his prices will compare favorably with any similar merchant tailor in this section of the State. He does the leading business of this section, giving employment to three experienced hands, and guaranteeing perfect fits in all cases. His store room is twenty-five by fifty-five feet in size, and located on the corner of Main and College streets.

Absalom Thrift, though advanced in years, is an active business man, and takes a lively interest in all matters promising public improvement. His father, William Thrift, was born in Fairfax, Virginia, came to Ohio, Knox county, in 1808, and was one of the pioneer Baptist ministers. He preached in Licking. Coshocton, Muskingum and Knox counties, and continued his labors in the ministry until his death. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, entering it at the age of sixteen years.

TILTON, REV. A. H. is the son of Warren Tilton, of Easton, Washington county, New York, and was born March 17, 1808. He remained at home until his twentieth year and received a good school education. At the age of twenty he went to Oneida county and engaged in cabinet-making, which business he followed three years. During this time he determined to devote himself to the ministry, and engaged in the regular course of theological reading prescribed by the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1831 he was licensed to preach, and traveled on the Westmoreland circuit.

He was married to Miss H. M. Lovejoy, daughter of Joseph Lovejoy of Cambridge, Washington county, New York, born November 14, 1809, in September, 1833, by whom he had three children: Caroline M. born October 3, 1834; James A., August 8, 1836; George H., December 2, 1842.

In May, 1855, Mr. Tilton came to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, where he has made his home ever since, but has travelled extensively as agent of the American Bible society, preaching on the way. From 1835 until the downfall of slavery Mr. Tilton never lost an opportunity of raising his voice against that institution, and all through the war of the Rebellion was an uncompromising Republican. Of his children, Caroline died May 14, 1860, James A. is general ticket and freight agent on the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad. George H. is engaged in merchandising in Mt. Vernon.

TILTON, J. A., Mt. Vernon, was born August 8, 1836, in Onondaga county, New York, and moved with his parents to a number of different places, and at the age of fifteen years he left home and went to learn printing. He was first at Rome, New York, and then went to the office of the Buffalo Christian Advocate, after which he attended school at Lima, New York, and then went to Genessee college, where he remained four years. After leaving school he went to work on the Lima Weekly Visitor for a short time, then came to Ohio and was employed on the Ohio State Journal at Columbus, where he remained about nine months, when he came to Mt. Vernon, where his parents had located. In 1857 he went to Kansas and Missouri, and was foreman in a printing office at West Point, Missouri, where he remained one year, then went to Kansas City and worked on the Kansas City Journal of Commerce. He then took charge of the Manhattan Express as foreman, where he remained about one year, then came back to Mt. Vernon and established the Knox County Express, under the firm name of Agnew & Tilton, in which they continued one year. He then enlisted in company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry for

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three months, and reenlisted for three years, but came home in 1862 and engaged in the printing business until 1863. In March he enlisted in company E, Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry and remained until the close of the war, when he returned to Mt. Vernon; was appointed chief clerk of the internal revenue assessor of the thirteenth district; then was appointed assistant, after which be was appointed to the special mail service, in which he remained until the spring of 1874, when he was appointed clerk in the auditor's office of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad, which place he held until 1875, when he was appointed general ticket and freight agent, which position he now holds.

TILTON, DANIEL M., Brown township, farmer, son of Josephus and Sabina Tilton, was born in Jefferson township, this county, August 29, 1838. His education was that obtained in a select school taught by Professor Burns, at Millwood, this county. He taught one term of school in district number four, Brown township, in 1861. He served in the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio National guard, one hundred and twenty days in the late war. He has made farming his principal vocation. He has also been engaged in the saw-mill business to some extent.

Mr. Tilton has been married twice, first in 1859 to Miss Caroline Hagaman, of this county, daughter of George and Nancy Hagaman. They settled on a farm one mile and a half west of Jelloway. Their union resulted in seven children-five sons and two daughters. His companion deceased in June, 1870, leaving seven small children to his care. In 1871 he purchased and moved on the farm near Jelloway, Brown township, this county, where he now resides.

Mr. Tilton's second marriage was with Mrs. Isabella Watson, nee Dunn, of Licking county, Ohio, in December, 1872, by which marriage he has two children-one son and one daughter.

TILTON, ASBURY J., farmer, born in Jefferson township September 22, 1840. Elijah Tilton, his grandfather, was an early settler in Muskingum county, Ohio. By his marriage he had thirteen sons and three daughters, of whom five sons and one daughter are living, and among whom is Josephus S., father of our subject, who was born October 1, 1811, thirteen miles north of Zanesville. In 1812 his father, Elijah, moved north of where Dresden now stands. He moved to Newcastle township, Coshocton county. In 1817 he moved to Jackson township, Knox county.

Elijah Tilton being poor and having a large family, he could not, in those early times, give his children the advantages of much schooling, as their help was needed in clearing up the ground. Thus Josephus S. spent his youth to manhood; and among his earliest recollections was seeing the Indians pass his father's house on their way to Zanesville to trade. He remained at home assisting his parents, until the fall of 1832. Being then twenty-one years old, he launched his bark and commenced life's voyage. His first work for himself was at the mouth of Owl creek, for one Walter Turner, who was cleaning up a large tract of land.

In the spring of 1833 Mr. Turner put him in charge of his canal-boat Dresden. He remained during the summer on the canal. He clerked for a short time in his brother's store in Newark, and the summer of 1834 worked at various things and in the fall took quite an extensive trip through the State on foot. The summer of 1835 he was engaged in clearing land and raising tobacco.

July 6, 1835, he married Sabina Jones. She was born February 15, 1815, in Muskingum county, Ohio, January, 1835, he moved five miles north of Danville, settling on one of the forks of the Jelloway, where he purchased a small tract of land. He remained on this land until April, 1880, when he moved to Rosstown. On the farm ten children were born: J. S., D. At., A. J., Mary E., Maria J., Julia A.; M. C., who died when fifteen months old; Sabena, who died in infancy; Rebecca E., who died in her nineteenth year, and J. R.

Mr. Tilton's first vote was cast for Andrew Jackson for President!. In 1833 he became dissatisfied with the extension of slavery, and having read the life and writings of Thomas Jefferson, he became what was known as an Abolitionist. He voted for James G. Birney in 1840, and again in 1844 he being the liberty candidate. He suffered much persecution for his political views. He voted with the Republican party in 1856, and still adheres to that party.

In 1862 Mr. Tilton became one of the incorporators of the Farmers' Fire Insurance company, of Jelloway. In 1871 he severed his connection with the company. He organized the Farmers' Home Insurance company, a stock company, was a stockholder and its president for seven years, declining a reelection. He was also an incorporator of the Buckeye Mutual Aid association, of Danville.

Mr. Tilton is a strong advocate of temperance. As early as 1833 he abandoned the use of all intoxicating drinks, and was the first man in the community to do away with the use of whiskey at gatherings.

The subject of our notice, Asbury J.. was reared on a farm, receiving a common school education. Farming has been his occupation. He served in the war, being a member of company F. One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio National guard. In 1865 he moved from Jefferson township to where he now resides. November 2, 1865, he married Diary E. Doup. They had five children. Mr. Tilton is a man of general information.

TIMS, ANDREW W., Liberty township, farmer, was born in Morris county, New Jersey, September 2, 1835. His parents, James W. and Sarah Tims, nee Cook, came to Ohio in 1849, and settled in Bloomfield township, Knox county, now Morrow county, where they yet reside. They had ten children, six of whom are living.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm and attended the schools of the district. Mr. Tims is one of the most systematic and careful farmers in Liberty township, or in fact, in the county. His farm shows judicious and careful cultivation. Mr. Tims is well informed upon all general topics, is a good thinker and a debater of no mean ability.

He married Miss Minerva J. Hewett in April, 1862; she was born in 1843. They have two children: Wilmer A., born October 12, 1863, and Jessie M., August 28, 1867. Mrs. Tuns died in the fall of 1880. She was an estimable lady.

TISH, GEORGE W., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Millwood, Knox county, September 25, 1842, and was married in 1866, to Livona Weston, who was born in Fredericktown, Ohio, January 24, 1844. They have two sons: Charlie, born June 13, 1868, and Freddie, January 16, 1876.

He was a soldier in the late war, a member of company B, Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in the following engagements: Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi, Decem-

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ber 28, 1862; Fort Hindman, January 11, 1863; Siege of Vicksburgh, from May 28, 1863, until July 4, 1863; Jackson, Mississippi, July 10th to July 17, 1863; Battle of Grand Coteau, November 3, 1863; Siege of Fort Gains, Alabama, from August 3rd to August 9, 1864; Fort Morgan, Alabama, from August 9th to August 23, 1864; Fort Spanish, Alabama, from March 27th to April 8, 1865, and Mobile, Alabama, April 12, 1865. He was honorably discharged, and has resided in Berlin township for a period of eleven years.

During the war he was taken prisoner November 3, 1863, and was paroled December 25, 1863, and exchanged in May, 1864. He was a prisoner five months. He was a corporal of company B, One Hundred and Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry.

TISH, FRENCH, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Harrison township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1853, and was married in April, 1875, to Julisa McKinsey, who was born in Brown township in 1847. They have one son: Walter Clinton, who was born November 30, 1876.

Mr. Tish purchased a homy, in Berlin township in November, 1878.

TOBIN, MATILDA, Middlebury township, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio. Wesley Tobin, her father, came to this county in 1852. They had a family of nine children. Mr. Wesley 'robin died in this township in October, 1865. Mrs. Barbara Tobin died in 1863, in this township.

TOMS, WILLIAM, Berlin township, miller, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1826. His parents emigrated to Wayne county, Ohio, when he was an infant, remained there fourteen years, and then came to Ashland county (formerly Richland).

He was married in Richland county in 1853, to Elizabeth Schrack, who was born in Richland county in 1833, daughter of Charles Schrack. They had eight children, James Allen, born in 1853; John K., in 1855; William W., in 1859; Herschel O., in 1860; Sarah Ann, deceased; Lena May, born in 1865; Charles S., in 1867; and Nina Myrta, in 1871.

Mr. Toms learned the milling business-with his father, and afterwards worked in the Schrack mill. He then went to Newville and purchased a farm, and has been engaged at farming eight years. In 1870 he purchased Shaler's mill, and has since been engaged in operating it.

Charles Schrack, father of Mrs. Toms, was born in Pennsylvania m 1790, and married Susannah Kerstetter, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1795. They had nine children Jacob, born in 1821; George (deceased), in 1824; Margaret, in 1826; Sarah, in 1828; Phebe, in 1830; Elizabeth, in 1832; Catherine, in 1835; John (deceased), and Mary Helen in 1840.

Charles Schrack died in Monroe township, Richland county, December 10, 1860. Mrs. Susannah Schrack resides with her son Jacob in Monroe township, Richland county. They came to that township and settled in 1820, and were among the early settlers and pioneers of that county.

TONENS, JAMES, farmer, Morris township, born in county Donegal, Ireland, December 26, 1828. His ancestors came from Scotland, about 1806. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm and received a common education. He remained in Ireland until September to, 1864, when he emigrated to the United States and settled in Licking county, Ohio, where he remained one year, and in 1865 purchased the farm on which he now resides. He married Miss Mary McClure, February 7, 1847. They had eight children, viz: Margaret Ann, married to Alexander Fletcher, of Scott county, Iowa; Frank, it is supposed was abducted at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he had gone to dispose of sheep in 1871; Mary Jane married James R. Stewart; Matilda, Belle, Thomas John, David, and James. Mr. Tonens is a consistent member of the Reformed Presbyterian church, and is an estimable citizen.

TRAHERN, ALEXANDER. Fredericktown, cabinetmaker, was born in Knox county in 1850. . He was married in 1871 toy Eliza Ball, who was born in Virginia. They have two children-Carrie, born in 1872; Walter, born in 1874.

Mr. Trahern learned the cabinet trade with G. W. Sargent, in Fredericktown. He is a skillful mechanic.

TRESSEL, MATTHIAS, Union township, mechanic, post office, Danville. He was born in Prussia, January 30, 1833, and emigrated to America in 1854, and settled in Cleveland, where he remained two and a half years.

During this time he visited Germany, and on his return, in 1858, settled in Mt. Vernon. He was there a year and married Miss W. Smith, of Germany. She only lived about three years, being the mother of two children-Clara and Mary. He married Mary E. Sapp in 1861, who was born in Danville. He settled in Danville in 1859 and worked at his trade. In 1878 he bought and moved upon a farm, where he still lives. He has five children-Clara, born September 29, 1859; Sarah, in July, 1866; U. S. Grant, September 7, 1869; Charles Wilson, September 7, 1873; and Louisa Jane, in 1876.

TRICKLE, JOHN, Fredericktown, blacksmith, was born in this county in 1849, and was married in 1871 to Eliza Jane Kulb, who was born in this county in 1850. They have the following children: Andrew, born in 1873; Samuel R. H., in 1875. Andrew died May 6, 1878.

Mr. Trickle learned carriage-ironing with the firm of W. E. Gibson, and has been engaged at that business, in this town, for about sixteen years.

TRIMBLE FAMILY.-John Trimble, sr., was born near Carlisle, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, and emigrated to Ohio m the year 1801, and located near Lancaster, Fairfield county. At that time Fairfield county comprised all the territory included in Fairfield, Licking and Knox counties. He resided there until 1809, when in the fall of that year he came and located in what is now Morris township, five miles north of Mt. Vernon, where he attacked the forest to transform it into productive fields. He took an active part in everything that was for the promotion of good and the development and best interests of the pioneers and community, of whom he was one. He assisted in building the first log cabin in Mansfield. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, where he served with credit to himself. He was also associate judge, and served the people as justice of the peace for many years. He was a staunch Presbyterian, and was an elder in the first Presbyterian church of the county. He died in the year 1845, aged sixty-six years. His wife died in 1865, in the eighty-fifth year of her age.

John Trimble, jr:, was but three years old when his father located in this county, consequently he has seen all the important changes this county has undergone. He received such an education as the times afforded, getting most of his education by studying at home by the light of hickory bark. The

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first school he attended was in a little log stable that was neither chinked or daubed, and when it was cold they had to suspend school. The early part of his life was spent in helping to clear away the forest, and in learning the tanner trade, after which he gave his attention principally to farming until 1834, when he came to Mt. Vernon, having purchased property here in 1831. After his arrival in the city he engaged in the carpenter business and farming, which he conducted for several years. He then engaged in the chandlery business, in which he continued about seven 'years, and during which be did quite an extensive business. During the last two years of this time he had two shops, one in Mt. Vernon and one at Zanesville, and during these two years he manufactured one hundred tons of candles per year. He had to quit the business on account of his health, after which he engaged in farming.

Mr. Trimble has been thrice married. He was first married July 15, 1835, to Nancy G. Drake, by whom he had one child; was married to his second wife Eliza Day, April 14, 1841, by whom he had five children. His third wife was Ruth H. Boyd, to whom he was married May 27, 1872, who still survives to comfort him in his declining days. Mr. Trimble has been a citizen of the county seventy-one years, and of Mt. Vernon forty-six years.

TRIMBLE, SAMUEL, Union township, post office, Millwood; born in Alleghany county, Maryland, February 16, 1804. In 1829 he was married to Susa Hammon; in 1838 he moved to Knox county, Ohio, and lived in Millwood for a year then moved to his present farm in 1840. He has nine children, viz: Mary, born April 22, 1830; John, December 28, 1831; Elizabeth, April 22, 1833; Enoch, September 18, 1836; Henry, April 21, 1839; Solomon, February 27, 1841; Eloyza, April 27, 1843; Mariah, March 25, 1849, and Josephine, October 25, 1853. All are married except Josephine, who is at home. Mr. Trimble's wife was born September 7, 1813, in Maryland. Enoch Trimble, his son, enlisted in the late war, from Iowa, in the cavalry; he went with Captain S. D. Bryant's company, served his time, and returned to Iowa where he still resides.

TRIMBLE, JOSEPH, College township, farmer, son of Professor John Trimble, was born in Ireland July 10, 1837. He was brought to America by his parents in 1851, who located in Gambier. His father, Professor John Trimble, accepted the professorship of Latin and Greek, in Kenyon college, which position he filled with honor to himself, and credit to the institution for about twenty-five years. In 1879, on account of failing health and advanced age, he was compelled to resign the position and live a retired life. He died on the twenty-third of April, 1878, leaving eight children to mourn the loss of a kind father, viz:James, John, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Joseph, Mathew, and Anna. Mr. Joseph Trimble married Miss Margaret Sawer October 1, 1863, daughter of James and Sophia Sawer, of Gambier, born November 6, 1836. They settled in College township, where they now reside. He has followed farming, stock raising and dealing in stock as his vocation. At present he is conducting a farm of two hundred acres in College township.

TRUMBULL, E., A., carriage manufacturer, West Chestnut street, residence on West High street. Mr. Trumbull is a native of Mt. Vernon, where he received his education and made his first business engagement in learning carriage painting, at which he served three years, he then entered the employ of his father, with whom he remained three years, after which he engaged with the firm of C. & G. Cooper & Cc; he remained in their employ for four and a half years, during which time, in 1872, he married M. A. Bedell, of Mt. Vernon. In June, 1873, he established the carriage business at his present location, where he has been doing a good business ever since. He manufactures all kinds and grades of single and double carriages and light wagons. He builds from twenty-five to thirty vehicles per year, and does a business in the different departments of about four thousand dollars per annum. He manufactures two grades of work; his first grade is first-class and is not excelled in the county, his second grade is good, substantial work in every way, and far excels the work known as Cincinnati and Columbus buggies.

All work is guaranteed for two years. He carries on all the different departments of the business, woodwork, iron-work, painting, trimming, and silver plating, all of which is done under his immediate supervision.

TUCKER, JONES, deceased, Union township, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-seventh day of December, 1806. He was brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his parents, William and Rachel Tucker. in 1811, who settled in Union township near Mt. Holly or Gann station. William Tucker erected a log cabin which served his family as an abode for a number of years. He followed clearing, farming, hunting, and fishing as his vocation. There were but few settlers in the neighborhood, and they were far apart at the time of Mr. Tucker's settlement in the township. His wife deceased. leaving him with seven children to care for in their forest home, viz: John, Jones, Obediah, Thomas, Runnicks, James, and Elizabeth, all dead. He married for his second wife a Mrs. Smith, and they moved to Auglaize county, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his days.

Jones Tucker married Catharine, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Welker, July 27, 1826; she was born May 30, 1809. They settled in Union township, where they lived eleven years, and in 1837, he, with his wife and children, emigrated to Illinois. They reared a family of seven children-Elizabeth, Barnett, William, John, Wilson, Mary F., and James. His companion died in 1845. After her death, he, with four of the children, Barnett, William, John, and Wilson, returned to Knox county, Ohio, where apart of the children are now living. He served one year in the Mexican war, and was discharged at its close. In 1851 or 1852 he returned to Illinois, where he died in August, 1870. He served two years in the war of 1861 in an Illinois regiment.

His oldest son, Barnett Tucker, was born in Knox county, Ohio. February 9, 1831, and married Miss Margaret M. Meredith, November 27, 1853, daughter of Benjamin and Delila Meredith, born August 6, 1836. They settled in Millwood, where they lived several years. In 1861 he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living in Union township. They have two children, daughters. He is a cabinetmaker by trade, and followed that as his vocation, until his settlement on the farm in 1861, and since that time has made farming and stock-raising his occupation.

TUCKER, JOHN, Union township, third son of Jones and Catharine Tucker, was born in Union township, Knox county, Ohio; January 15, 1837. He commenced working at the cabinet trade in 1856, and has made that his principal vocation, carrying on the business in Millwood.

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Millwood, where they are now living. They have one child, a son. In 1871 he purchased the hotel stand in which they are now living, and entertain the traveling community. Good accommodations given to travelers, and all who wish to stop with them. The place is known as the Tucker house. His cabinet rooms are in the same building, and prompt attention is given to all work in his line. He has filled the office of justice of the peace two terms, and postmaster at Millwood five years, and also held various township offices.

TULLOSS FAMILY, - John J. Tulloss, the progenitor of the Tulloss family in Knox county, was born in Farquier county, Virginia, September 6, 1783, where he remained until 1807, when he moved to Newark. He made the first brick in the village, was school teacher and farmer, and served as captain in the War of 1812. He returned to Virginia, where in 1815 he married Elizabeth Honey, and returned, locating in Morgan township, where he had purchased some five hundred acres of land. He became an influential and highly respected citizen, and died in 1841. His wife died in 1869. They had a family of nine children, eight of whom grew up, and six are still living, viz: Mrs. Ann Seymour, Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens, Richard S., John J., Susan and Benjamin. The deceased are William, Rodham, and an infant.

Richard S. was born June 13, 1819. He was reared on the farm, and after his father's death took charge of the farm. He was elected to the Constitutional convention of Ohio in 1873, and served on the committees of privileges and elections, on preamble and bill of rights, and on agriculture. He has filled a number of the township offices. He is an influential citizen, and is highly esteemed for his social qualities and straight forward business transactions.

Benjamin is a minister of the Baptist church.

John J., farmer in Morgan township, was born September 11, 1820. He was reared on the old homestead, and has always resided in Morgan township, being engaged in farming. October 24, 1844, he married Miss Caroline Smith, daughter of James H. Smith, who was born April 8, 1826. They had a family of eight children, viz: Emily born August 1, 1845, and died October 24, 1861; Byram L., December 9, 1846, a druggist in Utica; John J; September 27, 1848, died April 3, 1879; Reese P., October 24, 1852, resides in Putnam county, Ohio; Benjamin F., October 3, 1854, now in Texas; George W., March 21, 1856; Cynthia A., April 3,1858; Caroine C., August 22, 1861.

The Tulloss family are estimable citizens.

TURNER, WILLIAM, Mt. Vernon, secretary of the Knox County Mutual Insurance company, was born in Norfolk county, England, in December, 1813. He spent his youth while in England in farming and milling. He was the first child of Walter and Sarah Turner. He came to America in 1832, with his parents, who purchased land in Coshocton county, on the Walhonding river, where the town of Walhonding now is. He purchased a large tract of land-some four thousand acres. In the crash of 1837 he was carried with it, losing all.

About 1835 the subject of this sketch went into the store of Buckingham & Sturgis, Zanesville (or rather Putnam then), and retained that position for three years. He came to Mt. Vernon in 1839, and opened a store under the firm name of Freeman & Turner, and about a year after the name of the firm was changed to Buckingham & Turner. Mr. Buckingham was president of the. Knox Mutual and brother-in-law of Mr. Turner. On the resignation of the secretary of the company, Mr. Turner was elected to fill the place by the board of directors, which position he has held ever since.

He was married to Miss Laura Guernsey, of Rochester, New York, in 1841. They have had four children, three of whom are living-one son and two daughters. His wife died and he afterward married Mrs. Julia Guernsey, nee Palmer.

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ULREY, VALENTINE, farmer, post office, Gambier, son of David Ulrey, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1814, was brought to Knox county, in 1817 when a child three years, old by his parents, they locating in Harrison township, where the subject of this sketch was reared to manhood and received a good common school education; after which he performed labor among the farmers by the day, month and by the job, which he continued about six years.

In 1840 he made a trip to Illinois, where he remained until 1843; being engaged in school teaching. He returned to Knox county, where he remained a short time, and then purchased a half interest in a grist-mill, located in or near Oxford, Holmes county, which was conducted under the firm name of Thompson & Ulrey. He also followed farming in connection in 1862. He then sold his interest in the mill to John Duncan, but still remained two years in Oxford, continuing to farm.

In 1848, March 23, he married Elizabeth Bucklew, who bore him one child, a son, Eugene, born April 17, 1855. On the thirtieth of August, 1836, she died, being in her thirty-second year. On the twenty-fourth of June, 1858, he married Lydia A. Close, widow of Malachi Close, a daughter of Samuel Uhl, born in Holmes county, June 30, 1827. This union of Mr. and Mrs. Ulrey resulted in five children, viz: Mary J., born September 2, 1859; William A., February 28, 1861: Laura S., December 28, 1862; David S., November 11, 1868, and died November 2, 1871; Margaret E., December 28, 1870, and died September 4, 1873, leaving three children living.

In 1864 he sold his farm and property in Oxford and purchased a farm in Knox county, two miles south of Danville, where he then moved with his family and remained four years, when he sold said farm, purchased the old homestead formerly owned by his father, in Harrison township, where he then moved and at present resides.

Mr. Ulrey has held the office of justice of the peace and clerk in Harrison township.

Mr. and Mrs. Ulrey are members of the Disciple church of Union Grove.

UMPHRYES, IRA, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty; born in Knox county in 1841, and was married to Martha Gower, who was born in this county in 1852. His father, Jacob Umphreys, was born in Virginia in 1801, and was married to Martha Johnson. They had seven children: Margaret, Elizabeth, Catharine, Keziah, Ruth (deceased), Mary J. (deceased), and Henry (deceased). After the death of Mrs. Martha Umphryes, Mr. Umphryes married Mary A. Wallace, and they have had four children: Josephine, Ellet, May, and Ira. Mr. Umphryes emigrated to Licking county, Ohio, in 1804 with his parents, and they remained there a few years, then came to Knox county, and remained here until his death, which took place in March, 1880. He was a good citizen and a stanch Democrat, as are all his sons.

UNDERWOOD, ISRAEL, Mt. Vernon, was born in Clinton

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county, Ohio, June 18, 1820. His parents came to this county in 1828 and located in Middlebury township near Fredericktown where he received his education. He spent several years of his life on the home farm, after which he learned the potter trade, which he followed until 1846. He then went to Fredericktown and engaged in the hotel business for one year, after which he engaged in the sale of clocks and general collecting in which he continued until 1854, when he came to Mt. Vernon, and that year was appointed deputy sheriff under Lewis Strong, in which he served two years; and in 1856 he was nominated and elected to the office of sheriff, in which he served four years and three months. He served three months in consequence of the time of the expiration of said office being changed from October 1st to January 1st. He was the first one in the county to respond to the first call for troops, enlisting in April, 1861; he was a member of company A, Ohio volunteer infantry, which was the first company organized in the county, and was assigned to the Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry. He was commissioned first lieutenant, and afterwards made regimental quartermaster, and in 1862 was promoted to captain and was detailed on General Kimball's staff as brigade commissary. In 1863, in consequence of ill health, he resigned and returned home, and in 1864 he, in company with his brother, took charge of the Main Street Exchange hotel of Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he remained one year, then returned to Mt. Vernon and has since been in the employ of different railroad companies as solicitor of railroad stocks, the right of way, etc., etc.

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VAIN, BENJAMIN F., Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Pike township, thus county, on the farm where he now resides, in 1840, and was married in 1864 to Elizabeth L. Hardesty, who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1841. They had eight children-Theodore E., born in 1865; Jerusha A., in 1867; Marion Jasper, in 1868; Hannah Jane in 1869 (deceased); Millie Blanch, in 1871; Charlie A., in 1874; William Ray, in 1876; and Earnest A., in. 1878. Mr. Vain has always been identified with this county, and is a member of a pioneer family.

VANCE, DANIEL., Miller township, pioneer farmer, was born in Miller township July 14, 1813, and is the oldest man now living in the township that was born in it. His father was John Vance, a native of Rockingham county, Virginia, born August 9, 1785. He married Rebecca Van Trump, a native of the same county, Virginia, in 1808. He came to Ohio in the same year in company with his father, whose name was also John, and a soldier of the Revolution. They all settled in what is now the southern part of Miller township, where John Vance, sr., had entered two hundred acres of land, and of which John purchased sixty acres, to which he subsequently added one hundred more. He died on this farm, aged eighty-nine years. His wife died some years previous. They built the first house in the township in 1808-9. It is of hewed logs, and still stands in a good state of preservation. They had eight children, viz.: Lemuel, who was killed in the Burlington storm; Hannah, now Mrs. Houck, who was the first white child born in the township; James, who was also killed in the Burlington storm; Daniel, who had a leg fractured in the same storm; Elizabeth, wife of H. Moore of Delaware county, Ohio; Mariah, wife of William Debolt, near Richwood, Ohio; Rebecca, widow of L. C. Wright; Lucinda, now deceased, married Alex. McFarland.

Mr. Daniel Vance married Miss Elizabeth Daily, January 9, 1840. She was born February 17, 1818. They had five children, viz.: Harriet (deceased); Rebecca, married J. B. Conway; John Oscar, married Miss Ward; Mary Elizabeth, who lives at home; Emma, died in infancy.

VANCE, JOSEPH W., was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1809. In the spring of 1840 he removed to Mt. Vernon. In 1842 he was admitted to the bar; he rose rapidly in his profession, and soon attained a high position as an advocate. He made a profession of religion and united with the Presbyterian church in 1846. As a Christian and church officer he was intelligent, consistent, and efficient. As a man his individuality was strongly marked. For firmness in what he thought was right, for decision of purpose and persevering energy he was remarkable. His power of will was immense. In fitting himself for his work he had many difficulties to contend with, but he did not despair. He looked at them boldly and grappled with them manfully; he persevered until moutains became plains before him. He had a keen sense of justice, and that which is always asssociated with in a man of principle, incorruptible integrity. As a citizen he was influential. He was not one of that class that simply move along with the current of public opinion; he gave character and direction to that current; he helped mould opinions. On every question that concerned the community in which he lived, or society in general, he had decided views and convictions, based upon an investigation of the subject, and on most questions he was generally in advance of the common sentiment. This was especially true on the subject of slavery. He was one of the first advocates of anti-slavery sentiments in this county. For a time he stood almost alone, and received no little obliquy and censure. But he believed himself in the right, and in that right he was strong.

As a lawyer his strength lay in the force of his arguments in the presence of a jury. Here he won many a laurel. His ardent nature gave to his address an earnestness and fire which many times told with wonderful effect. He had the race faculty of becoming one with his client, it mattered not who that client was, or what his circumstances in a financial point of view, of identifying himself with all that was fair and good on the side he advocated, which gave him great advantage in doubtful cases, and armed him with unusual power when right lay on his side. Entering thus so ardently into the cause he advocated, sympathizing thus warmly with his client in what there was of truth and justice in his cause, he could press his suit with that sincerity of conviction and earnestness of personal feeling which always have such great weight with men.

He was a true patriot. When his country was assailed he had but one end in view, to uphold his country's honor. In August, 1862, he was commissioned Colonel of the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and soon thereafter marched with his regiment to the front, and was under General Sherman in the first attempt to take Vicksburg. At Arkansas Post his regiment was in the thickest of the fight. It was also in the engagement at Jackson, Mississippi, and participated in the final siege and capture of Vicksburg, under General Grant. His regiment was transferred to General Banks' command, and formed a part of his army in the unfortunate Red River expedition. In the battle of Sabine Cross Roads on the eighth of April, 1864, he fell, mortally wounded. He fell at his post, heroically discharging his duty. He died in a noble cause, died the Christian patriot's death, and fills the Christian patriot's grave.

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VAN HORN, WILLIAM, farmer,. Union township, post office, Rosstown, was born in Virginia in 1808, and lived there until 1836, when he emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and settled near Danville, and has remained in Union township until the present time. He married Miss Lucinda Roberson May 24, 1841, and lived in Danville three years. In 1865 he settled on his present farm. He has six child ren-Francina, Ruuseyville, Jasper, John W., William, and Newton. The three last named have died.

VAN HORN, JASPER, farmer, Howard township, post office, Howard, was born in Union township September 25, 1855. He was married to Miss L. R. Howell April 9, 1879, and came to his present farm in October, 1879. His father came from Virginia in 1835, to Knox county, Ohio, and settled near Danville, where he died. Mr. Van Horn has been engaged in teaching school in winter and farming in summer.

VANNATTA, SAMUEL T., Miller township, farmer, was born in Warren county, New Jersey, September 14, 1835. He is the son of Peter and Sarah J. Vannatta, nee Weller, who were natives of New Jersey. Mr. Vannatta died in New Jersey in 1836. They had two children, one of whom died in infancy, and the subject of this sketch.

Mrs. Vannatta remained in New Jersey until 1840, when she came to Miller township with her father. Philip P. Weller; she and her son Samuel remained with her father until he was about twenty-four years of age, when they purchased a tract of ninety-two acres of land, and moved upon it. Mr. Vannatta, is now one of the leading (farmers of the township, owning over three hundred acres of good land. He is systematic in his management, and his farm shows more than usual care. He was elected land appraiser of the township in 1879, and has filled a number of offices to the satisfaction of the people. He is a man of good judgment and considered a wise counsellor. His educational advantages were very limited; he, however, obtained a sufficient knowledge of the common branches to enable him to conduct his business. He married Miss Levina Hawkins, January 29, 1864, daughter of Isaac Hawkins, of whom mention is made elsewhere. They have three interesting children, viz: Frank .1., Charles O.. and Flora Emeline.

VERNON, AARON, Morris township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown,; vas born in Muskingum county, Ohio, November 19, 1809, came to Ohio in December, 1821, and was married in March, 1831, and had the following family: Jesse, born January 11, 1832; John, November 17, 1833; Jacob L., February 8, 1836; Isaac, January 17, 1838; Francis L., August 19, 1839; Daniel L., October 17, 1841; William Allen, July 18, 1844; Oliver B., August 6, 1846; Samantha M., January 22, 1848; Sarah E., April 28, 1852; Aaron C. G., November 17, 1854. Mrs. Elizabeth Vernon died in this county, February 19, 1878. Mr. Vernon subsequently married Mrs. Elizabeth Lambert, who was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1827. Jesse Vernon was married February 11, 1852, to Sarah Brawlier, and now resides in Allen county, Ohio; John was married November 4, 1855, , to Rose L. Lawrence, and now lives in Linn county, Iowa; Jacob L., was married March 25, 1858, to Elizabeth Hisler, who since deceased; Sarah E. was married to Frances Brawlier, and now lives in Cardington, Ohio; Aaron

C. G. was married in Allen county to Barbara Pletcher; they reside in Hancock county, Ohio; Samantha was married to Frank Brawlier.

The following are deceased: Jacob L., died April 14, 1863; Frances L., died in Iowa; Isaac, June 22, 1838; William A. October 3, 1845; Oliver B., November 9, 1849; Samantha Brawlier died February 12, 1872.

Mr. Vernon was here at a time when the county was covered with timber. He was quite a hunter, having in his time killed two deer with one shot, a feat not many can boast of.

VERNON, DANIEL L., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Pike township in 1840, and married in 1860 to Sarah A. Erion, who was born in Ohio. Their children are: Florence, Alfred B., Frank E., and Ellen. They came to Wayne township in 1867, afterwards emigrated to lowa, remained for three years, and then returned to this township.

He was a soldier in the war, a member of company H, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and remained in the service until he received an honorable discharge.

VINCENT, S. M., Brown township, attorney, post office, Jelloway, a son of Robert and Jane Vincent, nee Miller, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on December 16, 1821. He accompanied his parents to Ohio in 1830, they locating on Dowdy creek, in Holmes county, where they lived about eight years. In 1838 they moved to this county and located in Howard township, remaining until 1856, when they moved to Pike county, where they passed the remainder of their days

Mrs. Vincent died in September, 1863, Mr. Robert Vincent surviving his companion until February, 1865.

Mr. S. M. Vincent, the subject of this sketch, is a self-educated man. In 1847 he commenced the study of taw under the instructions of S. W. Shaw, attorney. In 1850 he was admitted to the Knox County bar, and in 1859 he was admitted to practice in the Supreme court. At present he is located at J Jelloway, Knox county, Ohio, and practices in the courts of Knox, Holmes, Ashland, and Richland counties. He is the attorney for the Home Fire Insurance company, and the Jelloway Mutual Aid Insurance company, both located at Jelloway, and does business for them in about twenty counties in the State.

In 1847 he married Miss Rosanna Lybarger, born in Knox county in 1825, daughter of Jacob and Sarah Lybarger. They settled at Ashland, Ohio, and remained one year, and then returned to this county. In 1850 they moved to Jelloway, where they have since resided.

They reared a family of six children: Sarah J., married B W. McKee; Victoria, married Lyman Workman; John Fremont Vincent was born February 2, 1857, and died September 9, 1880; Martha A., married John L. Hildebrand; Jessie Q. and Lincoln are at home with their parents in Jelloway.

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WADDELL, JAMES P., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born October 2, 1826, in Union township, Knox county. Until 1833 he lived in Danville, when he moved to a farm in Brown township, and lived there twelve years, and continued farming until he was drafted in the late war; but on account of ill health was rejected. He was drafted the second time and sent a substitute.

He was married March 22, 1879. He engaged in shoemaking, following it a year. He then moved to the old farm, and remained there a year and then moved to the farm on which he now resides.

WAGES, JAMES J., Fredericktown, blacksmith, was Born

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in Baltimore county, Maryland, in 1821, and came to Ohio in 1827.

He was married to Catharine Brown, who was born in Pennsylvania, and died in January, 1848. Mr. Wages was again married June 6, 1849, to W. W. Drake, who was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, in 1822. They had six children, viz: Catharine, born in October, 1849. She is married to O. F. Crall, and resides in Ashland, Ohio; Paxton (deceased); Martha J. is married to F. Marble, and lives in Michigan; Clam B., and Mary E. are dead; Clement was born in March, 1867.

Mr. Wages is a blacksmith by occupation, and has been engaged in that business since 1849, and is a good practical mechanic.

WAGNER CHARLIE, Fredericktown, retired, was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, July 6, 1805, and was married in 1826, to Anna Allbach, who was born in New Jersey in 1804. They had the following family, Sarah, Nathan, deceased, Grace, deceased, Jemima B., John and Colwell. Mrs. Wagner died April 3, 1865, in Waterford, Knox county, Ohio. Charlie Wagner came from New Jersey to Knox county September 10, 1838, located in Waterford, Middlebury township, and kept hotel twenty years. He was engaged in the tailoring business a number of years, then removed to Fredericktown and engaged in keeping hotel, and continued in that about fourteen years. His name is still continued with the Wagner house, which has given it character and influence.

WAGNER, GEORGE, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, March 16, 1811, and was married December 25, 1850, to Catharine Henry, who was born July 22, 1822, in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. They have the following family: Francis, born July 9, 1852; Catharine, August 14, 1856; Florence, February 5, 1859; George, November 28, 1861; Hattie B.. October 21, 1864; and Mary I., August 7, 1869. Florence was married to Samuel A. Stretey, April 18. 1880, and now resides in this township.

Mr. Wagner has resided in this county ever since he came from Pennsylvania. He was a soldier in the Mexican war, and is one of the active men of this township.

WAGNER, HENRY, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, January 11, 1822, and was married March 5, 1846, to Sarah A. Jeffreys, who was born in Wayne township, this county, December 22, 1825. They had six children: Susan E., born January 9, 1848; George P., January 1, 1851; Sarah E., March 8, 1853; William H., November 8, 1856; John L., January 22, 1863; and Mary E., April 16, 1868. The latter died December 28, 1868.

The following members of the family are married: Susan M. married January 6, 1870, to Sylvester Caywood; Sarah E. to Robert Martin; George P. to Susan Lyons; William H., April 20, 1878, to Sarah E. McDonalds.

Mr. .Henry Wagner was brought by his parents to Ohio at the age of two years, who settled in this township in April, 1824. They improved the farm where he now resides, which is one of the most beautiful farms in Knox county. Through industry and frugality he has accumulated a competency that enables him to retire and enjoy the fruit of his labors.

WAGNER, GEORGE P., farmer, Middlebury township, post office, F Fredericktown, born in this township, January 1, 1831, and was married October 24, 1872, to Susan Lyon, who was born in Wayne township, May 3, 1856. They have three children: Louis B., born July 11, 1875; Corliss, February 24. 1877; and an infant, April 7, 1880. Mr. Wagner is engaged in farming in this township, and is one of its active and enterprising men.

WAIGHT, JOHN B., attorney and counsellor at law, Mt. Vernon, was born in New Market, Harrison county, Ohio, May 14, 1853. He is the third child and only son of George H. and Biddy (nee Gordon) Waight. He spent his youth in attending school, and graduated from the New Market college in 1870. He then commenced reading law with Lewis Lewton, esq., of Cadiz, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar at Carrolton, Ohio, September, 1873. He taught school in New Comerstown, Ohio, in 1872. In January, 1874, he opened an office in Mt. Vernon, where he has since been practicing. He was nominated on the Republican ticket in 1874 for prosecuting attorney, but was beaten by eighty majority; the county went over four hundred Democratic. January, 1880, he was appointed city solicitor, and at the following April city election he was elected solicitor.

WALKER, WILLIAM, deceased, Pleasant township, vas born in Virginia in 1800; was brought up on a farm, and made farming, stock raising and dealing in stock his vocation through life. He emigrated to Ohio and located in this county in 1835. In 1837 he married Miss Mary A. Smith, daughter of Samuel and Phoebe Smith, who was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1820, and came to this county in 1834. They settled on the farin in Pleasant township now owned by his widow. Their union resulted in ten children, viz: Sarah, Charles, Minerva, Harrison, William, Emeretta, Emeline, Hartiet, Olive, and Joseph A. Two of the number, Harrison and Harriet have died; Mr. Walker is also dead.

WALKER, ALEXANDER, farnier, Middlebury township, post office, Fredericktown, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1833, and married in 1857 to Sarah A1. Gault, who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1837. They have the following children, viz: Mary E., boric in 1857; Lizzie J., 1859; William H., (deceased) 1861; Orie A., 1863; Carrie E., 1805; James C., 1867; Edwin M., 1869; Hettie B., 1871; and Theodore F., 1875. Mr. Walker is engaged in farming, and owns a well-improved farm with good buildings.

WALKEY, WILLIAM, farmer, Pike towship, post office, Democracy, born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1837. He was married in 1859 to Nancy Lewis, who was born in Monroe township in 1833. They have one child, Eva Jane, born in 1810. Mr. Walkey was elected justice of the peace in Pike township in 1870, and reelected in 1873. He filled the office with credit and satisfaction. He is now notary public.

His father, John Walkey, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1796. He was married in 18iB to Rebecca Bensinger, who was born in 1801. They had seven children: Elizabeth, born in 1819; Daniel, in 1822; Maria, in 1825; Margaret, in 1829; Susan, in 1830; John, in 1833; William, in 1837. Maria was married to Samuel Shira. They reside .in Messer county, Missouri. Margaret married Fuller Lambert. They reside in Cass county, Iowa. Susan married. James Shipley; she died in 1878. Daniel died in 1834; came to his death by an accident. Mr. Walkey is engaged in a saw-mill. He is one of the leading and respected citizens of the township.

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WALLACE, CHARLES, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in June, 1815. In 1837 he came to Knox township, Holmes county, and in 1838 removed to his present farm in Knox county.

He was married to Nancy Hardisty, October 18, 1858. They had the following family: Elizabeth, Thomas, Charles, and Nancy. Thomas enlisted in the late war, in 1864; served his time out and received and honorable discharge.

WALLACE, DAVID, Morgan township, farmer, was born in county Armagh, Newtown- Hamilton, Ireland, September 30, 1813. His parents, David and Mary Wallace, nee Glenny, were natives of Ireland; their parents were Scotch, or the grandparents of the subject of our sketch were Scotch. His parents immigrated to the United States in 1819, with a family of three children, and settled in Burlington township, Licking county, where they subsequently purchased a farm, and lived and died there. Thev had a family of six children, five of whom are living, viz: David, Margaret, married William Wiley; Henry, Robert, of Mansfield; Mary Ann, married Burgess Helphrey; Eliza Jane, married a Mr. McFarland.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm, and received a common schooi education. In 1847 he moved to Morgan township, where he has since resided. He was married to Miss Mary Dunlap, May 5, 1847; she is a native of Muskingum county. Ohio. Her parents were of Scotch-Irish descent. They had nine children, viz: Mary E., wife of John T. McKee; Elizabeth J., Maggie I:., Sadie A., wife of James R. Boyd; Wylie D., and Loretta A. The deceased are: Anna M., Maudna .A., and William H., who died of diphtheria.

Mr. Wallace is a good citizen and is esteemed by his neighbors for his kindness of heart.

WALLACE, JOHN, Pike township, butcher, post office, North Liberty, born in Wayne county, Ohio; in 1842, and was married in 1864, to Jane Blakely, who was born in 1848. They have the following family of children: Eva Estella, born in 1864; Edria Luella, in 1867; Verna May and Bertha Day, in 1873; Winifred, in 1875; Anna Bell, in 1876, and Ida Arivilla, in 1880. Edna Luella died in 1872, and Bertha Day, in 1873.

Mr. Wallace came to this county in 1838, and was engaged in farming for a number of years. For the last ten years he has been engaged in butchering in North Liberty. Anna Bell died October 13, 1880.

WALTER, GEORGE A., salesman, was born in Morris township, Knox county, in 1842, and was married in 1870, to Mary L. Smith, who-was born in Fredericktown in 1851. They have one son: Carleton C., born March 14, 1872, in Mt. Vernon.

Mr. Walter learned the carpenter trade when a young man, in Mt. Vernon, continued to work at his trade till 1872, when he was engaged in the butchering business with S. Kirby, afterwards with M. P. Minteer, and in 1880 was engaged with Braddock & Hurst.

WALTERS, JOHN, Union township, farmer, post office, Howard, born in 1821 near Steubenville, Ohio; came to Knox county in 1835, and settled upon the farm he now owns. He was married to Miss M. C. Johnson in April, 1843. They have five children-George, Sarah, Mary Jane, Harriet, and Frances. He has generally worked at farming, but has done some black smithing.

WALTERS, JOHN J., Fredericktown, liveryman, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1833; came to Ohio in 1835, and was married in 1858 to Mary E. Wagner. He had the following family: Charles, born in 1859; Edward, in 1863; Hattie, in 1867; and Frank, in 1873.

Mrs. Mary Waters died in 1861. Mr. John Walter was afterwards married, in 1863, to Susan Baxter, who was born in 1844 in Middlebury township.

Mr. Walters came to Fredericktown in 1878 and engaged in the livery business. He has the leading and best livery in this city.

WARD, RUFUS, Miller township, deceased, was born June 22, 1801 in Pittsford, Rutland county, Vermont. In 1816 he came with his parents to Zanesville, and in 1818 moved to Knox county and resided in Mt. Vernon, for some years after which he moved to Miller township, where he purchased a farm and became one of the large land owners of the township, and a leading man of the community. He held the office of justice of the peace for twenty-one years, to the satisfaction of the public.

He was a self-made man-began life without any aid-but by industry and economy was successful. He was a farmer, and his farm presented evidence of careful tillage.

His first wife was Miss Laura Davis, and his second wife was Miss Ellen Rowley, a native of Vermont, to whom he was married July 2, 1843.

Mr. Ward died September to, 1879; his wife died September 12. 1870. They had nine childern, viz: Laura E. (married to Newton E. Chambers); Mary E. (married to Douglass Bricker); Emma E. (married to Alonzo Chapman); Lavina A. (married to Oscar Vance); Nellie A. (married to William Turner); Rose B. married to Rollin Hyatt). The sons are Rufus D., John F., and Fred L.

WARD, TRUMAN, was born July 19, 1805, in Rutland countv, Vermont, came with his parents to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1813, and lived there until 1815, when they came to Miller township, Knox county, and lived there until November 1, 1827, when he came to Mt. Vernon. He was married on the same day to Eliza Maxfield, a native of Vermont. They have had a family of nine children, six of whom are living. After his marriage he spent a number of years in the cooper business.

He commenced reading medicine in 1847, and graduated at the Willoughby Medical college in 1849, after which he practiced a short time in Mt. Vernon; also in Sunbury, Delaware county, after which he engaged in the drug business, in which he was successfuily engaged until November 7, 1878, when in consequence of bad health he sold out and retired from business.

WARD, L. B., was born in Brandon, Vermont, April 10, 1808. His father, Rufus Ward, was a native of Massachusetts. His parents emigrated to Zanesville, Ohio, in April, 1814, where they remained two years, when on January 1, 1816, they came to Knox county and located in what is now Miller township. When they came to Ohio they came by team as far as Olean, New York, where they exchanged their team for a flatboat and floated down the Allegheny river to Pittsburgh, then down the Ohio to Marietta, where they hired a keel-boat to take them to Zanesville.

When he first settled on the fann he had a family of eight children, all of whom, but one, lived to see three score and ten years. At this time four are living, whose ages aggregate three hundred and twenty-four years. All of the family were married and had families, and all lived in Knox county but one.

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Mr. Ward, sr., died in 1834, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. His wife died in 1848, at the age of eighty-five years. Mr. Ward followed farming until 1842, when he engaged in the mercantile business until 1864, when he sold his store and went back to his farm. In 1874 he opened a jewelry store it, company with his son, in which he is now engaged.

He was married to Mary Freeman, daughter of Luther Freeman, then a resident of Knox county, by whom he had five children, all living, and all married, and all live in Knox county.

WARD DENNIS, Miller township, farmer, was born in Miller township August 25, 1858, and is the son of Rufus Ward, of whom mention is made in this work. He was married to Miss Jennie E. Hildreth October 9, 1879, daughter of Arnold Hildreth of Miller township, mentioned elsewhere. The subject of this notice was reared on his father's farm and received a common school education, and is a social and pleasant gentleman.

WARREN, J. B., blacksmith and general jobber, Mechanic street, between High and Chestnut streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Warren was born in Ontario county, New York, November 10, 1833. When about three years of age his father emigrated to Ohio, and located in LaGrange, Lorain county. Here the family resided for seven years, and then removed to Kirkland township, Lake county, where they remained for twelve years, following the avocation of a farmer, in which he was assisted by his son, the subject of this sketch. The father and family then, removed to Van Wert county, the son making that his home till 1867.

In 1861 J. B. Warren enlisted in the first call for three months, but on examination was rejected. He then engaged as salesman with Casto & Hartsock. This position he retained until July, 1864, when he again enlisted and was accepted. He entered company H, Fifteenth Ohio veteran volunteer infantry, First brigade, Third division, Fourth corps. In this company he served until May 27, 1864, when he was wounded at Pickett's mill, near Dallas, Georgia, And in consequence of this wound was discharged from service August 25, 1865. He returned to Van Wert county and engaged in mercantile pursuits, in which he continued for about eighteen months, when he took up his residence in Mt. Vernon. He entered into the Kokosing Iron Works as a mechanic in general work where he remained for two years. He then engaged with C. and C. G. Cooper & Co. as boltmaker. At this he worked for eighteen months then served eleven and a half years on saw-mill work. After this he established his present business in which he has been engaged about seven years. Mr. Warren does business of about one thousand dollars per year, and does all kinds of job work, horseshoeing, etc. On the tenth day of December, 1868, he married Miss Abbie R. Smith. Mrs. Warren died on the third day of January, 1880. He has a family of one son, C. Warren, and one daughter. Dora E. The son assists his father in his business.

WATKINS, THOMAS, was born in "The Hay," Wales, in the year 1812, where he remained until 1822, when he came with his parents to America and settled at Steubenville, Jefferson county, Ohio, where he remained for a number of years. He was .married to Miss Eliza Brown, daughter of Hervey Brown. She was born February 13, 1822. They reared a family of two sons and two daughters. They left Steubenville and located in several different places, but did not remain long.

Mr. Watkins died August 7, 1857. The family settled in Mt. Vernon, on Cemetery avenue, in 1868, where they still live. The children are all living,

WATKINS, WILLIAM J., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Knox county in 1828, and and was married in 1863 to Mary A. Zedaker, who was born in Morrow county in 1840. They have two children-Frank, born in May 3, 1864, and Eva, November 14, 1873.

WATKINS, DALLIS, Middlebury township, farmer, Post office, Levering, born in this county December 12, 1843, and was married in 1866 to Mary Martin, who was born in Knox connty, November 25, 1845. They have the following family, viz: Isaac, born August 1, 1868; Phebe Bell, October 11, 1868, Luella, May 8, 1872; Gladys, September 1, 1875; and Maude, August 21, 1878.

Mr. Watkins has always lived on this farm where tie now resides.

WATSON, ABRAHAM, Pleasant township, deceased, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1770, of Irish parents. He was a blacksmith by trade, and followed that business as his vocation for many years.

In 1803 he married Miss Elizabeth Rivers, of Maryland, born in Washington county in 1781. They settled in Maryland, remained until 1834, when he with wife and eight children, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, travelling the whole distance of over three hundred and fifty miles in a one-horse wagon, being almost four weeks on the road. They located in Miller township, where they passed the remainder of their days.

His companion died in 1856, aged seventy-five years. He survived her until 1863, aged ninety-three years. He served in the War of 1812.

They had a family of eight children„ viz: Maria, Matilda, David, Abram, John, Catharine, Elizabeth, and Amanda. Two of them (Maria and) ohn) have died.

WATSON, DAVID, farmer, son of the aforesaid Abraham and Elizabeth Watson, was born in Washington county, Maryland, January 22, 1814. He came with his parents to Knox county in 1834.

In 1840 he married Miss Sarah Muck, born in Pennsylvania. April 17, 1824, and came to this county in 1839. They settled in Miller township, this county, remained until 1874, when they purchased and moved upon the farm in Pleasant township, where they are now living. He still owns the farm in Miller township, on which they lived from 1842 to 18741. They reared a family of nine children, four sons and five daughters.

WATSON, JOSEPH, Attorney, of Mt. Vernon, was born March 1, 1827, in the town of Ballyreagh, county Fermanagh. Ireland. He was married in Ballinamallard, on the seventh day of July, 1848, to Miss Rebecca Sproule, daughter of John Sproule, of Aultamulen, county Tyrone, and emigrated to America in August, 1849. In April, 1852, he settled in Mt. Vernon, and engaged in the grocery business, in which he continued until 1859. In 1861 he was admitted to the bar to practice late, and has continued at his profession ever since. In April, 1880, he opened an office in Columbus, Ohio, and was there admitted to practice in the United States courts. Mr. Watson has reared a family of six children-William B., Isabella, John S., Joseph H., Matthew O., and Frank C.-all living. John married Stella, daughter of James Stockwell, of Sunbury, Delaware county, Ohio, and has had two children. Isabella was married

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to Silas A. Spindler, of Monroe Mills, this county, in 1878, and has one child-a son, Austin.

WATSON, J. S., merchant, Hilliar township, post office, Rich Hill, was born in Mt. Vernon in 1836, is the third child of Joseph and Rebecca Watson, nee Sproule. He attended the schools of Mt. Vernon, and clerked in a store for about one year and a half. At the age of nineteen he purchased the Sunbury Spectator, a weekly published at Sunbury, Delaware county, Ohio. He edited and published this paper for about four years and a half in Sunbury, and then moved it to Centreburgh, Knox county, where he continued to publish it, changing the name to The Mirror, for about six months, and sold out. He was successful in the newspaper enterprise, and after he sold his paper he purchased the stock of the general store of M. Roberts, of Rich Hill. He "stocked up," and now carries a full line of dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, queensware, hardware, glassware, and such goods as are carried in a general fine. Mr. Watson is a careful business man, prompt in leis dealings, pleasant in address, and well calculated to do well. He was married to Miss Stella Stockwell, of Sunbury, Delaware county. September, 1876. They have one child.

WEAVER, JONATHAN was born at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, February 12, 1816, removed to Ohio with father and mother and one sister, and settled in Ashtabula, Ashtabula county, about the year 1822, receiving and concluding his education at the high school of that place. His father and family removed from Ashtabula, and settled in Worthington, Franklin county, Ohio, in 1834. In about one year after, J. Weaver left Ashtabula and came to and lived at Worthington, Ohio, and for two months was engaged in the dry goods store of B. Comstock (in which business he had three years previous experience: with John Booth at Ashtabula). On leaving Comstock's, he engaged with Champion a Lathrop, wholesale dry goods dealers, of Columbus, Ohio, southwest of High and Broad streets, afterwards with Comstock & Buttles, forwarding and commission merchants and pork packers, Columbus, Ohio. In the spring of 1839 he engaged in the grocery business in Columbus with Frank Stewart under the firm name of J. Weaver & Co. In May, 1844 he commenced a grocery business with H. Hollister at Newark, Ohio.

The following October the firm removed to, and continued a wholesale and retail grocery business at Mt. Vernon, under the firm name of Hollister & Weaver, until the fourth of March, 1846, when J. Weaver bought out H. Hollister, and associated himself in business with Dr. M. W. Stamp (a resident of Mt. Vernon) under the firm name of J. Weaver S Co., wholesale and retail grocers. This firm continued business until the first of May, 1850, when it was mutually dissolved, and the business continued by J. Weaver (Dr. Stamp uniting with the firm of C. P. Buckingham & Co. in the building of Kokosing foundry in Mt. Vernon).

During the year 1851 J. Weaver closed up business in Mt. Vernon, and was engaged in business with H. If. Curtis at Keokuk, Iowa, for a few months, after which he returned to Mt. Vernon, and engaged again in the grocery business with James George. This firm continued one year, and was mutually dissolved, J. Weaver continuing the wholesale and retail grocery business from that period until May, 1876-a period of twentyfour years at Mt. Vernon.

During a period of thirty-seven years J. Weaver has made a home at Mt. Vernon. On the fourteenth of January, 1846, he was married by Rev. James Muenscher, to Miss Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Samuel J. L Updegraff; esq. (an early resident of Mt. Vernon), who now have living two sons and two daughters, and two granddaughters, having lost two grandsons, children of Howard and Anna Harper, residents of Mt. Vernon.

WEAVER, JOHN,. Liberty township, farmer, born in Liberty, February 22, 1831. He is the fourth child of Leonard and Mary Weaver, nee Zent. His youth was spent on the farm on which he now resides, and on which he has spent all his life except six years. He enlisted in company A, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guards, for one hundred days.

He married Miss Frances M. Coyle of Morrow county, in 1856. They had two children: One died while young; and Emarine, wife of Samuel Bricker.

Leonard Weaver, the father, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, March 31, 1804. His parents came to Ohio at an early day, and remained in Fairfield county until 1814, when they removed to Jefferson township, Richland county, where they lived and died, being pioneers. He remained with his parents until 1823. About 1825 he moved to Liberty township, and purchased a tract of land, which was heavily timbered. He had the usual experience of early settlers. Hard work and economy, however, overcame the disadvantages. He is a good citizen, and has the esteem of the community. He was married August 28, 1823, to Miss Mary Zent, by whom he had seven children. His wife dying, he married Harriet Farreson. He resides on the farm on which he settled in 1825.

WEBSTER, EDWIN P., Gambler, was born in Summit county, Ohio, December 6, 1849. He was educated at the Bissell institute, at Twinsburgh. In 1872 he accepted a position at Dawson, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, as night telegraph operator, which position he held about six months. In February, 1873, he came to Gambler, this county, and accepted the position of agent and operator in the office of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon S Columbus railroad company, which position he is now filling.

In 1875 Mr. Webster married Miss Sarah R. Cheyney, of Dawson, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. They settled in Gambler, where they are now living. They have three children, all daughters.

WEEKS, WILLIAM, Monroe township, farmer, a native of England, and son of Matthew Weeks, was born May 25, 1824. He migrated to America with his father and located in Gambler in 1842. His father deceased in about two years after their arrival at Gambler.

In October, 1844, Mr. Weeks married Miss Nancy Ayers, born in Wayne county, Ohio, March 4, 1824, they settled in Jefferson township, this county, remained a few months, and in June of the same year they moved to Gambler, lived one year in the village, and then moved to Monroe township, where his companion deceased in June, 1859, but be is still living in Monroe township. Their union resulted in seven children, only two of whom are now living. He served one year in the war of 1861. His son, John H., died in the service of his country during the late war.

WELKER, DAVID (deceased), Union township, was born in Somerset county. Pennsylvania, February 28, 1787. He emigrated to Knox county, and located in Union township in 1809, on the farm now owned by his son, John D. Welker. In

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1810 he married Sarah McMillen, who was born in 1791, daughter of Robert and Nellie McMillen. He erected a log cabin on his land, which served them as an abode for a number of years. He lived on the farm and followed farming as his vocation until he died, November 16, 1853. His companion died in March, 1857. They reared a family of seven children: Paul, David, Sarah, John D., Eleanor, Simon, and Mary-all of whom married and reared families.

WELKER, DANIEL, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Union township, Knox county, December 5, 1812. He remained here twenty-eight years. He was married in 1840, and removed to Howard township, where he has remained ever since. He has six children: Shiply, Curtis, Edith, Maria, Dillon, and Elizabeth. Curtis died at the age of two years, three months and nine days; Dillon died at the age of twenty-one years, eleven months and fourteen days.

WELKER, PAUL, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Union township, Knox county, September 16, 1813. He remained in this township until the thirtieth year of his age, when he removed to Howard township, and settled on the farm which he now owns and occupies.

He was married in 1838 to Crysta M. Ankeny. They had four children: George, David, Sylvester, and Belle. David died July 24, 1874, at the age of thirty-three years and twenty days; Sylvester is at present (June, 1880) assessor of this township.

WELKER, M. D., A. D., Gambier; a native of Knox county, and son of Elliott and Rachel Welker, was born in Howard township on the twenty-second day of October, 1847. He is a self-educated man, studied medicine with Dr.'s McMahon, Coleman and Moffett, of Millwood, this county. In the fall of 1870 he entered the Louisville Medical college, at Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated February 29, 1872. On the fifteenth day of the following April he came to Gambier and began the practice of medicine, where he has since been engaged in his profession, meeting with good success. In September, 1870, he married Aliss Louisa White, of Howard township, this county, daughter of Anthony White. Their union resulted in two children, daughters. Mrs. Welker died August 22, 1875. His second marriage was with Miss Fannie Colwill, to 1878, daughter of Simon Colwill. By this union he has one child, a son.

WELKER, GEORGE A., physician, Berlin township, post office, Shalers Mills, was born in Union township, Knoxcounty, in 1839. He received a preparatory education in the common schools, and attended the Ann Arbor Medical college in Michigan. He also attended lectures at the University of Wooster Medical college, located at Cleveland, and graduated in 1875. He commenced the practice of medicine in Greersville; remained there for two years, then located in Millwood, where he remained two years and six months. In 1866 he moved to Ankenytown, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. He now has an extensive practice, aid stands high in his profession. He was united in marriage to Miss Emma Giffin; of Berlin township, who was born in 1845, daughter of Lauriston and Lucia F. Giffin. They have two children-Nina Belle, born in 1868, and Harry B., 1870.

WELLS, G. W., Fredericktown, baker and grocer, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1832, and came to Ohio with his parents in 1835.He was married in 1858 to Anna E. Logsdon, who was born in Knox county in 1834. They have three sons: William, born February 22, 1859; David, born November 28, 1860; and Freddie, born March 27, 1869.

Mr. Wells began business in this town in 1867, where he has built up a good trade. He is a first-class baker, and is prepared to meet the wants of the public in his line.

WELLS, JOSEPH, Middlebury township, deceased, born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and married Sophia E. Noble, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1842. They have two children: George W., born February 22, 1859, and Joseph M., August 30, 1860., Mr. Joseph Wells died August 13. 1872.

George W. Wells was married to Rosa Haraman. They reside in Pike township. Joseph M. still resides with his mother.

WELSH, JOHN, farmer, oldest son of William and Rebecca Welsh, nee Budd, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1814. He received a good common school education, was reared on a farm, and has followed farming as his principal vocation. October 7, 1834, he married Miss Sarah J. Beall, daughter of Zephaniah and Alary Beall, nee Purcell. She was born near Beallsville, Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1818.

Mr. Welsh remained in Washington county about two years after his marriage to Miss Beall. In the fall of 1836 he came to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Clinton township, about three miles south of Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road, remained there one year, then, in 1837, he purchased and moved on the farm, in the same township, one mile west of Mt. Vernon, where they are now living. He bought the land of Benjamin Keller. The dwelling house consisted of a double log cabin, which served them as an abode until 1847, when they erected their present brick residence.

Their union resulted in eight children-William, Mary, Zephaniah, B., Reasin, Rebecca, Lucretia, Joseph, and Sarah J. two of whom are deceased, Mary and Joseph. Mary died at the age of four years.

Joseph enlisted in company B, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, under Colonel Vance, in March, 1864, and died in the service on the steamer J. H. Groesbeck, on his way home from New Orleans, September 22, 1864.

All of Mr. Welsh's sons served in the war of 1861. His son William was the first to enlist and go into service from Knox county.

Mr. Welsh taught several terms of school in Clinton and adjoining townships, making that his vocation during the winter months, for a few years after his arrival in this county. He taught his first term in the county in the winter of 1836-7. He understood surveying, and did a great amount of that work in different parts of the county. He also followed contracting and building to some extent, having made some fine improvements in Mt. Vernon for himself and others.

WELSH, J. W., Union township, mechanic, post office, Rosstown. He was born in Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, August 31, 1858. His father and mother both died in Fredericktown when he was eight years old. He returned to Mt. Vernon, remained five years, then moved to Rossville, where he now lives and works at his trade.

His father, Peter Welsh, was a weaver and worked a longtime in Mt. Vernon.

In 1833 he was married, and had four children. Two are living and two are dead. In 1848 his wife died. He was married

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again in 1851, and had five children -Bridget, Agnes, J. W., Edward, and Anna.

WERTZ, GEORGE, deceased, Morris township, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1809; was married to Amanda Myers October 1, 1835, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, May 31, 1817. They had the following chitdren: Jacob, born June 9, 1837; Anderson, May 8, 1851; Azariah, September 5, 1843; Theophilus, June 16, 1845; George H., July 3, 1852; Sarah Ann, December 25, 1838; and Mary E., September 19, 1847.

Jacob married Maria L. Koch, June 25, 1858; they reside in Crestline, Ohio. Sarah married J. Madison Rood, December 16, 1858. Azariah married Leppe Greenland January 28, 1868. Mary married Frank Foster. Theophilus married Lucinda Baughman; they reside in Scott county, Iowa. George Henry married Anna Mullen January 10, 1875. Andrew married Martha Vernon in 1874; they have two children: George, born March 6, 1875; Louis, August 15, 1878.

Mr. George Wertz died April 27, 1877, in Morris township, . aged sixty-seven years, eleven months and two days. He came to Ohio in 1819.

Mrs. Amanda Wertz lives on the home place in Morris township.

Jacob Wertz was engaged during the late war as surgeon. He rendered efficient service, and distinguished himself as a than of ability.

WERTZ, ALBERT, Middlebury township, farmer. post office, Levering, born in Licking county, in 1851, and was married in 1875 to Deliah Fidler. who was born in Morrow county. They have three children: Emery E., born November 27, 1875; John H., November 16, 1877; and an infant born in 1880. Mr. Wertz has resided in this township three years, and owns a farm with all the modern improvements.

WESTON, HIRAM, Fredericktown, mason, was born in Rutland, Vermont, in 1816, and came to Ohio in 1836. He was married in 1843 to Eliza Hodges, who was born in New York in 1823. They have the following family: Livonia, born in 1845; Harriet, in 1848; Eleanor, in 1851; Anice and Alice, in 1855; Amasa and Amy, in 1859; Ada, born in 1861, and died in 1869.

WHITE, THOMAS, College township, deceased, a native of Maryland, was born in 1779. About the year 1802 he married Miss Winnie Logsdon, of Maryland. They migrated to Ohio and located in the county near the Indian fields about 1804 or 1805, remained a few years, then moved on a farm in College township, near Gambier, where they deceased.

They reared a family of seven children--Anthony, Nancy, Lewis, Joseph, David, James, and Lydia. Only four of the number are now living, namely: Lewis, James, David and Lydia.

WHITE, LEWIS, College township, farmer, son of the aforesaid Thomas and Winnie White, was born in College township, this county, on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1811.

He was reared on a farm and has made farming his principal vocation during life.

In 1831 he married Miss Rebecca Welshhammer, born in 1809. They settled in College township, a short distance south of Gambier. They have six children-Amanda, Matilda, Norman H., William H., Ellen, and Charles J.

In 1849 his companion deceased.In February, 1851, he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Dial, of Holmes county, Ohio. By this marriage he has three children, two sons and one daughter.

In 1851 he purchased and moved on the farm in College township, where he is now living.

WHITE, GEORGE BERKELEY, postmaster, Mt. Vernon. Mr. George B. White, the present postmaster of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, was born on the seventh day of July, 1814, in Derby, New Haven county, Connecticut. Mr. White is a descendant in a direct line from Elder John White, one of the first settlers of Cambridge, in Massachusetts; of Hartford, in Connecticut, and of Hadley, in Massachusetts. The elder was born in England, about the year 1795. He sailed from London, England, on the twenty-second day of June, 1632, and arrived at Boston, in Massachusetts, on Sunday, the sixteenth day of September following, after a tedious voyage of eight weeks. He died in the winter of 1683-4. He had six children, four sons and two daughters. From the second child, Nathaniel, the subject of this sketch descended. Elder White was a man of great prominence in his day, and held many important public trusts.

When about twelve years of age George. B. White went to New York city, and engaged as a salesman with Folgar, Lamb & Co., where he remained about five years. In 1835 he came to Gambier, Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business with his brother Mardenbrough, now a resident of Gambier, under the firm name of M. & G. B. White, and continued in business there until 1838, when they closed up their business in Gambier and came to Mt. Vernon and entered into the same line of business, and under the old firm, which they conducted until 1841. His brother returned to Gambier, and George engaged in mercantile pursuits of various kinds from 1841 to 1872; the most important branches were the boot, shoe and leather business, with his brother-in-law, T. Ewing Miller, for twelve years; and the queensware, crockery, and house furnishing goods for some three years. In 1872 he was appointed inspector in the internal revenue department and stationed at Cleveland, Ohio, where he remained eighteen months. He then went to Washington city, where he had been appointed to the special service division in the pension office. This position he held for six months, when, in consequence of ill health, he resigned and returned to his home.

He was appointed postmaster at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and entered upon the duties of said office on the first of May, 1874. He was reappointed to the same position in 1878, in which he still continues.

For some fifteen or more years Mr. White represented his ward in the city council, and was its continued president from the time he took the oath of office until he voluntarily retired from the service of the city.

On the tenth day of October, 1839, he was married to Miss Clara Miller, daughter of the late judge Eli Miller, of Mt. Vernon. Eleven children were the issue of this marriage, five sons and six daughters, all living but two of the sons.

Mrs. White passed away from earth a few years since, loved by her immediate family, and esteemed and respected by her numerous friends and acquaintances.

WHITE, DAVID, Gambier, retired; son of Thomas and Winnie White, was born in what is now College township, this county, December 21, 1816 He was reared a farmer, and has followed farming as his vocation. In 1838 he married Miss

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Elizabeth Majors; they have had one son, Emanuel, who was killed near Lagrange, Mississippi, in the war of 1861. His companion deceased January 16, 1851. He was united in marriage with Margaret Howard, who deceased in 1877. His last marriage was with Catharine Gorsuch, who is now living with him in Gambier.

WHITE, JOHN A., farmer, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, about 1820. He remained in Pennsylvania until 1840, when he came to Liberty township and remained a year, then went to Noble county, Ohio, and engaged in cultivating tobacco. While in Noble county he made several trips to Liberty township. In 1866 he removed to the farm on which he now resides and which he had purchased the fall previous. Mr. White, although not having an education, has been successful in making for himself and family considerable property. He began poor in life, but by his industry and good management overcame all obstacles, and is now one of the leading farmers of the vicinity, and is esteemed by his neighbors for his uprightness of character. He married Elizabeth Craft, of Guernsey county, Ohio. They had eleven children, ten of whom are living. They are an industrious family.

WHITE, WILLIAM J., wagon-maker, Fredericktown. Lieutenant White was a member of company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, and was engaged in the service about three years, attaining to the position of lieutenant. He was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1823. He came to Ohio with his parents in 1829, and located in Knox county. He was married in 1845, to Amnnda Lambert, daughter of Rev. Daniel Lambert. She was born in 1826. They have one daughter, Sarah C., married to W. L. Merrin. They reside in Newark, Licking county.

WHITFORD, JAMES M., travelling salesman, Fredericktown, was born in Maryland in 1826, came to Ohio in 1844, and located in Richland county. He was married in 1855, to Margaret Rankins, who was born in Licking county in 1823. They have the following family: Rankin born in 1856; James, in 1858; Hattie, in 1860: Jefferson, in 1862; Ralph, in 1870; William H., in 1873. Mr. Whitford settled in Fredericktown in 1845. He has good business qualifications, and is one of the enterprising men of Fredericktown. He has been engaged with the firm of H. M. Weaver &; Co., of Mansfield, since 1871, and has the reputation of a successful salesman.

WHITNEY, DUDLEY C., Brown township, farmer, post office, Danville, son of Ebnezer and Sarah A. Whitney, born in Brown township, Knox county, August 16, 1846. He remained with his parents until February 13, 1873, when he was united in marriage with Miss Maria F. Tremble, daughter of Samuel and Susan Tremble, born in Union township, Knox county, on the twenty-fifth day of March, 1849. After his marriage he built a house on the old home place, where he then moved, and where he has since remained, farming for his father. He is at present a justice of the peace in Brown township.

Mr. and Mrs. Whitney are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Danville.

WHITNEY, E. J., farmer, post office, Danville, son of Thomas Whitney, born in Orleans county, Vermont, December 6, 1806, where he was reared by his parents until he arrived at the years of manhood. In the year 1830 he was united in marriage with Sarah A. Boardman, born in Norwich township, Windsor county, Vermont. July 13, 1806. After his marriage he located in Hartford, Vermont, where he engaged to work in a foundry, and did so until October, 1837, when he moved with his family to Ohio, locating to Brown township, Knox county, where he made a purchase of a farm of one hundred and nine and a half acres of land in the Jelloway valley, where he erected a rude log cabin, and moved his family into it. He cleared his land and at present has a very pleasant home.

Mr. Whitney has filled a number of offices of trust while living in said township. In 1850 he erected a saw-mill on his farm, which he operated a number of years. His marriage resulted in eight children, as follows: Edward E., born November 5, 1833, and died January 26, 1879; Virginia C., August 4, 1835, and died February 25, 1849; Victoria P., November 29, 1839; Girdon B., November 29, 1839, and died in Portsmouth, Virginia, August 4, 1864; Lucy E., June 5, 1844; Dudley C., August 16, 1846; Luella M., November 21, 1850; Helena, April 19, 1853.

Mrs. Whitney died December 4, 1876, on her sixty-eighth year.

Mr. Whitney survives his companion in his seventy-third year, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of Danville.

WHITTINGTON, NEHEMIAH, grocer and confectioner, North Sandusky street, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Mr. Whittington is a native of Caroline county, Maryland, where he was born September 29, 1808, and where he resided until 1834, when he came to Ohio and located in Licking county, where he resided one year. He then came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in draying, in which he continued several years, and after which he engaged in the manufacture and sale of tinware, which he conducted about two years. He then engaged with the firm of C. and E. Cooper, to do stove mounting, which he followed several years, when he was given the position of shipping clerk, and in consideration of his faithfulness and abilities he was retained with this firm in all twenty-eight years. In the year 1872 he established himself in the grocery business, in which he has since been engaged. He carries a good stock of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries, flour and feed.

He has been twice married. His first wife was Sarah Gradless, by whom he had two children, one of whom, a daughter, is living. His second wife was Lovica Hindens, by whom he has a family of six children-three sons and three daughtersall of whom are living, and all but one of whom are married and reside within the limits of this county. His daughter by his first wife is married and resides at Cardington, Ohio.

WHITWORTH, .A. T., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Maryland, July 27, 1818. His father died when he was five years of age; he lived with his mother and took care of their little farm. In 1831 they sold their farm and moved to Jefferson township, Knox county, remaining there five or six years, and then removed to Howard. In July, 1839, he was married to Rosa Clute, of Mt. Vernon. His mother died in 1856 at sixty-four years of age. He had three children: Joseph, born September 10, 1841, and died in 1850; Sarah, September 12, 1845, and died in 1850; Susanna, September 15, 1849, and is now living in Michigan.

WIER JOHN, Monroe township, farmer, son of Noble and Ann Wier, was born in Ireland in 1818. In 1833 he accompanied his parents to America, who located in Monroe township, Knox county, on a farm now owned by Robert Marshall's heirs. They remained a few years in Monroe township, then in

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1838 they moved to Liberty township, this county, where they died. Noble Wier, father of John, died in 1874; his companion survived him until 1876.

In 1839 Mr. Wier married Miss Mary A. McClelland, daughter of John and Sarah McClelland. They settled in Monroe township and have-lived in the same township since their marriage, except about two years that they spent in Morrow county, Ohio. They moved on the farm on which they now reside in 1860, and have a family of nine children, two sons and seven daughters. He has made farming his vocation through life.

WILKINSON, C., Mt. Vernon, was born near St. Clairsville, Belmont county, Ohio, November 27, 1842. He passed his early life on a farm. In 1862 he entered the army as a volunteer in the Ninety-eighth Ohio volunteer infantry. In the battle of Perrysville, Kentucky, he was wounded by a rifle ball passing through his left leg, rendering him unfit for service. In 1863 he was discharged from duty. After returning home he entered the Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware, Ohio, and graduated from that institution in 1866. After graduating he spent three years teaching in the public schools of Lancaster and elsewhere.

In 1870 he purchased the Belmont Chronicle, published at St. Clairsville. The Chronicle was the Republican party paper of Belmont county, which he edited for two years. He then removed to Fostoria, Ohio, where he published the Fostoria Press for a time. In the fall of 1876 he purchased, in partnership with Mr. S. S. Knabenshue,, the Mt. Vernon Republican. In September, 1878, he purchased Mr. Knabenshue's interest on the Republican, and continued the publication of the same until May 6, 1880, when. he sold the Republican to Armstrong & Co. At present Mr. Wilkinson is engaged in farming near Mt. Vernon.

WILLIAMS, MILTON B., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Wayne township, Knox county, in 1827, was married in 1851 to Elizabeth Roberts, who was born in Berlin township in 1831. They have two children - Bryant and Jesse. Mr. Williams has resided in Berlin township for forty-three years. He owns a well improved farm with all the modern improvements, and is a model farmer.

Mr. Williams resided in Richland county one year, and was engaged in a saw-mill before he removed to Knox county. His father, Daniel Williams, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1792, and emigrated to Ohio at the age of twenty-two years, with his parents. and first located in Fredericktown. He bought the first mill property of Mr. Cars, also a large quantity of land. He died in Knox county in 1876.

WILLIAMS, ADAM, Miller township, blacksmith, at Brandon; was born in Miller township, December 14, 1834. He is the fourth child and the third son of a family of five children. His parents, Jacob and Sarah Williams, nee Litzenberg, were natives of Pennsylvania, and were married there and came to Ohio about the year 1828. They both died in Miller township, this county.

The mother of the subject of this notice died when he was about four years old, and was therefore in early life deprived of her fostering care. He remained with his father on the farm until about the age of twelve years, when his father discontinued housekeeping, when Mr. Williams was placed with his aunt, Mrs. Susan Jackson, where he remained about a year, and then resided with his uncle, David W. Litzenberg, with whom he remained about a year. His father again going to housekeeping he returned to the place of his birth, and remained with his father until his death. Some few months after this, and when about seventeen years of age, he was bound to Boyles & Coleman, of Brandon, to learn the trade of blacksmithing. He remained about two years in Brandon, then went to Mt. Vernon with William Sanderson to finish his trade. He remained about two years and then went to Mechanicsburgh. Pennsylvania, where he remained six months and again returned to Mt. Vernon, where he remained about two years working at his trade. In the fall of 1858 he came to Brandon and entered into partnership with Aaron Boyles, which continued for some two years, when he purchased his partner's interest, and for the first time commenced business for himself.

He worked at his trade until November, 1861, when he enlisted in company C, Forty-third regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, command by Colonel Smith. He participated in the engagements of New Madrid, Missouri, and Island Number Ten. At Corinth he was appointed sergeant, and at Decatur, Alabama, he was appointed color-bearer. He was at Resaca, Georgia; Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, thence on the Sherman campaign to Savannah, and thence to Washington, District of Columbia. He received a second lieutenant's commission about two months before he was discharged. He thus served his country three years and eight months, participating in all the battles and marches in which his regiment was engaged. He was slightly wounded at Resaca, Georgia, in the shoulder. He veteranized at Prospect, Tennessee, in January, 1864.

Mr. Williams was discharged with his regiment at Columbus, Ohio. After his return from the army he resumed his trade, at which he has since been engaged. He has been successful in his business, and has the esteem and confidence of the community in which he lives. He takes an active interest in public affairs. He joined the Methodist Episcopal church in the fall of 1861, and has been a consistent member.

Mr. Williams was married to Miss Caroline Baughman, July 14, 1858. She was born March 14. 1840, and a daughter of Christian Baughman, sr., of whom mention is made in this volume. They had a family of five children-Leonora L., born April 23, 1859, who married Henry Bunnell; Albert W., deceased when six months old; Stanley A., born June 14, 1862; Elmer C., April 8, 1867; and Rosa May, July 30, 1872.

WILLIAMS, GRAFTON, farmer, post office. Levering.He was born, in Maryland in 1841; he came to Ohio with his parents. He was married to Armina Fiddler (widow), who was born in Licking county.

Mr. Williams was a soldier in the late war, a member of company A. he was wounded at the battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee; the ball entered in the centre of his breast, came out under the right shoulder blade. Hg made a very narrow escape. He is drawing a pension.

His wife, Mrs. Fiddler, had two children with her first husband. Lawrence Edward was born in 1867; Emirella J., born in 1869.

WILLIAMS, BRYANT B., farmer, post office, Fredericktown. He was born in this township in 1854. He was married September 31, 1880, to Sadie E. Steele, who was born in Wayne county in 1858.

WILLIAMS, A. H., Newark, Ohio. Mr. Williams is proprietor of the Licking county blank book manufactory. His establishment is located on West Main street, in Felt's block,

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He has had twenty-two years' experience and is doing a large and successful business.

WILSON, DEXTER, Morris township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in this county in 1826, and married in 1850 to Sarah Love, who was born in this county in 1830. They have four children, viz: Oscar W., born in 1852; Philittia J„ in 1853; Frank M., in 1864; and Minnie Bell, in 1870.

WILSON, HODGSON, school teacher and farmer, was born in the county of Durham, England, March 10, 1847. He removed to America in 1852, residing for a short time in Cleveland, Ohio, and removed the same year to Butler township. He received the first rudiments of his education in the district schools of this township. He afterwards attended select school at Millwood, taught by Professor Jones, a graduate of Kenyon college, and also the Northwestern Normal school at Fostoria, Ohio. Mr. Wilson, although a strong Republican, is one of the justices of the peace of the Democratic township of Butler.

WILSON, JOHN, farmer, Wayne township, post office, Fredericktown, born in Wayne county, January 15, 1831, and was married December 12, 1858, to Harriet McFelow, who was born in Wayne county, October 27, 1841. They had the following children-Ambel, born July 7, 1859; William Elmer, September 28, 1864; Laura Etta, June 4, 1877, and Agnes May, April 17, 1879. They were all born in Knox county except the first, who was born in Wayne county. Mr. Wilson came from Wayne to Knox county in 1859, located on a farm and is one of the leading men of this township.

WILSON, JOHN B., was born in Belmont county, Ohio, on the twenty-ninth day of July, 1835. He removed to Washington county, Ohio, at an early age. From there he emigrated to Butler township, Knox county, in 1856, remaining there a short time when he came to Clay township, where he has since resided. He was married October 27, 1861, to Miss Rhoda M. Rice, who bore him one child-a son, named Marion, who was born June 1, 1862. Mrs. Rhoda M. Wilson died March 29, 1871. He subsequently married, September 26, 1872, Miss Elanor Mckee, by whom he has had one son: Harry Leslie, born July 31, 1878.

John M. Wilson, father of John B., was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, January 16, 1800. He removed to Ohio, settling in Belmont county when a young man. He was married to Anna Mason, of that county, April 12, 1830. They had five children, viz: John B., William B., Joseph M., Sarah A., Samuel H. John M. Wilson died December 28, 1869.

WILSON, E. J., M. D., Mt. Vernon, office over Eagle drug store, Main street, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Dr. Wilson was born near Granville, Licking county, Ohio, on the ninth day of August, 1853, and was educated at Dennison university in Granville. On the nineteenth of April, 1875, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Larimore, of Mt. Vernon. During the winter of 1877-8, he attended his first term of lectures at the Columbus Medical college, and graduated on the twenty-third day of June, 1879, at the Long Island college hospital, at Brooklyn, New York. He was appointed resident surgeon of the hospital after a competitive examination., which position he filled with much honor to himself, until July 1, 1880, when he returned to Mt. Vernon, and accepted a partnership with his former preceptor, Dr. F. C. Larimore, with whom he is now actively engaged in the practice of his profession.

WINDOM, HON. WILLIAM.-The present Secretary of the Treasury, Hon. William Windom, was, during his childhood, youth, and early manhood a resident of Knox county. He was a native of Belmont county, Ohio, where he was born May 10, 1827. In the autumn of 1832, his father with his family removed to Middlebury township, this county, and coutinued to reside there until 1848, when he removed to Illinois, William went into the law office of Judge Hurd, of Mt. Vernon, as a law student, having previously received an academic education. He was admitted to the bar in 1850, and the next year, 1851, became a partner of judge Hurd, who, in 1852, on being elected judge of the court of common pleas, surrendered his practice to William Windom and D. S. Norton, two young lawyers, the last named being his brother-in-law.

In 1852 William Windom was elected to the office of prosecuting attorney of Knox county. He was the candidate of the Whig party, and succeeded by more than three hundred majority, although the county generally gave the Democratic ticket a larger majority than that.

Mr. Windom was a young man of excellent talents, good habits, exemplary deportment, and ranked well among the promising young lawyers of Mt. Vernon. He took a deep interest in the celebrated Main Law campaign, as it it was called, in 1853, making many speeches in all sections of Ohio in favor of temperance legislation. Mr. Windom was widely and favorable known as a zealous and able advocate of temperance in general and of laws prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors. He held a high position in the ranks of the temperance hosts of the State, and while yet quite young was chosen the chief officer of an order known as the Sons of Temperance, in which position he served not only acceptably but also quite efficiently, making many public addresses, and in various ways laboring to promote temperance and good morals.

In September, 1855, Mr. Windom removed from Mt. Vernon and settled in Winona, Minnesota, and there, in company with his law partner, Daniel S. Norton, esq., entered upon the practice of his profession. Both gentlemen were possessed of decided talents, and as a law firm were successful.

Mr. Norton was elected a member of the Senate of Minnesota four times, and in 1862 was elected a member of the lower branch of the State legislature; and in 1865 he was elected a member of the United States Senate for a full term of six years, ending in 1871, but died in Washington city July 1, 186--, before his term had expired.

Hon. William Windom was elected a member of the Thirty-sixth Congress in 1859, and served as a member of the committee on public land, and also as a member of the special committee of thirty-three. He was also elected a member of the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the committee on public expenditure; and of the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as chairman of the committee on Indian affairs, and of the special committee to visit the Indian tribes of the west in 1865.

Mr. Windom was also elected a member of the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the committee on the death of President Lincoln. He was again at the head of the committee on Indian affairs, and also served as chairman of a special committee on the conduct of the commissioner of Indian affairs. He was meanwhile a delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' convention of 1866. He was elected to congress for the fifth time in 1866, and through the Fortieth congress served on the same standing committees as in the immediately preceding years.

Hon. William Windom, after an honorable career in Congress,

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of ten consecutive years, was appointed by the Governor in 1870, to serve out the unexpired term of Hon. D. S. Norton in the United States Senate, and was soon thereafter elected to the Senate of the United States for a full term of six years, beginning March 4, 1871, and ending March 4, 1877, during which time he served as chairman of the committee on enrolled bills, and on the committee on transportation, and also served as a member of the committee on appropriations. Before the expiration of his term in 1877, he was again elected for another full term of six years, which would have terminated March 4, 1883, had he not tendered his resignation as United States senator March 1, 1881. He has thus served his State, with credit and honor, for a period of a little more than ten years, as a member of the United States Senate, making a period of more than twenty consecutive years of service in the National councils.

Hon. William Windom has taken an active part in the legislation of the country during the last twenty years, a period that may well be called the most eventful in its history--a period that embraced all the years of the civil war. He kept abreast of the times-took a part in all the discussions of the great war measures that demanded consideration and deliberation in the councils of the Nation. He was always patriotic-always willing to vote for more money and more men to put down and crush out the great rebellion-always voting like a patriot, a philanthropist, a philosopher, a statesman when questions affecting slavery, public credit, finance, currency, rebellion were acted upon and demanded the exercise of prudence, wisdom, and the highest style of statesmanship.

By selection of President Garfield, and by the unanimous vote of the members of the United States Senate, Hon. William Windom is now (April, 1881,) Secretary of the Treasury. And in that appointment the country yields general acquiescence. It was an appointment eminently fit to be made. He has many friends and few enemies. Mr. Windom was his own State's lust and almost only choice as the candidate of the Republican party for President of the United States. Where best known he is most highly appreciated.

Hon. William Windom married Miss Ellen Hatch, daughter of a Congregational minister. She had been a popular and successful teacher in the Mt. Vernon Female seminary, conducted by the late Professor R. R. Sloan. They are the parents of three children.

WINELAND, JOHN, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1824. He came to Ohio in 1827, and was married in 1850 to Joannah Biddle, who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1828. They have seven children-George Wineland, born in 1851; Jacob, in 1853; Sindrilla, in 1855; Clarvina, in 1857; Mary Elizabeth, in 1862; Emma Etta, in 1864; Sarah L., in 1866; Iona, born in 1869. Jacob Wineland died in 1866, in Pike township, Knox county, Ohio.

Mr. John Wineland has always resided on his present farm. He has been elected to different township offices, and has held the office of township trustee for a number of years.

WINELAND, ALONZO, barber and hair-dresser, basement of Woodward block, comer of Main and Vine streets, Mt. Vernon.

Mr. Wineland is a native born of this county. He was born January 1, 1854, being a New Year's gift from his mother to his father. When quite young he went to Fulton county, Ohio. where he resided about sixteen years, where he was engaged in attending school, after which he returned to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the barber business with Phil. Schwikert, where he remained a short time, and then entered the employ of Albert C Shoper, where he remained until January 1, 1880, when he bought out the firm and has conducted the business ever since. He runs four chairs, and has two bath-rooms. He has one hundred and seventy-five regular customers, besides accommodating transient visitors, and does an average business of about forty-five dollars per week. Hair-cutting a specialty. He does the largest business in this line, and has the most commodious and best accommodations in the city, a place where every visitor will be comfortable, and will be waited upon in first-class style.

WING, MELVIN, was born in Warren county, New York, July 8, 1804, and came to Ohio with his parents in the fall of 1816, and located in what is now Milford township, Knox county, where they commenced in the unbroken forest to clear up a home. Mr. Wing, sr., was of rather delicate constitution and young Melvin being the oldest son, a great portion of the work fell upon his shoulders, but being energetic and of great physical endurance it was not long until the forest had given way and in its stead fine fields of grain were to be seen. They resided on this farm until 1822, when they sold and rented a farm for one year. The following year they bought one hundred and four acres, one mile south of Mt. Vernon, where his parents spent the remainder of their days. His father reared a family of six children, and died April 10, 1865, in his eighty-sixth year; his mother died December 25, 1867. Melvin married Miss Elizabeth H. Ash, daughter of James Ash, and reared a family of four children, one daughter and three sons. Mrs. Wing died March 17, 1874. His daughter Maria J. died March 17, 1879. His three sons, viz: W. C., James A., and W. R., are all married and live in Clinton township.

Melvin Wing is one of the pioneers of the county, and has lived to see a great many changes take place. In consequence of severe injuries, caused by a horse running away, he is now in feeble health and has retired from business to enjoy the balance of his days in peace and quiet.

WINTERMUTE, JACOB PERRY, merchant, Mt. Liberty, Ohio, is the third in descent from George Wintermute, or Windemuth, as originally spelled, who was an emigrant from the old country, settling in Sussex county, New Jersey, in the early part of the last century, and from whom has descended an extensive family connection, now scattered over all the northern States, territories and Canada.

His son George, who died in 1837, in the ninetieth year of his age, was married to Nancy Arason, a descendant of Jeptha Arason, who was commissioned and sent over by one of the King Georges' to do some surveying, receiving for his services a large tract of land in the northern part of New Jersey.

His son George, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, April 28, 1787, was married to Anne Wintermute, nee Lanterman, October 24, 1807, and at once removed to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where he followed his trade of blacksmithing, removing from there to Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1809, where he, with an elder brother, was drafted and served in the War of 1812. After the close of his term of service, the. times being very hard in that then new country, he moved back to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1814, where he remained until the year 1825, when he again moved to Ohio, this time settling in Muskingum county,

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ten miles west of Zanesville, which place he made his permanent residence until the date of his death, January 4, 1862. His widow died February 1, 1871, at her daughter's, near the old homestead. They had a family of six sons and one daughter, as follows: Arason, John Ogden, Asahel Wells, Sarah Ann, Ashfordby, James Frey, and Jacob Perry, all of whom are living with the exception of the second son, who died in Gmyville, Illinois, April 3, 1876.

The subject of this sketch, the youngest of the family, was born in Hopewell township, Muskingum county, Ohio, December 15, 1852, and remained on the farm until his sixteenth year, when he went to Zanesville in the fall of 1848 to learn a trade with his brother, remaining with him four years, after which he engaged in daguerreotyping, following the business in various parts of the State about seven years.

On the last day of December, 1857, he was united in marriage, in Zanesville, Ohio, by the Rev. David E. Thomas, to Ettie A. Buckmaster, who was born in Muskingum county, February 7, 1837, and who was a daughter of C. W. Buckmaster, whose biography appears in another part of this work. This union resulted in a family of two sons and two daughters, as follows: Robert Corbin, born June 27, 1861; Nina, October 14, 1863, both in Norton, Delaware county, Ohio; William Edward, April 4, 1869, and Pearlie, April 9, 1876, both in Mt. Liberty, Knox county.

After a residence in Zanesville of a little more than one year he removed to Norton, Delaware county, Ohio, and engaged in mercantile business with his brother, remaining there five years, when he changed his location to Mt. Vernon, and became one of the firm of J. W. Purviance & Co. Just after the date of this move-May, 1864-he was called into the service of his country, being orderly sergeant of company C, One Hundred and Forty-fifth regiment, Ohio National guard. The regiment did garrison duty on Arlington Heights, Virginia, the whole term of their enlistment.

In the spring of 1867 he changed to his present location and engaged in mercantile business alone, where, by steady persistence and careful management, he has made his business a success.

At the present time he holds the honorable and responsible position of grand worthy patriarch of the Grand division Sons of Temperance, of Ohio, having been elected thereto October 28, 1880.

WINTERMUTE, WELLINGTON ASHFOURDBY, -Milford township, farmer, was born in Licking county, Ohio, June 2, 1845. The Wintermute family are of German extraction, a history of which will be found in the history of Liberty township. The subject of this sketch is the son of Arason and Virenda Wintermute, nee Wayland, and was seared on a farm. He enlisted in company A, Seventy-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry at Newark, Ohio; belonged to the Fifteenth army corps, First brigade. First division, and participated in the battles of Resaca, Dallas, Kingston, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Ezra Church, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Lovejoy Station, Siege of Savannah, Columbia, Fayetteville, Bentonville, Raleigh, and all the skirmishes and engagements in which his regiment participated, but one. He was discharged with his regiment at Columbus. Ohio, July 25, 1865, after serving his country faithfully, never shirking any duties that devolved upon him. After his return home he resumed farming. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a good and useful citizen. He married Miss Louisa Hawkins, daughter of Isaac Hawkins, of Mt. Liberty, August 6, 1871. They have two children,-Charles W. born June 5, 1872, and Mary, March 26, 1877.

WINTERRINGER, BARNETT, Union township, farmer, post office, Rossville, born in Jefferson county, Ohio, November 29, 1804. His father came to Knox county in 1816.

Barnett Winterringer remained at home until 1827, when he was married to Sarah Workman, and settled on his present farm. His wife died April 12, 1859, leaving thirteen children, all of whom have died except three, who are living near their father and doing well. He was married the second time January 1, 1861. He has always lived a quiet life. He contributed largely to the Presbyterian church at Millwood, and also a handsome amount to the Wooster university, at Wooster, Ohio.

WINTERRINGER, J. S., Jackson township, was born at Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, February 27, 1852. He removed at an early age to Jackson township, where he resided until nine years of age, when he removed to Harrison township, where he received the first rudiments of his education. He was a student at Martinsburgh academy; also at the Ohio university, at Delaware. In the meantime, while pursuing his studies, he taught several terms of school in Knox county. On the twentieth of May, 1874, he commenced business at Bladensburgh in a hardware and grocery store. In the meantime he has added a general stock of dry goods, etc. Everything necessary for the household can be found in his establishment. His business is large and increasing.

Mr. W Winterringer was married to Miss C. T. Hartupee, of Bladensburgh, December 21, 1874. They have had three children-Nettie A., born September 12, 1875; Warren L., July 30, 1878; and Frank R., May 4, 1880.

WISE, JOHN C., farmer, post office, Frederick town.-He was born in Monroe county, Ohio, in 1825. In 1847 he was married to Louisa Barton, who was born in Noble county in 1824. They had six childrenEdward (deceased), Richmond (deceased), Theodore B., Charles W., Felissa Jane (deceased), and Frances Louisa (deceased).

Mr. Wise located in this township in 1872. Theodore B. was married in 1876 to Adelaid Ickes. They have one daughter - Gertrude L.; Charles W. was married in 1875, to Belle Merrin. They have two children-Wellington R. and Loetta B.

WITHROW, JAMES, Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Greersville, son of David and Elizabeth Withrow, born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1804; was brought to Ohio in the spring of 1816, by his parents, his father locating in Columbiana county, where he received his education. In 1823, December 15th, he married Elizabeth Downs, daughter of John Downs, born in Jefferson county, Obio, August 15, 1807. After his marriage he remained in Columbiana county until 1837. In 1836 he came to Jefferson township and entered forty acres of land, and at the same time bought eighty acres adjoining him on the west. In the spring following he moved with his family to his laud, where he has since remained. In 1841 he bought eighty acres adjoining him on the west, making in all two hundred acres. Mr. Withrow was elected justice of the peace in about six months after he came to Knox county, and served five terms, making in all fifteen years. He was aiso captain of a rifle company for seven years. In 1849 he was

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elected representative of Knox county for one term. In 1855 Mr. Withrow, in company with Mr. Beeman, established a dry goods store in the town of Jelloway, which they conducted until 1862, when Mr. Withrow sold his interest to James Skilling, after which time the business was conducted by Beeman & Skilling. During the time he was engaged in this business he owned the farm now owned by John Nyhart. Previous to this he owned two hundred acres in Henry county, Ohio, which he sold. and bought one hundred and sixty acres in Marion county, Ohio, which he gave to his sons William and John; and they now live there.

Mr. and Mrs. Withrow are the parents of ten children, viz.: Hugh, Nancy J., Mary, William J., John W., Elizabeth, Carolina B., David C., Hannah E., Fannie A., James F. Seven children are living. William Withrow served one year in the late Rebellion. James Withrow was elected county commissioner in 1842, serving six years; was also elected land appraiser in 1860 and 1870.

WOLFE, CHRISTOPHER, Liberty township, pioneer of Knox county, was born in Roxbury township, Morris county, New Jersey, July 15, 1791. His paternal grandfather was a German Baptist minister. His father's name was John; his mother's name prior to her marriage was Nancy Cassad, who, by descent was Irish. They were both natives of New Jersey, farmers by occupation, and were highly respected citizens. They both died in New Jersey. They had eight children, all of whom grew up, and four of whom are living, viz: Mrs Elizabeth Yauger; Mrs. David F. Halsey, wife of Squire Halsey, of Clinton township; Mrs. Mary Drake, of Johnston county, Iowa, and the subject of this notice.

Mr. Wolfe's early life was spent at home on the farm. His education was limited to the district schools.

May 12, 1816, he was united in marriage to Miss Phoebe Rinehart, daughter of Christian and Mary Rinehart. Until November of the same year he remained in New Jersey, when he, with the Rinehart family, emigrated to Ohio. They came by wagon, bringing with them some household goods. After five weeks of travel they landed in Morris township, near Mt. Vernon, where Mr. Wolfe remained until 1821, when he purchased a tract of land in Liberty township, on which there had been a small opening, and some improvements made, but it was almost entirely covered with heavy timber. He, however, by persistent efforts felled the "giants of the forest," and beautiful harvests rewarded his labors. In due time the log cabin dwelling was superseded by a fine brick dwelling house, and new barns were erected for his crops. He soon became a leading citizen of the township and county.

Politically Mr. Wolfe is a Jeffersonian Democrat, and always took an active interest in political affairs. In his younger days he was widely known over Knox county as one of the leaders of the party. He served for many years as justice of the peace, and filled the office with very general satisfaction. He was also commissioner of the county for six years, and filled that office with credit. In religion Mr. Wolfe is a Presbyterian, having been a member of that denomination for many years.

Mrs. Wolfe died in April, 1868. The couple lived over a half century together, having had fifty years of happy wedlock. They were blessed with eight children, six sons and two daughters, seven of whom are living, and highly respected and influential citizens, showing that they impressed the same traits of character on their children that they possessed, namely, industry, honesty. and economy. The names of the children are John D., farmer, Poweshiek county, Iowa; Mary A., wife of Andrew Dalrymple, deceased, of Liberty township; George W., farmer, of Morrow county, Ohio; Lewis R., farmer and stock dealer of Oxford, Johnston county, Iowa; William, farmer and stock dealer, Johnston county, Iowa; Thomas Jefferson, farmer, Hilliar township; Eliza, wife of Jacob Myers, deceased, of Liberty township; and Samuel C., the youngest, who is deceased. Mr. Wolfe is spending the "evening of his life" with his daughter, Mrs. Myers, awaiting the summons to join those "who have gone before."

WOLF, SIMON deceased, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1816, and emigrated to Butler township, Knox county, Ohio, when a boy. He was married to Nancy Kemmerer, October 17, 1832, by whom he has had eleven children, viz :Samuel, Martin, Mary Ann, John, Jacob, Lydia, James, Lemuel, Emanuel, Lorenzo, and Dorcas Ellen.

Martin served as a soldier of the late civil war, being a member of the Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, and died at Memphis, Tennessee.

Jacob was also a member of the Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, and was killed at the battle of Kennesaw Mountain.

Lemuel died October 7, 1854. Mr. Simon Wolf died June 11, 1869.

WOLFE, THOMAS J., Hillian township, farmer, was born to Liberty township, Knox county, May 20, 1829. His youth was spent on his father's farm. He was married to Miss Sarah M. Hewett, of Knox county, October, 1850, who was born May 30, 1829. She is the daughter of Cyrus and Syrene Hewett. The following year after their marriage they moved to Hardin county, Ohio, where they remained four years, and then moved to Johnston county, Iowa, where they remained two years and returned to Knox county, and about two years after purchased the farm on which they reside. He has improved the farm and added largely to it.

As early as 1858 Mr. Wolf began to deal in stock and ship to the eastern markets. He continued in this for a number of years, and has been successful.

Mr. Wolfe is one of the solid men of Hilliar township. He is judicious, and consequently successful in his undertakings. His principal business as a farmer is the raising of stock. He was elected land appraiser of this township in 1879. He is regarded as a sate counsellor, a man of sound judgment. Mr. Wolf is social in his manner, liberal in his views, and has the esteem of his neighbors, who look upon him as a man whose word is taken at par; in short, he does what he says. He takes an interest in National matters, and can not be moved from the position he takes upon the political issues of the day. He is a Democrat.

His marriage has been blessed with two children, viz.: Squire M., and Samuel F., both at home. In addition to his own family he has two orphan children, Adda Craft and Amanda E. Yough, to whom he and his estimable wife accord the same privilege as their own family.

WOLFE, SAMUEL, Jackson townsbip, farmer, post office, Bladensburgh, was born August 11, 1838, in Butler township, Knox county, Ohio. He removed to Jackson township in 1861, and has resided there ever since. Mr. Wolfe was married in February, 1858, to Miss Mary Jane Hayes, of Harrison township. They have had nine children, viz: Arminda, born February 14, 1859; Lovenia, January 3, 1861; Melvin, June 9,

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1863; Alma, December 10, 1864; Elfrenda, December 14, 1866; Myrtle, June 7, 1868; Ormsby, April 7, 1870; Silva, January 25, 1872; infant, born July 19, 1874, and died July 22, 1874.

Mr. Wolf was a member of the Sixth company Ohio sharpshooters during the war of the Rebellion.

WOLF, JOHN, is a native of Butler township, born September 13, 1843, and was married-to Hannah M. Hayden may 30, 1872. They have had four children, viz: Everett L., Addle Mabel, Simon Virgil, Edith Violet.

Mr. Wolf served during the war of the Rebellion, enlisting in the Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, in November, 1861, at Millwood, under Captain Walker, and served in the same until the twenty-fourth day of December, 1864, when he enlisted in the veteran service and served until the close of the war. He was engaged in numerous battles and skirmishes; among the number were New Madrid, Iuka, Corinth, Island No. 10, Resaca, Dallas, Kennesaw Mountain, etc. He also marched with Sherman to the sea, and was present at Johnson's surrender.

WOOD, I. & T., brick manufacturers. Isaac Wood, managing partner of this firm, is a native of Yates county, New York, where he was born May 24, 1820, and came to Ohio when about sixteen years old and located first in Licking county, near Hartford, afterward resided in Delaware county, and came to this county in 1845 and located in Mt. Vernon where he engaged in working at the brick business, in which he continued a short time when in 1850, in company with his brother, Thomas Wood, they established the present business, in which they have continued ever since with good success. They were located first north of the fair grounds until 1877 when they removed to their present location where they have all the needful appliances and facilities for the business. They have three kilns, twenty-five by forty feet each, and an extensive yard and four drying sheds, twenty-five by one hundred feet each, and have a ten-horsepower engine for grinding. This firm have facilities for manufacturing one million brick per year, and annually manufacture an average of from six hundred thousand to one million, varying according to the demand, and in which they confine themselves to a first class building brick. This is the largest and longest established brick establishment in the county, and justly deserves commendation as one of the leading industries of the county.

WOOLISON, BYRON, farmer, a native of this county, and son of Reuben D. and Mary Woolison, was born in Monroe township on the sixth day of October, 1832. Reuben Woolson, father of Byron, was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1789. He married Miss Mary King, born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.

In 1828 they emigrated to this county and located in Monroe township, where they passed the remainder of their days. His wife deceased in October, 1875; he survived her until February, 1876. They reared a family of seven children: Eliza, William, Charlotte, Byron, David, Mary, and Angeline.

In 1854 Byron W Woolison married Miss Mary Hall, born in Licthfield, Connecticut, in March, 1838, and emigrated to this county in 1847, and settled in Monroe township. In 1857 they moved upon the farm where they are now living, in same township, one mile and a half north of Gambier.

They have a family of eleven children-seven sons and four daughters. He has followed farming as his vocation through life.

WORKMAN, JOHN, Union township, farmer, post office, Rossville, born in 1803, in Belmont county, Ohio, and in 1821 was married to Hannah Baker. In 1825 he settled on his present farm. His wife died nine months after their marriage. In 1832 he was again married, but his second wife died June 6, 1875, leaving ten children: Susan, Jerome, Peter, Caroline, Rebecca, James, Samuel, Adeline, Delila, and John. Caroline, Rebecca and James are dead. Samuel married Julia Richards in 1875, and settled with his father. He has two children: Hannah and Amy.

John Workman's father died in his one hundredth, year on the old farm.

WORKMAN, SOLOMON C., Brown township, farmer and stock raiser, post office, Jelloway, and son of Joseph and Sarah Workman, was born near Frostburgh, Alleghany county, Maryland, January 12, 1807. In 1812 his father, with his family, moved to Ohio, and located in Union township, Knox county, near the present village of Danville, on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, and there erected a log cabin for his family. In those days the country was thinly settled, wild Indians were seen occasionally, and a block-house was erected upon the farm on which he settled to protect the early settlers from those savages. There was also hereabouts in those days plenty of game, such as bears, turkeys, wolves, panthers, foxes, wild-cats and deer.

On the fourth day of October, 1827, he married Miss Polly Draper, daughter of Isaac and Nancy Draper, born near Morgantown, Virginia, November 7, 1800. Her father was one among the first settlers in Coshocton county, who came from Virginia on pack-horses, and endured all the hardships of frontiersmen. He died at the ripe age of ninety-three years.

Joseph Workman, his father, also endured all the hardships of a frontiersman, and reared a family of fourteen childreneight sons and six daughters, Solomon being one among that number.

Joseph died upon the farm, on which he settled, to the seventy-second year.

Some time after Solomon's marriage he rented his father-in-law's farm, remaining but one year. In 1829 he purchased two hundred acres of wild land in Union township, said county, of Hosmer Curtis, for the sum of four hundred dollars to be paid in four years, where he erected a cabin, and moved into it.

In May, 1833, Benedict Peherenbaugh came from German) -a dealer in brass clocks. He at once engaged to help sell them for three months for the sum of seventy-five cents per day, and one dollar on each clock. When his time expired he engaged the second time for three montlis on the same terms. He then sold the farm spoken of to said patty for the sum of eight hundred dollars, to be paid for in brass clocks at cost and carriage from Germany, which was in 1835.

In the spring of 1836 he gave possession of said lands to Peherenbaugh, moved to Rochester, Coshocton county, Ohio, on the Mohican river, and there commenced the sale of his clocks. He also traded for stock and other articles, particularly notes and obligations, at the same time paying strict attention, to military wild lands, and titles and locations, as they were the only wood lands to be purchased, or for sale, as about all were taken up or sold. In the fall of 1836 he secured, of the heirs of Alexander Brevard, a Revolutionary soldier in North Carolina, a title for three hundred acres of land in Brown township, Knox county, located in the Jelloway valley, where he moved in 1837 from Coshocton county, lodging in a cabin built

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by squatters on said lands, and commenced to improve them. On. the first day of January, 1837, he started east in search of land titles, crossed the Ohio river at Steubenville, travelled through a part of Virginia and Pennsylvania, crossing the comer of Maryland, returning home by the way of Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Canton and Wooster, arriving at home the third week of February of the same year. Here he felt it to be his special duty to compliment his friends, Benedict Peherenbaugh and his three brothers, Fadilla, Peter, and Christian Peherenbaugh. From his first acquaintance to the last he found them gentlemen of truth and honesty. He failed to accomplish anything on his first trip, and in May of the same year he made the second journey to the State of Maryland, visiting some of its principal towns, but failed the second time in getting the required and desired information. He then started for home by the way of Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Canton, arriving at home in a short time in Brown township, and lodged in his cabin in the woods. He then gave his attention to the clearing of the land and erection of buildings, laboring from year to year until the present time, and he has now elegant buildings and a fine farm. He also attends to other matters, such as getting up petitions for roads, securing rights for opening and working the same for the benefit of the whole country.

Roads in early days were few and not in good condition, but as the country settled up they became better by working them thoroughly. At one time a tar was levied for the erection of school-houses and paying teachers for instructing the young. Knowing the difficulties a man labors under who has no education in the matter of keeping accounts and in conducting business generally, he, of course, favored those movements.

He believes that our common schools should be our high schools, language excepted.

In 1827, when he left his father's house to go into the world and transact business for himself, he could not read or write, and he very soon saw the necessity of an education. Procuring a few books, slate, and writing paper, making use of them all, in a short time he could .read, write, and cipher. Seeing that he could learn as well as others he was not a long time in acquiring the rudiments of an education.

In early times it was difficult to sell produce for cash, and it had to be hauled to Bristor, Dover, Massillon, or Newark, and then get only from sixty to eighty cents per bushel for wheat, and seldom a dollar.

At the time of the grading of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, by the way of Loudonville, he had on hand five hundred bushels of wheat, worth from sixty to seventy cents per bushel. Hearing that the Clear Fork mill, situated near Newville, was buying and paying seventy-five cents, he concluded to go over and sell his wheat, but failed, and then went to Loudonville and Wooster and found no market. From there he proceeded to Elyria, Lorain county, but found the market dull. While at the latter place a dispatch came from the city of New York showing an advance in the prices. He contracted one thousand bushels of wheat, at one dollar per bushel, to be delivered at his barn in Brown township, Knox county, and received five hundred dollars on said contract, to be taken on of before the fourth day of July. He then started home, arriving the next morning, when he changed horses and started out, buying five hundred bushels at a cost of from seventy to seventy-five cents per bushel, to be delivered on short notice, the parties selling receiving one-half of said contract. Wheat declining they failed to take balance, although tendered, but about the first of August of the same year, wheat began to advance, and kept on until it reached one dollar, when the company spoken of made a demand for the wheat, but as they failed to comply with the contract. he, of course, declined to let them have it. Wheat continued to raise until October and November of the same year, when he hired teams and hauled it Massillon and Fulton, and realized one dollar and seventy-five cents per bushel out of this wheat.

May 13, 1868, just at twelve o'clock at night, the lady of the house discovered it to be on fire. Water was applied, with the assistance of neighbors, but without avail, the building soon being burned to ashes, and only a small amount of the household goods saved. He then built the house he now lives in the same year, commencing on the tenth of August, and moved into it on the thirteenth of November.

Mr. Workman has been the owner of one thousand acres of land in the Jelloway valley, Brown township, a part of which he sold, and a part he gave to his children, having him the owner of three hundred and twenty acres.

Mr. and Mrs. Workman are the parents of eleven children, six living, and five dead, four of whom died in infancy, one at maturity; grandchildren, total forty-one; deaths, ten, leaving thirty-one living; great-grandchildren fifteen, fourteen living.

In politics he is a Democrat, and in religion a German Baptist. He was elected twice by this church to preach, but declined, not thinking himself a suitable man for a minister; for he believes that a minister should teach by example as well as words.

Mr. and Mrs. Workman are enjoying good health at the ripe old ages of seventy-four and eighty-one years.

Mr. Workman held the office of treasurer a number of years in the township, also justice of the peace for three years.

WORKMAN, SOLOMON, Brown township, farmer and stock raiser, post office, Danville, son of David Workman, born in Alleghany county, Maryland, May 7, 1813, was brought to Knox county by his parents when a boy thirteen years old, his father locating in Howard township, on Jelloway, where he erected a rude log cabin to shelter his family; then by the help of Solomon, the subject of this sketch, they went to work clearing the land and making it ready for tilling. This they continued until they had a very good and comfortable home.

At the age of twenty-five years he married Mary A. Brandbury, June 8, 1837, she being a daughter of Richard and Mary Brandbury, born in England, February 14, 1818. His father gave him eighty-five acres adjoining him, where he then moved and set up housekeeping, remaining about five years, when he exchanged said farm with his father for a farm in Brown township, where he now resides, it being a very pleasant and comfortable home. By their marriage .they became the parents of ten children: Elizabeth, born May 27, 1838, died August 17, 1860; Richard, September 23, 1839; David, July 25, 1841; Mary, September, 1843; Barbara, October 14, 1845, died in August, 1880; Jerusha F., January 1, 1848; Mariah H., January 9, 1859; Normanda F., November 16, 1853; Columbus J., July 31, 1856; Amos C.. February 22, 1859. He and his companion are consistent members of the German Baptist church of Danville.

WORKMAN, S. D., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard.-He was born June 2, 1814, in Maryland, and at the age of thirteen years came to Howard township. He lived with his father until his twenty-fifth year, when he was married

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to Fileana Denison. They settled immediately on their farm and commenced business in the woods.

In 1841 Mr. Workman loaded his wagon with rye and started for Loudonville; but while crossing the Clearfork river, just as he was in the centre of one of the spans of the bridge, the stringers gave away, and he with his grain and team fell a distance of twelve feet, the water being about five feet deep, the bridge falling partially upon them. He was under the wagon bed, but by ' some good fortune he was rolled out from under it. One of his horses was held under water by a portion of the bridge. The grain was in bags and sank to the bottom of the creek. By some means the alarm was given and the people flocked to the rescue. The most interesting feature of the affair was that all came out with but slight injuries. Another strange incident was that his vest was lying upon.the bags of grain, and when the bridge went down it was carried to the bottom of the river. After reloading the grain they started off. Mr. Workman turned his head to gaze for the last time upon the spot, and by reason of the sun shining brightly, the first thing that he saw was his vest floating down the stream. He commanded his hired man, Mr. Snyder, who was with him to get it, as there was four hundred dollars in it.

He has four children-Amanda, Olive, Barbara, and Andrew, the latter at present a merchant in Danville.

WORKMAN, AMOS, Union township, farmer, post office, Danville. He was born in Union township, Knox county, July 11, 1849. In 1870 he went to Illinois and worked in a mill for two years. In 1872 he returned and married Miss Amanda Jales, and settled upon a farm the following year. His father has lived in this county since 1830. He came from Maryland at that time, and died March 17, 1873, in his sixty-third year. March 16, 1871, his wife died.

Amos Workman s business has always been farming and raising sheep. He has two children: Donald, born December 10, 1873, and Mary Jane, February 27, 1875.

WORKMAN, THEODORE W.,: post office, Jelloway, physician and surgeon, son of H. H. and Sarah C. Workman; was born in Brown township, Knox county, September 7, 1855, where he was reared and received a part of his education, after which he attended a few terms of school at Danville, Knox county; he then taught school for about thirteen months. In the spring of 1876 he commenced the reading of medicine under the instructions of Dr. A. J. Hyatt, of Jelloway, and continued three years, during which time he attended two courses of lectures at the Medical College of Ohio, where he graduated in 1879, after which he located in Jelloway, where he at present resides, engaged in the practice of his profession. On January 1, 1880, at the age of twenty-five, he married Flora S. Patten, a daughter of William Patten, born in Brown township, Knox county, July 18, 1657. Their union resulted in one child, a son.

WORLEY, JAMES, residence corner of High and Norton streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Worley is a native of Harrison county, Ohio, born four miles south of Cadiz. July 6, 1814; and in the year 1828 he came with his parents to Knox county, and located in Brown township, where they resided one year. They then moved into Pike township. Mr. Worley left the home farm in 1836, and came to Mt. Vernon and engagedin the brick business, in which he continued about eight years. In the year 1844 he engaged with the firm of C. & E. Cooper to learn the moulding trade. After serving his time he remained with them for twenty-two years, and in consideration of his faithfulness and abilities he served twelve of these years as foreman of the moulding department. In the year 1866 he quit the trade and purchased the elegant property where he now resides, opposite the Baltimore & Ohio depot, where he engaged in the hotel and boarding business, in which he has continued for fourteen years.

Mr. Worley has been twice married. His first wife was Mary Ann Harell, daughter of John Harell, of near Leesburgh, Virginia, by whom he had six children, two sons and four daughters. One son died in infancy, and the other, Douglas E., was drowned in the Potomac river near Piedmont. He was a member of company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry. The four daughters are all married, two of whom, Ida and Eva, reside at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Mary E. and Alice J. reside in Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Worley died April 29, 1858, and he was married to his second wife, Mrs. Uphemia Peters, nee Trump. who still survives and shares the joys. cares and responsibilities of life with him.

WORLEY M. W., farmer, Howard township, post office, Howard, was born in Monroe township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1821. His father came from Maryland, settled in Monroe township, and died July 2, 1835. His mother came from Virginia in 1818, and with her people located in Mt. Vernon, and remained there until the death of her father in 1833. Mr. Worley learned the harness making trade and followed it fourteen years, in different places. In 1848 he was married to Olive Megs, and went to Mt. Pleasant, Illinois, and worked at his trade four years. He then moved back to Monroe township. and lived on a farm until 1835, when he bought and came to his present home. His wife died December 15, 1851. January 1, 1855, he was married to Eliza Patsfield, and shortly after moved to his farm. He had two children: Laura, who died in her second year; and Charles, who remains at home.

WRIGHT, ROBERT, deceased, of Gambier, son of Jonathan Wright, was born in England May 14, 1814. In 1828 he was apprenticed to the carpenter and joiner trade, and served as such until 1835, after which he went to London and continued working at his trade. November 27, 1839, he ryas married to Miss Betsey Edmonds, of London, born October 24, 1823, daughter of Mr. Henry Edmunds of that city. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wright settled in Herdfordshire, and remained there until the fall of 1842, at which time they emigrated to America and located in Mount Vernon. His first work in his new home was at cabinet-making in the employ of Mr. James Ralff, with whom he worked some eighteen months. In 1844 he visited St. Louis, where he worked at his trade for some four or five months. On account of sickness he was compelled to return to Mt. Vernon. In April, 1844 he removed to Gambler, where he has remained ever since. Mr. and Mrs. Weight have a family of three children - Henry C., Elvira Emma, and Charles Norton.

After his settlement in Gambier, Mr. Wright at once commenced working at his trade, contracting and building. He built sixty-five dwellings in Gambier and vicinity. He built the Kenyon house and carried on the hotel for about fourteen years. He also built the Neff residence and many others of the best houses in the town. When he located in Gambier, he established a cabinet and undertaking warehouse, in connection with his cabinet and joiner shops, and for many years he supplied all calls in the undertaking line, manufacturing the coffins for many years, not only for Gambier, but for miles around the

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village. He also manufactured and supplied the neighborhood with furniture of all descriptions.

In April, 1868. his son, Henry C., became his partner. They are now prepared to dress lumber of all kinds, having in their shops, planers, turning and moulding machines, and scroll saws, all of the best and most approved patterns in the country. In fact their shops are better supplied with approved machinery than any establishment of the kind in Knox county. They manufacture sash, blinds, doors, cornices, and all kinds of mouldings.

The firm are now prepared to attend to all calls in their line of business, such as attending funerals, contracting for buildings, etc. Mr. Wright's letter of recommendation as a contractor and builder was both wide and extensive, embracing his handiwork in nearly seventy tenements, has erected in and around Gambier, both in College and Pleasant and surrounding townships, consisting, of dwellings, school-houses and other tenements.

Robert Wright was one of the charter members of old Mt. Vernon Lodge No. 20, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, instituted June 21, 1843, one of the oldest lodges of that order in Ohio. Mr. Wright unfortunately met with a severe accident in his shop lately, in February, 1881. He lingered a few days, dying from the effects of the injury February 24th.

WRIGHT, SR., WILLIAM, a native of Suffolk county, England, was born February 22, 1814; he was reared on a farm. In 1837 he emigrated to America, landing at New York, July 4th. He continued his journey westward until about the eighteenth of July, when he reached Gambier, this county, where he located and engaged as gardner with Bishop Mcllvaine. In October, 1837, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Ransom, daughter of John and Mary Ransom. Miss Ransom was born in the county of Suffolk, England, January 5, 1820, and emigrated to America with her parents, in 1837. They came over on the same vessel, and reachel Gambier at the time that Mr. Wright did, where her parents located. Shortly after Mr. Wright's marriage with Miss Ransom, they settled in Gambier. He continued his work with the bishop for four years. In 1841 they moved to Mt. Vernon, remained until 1853, when he purchased and moved on a farm in Monroe township, this county; he then turned his attention to farming. In 1859 he sold his farm and moved his family to Gambier. He leased all of the college farming land for six years, and commenced farthing on a larger scale, which he made a success. In 1850 he moved his family upon the farm where they are now living in College township. At the time of the expiration of his lease of the college land, in 1865, he purchased one hundred acres of the farm on which he was living, from the college trustees, and has since bought one hundred acres more adjoining his first purchase, which makes him a farm of two hundred acres, one hundred and seventy-five acres of it is first-class bottom land, the remainder being upland. He makes stock-raising a specialty on his farm. He is the father of twelve children, ten of whom are now living, seven sons and three daughters. Two of his sons, William and John, served three years in the war of 1861 William served in the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and John in the Fourth Ohio volunteer cavalry.

WRIGHT, DANIEL P., retired, Pike township, post office, Democracy, was born in Mt. Vernon in 1818, and was married in 1841 to Ann Harding, who was born in Belmont county in 1822. They had seven children, viz: William A., born in 1842; Lewis A., in 1844; Mary- E., in 1846; John A., in 1847; Lauretta, in 1849; Samantha, in 1851; and Sarah E., in 1856.

William A. Wright enlisted in the late war, as a member of the Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and died at Milliken's Bend, March 10, 1863.

Lewis A. Wright died in Amity, April 3, 1880. He was a soldier in the late war, serving over four years.

Daniel P. Wright, in the early part of his life, was a farmer, after which he was engaged in the plastering and stone-masor business. He was also engaged in the mercantile business ii, Amity for some time, but has retired from the business.

WRIGHT, C. W., harness-maker, Pike township, post office, Democracy, was born in this township in 1828, and was married in 1868 to Amanda Ellen Peeler, who was born in 1840. They have five children: Elsie E., born in 1870; Tima Alice, in 1872; Alta Viola, in 1874; Carl K., in 1877; and Cary Austin, in 1879.

Mr. Wright learned the harness trade in Knox county, and has been in the business for about seventeen years. He is a practical mechanic and is doing general custom work. He was a soldier in the late war, being a member of company I, Second Colorado cavalry. He continued in the service for about three years and received an honorable discharge.

WRIGHT, MRS. PERMELIA, nee Rigg!e, Hilliar township, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, August 19, 1829. She was married to Henry B. Wright, April 11, 1847. They remained in Pennsylvania some four years, and then came to Knox county, remaining two years, near Gambier, when they moved from Knox county to Morrow county, where they remained for some time, and then moved to the farm on which she now resides. Mr. Wright died September 13, 1878, and left Mrs. Wright with considerable indebtedness, but by judicious management she has succeeded in liquidating the claims, and thus saved to herself and family a home. She had a family of six children, viz: Jane, born July 6, 1849, died March 16, 1878; Anne Eliza, July 10, 1851; Ellen, May 25, 1856; Alexander H., September 5, 1861; James, July 12, 1864; May, August, 1866. Anne Eliza married John Mahan, and resides in Morrow county, Ohio; Ellen is a successful teacher. The other children are at home.

WRIGHT, LYMAN D., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born February 27, 1836, was married October 5, 1859, to Ann E. Beers, who was born October 5, 1838. They have two children: V. Adele, born March 23, 1862, and Mary G., born May 19, 1872. Mr. Wright is a farmer, and has always been identified with this township.

The father of Mrs. Ann Wright, John Beer (deceased), was born May 26, 1807, in Sussex county, New Jersey, came to Ohio in 1810 with his parents, and was married to Maria Spurr, who was born January 5, 1811. They had the following children: Daniel, born December 3, 1829; Viola J., September 3, 1831; Amanda, July 18, 1833; Jacob S., March 31, 1835; and Anna E., October 5, 1838; Daniel died January 31, 1830; Jacob, born January 2, 1837; Viola, October 24, 1861.

Daniel Beers, deceased, father of John Beers, was born December 29, 1783, in Sussex county, New Jersey, and was married to Elizabeth King, who was born September 29, 1781, they had the following children: Margaret, born February 4, 1806; Azulah, March 16, 1809; Ruth, February 16, 1811; John, May 26, 1807; James, September 24, 1815; Hiram, February 12, 1818; Elizabeth, October 27, 1819; Daniel, December 24, 1821;

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Hiram died October 6, 1800; Daniel, April 23, 1822; Viola J., October 24, 1861, and Jacob S., January 2, 1837.

WRIGHT, LEMUEL P., farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Wayne township, October 25, 1838, and was married July 2, 1868, to Marilla V. Helt, who was born in Morrow county, October 1, 1849. They have three children: Carleton H., born March 25, 1871; Anna P., October 19, 1874; and Mattie Ruth, December 7, 1876.

Mr. Wright owns a well improved farm with good buildings. He has been identified with this county from his infancy, and is one of its most active and intelligent men. His father, S. Wright, was born in Herkimer county, New York, July 30, 1811, and died October 31, 1878. He was married to Samantha J. Potter, who was born July 12, 1816. They had two children: Simon D., born February 27, 1836, and Lemuel P., October 25, 1838. Mrs. Samantha J. Wright is now living with her son.

WRIGHT, WILLIAM H., Liberty township, farmer, Bangs, Ohio, was born in Knox county, May 1, 1842, being the son of William and Mary Wright, nee Ransom. He was born in England in 1813, emigrated to the United States about 1837, and settled near Gambier, Ohio, where he yet resides. He married Mary Ransom, who settled in Knox county at the same time. They had twelve children, ten of whom are yet living. The parents yet reside near Gambier.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm, and educated at the common schools. He enlisted in company B, Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, in 1862, and was mustered out with his regiment in 1865. He served as a wagoner, but was in the battles of Arkansas Post, Grand Coteau. Vicksburgh, Spanish fort, at Mobile, and Yazoo Swamp. After his return home he engaged in farming, which is still his occupation.

He was married to Miss Sarah A. Freeman October 31, 1866; she is the daughter of Asa Freeman, and was born in Knox county, July 27, 1842. They had three children, viz: Alonzo T., born July 9, 1867; an infant; and Albert, born February 26, 1881.

WRIGHT, VANCE WELLINGTON, Milford township, farmer, was born in Burlington township, Licking county, April 8, 1845. He is the son of L. C. and Rebecca Wright, nee Vance; was reared on a farm, received a common school education, and has always followed farming as his occupation. He is a social gentleman, esteemed by tile community a good farmer and an estimable citizen, in comfortable circumstances. He was married to Miss Mary M. Beardsley in November, 1867, daughter of Platt G. Beardsley, an early settler of Milford township, and of whom particular mention is elsewhere made.

Mr. Wright came to Milford township in 1870. Charles L. and Lola are their only children.

WRIGHT, JOHN A., Pike township, merchant, post office, Democracy, born in this township in 1847, and was married in 1875 to Inez O'Bryan, who was born in Amity, this county, in 1852, They have one son, Charles E., born in 1878.

Mr. Wright has been connected with the mercantile business from a boy. In 1867 he became a member of the firm of D. P. Wright & Sons, and is now the principal man, conducting and transacting all the business. He has good business qualifications, and keeps constantly on hand a complete stock of general merchandise adapted to his locality, and is having an extensive trade and a successful business.

WYKER, & VINCENT, dealers in drugs, Fredericktown. They established themselves in the drug business in 1878, and keep in stock a complete line of drugs, medicines, books and stationary.

Dr. Vincent was born in England in 1845. He served an apprenticeship for seven years in the drug business in England. He came to America in 1867, engaged in the same business in Cleveland, Ohio, after which hewent to Chicago, Illinois, and was engaged with one of the largest houses (drugs and prescriptions), and remained two years and a half, and then came to Mt. Vernon. where he engaged in the same business and remained there till 1878, then came to Fredericktown, formed a copartnership with John Wyker, and they are doing business under the firm name of Wyker & Vincent. They occupy a large and spacious room on Main street.

They make a specialty of compounding medicines and prescription orders. All physicians would do well to give them a call.

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YAUGER, SAMUEL G., Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Morris county, New Jersey, May 1, 1838. He is the youngest son of Samuel H. and Elizabeth Yauger (nee Wolf), who emigrated to Ohio in the spring of 1839, and settled about six miles west of Mt. Vernon. They remained there about a year and then came to Hilliar township and settled on the farm now owned by Joseph Barker, where he lived until 1850, when he moved to Clinton township, where he died March, 1877, aged about eighty years. His aged wife still survives him at the age of eighty-four years.

The subject of this notice was married to Miss Mary A. McFadden, of Clinton township, April 27, 1862, and the following spring he moved on the farm on which he now resides. He is a good farmer, social in his manners, and has the confidence and esteem of the community in which he resides. He takes an active interest in the affairs of the country.

He is blessed with a family of five children, two sons and three daughters.

YEISLEY, WILLIAM, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Belleville in 1843, and was married in 1875 to Nancy Garber, who was born in Richland county. They have three children-Eddie, Milo, and an infant (deceased).

Mr. Yeisley was in the late war, being a member of the One Hundred and Second regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and continued until the close of the war. He received an honorable discharge, and since that has been engaged in farming.

YOAKAM, JOHN, Liberty township, pioneer, was born in Randolph county, Virginia, in 1801. In the fall of 1810 his parents, Michael and Roselia Yoakam, came to this county, and remained over winter in Clinton township. In the spring of 1811 they moved to near where Mt. Liberty now stands, and where they lived and died. They had twelve children, ten of whom reached adult age-seven sons and three daughters, four of whom are yet living.

In 1823 the subject of this notice was married to Miss Malinda Shinaberry, a native of Pennsylvania. They had ten children-four daughters and six sons, three of whom arc living:

Ransom, George W. and Nathaniel A., all farmers, and live in Liberty township. His wife died in 1871. He is now spending

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the remainder of his life with his son Nathaniel A., on the farm on which he settled in 1833.

At the time his parents came, the following families lived in the township, viz: Joseph Higgins, who came in June, 1810; Alexander Dallas, Francis Hardesty, Francis Elliott, Peter Bricker, Francis Blankery, Thomas Fletcher and George Zinn.

Mr. Yoakam spends his time in reading. He has a clear intellect, and remembers recent occurrences distinctly as well as those of many years ago. He has been a hard worker and a farmer by occupation. At the time he came there many Indians still passed through rough this part of the county. He was a man of muscular strength. Politically, he was a strong Democrat.

Nathaniel A. Yoakam was born in Liberty township in 1843. He is the son of John Yoakam, was reared on a farm, and always followed farming as his occupation. In 1863 he married Miss Rebecca McKinstry. They had three children, two of whom are living: John and Charles (twins).

Mr. Yoakam is an excellent farmer, and a good citizen.

YOUNG, WILLIAM MITCHELL, jeweler, South Main street, between Vine and Gambier streets. Mr. Young is a native of this county. He was born about two miles west of Fredericktown May 31, 1830. When about ten years of age his parents removed to Mt. Vernon, and placed their son, William, in the public schools, where he received a thorough education. His first business engagement was with Mr. C. H. Strieby, in the jewelry business, with whom he remained about two yeas, and then engaged with Mr. Joshua Hyde, with whom he finished his trade, after which he formed a partnership with his late instructor, and for twelve years the business was carried on under the firm name of Hyde & Young. At the expiration of this time (in 1868) he bought out his partner's interest. Since then he has conducted the business as sole proprietor. He carries at all times a full stock of fine gold and silver watches, clocks, jewelry of all grades, and solid and plated silverware. He also attends to watch, clock, and jewelry repairing in a style equal to the best establishments in the State, and on the shortest notice.

During his partnership with Mr. Hyde, Mr. Young enlisted in company A, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was commissioned first lieutenant, and served with the regiment about eight months, when he resigned and came home, remaining about eighteen months. He then entered the service again and was commissioned major of the One Hundred and Fortysecond regiment Ohio National guard, Colonel William Cooper commanding, in which he served the full time for which the regiment was called-one hundred days.

On the fourteenth day of October, 1852, Mr. Young was married to Miss R. W. Ward, of Mt. Vernon. Five children were born to them-three sons and two daughters.

Mr. Young is one one of Mt. Vernon's most prominent business men, prompt in all his business engagements, and, in a social point of view, is highly esteemed for his many good qualities. His parents were of the old pioneer stock, who aided in rescuing the county from its wilderness condition.

YOUNG, MICHAEL, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Stark county in 1842, and was married in 1866 to Mary Eley, who was born in this county in 1831. They have one son, William J., born in 1872.

Mr. Young is a strong advocate for the Democratic party, and was reared and educated in that faith.

YOUNG, JEFFERSON, Wayne township (deceased), born in Holmes county, and was married in 1867, to Eliza Jane Lafever. They had the following children: Clarence Ray, born in 1869; Cora I., in 1871; and Clyde, in 1874.

Mr. Jefferson Young died October 23, 1879, in Middlebury township, Holmes county, Ohio.

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ZIMMERMAN, FREDERICK J., of Mt. Vernon, was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, on the twenty-fourth day of June, 1807, and died in Mt. Vernon. Early in the fall of 1816 his father and family removed to Mt. Vernon and settled in a log house, then situated where the residence of Mrs. John Irvine now stands, in the second ward. His father, Mr. Gotleib Zimmerman, died in this city February 22, 1845. For many years old Mr. Zimmerman kept tavern where Mr. T. B. Mead's grocery store now is. This old tavern building was removed, and Mr. Montgomery Brown erected a large brick building on its site. No doubt many old citizens remember the "Zimmerman tavern." Like others of the old gentleman's nationality, Mr. Zimmerman dearly loved his pipe or a good cigar. At that early day tobacco was a luxury not easily obtained; but the old gentleman was equal to the emergency, as his son Frederick vouched for, as he had made many a horseback trip to Lancaster, an older settlement, to procure the weed his father loved so well. At the time the Zimmerman family came to Mt. Vernon, 1816, there was only one brick house in the village. That one now forms a part of the pleasant family residence of Mr. Joseph M. Byers, corner of Gay and Vine streets. The brick house on the corner of Mulberry and Vine streets, now occupied by Mr. O'Connor, was at that time in the course of erection, its walls having reached the second floor. That was the second brick house erected in Mt. Vernon.

Mr. F. J. Zimmerman was a saddler and harness-maker by profession. He was postmaster in this city for some five years, under the administrations of Pierce and Buchanan. Mr. Zimmerman in 1846 built the house on East Front street, and dwelt therein up to the time of his death. He was married July 7, 1835, to Miss Sarah Colopy, of this city. Miss Colopy was born in Virginia. Her parents came to Ohio, and settled in Miller township, and afterwards removed to Mt. Vernon. Seven children were born unto Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman, six of whom are still living. Three reside in this city, one in Jackson, Michigan, one in Chicago, and one in Mt. Holly, this county.

ZOLMAN, JACOB, Middlebury township, deceased, born in Frederick county, Maryland, February 16, 1783, and was married July 20, 1806, to Elizabeth Kerbe, who was born in Frederick county, Maryland, November 5, 1782. They had four children born to them in Maryland, viz: Mary, born July 22, 1807; Aryann, January 16, 1809; Ephraim, August 14, 1811; and Susannah, born February 4, 1814. They came to Ohio about 1815, where the following children were born, viz: John Zolman, born January 1, 1816; Jacob, October 3, 1818, and Philip, October 3, 1818, being twin brothers; David, February 3, 1820; Philip, July 11, 1822; Lewis, August 18, 1827; Elizabeth, April 8, 1831. The following have deceased: Philip died April 15, 1820; John, December 15, 1835; Jacob, June 14, 1860; Mrs. Elizabeth Zolman died January 20, 1863; Mary Ann Zolman died January 20, 1876, at the residence of her brother, Lewis Zolman.

ZOLMAN, LEWIS, Middlebury township, farmer, post

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office, Fredericktown, born in Knox county, August 18, 1827, and married to Abigail Curtis, who was born June 5, 1827. They had the following family: Lafayette, born October 12, 1850; Susan, June 3, 1852; Deborah, October 25, 1854; Jacob, October 23, 1856; Mary E., July 29, 1859; Lodema, July 19, 1861; Louisa, September 29, 1863. Susan, died December 28, 1863; Abigail Zolman died March 2, 1877, in this township and county. Deborah Zolman was married to Baskin Bailes, now of Morrow county, Ohio; Lafayette married Lavina Mowery. Mr. Zolman has been for years one of the energetic men of this township.

ZOLMAN, JAMES, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Berlin township in 1853; was married in 1877 to Mary Norris, who was born in Ashland county in 1857. They have one daughter, Sylvia Belle, born April 29, 1878. Mr. Zolman has always been identified with this townhip and is an enterprising farmer. His father, Jacob Zolman, was born in Middlebury township, in 18x8, and was married in 1838 to Mary Ann Heron, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1813. They had six children, viz: Rebecca, born in 1839; Ephraim, in 1841: Nancy Jane, in 1843; Samuel, in 1846; Jacob (deceased), in 1850, and James L., in 1853. Rebecca was married to David Richard, and they reside near Bangor; Ephraim resides in Morrow county.

Mr. Zolman worked on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad when it was graded and was superintendent of a working force. He was a soldier in the late war, being a member of the Sixth Michigan battery. In an engagement that took place about half a mile from Atlanta he was wounded in the right leg, and still carries the marks of the wound with him. He served nearly four years in the army and was honorably discharged in the State of Michigan. He was in forty-seven conflicts and engagements, his last battle being at the British Cross Roads, where he had a very narrow escape.

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ELECTION, MT. VERNON, 1880.

The municipal officers of Mt. Vernon, elected in April, 1881, were as follows:

Calvin Magers, marshal; Colonel William C. Cooper and Dr. B. Scott, board of education ; Otho Welshymer, street commissioner; Samuel H. Peterman, First ward; J. H. Branyan, First ward; H. Y. Rowley, Second ward; W. C. Culbertson, Third ward; John H. Ransom, Fourth ward; John Moore, Fifth ward, members of the council.

Charles W. Doty, justice of the peace for Clinton township.

THE DUNKARD CHURCH, BERLIN TOWNSHIP.

The German Baptist church, Dunkard, of Berlin township, is located near Anknytown, n, Knox county, Ohio. It was organized about November 22, 1824, by John Moltzbaugh, elder. The following were some of the first members: Abe Leedey and wife, Jacob Leedey and wife, Daniel Leedey and wife, Daniel Hetrick and wife, Joseph Hetrick and wife, John Long and wife, Jacob Frederick and wife, Jacob Garber and wife. Among some of the earlier members were: John Moltzbaugh, Daniel Hetrick and Jacob Garber.

About 1842 Henry B. Davey and Abraham H. Leedey were elected to the ministry. Since that time the following have been elected and preached in the church : Henry Keller, Henry Hess, Abner Fiddler; William Murray, son of James Murray, who came here from Stark county.

They built a frame church, forty by sixty feet, in 1858. It was neat, comfortable and convenient, but everything plain, nothing extravagant in finish, although they are abundantly able, but humble people. It was dedicated by. Elder John Moltzbaugh, assisted by H. P. Davey and Daniel Hetrick.

They are very plain and practical people. They have prospered and multiplied until they have, from this congregation, established a congregation in North Liberty, Pike township. They have bought a lot, and intend to build a church this summer, (1881). The present membership is about one hundred and sixty. It is known as the Owl creek congregation of the German Baptist church. The church building cost about twelve

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hundred dollars. They have an organized Sabbathschool at North Liberty.

The present elders of this church are William A. Murry and Henry Keller. They have never adopted a salary system, but are a generous and hospitable people, are always ready to assist their needy. In this respect they are an example to many other churches and Christians.

ACKERMAN. L. B., insurance and notary public, was born in Middlebury township; reared on a farm, attended district school until fifteen years of age, then attended a select school at Chesterville, Ohio, taught by Professor J. B. Selby, after which he was a student at the Fredericktown high school for one year; he then engaged in teaching, his first term was in Berlin township; he continued teaching for a series of terms; he taught in Johnsville, Waterford, and Fredericktown; in the latter town he was superintendent for one year. In 1879 he engaged in insurance, notary public, and collecting; in these he has been very successful. Mr. Ackerman has taken quite an active part in local politics; he has always been identified with the Democratic party; he is not a selfish party man, but promulgates the true principles of the party. He was married in 1871 to Miss Ella Cook, of Dalton, Wayne county, Ohio. They have four children, viz: Ida C., William A., Ernest Virgil, and Edith E. Mr. Ackerman moved to Fredericktown in 1877. He purchased property here in 1879, located on Sandusky street.

His grandfather, John Ackerman, sr., was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1756; he came to Knox county, Middlebury township, in 1811. He was married to Amy Barton; they had four children - John, Abraham, Catharine, and Mary. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. His son. John, was married in 1829, to Ida Cook. They had nine childrenStephen C., Morgan, Rachel, Louis B., Amy Ann, Leander, James Harvey, and two deceased. The Ackerman family were among the early settlers of this county.

ADAMS, JOHN, common pleas judge, was born on December 11, 1824, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. He was a farmer's son, and the experience of his boyhood and youth were such experiences as befall almost any farmer's boy whose father has only the wealth that courts of hard toil, in every day, in every season. He "learned to labor and to wait;" for as soon as he was old enough he took part in the labors of the farm, and for the fulfilment of such hopes and aspirations as come to the ambitious and capable boy he had to wait until the opportunity for gratifying them could be made. He attended school first at Martinsburgh, and afterwards at Kenyon college. Subsequently he entered Jefferson college, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and graduated there in the spring of 1847.

After leaving college he commenced the study of law, reading with Hon. John K. Miller, at Mt. Vernon. In 1850 he was admitted to the bar in Mt. Vernon, and at once commenced the practice of his profession there. At first he practiced alone, but at the end of a year he formed a professional partnership with Mr. Dunbar. Eventually this partnership was dissolved, and subsequently he associated himself with his former preceptor, Hon. John K. Miller. He prospered well in his profession and gained a practice that was large and lucrative.

In politics he is a Democrat, and has acted steadily and consistently with that party. In 1871 he was a candidate, on the Democratic ticket, for judge of the court of common pleas for the district of Mt. Vernon. and was elected by a large majority. He took office in 1872 for a term of five years. His course while on the bench has fully vindicated the wisdom of those who elevated him to the position. To high abilities and fine attainments he joins the strictest integrity, a judicial impartiality which nothing can swerve, and a regard for principle which all recognize and appreciate. At the expiration of his first term, in 1876, he was again nominated and reelected to the position he so eminently adorns, by a respectable majority. He is honored and esteemed as the right man in the right place; and the fact that his high and responsible station was awarded to him because of the sterling characteristics belonging to his nature, and the high attainments which he acquired through his own almost unaided exertions, is a fact that must be gratifying to himself no less than encouraging to all men who are struggling and aspiring within the circle of his influence. He was married on the sixteenth of May, 1860, to Julia Huxford, of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Three giris and one boy, have blessed the union.

BANNING, ANTHONY, deceased.-Among the old settlers whose names have figured conspicuously in the history of Knox county, was Anthony Banning. Connected with the business, the growth and prosperity of the county at every period of its history after the first, and concerned as he was in various industrial pursuits, in commercial operations, in temperance movements, in church affairs, in political actions; as his name has been widely known in legal history, his memory is worthy of more than a passing notice.

"Judge" Banning as he was called more frequently than Parson," notwithstanding his monument states that he was a Methodist preacher sixty years, was born in Talbot county, Maryland, May 13, 1768, and was the only son of James Banning, a proprietor of much consideration and influence, who had but two children-the son, James Mansfield Anthony Banning, and a daughter who married Benjamin Chew, of Philadelphia, chief justice of the State of Pennsylvania, a lawyer of much distinction and a man of great wealth, who was a bosom friend of Washington, and whose family were his most intimate associates.

His parents died when he was very young, and he was consigned to the care of an uncle, Henry Banning, a bachelor, who was a sea-captain and took Anthony with him several voyages The family were members of the Episcopal church, but in his fourteenth year Anthony joined the Methodists. When about eighteen he went to preaching as a circuit rider in Greenbrier, Virginia, and the wilderness mountain region. In consequence of the great length of his name, and its inconvenience in writing, he dropped a portion of it in early youth.

July 30, 1791, he married Mrs. Sarah Pierce, daughter of one of the first settlers on Redstone, near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, who was also a native of the eastern shore of Maryland, and had been reared near Ellicott's Mills. The children by this marriage were Sarah, wife of Daniel S. Norton; Jacob M., who died in 1835, and whose widow and children reside in Hardin county; Rachel, wife of Rev. Elnathan Raymond; James S.; Mrs. Mary Caswell; Elizabeth, Mrs. Bronson; Priscilla; and Anthony.

Priscilla Banning was born May 1, 1807, and on November 2, 1875, married Sewall Gray, of Massachusetts, who was born April 9, 1806, and died of paralysis, at Mount Vernon in May, 1862, without issue.

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After his marriage Mr. Banning settled in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and resided for several years near Mount Braddock and Connellsville, where he preached the Gospel, having been ordained by Bishop Asbury in 1791, carried on a tanyard, kept store, officiated as justice of the peace, from 1791 until 1799, traded in stock of every description and navigated the western waters.

He made several trips up the Muskingum with goods and wares from 1808 till he moved out in 1812. After he bad bought lands in the county he traded a lot of iron, leather and saddlery to Samuel Kratzer, esq., for the principal part of his interest in the town of Mt. Vernon, and then took up his residence here. During his long abode he was engaged, as elsewhere, in a diversity of pursuits; and by reason of his remarkable energy, industry, prudence and business tact, prospered in all, and enjoyed to a very great extent the confidence of the people. He was for the greater part of his life concerned in merchandizing at Mt. Vernon, Tymochtee and Danville--carrying on his mills at Clinton and his tanyard, farming extensively and preaching.

His name is found as president of the first Clay meeting ever held in this county; he was all his life an ardent admirer and friend of that great statesman and patriot. In principle, politically, he was a Whig religiously, a Methodist-strictly moral and temperate in all the relations of life a good example.

He was honest and conscientious-liberal and kind hearteddetermined and resolute-never disguised his sentiments or harbored unkind thoughts; was not a fanatic in temperance, morals, politics or religion; but by his well balanced mind and daily walk exerted a great influence for good.

Among other public positions held by him was that of commissioner to select the premanent seat of justice of Clermont county, under an act of the general assembly, January 25, 1823, associated with John C. Wright, then of Jefferson, and James Clark, of Stark. He served as one of the associate judges of this county from 1827 to 1834.

In every public enterprise and work calculated to benefit the town, county and people he was active, liberal and useful. Among the many incidents of his life the following most clearly shows the liberality of his mind: In 1836 he set about erecting a church near his residence, and upon his own land. The neat brick edifice had been inclosed and about completed, when the Right Rev. Bishop Purcel visited Mt. Vernon for the first time, and there being no Catholic church the followers of that denomination, of whom there were but two or three families then in the place, to wit: David Morton's, William Brophy's and Timothy Colopy's requested the use of one of the churches for the bishop to hold service in on the forenoon of a certain Sunday. The favor was denied. An effort was then made to procure the use of the court-house, and that, too, was refused.

The writer, then a small boy, having heard the circumstances on his way home, stopped in at judge Banning's and stated what had occurred, when he at once buttoned up his vest and coat, took his cane, went up to David Morton's, where the bishop was staying, and tendered the use of the Banning chapel for Catholic service. The offer was most gratefully and graciously accepted, and the first Catholic discourse ever delivered in this town was pronunced at the Banning chapel. This, in the eyes of many bigoted and intolerant minds, was a very great sin; but the religion of grandfather Banning was of that catholic spirit which enabled him to do acts of kindness and pour out heart offerings as becometh a true Christian.

In the month of February, 1844, judge Banning was drowned in the dam of the Clinton Mill company, while attempting to cross upon the ice to his farm. His body was soon recovered and great efforts made to resuscitate it, but in vain. The bold spirit that left its impress on this world had gone to explore the mysteries of another. He was in the seventy-sixth year of his age, and remarkably vigorous in mind and body.

BANNING, GENERAL HENRY B., attorney at law, Cincinnati, Ohio.-The subject of this sketch was, on his father's side, of Maryland stock, and his mother's family were Virginia people. Shortly before the Revolutionary war both his father's and his mother's families emigrated from their native States and settled near old Fort Redstone, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. They were pioneers in that then new country.

In 1812 the Rev. Anthony Banning, a pioneer Methodist preacher, the grandfather of General Banning, settled on the banks of the Kokosing, having traded a lot of iron, leather and saddlery for an interest in the then small village (now prosperous town) of Mt. Vernon. James S. Banning, the father of General Banning, was then twelve years old. When he grew to manhood he revisited his native town of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and married Eliza Blackstone, the mother of Henry. The Banning family has been actively and conspicuously identified with the growth and prosperity of Knox county from its organization. In religion they are all Protestants. His mbther was one of the principal organizers of St. Paul's Episcopal church, of which sect she was then a communicant, although at her death she was a member of the denomination known as Christian. In politics the Bannings were originally Jackson Democrats, afterwards Whigs.

Henry B. Banning was the sixth child of his parents and was born November 10, 1836. His childhood was passed at Banning's Mills and on the old Banning farm at Clinton. He first attended school at the Clinton school-house, in 1842, when Father Mott was the teacher.

Among the children attending that school with him were the Coopers, the Curtises, the Drakes, the Lovages, the Johnsons, the Brookses, and the Montises.

After leaving this school he attended Hull Bigsby's private school at Mt. Vernon, and Sloan's academy. He was examined and admitted to Kenyon college, but never attended.

At the age of seventeen he commenced the study of law in the office of Hosmer, Curtis & Devin. in Mt. Vernon, and was in due time admitted to the bar, and began the practice. He became the partner of William Dunbar, esq., the firm being Dunbar & Banning, at Mt. Vernon. He soon established and maintained a large practice, and was succeeding finely when the war began in 1861. He was one of the first to volunteer to put down the Rebellion, almost before the President had issued his call for seventy-five thousand troops. He was at once elected captain by his company, which afterwards became company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, a regiment which made one of the most gallant records of the war.

He was afterward, upon the recommendation of General Shields, appointed major of the Fifty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, but never joined that command, being placed in command of the Eighty-seventh, a three months' regiment. At the expiration of the term of this latter regiment, he was made lieutenant colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served as such until the spring of 1863, when he was made colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio.

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This regiment was in a badly demoralized condition, but the new colonel soon restored the esprit de corps, gained the confidence of the officers and men, and by a thorough system of discipline made it one of the best drilled regiments in the service.

It took part in the Chickamauga and Atlanta campaigns, showing such signal instances of gallantry in action as to call forth frequent mention in the official and unofficial reports of its engagements. At the battle of Chickamauga, in a bayonet charge, the regiment under lead of Colonel Banning, captured the battle-flag of the Twenty-second Alabama regiment, the only Confederate colors taken by our troops upon that bloody and disastrous field. At the battle of Kennesaw Mountain an eye witness in describing the fight said:

"Yesterday was a bloody day for the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio, more bloody in numbers than Chickamauga. More than one-third of her gallant sons were killed or wounded. History's page will recall the deeds of her fallen heroes; and the command of the gallant Banning: ' Lie down, One Hundred and Twenty-first, and don't retire one inch until I order you,' when the storm of battle was at its highest, will make for him an imperishable record, and the stubbornness with which the regiment obeyed the order, unsupported, and exposed to a galling fire from both flanks and front, of artillery and small arms, for more than four hours, will be rehearsed in story and in song in after years."

In the spring of 1865, after the fall of Atlanta, on the recommendation of General Jeff. C. Davis, approved by Major General George H. Thomas, General Banning was promoted to be a brevet brigadier general, for gallant and meritorious service during the Atlanta campaign.

After Atlanta had been taken, General Banning, still in command of the One Hundred and Twenty-first, accompanied General Thomas and the Army of the Cumberland, and took a gallant and conspicucus part in the fierce and decisive battle of Nashville.

In the spring of 1865 he was placed in command of the One Hundred and Ninety-fifth Ohio infantry, and served in the valley of Virginia. He was commander of the post of Alexandria, Virginia, until December, 1865, when he was mustered out of the service with the rank of brevet major general, a rank which his gallant conduct had won for him, enlisting as a private in 1861.

In the fall of 1865, while he was still in the service, the people of his home elected him to represent Knox county in the general assembly. Stepping from the field to the forum, he became a leading spirit in that legislative body. He was made chairman of the house committee on military affairs. He devoted his attention to the wants of the laboring classes, and through his efforts much good was accomplished for them. After the expiration of his term in the general assembly, General Banning removed to Cincinnati, where he resumed the practice of law, with his usual success.

In 1872 he was nominated by the Liberal Republican convention as the candidate to represent the Second district in Congress. His opponent was R. B. Hayes, now ex-President. After an exciting canvass General Banning was returned by a handsome majority. He was reelected twice to the same office as a Democrat, beating successively job E. Stevenson in 1874, and Stanley Mathews in 1876. In 1880 he was again a candidate, but was defeated by a small majority.

General Banning, in all his relations in life, has been a true representative of American manhood of the highest type; modest in assuming responsibility, but when assumed firm, faithful and energetic in the execution of a trust. In all his career, both public and private, there is not an act can sully his name or stain his honor. A good son, a good husband, a good father, a gallant soldier, a faithful and industrious representative, in all a worthy citizen, he is one of the sons to whom Knox county can point with pride as a part of her history.

BLAKE, WILLIAM, deceased. The subject of this sketch was one of Knox county's pioneers. He was born in Ireland in 1761, migrated to America, located in New York, remained several years, and from thence went to Connecticut, where he married Miss Hannah Sprague, born in Connecticut in 1778. They moved to Knox county, Ohio, in 1812, and located in Clinton township, on the farm now owned by John Guy, where they passed the remainder of their days. He died in 1848, aged eighty-seven years. His companion survived him until 1850, when she died, aged seventy-two years and five months.

They reared a family of seven children-Sarah, Hannah, William, Mary, Richard, James, and Emily J. Two of the children, Hannah and Richard, are dead. When Mr. Blake came to Clinton township, it was comparatively a forest, and settlers were few and far apart.

BOSTWICK, NATHAN, Newark, Ohio, was born November 2, 1819, in Pike township, Bradford county, Pennsylvania; emigrated to Ohio with his parents in 1830, landing in Newark, and living the first winter in McKean township, Licking county. In the spring of 1831 the family moved into Milford township,. Knox county, and settled on a farm then covered with a dense growth of hardwood timber, as were all farms in those early days in Knox county. The immense labor of making a home out of the wilderness can only be fully understood by the pioneers engaged in the work.

Nathan Bostwick was married in 1840 to Adaline A. Beardslee. They had seven children, all boys, as follows: Julius C., George F., Henry C., William W., Burr W., Harmon R., and John A. all living but Julius C.

All the boys who were old enough became soldiers. Julius C. enlisted first in the three months' service, in the Eighth Indiana regiment, and served out his time, then reenlisted for three years in a company his father was recruiting for the Twentieth Ohio regiment. He was in delicate health and died on the battlefield of Shiloh, of hemorrhage of the lungs, April 9, 1862.

George F. (Fayette as he is better known), also enlisted in his father's company in the Twentieth, and shared in the hardships, battles and glory of his company and regiment until the army reached Atlanta, where he was desperately wounded July 22, 1864, by a canister shot through the thigh, and with his father, fell into the hands of the enemy, and was taken to Andersonville prison pen. He had before been a prisoner for a month, and had been exchanged at Vicksburgh, having been captured in a fight with Wheeler' s cavalry, near Middleburgh, Tennessee. He made his escape from Andersonville in October, and hiding in swamps and bayous was pursued with bloodhounds, but finally secured a skiff and paddling down the Ocomulgee river, reached the Federal gun-boats in safety.

This young man suffered ternbly from his wounds and prison life, a complete history of which would make an interesting volume; but he lived to see the end of the war, and to return home. He is now residing near Mt. Liberty, this county.

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young, became a soldier, enlisting in company A, Ninety-sixth regiment, under Captain Mitchell, of Mt. Vernon. Joseph Devon, a patriotic citizen of Mt. Vernon, had offered a prize of fifty dollars to each of the first two men who should enroll their names in this regiment. Henry Bostwick and Henry Hildreth were first to enlist, and received the money.

The history of the Ninety-sixth is detailed elsewhere in this work.

Henry was with the regiment at the battle of Arkansas Post, followed its fortunes through the Vicksburgh campaign, but was taken sick during the operations at Vicksburgh, and brought home. He was unable to again enter the service and was discharged. He is now a merchant in Newark, Ohio, engaged in the jewelry trade.

William W. Bostwick was a mere boy when the war began, but before it closed he enlisted, at the age of sixteen, in the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio National guards, under Colonel Cooper, and was with it during its one hundred days of service in the rear of Grant's army. William is also in the jewelry trade in Coshocton, Ohio.

Nathan Bostwick went into the army as recruiting officer October 18, 1861, at Columbus, Ohio, with the rank of second lieutenant; was attached to company G, Twentieth regiment, which was sent, with three other companies of the same regiment, to Warsaw, Kentucky, in January, 1862, where they settled some trouble between the Union men and rebels of that place.

Company G remained in Warsaw until in February, when it returned to Cincinnati, and soon after joined the expedition against Fort Donelson, and was in the last day's battle at that place.

After the battle, Captain John N. Cassil and Lieutenant Bostwick, with their company, were detailed as guard for rebel prisoners, and escorted eleven hundred of them to St. Louis, from which place, in company with a portion of company C, of the same regiment, they escorted all the officers captured at Fort Donelson to Camp Chase, at Columbus. Lieutenant Bostwick came home from this place, sick with typhoid fever, but his company went on to Boston with the field and staff of that capture.

Upon his recovery from his very severe illness, he rejoined his company at Bolivar, Tennessee, in June, x862; and in September took command of company C, Twentieth regiment, with rank of first lieutenant. He continued in command of this company through the Vicksburgh campaign, the captain of company C having resigned. He was commissioned first lieutenant May 9, 1862, and was with Grant during all the operations of the army for the capture of Vicksburgh; the first battle of that campaign in which-the regiment was engaged being at Thompson's Hill, fought immediately after the battle of Grand Gulf. He was also in the battle of Raymond and that of Jackson immediately following it; also the battle of Champion Hill, where he received a sunstroke, from which he yet suffers. The siege of Vicksburgh lasted forty-seven days, during which he was on duty almost incessantly, day and night, fighting and working in the trenches. After the surrender the Twentieth remainedin camp until Sherman marched to Meridian, Mississippi, in February, 1864.

Lieutenant Bostwick was promoted to captain, January 30, 1864, and transferred to the command of his old company, G, accompanying Sherman to Meridian.

After that campaign, the regiment reenlisted as veterans, and Captain Bostwick came home on veteran furlough. The furlough having expired, the regiment rendezvoused at Cairo, Illinois, going thence by boat up the Tennessee river to Clifton, Tennessee, where it landed and marched over the Sand mountains, a distance of three hundred miles, joining Sherman at Ackworth, Georgia, shortly after engaging in the siege and battle of Kennesaw Mountain. Captain Bostwick was in the charge made by his division at this place.

The next desperate battle in which he was engaged was that before Atlanta, July 22, 1864, where his division, under General Leggett, surrounded by Hood's forces was attached in front and rear, and engaged in some of the hardest fighting of the war. Captain Bostwick savs their division moved across their breastworks five times during the day, fighting first on one side then on the other. He was wounded twice in this action-with a sliver from a ball in the left eye, and a piece of shell in the left knee-and fell into the hands of the enemy. The brigade lost about half of its number in this bloody battle, in which it was frequently engaged in a hand-to-hand conflict.

After his capture Captain Bostwick was robbed of two hundred and thirty dollars in money, and most of his outer clothing, except his hoots, which, being a fine, heavy pair, he refused to give up except with his life, and when a rebel captain approached for the purpose of taking them, he received such a kick in a vital part as sent him several feet distant, and nearly ended his life. Captain Bostwick expected to be riddled with rebel bullets for this act, as the guards were all around him, but, probably from admiration of his pluck, they did not molest him. The rebel officer, however, after regaining his breath and his feet, again approached him the intention, no doubt, of running him through with his sabre, but just before attempting the cowardly act, he discovered a small Masonic emblem attached to the captain's waistcoat. This stopped him, and turning to the guards he ordered them to take the belligerent captain away. There is no doubt but that this mystic sign of Masonry saved his life at that time. He was taken to the stockade at Ma con, Georgia, and subsequently to Charleston, South Carolina, and placed in prison. He was again taken sick and remained for some time in the hospital, being treated by Dr. Todd, a rebel and brother of Mrs. Lincoln. From there he was taken to Columbia, South Carolina, October 6, 186;. Here ha was outrageously treated, being sick with chills and fever and compelled to be on the ground, without shelter or medical attention for three weeks, and came near dying, being reduced to a skeleton. He was then put into a tent hospital, and treated by a doctor named LaGrone, a Frenchman, from whom he received much attention. December 1, 1864, he made his escape in company with Captain McFadden, of the Fifty-seventh New York, and H. C. Payne, a sergeant of the Twentieth Illinois. They traveled twenty-seven nights through the smoky mountains of North Carolina, travelling only in the dead of night, aided, fed, and piloted on their way by the negroes, and reached our lines at Knoxville, Tennessee, December 27, 1864. Here he reported to General Carter, provost marshal at that place, who ordered clothing for the starved and ragged prisoners, forwarding them to Chattanooga; and thence to Nashville. After being ordered to various places Captain Bostwick obtained a leave of absence and came home, remaining, however, only a short time, when he went by way of New York to join Sherman, and then on the march through the Carolinas.

He was promoted major January 11, 1865, and joined Sherman and the Twentieth regiment at Goldsborough, North Car-

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olina. After Lee's surrender he asked permission of his brigade commander; General R. K. Scott, afterward governor of South Carolina, to resign, believing the war over, and his health being poor he wished to return home. His resignation being accepted he went to Washington, settled with the Government, and was there at the time of the assassination of President Lincoln, after which he came home to his farm in Knox county.

He subsequently sold his farm and spent some time travelling in the west; living a short time near Fredericktown, Ohio. Charleston, Illinois, and Mt. Vernon, Ohio.

In .April, 1873, he settled in Newark, engaging in the drug business, where he yet remains.

This brief biography, merely touches upon the military life of this gallant soldier. The story of his capture, prison life, sufferings, and subsequent escape, would make a very readable volume of many pages, and would verify the fact that "truth is stranger than fiction." He tells of his continual but many times unsuccessful efforts to escape; of sickness, exposure, hunger, and the horrors of prison life; of his escape in a strange manner with two confederates; of their hiding in the swamps and mountains; of exposure and starvation; of being tracked by bloodhounds who came suddenly upon them in a darke gorge in the mountains, compelling them to fight for their lives, which they did, and came off victorious; of capturing a rebel picket that was in their way, killing one man and taking two others prisoners; of continual hairbreadth escapes, and incessant danger, and above all, of the faithfulness of the blacks, who never once betrayed them, but fed and guided them on their-way at the peril of their own lives.

People scarcely realize that they have in their midst living, walking heroes, before whose deeds of daring and suffering the most intricate combinations of fiction pale and become commonplace.

CONDON, DAVID W., shoe merchant, was born in Maryland, Frederick county, in 1831. He came to Ohio in 1851, and was married May 8, 1862, to Melinda J. Royce, granddaughter of Amos H. Royce. She was born in Berlin township, this county. They have three children: Frank R. was born April 17, 1863; Jennie M., November 10, 1865, and Mary E., June 18, 1873.

Mr. Condon learned the shoe trade with his father in Maryland, and has always been engaged in that business. He is a member of the firm of D. W. Condon & Co., leading shoe merchants of this city. Mr. Condon was a soldier in the late war. He first enlisted April, 1861, under Captain H. B. Banning. They went to camp Jackson. They elected Professor Andrews (of Kenyon college) colonel. Wheu they came to organize their company they had too many men, consequently Mr. Condon was relieved. He enlisted in the spring of 1864; was a member of company H. One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guards, under Captain Cochran and Colonel W. C. Cooper; he served four months and was honorably discharged. Mr. Condon has always been identified with the Republican party, and is one of the loyal men of Fredericktown.

DONAHEY, P. N., was born June 4, 1843, in Jackson township, Knox county, Ohio. He was married to Sophia M. Houck, August 31, 1869. They have had two children, viz: Willie J. and Lotta. Willie J. was born May 15, 1870; Lotta was born May 31, 1878. Mr. Donahey is engaged in the grocery business at Bladensburgh.

HOLLIBAUGH, JOHN F., shoe merchant. He was born in Richland county, Ohio, December 7, 1832; he was married November 8, 1857, to Louisa M. Hughes, who was born September 6, 1837 in Berlin township in this county. They have seven children: Lee Porter born August 31, 1858; Delphene, February 17, 1860, Flora Alice, March 14, 1864; Estella Lute, December, 16, 1866 ; Frederick Roston, July 16, 1871; Wilbert Alton, June 5, 1874; Ethel, November 11, 1878. Mr. Hollibaugh learned the shoe trade in Fredericktown, and has been engaged at that business since; he is a member of the firm of D. W. Condon & Co., leading shoe merchants of this city; and has been identified with the business interests in this place for some years. Mr. Hollibaugh was a soldier in the late war; he enlisted in the spring of 1864. He was a member of company H, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guard under Captain Cochran and Colonel W. C. Cooper per. He served out the time of his enlistment, and was honorably discharged.

HORN, ABRAHAM, was born January 2, 1813, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and was married March 16, 1837, to Miss Rebecca Staats, who was born January 28, 1818, in Butler township. They have had ten children, viz: Catharine, Jacob, Louisa, Joseph S., Maria, Mary M., Magdalena, Selonia Alice, Rebecca Jane, William Osborn, Benjamin Franklin; all living except Joseph S. and Benjamin Franklin. Joseph S. was wounded at Big Shanty, Georgia, June 22, 1864,

and died the following day. Benjamin F. died September 30, 1862; Catharine married William J. Withrow, April 22,1860; Jacob was married to Isabella Withrow, June 29, 1861; Louisa was married to Jacob Delong January 15, 1863; Maria to Robert B. Giffen, June 21, 1869; Mary M. to Reason Lovett, February 7, 1869; Rebecca J. to Benjamin Ross, October 6, 1872; Jacob, married (second wife) Lydia Hall, September 23, 1873; W. O. to Alvila Bailey, November 2, 1878. Mr. Horn is owner of two hundred and ten acres of good farming land in Butler township, and three hundred and fifty acres in Jefferson township.

HORN, MARTIN C., deceased, was one of the wealthiest farmers of Clay township, owning about five hundred and thirty-seven acres of good tillable land at his decease. He was a native of Knox county, was born April 9, 1823, and married to Jane Crumrine November 11, 1847; six children being born unto them; three, Laura, Lennie, and Emma, are living. Mr. Horn was a highly respected citizen, very ambitious and industrious, and was census' enumerator for the present census. He died at his home, near Martinsburgh, July 25, 1880.

HYATT, R., farmer, Liberty township. He was born in Liberty township. September 11, 1848, and is the son of Mescheck and Elizabeth Hyatt. He spent his youth on a farm, and has followed farming as his vocation. He spent four years in the Western States. He married Elizabeth Ann Bryan, November 19, 1871. They have one child, named Maggie A.

JOHNSTON, SAMUEL K., deceased. He was born in Morris township in 1820; was married to Susan A. White, who was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1825, and came to Ohio in 1825. They had five children-Williard W., Mary E., Edwin F., Charles C., and Lee R.

Mr. Samuel K. Johnson died May 23, 1862.

Williard W. was a soldier in the late Rebellion, being a member of company A, One Hundred and Ninety-fourth regiment,

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Ohio volunteer infantry. He is now a resident of Columbus, Ohio.

Peter Johnson, father of Samuel K., was a soldier in the War of l812.

C. C. Johnson is a practical printer engaged with the Free Press, and is an industrious and active young man.

KNIGHT, JOHN, deceased, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and married Jane Culberson. They had two daughters and one son.

Marth was born in Holmes county in 1840; married J. B. Nixon. The have three children-Luella J., Nettie B., and Maggie K. They reside in Johnson county, Indiana.

Maggie Knight is married to William Hall.

Henry D. Nixon has deceased.

Mr. John Knight died in Wayne county, February 2, 1850.

WALTER, GEORGE A., salesman, was born in Morris township, Knox county, in 1842, and he was married in 1870 to Mary L. Smith, who was born in Fredericktown in 1851. They have one son - Carleton C.-who was born March 14, 1872, in Mt. Vernon.

Mr. Walter learned the carpenter trade in Mt. Vernon, and continued to work at it until 1872, when he engaged in the butchering business with S. Kirby, and afterwards with M. P. Minteer. In 1880 he engaged with Braddock & Hurst as clerk and salesman, and is one of the active and enterprising men of this town. He was a soldier in the late war. His father, Samuel Walter, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1809; came to Ohio in 1836; married Mary Ann Clay, born in the same county 1818. They had eight children-Jesse, deceased; George A., John W., Martha J., Mary E., Charles R., Orpha, deceased, and Sarah G.

Mrs. Mary Ann Walter died in 1879.

George Smith, father of Mrs. George Walters, was born in ; Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1824; was married to Abigail; Tirrill, who was born in New Hampshire in 1826. They had two children-Mary and Ophelia.

Mr. Smith was engaged as travelling salseman for a manufacturing house in Columbus. He died in 1856.

ALVERSON, THOMAS, farmer, deceased, Middlebury township, was born March 19, 1807, in the town of Guilford, Windham county, Vermont. His early ancestors were from Holland, and later in affinity with the English. In early childhood he was taken to Moriah, Essex county, New York. His widowed mother being poor he was obliged to live with other families. By hard labor and strict economy he secured sixty acres of land, which he improved, and on which he built suitable buildings. He was baptized by immersion in Lake Champlain. In his conviction of duty he had a very remarkable dream, in which he saw the Savior, with outstretched arms, standing in the sun.

Mr. Alverson was married to Miss Lucinda Doolittle. They moved on the farm he had formerly purchased, and remained there untll the fall of 1837, and then moved to western New York, near Middleport, and remained there until the fall of 1839, when they moved near Medina, Michigan, to his brother, Oliver Alverson, and in the month of February, 1840, he emigrated to Ohio and settled near the Quaker brick meetinghouse, known as the Owl Creek settlement. In 1845 he purchased one hundred acres of land on the ridge, four and a half miles northwest of Fredericktown, in Middlebury township. Here his property increased to over six thousand dollars in addition to his real estate, which he loaned out. He had seven children, all of whom are living except the youngest James T., born March 1, 1834; Sophia, November 4, 1836, and married to J. N. Talmage, living near Chesterville, Morrow county. Ohio; Emma, October 3, 1838, married to Miller Mendenhall, now lives in Green Vally, Knox county; Sarah, November 14, 1839, married to John Disman, now living in Lima, Allen county, Ohio; Byram, January 19, 1843, now a resident near Lone , Star post office, Gentry county, Missouri; Louisa, May 3, 1844, now Mrs. William Schroeder, of Knox county, Ohio; and John P., May 4, 1849, died in infancy.

Thomas Alverson became a strong Abolitionist, voting for the first candidate for the Presidency nominated by the Abolition party- James G. Bimey.

Mr. Alverson was powerful in his reasonings and arguments in favor of freedom and equal rights to all. He afterwards acted with the Republican party.

In September, 1866, during a season of tent-meetings at Fredericktown, Ohio, held by Elders Vanhorn and Lawrence, he embraced the doctrines of the Seventh-day Adventists, and became :in ardent advotate of its faith, giving liberally to its institutions and missionary work. The subjects "Man's Nature and Destiny," "The Bible," "Seventh-day Sabbath," and the "Soon Coming of Christ," were his happy themes of conversation and work.

The last year of his life was the happiest, during which time he visited relatives and friends in the east Vermont, Boston Massachusetts, and the Round Lake camp meeting in Maine, and then to his brother, Samuel H. Russell, of Crownpoint Essex county, New York, where he dies September 11, 1878, at the age of seventy-one years, five months and twenty-two days. He leaves nineteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Mrs. Lucinda Alverson died December 28, 1864, and was buried in the Salem cemetery.

James T. Alverson, post office, Fredericktown, Ohio, born in Essex: county, New York, came to Knox county, with his parents in childhood. Through industry, in teaching and laboring, he accumulated means to purchase one hundred and sixty acres of western land. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and for a time a faithful worker. He was married August 1, 1861, to Miss Rebecca Price, daughter of John and Barbara Price, of Morrow county, Ohio. She was an amiable and Christian lady. After their marriage they purchased nearly seventy acres of land in Morrow county, still retaining the one hundred and sixty acres of western land. Her useful life ended November 25, 1864, and her remains were interred in Bloomfield cemetery, near Sparta, Morrow county, Ohio. J. T. Alverson is left with one daughter, Luella J., now Mrs. Olmstead, and one son, James T., jr.

In early life Mr. Alverson was a Methodist in faith, but by reading and investigating the Bible he changed his religious views June 23, 1877. He kept the Bible Sabbath, the seventh day of the week, endorsing fully the Bible doctrines of man's nature and destiny, the seventh day Sabbath as in the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus Christ and his soon coming at the completion of his work as priest of the heavenly sanctuary; then the gathering home of all the saints, both dead and living, in the first resurrection; and finally, after the resurrection and destruction of all the wicked, enjoying the Sabbath with the redeemed in Christ in the earth made new. So August 27, 1877, he took a letter from the Methodist Episcopal church, being in good standing.

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FIDLER, THOMAS, retired, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1804. His parents emigrated to Belmont county, Ohio, when he was a child. He came to this county in 1824, and was married to Rebecca Shuman. They had one daughter, Arminda; she married John Ewers, and is now dead. Mrs. Fidler died in Richland county.

Mr. Fidler was married(the second time) to Jane Dehart, who was born in New Jersey. Their children are: Marinda, now Mrs. James, a resident of Morrow county; Emily, deceased; Mary, deceased; Louis, deceased; Samuel A., deceased; Henry, married Mary Smith; he died in 1877; Anna, deceased; Deliah T., now Mrs. Wertz; Hannah L., now Mrs. Burson; they reside in Morrow county. Mrs. Jane Fidler died in 1872.

Mr. Fidler is now living with his daughter, Mrs. Wertz. He has been a successful farmer, and has accumulated considerable wealth, and has a competency for old age. Uncle Tom, as he is familiarly called, is one of the best citizens of Middlebury township.

LEWIS, JOHN and HANNAH came to Ohio from New Jersey, in the year 1805, stopping for a short time at Mt. Vernon, where there were two or three log cabins. They remained there only a few days, and following the trail of the Sandusky Indians on horseback for about ten miles in a northwest direction, they located in the wilderness on Owl creek, near what is now the village of Luzerne, in Wayne township, where they resided during the rest of their lives. Soon after selecting this place as their future home, they put up a cabin, fourteen feet square, of Buckeye logs, which was their residence for a number of years, and until they had aid enough to erect a house of heavy logs, a bout thirty feet square, which remained standing for a number of years. This building was used regularly for religious purposes, there being no church at the time in that part of the country. During the War of 1812, there was a fort, also a blockhouse, adjoining and communicating with this residence, and when these early settlers were threatened with danger, they would gather hurriedly together at this fort for protection. There were but few settlers in that part of the country prior to and during the war, and for some time Mr. Lewis' nearest neighbors resided at Mt. Vernon, and the. nearest store and mill were located at Zanesville. The trail of the Sandusky Indians, used in going to and from Mt. Vernon and Zanesville, was within one hundred yards of his house, and his family was very frequently honored with their calls, which were usually friendly. These Indians would frequently have access to whiskey when meeting with white traders, and, when intoxicated, were sometimes troublesome customers. These early settlers had but little knowledge of the luxuries and comforts of modern homes. They owned a Bible, which was in many cases their only printed book, and constituted their only reading. A long rifle with a flint lock, a rude bed and a puncheon table, and but little more. Tea, coffee, sugar and flour were luxuries to be seldom indulged in. Their corn was pounded in a wooden mortar with a pestle, the finest part being used for bread and the coarsest for hominy. Their meat was mostly wild game,. of which there was a great plenty. Mr. Lewis had some singular and exciting experiences and adventures with the wild animals that infested the then unbroken forest. Wolf scalps were a legal tender, and were received in payment of taxes, and he, with the assistance of Mr. James Bryant, who came into Ohio soon after, killed fifty-three wolves in one winter. One of the traps used by him is still in the possession of the family. Live stock had to be protected from these wild animals. One night Mr. Lewis was awakened by sortie strange noises made by his pigs in the pen, and, taking his rifle, he proceeded to ascertain the cause. Seeing some object moving about, he fired at it, and the next morning, on going to the place, found a black bear lying dead

About the year 1820, Rev. Henry George, a Welsh Baptist missionary, came from the east and located in this neighborhood, and was the first ordained minister to conduct religious services in that part of the State. His first sermon was from the text, Isaiah 63: i. After he had labored a number of years, a little congregation was collected together, and a church was organized. They erected a log building that had neither stove nor fireplace, on the spot where now stands what is known as the Wayne Baptist church. At the dedication of this log church Mr. George preached from Psalm 122: i.

The first school building in this neighborhood was erected a little way east of Mr. Lewis' residence, was made of logs, and, having no glass, the windows were made of greased paper. Mr. Lewis raised nine children, three sons and six daughters. There are yet four living: William Lewis, near Waterford, in Knox county; Mitchel Lewis, near Morrison, Illinois; Mary Jackson, near Galion, Ohio; and Jane Bonar, who lives in Bellville.

PHILO, GEORGE J., farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in England in 1834, emigrated to America in 1854, and located in Knox county. In 1856 he was married to Christina Haines, who was born in Muskingum county in 1840. They have five children living: Jesse E., Alice E., John H., Charles M., Agnes I.

Mr. Philo owns one of the best farms in Morris township, and is making a success of farming. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church at Mt. Vernon.

RINEHART, GEORGE, dealer in furniture. He was born in Morris township, this county; he was married to Hannah Jane Stinemetz, who was born in Mt. Vernon. They have four children: Ada A., Mary, Samuel, and Gracie.

He learned the cabinet-makers' trade, and has been engaged in that business over twenty years, also connected with furniture and undertaking; he is doing a good business.

NEFF PETROLEUM COMPANY. Mention has been made in the geological chapter of this work of the Neff Petroleum company, whose operations are so extensive in the Kokosing valley in the eastern part of this county and extending into Coshocton county.,

The work of this company, of which Mr. Peter Neff, of Gambier, is the heart and soul, is continually extending and has assumed much greater proportions than the people of the county are generally aware. Already Mr. Neff has expended more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in this region, and still the work goes on with increasing interest.

Last spring (1880) Mr. Neff sunk " Laurel Well" (No. 9) to the depth of one thousand and five feet, passing through the regular succession of sub-strata. Its log varies but little from the general developments in other oil regions. It is a gas well.

Personally, Mr. Neff is, and has always been, ranch interested in the study of geology and archaeology, and in the development and preservation or utilization of whatever is found under the earth's surface. In accordance with this feeling he had all his life been collecting archaeological specimens, and at present has in his home at Gambier one of the most complete and extensive collections of this character in the country, the larger

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part of which has been gathered from the fruitful fields of Knox and adjoining counties. His "Sandstone Image," supposed to have been the work of the Mound Builders, is a rare relic, and is highly important as showing some sort of connection between this mysterious people and the Hindoos--the features of the image being of an unmistakable Hindoo type, or certainly much resembling the images left by that people.

He has many other rare and valuable specimens, and is continually on the lookout for others, his means enabling him to indulge his taste in this important branch of science.

The following is interesting in connection with the production of "Diamond Black" in which Mr. Neff is so largely engaged:

"NOTES OF WORK BY STUDENTS OF PRACTICAL

CHEMISTRY

IN THE

LABORATORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA."

No. VII.

Communicated by , J. W. MALLETT, Professor of General

and Applied Chemistry in the University.

Reprinted from the CHEMICAL NEWS, Nos. 978 and 979.

LONDON:

1878.

Analysis of Lamp-black made from the Natural Hydrocarbon

Gas of the Ohio Petroleum Region. By J. R. SANTOS.

This material is described in the following passage from my portion of the "Report of the judges on the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876" (Group III Chemical Manufactures); "One of the more interesting among the minor American exhibits consists of the fine lamp-black which has for about two years past been made at Gambier, Ohio, by imperfect combustion of the natural gas which occurs throughout the petroleum region, and which frequently escapes in such quantity from borings, yielding little or no mineral oil, as to give rise to the term ' gaswell.' There are two such wells in Knox county, Ohio, near the junction of the Kokosing and Mohican rivers, affording very large quantities of hydrocarbon gas, which Mr. Peter Neff, of Gambier, has utilized in the manufacture of lampblack, which he calls ' Diamond Black.' He has patented, and uses several kinds of apparatus for burning the gas (of which two are described and figured in the Report]. In the building used, 1,800 burners are at work, consuming about 275.000 cubic feet of gas per twenty-four hours, being about one-fourth of the available supply. The composition of the gas by volume is given as

Marsh gas . . . . .. . . . . . . .. 81.4

Ethyl hydride ................... .12.2

Nytrogen. . ... . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.8

Oxygen. . .. . . . . . . . . . ... . 0.8

Carbon monoxide . . . . . . .. 0.5

Carbon dioxide . . . . . . . . . . .0.3

100.0

"No mention is made of free hydrogen, though from the experiments of Professor Sadder on samples of natural gas from Western Pennsylvania, it probably is present in small quantity. The lamp-black is at present manufactured to the extent of about sixteen tons per annum. It is very fine and smooth, free from coarse or gritty particles, and of an intense blue-black color. The absence of oily matter is very strikingly shown by mixing it with water. Although from the large amount of air in the mass of loose powder most of it floats at first upon the surface, stirring soon mixes it in large quantity with the water, rendering the whole black and opaque; in its behavior it contrasts strongly with the common lamp-black. It does not color ether, and the liquid, when evaporated, leaves but a trace of "due, while ordinary lamp-black, presumably from rosin, gives a deep yellow solution, leaving an orange-brown tar on evaporation. On burning a quantity of the diamond-black sufcient to fill a large plantinum dish, a barely visible trace of ferruginous ash was left, derived, no doubt, from the scraping of the metallic surfaces (on which the material was deposited and collected). This material is sold to makers of fine printing and lithographic inks in the United States, and has been sent in small quantity to Europe. It deserves to become more widely known."

I have used this lamp-black for a number of laboratory purposes requiring an artificial form of carbon of very high degree of purity. Mr. Santos has analyzed it, with the following results:

"Sp. gr. at 17° C., after complete expulsion of air, equals 1.729. The air-dried lamp-black lost by exposure at ordinary temperature over sulphuric acid 2.30 per cent of moisture, and a further loss of 0.40 pox cent was experienced by heating to 100 degrees C. Continued heating to 200 degrees and then to 300° under atmospheric pressure gave rise to no further loss, but a minute amount of water was expelled by subsequently heating in a Sprengel vacuum.

The material dried at 200 degrees C. gave in two combustions

I. II.

Carbon. . . . . . . . . . .96.041 96.011

Hydrogen. . . . . . . . 0.736 0.747

The occluded gases, driven out by heating to low redness in a Sprengel vacuum," represented on calculating weight from volume -

Carbon monoxide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.378 p. c. by weight.

Carbon dioxide ...... . . . . . . . . . . . 1.386 " "

Nitrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.786 " "

Vapor of water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.682 " "

There was also expelled, and condensed on the cooler part of the tube, 0.024 of a solid light yellow hydrocarbon, soluble in alcohol, fusible, and volatilizing rapidly under atmospheric pressure between 215° and 225° C. (impure napthalene?)

Hence the composition of the lamp-black may be calculated as -

Carbon .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .95.057

Hydrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 0.665

Nitrogen .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 0.776

Carbon monoxide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.387

Carbon dioxide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 1.386

Water................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 0.682

Ash (Fea O3 and CuO) .................. 0.056

100.000

* See similar results obtained by Wright and Luff for carbon pre. pared from sugar and from carbon monoxide.-Chem. Soc. Journ., January, 1878, Pp. 18 to 20.

t Including the C and H Of O.024 solid hydrocarbon.

j These gases were doubtless partly formed from solid carbon and oc cluded oxygen by the heat applied in vacuo.

ERRATA.

Page 202, second column, fifteenth line from top, 1800 should be 1809.

Page 238, first column, fifteenth line from bottom, eleven thousand should be eleven hundred.

Page 254, first column, eighth line from top, 1818 should be 1816.

Page 254, first column, fifth line from bottom, 1801 should be 1810.

Page 256, first column, fourteenth line from top, G. W. Cook should be G. W . McCook.

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Page 275, last column, fifteenth line from bottom, sick should be sink.

Page 294, first column, twelfth line from bottom, Smucker's should be Snicker's.

Page 295, first column, second line from top, Smucker's should be Snicker's.

Page 367, second column, eighth line from top, 1846 should be 1852.

Page 395, first column, seventh line from top, 1871 should be 1817.

Page 404, first column, second line from, bottom 1705 should be 1795

Page 438, second column, middle, county should be township.

Page 447, first column, eighteenth line from bottom, 1859 should be 1839.

Page 480, second column, third line from top, William Stanbery, of Newark, Licking county, should be Dr. Toms Stanberg, of Muskingum county.

Page 495, first column, sixteenth line from top, Philip should be Joseph.

Page 512. second column, ninth line from bottom, 1825 should be 1823.

Page 530, second column, middle, 1830 should be 1856, and aged fifty-six omitted.

Page 536, first column, sixteenth line from top, 1864 should be 1874.

Page 532, second column, nineteenth line from bottom, Morgan should be Monroe.

Page 539. second column, fifth line from bottom, New Lancaster should be Licking township, Fairfield county.

Page 555, middle of first column, Episcopal should be Methodist.

Page 559, second column, fifth line from top, 1805 should be 1803.

Page 588, second column, the marriage of H. M. Auten took place in 1836, instead of 1863.

Page 613, second column, seventh line from bottom, sight should be site.

Page 614, Lanesville should be Zanesville.

Page 628, second column, ten should be two, in giving the number of John Clutter's children.

Page 629, first column, three lines from bottom, ohio should be Ohio.

Page 634, second column, twenty-six lines from bottom, commented should be commended.

Page 638, first column; twelfth line from top, having should be and they have.

Page 646, second column, fourth line from top,. obtruse should be abstruse.

Page 647, second column, third line from bottom, Saul should be Sol.

Page 653, second column, twenty-fourth line from top, Worthing should be Worthington.

Page 655, first column, third line from bottom, rigorous should be vigorous.

Page 656, first column, middle, enured should be inured.

Page 657, second column, middle, 1816 should be 1806.

Page 657, second column, nineteenth line from bottom, 1862 should be 1826.

Page 658, first column, eleventh line from bottom, Putman should be Putnam.

Page 664, second column, ninth line from bottom, 1802 should be 1862.

Page 674, second column, twelfth line from bottom, 1810 should be 1809.

Page 689, first column, tenth line from top, 1832 should be 1632.

Page 689, first column, fourteenth line from top, there should be these.

Page 693, second column, near middle, Huron in several places should be Portland, now Sandusky cite.

Page 697, second column, fourteen lines from bottom, General Todd should be Governor Tod.

Page 704, second column, eighth line from bottom, Winchester should be Westchester.

Page 705, second column, fourth line from top, Harrison should be Denison.

Page 706, second column, fifteenth line from the top, Rocklin should be Rockland.

Page 733, last column, seventh line from top, 1850 should be 1830.

Page 740, second column, middle, proceeded should be preceded.

Page 769, last column, twenty-sixth line from bottom, developed should be devolved.

Page 771, first column, fifteenth line from top, Mr. Purr should be Mr. Parrish.

Page 781, Richard Helen should be Helen Richard.

Page 785, last column, ninth line from top, 1871 should be 1781.

Page 785, last column, tenth line from top, 1873 should be 1783.

Page 789, last column, nineteenth line from top, four-four should be forty-four.

Page 799, first column, twentieth line from bottom, 1820 should be 1840.

Page 816, first column, twentieth line from top, 1864 should be 1874.

Page 816, second column, fourth line from top, 1854 should be 1844.

Page 818, second column, sixth line from bottom, 1806 should be 1809.

Page 819, first column, tenth line from top, dropped out. The intelligent reader will be able to supply the omission.

Page 828, first column, fifth line from top, June should be January.

Page 841. second column, eighth line from bottom, 1859 should he 1849. .

Page 847, second column. third line from bottom, 1875 should be 1835.