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GAMBLE, JOHN R., deceased, was born to Pennsylvania, September 27, 1796. His father, William Gamble, having emigrated from county Antrim, Ireland. He was of Scotch-Irish lineage, having been obliged to flee the country for his democratic principles, and on account of a personal collision with one of the king's officers. He settled in Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, where John R. Gamble was born. He came to Delaware county, Ohio, about the year 1810. He was married in 1825, to Miss Lovina Collins, who still survives. The fruits of this union were six children, viz: William, George W., Horatio N., Sarah lane, Constant, and John R., of whom William, George W., Jane, and Constant, still survive. Mr. Gamble subsequently resided in Columbus, Newark, Tuscarawas, and Coshocton counties, removing to Butler township in 1836, where he resided until the time of his decease, which occurred in 1857. Mr. Gamble was a public spirited citizen, a prominent Democratic politician, and was much respected for his sterling qualities.

GANN, GEORGE, deceased, was born in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, January 24, 1810. While residing to Pennsylvania he was married to Miss Sarah Bridgen, in November, 1831. He came to Jefferson in 1834, locating in the southwestern

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comer of the township. He reared a family of six children, viz: Jacob, born. October 23, 1832; Nancy, born is 1833; Mary, July 6, 1835; Margaret, March 3, 1837; Martha, September 6, 1838; Maria, January 18, 1852. Nancy died March 12, 1834; Maria died, September 14, 1854; Sarah died September 7, 1877.

Mr. Gann was many years an influential citizen of Knox county, and of Jefferson township. By the detaching of a portion of Jefferson in 1876, and its annexation to Union, he became a citizen of Union township. He took an active part in the locating of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Pittsburgh railroad at Nit. Holly, and in consideration of his services the station and village were named Gann. He was the owner of four hundred acres of good farming land at the time of his decease, which occurred September 7, 1877.

GANN, JACOB, Union township; farmer; post office, Gann, was born in Pennsylvania October 3, 1832, and came to this county in 1835. In 1844 he settled on the farm, where he now resides. He married Myrtilla, Maxfield in 1866, and settled on the Gann homestead, where he has remained until the present time. He has two children: George W., born March 7, 1867, and John, January 13, 1871.

His father's will granted him one hundred and sixty-seven acres including the old house. This is to be divided between the children at the time of his death. His wife was born January 23, 1837, in New York, and came to this county in 1840. She taught school until her marriage.

GANTT, STEPHEN H., Hilliar township, farmer, born in Loudoun county, Virginia, February 16, 1818. His ancestors were Virginians. His father had been a soldier in the War of 1812, and served for some time in Norfolk, Virginia.

In 1835 the parents, Samuel and Mary Gantt, nee Andrews, came to Ohio, and settled in Morris township, where they remained about seven years, then came to Hilliar township, and settled near where their son Stephen now resides, and where they spent their lives, being respected and honored citizens. They had a family of eight children, six of whom are living.

The subject of this short sketch remained at home until he was about twenty-two years of age. In 1840 he came to where he now resides, and which was some time before his parents came.

There was no improvement, woods covered the land, and Mr. Gantt was compelled to do like the early pioneers, build his cabin first for a habitation, and then clear the land of the "giant oaks." He remained in his cabin for about twelve years, enjoying his life as well as ever he did, happy and contented with the result of his labor. He then built his present substantial and comfortable dwelling. He started in life poor, but by industry he has made for himself a competence. He is an intelligent and careful farmer, and an estimable citizen, and has the confidence, respect and esteem of the community. He is social in his manners, and hospitable to strangers.

Mr. Gantt has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Eliza Loveridge, to whom he was married May 14, 1840. They had a family of six children, three of whom are living, viz: Martha, married to Elmer Burgoon, farmer, and resides in Hilliar township; Cynthia, married to Henry Motley, farmer, Hilliar township, and Mary Jane, married to Charles Sager, farmer, in Union county, Ohio. Two children died in infancy. Mahlon died when about sixteen years of age.

Mrs. Gantt died May 19, 1858. He was afterwards married to Miss Emily Barker. As a result of this marriage they have a family of four children, viz: Lucy Ellie, married to Charles Corwin, and resides in Morrow county, Ohio; Orlin, Flora Elsie and Alvah live at home.

GANTT, WILLIAM F., grocer, Jones' block, West High street, Mt. Vernon, is a native of Knox county, and was born near Fredericktown. At the age of fifteen he went into the dry goods store of his uncle, E. R. Gantt, Centreburgh, as a salesman, where he continued three years. He next entered the employ of James Johnson, Fredencktown, and clerked for thirteen years. His next engagement was with the late George B. Potwin, grocer and provision dealer, Mt. Vernon, where he served four years. On the first of February, 1869, with A. B. Tarr as partner, they commenced the grocery business. In the spring of 1871 Mr. Gantt purchased the interest of Mr. Tarr, and continued the business in his own name. He has done business in the same room for eleven years. On the sixth of January he sold his business to Mr. Trott. Shortly after this sale Mr. Gantt formed a partnership with J. M. Roberts, and rented the room in the same block formerly occupied by N. Whittington S: Son, and filled it with a large stock of groceries and provisions, and opened out on the sixth of March, 1880, where they may still be found ready to wait upon old friends and new ones. This gives Mr. Gantt a business of thirty-two years-half a lifetime. Their stock embraces a full line of staple and fancy family groceries and confectioneries. Their stock is valued at about two thousand dollars, and is frequently renewed to supply the demand. They have a successful and a daily increasing trade. Their establishment is one of the first-class family grocery houses in the city.

Mr. J. M. Roberts was in Mr. Gantt's employ for five years prior to his entering the firm as partner.

March 14th Mr. Gantt bought Mr. Roberts' interest, and at this time is conducting the business alone.

GARDNER, W. S., physician, Union township, post office, Rosstown. He was born in Mt. Holly, Knox county, and was taken to New Jersey when he was small, and remained about three years, then he commenced his medical education as well as his literary. His mother died in New Jersey. After his father's second marriage he went to Philadelphia and finished his medical education, and commenced practice in the city. His health failed him there and he removed to Bladensburgh, Ohio, where he met and married Emma M. Gardner, in 1874. He practiced there for five years and built a good little home. He came to Rossville in 1879, where he has settled and is pleased with his success.

GATES, LYMAN W., Miller township; born in Miller township, September 21, 1819. His father, Cyrus Gates, was a native of Rutland, Vermont, emigrated to Ohio in 1814. In the month of September, 1815, he purchased of the United States Government a quarter section of land in the west part of Miller township. In the month of September, 1816, he married Elizabeth McKee, a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio in 1795, with her parents, who settled at Marietta. In 1802 she removed to Zanesville, where she lived until after her marriage. In the month of December, 1816, they removed to Miller township, then nearly an unbroken wilderness, with probably not more than fifteen families within the. present limits of the township. Then commenced the hardships of pioneer life in a howling wilderness. They lived to see the fruits of their labors. The farm was cleared, and by industry, economy, and frugality,

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acquired a competency. Both sank to rest in a good old age. Cyrus Gates died August 21, 1867, aged seventy-five years. Elizabeth Gates died June 16, 1876, aged eighty-four years. They both died on the old homestead first purchased by Cyrus Gates. By this marriage there were ten children; six dead and four living. Of the dead, the first child died in infancy;, Roena, Cyrus, Elizabeth, Dorcas (married Henry C. Harris), and Charles B. The living are: Lyman W., Lewis, Sallie, widow of A. G. Simons, and Lorancy, married to J. W. Baxter, and all reside in Miller township. Lewis owns the old homestead farm, and with Sallie Simons resides on the farm which has been owned by some of the family since 1815.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm. He had the advantages of the common-schools of those days, which were very different from those of the present day. The first schoolhouse in which he attended school, was located on his father's farm, situated on a small eminence near the road-side, on the west bank of the brook. It was probably about fifteen feet square, and built of round logs, and covered with split oak boards four feet long, with poles placed on them to hold them in place. The door was on the south side, next to the road; one window of six lights, with eight by ten inch glass; no ceiling of any kind overhead, except the roof; the floor was white ash split slabs, and placed so near together that the children would not be in danger of falling through the floor, yet it was very rough. There were two seats, about ten feet long, made by splitting an inch log about one foot in diameter and boring two holes near the end of each piece, then pins of wood were inserted for feet. This done, the house was completed. This building was erected in the spring of 1825. Cyrus Gates was the principal superintendent of the building, and it occupied his time nearly three days. There were residing in the neighborhood, at this time, nine children, of school age, that attended school in this house. The first school was taught by Miss Sophia Hillard and a sister of J. M. Hillard, who now resides in Miller township. The price paid was fifty cents per week of five and one-half days, or about nine cents per day. Schools were taught in this house only in the summer season, for five summers. In 1830 a district was organized and a more commodious school-house built of hewed logs, with a large fireplace at one end of the room. A Mr. Hall taught the first winter school at twelve dollars per month, or fifty cents per day.

The subject of this notice has some striking (?) recollections of the teachers of those days, and the teachers generally had some striking (?) qualifications for teaching. The prices paid teachers in those days were generally governed by their striking (?) qualifications, varying from eight to twelve dollars per month in winter, and from sixty to seventy-five cents per week in summer. In those days no teacher was required to obtain a certificate of qualification to teach a common-school. Reading, writing, and arithmetic, were the common branches taught.

At the age of twenty-one years he had acquired the necessary qualification to teach a common school, which business he followed in the winter seasons for thirty-seven years, teaching thirty-five terms. He learned the carpenter's trade, and worked at his trade during the summer seasons. He has lived all his life in Miller township, now sixty-one years. He served as township clerk sixteen years, and as justice of the peace six years; was elected county commissioner in the year 1867, by the Republican party, and served three years; and was nominated again in 1870 for the same office, but the Republican ticket was defeated that year in the county. He now holds the office of notary public, which office he has held nearly twelve years.

He served in the late war against the Rebellion, in the One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, in the summer of 1864, most of the time in front of Petersburgh, Virginia.

He always openly and fearlessly defended what he believed to be right, and was always ready to condemn whatever he believed to be wrong, either morally, politically, or in matters of religion. Slavery he believed to be an evil and a wrong in every sense of the word, and he was recognized as one of the few Abolitionists as early as 1842, yet voting with the Whig party until 1848; then united with the Free-soil party until the Republican party was organized, in 1856, with which party he has acted to the present time. He has never failed to vote at every county, State, or Presidential election -in forty years, and never failed but twice to vote at township elections in the same time. He never uses intoxicating drink of any kind, and is a zealous advocate of temperance.

In religion he is a liberalist, freely granting to others the right and privilege of expressing their own religious opinions; and at the same time asks the same rights and privileges for himself that he so freely grants to others. He was married April 14, 1841, to Miss Prudence Hooker, whose parents were also pioneer citizens of Miller township.

By this marriage they have ten children. Three died in infancy; seven are living, viz: Caroline, married to Henry Robinson; Orlinda E., married to William H. Taylor, of Palmyra, Otoe county, Nebraska; Lucretia, married P. W. Mason; Lorancy married J. C. Hartsock; Jennie married M. B. Rouse; Omar C. and Howard are the remaining two.

GATES, LEWIS, Miller township, farmer, was born October 16, 1825. He is the son of Cryrus and Elizabeth Gates, nee McKee, of whom mention is made under the biography of L. W. Gates.

The subject of this notice spent his early days on his father' s old homestead, and at the common schools of the district. He remained in the community until April, 1862, when he enlisted in company A, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years, and participated in the skirmish at Front Royal, Virginia. He was taken sick in Virginia, and was discharged, after being in the service five months. He was in the quartermaster's department as carpenter at Nashville, Tennessee. He traveled in Missouri, Kansas, and the west for four years. He has beer. successful in life. In religion he is a liberal, and accords to others the same privilege he claims for himself. He now resides on the old homestead, where he was born.

GAY, JOHN F., Mt. Vernon, ex-sheriff of Mt. Vernon, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, June 10, 1845. His paternal grandfather, Peter Gay, emigrated to the United States from Wales prior to the Revolution, and settled in western Pennsylvania, where he became a leading citizen, and represented the county of Westmoreland in the legislature of the State. He married in Pennsylvania, and had a family of five children, two sons and three daughters. .

William Gay, the father of the subject of this notice, was born in 1815 and died in 1866. He was a farmer by occupation, and a leading citizen. He married Martha S. Speer, of Fayette county, Pennsylvania. They had a family of eight children, all of whom are living but Peter, who was a member of the Eleventh regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, and died from wounds received at Gettysburgh, Pennsylvania.

John F., the subject of this notice, was born on the farm,

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and there reared. attending the common schools and several terms at an academy at Mt. Pleasant; Pennsylvania. He received an appointment to the naval academy at Annapolis, Maryland, where he remained eight months, and on account of sickness returned home.

In 1866 he came to Ohio and engaged in the dry goods business, in Fredericktown, Knox county, as clerk for M. J. Simmons, with whom he remained for three years, when he became one of the firm. About 1871 he engaged in business for himself in Fredericktown, where he remained two years, when he was burned out. He then came to Mt. Vernon and clerked successively for J. W. Miller and D. W. Mead. In 1876 he was nominated for the office of sheriff by the Democratic convention, without his personal solicitation, and at the ensuing election received a majority of one hundred and twenty-six. He made a very efficient and acceptable officer, and was again nominated in 1878, running largely ahead of his ticket, receiving a majority of one thousand five hundred and sixteen. Mr. Gay is an accurate business man, and by his pleasant manner has succeeded in making many friends. He was married to Miss Mary .A. Nevius. They have been the parents of four children, two of whom are living. Mr. Gay is now in the dry goods business, having connected himself with the well known house of G. W. Mead, of Mt. Vernon.

GEARHART, SMITH, Milford township, farmer, was born in Hilliar township, December 17, 1843. He is the son of Whitefield and Harriet Gearhart, who was a daughter of Jesse Smith. She was born in Rhode Island in 1820, and in 1833 came to Ohio with her parents who settled in Liberty township. Mr. Smith came to Ohio at a much earlier date and purchased a tract of land, then returned to Rhode Island, where he married Mary Jenks. By this marriage there were six children, Mrs. Gearhart being the oldest of the family. Mrs. Smith died in 1865. Some time after his wife's death he went to Iowa, where he yet resides, aged eighty-five years. Harriet was married to Whitefield Gearhart March 1, 1838. They had nine children, six of whom are living, viz.: George, Mary, (married to John Spearman), Smith, Charles, Mary (married to John New), Aaron W. Mr. Gearhart died in 1874, aged fifty-nine years. Mrs. Gearhart still resides on the farm in Liberty township. The subject of this notice, Smith Gearhart, was reared on a farm. In 1862 he enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry for three years, and participated in the battle of Perrysville, Kentucky. He was taken sick and discharged on account of physical disability contracted while in service. He was out about eight months. After his return home, and upon the recovery of his health, he engaged in farming, which he has followed ever since. He is one of Milford township's best citizens, and a good farmer. June 10, 1865, he married Mary L. Brokaw, who is a daughter of John A. and Caroline Brokaw, of Mt. Liberty, Ohio.

GEORGE, JAMES, deceased, late of Clinton township, was a native of England, having been born in Somersetshire, May 4, 1809. His early years were spent in and around his old home, for which he had up to his last sickness a veneration that made him somewhat restless, and he often expressed a desire to return and spend his remaining days with the "old folks at home." So great was this desire to be at "home" once more, as he often expressed himself, that on three different occasions he braved the dangers of the mighty deep to gratify the yearnings of his heart. On his first return home, in 1844, he acknowledged things looked changed, they were not as his fond wishes hoped to find them-a reaction took place. In 1859 was his next return, the old desire to visit England being too great to resist. Again disappointment met him at every place he visited old scenes had vanished, and new scenes had taken their place -the people were also new and strange. Again he returned to America-it appeared better to him than before. In 1867 the old homesickness again seized him-the terrors of the ocean stood not in his way. So again we find him "going down to the sea in ships" -Somersetshire the objective point. Greater changes than before met him face to face. He took sick almost unto death. His devoted wife was sent for she crossed the waters-nursed him to convalescence, and cared for him on his fourth voyage to America.

In July, 1833, Mr. George, then in his twenty-fourth year, made his initial voyage to America, landing in New York. From New York he went to Portchester, where he remained two years. Here he met, wooed and won Miss Catharine A. Brown, of Portchester, and on the fourth of March, 1855, they were united in marriage. Miss Brown was born in New York, October 25, 1811. Shortly after his marriage Mr. and Mrs. George, in May of 1835, removed to New Rochelle, and remained there until November, when they came to Ohio, locating in Coshocton county, and made that county their home for one year. In 1836 they again broke up their home and settled in Columbus, Ohio, where he engaged in the baking business. Mr. George erected the building known as the Buckeye block, now occupied by Mr. William Taylor. Ho also increased his business by entering into the wholesale and retail grocery trade, which he conducted with great success up to 1849. He then sold his stock of goods and part of his real estate property in Columbus and purchased and moved upon a farm near Fredericktown,, this county. Until about 1852 he followed farming, when he and his family came to Mt. Vernon, where he engaged in the mercantile business. This he continued for a number of years. "Indeed," says Mrs, George, "during his residence in the city, he was never idle-being always employed either in selling goods, erecting houses, improving property, or farming." In 1875 he purchased and moved to a small farm, one mile west of Mt. Vernon, on the new Delaware road. Here he lived until June 25, 1879, when his last sickness terminated in his death.

Mr. George was a good citizen, an affectionate husband, and an indulgent father, honest to the heart, and liberal to a fault. His death was a loss to all.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. George five sons and one daughter were born; four sons and the daughter are still living, viz: James, William, John, Thomas, and Mary. The sons are living in Mt. Vernon and engaged in business. The daughter, Mary, the widow of the late George Fay, is a resident of Tama City, Iowa.,

Mary is now the wife of Mr. Charles Kingsbury. Their first child, a son, died young.

Mrs. George, now in her sixty-ninth year, resides on the little farm in Clinton township, where her husband passed from earth.

GERHERT, W. P., Frederick-town, dealer in groceries, provisions and notions; was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1850, and was married in 1870 to Liscettie Chronester, who was born in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1849. They have the following family, viz: Curtis, born in 1871; Jennie, born in 1874; John B., born in 1877.

Mr. Gerhart established his business here in 1876. and has built up a very extensive. trade. He has become a very popular

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business man, so that his store is one of the leading institutions of the town.

GETZ, JOHN, Fredericktown, marble and monument manufacturer; was born in Germany in 1845, emigrated with his parents to this country in 1846 and located in Berlin township, Holmes county, Ohio. He was married to Maggie Culler, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had six children: Edwin W., Anna Mary, Grace Geneva, Erma, John and an infant.

Mr. Getz learned the marble cutting trade in Holmes county, and worked at it in the same county. He came to Fredericktown in 1879 and established marble and monumental works. He is doing business on quite an extensive scale, giving employment to a number of hands, and has the best material in the market, employs the best workmen. is a practical mechanic himself, and is prepared to meet all competition of larger towns in prices and quality. He is establishing a good trade, and it is increasing rapidly, as his establishment compares favorably with those of Mt. Vernon and Mansfield.

John Getz enlisted in the late war in 1862, and was a member of company F, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth regiment O. V. I. He continued until the close of the war, and was in the following engagements: Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, at Atlanta (several engagements), Jonesborough, Franklin and Nashville, besides a number of smaller engagements. He was honorably discharged.

GHRIST, JAMES F., tailor, Fredericktown, was born in Fayette county. Pennsylvania, ,in 1829, and was married in 1854 to Sarah L. Latimer, who was born in the same county in 1829. They have three children: Thomas E., born in 1856; Clara M., in 1858; and Orlando P., in 1872.

Mr. Ghrist learned the tailor trade in Galion, Ohio, remained there four years, and then returned to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. He there engaged in the same business, and remained in that State for twenty-five years.

He was a soldier in the late war-a member of company K, Two Hundred and Sixth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, and was engaged in the service one year. He returned to Richland county, Ohio, in 1876, and engaged at his trade in Independence and Bellville.

In 1878 he located in Fredericktown, and is doing a custom trade. Mr. Ghrist is a first-class mechanic, and makes cutting a specialty, doing quite an extensive business.

Mr. Ghrist is an active official member of the Baptist church, and superintendent of their Sabbath-school.

GIBSON, SAMUEL (deceased), was born in Frederick county, Maryland, and was married to Ruth Elliott, who was born in Montgomery county, Maryland, in 1815. They emigrated to Jefferson county, Ohio, and remained there until the spring of 1818, when they came to Knox county. He bought one quarter section in Richland county.

They had nine children: George W., Sarah, Hannah, John, and Hiram-all born in the State of Maryland. John died in infancy; Ann, who was born in Jefferson county; William, born on the Farquahar farm; Mary (deceased) and Ruth, who were born on the farm where Joseph Crane now resides. Ruth was married to Joseph Crane.

William Farquahar and Henry Roberts settled on- the farm where Nicholas Darling resides, in Morris township. They had to cut the road through from Mt. Vernon. They raised corn at that time in that neighborhood fourteen feet high. Basil Farquahar, when fourteen years of age, climbed a stock of corn, which incident is still remembered by some of the older citizens.

GIBSON, GEORGE W., was married to Mary Garrett; they had one daughter, Abigail, who was married to Issachar Gregg. Mr. G. W. Gibson subsequently married Frances Green. There are three of their children living, viz.: Caroline, now Mrs. John Wagner, of Middlebury township; Eliza, now Mrs. Dove; Hiram M., a resident of Berlin; George W., resides on the farm with Hiram M.

GIBSON, HIRAM M., farmer, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown,was born in Richland county, in a cabin, in 1845, and was married in 1874 to Clara Comfort, who was born in this county in 1851.

GIFFIN, LAURISTON, farmer, post office, Shaler's Mills. He was born in Worcester county, Massachusetts, in 1809, and came to Ohio in 1838, purchasing land in Berlin township, this county. He was married to Lucia F. Willis, who was born in Pittsford, Vermont, in 1812. They had four children: Arminta M., deceased; William C., Emma E., and Mary Alice.

William C. Giffin was married in 1864 to Amy Gower. They have five children living: Mattie May, Charles H., Emma A., Mary L., Herbert L., Lucia J., and Loretta A. The deceased members are Emma A., and Herbert L.

Mr. W. C. Giffin was a soldier during the late war, a member of company H, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guard. He is engaged in farming, threshing, and during the winter is running a mill for grinding feed, which is located at Fredericktown.

Mary Alice was married in 1872 to Columbus W. Smith. They have three children: Burton G., born in 1873; Fannie W., in 1876; and Carl C., in 1879. Mr. Smith is residing with Mr. L. Giffin and farming the home place.

Mr. L. Giffin, when he first came to Knox county, was a citizen of Fredericktown for about eighteen months. He was engaged in manufacturing hair cloth for sofas and chairs.

It was in the days of Judge Avers. The judge would get Mr. Giffin to break his wild colts that no one had the courage to handle. Judge Ayers positively claimed that Mr. L. Giffin was the champion horseman.

Mr. Giffin moved on his farm in Berlin township in 1839. He built the first frame house on the street where he now resides. He kept a public house to accommodate the traveling public. Mr. and .Mrs. Giffin are very hospitable, and are well remembered by many that shared their hospitality.

GIFFIN, ROBERT, SR., was born in Virginia, November 21, 1813, and came with his father, William Giffin, to New Castle township, Coshocton county, Ohio, at an early age. In March, 1838, he removed to Butler township, and has since resided here. November 16, 1837, he was married to Miss Martha Busenberg, who was born February 11, 1821, in Butler township. They have had eight children, viz: Louisa Giffin, born March 28, 1839; Sarah Catharine, September 16, 1841; Amanda J., March 20, 1843; William B., June 28, 1844; Mary Elizabeth, August 9, 1847; Charles Francis, September 20, 1850; William Monroe, June 5, 1853; Martha Ellen, June 5, 1853. Louisa Giffin died October 2, 1840; William Monroe Giffin, August 14, 1855; Charles Francis Giffin, August 29, 1855; Martha Ellen Giffin, September 9, 1860.

Politically Mr. Giffin was an old line Whig and afterwards a Republican. He is owner of two hundred and fifty acres of fine

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farming land lying in Butler township, and is possessor of a very fine residence.

GILBERT, JOHN, son of Samuel and Thompson Gilbert, was born in England, March 23, 1836. In 1850 he came with his parents to America, and located in Mt. Vernon. In 1851 he commenced an apprentice at the blacksmith trade in Mt. Vernon, and remained one year; then, in 1852, he came to Monroe Milts, where he finished his apprenticeship in 1854 with Stephen Parmenter. He at once commenced business for himself, purchased Mr. Parmenter' s shop and accouterments, in which he worked until 1861, when he erected his present shop at Monroe Mills, in which shop he has since carried on the business of blacksmithing in all its branches.

In 1856 he married Miss Phoebe E. Lybarger, born in Knox county, November, 1838, daughter of Jesse Lybarger. They settled at Monroe Mills, where they now reside. Their union resulted in four children, two sons and two daughters. In May, 1864, he enlisted in company F, of the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was then discharged from the service, returned home and again engaged at his business, which he has since been following.

GILBERT, WILLIAM H., farmer, Liberty township, was born December 28, 1848, near Fredericktown, and is the son of Samuel and Joanna Gilbert nee Hicks.

Samuel Gilbert was born in Devonshire, England, and when about nineteen, acme to the United States with his brother John. He remained in New York city two years, and then emigrated to Wayne township, subsequently to Clinton and Hilliar townships, where he died in September 1875. He was twice married, his first wife was Joanna Hicks, who had two children, William H. and Mary E. His second wife was Mrs. D. Marshall, with whom he had four children. She is yet a resident of Hilliar township.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm, and has always followed farming. November 23, 1872, he married Miss Mary Ann Sharpnack, who is the daughter of Daniel Sharpnack, who was born in Greene county. Pennsylvania, January 23, 1804. He married Miss L. Coleman in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. She was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, August 30, 1803. They came to Ohio about 1838. They are both dead. They had ten children, four of whom are living. Nit. and Mrs. Gilbert have one child, Mary L., born September 25, 1875.

GILMORE, FRANCIS, farmer, Pike township, post office, North Liberty, born in Pike township, this county. July 9, 1839, and was married January 25, 1864, to Mary Jane Loney, who was born in Pike township, this county, September 6, 1844. They have the following children: Mary, born April 12, 1867; John L., January 26, 1874; Blanche, July 21, 1876; William Calvin, April 24, 1879. He owns the old homestead and has resided on it since his marriage.

GILMORE. JOHN, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Knox county, and was married to Maria Clawson, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio. They had four children: Lovena, Eddie, Willie (deceased), and Walter. Mr. Gilmore is a farmer by occupation, and has a beautiful farm in Pike township, with all the modern improvements, his buildings being among the very best in this county, and he is a model farmer.

GLASENER, ABSALOM, Brown township, farmer, post office, Jelloway, was born in Alleghany county, Maryland, November 19, 1804, and remained with his parents until he arrived at the age of twenty-five years, when he was united in marriage with Elizabeth Pierce, who was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, December 2, 1804. After his marriage he moved with his family to Knox county, locating on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, in Brown township, which he had entered previous to his marriage. There he commenced life in a cabin he had erected previous to coming to said farm. He cleared the land, made it ready for the plow, and soon had a fine farm. Said farm is located on the headwaters of Bear run, and is a very pleasant, home. He now lives there and is enjoying himself in his old days. By their marriage they became the parents of four children: Elizabeth S., born March 7, 1831, now resides in Mt. Vernon; Rebecca J., November 11, 1833; Mary M., April 23, 1836, now lives in Fredericktown; Jacob H., November 11, 1838, died September 11, 1840.

GLASGOW, JOHN W., Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Pike township in 1855, and was married in 1876 to Mary Guthrie, who was born in Pike township in 1853. They have two children, John, born in 1876, and Edith Rachel, in 1878.

Mr. Glasgow has always been identified with this county and is one of its leading citizens.

GLASGOW, JAMES JR., Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Pike township, this county, September to, 1860, and was married by Rev. W. Ferguson, in Mt. Vernon, September 16, 1880, to Miss Kittie Hively, who was born September 16, 1861. They reside in Knox county, Ohio. His father, James Glasgow, sr., was born January 10, 1809, and was married in 1833 to Nancy Robinson, who was born in 1817. They had four children: Isabella, born in 1835; Nancy. in 1837; Eliza A., 1839; .Margaret J., 1842.

Mrs. Nancy Glasgow died January 18, 1842.

Mr. Glasgow subsequently married Alice A. Petterson, born in 1807. They had two children, Robert and James, deceased. Mrs, Alice Glasgow died in 1850. His third marriage was in 1850 to Mary Jane Armstrong, who was born in 1824. They had eight children: Emma, born in 1851; Abigail, in 1853; John, in 1855; Mary, 1858; James, jr., 1860; Robert, 1863; Harvey, 1866, and Elizabeth, 1869. Elizabeth died in 1875. The following are married: Isabella and Samuel Ruby, Nancy and Newton Blair, Eliza and William Reed, Margaret and Nelson Hushberger, Emma and William Dunmire, John and Mary Guthrie, Abigail and Eliza Guthrie, James, jr., and Kittie Hively.

GLENN, DAVID (deceased, Pleasant township, was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, July 9, 1788. On May 13, 1813, he married Miss Jane McConnell, of Pennsylvania, born in 1792. They settled in Pennsylvania, where they lived until 1847, when, with his wife and ten children, he moved to Ohio, located for one year in Wayne county, then moved to Ashland county, remained two years, and in 1850 moved to Knox county, locating on a farm in Green valley, four miles west of Mt. Vernon. In 1852 he purchased and moved on the farm now owned and occupied by his heirs. February 27, 1869, he died here, aged eighty-one years. He was one term in the legislature, and filled the office of justice of the peace for many years,' in Pennsylvania. August 27, 1875, his companion died, aged eighty-tour years. They reared a family often children, viz.: Eliza J., John, James M., David, Nettie E. and Mary A. (twins), George W., Samuel

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H., Thomas S., and William S.-all now living, except David, who died February 4, 1858.

BROWN, JOSEPH C., farmer, Pleasant township, was born in Cork county, Ireland in 1827, where he grew to manhood. In x856 he emigrated to America and located in Clermont county, Ohio. In 1861 he came to Knox county, Ohio, where he married Miss Mary Clark, of College township, March 31st of same year. They returned to Clermont county, where they lived a year; then, in 1862, they moved to this county and located for three years in College township, and in 1865 he purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township where they are now living. They have a family of seven children, three sons and four daughters. He has followed farming as his vocation. Miss Clark was born in county Cork, Ireland, November 23, 1833, daughter of Thomas and Mary Clark. She emigrated to America in 1852; lived in Hamilton county, Ohio, three years, and in 1855 came to Knox county.

GLOSSER, LEROY, Fredericktown, carpenter, was born in Fredericktown in 1850, and married in 1874 to Clara Castner, who was born in W Woodbury, Pennsylvania, in 1852. They have one son, George E., born August 4, 1878.

GORDON, SIDNEY W., Middlebury township, dealer in hardware, born in Knox county, now Morrow, June 24, 1831, and was married October 3, 1852, to Mahalia L. Gardner, who was born in Knox county, September 12, 1834. They have the following children: Helen A., born December 5, 1853; Rosa D., October 15, 1855; John W., October 28, 1857; George H., February 1, 1860; Charles N., February 25, 1862; Sidey L., February 25, 1864; Mary A., May 30, 1868.

Mr. Gordon is engaged in the hardware business in Waterford. He began there in the spring of 1880, and carries a general stock of hardware, keeping the stock well supplied, and is ever ready to compete with larger towns in this line of goods. All who need anything in his line will do well to call and see him.

His father, William G. Gordon, was born in Manchester, England, September 17, 1772. He came to America in 1802, and was married in New Jersey September 25, 1809, to Mary Hedden. He now resides in Chester township, Morrow county, Ohio.

GORDON, JOSEPH M. D., Mt. Vernon, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1841. His father, Silas Gordon, is of Scotch extraction, and a native of Pennsylvania. He married a Miss Coffman, of the same county. They had a family of ten children, eight of whom are living. In 1853 Mr. Gordon with his family, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located near Mt. Vernon. where they remained some years, and then removed to near Fredericktown, where they yet reside. They are estimable citizens, by ocupation farmers.

The subject of this notice spent his youth with his parents on the farm, obtaining his education mostly at the schools of Fredericktown, after which he taught school for several terms. In August, 1861, he enlisted in company A, Twentieth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and participated in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Iuka, Chatahoochie, Savannah, Atlanta, Champion Hills, Marietta, Jonesborough, Kennesaw Mountain, Port Gibson, Jackson, Boliver, Ackwood, Vicksburgh, Raymond, Black Creek, Grand Junction, Goldsborough, Fayetteville, besides numerous minor engagements. He was discharged in the fall of 1864. He began reading medicine in the spring of 1865 with Dr. Russel. After his course of reading he graduated at the Jefferson Medical college, of Philadelphia in 1868, and remained for a short time in New Jersey. He then came to Mt. Vernon, where he began practice, and soon succeeded in building up an excellent reputation. He is president of the Knox County Medical society, and clerk of the board of education. He married Miss Clam L. Corey in 1871. They have three children. viz: Mary P., Lula M., and Stella S.

GOWER, SAMUEL, Pike township; farmer; post office, North Liberty, was born in Washington county, Maryland, in 1817, and came to Ohio in 1824. He first settled in Stark county, and remained there till 1840, when he came to Pike township, Knox county. He was married in 1841, to Elizabeth lane Kirkpatrick, who was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1822. They have seven children, vii: Mary, born in 1842; William, in 1844; Amy, in 1846; Nancy, in 1847; Washington, in 1849; Martha, in 1852, and John, in 1855.

John Gower died in 1877. in Iowa, of hemorrhage of the brain. His remains were brought to Ohio.

Amy Gower married William Giffin in 1864. They reside m Berlin township.

William married Elizabeth Munaw in 1867. They reside in Mt. Vernon.

Nancy married T. Scoles in 1868. They reside in this township.

Martha married Ira Umphreys in 1876. They reside on the home place.

Samuel Gower's father, Jacob Gower, deceased, was born in Virginia, in 1785, emigrated to Maryland, and was married to Mary Swope in 1815. They had three children, viz: Samuel, Martha and an infant child. Mr. Gower settled in Pike township in 1840, and remained there until his death in 1869. Mrs. Mary Gower died in 1871. They were among the earliest settlers Mr. Jacob Gower was a soldier in the War of 1812.

GOWER, WASHINGTON, Pike township; farmer; post office, North Liberty, born in Pike township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1849, and was married in 1879, to Mary E. Cutman, who was born in Switzerland. They have one daughter: Alice Ardella, born in 1879.

Mr. Gower is a farmer by occupation, was raised on a farm, and was brought up with all of the habits of a farmer.

GRAHAM, SAMUEL„ Mt. Vernon, deceased, a native of Pennsylvania; was born September 23, 1794, and came to Ohio in company with two of his brothers in 1808 and located near Newark, Licking county. On the eleventh of September, 1817, he married Miss Eliza Curtis, daughter of Zarah and Phalley Curtis and sistcr of our worthy townsman Henry B. Curtis. Miss Curtis was born in the State of New York June 30, 1794. and came to Licking county, Ohio, with her parents in 1810, who located near Newark. Mr. and Mrs Graham settled on a farm in Newark township, same county, where he followed farming for many years. They had eight children. The oldest child, Marion, deceased when very young; Maria died at the age of sixteen years. In 1839 he, with wife and six children, moved to this county and located on a farm in Clinton township, where he deceased June 21, 1842, with what was then known as milk sickness. Three of the children, William H., Ralph O. and Curtis G., died with the same disease within one week after their father's death, leaving the mother and three children, Samuel H., Sarah J. and Eveline C., to mourn their loss. Mrs. Graham remained in the county until 1854, when

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they removed to Mt. Vernon where she now resides, enjoying good health for a woman of her years.

Samuel H. Graham died at Chicago, Illinois, April, 1877; Sarah J. married Roland Beach, and is now living near Mt. Vernon in Clinton township; Eveline C, married William Carey and now lives in Liberty township, this county.

GRANDLE, MANUEL, farmer, Milford township, was born in Licking county, in 1833. Jacob Grandle, his father, came from Virginia about 1824, and settled in Licking county. He married Elizabeth Conard, and they had a family of eight children, five of whom are living. The subject of this notice was reared on a farm. and has always followed farming as his occupation.

In 1859 he went to Iowa in a two-horse wagon, and located in Linn county, where he remained twelve years, and then returned to Ohio, settling in Milford township, where he has resided ever since. He is one of the leading men of the township. His farm is well improved, and gives evidence of careful management. He married Miss Rachel Ann Jaggers, in 1839, who was born April 30, 1834. She is the daughter of David and Ann Jaggers.

David Jaggers was born in New Jersey, September 20, 1803. He married Anna Brown August 3, 1833. She was born in Knox county, August, 1809. Mr. Jaggers died in 1844, and Mrs. Jaggers died in December, 1876. They had five children, Mrs. Grandle being the only child living. Mr. and Mrs. Grandle had three children born to them, two of whom are dead. Frank A., a promising boy, born November 9, 1867, is their only living child.

GRANT, BENJAMIN, general business agency, Weaver block, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Grant is a native of Orleans county, Vermont, where he was born January 2, 1823, and resided there thirty years, during which time he received a good education in the Derby Literary institute, and was engaged in the mercantile business.

In the year 1853 he emigrated to Ohio, and located in Mt. Vernon, where he engaged in the grocery and dry goods business, which he followed for three years. From 1856 to 1861 he was engaged in general business, travelling in most all parts of the country. He was appointed, August 19, 1861, assessor of internal revenue, in which he was retained until October 1, 1866. He then engaged in the boot and shoe trade, which he conducted until 1870, and was also appointed deputy collector and assistant assessor in 1866, in which he remained until 1873. Since then he has been engaged in general business up to the present.

Mr. Grant has the necessary talents and judgment to enable him to successfully conduct or transact any kind of business without an extended experience; but, in addition to these advantages, he has had about thirty-three years of practical business experience in an unusual variety of different kinds of business, many of which were of the most difficult and complicated kind. But he has invariably succeeded in rendering entire satisfaction to the parties interested. His natural abilities and past experience in various business operations in the country are a sufficient guaranty that any business entrusted to him will receive prompt attention, and will be in safe and competent hands.

Mr. Grant was married April 29, 1860, to Miss Elizabeth Ann, daughter of William Willey, of Lancaster, Fairfield county, by whom he has three children, two sons and one daughter,

GRAY, REV. J. H., pastor of the Methodist Protestant church of Mt. Vernon, was born June 11, 1854, in Zanesville, where he was educated. He is a son of Rev. H. L. Gray. He became a member of the church when fifteen years of age; at seventeen he was licensed to exhort, and at the age of twentyone years was licensed to preach, and was appointed by the conference at Zanesville to the Page circuit in Morgan county , where he rema tied one year. He then went to Attica, Seneca county, Ohio, where he organized a congregation and erected a house of worship; remained three years and then came to Mt. Vernon and took charge of the Mulbery Methodist Protestant church, 'where he is now located.

GREAR, SILAS, Union township, farmer, post office, Gann, born July 25, 1822, in Jefferson township. In 1849 he was married to Amanda Bradfield, and settled in Coshocton county, Ohio, where he was engaged in the mill business until 1856, when he sold the mill property and bought one hundred and twenty acres of land near the same place, and lived here until April 1, 1860, when he moved to Mt. Holly and engaged in the mercantile trade until 1865. Then he bought a farm in Union township, where he now lives. He had the following children: Winfield, born in 1849; Cecelia, 1852; Clementine, 1855; Francis, 1857; Clifford, 1860; Newton, 1863; Charming, 1866, and Murtilla, 1869. Francis died December 10, 1862; Clementine November 9, 1861.

GREAR, E. D., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Maryland, July 31, 1842. He went to Stark county, Ohio, in 1855, and worked at farming five years, but not liking it changed his occupation and engaged in the sale of agricultural implements. After three years he left this business and commenced herding cattle on the Mexican plains for Mr. Jacob Sager at sixty dollars per month, expenses paid. But this was connected with much exposure and many hardships, and he began to think that the old farming business, though slow, was sure, and so, December 25, 1866, he married and settled in Knox county, Ohio, on a rented farm, and in 1869 he came to his present home. He had three children, two of whom are now living, Mary and Johnny.

GREGG, ISSACHER, farmer, Berlin township, post office, Shalers Mills, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1832. He came to Ohio with his parents when a child, and was married to Abigail Gibson, who was born in Richland, near the line of Knox county. Her mother died when she was two years of age; she then went to live with her grandparents, Samuel and Ruth Gibson. Mr. and Mrs. Gregg have two sons, Charles Allen and Albert Sherman. Mr. Gregg was a resident of Richland county for about two years, at the end of which time he came to Berlin township. He is a farmer by occupation.

GREEN, WILLIAM, farmer, Monroe township, is a native of England, and was born in Kent county, July 13, 1810. In 1830 he engaged in butchering in London, and continued in it for about five years. In 1835 be emigrated to America, locating in Rochester, New York, where he again engaged in the butchering business, which he continued about six months, after which he engaged in farming. In 1837 Mr. Green returned to England for the purchase of some Southdown and Leicester sheep. He remained in England about six months. when he returned to America with the sheep he had purchased while absent. He settled at Rochester and engaged in sheep raising. In September, 1837, he was united by marriage to Miss Mary

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Ann Barker, daughter of Lyman and Mary Barker. Mrs. Green was born in Monroe county, New York, May 10, 1817.

Mr. and Mrs. Green remained in Monroe county, New York, for two years. In 1839 they came to Ohio and located in Monroe township, Knox county, on the farm now owned by Thomas Harris. He still continued at sheep raising, having brought with him thirteen of his Southdown and Leicester sheep, they being the first sheep of the kind ever brought into Knox county. Mr. Green remained on the Monroe township farm for about two years, when he purchased and removed to a farm in Delaware county, Ohio. On this last named farm he remained about six years. .In 1847 Mr. Green purchased the farm in Monroe township now owned by him, where he and his family have resided ever since. Their first residence was a hewed log house, twenty-four by thirty, which stood on the north side of the road from where his present residence stands. The old log house served them as an abode until 1859, when he erected his present frame residence.

Mr. Green continued in the sheep raising business until 1867, when he sold his sheep and gave his attention to feeding cattle. This business he has since followed in connection with farming. He owns about two hundred and fifty acres of land in Monroe township. He has cultivated his land, and enriched it so highly, that he can raise forty bushels of wheat, and seventy bushels of corn to the acre. He has everything arranged for convenience on his farm. He has an engine, a corn-Sheller, a French burr, on which he grinds his own feed for his cattle. He also has a saw mill, which he runs by the same engine, and it is so arranged that it furnishes the power for threshing his grain. In fact it is one of the most convenient arrangements that can be found in the county for farm use.

Mr. Green is known all over the county as being one of the leading farmers. He is the father of four children, William H., Maria, Marv, and Charles, all of whom are living and married.

GREEN, CHARLES, farmer, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown; was born in this county, May 26, 1827, and was married in 1854, to Emily Ewers, who was born in Virginia, April 15, 1826. Her parents emigrated to Ohio when she was five years of age. They have one son (Wilson), who was born April 3, 1857. He is married to Laura White, and lives in Palmyra.

GREENLEE, ARCHIBALD, notary public, Fredericktown; was born in Belmont county, Ohio, July 3, 1807; was married in April, 1832, to Margaret E. Bonar, who was born in Knox county, February 3, 1812. They had the following family, viz: Marv A., born May 21, 1834; James, born November 16, 1838. Barnett B., born December 5, 1842; Charles, born September 11, 1846; Margaretta, born October 5, 1849.

Mrs. Margaret Greenlee died December 25, 1852, in Mt. Vernon. Mr. Greenlee was again married to Catharine Beaver, who was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1819. They had the following family, viz: Thomas B., born December 29, 1855; Lizzie, born November 15, 1861 ; also two deceased children.

Mr. Greenlee came to Knox county in 1833. He was engaged in the furniture business for some years. He afterward became an attorney at law. He has been a justice of the peace in Wayne township over thirty years. He stands fully identified with the public interests of Knox county, and has done much to promote the advancement and improvement of society. He is one of the active men of this county, although he is now living a more retired life, and commands the confidence and esteem of the community. He has been a member and elder of the Presbyterian church forty-eight years.

GREER, ROBERT (deceased), Jefferson township, born in the county of Antrim, Iteland, March 12, 1806; when at the age of twenty years he sailed, in company with his mother, two brothers, and four sisters, for America, landing in Baltimore, Maryland, August 22, 1826, where they remained until 1827, when they moved to Jefferson township, Knox county, locating on the place now owned by Thomas Greer. Here he remained with the family two years. On the sixteenth of April, 1829, he united in marriage with Sarah Severns, daughter of Joseph and Mahala Severns, born in Monongalia county, Virginia, April 14, 1803. After his marriage he moved on the farm now owned by Levi Butler, where he remained about five years, during which time he purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres southwest of and adjoining the village of Greenville, where he then moved, and remained until 1841. During that time he laid out the village of Greersville, which was in 1836, from whom it derived its name. In the spring of 1841 he opened a dry goods store in Greersville, and continued to do business, and farming in connection, until 1857; he then moved back on the farm, where he remained until his death, which occurred March 13, 1865, aged fifty-nine years ten months and one day. Sarah Greer, his companion, died in 1869, aged sixty-six years six months and twenty-seven days.

Mr. and Mrs. Greer became the parents of one child, a son. Alexander W., born February 7, 1830, who now lives on and owns the old farm formerly owned by his father.

Robert Greer was the first clerk elected in Jefferson township, and served as justice of the peace for fifteen years.

GREER, ALEXANDER W., farmer, post office Greersville, son of Robert and Sarah Greer, was born in Jefferson township, Knox county, February 7, 1830, where he was reared and educated. On the eighteenth of May, 1856, at the age of twenty-six years, he was united in marriage with Miss Caroline Baker, a daughter of Philip and Sarah Baker, who was born to Jefferson township, Knox county, December 26, 1835. In 1857, after his marriage, he located in the town of Greersville, where he engaged in the mercantile business, in which he continued about three years, when he sold his store to A. C. Tuttle. He still remained in town and farmed his home place for his father until 1863, when he purchased a new stock of dry goods and opened a new store in the town of Greersville, where he continued to sell goods eleven years, in connection with farming, when he sold the store to J. J. Freiermuth. Mr. Greer is at present giving his attention to farming. He is a good farmer, and now resides on and owns the old farm formerly owned by his father, and is among the most desirable farms of Jefferson township.

Mr. and Mrs. Greer are the parents of seven children, viz. Emma Z., born April 29, 1857; Ella A., October 29, 1859; Elmer C., April 7, 1862; Ellsworth B., September 10, 1864 (died. September 23, 1864); Edith J., March 14, 1866; Edwin B., October 10, 1868; Eldon P., November 22, 1873.

Mr. and Mrs. Greer are members of the Wesleyan Methodist church of Jefferson township.

GREER, RICHARD, Jefferson township, deceased, was born in 1810, October 10th, in county Antrim, Ireland, near Belfast. In 1827 he came to America, and was married September 20, 1838, to Lydia Remmington. who was born Novem-

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ber 27, 1814, in Coshocton county, Ohio. Richard and Lydia Greer became the father and mother of three children, viz: William E., Thomas E., and Robert A. Thomas E. is the only child who vet survives. Robert A. enlisted in the late war, November, 1861, and died near Corinth, Mississippi. He belonged to company K, Forty-third Ohio volunteer infantry. j Richard Greer was sick for years with inflammatory rheumatism, of which he died December 14, 1878, in his sixty-eighth year. His companion survives him in her sixty-sixth year, living with her son Thomas, on the farm formerly owned by her husband. Mr. Greer held the office of township treasurer. Mr. Greer was a member of the Wesleyan church, of Greersville. Mrs. Greer is also a member of said church.

GREER, THOMAS, farmer, post office, Greersville, a son of Richard and Lydia Greer, born in Jefferson township, Knox county, January 5, 1842, where he was reared and received a common school education. After he became of age he still remained at home and farmed for his father. This he continued until May 2, 1864, when he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, company F, under A. B. Cummings, of Jeiloway, where he served until the second day of September of the same year, when he was honorably discharged and mustered out of service at Columbus, Ohio. He then returned home and assumed his old business of farming, which he has since continued. In 1867, January 20th he married Miss Minerva Shrimplin, daughter of Absalom and Priscilla Shrimplin, born in Knox county, Butler township, December 6, 1840. Their marriage resulted in three children, viz: Robert A. Greer, born January 9, 1868; Charles E., September 8, 1869; Fordyce F., June 5, 1876; all of whom are living. Mr. Greer has held the office of trustee of said township.

GREER, ALEXANDER, deceased. Mr. Alexander Greer was one of the pioneers of Jefferson township. His parents were natives of Antrim county, Ireland, and about the year 1800 emigrated to America and settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where, on the eleventh of March, 1805, the subject of this sketch was born. In 1811 John Greer, father of Alexander, moved to Knox county and located in its eastern portion, at or very near the site of the present village of Rossville, in Union township. There they remained a few years and then settled upon an improved tract of land situated about two miles north of the present village of Danville, where Alexander spent the years of his minority, working industriously in clearing land and in farm labor generally. He attended school in winter and managed to secure a limited education. He was a young man of good mind and excellent habits. Of quick perceptions, he early became familiar with the practical affairs of life. He was of studious habits, a careful reader and close observer; his mind was soon stored with useful knowledge, and an unusual fund of information for one of his years and limited opportunities.

In August, 1826, Alexander Greer entered into the married relation with Margaret Robeson, who is still living. He settled upon a tract of woodland he purchased of the Government, situated a little more than a mile north of the present village of Danville, and had there the usual experiences, hardships and privations incident to pioneer life. Here, being industrious, frugal and temperate, he made life a success, and acquired more than a competency. He had the well merited reputation of a man of integrity, and of one who favored educational enterprises and whatever tended to promote good morals, religion, and the welfare of the people, physically, mentally and morally.

Mr. Greer served as justice of the peace of Jefferson township for twelve years, deciding about one thousand cases. Few appeals were taken from his decisions, and none were reversed. In 1859 he was elected treasurer of Knox county, but his health failed him and he had to discharge its duties by deputy, consequently he was not a candidate for reelection.

Alexander Greer's death took place March 24, 1868, at the age of sixty-three years, his widow and some children surviving him. He reached the end of a well spent life in philosophic composure and Christian resignation, and was mourned by many surviving neighbors, friends and acquaintances, who knew him as one who had been faithful in all the varied relations of son, brother, husband, father, magistrate, friend, neighbor, patriot, and Christian.

GREER, HENRY HARRISON, Mt. Vernon, lawyer, was born in Knox county, Ohio, July 22, 1837. He spent his youth on a farm. He attended school at Millwood, Haysville, and Dennison university, and commenced reading late with Messrs. Delano, Sapp S Smith. The firm dissolving, he finished his course of reading with Walter H. Smith, esq. He was admitted to the bar May 8, 1860. His father having been elected treasurer of Knox county, he (Henry) entered the office as deputy treasurer.

In 1861 young Greer was nominated by the Republican party as their candidate for treasurer, and was elected. He continued in that position until 1864. He declined nomination for another term. He commenced the practice of law with the Hon. W. R. Sapp in 1865, and continued with him until April, 1869, when he took charge of the. Hon. W. H. Smith's practice, and found about one hundred cases on the docket. Since that time he has practiced alone.

Mr. Greer was married to Miss Jbsie E. Gaines, of Knox county, September 18, 1860. Two children are the issue of this union-a daughter and a son. The daughter, Millie G., was born September 12, 1863, and the son, Robert, was born April 15, 1867.

The great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch was Major Alexandet freer, who emigrated to America from County Antrim, Ireland, about the year 1785. He settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania. He had three children, one of whom was Colonel John Greer, the grandfather of Henry. Alexander Greer (Henry's father) who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1805. He came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1810 or 1811, and settled in Union township, and was one of the very early settlers of. the county. He remained in Union township two or three years, when he removed to Jefferson township, where he resided up to the time of his death, which event occurred in 1849. Mr. Alexander Greer had been twice married.

GRIFFITH, B. L., farmer, Pike township, post office, North Liberty; born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1839, and was married in 1867 to Rachel Hiner, who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1844. They have two sons: William M., born November 22, 1868; and Calvin J., born May 23, 1870, Mr. Griffith came to Ohio with his parents when he was young. He is a farmer, enterprising, and active; he is making a success of farming, and is now classed among the leading citizens of Pike township.

GRIFFITH, WILLIAM, farmer, Pike township, post office, North Liberty; born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1848,

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and was married in 1870 to Mary E. Mishey, who was born in this township in 1851. They have one daughter, Ella Lizzie, born December 24, 1874. Mr. Griffith emigrated with has parents to Wayne county, Ohio, in 1855, and remained there one year then removed to Pike township, this county. He is a farmer, and an active and honorable citizen.

GRUBB, DANIEL H., retired, post office, North Liberty, was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1799; his parents emigrated to Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, and remained there until 1830; he then came to Ohio and located in Pike township. He was married in 1823 to Elizabeth Broombaugh, who was born in Woodbury township, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, February 25, 1807. They had thirteen children, viz.: Anna, born in Pennsylvania February 19, 1826; Samuel, November 8, 1827; Elizabeth, September 11, 1829; Mary Ann, born in Pike township December 13, 1831; Henry, December 4, 1834; Daughter, November, 1836; Daniel B., December 13, 1838; Esther, December 5, 1844; Levi, April 14, 1843; Catharine, April 4, 1845; Joseph, May 26, 1847; Lucinda, June 2, 1849; Isaac, June 7, 1851; and Lavina, August 1, 1853. Mrs. Elizabeth Grubb died June 25, 1870, aged sixty 'Tree years, three months and twenty-nine days. Anna died in Pennsylvania August 8, 1830, and Mary A., December 9, 1832.

Mr. Grubb learned the tanner trade in the east; he built the first tannery in this part of the county; he tanned by the old process, which made the very best leather; his reputation as an honest man was extensively known. He and his wife were members of the German Baptist church. He is a pioneer of this township, and has reared a large and respectable family, most of whom are married and have left the paternal roof. He still survives, has a good memory and health; he resides with his son, Daniel B.

GRUBB, SAMUEL, farmer, Pike township, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1824, and was married in 1845 to Mary Zook, who was born in this township in 1824. They had seven children-David, born in 1846; Joseph, in 1848; Sarah Elizabeth, in 1849; Daniel, in 1852; Mary Ellen, in 1860; Ezra, in 1862; and Amanda, in 1864. Mary Ellen died in 1861, and Ezra in 1864. David is married to Mary Jane Silcot; Joseph to Elizabeth Moore-both families living in Mt. Vernon. Sarah E. is married to Isaac Hess, and lives in Richland county; and Daniel to Maggie Cunau, of this township.

Mrs. Grubb's father, David Zook, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. He was married in 1817 to Nancy Mock, who was torn in Adams county, Pennsylvania, in 1795. They had the following children: John, born in 1818; Catharine, in 1819; Elizabeth, in 1821; Jacob, in 1822; Joseph, in 1823; Mary, in 1824; Alexander, in 1826; Louisa, in 1828; Hannah, in 1829; Lydia, in 1831; Sally, in 1833; and David, in 1835.

GRUBB, JOSEPH, farmer, post office, North Liberty, was born in this township May 26, 1847. He is a son of Daniel H. Grubb, and is engaged in farming on the David Leedy farm. He is a young man of good habits.

GRUBB, ISAAC, teacher, post office, North Liberty, was born in this township, add received a liberal English education in the common branches. He engaged in teaching djstrict schools a number of terms, and in the spring of 1881 he started in a theological course in the Ashland college. He is a prominent member of the German Baptist church, and in some future day will be a minister of that church.

GRUBB, HENRY, farmer and stock raiser; son of Daniel H. and Elizabeth Grubb; way born in Pike township, this county, December 4, 1834. In 1856 he married Miss Mary A. Jeffries, born in Stark county, Ohio, September 15, 1835, and came with her mother in 1841 to this county. Mr. and Mrs. Grubb settled in Pike township, remained two years, then moved to Morris township where they remained until 1874, when they purchased and moved on the farm in Monroe township where they now reside. They have four children, three sops and one daughter.

GRUBB, DANIEL B., Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty; born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1838, and was married in 1874 to Catharine Betchel, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1847. They have one son, Lawrence E., who was born in 1876.

GUTHRIE, DAVID, Pike township, deceased; born in Pennsylvania in 1796, and was married in 1820 to Mary Ann Kirkpatrick, who was born in 1802. They had six children: Jane, Ann, Elizabeth, Hugh, Samuel, and Sarah. Mrs. Ann Guthrie died in 1833. .Mr. Guthrie was afterwards married to Sarah Parish, who was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1812. They had ten children: William, David C., Francis M., Rachel, Jane, John, Elza, Nancy, Mary, and Nathan. Mr. Guthrie died in 1870.

GUTHRIE, JOHN N., farmer; post office, Democracy. He was born in Pike township on June 1, 1847. He is a member of a pioneer family. He is a carpenter.

GUTHRIE, JOHN, farmer, Berlin township, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Knox county, in 1845. He was married, in 1873, to Rachel Cole, who was born in Berlin township, in 1851. They had five children: Marilla, born in 1874; James A., born in 1875; infant (deceased); Arabella, born in 1878; Maude, in 1880.

Mr. Guthrie is a farmer by occupation, and has always been identified with this county.

GUY, JOHN (deceased), was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, on the twenty-fifth day of January, 1792. He emigrated to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Mary Woodburn, in 1819, a native of Ireland, born in 1790, and migrated to America in 1810. . They settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania, near . Alexander, and remained there until in 1853, when he sold his farm and moved to Utica, Licking county, Ohio, remained about one year and a half, when, in 1855, he purchased and moved on the farm now owned by his son John, in Clinton township, Knox county, where they passed the remainder of their days. His wife deceased March 19, 1863, aged seventy-three years. He deceased April 1, 1876. He served to the War of 1812. They reared a family of five children: Joseph S., John, Martha J., Elizabeth, and Margaret. Only- two of the above named are now living, John and Martha.

GUY, JOHN, farmer, second son of John Guy, deceased, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1822, and came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1855. He married Miss Emeline Lafever in 1859, daughter of Thomas P. and Eliza Lafever, who was born in 1836. They settled on his father's home farm, where they are now living. Their union resulted in two children (daughters). He has followed farming as his vocation.

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HADLEY, ISAAC, of the First ward, Mt. Vernon, is a New Yorker by birth. From the arse of fifteen he has been a resident of Mt. Vernon, and has been honored by his fellow citizens, not only with their confidence and respect, placed in obut he has been offices of profit as well as of honor, and faithfully and honorably has he discharged the duties of his several posts.

Mr. Hadley was born in the town of Willsborough, Essex county, New York, January 14. 1795, within sight of the waters of Lake Champlain, since made famous by Commodore McDonough's victory, September 11, 1814. In 1810 Mr. Hadley's father, with his family, came to Ohio, and settled in the county of Knox. His father, Mr. Smith Hadley. was born August 14, 1765, and died February 4, 1850, aged eighty-five years. five months, and twenty days.

November 9, 1825, Mr. Isaac Hadley was married to Miss Sarah Davidson, of Mt. Vernon. She was born in Knox county, November 22, 1805, and deceased January 16, 1873, in the sixty-ninth year of her age. To Mr. and Mrs. Hadley were born seven children, six of whom are still living. Four reside in this city, one in Iowa, and one in Bellaire, Ohio.

Mr. Hadley's public life has been a remarkable one, having, for twenty-four years, held commissions, either from the President of the United States, or from the Governor of Ohio. Mr. Hadley acted as sheriff and postmaster, at the same time, four years.

April 28, 1830, he received the appointment of deputy United States marshal, and served as such four years. During that time he took the census of Knox county, and in the discharge of that duty he visited every house and every family at that time within the limits of the county.

August 12, 1831, Postmaster General Barry appointed him postmaster at Mt. Vernon, He served in that capacity about nine years. In 1832 he was appointed by General Bevins, deputy sheriff. In 1834 he was elected and commissioned sheriff' of Knox county, and in October, 1836, he was reelected, without opposition; thus, with his own four years, he was acting as sheriff six years.

Mr. Hadley was appointed clerk of the court of common pleas April 13, 1839, and served seven years, that being the constitutional limit. In 1834 Governor Robert Lucas commissioned him as paymaster of the volunteer brigade of Knox county, with the rank of major.

April 30, 1863, he was appointed and commissioned by the President of the United States, commissioner, with the rank of major, for the Thirteenth Ohio Congressional district, composed of the counties of Knox, Licking, Muskingum, and Coshocton, and served as such until the close of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged.

Notwithstanding his fourscore years, few men in the prime of their manhood can compete with Mr. Hadley in the discharge of the duties of every-day life.

HAGERTY, MORRIS, Fredericktown, merchant, was born in New Jersey, 1844; came to Ohio in 1869; located in Fredericktown, and was married in 1873 to Anna Adams, who was born in Knox county, Ohio. They have one son, Hugh, who was born in 1875.

Mr. Hagerty is a member of the firm of Hill & Hagerty, dealers in hardware, established in 1872. They carry a complete stock, and an extensive line of goods in the hardware business, and are both practical business men, prepared for all competition in price and qualities of goods.

HAGERTY, WILLIAM H., Wayne township, carpenter, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in Muskingum county, August 22, 1845, and married August 26, 1871, to Alice King, who was born in Mt. Vernon, July 18, 1850. They had the following children: Bessie F., born June 19, 1872; Nellie, September 27, 1873, and Edna, August 17, 1877, who died June 12, 1878.

Mr. Hagerty had his residence in Nebraska about one year, but is now a resident of Wayne township.

HAIDEN, JOHN K., farmer, was born in Hilliar township, in March, 1838. His father, David Haiden, was born in Pennsylvania. His mother was a Virginian by birth, and when quite young went to Pennsylvania. His father came to Morgan township about 1832 and purchased a tract of land, and then returned to Pennsylvania and married Miss Sarah Bottenfield, and the following year moved to Ohio and remained in Morgan township until March, 1837, when he came to Clinton township and purchased a farm on the Parker section. He built his cabin and began to clear the land and make for himself and family a home, a future dwelling place. He died on the old homestead August 6, 1859, aged about fifty-five years; his wife survived him until March, 1878, aged near seventy-four years. Thus ended all that was mortal of two of Hilliar township's most esteemed and respected citizens. Thev have passed away, but left their impress on the minds and hearts of those they left behind.

In the "old cabin" the subject of this notice was born. He was an only child, and was reared with solicitude. His home training, by Christian parents, was kind but firm; his youth was thus spent. He assisted on the farm during the summer and attended school during the winter. He attended a select school at Centreburgh, and made fine progress in his studies. He never availed himself of a collegiate course. He is self educated to a great degree; studied at home, searched for the "fountain of knowledge" by himself; he delved deep and revealed the hidden treasure; is a ready and impressive speaker; deals in facts rather than rhetoric; is a good debater, a close observer, and a deep thinker; a well informed man. He is unassuming, affable and pleasant in his manners, and social in his habits, and a leading member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.

Mr. Haiden was married to Miss Emma, daughter of Squire Halsey, of Clinton township, October, 1876. They have one child.

HAIR, OSCAR, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Utica, Licking county, September 15, 1842, and was married in 1865 to Emily Rapp, who was born in Knox county in 1844. They have four children, viz.: William L., born August 30, 1867; Charles W., born December 7, 1870; Wiley E., born July 22, 1872; Clara B., born January 14, 1874; Mr. Hair has been a citizen of this township about fifteen years, and owns a good farm.

HALL, JOSEPH W., Berlin township, farmer and stock dealer, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1812. In 1815 his parents emigrated to Holmes county, Ohio, and lived for some time in a blockhouse the first year during the trouble with the Indians. Mr. Hall came to Berlin township, this county, in 1852. His first purchase was the Jackson farm, then the Cole and Handley

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farms. The Hall family owns seven hundred and seventy acres of land in this township. He is one of the most extensive farmers in Knox county. On the farm where he now resides is one of the best springs in Ohio, the main one being about a half mile from his house. He has the water conducted through stone pipes to his house and barn, and has a beautiful fountain in the front yard. The water is cool, pure and inexhaustible. Mr. Hall has been a very extensive dealer in stock, and in shipping horses and cattle to the eastern States. In Ohio and other States he is widely known as a man of superior judgment in business affairs. Mr. Hall was married in 1838 to Rachel Waddell, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio. in 1816. Their children are James M., born in 1838; David F., in 1841; Phillip C., in 1842; William A. B:, in 1844; George W. S., in 1846; Susan S., in 1849; John W., in 1850; and Rigdon P., in 1855. The deceased members are James W., who died September 22, 1847; David F., August 3, 1855; Susan (Mrs. Phillips), died in Berlin township.

HALL, JOHN M., farmer and stock dealer, post office, Shafer's Mills. He was born in Holmes county, Ohio, and was married to Amanda Durben, who was born in Knox county. They have one daughter, Nellie. Mr. Hall devotes most of his time to buying, selling and shipping horses and cattle. In this he is very successful.

HALL, J. N., Hilliar township, carpenter, Rich Hill post office, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, August 20, 1829. Ten years later his. parents, George and Jane Hall, nee Cherry, came to Ohio, and remained one year in Guernsey county, and then moved to Delaware county, purchasing a tract of one hundred and forty acres of land. The parents both died on the land on which they settled in 1840. The father died in 1858. The mother survived her husband until 1876.

The subject of this brief notice remained on the farm until he was nineteen, years of age, when he went to learn the carpenter trade. He built a number of the buildings in Knox and Delaware counties. He is a good workman, and aims to do justice to those who employ him, and is held in high esteem by the community, who know him to be an honest man. He was married to Miss Nancy Hupp, of Knox county, April 5, 1855. His wife died in 1871. They had a family of five children, all of whom are living, viz.: Sarah Jane, married to George Patron; Julia A., Mary Lutetia. Laura, and Robert M., living at home.

HALL, THOMAS J., Pleasant township, farmer, son of Francis and Harriet Hall, born in England, November 7, 1833, was brought to America by his parents in 1836, who located in Connecticut, and remained there until 1849, when they emigrated to Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio. He remained in Mt. Vernon working in the woollen factory two years, and clerked in a grocery store until 1853, when he moved to California, where he remained seven years, then, in 1860, he returned to Knox county, remained a while, then moved to Zanesville, Ohio, and commenced working with H. & F. Blandy, in their machine shop, doing the wood work for machinery.

In 1862 he married Miss Emily Hillier, born in Zanesville, Ohio, October 3, 1836, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hillier. They settled in Zanesville, remained until 1873, then purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Pleasant township, two and a half miles from Mt. Vernon, on the Gambier road.

HALL, E. M., physician and surgeon, Fredericktown, was born near Delaware, Ohio, October 31, 1845, removed with his parents to Morrow county, Ohio, when a child, and in August, 1862, left school to join the One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, remained with it until 1864, when he was severely wounded in one of the battles before Atlanta, Georgia, and was mustered out in 1865. For the next six years he was engaged in preparing himself for the practice of medicine.

Immediately after graduation, in the spring of 1871, he 1ocated in Fredericktown, where he has been engaged in the practice of medicine. He was married in 1874 to Laura B. Nevus, daughter of Aaron and Susan Nevius, who were among the earlier settlers of this county. They have two daughters, Mary and. Aletheia.

HALL, JOSEPH K., farmer and dealer in stock; post office, Shaler's Mills; was born in this county in 1853, and was married in 1879 to Mattie W. Knox, who was born in Holmes county in 1859. Mr. Hall is one of the enterprising farmers of this township. He also engaged quite extensively in dealing in stock.

HALL, LANE, Jackson township, fanner, post office, Bladensburgh, is a native of Jackson township, and was born on the ninth of August, 1855. He is a son of Obadiah Hall, one of the pioneers of Jackson township. July 2, 1879, he was married to Mary B. McCamment, who was born in Clay township on the twenty-first day of January 1861. Politically Mr. Hall is a Republican.

HALL, WILLIAM B., Berlin township, farmer and stock dealer, post office, Shalers Mills, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1844, came to this county in 1855, and was married in 1868, to Margaret Knight, who was born in Holmes county in 1835. They had two daughters, Leila, born in March, 1874, and Jennie R., in June, 1875. Mr. Hall is engaged in farming, buying and selling stock.

HALL, GEORGE S., Berlin township, fanner, post office Fredericktown, was born in 1846, and married in 1872, to Mira M. Auten, who was born in Berlin township, Knox county, Ohio, in 1852. They have two children: Alice, born in 1873 and Joseph, born in 1875.

Mr. Hall came to Knox county in 1852, and located in Berlin township. He is a farmer and also a dealer in stock. The Hall family are of Irish descent. The grandparents came from Ireland.

HALSEY, D. F., farmer, son of Henry and Elizabeth Halsey, was born in Flanders, Morris county, New Jersey, July 18, 1808. In 1830 he married Miss Lucinda Wolfe, born in New Jersey, in 1807. They settled on a farm in their native county, and remained nine years,. then, in 1839, emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Hilliar township, near Rich Hills. He purchased and moved on a farm, where they lived until 1853, when he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Clinton township. They reared a family of five children: Henry, Jacob, Lydia A., Mahlon K., and Emeline E. Henry and Lydia A. have died.

Mr. Halsey, has made fanning his principal business through life. He filled the office of township clerk for three years in Hillier township, and acted as justice of the peace in the same township one term, being elected in 1849. He also filled the office of county commissioner, from 1869 to 1875.

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HAMILTON, REV. J. H., pastor of the Methodist Protestant church; is a son of the Rev. William Hamilton, a native of Virginia, who located in Muskingum county in 1805. He was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, July 23, 1826, and is one of a family of twelve children, all of whom lived to maturity, and ten of whom were sons who averaged six feet in height and were all men of tine mental and physical development. He received his preparatory education in the district schools, and commenced to preach when but seventeen years of age and has been a faithful and zealous minister of the cross ever since. He united with the Muskingum conference when eighteen years old and was ordained when twenty-one years, which was in 1847, since which he has had the pastoral care of the following churches, viz: Coshocton, Muskingum and Licking, four years; the church at Louets two years, Circleville two years, Steubenville, five years, Newcomerstown one year, McConnellsville two years; after which he served as president of the conference one year. He came to Knox county in 1857, and took charge of the church at Fredericktown, in which he remained seven years and during which he took an active part in everything that was conducive to the moral and religious development of the community. In 1860 he came to Mt. Vernon and took charge of the church on Mulberry street, where he has labored zealously ever since with great success. He commenced a series of meetings December 1st and continued until March 1st, which resulted in one hundred and fifty-four conversions, and the following spring he administered the ordinance of baptism to thirty-six persons. During his association with the people here he has attended over three hundred funerals, and solemnized more than that many marriages. He was married August 30, 1848, to Miss Charlotte, daughter of Joseph and Mary Rodman, near Zanesville, by whom he has a family of children, all of whom are married and have families.

HAMILTON, WILLIAM, farmer, Morgan township, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, November 26, 1822. His parents, Joshua Hamilton and Jane Craig, were natives of Pennsylvania, and by their marriage had nine children, all of whom are living. Joshua Hamilton died in 1870; his wife still survives him.

The subject of our notice was reared on a farm, receiving a common school education. He remained in Harrison county until 1846, when he came to Morgan township and with his brother purchased land. He sold his interest in the property and purchased the farm on which he now resides, he is one of the leading farmers of Morgan township, an estimable citizen and takes an active interest in the affairs of the county. January 20, 1848, he married Miss Elizabeth Sellers, daughter of John Sellers, of Morgan township. They had a family of five children, three of whom are living.

HAMMETT, JOHN F., harnessmaker, Pike township, post office, North Liberty, born in 1845, in Ashland county, Ohio, and was married in 1869 to Emily Mix, who was born in Independence, Richland county, in 1848. They had one son, Judson J., who was born in 1870, and one daughter, Emma, born in 1871. Mrs. Emily Hammett died in Independence in 1872. Mr. Hammett's second marriage, in 1873, was to Mary C. Hammond, who was born in Fredericktown, Knox county, in 1856.

Mr. Hammett, when a young man, learned the harness trade with L. Ridgeley, in Jeromeville, Ashland county, Ohio. After his marriage he engaged in business in Independence, and remained there until after the death of Mrs. Hammett-then went to Mansfield, worked with F. Johnson for one year-then came to Fredericktown, remained there till 1876, when he removed to North Liberty. He is engaged in the harness business, he is an excellent mechanic, having an extensive custom business. He is also keeping hotel, the only one in North Liberty, and it is first-class.

The father of Mrs. Hammett, George A. Hammond, was born in Frederick county, Maryland; his parents emigrated to Ohio in 1819; he was married in 1837 to Elizabeth Anderson, who was born in Virginia. They had seven children: Sarah P., Ellen P., Thomas J., Francis E., Louis F., Harriet, and Mary C. Mr. Hammond learned the shoe trade when a young man; he is still engaged in working at his trade; he is now among the oldest business men of Fredericktown.

HAMMOND, JACOB, farmer, Union township, post office, Milwood, born October 31, 1802, in Maryland, and remained there until 1821, then moved to Pennsylvania, remained there three years, then in 1824 came to Knox county and settled in Union township. He married in 1821, and his wife lived with him until April 13, 1869. Six of his ten children are living and four are dead: Eliza, Jonathan, Mary, and an infant have deceased. Those living are: Charles, Henry, Jacob, John, Lydia, and Syltia.

In 1848 he labored to bring about the building of the Methodist Episcopal church. He commenced by trying to raise a subscription, but not succeeding, he became discouraged with that plan and concluded to have a church at all hazards. He made a contract with John Musser to build a church for eight hundred and fifty dollars. He went to work with him and hewed all the timber for it, and assisted in other matters, but finally he fell sick and was unable to do anything for a year. A building committee and trustees were organized to assist him in this work. But not long after they became discouraged and concluded to sell the building to pay the carpenter. Jacob Hammond would not give his consent and they refused to do anything more. He, not feeling satisfied, concluded to borrow the money. He did so, and paid the debt without any assistance. In 1851 he managed to complete the building. He has been an ordained local preacher for forty years. He has preached one hundred and twenty funeral sermons, and conducted over fifty marriages. He is seventy-nine years of age.

HAMMOND, WILLIAM P., Howard township; farmer, was born June 17, 1850, in Belmont county, Ohio. His father died when he was eighteen months old, and in April, 1855, his mother was married, and removed to Howard township. His step-father died July 26, 1878.

Mr. Hammond was married February 15, 1876, to Mary R. Sapp, and lived on the old farm for two years, with his mother, and then moved to his present farm. He has two children; Lucy, born March 12, 1877, and Rosa, January 30,1880. Mr. Hammond contributed largely to the building of St. Luke's church, and gave his services as well. He has taught thirty-four terms of writing school in Missouri, Knox county, Ohio; Albion, Ohio; Hardin county, Ohio, and Muskingum. Ohio.

December 12, 1869, he went to Missouri, and remained there three years engaged as a teacher. From there he went to Texas by the overland route, doing his own cooking along the trail. He remained there three months, and then returned home.

HAMMOND, J. L., Union township; farmer; post office,

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Millwood, born February 4, 1852, and was married to Miss W. Tracy October 23, 1873. In 1875 he moved to his present farm. His father came from Maryland at an early date. He had two children: J. L Hammond and Mary S.

HANGER, REUBEN, Union township, farmer, post office, Rossville, born July 5, 1817. In 1816 his father came here, when they had no neighbors except Indians. He had eleven children, viz: Catharine, Susanna, Betsey, Polly, Reuben, Barbara, Sarah, Jacob, Joseph, John, and Priscilla. Jacob died February 29, 1876; Polly, January, 1878; Barbara, July, 1878. Reuben Hanger married Hannah Lydie, September 1, 1839, and settled on the old homestead, where he still remains. He has ten children, viz: Mirion Jane, William F.. George Washington, Leander Sherman, Isaac Newton, Joseph Curtis, Martin W., John Russell, Henry B., and May Elizabeth.

Mirion died in 1873, and left to her husband two children - Elizabeth Ellen and George C.

Isaac Newton was married, but lost all his family by death.

HANGER, JOHN, Union township, farmer, post office, Millwood, born in Union township. In 1810 his father came from Pennsylvania, and lived here until his death in 1851. In 1868 his mother died. John Hanger married Mary Larabell, March 1, 1854, and settled on the old home. They have four children-Lyman, born December 25, 1835; Barnett, November 29, 1857; Seltura, June 27, 1859; and Victoria, November 29, 1865.

His wife was born August 19, 1834. Seltura died when she was seven weeks old. Barnett married Sarah Shafer September 14, 1879, and lives with his parents.

HANGER, LEE, farmer, Union township, post office, Millwood, was born August 31, 1841, in this township, and remained at home until 1863. He was married to Christina Hyatt in 1865, and settled immediately on his farm. They have two boys-Curtis, born in 1870, and Charles, born in 1873.

HANGER, JOSEPH, Brown township, farmer and stock raiser, a son. of Joseph and Elizabeth Hanger, was born in Union township, Knox county, March 3, 1831. At the age of nine years his father died, but he remained with his mother till he became of age. During that time he controlled and farmed his mother's portion of the farm. He married Juliza Winterringer, August 25, 1854, she being a daughter of J. B. Winterringer, born in Union township, Knox county. After his marriage he still remained in Union township, renting and moving on the farm owned by the widow Workman, where he remained about eighteen months, and then rented his father-in-law's farm, where he removed and remained about two years. While there he purchased his brother's share in the old farm, which, with his own share, made him sixty-seven acres. In 1857 he moved on this farm, and remained there ten years, and then sold the farm to his brother Reuben for three thousand dollars. He then purchased the farm known as the John Frost farm, of one hundred and twenty-five acres, in Brown township, where he moved and now resides, it being a very desirable and pleasant home.

In 1855 he was elected justice of the peace of Union township, serving three consecutive terms.

Mr. and Mrs. Hanger were the parents of ten children: Alice C., born June 8, 1855, was married to Hudson Majors, and resided in Rosstown, Knox county, until her death, July 26, 1878 J. B. Leonard, born February 15, 1857, and died in July of the same year; Mary J., born December 9, 1858, and died in infancy; Elizabeth, born December 17, 1859, and died in April of the following year; J. C., born April 14, 1861; Laura C., October 25, 1863; Ida E., November 17, 1865; W. F., January 2, 1867; Martin L., November 23, 1872; and Rhoda M., July 25, 1864. Edith M. Majors, granddaughter. of Mr. and Mrs. Hanger, was born September 24, 1874.

Mrs. Hanger is a consistent member of the Presbyterian church of Millwood, Knox county.

HANCOCK, JOHN R., farmer, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1835, removed to Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1856, and to Clay township in 1876. He was married December 3, 1856, :to Elizabeth Bradfield, They have had eight children, viz: Joseph L., George W., Maggie A., William, James, Nancy, Ambella, and Ermina. Notwithstanding Mr. Hancock is a second cousin to General Winfield Scott Hancock, Democratic candidate for President in 1880, he is a strong, life-long Republican. He is the owner of several hundred acres of good land, and is financially in very comfortable circumstances.

HARRISON, AMZI, Miller township, farmer, was born in Morgan township, May 21, 1831. His parents, Timothy and Phebe (Edwards), were natives of New Jersey, where they were married and shortly after came to Ohio and settled in Morgan township, and subsequently moved to Licking county, where they died, near Appleton. They had eleven children, four of whom are yet living.

Mr. Harrison was reared on a farm, and in his youth attended the common schools. He has always followed farming as his occupation; is a careful husbandman and an esteemed citizen. He came to Miller township in 1867. On the twenty-fourth of December, 1862, he married Miss Malissa Callihan, and has three children: Ella May, Charles Wesley, and Frank Wilbur.

HARDEN, COLUMBUS, drayman, Fredericktown, was born in Morrow count- in 1840, and married in 1862 Julia Iden, who was born in Sparta, Morrow county. Mr. Harden has been engaged in farming in Motrow county. In 1876 he moved to Fredericktown where he is engaged in draying.

HARDESTY, GEORGE, farmer, Morris township, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Williams county, Ohio, in 1857, and was married in 1879 to Sadie Hogue, who was born in Knox county in 1859. They have one son, Austin C., who was born in 1880. Mr. Hardesty has resided in this county seven years.

HARDING, THOMAS, grocer and coal dealer, was born in Yorkshire, England, May 4, 1819, on the old homestead where the Harding family had successively resided for over four hundred years. He remained on the home place until he was thirty-two years of age, during which he was engaged in farming. In 1851 he emigrated to America and located in Mt. Vernon. His first engagement was in the employ of J. E. Woodbridge, in the warehouse business, where he remained until October, 1852, when he established a coal yard and office, which was the first in the city, consequently making Mr. Harding the pioneer coal dealer of Mt. Vernon. He has continued in this business ever since, and about three years ago he added to his business that of groceries. In the coal trade he does business to the amount of about twenty thousand dollars per year; in the grocery business he carries a stock of about fifteen hundred dollars, and at the present does a business of about eighteen thousand dollars

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per year in the two departments, the coal trade having become greatly divided during the past few years.

HARIMAN, DAVID, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Knox county in February, 1835, and was married in 1859 to Margaret Sharp, who was born in Knox county in 1837.

HARNWELL, BENJAMIN, merchant, Gambier, Ohio, was born in England in the year 1836. When only six years of age (in 1842) he accompanied his parents, Adam and Leonora Harnwell, to America. His parents located in Geneva, New York, and remained there about one year. From Geneva they removed to Wisconsin, and resided there until the fall of 1844, and then came to and settled in Gambier, this county.

The subject of this brief sketch entered school in that village, and received his education. In 1848 he engaged in the mercantile business as clerk for the late A. G. Scott, the then leading merchant of Gambier, with whom he remained six years.

In 1854 young Harnwell went to Cincinnati and engaged with George N. Wood & Co., comer of Fifth and Vine streets, with whom he ramained until 1857. From Cincinnati he came back to Gambier, and engaged in the mercantile business in the room he now occupies. In 1859 he left Gambier and went to Nashville, Tennessee, where he only tarried a few months, when he left the city and went to Memphis, Tennessee, and continued there until 1870. While residing in Memphis Mr. Hamwell was engaged in the publishing business. He published the Daily Argus nearly all through the war and after the war. He published Hardie's Tactics, first edition twenty thousand copies, second edition ten thousand copies, and an edition of the Laws of Memphis. He also edited and published the Southern Monthly. He also published many other works. He printed the blanks for the cotton loan for the State of Mississippi for the amount of twenty million dollars. He also published Scott's Grammar. His printing establishment at Memphis was a large one, superior to any other in the Southern States at that time.

From Memphis, in 1870, Mr. Hamwell returned to his old Ohio home in Gambier, and engaged in the mercantile business at his old stand, where he has continued ever since. He deals in general merchandise. He is also agent for the Union Express Company running over the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad.

On December 29, 1863, Mr. Hamwell married Miss Emma Probasco, of Lebanon, Ohio, daughter of judge John and Susan Probasco, nee Freeman. This union has been blessed with three children, two sons and one daughter.

HARPER. HON. LECKY, editor and proprietor of the Mt. Vernon Democratic Banner, was born in the county of Donegal, Ireland, December 29, 1815. His parents, Hugh Harper and Catharine (Long) Harper, with their children, three sons and two daughters, emigrated to the United States in the summer of 1820, and settled in Washington, District of Columbia. The following year his father died of malarial fever, leaving his mother and four young children almost entirely among strangers. The bereft mother, being a woman of Christian principles and no ordinary force of character, put forth unexpected energy, attending to their wants, their culture, and their education, assisted, however, by the advice of members of a family to whom they bore relationship. Nothing was neglected to prepare them for a project, which the mother kept always in view, to take them, as soon as practicable, to the State of Ohio, then the "far west," an undertaking deemed by their immediate friends extremely hazardous.

In the month of June, 1826, the little family crossed the Alleghany mountains, and arrived, without any accident, in Jefferson county, where they were met by relatives and friends.

Mrs. Harper died at the residence of her second son, in Akron, in 1866, in the eighty-fifth year of her age. Only two children remain, one a well known citizen of Pittsburgh, John Harper, esq., president of the Bank of Pittsburgh, and the third son, Lecky, the subject of this memoir.

Lecky Harper came to Ohio in the eleventh year of his age, with some education, which was increased by such acquisitions as could be obtained in a country school-house amid the hills of Jefferson county in early days. In 1830, young Harper went to Steubenville, and entered as a clerk in a mercantile establishment. After clerking about a year he entered the office of the old Jefferson Democrat, for the purpose of learning the "art preservative of all arts." In that office he remained a year, when he found but little could be learned in an establishment where the proprietors were entirely ignorant of the profession. He therefore concluded to enter into an engagement with judge Wilson, then editor of the Steubenville Herald, to go with him to Pittsburgh, in 1832, where the judge established the first daily paper in that city, called The Pennsylvania Advocate.

During the period of his apprenticeship Mr. Harper spent his leisure hours in reading historical and literary works, kindly loaned him by a valued friend. He made frequent contributions to the Saturday Evening Visitor, a family paper then published in Pittsburgh. In May, 1837, Mr. Harper returned to Stubenville and purchased a half interest in the American Union, the successor of the old Jefferson Democrat. For two years he edited and conducted the Union with marked success. During the session of the Ohio legislature for 1839-40 he reported the proceedings of that body for the Ohio Statesman, then under the management of the late Colonel Samuel Medary, and also assisted in the editorial department of that paper. During his connection with the Statesman a warm personal friendship sprang up between the colonel and Mr. Harper, that lasted until the death of Mr. Medary. During the exciting presidential campaign of 1840 Mr. Harper edited the Crawford Democrat, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, whilst the proprietor was engaged in taking the census. At that time Mr. Harper had made arrangements for establishing a daily Democratic paper at Pittsburgh, but the unexpected defeat. of Van Buren changed the political aspect of affairs, rendering it impolitic at that time to undertake so hazardous an enterprise, and induced him to embark in some other profession. He entered the law office of Messrs. Metcalf & Loomis, and in due course of time he was admitted to the bar of Pittsburgh. During his course of study he edited the Pittsburgher, a weekly Democratic paper. In 1843, after his admission to the bar, he located at Cadiz, Ohio, where he practiced law, and purchased the Cadiz Sentinel, which he edited three years, and then disposed of the paper and returned in 1846 to Pittsburgh, by the invitation of leading Democrats of that city. He bought the Morning Post, then a small paper, with limited circulation, and printed on a hand press. Under the editorial management of Mr. Harper, the circulation of the Post rapidly increased, soon taking rank as one of the leading papers of Pennsylvania. It became necessary to throw aside the hand press and substitute steam power presses. Doing all the editorial work of a daily was too severe a task for a constitution at no time robust; he therefore disposed of the Post, so

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as to secure a location and paper demanding less mental work than a leading daily in a large city.

During Mr. Harper's editorship of the Post, he was drawn into a very exciting controversy on the labor question. The legislature of Pennsylvania passed a law making ten hours a day's labor in all manufacturing establishments, more especially in factories where children were employed. Previously little children had been compelled to. work twelve and even fourteen hours a day, commencing at six o'clock in the morning and laboring until seven or eight o'clock in the evening. Mr. Harper sustained the law, not only because it was the law, but that it was a just and humane enactment. Every other paper in Pittsburgh opposed the law, taking sides with the manufacturers, who claimed that they could not compete with the manufacturers of the east, unless they run the long hours. The Commercial Journal at that time was the special organ of the manufacturers, who called to their assistance their attorney, who undertook the task of writing Mr. Harper down and destroy his paper. To accomplish this, it was alleged, he was ruining Pittsburgh's leading industries, etc. This was followed by a movement to induce business men to withdraw their patronage from the paper. But a reaction took place, and for every man that stopped the Post at least fifty new names were added to the list. The mechanics and working men of the city made the cause their own. The largest meeting. ever held in Pittsburgh assembled in the old market square to sustain the Pact, and when Mr. Harper appeared at the meeting he was lifted on the shoulders' of the men of toil and carried to the speaker's stand, where he addressed the excited people, advising them to stand up for their rights and the rights of humanity, but to commit no act of violence. The ten hour law was triumphant.

Finding an opening in Mt. Vernon Mr. Harper, after disposing of the Past, came here and purchased, in 1853,. the Mt. Vernon Democratic Banner, which he has since ably conducted and edited. From being a poorly unsupported institution he soon brought the Banner to the front with a large subscription, and it is now one of the most ably conducted and edited newspapers in the State. A few years since the building in which the paper . is published was destroyed by fire, including the entire outfit of type and presses. This calamity required a complete refurnishing of both type and presses, which was accomplished within a space of ten days. The Banner office is now one of the most extensive and complete printing establishments in Ohio, outside of the leading cities. Mr. Harper was president of the Ohio Editorial association four years, and is the president of the Democratic Editorial association, organized in 1880. In 1879 he was elected State senator in the Seventeenth and Twenty-eighth Senatorial districts, composed of the counties of Wayne, Holmes, Knox and Morrow, and is a member of several of the most important committees in that body.

Mr. Harper is one of the oldest editors in the State. From May, 1837, up to the present time, over forty-three years, he. has worn the editorial harness, with a prospect of many more years of usefulness before him. As an editor he occupies the highest rank, and as a news compiler he is unequalled; as a citizen, honored and respected; as a neighbor, kind and obliging.

On the eighteenth of September, 1844. Mr. Harper was united in marriage to Miss Eliza A. Mercer, at Florence, Washington county, Pennsylvania. She is a descendant of General Hugh Mercer, of the American Revolutionary war. From this union nine children were born, the three oldest of whom died in infancy. The names of the living are William M., Howard and Clarence B., born in Pittsburgh; John, Frank, and Kate, born in Mt. Vernon.

The Harper ancestors went originally from England to Ireland, after the Earl of Tyrone's rebellion; and, by purchase, became possessed of a town land named Pollyarnon, of the confiscated estate of the Manor of Hastings. The last of his paternal ancestors, whose remains were laid in Irish soil, was his great-grandfather, Robert Harper, who died March 10, 1780, in the forty-fourth year of his age, according to the monumental inscription in the English churchyard at Castlederg, in the county of Tyrone. His grandfather came to this country at an earlier date than his father, and so also at various times others of the family; some settling in the Shenandoah valley, Virginia, and some in Ohio. Of the latter branch was the )ate judge Alexander Harper, of Zanesville, who was his father's cousin. Mr. Harper's baptismal name, Lecky, was derived from the maiden surname of his paternal grandmother, Lillias Lecky, daughter of Hugh Lecky, of Gortumuck. The Lecky family were Scotch Presbyterians-the Harper family belonged to the English church.

HARRIS, HENRY C., Miller township, farmer, was born in Miller township, September 29, 1832, and is the youngest son of Emor Harris, who was born August 1, 1792, near Providence, Rhode Island, and Sarah Sweet, who was born April 12, 1797, near the same place. They were married in 1814, and came to Ohio in 1817, settling in Miller township, where they permanently located. They were among the best citizens of the township. Mr. Harris was a justice of, the peace for nearly twentythree years, and was regarded as a man of sound judgment, and a safe and wise counsellor. He died September 28, 1850; his wife died November 30, 1873. They had eight children, viz: Caroline, .wife of R. C. Walker; Emor B.; Sarah; Mary J., widow of Madison Miller; Lydia M., deceased; Betsey and Emily, who died in infancy. Emor B. now resides near Red Oak, Iowa.

Henry C., the subject of this notice, was reared on the old homestead, where his parents first settled. His education was at the district schools. He was captain of company C., One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guards, and served with his command in Virginia. In the spring of 1879 he was elected a justice of the peace. He is a man of comprehensive ideas, and has the esteem of the community. He was married to Miss Dorcas Gates, February, 1856, daughter of Cyrus Gates, an early settler. She died some years since. They have had four children: Mary W., Cyrus G., Carrie A., and Henry G.

HARRIS, THOMAS, Monroe township, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Devonshire county, England, January 1, 1815. In 1840 he accompanied his parents, Thomas and Elizabeth Harris, to America, and located on a farm in Jefferson township, now owned by John Hobbs, where his parents passed the remainder of their days.

In 1849 he married Miss Ellen McMillen, then of Jefferson township, born in Pennsylvania in 1814, daughter of Joseph McMillen. They settled on his home farm, remained one year, then moved to Defiance, Ohio, remained a. few years, and then returned to the old home farm again, where they .lived until 1867, when he sold the home farm, and purchased and moved on the farm in Monroe township, where they now reside. Their union resulted in four children, one son and three daughters,

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all of whom are now deceased except one of the daughters, Keziah M.

HARRIS, MICHAEL, Liberty township, farmer, was born in Hilliar township May 1, 1841, and is the son of Burr and Catharine Harris, nee Shaffer.

Burr Harris was born in Licking county, Ohio, removed to Hilliar township, and thence to Bloomfield township, where he yet resides. They had nine children, five of whom grew up.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm with his parents. In July, 1861, he enlisted in company G, Twenty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry. The regiment belonged to the Eastern army. He participated in the battles of Green Briar, McDowell, Cross Keys, Second Bull Run, besides a number of skirmishes. He was .wounded slightly while in West Virginia. He was discharged on account of physical disability contracted while in service in 1863, having been almost two years in service.

November 1, 1863, he married Miss Caroline M. Tucker. They have seven children-four sons and three daughters. Mr. Harris is a good farmer, takes an interest in his occupation, and is a good citizen.

HARRISON, J. C., Pike township, post office, North Liberty; born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1829, and was married in 1851 to Martha Matthewson, who was born in Holmes county. They had one child, Jerusha (deceased). Mrs. Martha Harrison died in 1872. Mr. Harrison was afterwards married to Cyrene Hathaway, born in Morrow county. They had one child, John, born in 1873. Mrs. Cyrene Harrison died in 1874. Mr. Harrison was afterwards married to Mary Eley, who was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1848. They have one daughter, Luella May, born in 1875. His father, B. Harrison, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1804, and came to Harrison county, Ohio, with his parents at the age of eighteen months, and remained there until he reached the age of twenty-four years when he removed to Wayne county, remained there till 1855 and then came to Knox county. He was married to Rachel Caldwell, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had two children, Louisa and James. Mrs. Rachel Harrison died in 1876. Louisa, their daughter, died in 1840.

HARROD, WILLIAM L., Hilliar township, proprietor of Central house, Centreburgh, Ohio, was born in the county August 14, 1835. His youth was spent on a farm until he engaged in the saw-mill business, which he followed until he enlisted in company C, Thirty-second Ohio volunteers, July 20, 1861, and was mustered into service August, 1861. The company left Camp Dennison September, 1861, for Cheat mountain, Virginia. He participated in the battles of Green Briar, McDowell, and in the skirmishes of the Virginia valley, and in the battle of Cross Keyes. He was in the battle of and surrender of Harper's Ferry, and paroled on the field, and was subsequently exchanged at Cleveland, Ohio. His regiment was sent to Vicksburgh, where he participated in the fight at Champion Hills and the Vicksburgh campaign. he then veteranized in 1863, and joined Sherman's army. July 22, 1864, he was taken prisoner at Atlanta and sent to that famed prison, Andersonville, where he was kept until September 22, 1864, when, fortunately, he was exchanged. During 1864 and 1865 he participated in all the various campaigns and marches in Sherman s army, and was at the surrender of Johnson's army. He was first lieutenant of his company the last seven months, thus serving his country faithfully and honestly for foureventful years, never losing a day except when a prisoner. When he returned home he engaged again in the saw-mill business, and subsequently-farmed until he came to Centreburgh in the spring of 1880, and became proprietor of the Central house, where he is always willing to wait upon his patrons. In 1858 he was married to Miss Mary Hayes. They have two children.

HARVY, JAMES, blacksmith, Fredericktown, was born in Jeromeville, Ashland county, in 1830, and married Gracie Hicks, who was born in England, in 1838. They had a family of seven children, named as follows: Elizabeth, Philena, Amanda, William, Carrie, Dollie, and Charlie.

Mr. Harvy learned the blacksmith trade in Mt. Vernon with Stephen Bishop. He came to Fredericktown in 1849; started in business and still continues. Through his industry and economy has secured a good home, and is otherwise in comfortable circumstances.

HART, WILLIAM T., Gambier, son of John D. and Margaret Hart, was born near the Hopewell church, Pleasant township, Knox county, Ohio, September 18, 1840. John D. Hart, a native of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, was born March 13, 1816, married Miss Margaret Taylor, June 5, 1834, who was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1816.

In 1835 they moved to Richland county, Ohio, and remained one year. In 1836 they moved to this county and located in Pleasant township, near the Hopewell church, where they lived until 1853, when they migrated to Noble county, Indiana, where they passed the remainder of their days. His companion died November 17, 1854. He survived her until October 1, 1864, leaving a family of eleven children to mourn their loss, viz: Mary A., born May 10, 1835; Nancy, born May 14, 1837; Matthew, born December 4, 1838; William T., born September 18, 1840; James, born May 4, 1843 ; Samuel, born January 12, 1845; Sarah F., born October 12, 1846; George W., born May 30, 1848; John, born August 29, 1850; Margaret, born May 14, 1852; Susannah, born June 4, 1854. Samuel and Margaret have died.

William T. Hart married Miss Mary A. Wright, December 28, 1865, born in College township, this county, June 29, 1840, daughter of William and Mary Wright. They settled in Gambier, where they are now living. Their union resulted in three children, viz: Lewis E., Eva M., and Frederick W. Eva M. is dead.

Mr. Hart is a carriage-maker by trade and is carrying on the business of manufacturing all kinds of carriages and vehicles of every description in Gambier. He is also engaged in undertaking, and is doing a first class business. In April, 1861, he enlisted in the three months' service in company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry. June 5th, of same year, he reenlisted in same company and regiment for three years, or during the war. His time expired June 5, 1864, and was discharged from the service June 23d, same year. February 16, 1865, he enlisted as a veteran and served until the close of the war. He received two wounds, the first was at the battle of Chancellorsville, the second at North Anna river, on the twenty-third day of May, 1864.

HART, WILLIAM R., carriage painter, Mt. Vernon, is the second son of father Abel Hart, sr., who is now in the eighty-sixth year of his age. William was born June 1, 1828, in the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and when about seven years of age came to Ohio with his parents, who settled in Mt. Vernon in 1835, where they have continued to reside. His mother died in 1864. He received such an education as the

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schools of that day afforded. His first business engagement was made with Mr. Noah Hill, where he learned the chair making and painting trades. With Mr. Hill he worked four years, and then engaged with Mr. John A. Shannon, as carriage painter, where he worked some eighteen months. The following six years he spent in traveling and working. He worked as journeyman painter in different places in the State, and in 1855 returned to Mt. Vernon. He worked for the different firms in the city up to 1874. That year be established his present business, which consists in the getting up of a fine grade of single and double carriages and buggies. Carriage painting is a specialty in all its branches. He does none but first class work. .

Mr. Hart became a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1850, and joined a lodge of the order in Tiffin, Ohio, a member of lodge No. 20, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, on card. In 1875 he was elected grand junior warden in the grand encampment branch of the order. In 1878 he was elected in the same branch grand high priest. In 1879 he was elected most worthy grand patriarch of the encampment branch in Ohio. Mr. Hart is the only member of the order in Knox county who has attained to the honor of these offices. He has also served as representative of both the grand lodge and the grand encampment. Mr. Hart has represented his ward in the city council.

HART, ABEL, SR., Mt. Vernon was born at Little Compton in the State of Rhode Island, on the twenty-second of September, 1794. His father, Noah Hart, was a soldier in a Massachusetts regiment in the Revolutionary war. He raised twelve children, all of whom lived to a good ripe age, and a number of whom are still living. His ancestors settled in Massachusetts about the year 1634.

The subject of this sketch came to this part of-the country in the year 1817. He first lived with his brother Isaac, who had previously located on the Mohican, twenty miles east of Mt. Vernon. After remaining in Ohio a few years, he returned to the cast, and in the year 1834 removed to Mt. Vernon with his family, and in the year 1835 built a house on East Gambier street, where he has resided ever since.

Mr. Hart was made Master Mason at Parkersburgh, Virginia, in 1820, and is now, perhaps, the oldest Mason in Knox county. He was one of the charter members of the Knox Mutual Insurance company, and was one of its directors for over twenty years. He is the only chatter member now living. Hr. Hart was one of the military escort that accompanied General Lafayette, when he visited Boston in the year 1824. He was well acquainted with General Andrew Jackson. Mr. Hart raised a family of four children, all of whom are living.

HART, ABEL, JR., Mt. Vernon, attorney at law, is the youngest son of Abel Hart, sr., and was raised in Mt. Vernon. He had a common school education, and learned the carriage making trade. The subject of this sketch read law with Dunbar & Banning, and after that firm dissolved, finished his studies with John Adams, now judge of the court of common pleas. He was admitted to the bar at the March term of the supreme court at Columbus, Ohio. In the year 1868 he was a candidate for prosecuting attorney of Knox county, and was defeated by four votes. In 1870 he was a candidate for the same position, and was elected, and in 1872 was reelected. In 1875 he was elected representative, and reelected in 1877.

HART, W. T. undertaker, Gambier. Gambier has one of the best and most extensive undertaking establishments in the county, opened in 1878 by Mr. W. T. Hart, who keeps on hand first-class burial material of all descriptions. He is also prepared to embalm bodies, and can respond to a call on short notice. Special attention is given to this branch of undertaking. He has for his use one of the best and finest hearses and teams in the county. His success in the business has been beyond his most sanguine expectation, He has calls from and attends funerals in a territory of more than ten miles around Gambier. Within thirty months he has received ninety-three calls, -and has promptly attended the same. His past experience in that line is a guarantee that the work in the future as in the past will give equal satisfaction to the bereaved.

HART & DICKESON, proprietors carriage shops, Gambier, Messrs. Hart & Dickeson in 1873 established their manufactory, from which they have succeeded in supplying the wants of the community with remarkable success. They manufacture buggies, light and heavy farm wagons, phaetons, and all vehicles necessary to the wants and luxury of man. They also do all kinds of repairing at short notice, and what is more to the point, they warrant every vehicle manufactured by them, and every repair job that leaves their shops. Horse shoeing is a specialty with them, and in which branch they acknowledge no superior in the county.

In their shops they have recently built one of the finest hearses in the county, which is now used by Mr. William T. Hart, the undertaker at Gambier. The people of the county will find Hart & Dickeson enterprising gentlemen, always ready to attend to the wants of their customers.

HARTMAN, WILLIAM (deceased), a native of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, born December 20, 1807, and a son of Casper Hartman. March 5, 1833 (at the age of twenty-five years), he united in marriage with Sarah Ramsey, a daughter of Thomas Ramsey, who was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania. May 14, 1808. After their marriage, he, in company with his wife, came to Ohio, locating in Wayne county, where he remained about four years, and then moved to Knox county, locating in Harrison township, on a farm of one hundred and eleven acres he purchased, where he raised a family of eight children. six sons and two daughters. His death occurred November 29, 1879, in his seventy-second year. Mrs. Hartman, his companion, survives him in her seventy-second year.

HASSON, MARVIN FREW, Hilliar township, station agent of Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad at Centreburgh, was born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1844, is the second child of William and Rachel Hasson, nee Black, who were born and married in Venango county, Pennsylvania, and still reside near Utica, Pennsylvania.

The youth of Mr. Hasson was spent on a farm, and attending the schools of the vicinity. He also attended an academy at Utica, and was preparing for college, but when the late war broke out he went with the three months' men, but the quota being full he was not mustered into service. He returned home and resumed his studies until August, 1862, when he enlisted in company I, Sixty-fourth Pennsylvania volunteers, and participated in many of the hardest struggles on the field during that ever memorable conflict. He carries the scars of two wounds. At High Hill bridge he received a wound in the knee which kept him in the hospital for about two months and a half, and he was again wounded at Dinwiddie Court House, being struck on the forehead with a minnie ball. He was in the battle of An-

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tietam; Maryland; Fredericksburgh, Virginia; Brandy Station, Virginia; Gettysburgh, Pennsylvania; Sulphur Springs, Virginia; Kilpatrick's raid; Malvern hill; Deep Bottom; Wyatt's farm, and Stony creek, besides twenty-two smaller engagements. He never missed roll-call nor duty until he was wounded. After his return home he worked at carpentering and teaching school. While teaching he learned telegraphy. .about 1871 he came to Ohio and was engaged in Akron in telegraph and railroad service. In 1873 he came to Mt. Vernon, and in the fall of the same year was appointed agent at Centreburgh, for the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad. From his quick business habits and his systematic regulations he has given general satisfaction to the business and traveling public. He is a positive man, being governed by principle; is decisive in his opinion and convictions. He was married to Miss Hattie F. Rinehart, November 30, 1873. They haven family of three children, viz: Jessie, born September 27, 1874; Emma G., March 10, 1876; and John W., April 12, 1879.

HAWKINS, ISAAC, Liberty township, a successful farmer and stock raiser; was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, May 31, 1821. Joseph Hawkins, his father, was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, January 18, 1789, married Sarah Larimore about 1811, and remained in Virginia until about 1829, when they came to Ohio, remaining three years in Licking county and then removed to Milford township, Knox county, where Mr. Hawkins died August 11, 1870. Mrs. Hawkins died there also. They had a family of ten children, viz: John, born June 23, 1812, died in Tazwell county, Illinois, and left a large family; Margaret, born in 1815, died in infancy; Harriet, born November 19, 1817, married Charles Hall, and died November 12, 1859, left a family; James, born March 25, 1819. He is an influential farmer in Licking county near Lock; Isaac, the subject of this sketch; Elizabeth, born December 16, 1824, married Edward Wilson. She is deceased, left a family; Joseph, born June 26, 1826. He is a resident of Milford township; Sarah Jane, born June 29, 1828, married Henry Row. She died August 9, 1877, left a family; Thomas H., born September 6, 1831; he is a resident of Mt. Vernon, Ohio; William D., born December 28, 1833.

The parents of this family were of the renter class; they owned no land, and hence their sons and daughters were in early life under the necessity of making for themselves almost their own way. They all became substantial and useful citizens in after life. Indeed it might be truthfully said that there are few families who had started in life in moderate circumstances that did so well. The subject of this sketch spent his youth at home until he was about nine years of age. From nine to thirteen he was on a farm away from home. He then returned to assist his parents on the farm, as his older brothers were doing for themselves. He aided in keeping his younger brothers and sisters at home. He remained at home until January 24, 1841, when he married Miss Pennennah W. Huddlestun, a native of Virginia who was born November 4, 1822. From this time he began for himself. The following summer he farmed with his brother James, and in the fall sold his shareof the crops for seventy-five dollars out of which he paid sixty dollars of debts, leaving fifteen dollars as net gain for a summer's work. He then went to Licking county, near Granville, and put out a wheat crop, and when the crop was sold he had fifty-one dollars clear of all expenses.

It might be mentioned here, to show how Mr. Hawkins started, the way he obtained his first smoothing-iron. Wishing to have that necessary article in the house, and not having the money to buy it, he contracted to split two hundred and fifty rails, for which he was to have a smoothing-iron made at Porter's foundry, near where he then lived. This iron he still possesses, as a reminder of his early start. He remained over three years at Granville, sold out his crops, and had two hundred and sixty dollars in money. He returned to Milford township, Knox county, and five years after, he purchased ninety head of ewes and thirty lambs for one hundred dollars. This was his beginning in sheep-raising, and in which he has been eminently successful. He purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty-eight acres for two thousand three hundred dollars. He had eight hundred dollars in cash, which he paid as hand money. On the balance he had seven years' time, but was able to pay for it in four years.

The first buying and selling of stock was commenced on the farm, and carried on with eminent success until 1877. In 1868 he moved from his farm to Mt. Liberty, where he has since resided.

Mr. Hawkins, it will be remembered, commenced life with no aid. His advantages for education were limited. In fact, he never learned to write, and it was not until in after years that he learned to read. This was no fault of his, as his time was so occupied in his youth that it was impossible for him to acquire any education. He was kept at work early and late, and when evening came he needed rest. He has been successful in life. He worked under the disadvantage of having no education. He is naturally a business man. His judgment has in some degree made up for his lack of education. But had he been so fortunate as to have had the advantages of education, he would have added much more largely to his property. He deserves more than passing notice in thus overcoming the many obstacles which met him at every turn. He has given largely to each of his five children as they were married. He made it a point to give them five thousand dollars' worth of real estate, besides an outfit of at least a thousand dollars extra, making at least thirty thousand dollars.

The children are, Levina, married to S. T. Vannatta, of Miller township; Mary, married to J. T. Robertson, of Hilliar township; Ann, widow of J. L. Evans; Louisa married W. A. Wintermute, of Milford township, and Charles O., married to Ella Snyder.

HAWKINS, WILLIAM H., Milford township, brick mason and farmer, Milfordton post office, was born in Rhode Island. near Providence, April 26, 1814. His parents, Stephen and Sallie Hawkins, nee Belknap, came to what is now Milford township in 1818. They came in a three-horse wagon, bringing with them their three sons-Emor B., William H. and Joseph

Emor B. and Joseph S. have died. There were three more children born to these parents in Milford township, viz.: Stephen, Sallie Ann, and Laura M. Of these Stephen and Laura M. are dead.

The subject of this notice recollects very distinctly when his parents went to locate the site of the cabin. His mother, when she saw the dense forest, and the recollections of her former eastern home filled her mind, she wept bitterly. This site was on the farm on which Mr. Hawkins now resides on the Mt. Vernon and Hartford roads. Here Mrs. Hawkins died in 1841. Mr. Hawkins' second marriage was with Mrs. Petitt, by whom

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he had one daughter, Mary P., wife of William Pickering. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins both died on the old homestead.

William H. spent his youth in the cabin. When old enough he assisted his father in clearing up the land. At about the age of eighteen years he learned brick laying with his brother, Emor B. He has built many of the brick dwellings in Milford and surrounding country. He frequently made the brick and contracted for the dwellings. He is an estimable citizen. He was married to Miss Emily Beach January 25, 1838. They have one child, Emily C., born September 26, 1844, wife of George Disney.

HAWKINS, THOMAS, Liberty township, was born in Licking county, September 6, 1831. He is the son of Joseph and Sarah Hawkins, of whom mention is made in the biography of Isaac Hawkins.

The subject of this notice remained with his parents until about eleven years of age. From eleven until twenty-two he was with his brother James. In the fall of 1854 he went to Tazwell county, Illinois, where he remained until the fall of 1860, engaged on a farm. On October 11, 1858, he married Miss Mary A. McClees, who was born in Tazwell county, Illinois, April 12, 1839.

In the fall of 1860 Mr. Hawkins returned to Licking county, where he remained six years, being engaged in farming, when he moved to Knox, and farmed one year, and then moved to Mt. Liberty. In 1872 he engaged with J. P. Wintermute in huckstering, at which he has since been engaged. He is an efficient salesman and was instrumental in building up a large trade, which he still holds. He enjoys the confidence of the trading public.

His marriage has been blessed with a family of four children: Joseph W., born September 2, 1858; Mary E., wife of Emmett Al. Ramey, born March 11, 1860, married November 25, 1880; Emma, born February 24, 1862; and Thomas Clifford, born July 5, 1871.

Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins have the esteem of the community.

HAWKINS, WILLIAM D., Liberty township, farmer, was born in Licking county, Ohio, December 28, 1833, is the son of Joseph and Sarah Hawkins, of whom mention is made in the biography of Isaac Hawkins, of Mt. Liberty.

The subject of this notice was raised on a farm, and has continued farming as his occupation. In his younger days he drove stock east, and upon several occasions he took entire charge, and was successful.

March 29, 1863, he married Mary Lucretia Wilkins, of Mt. Liberty, daughter of Abner and Susan Wilkins.

Mr. Hawkins has held a number of offices in the township and has always filled them to the satisfaction of the citizens generally. In 1879 he was elected land appraiser.

Mr. Hawkins is a social, pleasant gentleman, hospitable to all who call upon him, and has the esteem of the community.

HAWKINS, JAMES, JR., Milford township, farmer and sheep raiser, Lock post office, was born in Knox county, in January, 1850, is the oldest child of Joseph and Ann Hawkins, of Milford township. August 24, 1871, he was married to Theresa M. Coe, who is the daughter of David Coe. They have four children, viz: Mallie, Burton, Edward, and Elizabeth Ann.

Mr. Hawkins, from his experience, fully understands the raising of first class sheep. His flock consists of choice registered rams and ewes. His first sheep were eight ewes numbered in Vermont register, volume second, Nos. 178, 182, 185, 225, 221, 208, 208. From ewe No. 182, two choice rams, Nos. 5 and 20; ewe 185, one choice ram, No. 1; ewe No. 10, ram No. 50; ewe No. 12, ram No. 22. Ram No. 40 originated from purchase of Hiram Rich, sired by J. T. Stickney's stock ram.

One of the largest clips from one sheep in this county was from ram W. S. Grant, shorn by Torrence Mitchell, Lock. Ohio, second fleece, April 1, 1880; weight of fleece, twenty-six and one-fourth pounds. His weight, after being shorn, was one hundred and thirty pounds-his age two years.

Mr. Hawkins has a flock of pure Spanish merino ewes. He is determined not to be outdone by any sheep raiser in the county, and makes sheep raising a special business, Those who contemplate purchasing would do well to call upon him. He resides near Lock, Ohio.

HAWN, G. B., Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard.-He was born February 22, 1809, in Mt. Vernon. In 1827 he came to Millwood, Union township. At an early day his father came to Millwood and bought large tracts of land. He surveyed and laid out the lots in Millwood. The work was done in 1825, and he built a flouring and carding mill, as well as a distillery, and conducted his farm besides. G. P. Hawn was married to Hattie Gifton, May 20, 1830, and settled in Millwood. They had eleven children-Louisa, Charles. Hattie, Sarah, John, Marion, Rebecca, George, Catharine, Robert and Lola. John enlisted in the late war in 1861, for three years. At Lookout Mountain he was taken prisoner, and was in the hands of the rebels three months. He was taken to Atlanta to be exchanged, but a misunderstanding came up among the officers in regard to the exchange, and he was started back; but by some good fortune he, with another of the prisoners, escaped from the trail while they were returning. Marion enlisted in the same company, and died in the hospital, in 1863. G. B. Hawn's grandfather was in the Revolutionary war and his father, John H., was in the War of 1812, serving as quartermaster. His brother, John H., was orderly sergeant in company B. in the Mexican war. His son John served in the late war. It appears from above statement that a John Hawn represented each of the three generations past, one serving in each of the wars of our country. G. B. Hawn's wife died March 27, 1870. He is now cared for by his children.

HEAD, THOMAS R., Gambier, a native of Virginia, and son of Nathan and Penelope Head, was born in Hampshire county, August 5, 1823.

His parents were natives of Maryland, and moved to Virginia in the spring of 1823. In May, 1835, they came to this county, and located in College township, near Gambier, and remained sixteen years. In 1851 they moved to the State of Indiana, where Mrs. Head deceased, in February, 1877, aged eighty-two years. Mr. Head, father of Thomas R., is now living in Mt. Vernon, aged eighty years.

They reared ten children, viz: Nathan, Mary A., Thomas R., Hannah, Joseph, Sarah A., Nancy J., Penelope, John, and Benjamin F. Only four of the number are now living, viz: Mary A., Thomas R., Hannah, and Benjamin F.

On the twenty-first day of October, 1849, Mr. Head was united in marriage with Miss Angeline Derby, daughter of Rufus Derby. Miss Derb was born in the State of New York, July 17, 1826, and came with her parents to Morrow county, Ohio, in 1836. After their marriage they settled in Gambier, where they have since resided. Mr. Head engaged in butchering and dealing in stock, having made the former his principal

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vocation for twelve years. In 1861 he gave up the butchering business, and turned his attention to farming, stock raising and dealing, which he has been actively engaged in since, for twenty years. At present he owns a large farm in Harrison township, this county.

HEADINGTON, J. N., Mt. Vernon, surveyor of Knox county. Burder, in his history of all religions, in speaking of the Roman church, says "the first important movement in gaining a footing in the United States was made by Lord Baltimore. In 1832 he reached the shores of the Potomac with about two hundred gentlemen of rank and fortune." In the company were two young unmarried men named Headington. They married and located at Gunpowder falls, a few miles above Baltimore, and from there as far as known descended all the Headingtons in the United States.

This introduction is not to establish nobility of birth, for the per cent. of this gentility or ranking blood remaining, after being reduced with geometrical rapidity through a series of eight or ten generations, would be too small to estimate. He therefore lays no claims to gentility except that resulting from poverty; or to greatness, except the essential part of it-goodness.

In 1820 Nicholas Headington, from Baltimore county, Maryland, located in Pike township. James, the eldest, who has since gained considerable celebrity as an auctioneer, married Ruth Hardesty, of the same township, in 1835. The family were among the earliest pioneers on Dry creek, and were from Virginia, near Wheeling. She proved a model wife and a good mother. Mr. Headington started in " the free for all " October 10, 1842, in the unsubdued forests of Delaware county. Six months later his father moved to Centerburgh and engaged successively in staging. grocery and hotel, until 1854, when finding himself with a family of five children, among them three sons with sufficient muscle to perform farm labor, purchased and moved on a farm one mile from the village where the old folks are still at home.

Thus, for the first eleven years of his life, Mr. Headington had the benefit of all the opportunities usually afforded by villages for the moral training of boys. From this period he performed farm labor, and during the winters attended the district school and Centerburgh union school until 1863 when he passed from parental authority and entered the "go as you please." He served in the quartermaster's department at Nashville during the campaign of 1864.

During the winters of 1864-5 and 1865-66, and the spring of 1866, he taught school at Newport, Indiana, farming the intervening summer. Returned home 'and taught the following winter at Warsaw, Indiana. During the summer and fall of 1867 he rode the prairies of central Iowa, engaged in fire insurance. The following winter he attended Holbrook's celebrated National Normal school, Lebanon, Ohio. For a year and a half he had figured as principal in an enterprise that would not pay cash dividends, but absorbed all his remaining resources so carefully husbanded for educational purposes. He was compelled to leave school and returned to Iowa in March, 1868. It was the dark hour. The outlook was not flattering. A fielder in the pools, he re-engaged in insurance with increased efforts and in August, one week before the beginning of the school year at Lebanon, he had regained his entire loss six hundred dollars. After one day's visit at home he reached the school for roll call, entering the junior class of seventy members. His first address before the class appeared in a public journal, which gave him a high reputation as a writer and speaker, which was maintained during the course. He was assigned the highest position upon the programme, and the significant subject, "Debating an Element of Mental Discipline," for his graduating oration. He maintained his record. On the stage, at the close of his performance, he received the congratulations of the principal, and most of the faculty and members of the class; an honor never before accorded to one of the graduates of this school.

Mr. Headington taught the Centrehurgh school during the winter of 1869-70, and spent the summer and fall of 1870 at Warsaw, Indiana, and Union county, Ohio, teaching at the latter place. He took charge of the schools at Centreburgh again during the winter of 1870 and spring of 1871, and during the summer assisted in atlassing Knox county. From November, 1871, he taught six months at Monticello, Illinois, and one day and a half from the close of this engagement was working on the atlas of Columbus and Franklin counties. He continued here until the winter, when he took charge of the Bridgeport schools. Before their close he was employed as chief engineer of an atlas corps located at Bucyrus, Ohio, beginning in the spring of 1873 and serving until the winter, when he began business for himself as principal of the Champaign County Atlas company, which work was delivered in the winter of 1874. There being no available territory Mr. Headington continued in the business as an employe of an eastern company, operating in Athens county until the summer of 1875, when he received the nomination for surveyor at the Democratic county convention of Knox. Tired of being a child of the world this nomination was quite acceptable. He was elected by three hundred majority, and reelected in 1878 by seven hundred majority.

He filled the position of county school examiner one term. He is a trader in real estate. In politics he is a Democrat. It is but just to say that Mr. Headington is self-made; it might relieve other powers of accountability. This sketch, as far as it goes, is literally true; yet there is much unwritten, but those who know Mr. Headington best will have no difficulty in drawing upon their imaginations to supply the omissions.

HEATHCOT, JOHN H., retired farmer, Liberty township, was born in the county of Cheshire, England, August 23, 1790. His father was a farmer and manufacturer of cloths. The subject of this notice, when quite young, was put at the same trade. He remained in England until about 1821, when he emigrated to the United States, working at his trade in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, until 1834, when he came to Ohio and purchased a farm on Granny's creek. He remained in Ohio until 1839, when he went to York county, Pennsylvania, and worked at his trade until 1844, when he again came to Ohio and traded his first farm for the one on which he now resides, in Liberty township. Mr. Heathcot is a man of fine physical form. His mind is clear for a man of his age; he is a good citizen and has the esteem of the community. He was married to Miss Mary Chandler, a native of New Castle, Delaware, about 1824. She died April 24, 1880, aged eighty years. They had a familv of three children, viz: Matthew, who resides in Morrison, Illinois; Alice A., wife of Thomas J. Stone, Sioux City, Iowa, and Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Tarr. She has one son, John W., who married Emma Barton, November 13, 1879, and resides on the farm.

HENEGAN, JOHN, born in Scotland, in the year 1833, died in Olathe, Kansas, September 19, 1877, aged forty-four years.

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The subject of this sketch, with his father's family, came to Mt. Vernon in 1853, and resided here until his death.

For nearly two years Mr. Henegan was confined more or less to his house by disease beyond a physician's healing art. A short time prior to his death he visited Olathe to close up some business in that place. He lived to finish that business, and then passed away from earth as calmly and as quietly as a child slumbering the sleep of innocence, During the last few days of life he named many of his Mt. Vernon friends, wishing they were with him to soothe and cheer him in his declining moments, the end of which he knew was fast approaching.

From early youth Mr. Henegan devoted himself to railroading. The last of such work was on the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railway, to the interest of which many years of his life were devoted.

In 1867, in company with his father, he took the contract of constructing a canal around the Des Moines rapids, one of the greatest undertakings of the kind in America. Other hands have just completed this great work.

In the fall of 1874 he commenced work upon the new infirmary building, and brought it nearly to completion. This building is the most substantial of the kind in the State, and an honor to the county, and also to the State.

At the age of sixteen years, the subject of this sketch, with his father and mother, together with the rest of their family, left Glasgow, Scotland, September 16, 1849 - Liverpool, England, September 18th, and arrived at New Orleans, United States of America, on the twentieth day of December following; thus the voyage, between the port of departure and the port of disembarkation, appears to have been thirteen weeks and four days in duration. To vary the interest, and to add to the perils of those "who go down to the sea in ships," the vessel, upon whose deck the lives and fortunes of the hardy emigrants were placed, was cast away in a storm, and thrown upon the shores of an island now called Concon, situated near the barren coast of Yucatan, Central America. The passengers and crew were detained twenty-eight days upon that desert island.

During their forced residence upon the island, the passengers and crew, imitating the people of the country in which most of them were seeking a new home, organized a government and made laws for their own protection, and unanimously elected Mr. William Henegan the first governor of the State of Concon, Central America. The necessity of this organization was soon apparent

The island of Concon, for its favorable and safe harbors, was one of the favorite rendevous of the - piratical vessels making those waters their cruising grounds. One of those sea rovers passing the island, the captain seeing the wrecked ship of the emigrants, determined to take position, and rob it of all the rigging and stores left upon it, (the passengers and crew, while waiting for rescue, living in tents upon the shore).

To allay suspicion, the pirates also landed, and pitched their tents a short disstance from the shipwreck, as though they wished to rest awhile from their bloody and murderous career. One of the crew- of the wrecked ship, wandering over the island one day, being weary from his long and difficult tramp, threw himself down behind some rocks and fell asleep. How long he had remained in that unconscious state he knew not. He was finally awakened by hearing voices in conversation, apparently immediately above him. Listening for awhile, he gathered enough of their conversation to convince him that the voices belonged to some of the crew of the piratical vessel, and that the rascals were detailing to themselves their plans for attacking the unfortunate voyagers and sacking the wrecked vessel. After the departure of the loquacious pirates, the sailor made his way to his own camp, and detailed the plot of the pirates to Governor Henegan.

After a consultation with his council, the governor formed his plans for retaliation, which were to capture the pirate vessel, and put to sea with his little colony. This was "carrying the war into Africa," with a vengeance, yet, under the circumstance was perfectly justifiable.

The governor's plans were well laid, and would have been successfully carried out, had not one of the passengers betrayed the governor's plans to the pirate chief. The pirates immediately struck their tents and began their retreat to their boats, and thence to their vessel. In the melee that ensued, the pirate captain was wounded so severely as to compel his crew to take him upon their shoulders. In this condition, with their helpless captain, the pirates reached their boats and made for their vessel. When upon her deck, they hoisted sails and put out to sea, leaving the shipwrecked in possession of their diminutive republic.

HENDRICK, LYMAN, tanner, Fredericktown, was born in Sunbury, Delaware county, December 19, 1819; was married to Rhoda Runnian, who was born in Knox county, in 1827. They had one daughter. Mary L, who was born in 1862. Miss Rhoda Hendrick died in this county. Mr. Hendrick was afterwards married to Mary Hodges, daughter .of Joshua Hodges.

Joshua Hodges was born in Massachusetts April 2, 1780, and married Sophia Jones, who was born in Connecticut April 25, 1786. They had the following family, viz: Hiram Chapman, born in 1812; Harrison G., born in 1815; Julia, born in 1817; Clinton, born in 1819; Levi, born in 1821; Eliza, born in 1823; Mary, born in 1825; Ham, born ill 1827, and Sarah, in 1829. Mr. Hodges came to Knox county in 1837, and died in Mt. Vernon, in 1864. Mrs. Sophia Hodges died in Morris township, this county, in 1871.

The mother of Joshua Hodges (whose maiden name was Phebe Chapman) was a sister of Jonathan Chapman, generally called "Johnny Appleseed."

HENRY, DANIEL, carpenter, Union township; post ofce. Gann, was born in Pennsylvania March 25, 1834, and came to Knox county in 1858, and settled in Jefferson township. He enlisted in company B, Ninety-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; went to the south in 1862, and returned at the expiration of his time, in 1865. In 1875 he was married to Miss Grear. They had one child that died in infancy.

HENWOOD, JOHN, deceased, Monroe township, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, was born February 22, 1800; married Miss Jane Taylor in 1825, of same county, born in 1798. They settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and remained until 1840, then emigrated to Ohio and located in Monroe township, this county, on the farm now owned by their son, John Henwood, jr., where they passed the remainder of their days. He deceased August, 1870. His companion survived him until August, 1874.

They reared a family of six children-Mary A., John, Samuel C., Flora J., Taylor, and Amanda, all-living except Samuel C., who enlisted in the fall of 1861, in company A, Sixty-fifth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, served two years as a private, and was then promoted to second lieutenant, which position he filled until he fell a victim to the enemy's bullets, at the battle

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of Chattanooga, on the seventeenth day of September, 1864.

HERDMAN, FRANK, Fredericktown, blacksmith, was born in Utica, New York, in 1845, and came to Ohio in 1870.. He was married to Mary E. Cochran, who was born in Knox county. They have three children viz: Isabella, born in 1874; Harry. in 1877; and Frank, in 1879.

Mr. Herdman learned the blacksmith trade in Detroit, Michigan, and is now engaged in doing custom work. He is a firstclass mechanic, accommodating and obliging. All who wish work in his line will do well to give him a call.

HESKITT, BENJAMIN F., deceased, was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church from 1856 till his death, January 4, 1863. He was captain in the Fifty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and was wounded at the battle of Stone River, and lived but two days. Rev. Heskett was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, February 2, 1823, and was married September 17, 1857, to Miss Almira V. Chandler, of Martinsburgh. One son, Stanley F., was the issue of this marriage.

HESS, MICHAEL, Berlin township; retired; post office, Shalers Mills, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1817, and married in 1837, to Elizabeth Hare, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1819. They had ten children: David, born in 1838; Lewis, in 1841; Israel, in 1843; Catharine L., in 1845; Jacob C., in 1848; Wilson S., in 1850; John S., in 1853; Ezra J., in 1855; Francis M., in 1858, and James P., in 1859. The deceased members are Jacob C., Ezra J. and James P. The following are married: David Hess, married to Mary McDaniels, now deceased, and resides in Floyd county, Iowa; Lewis Hess, married to Harriet Mishey; Israel Hess, married to Isabella Welker; Catharine Hess, married to George Ankney, deceased.

Mr. Hess emigrated from .Pennsylvania to Berlin township, Knox county, in 1839, and purchased a farm from Alfred Hampton. He remained upon the farm over eleven years. In 1850 he purchased a part of the Ellicott farm of G. Shafer, and remained there till 1879, when he moved to Ankneytown. Mr. Hess was elected infirmary director in Knox county in 1875, and reelected in 1878, an office that he filled with credit to himself and satisfaction to the public. He was elected justice of the peace in Berlin township for one term, and positively refused to accept the second term. Mrs. Hess is a member of the German Baptist church.

HESS, DAVID, Union township; farmer; post office, Gann, was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, in 1808. In 1837 he came to Jefferson county Ohio, and lived there until 1842, when he removed to Knox county, Ohio, where he still remains. The same year he commenced to erect a grist-mill in Howard township, and he was sir years building it, doing all the work

himself. At this time he sold the mill, and moved to Millwood; remained there two and a half years, and came to his present farm in 1850. In April, 1829, he was married to Miss M. E. Clingar, who lived with him until 1877, when she died, leaving him ten children. They are all married except Elizabeth, who stays with her father. Milling and building mills is his business.

HESS, REV. MARTIN L., itinerant minister, Jefferson township, son of Henry and Prudence Hess, born January 30, 1830, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, was brought to Knox county, by his parents, in the spring of 1847, who located in Jefferson township, where he received his education. At the age of twenty-five he took a five years' theological course. During that time he was ordained for the ministry by the United Brethren in Christ, and has labored twenty-five years. On the twenty-fifth day of September, 1866, he united in marriage with Miss Elender Kelley, born in Holmes county; October 18, 1837. After his marriage he remained in Holmes county about three years, when he removed to Jefferson township, Knox county, where he remained one year. He then moved to Coshocton county, remaining there two years. After making a journey to the west he located in Jefferson township, Knox county, on the old homestead formerly owned by his father, two miles east of Jelloway; there he has since remained, engaged in the ministry.

HESS, J. T., M. D., Mt. Vernon, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, February 16, 1830. His parents were born and married in the same county, and emigrated to Ohio with a family of four children, in May, 1830. His father settled in Jefferson township, Knox county. He was educated at the common and select schools in Mt. Vernon. Dr. Hess read medicine with Dr. Shannon and Professor Smith, of Philadelphia. He attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and graduated in the spring of 1857. He first practiced in Bloomfield, Morrow county, Ohio, and a short time in Fredericktown. August 14, 1862, he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the Ninety-sixth O. V. I, served one year with the Thirteenth regulars, General Sherman's regiment, when he was commissioned surgeon and assigned to the Ninety-sixth Ohio, Colonel Vance's regiment. He was in charge of the United States hospital at Fort Gaines during the summer of 1863. April, 1864, he was taken prisoner at Sabine Cross Roads, and was held three months, until June, and then took charge of the hospital at Carrollton, Louisiana. He returned to his regiment and was with it until the close of the war. He was division surgeon from early in the spring of 1865 until the close of the war. He amputated hundreds of limbs. On his return he took up the practice of medicine in Delaware, Ohio, where he remained until the spring of 1877, when he took up his residence in Mt. Vernon. He married Miss Sophia C. Colwill August 19, 1850. She is the daughter of William Colwill, deceased. She was born in England, near London, October 12, 1830. They had three children, Emma D., wife of E. C. Emley, of Centreburgh, an infant and Agnes I.

HESS, MICHAEL W., Wayne township, farmer, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, October 25, 1832, came to Ohio at the age of five years, and was married in 1860 to Agnes C. Deakins, who was born in Brown township, January 6, 1842. They had the following children: Alice A., born August 29, 1861; James W., April 12, 1863; Martha J., October 4, 1866; Louella, January 3, 1869; Florence M., January 6, 1872; John R., December 9, 1875; and Freddie C., May 6, 1879. Mrs. Hess died May 11, 1879. .

HESS, FRANK P., was born October to, 1834, in Jackson township, Knox county, Ohio. He was married to Maria Melick, daughter of Daniel Melick, an old pioneer of Jackson township, on the third of April, 1856. Mrs. Hess was born in Jackson township January 1, 1833. They have had five children, viz; Evaline, born April 17, 1859, and who died November 16, 1876; Mary B., born February 14, 1859; Thomas Jefferson, born January 28, 1862; Isodore J., born May 3, 1864; and Laura Iona, born June 15, 1867.

Mr. Hess is a justice of the peace of Clay township, and resides in the village of Bladensburgh.

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HESS, GEORGE W., Hilliar township, foreman of the Cleveland, Columbus & Mt. Vernon railroad, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, March 14, 1842. When he was five years of age his parents, David and Mary E. Hess, came to Knox county, Ohio; and settled in Howard township, where Mr. Hess built a mill on the Little Jelloway, which is yet standing. The subject of this sketch learned the milling trade with his father.

In May, 1861, he enlisted in company F, Sixteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, three months' service. Shortly after his return from the three months' service he enlisted in company I,----- Ohio volunteer infantry, (September, 1861,) for three years, and participated in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, and Chickamauga, after which he veteranized, and was in the battles of Mission Ridge, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Siege of Atlanta, Franklin, and Nashville, besides numerous skirmishes. During the Atlanta campaign he was under fire for sixty-three consecutive days. He was discharged at Louisville, Kentucky, October 19, 1865, having served his country four years and three months.

The following year after his return he went west and was with a surveying party for mail service. Iii 1872 he was engaged on the railroad, and in June, 1878, he was given section number nineteen. He is held in esteem by all who know him, and is an efficient and trusty fireman.

He was married to Miss Mary E. Sapp, daughter of Robert Sapp, of Union township, Knox county, December 20, 1868. They had three children, two of whom are living-Thomas C. and Charles E.

HESS, LEWIS, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Shaler's s Mills, born in Knox county in 1851, was married in 1863 to Harriet Mishey, who was born in Pike township, this county. They have three children - Olie W., born in 1864, Ida E., in 1868, and J. Clifford C., in 1871. Mr. and Mrs. Hess are both members of pioneer families.

HESS, HENRY, farmer, post offica, Shaler's Mills.-He was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1823. In 1839 he came to Ohio, and located in Berlin township. In 1844 he was married to Sarah Frederick, who was born in Ohio in 1824. They had six children. Isaac was born in 1845, Amanda, in 1849, Eli, in 1851, Jacob, in 1853, Martha, in 1858, and Sarah A., in 1861. Mrs. Sarah Hess died with cancer, in 1876; was buried in Owl Creek cemetery. She was a worthy member of the German Baptist church. Mr. Hess located on the farm where he now resides, and which he owns, in 1854. He is a prominent and official member of the German Baptist church. His sons are liberally educated. Eli is teaching vocal music. Jacob is engaged as salesman in the Gregor store.

HESS, GEORGE, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, was born in this county, Union township, in 1851, and was married in 1876 to Emeline Gressling, who ryas born in Wayne county in 1850. Mr. Hess is engaged in farming in this township. He is an enterprising and good citizen.

HILDRETH, EPAPHRODITUS, Miller township, a pioneer of Miller township, is a son of William and Ruth Hildreth, of whom mention is made in biography of Arnold Hildreth. He was born August 5, 1808, in Hartford county, Connecticut; came with his parents, in 1814, to Ohio, and in 1817 came to Miller township, where his youth ryas spent, and where he has resided ever since, being engaged in farming. He now lives, and for more than three score years has lived, at the old home., stead. He is a man of social habits, strong convictions and honesty of purpose.

June 9, 1832, he was married to Miss Emeline Eddie, a native of Connecticut, who was born November 9, 1808. They had one son, Albert E., born April 12, 1834. Mrs. Hildreth died December 18, 1874. Albert was reared on the old homestead, educated at the common schools, and is one of the substantial men of the township. April 20, 1853, he married Miss Jennie, daughter of Samuel Cake. They have one son, via: Frank E., born April 19, 1868, who is an intellectual, .promising boy.

HILDRETH, ARNOLD W. (pioneer), Miller, township, was born in Hartford county, Connecticut, December 27, 1803. His parents, William and Ruth Hildreth, came to Zanesville in 1814, and remained there until 1817, when they came to Miller township, where Mr. Hildreth had previously become owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land in the northwest part of the township. When Mr. Hildreth came to Ohio he had a family of five sons, via: John, William, Samuel, (who have deceased), Epaphroditus, and Arnold. The parents died on the old homestead.

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm and had the advantages of such schools as the district afforded. He was twice married. His first wife was Miss Mary Beardsley, daughter of William Beardsley, a pioneer of Milford township. They had nine children, via: Angeline, Alfred B., Platt G., Wells A., Hellen, Emeline, William, Henry, and Harrison. He contracted a second marriage with Miss Amanda Stanton, who became the mother of two children, via: Charles R., and Jennie. Mr. Hildreth is a good citizen and a man of general intelligence. He still resides on the old homestead, where sixty-three years ago his parents located.

HILDRETH, WASHINGTON, Milford township, merchant, Lock post office, ryas born in Monroe county, New York, in 1829. In 1835 he came to Richland county, Ohio, and sub. sequently to Brandon, Knox county. From twelve to fifteen years of age he was in the family of Hon. Columbus Delano, and attending school in Mt. Vernon. At about fifteen years of age he entered the store of Freeman & Ward, of Mt. Vernon, and was with their for some years. He was next employed by George W. Potwin, who sent a stock of goods to Danville and placed Mr. Hildreth in charge.

In 1852 he purchased this stock of Mr. Potwin and remained in Danville two years, and then removed to Brandon, where he remained until 1856, when he removed to Lock, where he has since carried on the business of merchandising. Mr. Hildreth started business with but a few hundred dollars, going in debt for the greater part of his stock, but by prudent management and strict attention to business he was enabled to liquidate the amount. He is practically a self-made man, and has been successful in building up a good trade, understands the business of merchandising, and from his well selected stock he can supply the wants of his customers. His trade increased so that it became necessary to have a more commodious business room. In 1871 he built his present room, a model of good taste and judgement. It is fifty by twenty-five feet, two story, with an addition of twelve by twenty-five feet, one story. The second story is for a lodge room. Mr. Hildreth is a business man in every sense of the term. He is reliable, allows no misrepresentation, has the confidence of the public, and is one of the leading men

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of the community. In 1860 he was appointed postmaster, and has held the office ever since. He was twice married, his first wife, Hattie B. Harder, to whom he was married March 20, 1855, was the mother of four children, two of whom are living: Ida E., wife of W. H. Mitchell, who is a son of Almon Mitchell, of Milford township, and Hattie B. The deceased are Ellsworth and Edward, who died young.

His second wife was Mattie Smith, sister of Dr. Eber Smith, to whom he was married May 10, 1874

HILL, NORMAN NEWELL, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. His father, Aaron Hill, was born in Charlestown, near Boston, Massachusetts, in 1782, and subsequently removed to Corn wall, Addison county, Vermont, where he married Sarah Newell about 1801, and where the subject of this sketch was born September 28, 1803. In 1807 Aaron Hill removed to Pennsylvania, where he remained two years and then moved to Zanesville, Ohio, with his family, in company with Mr. Gideon Mott and family. His funds gave out before arriving at Zanesville, and he borrowed, of Mr. Mott, fifty cents to liquidate a hotel bill, thus arriving at his new home pennyless and with a family on his hands. He appears to have understood the blacksmith trade, and probably found work in Zanesville, where he remained until 1811, when he came to Mt. Vernon his future home. Here he found shelter for his family in a cabin on the southwest corner of Gay and Chestnut streets, now known as the Dr. Burr lot. At that time the forest extended almost up the door. Here the family remained two years, when they removed to the southwest corner of High and Mechanic streets, now known as the Anthony Banning lot. Land was cheap and Mr. Hill, by his industry, was soon enabled to purchase a farm in Miller township, to which he removed, and where he remained about two years, whets he purchased a quarter section in Milford township, upon which the family lived about fifty years. These farms were in the woods, as were all farms in those days, and had to be cleared of timber by great labor.

The Milford township farm is located on what is known as Bishop street, and subsequently passed into the hands of his sun David, whose family occupied it until 1866.

In their declining years Aaron Hill and wife made their home at the residence of his son, N. N. Hill, in Mt. Vernon, where they died in 1870, within a few days of each other, aged eighty-eight and eighty-six respectively.

Aaron Hill's family consisted of Norman Newell, David L., Sarah, Lurena, and Lovina.

At the age of sixteen Norman N. Hill left his father's farm and took up his residence with the family of Samuel Mott, in Mt. Vernon, Mr. Mott being at that time a leading lawyer and merchant of the place. Mr. Hill received the rudiments of his education in the old log court house that then occupied the public square, and was used, as were such buildings generally in those days, for courts, schools, and public meetings. At the age of twenty-nine he entered Mr. Molt's store as clerk; soon made himself master of the business and became managing clerk. About 1832 he purchased the stock, and began a mercantile career on his own account, which was successfully continued about forty years. Six years of this time he owned and conducted a large wholesale establishment in Cincinnati.

In addition to his mercantile business he has been engaged in various business enterprises in Mt. Vernon, in all of which he has been quite successful, and has amassed considerable wealth. He was a stockholder and director in the old Knox County bank, and still continues a stockholder and director of the Knox County National bank, his connection with these institutions covering a period of twenty-eight years. For nineteen years past he has been a director in the Knox county Mutual Insurance company.

When the Springfield, Mt. Vernon & Pittsburgh railroad was in process of construction he was made secretary and treasurer of the company. About 1845 he erected the large brick building at the foot of Main street, formerly known as the Mt. Vernon woollen mills, but for many years past occupied as a warehouse. Here for nearly two years he was engaged in the manufacture of woollen fabrics, and did a large and successful business.

For twenty-two years, and until within a few years, he was superintendent and successful manager of the city gas works.

During all his business career he has been extensively engaged in the purchase and shipping of wool and other products, During the early days of his mercantile career, that business was conducted very differently from what it is to-day. Exchange was the rule, money the exception, and the merchant was compelled to buy all the produce of the farm and the chase if he did business.

Mr. Hill was a large shipper, to various markets, of hogs, cattle, sheep, horses, etc., and often accompanied his shipments and superintended the sale. He remembers with lively satisfaction an occasion of this kind. He had purchased some three hundred head of hogs and driven them to Huron (now Sandusky city), the only market then convenient. Quite a number of merchants were, at that time, doing a pork-packing business at Huron; and although the market was lively, prices high, and merchants anxious to buy, yet when they found Mr. Hill on the ground with thice hundred hogs, which they were aware he must sell at some price, or be at considerable expense in feeding and attending to them, they rather leagued together, concluding they had the advantage of him, and would compel him to sell at their own prices.

Comprehending the situation, and being well known at Huron as a merchant of considerable means and good credit, he determined not to be imposed upon, and therefore announced that he would not only slaughter and pack his own pork, but would buy and pack all the pork that came to that market that he could get in other words, he would become a competitor in the pork packing business and with that end in view made arrangements at the warehouse of Jenkins & Tracy for receiving and paying for pork that he might purchase on the street. This brought the Huron pork-packers to terms, and before night of the day he had determined upon becoming a competitor in the business, he had sold all his pork at the highest market price, the packers being glad to get him out of town so easily.

After an honorable and successful business career of nearly half a century among the business men of Mt. Vernon, he has retired from active business, and now resides on North Main street. February 12, 1833, he married Mary Shaw, a daughter of John Shaw, a prominent. citizen of the county. Mr. Shaw was elected sheriff in 1815, reelected in 1817, and again, for a third term, in 1828. In 1817 and 1824 he was also county collector. In 1821-2 he represented Knox and Richland counties in the Ohio senate, and in 1825 was a member of the Ohio house of representatives. In 1807 he came to Mt. Vernon from Maryland. His wife was a daughter of Michael Cramer.

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here. At the date of her birth her father occupied a small tenement house on the lot now owned by Mr. John Boyd, east side of Mechanic, and south of Vine street. From there he moved to a small two-story log dwelling on the lot now occupied by Dennis Corcoran's store, on the south side of West Vine street.

Of the three children of Norman and Mary Hill but one is living, John S., who resides on a farm in Morris township, about three miles from the city.

Sarah Newell, the mother of N. N. Hill, was the daughter of Riverius Newell, a well known and well remembered pioneer of Knox county, a Revolutionary soldier, who had fought at Bunker Hill and suffered at Valley Forge. He was also in the War of 1812. .

Sarah Newell was a woman of great strength of mind, cheerful disposition, and a model pioneer mother. During the War of 1812, when the Indian raid was expected, she was living in the great woods, in a cabin on the Miller township farm, and remained at home alone many days and nights, with her children, while her husband was working at his trade in Mt. Vernon. N. N. Hill says they had scooped out a hole under the puncheon floor of their cabin large enough to admit a straw bed, and when bed time came -a puncheon was raised, the mother and children descended into this underground bed-room, and carefully replacing the puncheon, remained there during the night. Many nights were thus passed in those early days.

Regarding the remainder of the family of Aaron Hill; David married Laura Jeffres, and died in his thirty-fifth year; Sarah married Madison Miller and died many years ago, leaving one child, Rose, now the wife of Henry Bostwick, of Newark; Lurena married the late Dr. E. Woodward, of Mt. Vernon, and died many years ago; Lovina died young.

Norman N. is the only survivor, and has lived to see Mt. Vernon grow from a little hamlet in a wilderness of stumps, logs, and hazel-bushes, to the present beautiful city.

HILL, DAVID- family of-Milford township. David Hill, son of Aaron Hill, and brother of Norman Newell Hill, whose biography appears above, was born in Vermont in 1807, came with his father to Ohio, and March 12, 1830, married Laura Jeffres, settling on the old Hill farm in Milford township, where he lived until his death, May 4, 1842. His life was a promising one, but was cut short by death. He was of medium height, slender, fine looking, very active and had accumulated some property. His wife, Laura Jeffres, who was thus left with a family of six children, was born January 28, 1811, in Douglass, Saratoga county, New York, and came with her father, John Jeffres, to this county when quite young, settling on a farm adjoining-or rather cornering-that of Aaron Hill. Their family consisted of Joan, born November 26, 1831; Charles Mortimer, December 1, 1833; Edwin L., February 15, 1835; Aaron, jr., August 7, 1837; Norman N., jr., April 29, 1840, and Josephine E., January 2, 1843.

Joan married James Lemon, is now living in Kansas and has one child, Estella, born October 20, 1858. Charles M. died at the age of two years.

Edwin L. went to Illinois on coming of age, settling in Monticello, Platt county, in that State, where he engaged to the mercantile business, and where he married Eliza Moffit. They had no children. Upon the breaking out of the war in 1861, he enlisted in the Forty-second Illinois infantry, and while the regiment was encamped at Paducah, Kentucky, contracted a camp disease from which he died January 23, 1862, having first been brought home to Monticello. He was buried in the graveyard of that place.

Aaron, jr., worked on the old farm in Milford township until the war broke out, when he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio National guard, and went into the hundred day service. His health not being good, the exposures of this campaign probably hastened his death. He died March 11, 1870, in Mansfield, Ohio, but was buried in the old Dry Creek graveyard, five or six miles west of Mt. Vernon.

Norman N., jr., went west in 1859, where he was engaged in school teaching near Monticello, when the war began in 1861, he enlisted as a private in a company raised in Champaign City, Illinois, which company was subsequently attached to the Third Missouri cavalry volunteers, and became company D of that regiment. He enlisted September 24, 1861; was in nearly all the battles and skirmishes in which the regiment was engaged; was promoted from time to time until he reached a first lieutenancy; resigned on account of ill health, and was mustered out of the service April 20, 1864. October 16, 1873, he married Dollie Rogers, of Plymouth, Ohio. They have three children: Walter R., born June 20, 1875; Florence J., March 9, 1877, and Laura Rose, September 19, 1880.

Josephine married Elijah Crable, of Mt. Liberty, who was a soldier in the late war where he contracted a disease which hastened his death. She is now living with her mother in Mansfield, Ohio, and has one child, Maud, born November 26, 1866.

The farm in Milford township was sold in 1866 to Arnold and William Bishop, and the family removed to Mansfield, Ohio, where they have since resided.

HILL, CHANCEY P., Fredericktown, hardware merchant, born in New York in 1820; came to Ohio in 1836 and located in Fredencktown; was married in 1842 to and Sargent, who was born in Knox county in 1818. They have one child-Mary Blanch.

Mr. Hill was a soldier in the late war and a member of company H, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He served out his time and was honorably discharged.

HILL, JOSEPH, Fredericktown, retired farmer, was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, 1818; was married April 26, 1838, to Mary Ann Dwigins, who was born in Guernsey county in 1821. They had the following family, viz. : Margaret, born in 1839; Elizabeth, in 1840; Orlando F., in 1845; John W., 1847; Francis A., in 1849; Mary M., in 1852; Charles E., in 1854; Lorain A., in 1857; Lambert, in 1859; Joseph G., in 1863.

Mrs. Hill died in 1873, and Mr. Hill was married to Mary C. Snyder, who was born in Virginia, and came to Ohio at the age of two years.

The following children are dead: Charles, February 20, 1855; Orlando, June 13, 1864. Margaret died in Knox county, at the residence of her father, in 1878.

Orlando was a soldier in the late war, a member of the Ninety-sixth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in the service till he died, June 13, 1864. He died from sickness at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Mr Hill came to Knox county in 1851, located in Monroe township, and engaged in farming. He removed to Wayne township in 1859, where he lived on a farm. From there he moved to Fredericktown in the spring of 1880. He has been an active farmer of this county, and is now living a peaceful and quiet life.

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Elizabeth was married to A. J. Dicus, and resides in Guthrie county, Iowa.

John W. married Elizabeth Whitworth, and also resides in Guthrie county, Iowa.

Francis and Mary live in Minnesota.

Lambert lives in Iowa, and Lorain and Joseph live with their parents.

HILLIER, THOMAS C., Pleasant township, a native of New York city, was born .August 9, 1804. In 1805 he was brought to Ohio by his parents, Richard and Anna Hither, who, with his family, located in Zanesville, remained until 1808, then moved to Knox county and located in Hillier township. fie gave the township its name. He remained in this county until his death, in September, 1811, leaving his wife and five children, the oldest then only fourteen years of age, alone in their forest home. In 1812 the mother, with her children, returned to Zanesville. One of her sons learned the shoemaking trade, which he followed as his vocation until 1837, when he engaged in the manufacture of brick, and burning time, which he continued several years. In 1848 he turned his attention to farming, and has since been engaged in that business. He has been married twice-first in 1825, to Miss Bathsheba Crossley, of Zanesville, which union resulted in three children, viz.: Isaac, Mary A., and Bathsheba, who died. February 8, 1830, his companion departed this life. He was then united in marriage with Miss Sarah Lehew, of Zanesville, August 6, 1833. They remained in the city until 1848, when they moved on the farm where they are now living, in Pleasant township, Knox county, on the old Gambier road. Their marriage resulted in eight children, viz.: Spencer L., Emily, Thomas, George, Susan M., Albert T., Smith, and Henry-all lip living Our subject had thirty grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He has been a constant member of the Baptist church since 1824.

HILLS, H. C., dealer in general house furnishing, Mt. Vernon; Ohio.-Mr. Hills is a native of Bristol, Ontario county, New York, and was born June 16, 1816. When he was about nine months old his father moved near Lockport, where he resided until the year 1840, when he went to Cass county, Michigan, and located on a farm and followed farming until 1866, when, in consequence of ill health, he sold the farm and came with his family to Mt. Vernon. He left his family here and returned to the pinery of Michigan and engaged in the lumber business, in which he continued four years. He then returned to Mt. Vernon and bought a half interest in the firm of Horner & Kelley, and did business under the firm name of Horner & Hills, in which they continued until 1872, when Mr. Homer sold his interest to Mr. Wells, and the business was conducted under the firm name of Wells & Hills until 1877, when Mr. Hills bought Mr. Wells' interest, after Mr. Wells death, and has since been sole proprietor.

The business in the hands of Mr. Hills has been a success, and he carries a stock of about four thousand dollars, consisting of a full line of queensware, glassware, silverware, cutlery, wood and willow ware, wall paper, toys and notions.

He married Miss Julia A. Chesbrough, and has a family of five children, all of whom are living and four of whom are married.

HIBBETS, HENRY, Union township, was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1832, and was married in 1858 to Martha Gann, and settled on a portion of the homestead known as the Gann farm.

Martha Gann's father (George Gann) was born in 1810, in Pennsylvania, and came to this county in 1834. He had four children: Jacob, Mary, Margaret, and Martha. He came here when the land was covered with timber, but he worked hard, and became one of the prominent citizens of the county. In 1873 he became dissatisfied living in Jefferson township, and wished to have a portion taken from Jefferson and attached to Union. This was much against the wishes of a majority of the people. But he circulated a petition, and by the assistance of others the south side of Jefferson township was at once attached to Union township. He was one of the most benevolent and charitable men of Knox county.

Henry Hibbets has three children-Osburn, born in 1859: Z. L., in 1866, and Charlie, in 1873. He has lived all his life on his present farm, his business being farming and carpentering.

Mrs. George Gann is living with him, and is about seventy-two years old.

HIGBIE, J. L., farmer, Liberty township, was born in Muskingum county July 14, 1820. His parents came from Duchess county, New York. Fleming Higbie, his father, married Sarah Bainey. About 1825 they came to Licking county, Ohio, remained there a short time, and subsequently lived in Clinton and Wayne townships. They have both deceased. They had a family of eleven children, six of whom are living.

J. L. Higbie worked at home until he was about seventeen years old, then worked at the carding business for some time. In 1842 he married Miss C. Ewalt, daughter of Richard Ewalt, a pioneer. He worked for four years on a rented farm, then purchased a tract of land in Liberty township. Mr. Higbie was possessed of little property when he started in life. He purchased an axe by first borrowing one from a friend, and with it earned enough to pay for a new axe-a novel way of starting life. He has succeeded in making for himself a very comfortable and beautiful home, and adding considerable to his first purchase. He has many friends. He was the father of five children, four of whom are living. He was a member of company A, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guard, and served his time of enlistment.

HIGGINS, JOHN, deceased, a pioneer of Knox county, was born in Vermont in 1800. His father, Joseph Higgins, was born January 9, 1762. He served in the war of the Revolution, and was three times married. By his first wife he had eight children, one of whom is living-Polly McGee, who resides near Marietta, Ohio. By his second marriage he had four children: Two living, residing in Iowa. By his third marriage he had no children, and remained in Vermont until 1807, when he emigrated to Marietta, Ohio, where he resided until 1810, when he came to Knox county, and settled about a mile east of where the village of Mt. Liberty now stands. He cut a road from where Homer now stands to the land which he had selected. The first cabin which was erected, was about the usual size of a pioneer's first habitation, probably sixteen by sixteen feet, in which a family of twelve persons lived for some time. This cabin was succeeded by a frame structure, which in turn has been succeeded by a beautiful residence occupied by J. O. Higgins, grandson of Joseph Higgins.

When Mr. Higgins settled on his land, there were but a few families west of him, in Knox county. The Houck settlement was about seven miles west, but these pioneers were not aware of each other's location for several years after. The subject of this notice, John Higgins, passed his early life on the frontiers,

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and his educational advantages were limited. In fact his eariy life was spent without attending school. When about twentyone years of age, he attended school for about three months, and attended school after this long enough to learn to read and write and cipher. After this he was employed on several occasions to teach. Being a man of more than ordinary intellectual eapacity, he was made justice of the peace, and subsequently became familiar with the statutes of the State, and was called upon to take charge of almost every case within a range of ten or fifteen miles from his home, and is yet spoken of by many of the old inhabitants as one of the most successful contestants of his day. For many years the law business occupied almost his entire time.

He was twice married, and his first wife was Parnell Ashley, by whom he had four children; Orange, a Disciple minister, who resides in Monroe county, Iowa; Colonel Thomas W., attorney, Pike county, Ohio; Ethan A., editor Democratic Times, Toledo, Ohio, and Henry, deceased.

His second wife was Mrs. Charity Pierson, nee Jaggers, by whom he had one son: John Delano, who was born June 3, 1837.

Mr. Higgins died March 1, 1874, and was much esteemed for his uprightness of character and many good traits. His wife survived him until May 10, 1880. His son John D. received a common school education, and has always resided on the homestead, being engaged in farming. He was a member of company A, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment, Ohio national guard, and was married to Miss Corrinda Bird May 13, 1858. By their union they have been blessed with six children: John W. died when four years old; Ida B., Elmer F. and Willie C.; Frank D. died' when eight months old, and Olive L.

Mr. Higgins is much esteemed, and is liberal in his views, pleasant and social in his manners.

HILDEBRAND, JOHN L., Brown township, secretary of the Jelloway Mutual Aid association, located at Jelloway, Knox county. Mr. Hildebrand was born in Hanover township, Ashland county. Ohio, December 18, 1857. He was educated in the Jelloway high school. In 1872 he engaged as dry goods clerk with J. W. Stacher & Brother in Loudonville, where he remained two years. In 1874 he came to Jelloway and engaged as clerk in the office of the Farmers' Home Fire Insurance company, and remained with it until in the fall of 1878. He then engaged as secretary of the Jelloway Mutual Aid association, which position he is filling at present. In July, 1879, he was united in marriage with Miss Martha A. Vincent, of Jelloway, daughter of Samuel M. and Rosannah Vincent.

They settled in Telloway, where they are now residing.

HILDRETH, MRS. MARY, Union township, post office, Millwood ; born April 14, 1829, in Union township. Her mother died when she was very young. She was married to Samuel Hildreth January 27, 1848. They lived on the old Hildreth farm for twenty-two years. Samuel Hildreth died September 21, 1869, aged forty-five years, leaving two children, Charlotte, born June 17, 1849, and Esther Jane, January 22, 1853. Mary Hildreth's father came to this county at an early age. He was one of the old veterans of the Revolutionary war, and served four years. He died October 17, 1874, at ninety-one years of age.

At the request of her brother, Mary Hildreth moved from the old homestead near Mt. Vernon and bought her present farm, where she has lived since 1870.

HIMES, NORMAN, Union township, mechanic, post office, Danville, was born in Rochester, New York, December 20, 1836. His father came from England in 1799, settled in New York city, and followed butchering for about ten years; then moved to Buffalo in 1812, and conducted the butchering business for about fifteen years. In 1829 he moved to Rochester, and started a cigar manufacturing establishment, and pursued that business until 1849, when he died. His wife died in 1861. Norman Himes remained in Rochester until 1865, and officiated in settling his father's estate. He then removed to Cleveland, where he followed the tobacco trade until 1874, when he removed to Knox county, Ohio, and settled on a farm in Jefferson township. In 1877 he moved to Danville, where he still remains. He was married in Rochester in 1864, and his wife and two children died to Cleveland. On December 25, 1874, he married Miss Nancy Breuker. They have one child, Clinton, burn February 28, 1876.

HINES, PHILIP J., Morris township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Jefferson township, Richland county, in 1826, was married in 1851, to Catharine Baughman, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1823, and came to Ohio at the age of five years with her parents.

They have four children, viz: Lydia A., Mary E., James D., and William F. Mr. Hines learned blacksmithing in Bellville, Richland county, anti worked at that trade for several years. He came to this township in 1852, owns a farm, has been a verb industrious and active man, and is a good and peaceable citizen.

Mr. Hines' father, John W. Baughman, deceased, was born ht York county, Pennsylvania, in 1792, and was married to Anna Ebersole, who was born in Erie county, Pennsylvania, in 1793. They had six children, viz: Francis E., Catharine E., Lydia E., Jacob, Henry, and John E. Mr. Baughman died in 1866, and Mrs. Baughman in 1879. Both died in Richland county, Ohio.

HISSONG, WILLIAM P., Berlin township, was born in Worthington township, Richland county, in 1840, married in 1861, to Electa Ann Grubaugh, who was born in Richland county, in 1841. They had ten children: Oliver, born in 1863; Nancy, deceased; Charles, born in 1866; Lilla, in 1868; Eli, in 1870; Ira, in 1872, William, in 1873; Albert, deceased; John, born in 1878; Joseph, in 1879. Mr. Hissong came to Knox county in 1867, anti has resided here since that time.

HITCHCOCK, JOSEPH, Fredericktown, deceased, was born in Pittsford, Rutland county, Vermont, March 12, 1802; was married January 7, 1833, to Eliza Wright, who was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, June 6, 1807. They had the following children, viz: Henry Chapman, was born in Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio: two infant sons died at the age of eight months; Joseph Edson was born in Fredericktown, Knox county,. Ohio, May 6, 1841.

Mr. Hitchcock came to Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, in November, 1833. He erected a brick block and engaged in the mercantile business in this town, was a leading merchant in the place, and an active and energetic man. Mr. Hitchcock was one of the constituent members of the Congregational church in this city, and was a worthy Christian gentleman. He , died in Fredericktown, November 16, 1842. Mrs. Hitchcock remained here till 1853, then removed to Oberlin, Ohio, to educate her two sons.

Henry C, Hitchcock graduated at the Oberlin college, after which he attended the theological seminary in Andover, Massachusetts, and graduated at this institution, also. He engaged

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in the ministry at North Amherst, Ohio, and continued his labors there about seven years. He preached in Kenosha, Wisconsin, seven years, and to Milwaukee for one year. He is now ministering to a congregation in Thomaston, Connecticut.

Joseph E. Hitchcock was educated at the Oberlin college, and has been engaged in newspaper work, writing and editing. He also attended the university college of London. He has been engaged with some of the leading periodicals of our larger cities, such as Cleveland and Detroit. Mr. Hitchcock is now preparing himself for the ministry.

HOGLAN. JOHN, farmer, Union township, post office, Gann, was born September 10, 1814, in Knox county, Ohio. In 1826 he came to Mt. Holly, Knox county, where he has remained until the present time. He was married to Mary Snow July 19, 1838. She died in 1854 and left three children one of whom was helpless. In 1864 he married Mary Sherley, who died in 1866, leaving one child. His mother takes care of the house and his last child since the death of his wife; the other children are all married.

HOKE, PETER. Mt. Vernon, was born February 11, 1810, in York, York county, Pennsylvania, and when quite young his parents removed to Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where he remained twelve years, after which he came to Ohio and located at Steubenville where he resided one year and then went to Wayne county, where he remained until 1839, when he came to Knox county and resided in different parts of the county for about thirty-two years, during which he was engaged in farming and dealing in stock. He then came to Mt. Vernon, where he resided nine years, during which time he did quite an extensive business in live stock. In 1880 he removed to his present location, living in retirement. He has been twice married, his first wife was Margaret, daughter of John Clippinger, of Franklin county, Pennsylvania. by whom he had two daughters, viz.: Ann Elizabeth Huil, and Sarah Jane Wahl, deceased. Mrs. Hoke died February 23, 1835. His second wife was Sarah, daughter of Isaac Baughman, of Franklin county, Pennsylvania.

HOLLIBAUGH, JOHN F., Fredericktown. shoemaker, was born in Richland county, in 1832, and was marreid in 1858 to Louisa Hughes, who was born in Knox county in 1837. They have seven children: Lee P., Delphine, Flora, Estella L., Fred R., Wilbert, and Ethel.

Mr. Hollibaugh learned the shoemaker's trade, and has since worked at that business. He is a member of the firm of D. W. Condon C Co., dealers in boots and shoes.

HOLLISTER, ZACHARY T., Milford township, farmer, was born in Knox county, September 5, 1850, and is the son of Almon and Nancy Hollister, nee Myers.

Almon Hollister was born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, January 20, 1808, and came to Knox county with his parents in 1817. They settled in Milford township, and were among its pioneers. He resided in Milford township until his death, which occurred August 8, 1878. He married Nancy Myers, a native of Richland county, in 1831, She was born in 1813. They had eight children, one of whom died in infancy-George, deceased; Lydia Ann, who married Elijah Leedy; Eli; Louisa, who married James H. Myers; Clarinda, who married E. A. Caven; Cassius; and Zachary T.

George was a member of company G, Second regiment, in the three months service, was captured at Bull Run, and was a prisoner three months.

Eli served three years in the Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry.

The subject of this notice was reared on the old homestead, and continues to reside on it, having charge of the farm.

HOLMES, LEMUEL, retired, Monroe township, was born in Plymouth county, Massachusetts, March 11, 1798. In 1812 he moved to Baltimore with his parents, Samuel and Patience Holmes, where he engaged as dry goods clerk for four years. In 1818 he engaged in the grocery business, which he followed about lour years. In 1822 he married Miss Mary T. Newton, of Baltimore, born in Connecticut August 5, 1805, and was taken to the city when but a child. In June, 1824, they moved to Ohio, located in Zanesville a short time,, then moved to West Bedford, Coshocton county, Ohio. In 1828 he purchased and moved on a farm in the same county, remained there about nine years, and in 1837 moved to this county, and located on the farm in Monroe township, where they are now living. Their union resulted in five children: Samuel J., Mary R., Malvina,

Josiah H., and Adaline. Mary R. and Adaline have deceased.

In 1828 he turned his attention to farming, which business he has since been following, until a few years since, when he retired from business and is now living a retired life. He has been a member of church since 1818. His wife connected herself with the church in 1835, and has since been a constant member.

HOLMES, J. H., farmer, a native of Coshocton county, Ohio, and son of Lemuel and Mary Holmes, nee Newton, was born on the eighteenth day of June, 1830. He was brought to this county by his p rents in 1836, who located in Monroe township, on the farm where they now reside.

He was reared a farmer and has made farming and stock-raising his principal vocation through life. October 16, 1855 he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah C. Wasson, of Delaware county, Ohio, born November 22, 1833, daughter of William and Lucy Wasson. Their first permanent settlement was on the farm in Monroe township, this county, where they are now living. They settled on this farm a few years after their marriage. They have a family of five children, two sons and three daughters.

HONEY, WILLIAM O'B., Morgan township, farmer, was born in Morgan township, April 17, 1832; is the eldest son of James Honey, and the only son of a fancily of five children. He was reared on a farm, and educated in the common-schools. He is a leading citizen, taking an active interest in the affairs of the township. He has held nearly all the offices of the township, and administered them with strict fidelity.

Mr. Honey received a commission from General Todd as colonel of Knox county militia, and held the commission until the repeal of the law. He is a leading member of the Owl Creek Baptist church. He was married to Miss Ellen F. Harris March 21, 1861, a daughter of Emor B. Harris, a native of Miller township, now a resident of Red Oak, Iowa. They had a family of seven children, viz.: Emma V., born August 17, 1862; Frank, March 2, 1864; Mary, November 8, 1865; James H., March 14, 1868; William Burgess, January 21, 1870; Addie J., November 20, 1871, and Roxey E., August 10, 1875.

HONEY, JAMES, Morgan township, pioneer farmer, was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, June 20, 1794, and is the twelfth child of a family of thirteen. His father died when the subject of our sketch was young. His mother, with the family

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of ten children, came to Ohio in 1818, and settled in Morgan township. She died in Morgan. The family are all dead except Lucinda Powlson, a resident of Coshocton county, Ohio, and the subject of this notice, who was reared on a farm and has always followed fanning as his vocation. He was married to Susan Sellers in 1830, daughter of Jacob Sellers. They had a family of six children, three living, being William O. H., farmer of Morgan township; Nancy, wife of William Musser, a farmer; Caroline, M., Margaret J., married to James H. Cooksey. An infant and Mary Elizabeth have died.

Mr. Honey has always lived in the township since his coming here. He came to where he now lives in 1836. At that time the farm was entirely covered with forest. His wife died in 1875.

HOOK, MR. AND MRS. EZRA, East Gambier, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Hook is a native of Licking county, Ohio, where he was born March 25, 1820, and where he resided until 1847, being engaged in farming; was married December 10, 1844, to Miss Honor Hunt, daughter of Jonathan Hunt, who was one of the earliest pioneers of Knox county. After their marriage they resided three years in Licking county, when, in 1847, they bought her father's farm, and her parents made their home with them during the balance of their lives. Mr. Hook still gives his attention to farming, but has resided in the city, since which Mrs. Hook has been keeping a first-class boarding-house. They have had a family of three children, one of whom, their eldest daughter, Sarah E., is deceased, who died in her twentythird year. Thomas J. and Alice G. are the names of the surviving ones.

HUNT, JONATHAN, Mt. Vernon, was a native of New Jersey, and was born October 23, 1780. His birthplace was in sight of the memorable battlefield of Princeton. When he was about nine years of age his parents emigrated to Washington county, Pennsylvania, and located at Cross creek. When he was quite young he apprenticed himself to learn the wagonmaker trade, at which he served a term, and which he folowed as a business for many years.

He was married to Miss Honor Wells (who was born January 9, 1782) about the year 1804, and in the year 1806 he emigrated to Ohio, in company with John Doty and John Boyle. and 1ocated, or took a squatter's claim, on which he remained some time before he knew to whom the section belonged after ascertaining the rightful owner, he bought a farm and erected a cabin thereon. They had Indians for neighbors, and could see as mane as thirty and forty camp-fires in the evenings. Some time after his arrival there was a competition in regard to the location of the county seat. At that time there were only three cabins in Mt. Vernon, and in order to insure the court house being located there, the settlers turned out and cleared off a site for the proposed court house, felling trees and rolling logs where the compact blocks of the city now stand.

Mr. and Mrs. Hunt had a family of eleven children, seven of whom lived to maturity, and four of whom still survive.

In 1847 his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Hook, purchased the home farm, with whom they lived the balance of their lives. Nit. Hunt died March 23, 1864, and Mrs. Hunt died October 9, 1869. Thus ended in peace and happiness the lives of two that were among the earliest pioneers of Knox county, leaving the fruits of their labors after them to be enjoyed by their descendants and their many friends, who greatly revere their memory.

HOOKWAY, SAMUEL, Liberty township, farmer, was born in the county of Devonshire, England, in 1824. His father was a farmer, and he was reared on a farm. In 1851 he emigrated to Mt. Vernon, Ohio. In December, 1861, he enlisted in company H, Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry, and participated in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburgh, and in the campaign with Sherman from Atlanta to Savannah, participating in all the different engagements of that memorable campaign. He was discharged at Savannah after serving his adapted country faithfully for three eventful years. After his return home he worked in the Cooper machine works until 1868, when he purchased the farm on which he now resides and moved on it.

He is a good fanner, and his farm shows that he was well educated as a farmer. He is possessor of a fine flock of thoroughbred sheep. Air. Hookway began life poor. His mother died in England, and leis father, Richard Hookway, came to the United States in 1874. He resides with him. Mr. Hookway was twice married. His first wife was Susannah Pickard. They had five children. His second wife was Miss Sarah F. Pitkin. They were married October 1, 1878. She is the daughter of Rev. Pitkin, a retired minister of Milford township.

HOOVER, I. M., marble and granite dealer, corner West Gambier and Mulberry streets, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Israel Hoover, of the firm of I. M. Hoover, was born in Licking county, November 13, 1820, and followed farming until he was twentythree years old, when he went to the trade of marble cutting in Galena, Ohio, where he served two years, and then went to Columbus, where he put in two years more, after which he went to London, Madison county, and carried on a shop two years. He then returned and bought out the heirs of the old homestead where he engaged in farming and in the marble business for eleven years, a part of which time he had a partner in the marble business. In 1875 he came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the marble business, which he carried on until the business was transferred to his brother, who conducts it for him. They carry a stock of about fifteen hundred dollars and manufacture all kinds of marble monuments and tombstones, and deal in all kinds of granite work.

HOPKINS, JOHN W., Hilliar township, merchant, Centreburgh, Ohio, was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1839. Levi Hopkins, his fattier, owned a mill and farm, and when John was old enough he learned the trade of milling in his fathers mill. He remained at home until May 1861, when he enlisted in company F, First Pennsylvania cavalry. He was with the Army of the Potomac and participated in the battles of Fredericksburgh, Cedar Mountain, and second Bull Run. December 6, 1862, he was discharged on account of physical disability, contracted while in the service. After his return home he was engaged in business at Hopkin's Mills, Pennsylvania, in a country store, and also in milling business. In 1868 he left his native State, and came to Ohio, settling in .Morrow county, where he was engaged at farming for three years. In 1871 he gave up farming and opened a store at Rich Hill, in which he was successful. In connection with his store he was postmaster. In the spring of 1876 he came to Centreburgh and opened a store. He carries a full line of staple and fancy goods, as well as a general assortment. He has succeeded in building up a good trade, doing a business of twenty-one thousand dollars per year. He has the confidence of the public, as he is straightforward in his business, and does not allow any to misrepresent. He is

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social and pleasant in his manners, liberal in his views, and takes an active interest in all matters which tend to the building up of the community. He was married to Miss Lucinda Swartz, of Washington county, Pennsylvania, March 10, 1864. As a result of this marriage they have two bright and intelligent daughters.

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 to William J. Withrow April 22, 1860. Jacob was married to Isabella Withrow June 22, 1861.

HORN, JACOB, was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1815, and removed to Butler township. Knox county, Ohio, in 1816. He was married March 12, 1845, to Miss Keuren Happuch Morningstar. who was born in Knox county, Ohio, March 10, 1818. They have had six children, viz: Abraham, born October 3, 1845; Elizabeth, born June 7, 1847; William, born September 5, 1849; Solomon, born October 1, 1857: Alonzo, July 11, 1857; Mary Ellen, July 9, 1860; all living except Alonzo, who died January 27, 1863. Mr. Horn is owner of two hundred and eleven acres of good farming land.

HORN, SOLOMON, farmer. He is a native of Butler township, born November 23, 1820. He was married .August 14, 1845, to Sarah Staats. They have had six children: George W., Eli F., Lewis L., Joseph N., Landora E., and Calvin Wheeler. Lewis died February 19, 1863; Landora E. died November 10, 1870.

HORN, GEORGE W., carpenter, post office, Pipesville; was born in Jackson township, Knox county. Ohio, on the thirtieth day of May, 1846. He was married August, 23, 1866, to Miss Elizabeth Ann Giffin, daughter of Hiram and Mary Giffin. She was born December 8, 1847. They have one child, viz: Willis Elmore, who was born in Butler township, July 17, 1868. Mr. Horn was a member of company F, Second Ohio heavy artillery, and served during the war. He is a Republican, and is a member of the Knox county central comcommittee from Butler township.

HORN, WILLIAM, was born in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, on the fifth day of September, A. D. 1849. May 21, 1871, he was married to Ellen Gifin, daughter of Hiram Giffin. They have had one child, Marie Mc-, who was born April 21, 1874, and died December 28, 1879.

HORN, WILLIAM R., was born November 17, 1850, in Union township, Knox county, Ohio. March 29, 1874, be was married to Miss Mary Jane Green, of Monroe township, Knox county, Ohio. They have had one ceild, Maria, born December 18, 1876.

HORN, ELI, farmer, post office address, Bladensburgh. Mr. Horn is owner of a very fine farm on the beautiful prairie in the northeast corner of Clay, and is a well-to-do citizen.

HORNER, WILLIAM J., agent Union Express company, southwest corner Public Square, Mt. Vernon. William J. Homer was born in Millwood, Knox county, Ohio, May 18, 1836. When William was a child his parents removed to Roscoe, Coshocton county, and from there to Cavalo, this county, and from Cavalo the parents moved on to a farm in the country where they resided some six years. From this farm William came to Mount Vernon and engaged in learning the carpenter and joiner trade with Giles & Emery. After completing his trade he went to Iowa and worked at his trade in various parts in that then frontier State for some fourteen year. In 1871 he came back to Mt. Vernon, and in company with John P. Kelly, opened out under the firm of Horner & Kelly, a queensware and house furnishing establishment, which they continued nearly two years. when, in the fall of 1872, Mr. Homer took charge of the Union Express office, then just opened in this city, where he still remains. In consequence of entering into competition with the United States Express company, which had been doing business in Mt. Vernon for many years, the business of the new company was light during its first year or two. The Union's business afterwards increased rapidly, so that at present the company is doing a business amounting from ten thousand to twelve thousand dollars per annum.

During Mr. Homer's stay in Charleston, Cole county, Illinois, in 1861, he enlisted in the United States service, and joined the Eighth Illinois regiment, R. J. Oglesbee, colonel. This regiment was organized for the three months' service. In September, 1862, Mr. Homer again volunteered. and joined the One Hundred and Twenty-third regiment Illinois volunteer infantry, and was commissioned as second lieutenant, in which capacity he served until the nineteenth day of December, 1863, when he resigned his commission and retired from service. His next engagement was with the Adams Express company, as messenger, running over the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & Columbus railroad, from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh, in which capacity be continued until the spring of 1865. Leaving the express company Mr. Horner returned to Illinois, remaining there until his return to Mt. Vernon in 1870.

During the rebellion he was a member of the celebrated Wilder brigade, and was engaged at Hoover's Gap, in the three days' fight at Chickamauga, Wheeler's raid, and at Farmington, Tennessee.

HOSACK, CYRUS. Fredericktown; druggist, was born in Richland county in 1832, and married Albia Foote, who was born in Knox county. They have three sons, viz: Harry E., Fred F., and William A. Mr. Hosack has been a citizen o f this county twenty-one years. He was engaged in the late war as assistant surgeon of the One Hundred and Eighty-third regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, retaining his position to the close of the war.

Since the war he has liven engaged in the drug business in Fredericktown, and also keeps a line of books and stationery. He has been successful in the mercantile business; has done much to advance the interests of the town, and is now one of its leading and most enterprising citizens. Mr. Hosack takes an interest in good horses, and is part owner of a horse called the Crown Prince, which is sixteen hands and two inches high, a rich black, with strong, heavy bones, and weighs one thousand nine hundred pounds. This horse has won the first premium and sweepstakes at every place he has been exhibited since coming to this country.

HOUCK, WASHINGTON. Jackson township, son of William and Ellen Houck, was born in Huntingdon county,

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Pennsylvania, February 18, 1799, and was married to Sophia Pinyard, September 9, 1819. He visited the State of Ohio in 1821, and, being pleased, returned home, and after disposing of his goods and chattels, emigrated to Knox county, landing in Hilliar township on the fonrth of February, 1822. He resided in the township until the twentieth of July, 1822, when he removed to Clay township, where he cleared up a farm that he purchased from the Government. After a residence of several years in Clay, he removed to Jackson township, where he has resided ever since. He was the firsi man to locate in the village of Bladensburgh. He has been engaged in the mercantile business, hotel keeping, and various other employments since his removal to Jackson.

Mrs. Sophia Houck died May 28, 1861.

There were born unto them nine children: Adolphus, William, Isaiah, Sarah Ann, Alexander, Jerome, Jane, Thomas, and Mahala.

Mr. Houck was married to Avaline Bebout September 30, 1862. Three children were the fruit of this union: Anthony E., George W., and Lewis B.

HOWES, M. P., Fredericktown, railroad agent, was born in this county, in 1843, and was married in 1872 to Elizabeth Love, who was born in this county. Thev have one son, Wheeler E., who was born in Fredericktown, May 26, 1874. Mr. Howes has been with the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company as ticket agent at this place about sixteen years, is a live business man, and an obliging agent.

HUBBELL, GEORGE B., Hilliar township, physician, Rich Hill post office, was born in Bloomfield township, Knox county, now Morrow county, August 21, 1819. His parents were among the early settlers of that county, having come from Connecticut in 1816, and located in that section, where Preston Hubbell, father of the subject of this notice. died in 1822. His wife still survives him at the age of eighty-two years. She is bright for one of her age, and remembers much of the early history of the settlement. George spent his youth on the farm. When he was about twenty years of age he commenced reading medicine with Dr. Page, with whom he read for one year, and then went to Bath county, Kentucky, and read two years with his uncle, Dr. Burton Hubbell. After his course of reading he returned to his native place and began the practice, and remained about six years, then went to Centreville, Delaware county, Ohio, where he practiced for fourteen years, and then went to Indiana; thence to Kansas, where he remained for some time, and returned to Indiana, and thence to Morrow county, Ohio. While in the west he was mostly engaged in farming. In 1876 he moved to Rich Hill, where he has since followed his profession.

December 16, 1841, he was married to Miss Nancy Fox, and as a result has a family of four children, two sons and two daughters.

Mr. Hubbell has been a consistent member of the Methodist church since he was twenty-one years old. He has been temperate in his habits, and never recollects of having taken any spirituous liquors as a beverage, and he has never to his recollection been guilty of profanity. He is a man of will power, and can resist the tempter. In 1880 he was elected justice of the peace, and will no doubt fill the position with ability and good judgement.

HUGHES, GEORGE (deceased). Pleasant township, boar in Greene county, Pennsylvania, on the ninth day of May 1807. He spent his boyhood on a farm. In March, 1828, he emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and lived with his brotherin-law, John Buckingham, in Morgan township, during the summer, and in the fall of the same year he moved to Mt. Vernon, and remained there three or four years. He made frequent visits to his native county in Pennsylvania, during that time. In 1830 he commenced dealing in stock of all kinds, buying and driving it east, which he made a specialty for about twenty years, then retired from the business, and since 1850 gave all his attention to farming and stock-raising.

In 1832, while on one of his visits to his native county, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Ellston, of Jefferson, Greene county, Pennsylvania. He returned to Knox county with his wife, and settled in Martinsburgh, where they lived until in 1858, when he purchased and moved on a farm near Martinsburgh, and remained on the farm ten years. In 1848 he sold his farm and moved his family back to Martinsburgh. On the eighth day of January, 1850, he purchased the farm in Morgan township, now occupied by his son Thomas O., and moved his family on this farm during the same year, where they remained twenty years. January 8, 1870, he purchased the farm in Pleasant township, where he lived until his death, March 24, 1881.

Mr. and Mrs. Hughes became the parents of seven children: One daughter deceased at the age of five years ; a son, only twelve years of age, was killed by a horse running away with him while raking hay with a horse-rake; the other five, Mary, John, Catharine, Thomas O., and Sarah, grew to be men and women. John died in Missouri, in 1869, the others are living. Mrs. Hughes died September 7, 1850.

Mr. Hughes second marriage was with Miss Margaret Weaver, of Licking county, Ohio, born in Virginia, July 23, 1827, and came to Licking county, Ohio, in 1839, who is still living.

HUGHES, ISAAC (deceased), Morris township, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1825, and was married to Catharine Watson, who was born in Montgomery township. Washington county, Maryland, in 1825. They had one son. Matthew T., who was born in Pleasant township, this county, February 8, 1867.

Isaac Hughes died in the same township. Septernber 6, 1870. He was a farmer and a worthy citizen.

HULL, JOHN, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1806. He moved to Wheeling, Virginia, and remained there six years; he then removed to Coshocton county, Ohio, where he lived sixteen years. From thence he went to Howard, where he has remained until the present time.

In 1810 the Indians broke into one of his neighbors' houses and killed the whole family. Colonel Williams raised a body of men to fight the Indians, John Hull's father being among them. It was his first skirmish with the savages.

HULL, JACOB, physician, post office, Howard, was born June 22, 1841. In 1868 he went to Illinois and worked on a farm in summer. and taught school in winter for about five years. The last year he commenced the study of medicine. He has been a citizen of Howard since 1874, and has quite an extensive practice.

HULL, WILLIAM, farmer, Howard township, post office, Howard, was born in Knox county February 28, 1826. In 1852 he removed to the farm where he now resides. The same year

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he was married to Elizabeth Jane Wallace. They had three children: Mary Adeline; Elizabeth born August 9, 1859; William T., born November 26, 1861; died September 10, 1862. Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Hull died March 10, 1865.

Mr. Hull was again married August 22, 1865, to Elizabeth Jane Gilmore. They have three children: John, Laura, and Perry. John died in 1875:

HUNT, JOHN E., son of David Hunt, is a native of Jefferson county, Ohio, where he was born February 1, 1825, is the fifth of a family of eleven children, of whom five are living. The family came to Knox county and located in Monroe township in 1838, upon a farm. David Hunt died August 24, 1867, since which time the family has been widely scattered. Mr. Hunt was married May 9, 1847, to Miss Rebecca Glaze, daughter of Adam Glaze, an early settler of Knox county, now dead. He had a family of four children, three of whom are living, viz: Eldon B, Helen, and Anna. Eldon married Josephine Osborn, and has two children. Helen married S. P. Fogwill. Anna resides with her parents.

Mr. Hunt's early life was spent on the farm; he has been engaged in various kinds of business, quite a number of years being spent in the mercantile trade; at present is engaged in dealing in fresh fish, oysters, etc.

HUNTER, GEORGE, Union township, farmer, post office Danville, born in Union township, Knox county, January 20, 1821. His father came from Pennsylvania, and was captain of a boat on the Ohio river, remaining in this business for a number of years, butt finally came to this county and settled on a farm.

Mr. Hunter was married to Marion Bell in 1845. They have seven children, viz: Frances, Matica. Matilda, Mary Ellen, Leander, Lyman, and Milond. Two daughters and one son are married, and the others are living with their father.

HUNTER, DAVID, Pike township, farmer, post office North Liberty, born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1817, and was married in 1842 to Mary Waits, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1818. They had seven children, viz: Aquila, born in 1844; Cyrus, in 1845; Ellen Jane, in 1848; David B., in 1849; James S., in 1851; Esther O., in 1854; and Mary E., in 1862.

Aquila Hunter was a soldier in the late war, a member of the Ohio National guards, and died at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, in 1865. David B. died in 1850. Mr. Hunter came to Knox county in 1843. He has been treasurer of Pike township about thirty-two years, and still holds that office, which speaks well for his integrity.

* HURD, HON. ROLLIN C. Mr. Hurd was born at West Arlington, Bennington county, Vermont, on the twelfth day of September, 1815. Asahel Hurd, his father, was a well-doing farmer; prominent as an influential citizen, who at one period of his life represented his town in the legislature, and to whom was also committed other public trusts.

In the days of his early boyhood, young Rollin's time was divided between the common school and giving assistance to his father, in the usual routine of farm employment. At the age of twelve years, he was sent to a boy's boarding school, at Norwich, Connecticut, where he received the first rudiments of an academic education.

* From the Mt. Vernon Banner, February 27, 1874.

In 1831, Professor Herman Dyer, of Kenyon college, formerly of the same county in Vermont, being on a visit to his native town, his attention was called to his neighbor's son, then at home; and through his (the professor's) advice, it was arranged that the youth should accompany the former to Gambier, the seat of Kenyon college, with the view to his education in that institution.

Under the guardianship of Professor Dyer, young Hurd accompanied him to Ohio, and at the opening of the classes in 1831, was regularly entered at the "grammar school" attached to Kenyon college, and of which the late judge Finch was then tutor. ,He subsequently entered the college proper, in the regular course for the class of 1836, but for reasons that hastened him to enter upon the active duties of life, aril solely from these private considerations, he withdrew from his college course of studies at the end of his second year, to enter the office of the late Benjamin S. Brown, in Mt. Vernon, as a student at law.

It was during his college, course that he became acquainted with Miss Mary B. Norton, daughter of the late Daniel S. Norton, a prominent citizen of Mt. Vernon, which resulted in a mutual attachment. On the fourteenth of August, 1836, they were married, and shortly afterwards commenced housekeeping in the old Kratzer house, so called, then situated where the judges' office now stands, and on the same lots on which he subsequently erected his beautiful residence, which he continued to own and occupy down to the time of his death.

Judge Hurd was admitted to the bar about the first of April, 1837, and applied himself with great zeal to the study and duties of his profession. The death of his preceptor the year following created a vacancy in the few offices that then chiefly controlled the legal business of the county, and the industry, application, and legal ability of Mr. Hurl made him prominent to the public eye, as the fitting and proper successor to fill that vacancy. He therefore immediately took position by the side of the older members of the profession then in full practice, and by faithful study and strict attention to his cases, he rapidly rose in reputation and public confidence, and soon placed himself, deservedly, in the foremost ranks of the profession.

Judge Hurd was eminent at the bar, not only for profound legal learning, but also for a quick perception of the strong points of his case, for a clear consecutive mode of thought, and a logical, comprehensive grasp of his subject, that enabled him with clear analysis to present his premises and conclusions with great effect. When to these qualities were added zeal and earnestness of manner, and a remarkable candor and fairness in the statement of facts, his power with the court and jury was always very sure to win for him all the success to which his case was entitled-sometimes, perhaps, more, than its merits deserved.

With these distinguished abilities, his practice had become wide and extended, embracing as well cases in the United States courts of the northern district, as in the State courts of many of the counties of which it is composed. He was also admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the United States, at Washington, on the ninth of January, 1863.

In 1852 he accepted the nomination of the Whig party as its candidate for judge of the court of common pleas for the judicial district, and was elected. He filled this position with great credit to himself, and with satisfaction to the bar and the people of the district, for five years.

On retiring from the bench he resumed the practice of law. It was during the latter part of his judicial term, and the first

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year of his resumption of practice, that he found leisure to prepare and write his work on Habeas Corpus, now a standard work in the profession, and found in every good law library.

For the last three or four yeats of his life judge Hurd applied the great energies of his mind chiefly to the organization of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad company, and to the success of the object of this enterprise. In this great and useful public work he became so absorbed that for the last few years he was compelled to relinguish, in a considerable degree, the duties of his legal profession. In his new role he proved himself equally successful. And by the application of the natural forces of his mind-his energy, good judgment, personal influence and administrative ability-as president of the company, he carried the road through to its completion, successfully and triumphantly, and it now stands as an important link in one of the greatest thoroughfares of our country, and a monument of his latest success. It is well said that for this act alone the citizens of Mt. Vernon, and of the entire region through which the road passes, will ever cherish his memory, and feel that his loss is a public calamity.

Judge Hurd, by his marriage with Miss Norton, who survives him, has had seven children, three of whom died in infancy, and one, the late Rollin Hurd, jr., about two years prior to his father's decease. Those who survive are Hon. Frank H. Hurd, of Toledo; Mrs. John S. Delano, now of Colorado, and Mrs. Robert Clarke, of Washington City; all of whom, with the beloved wife of his youth, as well as of his mature years, were permitted, through a kind Providence, to minister to his wants in his protracted sickness, and to be present at his bedside in his last moments.

He died at one o'clock on Thursday morning, the twelfth of February, 1874. Disease that baffled the most skilful efforts to arrest its progress, had given its warning for some months; but hope remained with its delusions. When the final summons came he sank to rest so calmly, so quietly, it was as if but gentle sleep had wrapped him in her arms.

HURFORD, CRAWFORD, Pleasant township, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in Fayette county, June 4, 1822, was reared a farmer, and followed that as his vocation until 1846. He emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, in 1844, and located in Pleasant township, on a farm now known as the Hurford mill farm, where he is now living.

In 1846 he erected the Hurford grist-mill, a frame structure, thirty-six by forty, three stories high, containing two run of buhrs, which has the capacity for manufacturing from ten to fifteen barrels of flour per day. He operated the mill successfully until 1866, when he sold it, and again turned his attention to farming, which business he has since been engaged at. In June, 1848, he married Miss Mahala Lee, of Utica, Licking county, Ohio, daughter of John Lee, born in June in 1817, They set-,led on the Hurford mill farm, where he is now residing. They have two children: Amelia and Thomas D. Mrs. Hurford died March 4, 1880. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1839. Mrs. Hurford was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church from 1835 until the time of her death.

In 1863 he connected himself with an independent company. In the spring of 1864 his company was ordered out, and remained about four months in the service in the war of 1861. He is a man well known in the neighborhood, and esteemed by all of his acquaintances.

HURST, CHARLES H., Fredericktown, butcher; was born in Germany in 1842, came to America at the age of thirteen years, and first located in Plymouth, Richland county, Ohio. He came to Fredericktown in 1875. In 1863 he married Catharine Swope, who was born in Crawford county in 1842. They have four children, viz: Edward, born in 1863; George, in 1869; William, in 1870, and Artie in 1874.

Mr. Hurst enlisted in the late war in company I, First regiment, Ohio artillery, and remained till the close of the war. He is a member of the firm of Braddock & Hurst, butchers. They have established a good business in Fredericktown and vicinity. .

HUTCHISON, LEANDER, son of John and Elizabeth Hutchison, was born in Licking county, Ohio, one mile south of Homer. April 28, 1828. He is a carpenter by trade, and followed carpentering as his vocation until a fete years since when he turned his attention to farming, which he is engaged in at present. In 1852 he married Miss Nancy J. Vernon, born in 1829, daughter of Joseph Vemon. Their union resulted in two children, one son and one daughter. He served three years in the war of 1861, enlisting in company B, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was discharged at the expiration of his term of enlistment.

HYATT, PHILIP, was a native of Montgomery county, Maryland, born October 11, 1795. He was married to Miss Rizpah, daughter of Joseph Watkins, of the same county, July 18, 1822. She was born October 31, 1802. They resided to Montgomery county, Maryland, until 1833, during which time they had a family of six children, viz: Luther L., born May 21, 1823; Ann Riggs, October 30, 1824; Susan Matilda, January 21, 1826; Philip H., March 18, 1828; Joseph H., February 19, 1830; Elizabeth S., March 1, 1832.

In 1833 Mr. Hyatt came to Knox county, and settled on a farm in Liberty township, where he remained until 1868, during which time six more children were born to them, as follows: John Thomas, born April 14, 1834; Columbia Ann, April 19, 1836; Caroline, April 25, 1838; Oliver, November 30, 1840; Maria, August 4, 1842, and Columbus D., June 8, 1845, making a family of twelve children, all of whom lived to maturity. Three are now dead and two remain single, the rest being married and have families. In 1868 Mr. Hyatt came to Mt. Vernon, where he lived until his death. May 16, 1873. Mrs. Hyatt is still living, at the advanced age of seventy-eight years.

HYATT, LUTHER L., farnier, Wayne township, post office, Fredericktown, born in Montgomery county, Maryland, in 1823; emigrated to Ohio in 1832, and was married in 1851, to Fanny Smith, who was born in Knox county, Ohio. in 1829. They had four children: Charlie. born in 1854; Louella, 1856; Carrie, 1859, and John, 1865. Mrs. Fanny Hyatt died in 1867, in Liberty township. She was a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Hyatt was subsequently married to Matilda Walker, who was born in Knox county, in 1823, and died in 1877. She was a member of the United Presbyterian church. Mr. Hyatt's third marriage was to Kate D. Wolfe, who was born in 1835. Mr. Hyatt located in Wayne township in 1870, and owns a well improved farm.

HYATT, L., Washington, Liberty township, deceased, was born in Maryland in 1830, and came to Ohio with his parents. He spent his youth on a farm and was a farmer by occupation. He enlisted in company A. One Hundred and Forty-second reg-

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iment Ohio National guard. While in the service he was on picket duty where he was taken-with congestive chills of which he died in August, 1864, and was buried near Point of Rocks, in Virginia. He was a good citizen and was esteeemed by his neighbors. He married Miss Sarah A. Hurd May 27, 1853. who was born in July, 1835, in Cornwall county, England. She is a daughter of John and Griselda Hurd, natives of England. John Hurd was born July 25, 1801. In 1834 he married Griselda Gilbert, who was born in 1810. They were both farmers' children. They remained in England until 1842, when they emigrated to Gambier, but subsequently lived in Mt. Vernon, and in 1849 moved on the farm in Liberty township, which he had previously purchased. They had a family of five children. The subject of this notice, Mrs. Hyatt, had three children, viz.: Martha E., deceased; George W., born March 12, 1856; Sildia, December 17, 1862.

HYATT, A J., M. D., Brown township, was born in Coshocton county, September 25, 1835. His parents were early settlers there, emigrating from Maryland, where they were born. The subject of this memoir remained at home until about eighteen years of age, when, being the youngest of the family and allowed his time, he determined to obtain an education. Impressed with this idea, he entered the Martinsburgh academy, then under the charge of Rev. John Burns. After his limited means were exhausted he began teaching. By doing this during the winter, and by attending school during the summer, he was enabled to complete a thorough course in study. He acquired an excellent reputation as teacher, and was enabled to educate himself entirely by his own efforts.

In 1855 he began the study of medicine with Dr. Isaac Putnam, of Mr. Holly. He attended medical lectures at Ohio Medical college, at Cincinnati, during the term of 1857-58. In March, 1859, he began the practice of medicine in Greersville.

In 1861 Dr. Hyatt was married to Miss Catharine Smith, of this county. Soon after the doctor sold his practice in Greersville to Dr. Welker, and in 1862 removed to Nashville, Holmes county, where, in September, his wife died. December 3d, of the same year, he removed to Jelloway, where, for eighteen years, he has resided and and enjoyed a good practice.

In 1867 Dr. Hyatt received the honorary decree of M. D., from the Charity Hospital college of Cleveland. In December, 1871, the doctor was again married to Miss Emma J. Gains. They are the parents of three children: John J., Dwight, and Roby, who died at the age of eighteen months.

HYATT, ISAAC, Union township, mechanic, post office, Gann. He was born September 22, 1822, in Coshocton county, Ohio. In 1845 he was married to Miss R. Stoonee, and lived in Coshocton county for a few years, and then moved to Jefferson township, where they still remain. He has two children living-Martin and Rosannah. They have lost three. Nathan died in the late war. Lewis died in Illinois, and Peter died at home. Isaac Hyatt's business has been farming, wagon making, and carpentering; but he has paid strict attention to carriage and wagon making for the last twenty-two years. Martin is now engaged in the business with his father, and they are running at present a large wagon and buggy manufacturing establishment, which is quite successful. Their business is large and still improving.

HYLER, COLUMBUS D. (deceased), born in Morrow county in 1830, and was married in 1852 to Ann Lefever, who was born in this county. They had one daughter-Alice, born in 1853. Mr. Hyler died in 1877. Alice died in 1875. Mr. Hyler was postmaster of Fredericktown for about five yearsHe was elected justice of the peace for two terms; also mayor of Fredericktown. He was one of the leading and enterprising citizens of his day. He was engaged in the late war as second lieutenant; served out his time of enlistment, and received an honorable discharge.

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IRVINE, JAMES C., deceased.-Mr. Irvine was born in Tomika, western Pennsylvania, July 12, 1807, and died in the seventy-fourth year of his age. He came to Mt. Vernon in 1810, where he has since resided. He began life as a printer in the office of the Ohio Register, published here. In the year 1835 he commenced business on Main street, continuing therein until 1861, when he responded to the first call for troops to suppress the late Rebellion, and to Mr. Irvine belongs the honor of organizing the first company of soldiers in Knox county. As captain of company A, he went out with Colonel Lorin Andrews, in the Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry. On account of his then somewhat advanced age, Mr. Irvine did not reenlist. After the expiration of three months-the term designated in the first call-he resumed his business, in which occupation he continued until quite recently.

At the date of his death, Mr. Irvine represented his ward in the common council of this city, to which position he was elected in the spring of 1880, and which body took fitting cognizance of his demise. An evidence of the high esteem in which deceased's sound judgment, integrity and thorough business capacity were held, may be found in the fact that he had been appointed almost innumerable times as a member of the city board of equalization.

Martha N. Irvine, his wife, was born on the twenty-second of February, 1803, at Salem, New York. She came to Knox county at an early date with her father, Bartholomew Bartlett, and settled at Clinton, just north of this city. She was married in Mt. Vernon to Mr. Irvine in 1829. They had by this union six children, five of whom survive them-three daughters and two sons-Mrs. M. J. Becker, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Mrs. C. F. Baldwin, and Martha Irvine, of this city. Mr. Clarke Irvine, of Oregon, Missouri, and Mr. Jefferson Irvine of this city.

Mr. Irvine died Friday evening, January 28, 1880, after a very short illness. He was to have been buried the following Tuesday, but on that day his wife, who had most sincerely mourned his loss, was also called home, and the burial of one became the burial of both, who had so long been united in life.

IRVINE, WILLIAM, farmer post office, Fredericktown; was boat in Ireland in 1837, and emigrated to America with his parents in 1840. They located in Knox county. He was married in 1860 to Emeline Braddock. who was born in this county in 1840. They have two sons-Ellsworth, boot in 1862, and who is attending school at Ada; and John R., born in 1864. Mr. Irvine is engaged in buying and selling stock, and is one of the enterprising farmers of this township.

IRVINE, CLARK. Mt Vernon, attorney at law, was born in Knox county, Ohio, October 1, 1840. His parents were both born in Ohio-his father in Trumbull county, and his mother in Knox county. His mother's maiden name was Matilda Blair, daughter of James Blair, esq., and Hannah Waddle, both from the State of Maryland. His father, Clark Irvine, was of Scotch-Irish extraction, and the son of Thomas Irvine, who was born

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near the old town of Enniskillen, Ireland, and Tabitha Meredith Clark, who was born in the State of Pennsylvania. His father came to Knox county in 1811, was a lawyer by profession, and held the office of prosecuting attorney for one term, being elected in 1850.

The subject of this sketch studied law with his father, after whom he was named, and was admitted to practice in 1869. He was nominated by the Democratic party for the office of prosecuting attorney, and elected, in 1874, and was reelected in 1876. Mr. Irvine was nominated as the Democratic candidate for the lower house of the State legislature in 1879, but was defeated at the general election in the fall of that year. He has represented Knox county as a delegate to the Democratic State conventions. At the State convention held in Cleveland in 1880, Mr. Irvine was elected a member of the State central committee, representing the Ninth Congressional district on the committee, and also secretary of the Democratic State executive committee.

IRVINE, ROBERT L., farmer and dealer in stock, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Ireland in 1839. His parents emigrated to America when he was an infant, and located in Knox county. He was married in 1860 to Lavina Nixon, who was born in 1837. They hate four children-Edith, William, George, and Jessie.

Mr. Irvine is engaged in buying, selling, and shipping stock, and is also one of the enterprising farmers of Morris township.

IRWIN, GEORGE A., farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, yeas born in this township in 1844. and was married in 1867 to Nettie Johnson, who was born in this township in 1849. They have one son, Walter, who was born in 1868.

Mr. Irwin was a soldier in the late war, a member of company I, Twentieth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in seventeen engagements, was taken prisoner in July, 1864, at Atlanta, Georgia, was at Andersonville, Florence, Millen, and Savannah, and was honorably discharged.

IRWIN, ISAAC, Morris township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Erie county, Pennsylvania, in 1810, and was brought to Ohio by his parents at the age of six months. He was married in 1832 to Nancy McCracken, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. They had six children: Emily, deceased; Harriet, Elsie, Gillman, George, Angeline, deceased. Emily yeas married to Elisha Lewis. They reside in Middlebury township. Mr. Lewis died in Middlebury. Harriet was married to George Merrin. They had four children: Emily, Nannie M., Lina Maud, and Tacie Merrin.

Isaac Irwin's father, George, was born in New Jersey, and came to Pennsylvania when he was young. He was married to Martha Norcross, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. They came to Ohio in 1810, and settled in Chester township, formerly Knox county. They remained there five years, then located on C. C. Ball's farm. They died in Berlin township.

ISRAEL, SAMUEL, attorney, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Israel was born in Bedford, Winchester county, New York, October 8, 1810. In 1814 his parents went to New York city, where he remained till 1830. In the spring of that year Mr. Israel came to Mt. Vernon, which has been his home since. During the next winter he was married to Elizabeth Harper, of Muskingum county. They became the parents of seven children, six of whom are still living.

Mr. Israel read law in the office of Hon. Columbus Delano, and was admitted to practice in 1840. He afterwards was Mr. Delano's partner a number of years. Mr. Israel has continued the practice of law since his admission with the exception of about six years, from the spring of 1869 till the winter of 1875, during which time he was engaged with the late Hon. Rollin C. Hurd in the construction of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad.

ISENBERG, PHILIP, farmer, Berlin township, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Maryland in 1803. His parents moved to Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, in 1808. He came to Ohio in 1835, located in Knox county, and was married in 1838, to Sarah Burkholder, who was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1814. They had eight children: Jacob, born in 1840; Elizabeth, 1842; Catharine and George, (twins), 1845; Margaret, 1849; Leroy and Lorain, (twins), 1852. Mr. Isenberg settled on the farm where he now resides in 1841. He cleared up and improved the most of this farm; has been a man o1 good habits, and is one of the pioneers.

His son, Jacob, was married to Louisa Murphy, and moved to Michigan, where he died in 1860.

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JACKSON, ZIBA, Morris township, deceased, was born in Morris county, New Jersey, February 2, 1777, and married Phebe Lyon, who was born in Morris county, New Jersey, February 17, 1782. They had seven children: Aaron C., Nathaniel M., Benjamin L., Abbey C., Shalon, Eli, and Isaac.

Ziba Jackson died September 27, 1848, in Morris township. Mrs. Phebe Jackson died July 11, 1836, in this township.

Ziba Jackson einigrated to Knox county in 1807, and settled in Wayne township when it was all in a state of nature. In 1814 he commenced clearing, and in the fall of the same year built a cabin and moved to this township. He was an officer in the War of 1812; rendered faithful service, and received an honorable discharge.

JACKSON, MRS. HAMUTAL, Liberty township, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, February 22. 1810, and is the youngest child of Hanson and Mary Ann Hobbs, nee Shipley. May 20, 1829, she was married to Elijah Jackson, of Washington county, Pennsylvania. They remained in Peansylvania until about 1835, when they came to Liberty township and purchased a part of the Hogg section, which yeas entirely covered with forest. They had the usual experience of early settlers, and succeeded in clearing the farm and making a pleasant home, though they started in life poor. They had a family of eight children, two daughters and six sons, all of whom are living and doing well in life.

Mary E., wife of George Scott, resides in Fredericktown; Samuel H., resides in Mt. Vernon; Free Gift, farmer in Morrow County; Leonard Wesley, carriage manufacturer, Lima, Ohio; David S., farmer in Liberty township; Henry A., farmer in Crawford county, Ohio; John R., miller; Adelia E., married William H. Easterday. He is now deceased. They had one child, a daughter-Willie Belle.

Mr. Jackson died March, 1879. The sons of this family are all tradesmen but one, Henry A., who is a prosperous farmer, Mrs. Jackson is spending the evening of her life cared for by her daughter, Mrs. Easterday.

JACKSON, ISAAC L., Morris township; farmer; post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Morris township, March 25,

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1823, on the farm where he now resides, and. was married in April, 1848. His children are as follows; Mary E., born August 17, 1849; Sarah E., April 12, 1852; George F., November 30, 1853; Nancy S.. September 15, 1856; Albert M., February 11, 1859; .Amanda .1.; December 15, 1863, and Eva B.. February 24, 1867.

Mrs. Sarah Ann Jackson, his wife, died January, 17, 1877.

Albert M. Jackson was thrown from a horse, and killed September 5, 1878.

Mr. Jackson's second wife was Sarah Jane Converse, who was born in Madison county, Ohio, July 20, 1834. Mr. Jackson has been justice of the peace in this township twenty-one years, and is one of its leading citizens. He owns one of the finest farms in the township, and is a member of one of the pioneer families.

JACKSON, OLIVER, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 17, 1825. His parents came to Ohio about 1837, and settled in Milford township, where they lived and died on the farm, on which they settled, which was entirely covered with forest trees when they first lived on it. Here the subject of this notice spent his youth, and was married to Miss Ellen Pritchard August 28, 1851. Her parents were Welsh, and emigrated to the city of New York, where Mrs. Jackson was born, and where they both died. They had a family of two children: Elizabeth J. and George N. Elizabeth is married to Hiram W. Frost.

Mr. Jackson has a pleasant and beautiful home. He is a good farmer, and has the confidence of the community.

JACKSON, JOHN, one of the leading farmers of Liberty township, was born in Washington county. Pennsylvania. November, 1826. His parents, George and Elizabeth Jackson were farmers. Mrs. Jackson died while in Pennsvlvania. They had fourteen children, all of whom grew up, and seven of whom are yet living.

He (George Jackson) married Mary Hobbs, in Washington county, Pennsylvania. In 1834 they came to Milford township, where they spent their days. They had five children, all grew up, four of whom are living. The Jackson family are good farmers, and industrious and respectable citizens. The subject of this notice was reared on a farm, and has always made farming his occupation, in connection with it raising stock quite extensively. Mr. Jackson began life on a seventy-five acre tract of land which was covered with timber. He had but little aid, but by his perseverance and economy has made for himself a competence, owning considerable land. In 1853 he married Mrs. Susan Ann Jackson, daughter of John and Nancy Litzenberg. They have two children, viz: Edward and Ellen A. Mr. Jackson moved to his present home in 1848.

JACKSON, I. V. B., farmer, Milford township, was born in Milford township, March 4, 1836, and is the son of George and Mary Jackson, Free Hobbs. Mr. Jackson was born on the farm where his father settled in September, 1835, and has remained there ever since. He was married to Miss Rachel O. Jackson October 28, 1858, and they have three children: William H., Theodora A., and Lillie Bell.

The history of the Jackson family will be found in the biography of John Jackson, of Liberty township. Mr. Jackson is an industrious farmer, and one of the substantial citizens of the township.

JACKSON, BROWN K., justice of the peace, farmer, and teacher, Milford township, post office, Lock, was born in Milford township, January 15, 1846, and is the son of George W. and Sarah A. Jackson, nee Riley, note residents of Licking county. He was reared on a farm, attended the common schools, and a tern of twelve months at the Harrison university, at Granville, Ohio. He has followed teaching during the winter for sixteen terms, thirteen of which were in his native township. In 1873 he was elected a justice of the peace, which office he still holds. He is a man of good judgement, a leading and influential citizen of the community, pleasant and social in his manners, well informed, and takes an active interest in the affairs of the county. He was manied to Miss Cynthia Dowell in 1871. They had three children, two of whom are living.

JACOBS ALONZO, a son of Rev. S. T. L. Jacobs, was born in Gambier, Knox county, September 15, 1846. In 1861 he commenced working at the shoemaking trade in Gambier with D. S. Snyder, and served as an apprentice over two years. In August, 1863, he enlisted in company I, Second Ohio volunteer heavy artillery, and served until the close of the war. In 1865 he returned to Gambier and began working at his trade, continuing as journeyman until 1863, when he commenced the business of manufacturing boots and shoes, and has been actively engaged at that since that time. He is prepared to manufacture anything in the line of boots and shoes. In 1871 he began dealing in ready-made boots and shoes, and keeps constantly on hand everything in his line of business needed in a country village.

JAMES, E. C., is a native of Delaware, Delaware county, Ohio, and was born January 18, 1856; was educated at the public schools of Delaware, and took a course at a commercial school. He learned telegraphy when thirteen years of age and has since followed it. Was located at the Delaware office, then Lewis Centre. Westerville, Howard, then was promoted to car accountant and operator at the general office of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad in Mt. Vernon, where he served four years. February 7, 1877, he married Miss Ida P. Miller of Mt. Vernon. February 1, 1878, took charge of the Western Union telegraph office, where he is still engaged. Since he took charge the business has increased largely.

JACKSON, EDWARD, Liberty township, farmer, was born in Liberty township, May 10, 1859, and is the son of John and Susan Jackson, of whom mention is made elsewhere. He was married on the farm his parents now live on, is an industrious farmer, and a worthy young man February 12, 1880, he was married to Miss Caroline Robertson, daughter of Jesse P. Rebertson, whose biography appears in this work.

JENKINS, DAVID, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1825, came to Knox county in 1828 with his parents, and was married in 1857 to Margaret Huntsberry, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1837. They have the following children: David L., born to April, 1859; James H„ August 28, 1861; Emmitt L, F., October 7, 1863; Georgiana, April 23, 1867; Byron H., August 17, 1870.

Mr. Jerkins has been engaged in fanning in this county over twenty-five years, and is one of the active men of this township.

JENNINGS, REUBEN, Hilliar township, carpenter, Centreburgh, Ohio, was born in what is now Hilliar township, February 5, 1814. He is the oldest man now in the township, who was born in it. He is the third child of Joseph and Rebecca

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Jennings, nee Hinton. They were born, reared, and married in Monongalia county, Virginia. In about 1803 they came to where Zanesville now stands, where they remained until 1811, when they came to what is now Hilliar township, settling on a tract of land southwest of the present village of Centreburgh. He kept a hotel, or tavern, as it was called in those days, for a number of years. They had a family of eight children, six of whom are yet living. His wife dying, he went to Columbus, Ohio, where he died, in 1862, at an advanced age. Thus in brief is the outline sketch of two of Knox county's first settlers -pioneers who saw the forest when unbroken, and who lived to see much of it disappear before the hardy stroke of the early settler.

The subject of this notice remained at home until he learned the carpenter's trade. He has erected about seven hundred buildings, most of which are in Knox county. Mr. Jennings is a quiet and estimable citizen. He has the esteem of all who know him, and by his industry and steady habits has done much for the community. Of him it can be said that he has not lived in vain. He was twice married, his first wife being Miss Mariah Murphy, to whom he was married in 1837. They had two children: Charles M., of whom we have spoken, and Alice Lenora, wife of Calvin Shaffer, farmer, who resides in Crawford county, Kansas. His second marriage was to Rebecca C. Conkey.

JENNINGS, C. M., Hilliar township, of the firm of Jennings & Faiaba, dealers in hardware, stoves, and tinware, Centreburgh, was born in the village, December 8, 1844. He attended the village schools, and when about seventeen years of age, enlisted in company F, Sixty-fifth regiment Ohio volunteers, November, 1861, for three years. His regiment belonged to the Fourth corps, Third brigade, Second division. Army of the Cuinberland. He participated in the battles of Shiloh, Stone River, and Chicamauga, where he was wounded by a musket ball in the thigh. The following day he was taken prisoner and parolled on the field. From September, 1863, to May, 1864, he was a paroled prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio. He was declared exchanged at Camp Chase, and in May, 1864, he joined his regiment at Chattanooga. He participated in the Atlanta campaign, and the fights of Spring Hill, Columbia, and Franklin, besides many skirmishes. He was mustered out of service with the regiment December 14, 1864, after serving his country faithfully and honestly for over three eventful years. After his return from the army he worked for the Government at Columbus, for about six years, and then returned to his native town, where he engaged in the grocery business for some time.

January, 1873, he formed a partnership with M.. Faraba in a general store and to this they added the stove and tinware stock of another store doing business in the village. They have since added a full line of hardware, and are doing a good business. Mr. Jennings was appointed postmaster October 25, 1875, and makes a very efficient and satisfactory officer. He is quiet in his manner, and has the confidence of the public and the esteem. of those who know him best. He started in life without the aid of a dollar, but by his industrv and integrity he has so established himself that his complete success is assured He was married to Miss Emily A. Harries, of Columbus; Ohio, February, 1871. They had two children, a daughter and son, the latter having died.

JENNINGS, HENRY W., dry goods merchant, Mt. Vernon, was born in the city of Mt. Vernon, and received his education in our public schools. His business engagements were with Mark Curtis two years, with J. Sperry & Co., fourteen years, two years of which he bad an interest in the cassimere department. In 1873, in company with John S. Ringwalt, they established the house of Ringwalt & Jennings. Jennings remained in the firm until January, 1880, when he purchased the stock in trade of C. Peterman & Son, and commenced business for himself with a stock of abont eight thousand five hundred dollars. He has been doing a good and increasing business. He now carries a stock of about twelve thousand dollars, consistof a full line of staple and fancy goods. His sales average about fifty thousand dollars per annum.

JOHNSON, NICHOLAS, of Pike township, was one among the oldest citizens, as to age, if not as to residence. He was born in Rocklin county, New York, 1784. At the age of twenty he went to Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, and learned his trade with an Englishman named Daniel Large. In 1823 he built the first locomotive engine ever run in the United States. In 1834 he moved to Columbiana county, Ohio, and followed farming for two years; he then went to Salem and started a foundry. In 1842 Mr. Johnson moved to Knox county. In 1845 he moved to St. Louis, Missoun. In the year 1860 he moved back to this county where he lived up to the time of his death in 1880. Mr. Johnson had four children-three girls and one toy, ail living.

JOHNSON, WILLIAM (deceased), was born in New Jersey, February 16, 1756, and was a man noted for his great piety and intelligence. He was an officer in the Revolutionary war. He married Miss Sarah Douglas a short time after the war closed; came to Knox county in 1810, and settled near Mt Vernon. At the commencement of the War of 1812 he was considered one of the wealthiest farmers of Knox county. He served several years as justice of the peace,'and was a prominent member of the Presbyterian church, and the pioneer preacher, Rev. James Scott, frequently held meetings at his residence. When the War of 1812 commenced he, with three of his sons, enlisted, William being a captain. He returned in safety and moved to Richland county after the conclusion of the war. He resided there but a few years, till his death occurred. All of his sons are dead. A granddaughter, Mrs. Jane Crocraft, is still living in Lexington, Richland county, Ohio, at an advanced age.

JOHNSON, NATHANIEL (deceased), a native of Hampshire county, Virginia, was born April 11, 1783. In 1806 he married Isabella Adams, who was born in Hampshire county Virginia, August 22, 1778. They settled in same county, remained until 1812, when they emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, located for a short time near Mount Vernon, then moved on the old Applegate farm; remained there a few years,and in 1817 they moved on the Cooper farm, where they lived until 1832, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Clinton township now known as the Johnson homestead, two and one-half miles southwest of Mt. Vernon, where he passed the remainder of his days. Mr. Johnson followed farming as his vocation. March 2, 1832 his wife deceased, and he survived her until 1868, when he died, aged eighty-seven years and six months, highly respected and esteemed by all who knew him. He was the father of eight children-Tbomas A. Rebecca and Elizabeth (twins), William O., Lucinda, James and Susan (twins), and Isaac. Thomas A., Lucinda, and Susan have died.

JOHNSON, WILLIAM O., farmer, second son of Nathaniel and Isabella Johnson, was born in Ohio, June 25, 1812.

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November 10, 1837, he married Miss Lucinda Sawyer, of Noble county, Indiana, but formerly of Mt. Vernon, Ohio; she was born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, January 12, 1814, and was a daughter of John Sawyer, who was among the early settlers of Mt. Vernon, and carried on the first blacksmith shop in the county seat. He remained in Knox county until 1834, when he sold his property and moved to Noble county. Indiana.

Shortly after the marriage of Mr. Johnson they settled in Noble county, Indiana, where they lived until 1844, when they removed to Knox county, Ohio. He purchased and moved on the Mike Sockman farm in Wayne township, remained there until 1852, when he purchased and moved into the old Joe Kinney property, where his wife died January 3, 1854. His oldest daughter, Elizabeth, has been his housekeeper since the death of his wife. In 1855 he purchased the farm on which he is now living, completed the erection of his present residence and moved into it in 1857. He is the father of four children: Elizabeth, William H., Susannah, and Parker T. Susannah deceased April 1, 1875. He has followed farming and stock raising as his avocation.

JOHNSON, JAMES, farmer, third son of Nathaniel Johnson, deceased, was born in Knox county, Ohio, August 27, 1816. He is a carpenter and joiner by trade, and followed that in connection with farming for about fifteen years, but farming, stock raising, and dealing in stock has been his principal vocation.

In 1843 he married Miss Mary J. Morton, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, daughter of Joseph and Margaret Morton. He purchased and moved on a part of the old home farm in Clinton township, remained until 1860, when he erected and moved into his present residence, two miles south of Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road. They reared a family of five children: Emeline, Margaret B., Martha E., Laura, and Clam L., all living.

JOHNSON, ISAAC, farmer, youngest son of Nathaniel and Isabella Johnson, was born in Clinton township, Knox county, Ohio, December 20, 1818. He was reared a farmer, and has made farming, stock raising, dealing, and shipping his business. At present he owns several farms in Clinton township, and is one of the leading farmers in the township.

On the eighteenth day of November he married Miss Bell C. Davis, of Clinton township, daughter of George and Margaret Davis, nee Morton. They settled on the farm where they are now living, one and one half miles from Mt. Vernon. on the Granville road.

JOHNSON, JOHN (deceased), Morris township, was born in this, Knox, county in 1810, was married in 1835, to Priscilla Montgomery, who was born in 1819. They had the following children: Elizabeth, born in 1837; Joseph M., in 1840; David A., in 1842; Samantha, in 1844; John T., in 1846; Hannah A., in 1849; Ida, in 1852; Charles D., in 1855; and Mary and Jane (twins), in 1858.

Mr. Johnson died in Knox county in 1858; Elizabeth died in 1843; John T. in 1857; Ida in 1858; Mary in 1859; Joseph in 1863; and Charles D. in 1864.

Joseph Johnson enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was killed at the battle of Chickamauga.

JOHNSON, ORLIN B., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Vermont, June 7, 1811, came to Ohio with his parents, in February, 1814, and located in this township. He was married in 1844 to Elizabeth Burke, who was born in Maryland and came to Ohio in 1834. They had a family of five children, of whom three are living, viz: Abigail, George, and James.

Mr. Johnson is among the very earliest settlers of this county. He has been a justice of the peace nine years in this township; has also been one of the leading men, and has always been ready to promote every good work and cause.

JOHNSON, JOSEPH, Miller township, farmer, was born in Knox county, August 31, 1811. His father was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, August 4, 1775, and married Rebecca Baker, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, about 1802. She was born March 3, 1778. Her father was a Revolutionary soldier and served under General Morgan. John Johnson, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a soldier of 1812. They emigrated to Ohio in 1806, and settled in the town of Clinton, this county, He was probably the first carpenter in the county. He resided there about three years when he purchased a quarter section of land where he lived until he moved with his son, Joseph Johnson. His wife died in 1835, and he died in 1839. They had a family of nine children, six sons and three daughters. Thomas, William, Margaret, John, Isaac, and Mary Jane have died. Joseph, Sarah Ann, married to James Dean, and Samuel, are still living. Mr. Johnson was raised to work early and late, assisting his father on the farm. When twenty-one years of age he left the parental roof to seek his fortune. ,

His early training fitted him to successfully battle with the problem of economy. He worked until he had two hundred dollars to pay on a farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres, which he purchased for one thousand two hundred dollars, paying the two hundred dollars in hand, and agreed to pay the balance, one thousand dollars, in two annual payments of five hundred dollars each. This land was entirely covered with timber. The problem was how to make that amount. He set to work, and during the winter cleared ten acres of land, put five acres in tobacco, three acres in corn, and two in oats and potatoes. Out of the tobacco he made his payment. The following winter he cleared more land, planted nine acres in tobacco, and again made his payment out of the weed. He has cleared up his first purchase and added more to it. He is a careful, systematic farmer, and his farms show careful husbandry.

Mr. Johnson is a man of strong individuality, and retains his mental faculties with a clearness seldom seen in a man of his age. He is social and pleasant in his habits, and makes all feel at home who rail upon him.

November 6, 1834, he married Mary Cosner, daughter of Philip Cosner, of Morris township. They had eleven children, all of whom are living, viz: Samuel, Dorothy, married David Neible; Martin V., James Scott, John C.; Sarah J. married Henry Martin; Willliams, Joseph; Mary married Jacob Yoakum; Ann V., Emma and William M. All the Johnson's sonsin-law and daughters-in-law are living. They, with their children and the Johnson family, number thirty-six individuals. There never has been a death in the family which, perhaps, has no equals in Ohio,

JOHNSON, ISAAC N., deceased, was born May 23, 1814, on his father's farm in Morris township. He was reared on the farm, and at the age of thirty he married Eliza Dripps, daughter of John Dripps, esq., of Licking county. He reared a family of eight children, as follows: Thomas Jefferson, Morgan, Scott,

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Frances, Marietta, Ellen, Ida and Viola, of whom Frances and Ida are dead.

In 1842 Mr. Johnson purchased of C. P. Buckingham eighty acres of land in Morris .township, near the old homestead, and in 1853 engaged in fruit growing, which he made a success, having about thirty acres planted in fruit trees of all kinds adapted td this latitude. He was an industrious and liberal man, and after a life of usefulness departed July 29, 1878, and was buried in Union Chapel cemetery.

JOHNSON, H. P., editor, is a son of Rev. Johnson, Methodist Episcopal clergyman, a member of the North Ohio conference. H. P. was born in Ohio and attended the Delaware college; prepared himself himself for the editorship. He purchased the Fredericktown Free Press September 24, 1880, succeeding Mc. F. Edwards. He is conducting the paper with ability and success.

JOHNSON, ELIJAH, Fredericktown, stonecutter, was born in Tennessee in 1841, came to Ohio in 1863, and was married to Hannah Jackson. who was born in Virginia. They have five children: Samuel, William, Kate, Loa, and Dwight.

Mr. Johnson was a slave in Tennessee till 1862. He is engaged in the marble and monumental works of John Getz, of this place.

JONES, GENERAL G. A., superintendent of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad, Mt. Vernon. General Jones was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, April 11, 1812. In 1813 his father emigrated to Washington county, same State, and located at Claysville and West Alexander, where the subject of this sketch resided till 1834, when he came to Mt. Vernon. At West Alexander he engaged in purchasing produce and buying wool. At Claysville he had charge of a general store for Mr. George Wilson.

After his arrival here he engaged in merchandizing and dealing in produce and wool, in which he continued till 1850, when he gave up that business. In 1850 he was appointed United States marshal by President Zachary Taylor for the district of Ohio. He superintended the census of Ohio that year, holding the position for four years. He then, in connection with John H. Winterbothan, engaged in the manufacture of agricultural implements, employing the convict labor at Font Madison. In this business he was employed about eleven years. He then spent about seven years in prospecting, and visited several of the most important mining regions of the United States and the oil fields.

In 1869 he was elected superintendent of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad, which office he still retains.

JONES, ELIAS O., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fiedericktown, born in this township, July 20, 1838, and was married March 23, 1870, to Amanda Clarke, who was born in Holmes county, January 8, 1848. Their children are: Ada C., born February 21, 1871: Amanda M., October 10, 1872, Eura, September 19, 1874; Carrie M., April 21, 1877, and Jennie A., April 10, 1879.

The following have deceased: Anna M., died July 27, 1873, and Jennie A., October 26; 1879.

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KAHN, D. & CO., clothing and furnishing goods, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. This firm was formerly known as Hexter & Weineaman, afterwards as J. H. Hexter, and then succeeded by the present 'firm of D. Kahn & Co. Mr. Kahn, the senior partner, is of the well known firm of Kahn, Halban & Co., of Cincinnati, wholesale dealers in clothing, cloths, etc. Mr. J. C. Levi. the junior member of the firm, is a native of Philadelphia, and recently a citizen of Dayton, Ohio. The firm is carrying a stock of three thousand to four thousand dollars,' consisting of ready-made clothing, hats, caps, and furnishing goods. They occupy the corner room in the well known Ward block, corner Main and Vine streets, and is known as "The Lucky Clothing House." This establishment was organized in April, 1879, and the stock in trade purchased by the present firm in January, 1880.

KARR, JOHN, shoemaker, Fredericktown, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in 1809, and came to Knox county in 1830. He was married August 8, 1830, to Miss Deliah Ayers, who was born in Ohio January 1, 1811. They had the following family, viz: Corydon, born August 25, 1831; Maria L., May 4,1833; James N., December 29,1835; Thomas A., November 14, 1837; Elizabeth R., September 22, 1839; Martha E., April 7, 1841; John E., July 7, 1843, and Deliah, October 26, 1845. Mrs. Deliah Karr died April 12, 1846.

Mr. Karr afterwards married, February 18, 1847, Elizabetli R. Winterringer, who was born in this county August 22, 1824. They had the following family, viz: Joseph S., born, December .5, 1847; Aaron L., August 24, 1849; George B., December 26, 1851; infant daughter, April 18, 1854; Mary Eva, April 18, 1857; Charlie F., February 26, 1859, and Willie B., August 24, 1861.

The following are married: Corydon Karr married June 23, 1853, Margaret S. Powell. They reside in Buffalo, New York. James A. married Martha Dunham, and is living in Chicago, Illinois. Elizabeth married Henry Mohler. John E. married Anna Baughman; Aaron L. married May Carr, and lives in Greenfield, Iowa. Joseph S. married Ellen M. Patron, and lives in Nebraska. Deliah Karr married Peter P. Laughlin. They reside in Buffalo, New York. Charles F. Karr married Olive M. Weirick, April 15, 1879, and is living in Bellville, Ohio.

Mr. John Karr has been constantly engaged in working at the shoe trade in this place more than fifty years, and is yet so engaged, having reared a large family, and is yet hale and vigorous.

KARRIGER, GEORGE, retired, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1811, and married Elizabeth Haines, who was born in 1809. They had the following children, namely: Ester A., Lydia A., Cordelia, John H., Rebecca, and George W. The deceased members are John H., who died in 1857; and Mrs. Elizabeth Karriger in 1879. Her parents emigrated to Ohio when she was an infant. The Karriger family located in this county in the woods. On the northwest corner of the Ellicott section they built a cabin and commenced clearing and improving their farm. They are living on the old homestead. Mr. Karriger has resided here seventy years.

His father, John, was born in the east in 1755; married Margaret Frederoff, and had a family of thirteen children. He was a soldier in the Revolution and died in Knox county in 1846, Mrs. Karriger died in 1850.

KARRIGER, GEORGE W., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Frederick town; was born in this township in 1850, and was married in 1872 to Abbie Foote, who was born in this county. They have two children-Lottie B., born in 1873, and

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Lewis, born in 1876. George W. resides on the home place in this township, and is engaged in farming.

KELLAM, SAMUEL M., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, December 8, 1821, and was married March 2, 1843, to Elizabeth Stilley, who was born in Knox county, January 4, 1823. They had one son, James S., born January 30, 1844, and died August 11, 1858. Elizabeth Kellam died in Decmber, 1847.

Mr. Kellam subsequently married Nancy Gardner, who was born in Delaware county, Ohio, December 11, 1825. They had three children, viz: Viola L., born September 19, 1849; Edwin B., January 14, 1851; and Eva E., October 11, 1853. Mrs. Nancy Kellam died June 25, 1854. Viola L. died July 17, 1850. Eva E. died February 3, 1854.

Mr. Kellam married for his third wife Margaret Cassell, who was born January 13, 1830, in Carroll county, Maryland. They have one son-Charlie E. Kellam born October 24, 1863.

George I. Kellam was born September 5, 1849. He was a son of George H. Kellam, who died when George I. was an infant. He was reared and educated by Samuel M. Kellam, and resides in Lafayette, Indiana.

Edwin B. Kellam now resides in Aftan, Union county, Iowa, and is engaged in farming. Mr. Kellam moved with his parents to Delaware county, Ohio, in December, 1839, and there cleared up and improved a farm.

Samuel M.. learned the carpenter and joiner trade in that county, and came to Knox county in 1841. He continued to work at his trade in Fredericktown until March, 1870, when he purchased a farm in Middlebury township, and has since resided there.

KELLER, CHRISTIAN, produce dealer, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, a native of this State, was born near Lancaster, Fairfield county, April 19, 1819, and in 1828 his father came to this county where he resided until his death. C. Keller has resided within the limits of this county since 1828. He received such an education as the subscription schools of that day afforded, and by dilience and energy he acquired a good English education. His first business engagement was with the firm of J. A. Sherman & Co., where in appreciation of his faithfulness and abilities he was retained eight years. He then engaged in the dry goods and produce business, which he conducted with success for seven years, after which he sold out the dry goods and engaged in the grocery, butter and eggs and produce business, which he carried on about eighteen years and during which he did business to the amount of over two million dollars. He quit the retail grocery trade about eleven years ago, and he now sells all his groceries out of the wagons. He keeps an average of fifteen two-horse wagons on the road and furnishes employment to about twenty-five men, nearly all of whom have families. He ships about five thousand barrels of eggs and about ten thousand packages of butter per year, and in a good fruit season he ships about four thousand barrels of dried apples for export trade. His business is on an increase of about ten per cent. He was married in November, 1848, to Miss Julia A. White, who was a native of Vermont. They had one child, a daughter, who died when about twelve years old.

KELLER, HENRY, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty; born in Knox county in 1829, and was married in 1850 to Elizabeth Grubb, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1829. They have four children, Daniel, Mary E., John W., and Delpha.

Mr. Keeler owns a good farm with all the modern improvements. He is a minister of the German Baptist church, and officiates at the Owl Creek church of Berlin township, and his labors are highly appreciated.

KELLEY, FRANK, of the firm of J. P. Kelley, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, son of Andrew Kelley, who was one of the pioneer hardware merchants of Knox county. He engaged in the hardware business in Mt. Vernon in 1844, in which he continued until 1870, ,with the exception of eighteen months. In 1870 his son, John P. Kelley, took charge of the business, and conducted it until 1879, when he went west and engaged in business there, his brother Frank remaining to close out the business here, with a view of changing the stock to that of agricultural implements, in which business he expects to engage on his own account, and in which he will be sure to succeed, as he is a young man of character, energy, and ability, and makes friends of all with whom he comes in contact. He was born February 17, 1854, and is one of a family of eight children, four of whom are living.

The hardware business, as conducted by Kelley & Sons, has been a success, and they carried a stock of about six thousand dollars, consisting of foreign and domestic hardware, etc., and is the oldest existing firm in this line in the city.

KELLEY, J. A., was born May 1, 1851, in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, received a common education at the public schools, after which he learned the trade of carriage smithing, at which he worked four years; for the next few years he was engaged in various ways. In 1878 he established his present business, which consists of staple and fancy groceries, and all kinds of wines, brandies, ale, beer, and choice liquors generally. He was married July 29, 1877, to Miss Lovina E., daughter of Frederick Weber, of Mt. Vernon.

KELSER, JOHN (deceased), was married to Mary Drake, who was born in Holmes county in 1838. They had two sons, John W. was born in 1863 (he is now residing with his grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Drake); Philip S. was born in 1865.

David Drake was mamed to Margaret Freshwater, who was born in Brook county, Virginia. They had eight children, Nancy, Martha, Mary, Sarah E., Normanda, William, and infant. William Freshwater (deceased), was a native of Virginia; he was married to Nancy Chain, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had eight children, William, Reuben, Margaret, Mary, Fanny, Sarah, Nancy and George. Mr. Freshwater came to Knox county in 1818, and settled in Union township; he afterwards moved to Holmes county and died in that county.

KENDER, ISAIAH, landlord, Union township, post office, Danville, was born in Carroll county, Ohio, October 5, 1835. He remained there nntil 1848, when he came to Knox county, and settled in Jefferson township with his father. In 1865 he married S. E. Myers, who was born April 28, 1838. They settled in Brown township, Knox county, on a farm which he still owns. In 1878 he moved to Rosstown and bought the Union hotel, which he is conducting with fair success. He has three children: Odessa, William, and Alma.

Isaiah Kender enlisted in the Eighty-second Ohio volunteer infantry in 1861, and went to the war from this district. They landed first in Virginia, and were organized in the Eleventh corps under General Siegel, and was with him in four. battles.

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In the battle of Red Tree Creek he was wounded and had to have his arm amputated. Shortly after he recovered from this injury he was made a prisoner and taken to Andersonville, where he laid five months before he was exchanged. Five months after he was exchanged he was discharged from the service and came home, where he has remained ever since.

KENYON MILLS, College township, Gaines & Dial proprietors. These mills are located in college township, on Owl creek, one mile southeast of Gambier. The grist-mill was erected in about 1840, by the late Daniel S. Norton, and the saw-mill was erected shortly afterwards by the same party. The grist-mill contains three run of buhrs, and has power to grind three hundred bushels of wheat per day. The saw-mill is capable of sawing two thousand five hundred feet of lumber per day.

KERR, JOHN (deceased), was born in Pennsylvania. His wife was a Miss Sarah Chambers, a native of Ireland. He emigrated with his family to the great Northwest Territory, and settled in what is now Franklin county, Ohio, and remained there several years. In 1803 Mr. Kerr and family moved on the Sullivan tract of land, some four thousand acres lying in and around what is now Fredericktown. Mr. Sullivan was then a resident of Franklinton, Franklin county, and knowing Mr. Kerr to be a man of sterling integrity and moral worth, gave him fifty acres of land, including a mill site, if he would settle upon it and build a mill there. The offer was accepted. In 1807 the town of Fredericktown was laid out by Mr. Kerr on the fifty acres thus donated.

In the fall of 1807 he constructed a dam, raised a little log house, and set one run of stone to grinding, or "cracking corn." After laying out the town Mr. Kerr purchased four hundred and fifty acres around it. The town was surveyed by W. Y. Farquhar, and named Frederick, in honor of Frederick, Maryland. Mr. Kerr remained there until 1812, when he moved to what is now Nashport, Muskingum county, and kept tavern in that place for some two years. He then sold his property to Mr. Nash, the proprietor of Nashport, and returned to Knox county, and located in Pleasant township, on the farts now owned by Robert Miller, esq., formerly treasurer of Knox county.

In the year 1815 he erected the Kerr (or note the Miller) gristmill. This mill was totally destroyed by fire on the night of the-------- of August, 1880, after a service of sixty-five years. Its destruction was the work of a fire fiend.

In 1819 Mr. Kerr erected the brick residence now occupied by Mr. Robert Miller. He remained on his mill property and followed farming and milling as his vocation until 1837. During that year he emigrated to the Plat purchase, in the western part of Missouri, where he died. The exact date of his death is not now remembered. He bad six childred by his union with Miss Chambers, viz: Martha, Jane, Benjamin, Thomas, Dorcas, and Chambers. Only two of the number are now living, Benjamin and Thomas.

After the decease of his wife, which occurred on the twentysecond of August, 1811, at Fredericktown, he married Miss Anna Wells, of Nashport, Muskingum county, who bore him four daughters: Amanda, Sarah, Emily, and Mary, all of whom deceased to Missouri.

His second wife went west with him in 1837, where she died.

In 1822 Mr. Kerr was elected to and filled the office of county commissioner of Knox county, Ohio, and served as such for three years. During his term of service the township of Pleasant was laid off and organized, and he gave it the name the township now bears.

KERR, BENJAMIN, farmer, of pleasant township, post office, Mt. Vernon, is the oldest son and third child of John and Sarah Kerr, both now deceased, was born on the west bank of the Scioto river, in what is now Franklinton, Franklin county, Ohio, April 14, 1800. In 1803 he came with his parents to Knox county, and they located at Fredericktown. He remained with his parents until 1827. He assisted in the erection of the Kerr, or now Miller, grist-mill, in 1815, and the present residence of Mr. Miller, in 1819. In about 1826 he sank the first well on the public square, in Gambier, for Bishop Chase.

October 30, 1827, he married Miss Rosa Elliott, daughter of William and Elizabeth Elliott, nee Eaton, who came to Knox county in 1815. Miss Elliott was born in Pennsylvania, September 22, 1806. After the marriage of Mr. Kerr he settled on the homestead farm in Pleasant township, and remained there until 1838, when he sold the mill property, purchased and moved on the farm where he is now living, in the same township, adjoining the mill property.

The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Kerr resulted in a family of seven children-Sarah A., John B., William E., Eliza J., Chambers, Wilson S., and Rose E. Rose E. has been a sufferer from infancy-from spinal disease. For nearly forty years she has been confined to her chair, and has never walked a step in all that long period of time. John B. and Eliza J , are dead. John B. died at Helena, Arkansas, in 1862, while serving his country in the war of the Rebellion. He was captain of his company.

Mr. Kerr is still living on his Pleasant township farm, and enjoying remarkable health for a man of his age-four score years. Milling and farming have been his principal avocations.

KERR, JOHN, deceased, was born in Pennsylvania. He moved to Ohio and settled in Franklin county. In 1803 he moved to Fredericktown, this county. In 1807 he laid out the town and erected a mill there, one of the first in the county. In 1812 Mr. Kerr moved to Nashport, Muskingum county, and remained there about two years, and then returned to Knox county and settled on a farm in Pleasant township. In 1815 he built the mill on his farm now known as the Robert Miller mill. In 1837 he removed to Missouri, where he died. His son, Thomas, was born in Fredericktown in 1803, and is supposed to be the oldest man, native born, now living in the county.

KERR, DAVID B., farmer, Pleasant township, son of James and Mary Kerr, was born in Morrow county, Ohio, February 17, 1845. His father, James Kerr, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1804, and was brought to Knox county by his parents in 1808, where he grew to manhood. In 1824 he married Miss Hannah Baskens, of this county. They settled in Morrow county, Ohio, and reared a family of five childrenfour sons and one daughter.

Mrs. Kerr died in 1838. He was then united in marriage with Mary Barnes, of Morrow county, by whom he had eight children-seven sons and one daughter. He died December 6, 1867. His companion is still living.

David B. Kerr, son of the foregoing, was brought up on a farm and has made farming his vocation. October 18, 1866, he married Hannah Bebout, of this county, daughter of Enoch and Eliza Bebout. They settled on a farm in Clay township, this county; remained two years, then moved on his father's

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home farm in Morrow county. In 1870 they returned to Knox county, purchased and moved on a farm in Pleasant township known as the Scott-Miller farm. In 1880 he sold the Miller farm, purchased and moved on.the Enoch Bebout farm, where they are now living. They have three daughters.

KERR, JAMES, deceased, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1804, and came to Knox county in 1808 with ; his parents. In 1824 he married Miss Hannah Baskens, of this county, and removed to Morrow countv. He died in 1867.

KEYS, JOHN, Liberty township, farmer, born in Lancastershire, England, December, 1856. His father, John Keys, was born in Canada, and taken to England when about two years old. He learned the shoemaking trade, and married Sarah Clements in England. They had ten children, seven of whom are living.

In 1868 the family emigrated to Connecticut, ant remained until 1875, when they came to Ohio. Mrs. Keys died in May, 1880. Mr. Keys is a worthy young man, and a good farmer.

KEYES, LEROY, Middlebury township, farmer, post office. Levering, born in this county in 1846, and was married in 1869, to Ida Allbery, who was born in Licking county in 1844. They have three children, viz: Ella, born July 22, 1871; Myrta, May 7, 1876, and Robert, February 19, 1878.

Mr. Keyes is engaged in farming, and owns a well unproved farm with good buildings.

KICK, GODFREY, Brown township, farmer, post office, Jelloway, son of Godfrey and Catharine Kick, was born in France April 23, 1822, and was brought to America by his parents when a boy, his father locating in Canton, Stark county, where they remained a short time, and then moved to Holmes county, where the subject of this sketch grew into manhood.

December 6, 1845, he married Mary Wolf, daughter of John Wolf, born in France November 10, 1826. After his marriage he purchased a farm of eighty-five acres in Brown township, Knox county, southwest of Jelloway, about one mile, where he moved, and has since remained. and reared his family. Their marriage resulted in eleven children: Mary A., Daniel, John, William, Priscilla, Henry, Adaline, Matilda, Frederick, Amelia, and David A., all of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Kick are members of the German Lutheran church of Brown township.

KIME, JOSEPH, Fredericktown, farmer, was born in Stark county, Ohio, September 22, 1830; came to Knox county in 1842, and was married in 1858 to Hannah R. Filmer, who was born in Knox county. They have two children-George and Ida.

Joseph Kime was a soldier in the late war, being a member of company A, Twentieth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He veteranized at Vicksburgh, Mississippi, and was in the service for about four years. He received two honorable discharges, and was never sick or from duty for one day.

Mrs. Hannah Kime died in Illinois, June 4, 1858. Mr. Kline was afterwards married in 1864 to Helen Stanfer. They have one son-William H.

KIMMEL, WILLIAM, Fredericktown, was born in Carroll county, Ohio; was married to Louisa Welch, who was born in Stark county, Ohio. They have one daughter, Jessie, who was born in Fredericktown, Ohio. Mr. Kimmel is engaged as a travelling salesman.

Mrs. Susan Welch, mother of Mrs. Kimmel. was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in 1809, and came to Ohio in 1812. She was the mother of seven children, five of whom have died. Mrs. Welch is now living with her daughter in Fredericktown, Ohio, Olive Shafer was born in Stark county. Her parents died when she was quite young. She has been reared by Mrs. Kimmel, and is still making her home there.

KING, WILLIAM L., Mt. Vernon, was born in 1816, at Milton, Middlesex county, New Jersey, where he lived until 1830, when he came with his parents to Newark, Ohio, where they remained about one year, then moving to Granville, where they remained but a short time, when they returned to Newark. Mr. King came to Mt. Vernon about 1834, and learned the hatters' trade with his brother-in-law, S J. Voorhees, served four years, and then formed a partnership with Mr. Voorhees for one year, after which he engaged in business by himself, and conducted it successfully until 1874, when he sold his business to Mr. Baldwin and retired from the trade. He learned his trade under the old process, when all work was done by hand, and the styles changed once in about seven years. but the times changed and Mr. King made his business change to suit the times.

He was married in 1838 to Miss Caroline, daughter of Truman Purdy, of Mt. Vernon, and they have had two children, one son and one daughter.

KINNEY, G. W., Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Knox county in 1842, married in 1868 to Jeannette Sharp, who was born in Scotland in 1850. They have two children: James, born in 1868; Bryant, in 1877. Mr. Kinney was a soldier in the late war, a member of company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry.

He was in the service for about three years, and was honorably discharged. After going through with his regiment in all the skirmishes and battles, he stands conspicuous among the loyal soldiers of Knox county.

KINSEY, C. R., Fredericktown, miller, was boat in Millwood Knox county, January 14, 1854; married in 1875 to P. N. Blystone, who was born in Illinois. They have one son-Morris M., born in 1877. Mr. Kinsey moved to Fredericktown in 1880, and is engaged in the mill of S. S. Tuttle & Co.

KIRBY, NATHAN, Middlebury township, farmer, born in Knox county, October 23, 1823, and was married January 3, 1845, to Isabella Burk, who was born in Fredericktown, Maryland, February 13, 1825, and came to Ohio at the age of ten years. They have the following family of children: Henrietta, born April 14, 1849; Winfield, born February 16, 1852; Adilla, born January 18, 1855; Dayton, born August 20, 1851. Henrietta was married to David Cosner. Winfield married Samantha Hair, now residents of Middlebury township. Mr. Kirby has always been a citizen of this township, and is one of its active and energetic men.

KIRBY, ABNER S., farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in this county in 1840; he was married in 1866 to Chloe A. Beans, who was born in Richland county in 1848. They have four sons and three daughters-W. B., Etta M., Frank E., Zoa R., W. S., Estelle, and infant son. Mr. Kirby is engaged as an auctioneer, is becoming popular in this busines, and is meeting with success. He was a soldier-a member of company K--Ohio volunteer infantry; and he was engaged for four years.

KIRK, HON. ROBERT C., was born February 26, 1821,

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at Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio. Both his parents were natives of Pennsylvania. His father was a Quaker and farmer. and died in 1838. His mother died at the age of eighty-two. Robert, in his early boyhood, attended district school in his native place, and afterwards became a student in Franklin college, at Athens, Ohio. After leaving college he commerced the study of medicine under the instructions of Dr. William Hamilton, at Mt. Pleasant. After a time spent in this preliminary study, he entered the old university at Philadelphia, where he attended lectures until he was twenty years of age. After attending the course he removed to Fulton county, Illinois, where he began professional practice. In the fall of 1843 he returned to Ohio, and abandoned the practice of his profession. In the spring of 1844 he engaged in mercantile pursuits in Mt. Vernon, forming a partnership with T. W. Rogers in the dry goods business. The association ended with the death of Mr. Rogers. He then formed a partnership in the same business with Mr. John Hogg, his father-in-law, which continued until 1853, when the firm sold out. In 1857 he went to Winona, Minnesota, and was associated with his brother as dealers in real estate. He returned to Ohio in 1858, and has remained there ever since, except when holding official positions abroad. In 1856 he was elected a member of the Ohio State senate, and served in that body one term. In 1859 be was elected lieutenant governor of the State. He served two years. In 1862 he received from President Lincoln the appointment of Minister to the Argentine Republic. During his official residence at Buenos Ayres he was successful in settling all the old claims due to American citizens, amounting to over four .hundred thousand dollars; these claims originated in 1814, and were abandoned by our former ministers. Over nineteen thousand dollars were sent from Buenos Ayres to Mr. Bellows, president of the United States Sanitary commission, for the benefit of our soldiers, during Mr. Kirk's residence there. This position he held until 1866, when he resigned and returned to Ohio. In 1869 he was reappointed by President Grant to the same position, but resigned again in 1871, returning home in January, 1872. In February, 1875, he received from President Grant the appointment of collector of internal revenue of the Thirteenth Ohio district, at Mt. Vernon, and that position he held until Congress consolidated the revenue districts, and the office at Mt. Vernon was removed to Columbus, Ohio. He was married December 11, 1843, to Eleanor Hogg, daughter of John Hogg, and niece of William Hogg, of Brownsville, Pennsylvania. They bad four children, viz: John, who was a member of the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, served during the war of the Rebellion, and died in Mt. Vernon in January, 1873, aged twenty-nine years; Desault was an attorney at Mt. Vernon; Plimpton and William H., twins.

KIRKPATRICK, WILLIAM A., farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1845, on the farm where he now resides. He was married in 1870, to Ella Daniels, who was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1851. They have four children: William W. was born in 1871; Francis E., in 1874; Emma, in 1876; Morilla M., in 1878. Mr. Kirkpatrick is a farmer. He has filled the office of assessor of this township with credit to himself and entire satisfaction to the public.

KIRKPATRICK, JOHN WALLACE, deceased; he was born in Knox county, and was married to Sarah A. Dunmire. They had six children: Jacob A., Mollie, Edward L., George, John, and William W. He is now a member of George Popham's family, and is a very intelligent and faithful boy.

KNERR, AMOS, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, in 1810, and was married in 1835, to Catharine Snyder, who was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, in 1814. They have eight children living, viz: Eliza, John, Mary, William Henry, Malinda, Sophrona, and Alice Amanda. The following have deceased, viz: Sarah, Cyrus, and Catharine Lucinda.

Mr. Knerr came to Ohio in April, 1838, and first located in Wayne county, and remained there nine years. From there he removed to Stark county, and remained six years. In 1853 he came to Knox county, and located in Pike township, and at present owns a well improved farm.

Two members of the family (John and Malinda) are living in Wayne county.

KNERR, HENRY, farmer, Pike township, post office, North Liberty, born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1845, and was married in 1868 to Julian Cayhoe, who was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania. They have three children: Bertie Viola, born in 1868; Nora Ellen, in 1872; Charlie, in 1875. Mr. Knerr came to Pike township, Knox county, in 1872, and is a farmer.

KNOX COUNTY SAVINGS BANK, North Main street, near public square. This bank is one of the solid monetary institutions of this county, and as such is recognized by the best business men wherever it is known. It was organized under the banking laws of the State of Ohio, in 1873, with a capital of fifty thousand dollars, and a surplus of four thousand three hundred dollars. Its present officers are, Jared Sperry, president; S. H. Israel, cashier, and C. W. Pyle, assistant cashier. Its directors are, Jared Sperry, General G. A. Jones, John D. Thompson, Samuel Israel, O. M. Arnold, Thomas Odbert, Alexander Cassil, and S. H. Israel.

There has not been a sale of stock in this bank since it was organized, and it does a straight general banking business. Its officers are amongst the most respected and wealthy gentlemen of the county, and are all of marked and well known business integrity and ability; consequently, this is one of the safe and reliable organizations of the county, and everything in the banking line will receive prompt and faithful attention. Parties in any part of the county, or elsewhere, having business to transact in the banking line, can have the same promptly attended to by sending instructions to this bank.

KOHL, JACOB, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1850, and was married April 24, 1879, to Flora McMahon, who was born in Knox county in 1856. Mr. Kohl is a farmer by occupation, and is an active and energetic man. He came to Knox county in 1855 with his parents.

KOONS, COLLIN W., engineer of fire steamer, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Koons was born in Marion county, Ohio, August 17, 1846, where he resided until 1849, when his parents came to Mt. Vernon. He received his education in the public schools of this city. When of suitable age he commenced learning the moulding business with the firm of C. P. Buckingham & Co. After completing his trade he went to Fredericktown and engaged with Davis Rankins, with whom he worked until the year 1864, when he enlisted in company B (Captain Larimore), One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio

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National guards (Colonel Cooper), in which he served one hundred days. After his return home he enlisted in company K, Ohio sharp-shooters, in which he served until after the close of the war, and was honorably discharged August 17, 1865. He was one of the five men who ventured into Petersburgh, Virginia, at the time of the evacuation and hoisted the United States flag on the city hall. This daring feat was performed before daylight of the morning of April 2, 1865. He also, in trading with the enemy, distributed circulars issued by General Butler offering inducements to the enemy to desert. These circulars were the means of many of the enemy coming into our lines. After his discharge from the army he entered the service of John Cooper & Co. and had charge of the moulding department where he remained until 1875, when the shop temporarily closed business. In the winter of 1875 he took charge of the steam fire engine of the Mt. Vernon fire department, which position he fills with acceptance.

KOONS. WILLIAM McKEE, attorney, Mt. Vernon, was born in Marion county, Ohio, June 9, 1850. He is the son of George M. and Elizabeth Koons, nee Wilson, who about a year after the birth of William, came to Mt. Vernon, where Mr. Koons died in 1867. His wife still survives him.

The subject of this sketch is the youngest of seven children. He was educated at the schools of Mt. Vernon, May, 1864, learned the trade of machinist at the shops of C..& G. Cooper, of Mt. Vernon; remained four years and then took up drafting under J. C. Debes, where he remained nine months. He was then offered and accepted the foremanship of Duval's machine works at Zanesville, Ohio, and remained four years. While there he read law during his leisure hours, and then attended law school at Ann Arbor, Michigan. September, 1871, he was appointed by the council of Mt. Vernon as engineer of the fire department, and while there finished his course of reading under William McClelland, esq., and was admitted to the bar, July 7, 1874. He remained in the fire department until January, 1875, when he began practice with D. C. Montgomery, esq., with whom he remained about a year. In April, 1876, he was elected . city solicitor, and reelected in 1878. and resigned in 1880. In the fall of 1879 he was elected to the lower house of the Ohio legislature. Mr. Koons is a good lawyer and has a good practice. He married Miss Ella R. Steinmates in October, 1876. They have two children, viz: May A., and William.

KOONSMAN, ABRAM, Liberty township, farmer, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1821. His father, George Koonsman, was born in 1789, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. About 1810 he married Catharine Bowser, who was born in 1784. By trade Mr. Koonsman was a shoemaker, and Mrs. Koonsman a weaver. They remained in Pennsylvania until about 1827, when they emigrated to Ohio, coming by wagon, bringing with them their family and some household articles, together with some cattle, which they drove. They settled in Liberty township, on a tract of land covered with timber, which, with the aid of the family, he cleared up and made for himself a comfortable home.

Mr. Koonsman died in 1854, and his wife died in 1864. They had a family of eight children, four of whom are living, viz: John, born in 1814, is a justice of the peace and resides on the farm, having his office at the farm residence; Sarah B., born in 1817, is also living on the farm; Ann K., born in 1819, resides on the old homestead.

Abram, the subject of this sketch, was married to Miss Mary Ann Dalrymple in 1858. They had a family of three children, viz: George, born April 6, 1859, died December 9, 1863; James Albert, born November 5, 1861; Maggie Jane, born February 21, 1864. This family has the esteem and respect of the community for their honesty and industry.

KOST, JOHN, deceased, Monroe township, a native of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, was born in 1796. He was a blacksmith by trade, and followed that business as his principal vocation through his life.

In 1815 he married Miss Elizabeth Wolf, of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, born in 1799. In April, 1832, they left their native county with a family of eight children, and a fine horse team for Ohio. After a wearisome journey of five weeks over the mountains, they reached Mt. Vernon on the tenth day of May, where they remained about three weeks, during which time he erected a cabin on his land in Monroe township, which he had purchased of a Revolutionary soldier before leaving Cumberland county. About the last of May he moved his family into the cabin on his land. The farm is now known as the "Big Spring farm," located in the northwest corner of Monroe township, and is owned by his son, Jacob Kost.

He lived in his cabin about two years and six months, and died on the sixteenth of December, 1834, leaving his companion with ten children to her care, in their forest home, viz; Samuel, John, Abraham, Jacob, Mary A., Margaret, Eliza, William, George. W. and David L., all of whom are living, except Samuel and Mary A.

Mrs. Kost survived her husband until June 13, 1876, when she died, aged seventy-seven years.

KOST, JACOB, son of the aforesaid John and Elizabeth Kost, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, December 16, 1822, came with his parents to this county in 1832, and located on the farm where he is now living in Monroe township.

In 1850 he returned to his native county in Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Mary Kost, born in December, 1831; daughter of George Kost. They returned to Ohio shortly after their marriage, and settled on the old farm, where they have since resided. They reared three children-two daughters and one son.

He has one of the best improved farms in Monroe township. His residence is one among the best in the township. He has followed fanning and stock-raising as his vocation.

KU LB, GEORGE, Middlebury township, carriage painter, post office, Fredericktown, born in Knox county, August 18, 1846, and married July 16, 1868, to Annie Burket; who was born in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1846. They have the following children, viz: Eliza A. (deceased), born June 28, 1869; Louisa J., July 15, 1871; Joseph M., May 1, 1874; infant (deceased), July 11, 1876.

Mr. Kulb is a practical painter and a skillful mechanic. He is now engaged as a buggy painter in Waterford, where he does all kinds of work in that line.

KUNKEL, SAMUEL, Mount Vernon, attorney and recorder, was born in Pike township, October 11, 1850, and is the son of Martin and Leah Kunkel, nee Keller, natives of Pennsylvania, and whose biographies appear in another part of this work.

The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm and attended the common schools, and in 1869 he completed a commercial course at Iron City college, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He at-

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tended the National Normal school at Lebanon, Ohio, and also attended school at Worthington, Ohio. He taught school a number of times and was successful. In 1876 be commenced reading law with General Morgan, of Mt. Vernon. In 1877 he was nominated for the office of recorder by the Democratic convention, and was elected the ensuing election.

In 1880 he was again nominated, and after a close contest was elected, being one of three who ran ahead of the ticket. He finished his course of law while attending to the duties of his office, and in 1879 was admitted to practice. He is an efficient officer.

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LAFEVER, WILLIAM, deceased, was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1788. By trade he was a cooper, and followed coopering as his vocation in connection with farming, making the latter his principal- business. He married Miss Mary Price, of Pennsylvania. In 1810 they emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located near Fredericktown, where they lived until 1822, when he purchased and moved on a farm near Martinsburgh, same county; remained there ten years, and in 1832 he purchased and moved on a farm now owned by his son, Thomas P. Lafever, on the Brandon road, about three miles from Mt. Vernon. They lived on this farm about six years, when he purchased and moved on the old Sawyer farm in same township, adjoining his old farm on the north, where they remained a few years, retaining his other farms. He bought and moved on the farm now owned by Isaac Sperry, on the Newark road. They lived on this farm four years, he then sold it and purchased and moved to a farm near Martinsburgh; remained there about five years. His last purchase was the property now owned and occupied by his son, Thomas P., on the Newark road, about three-fourths of a mile from Mt. Vernon. Here his wife died in 1864, and he passed the remainder of his days among his children, living with one awhile and then with another. He deceased in 1870, age eighty-two years.

They reared a family of thirteen children, viz.: John, Darcus, Thomas P., Isaac, James, Mimard, Samuel, Wiley, Abram, Sprague, Margaret, Rebecca, and Chambers. Four of whom (John, Isaac, James, and Rebecca,) are dead.

LAFEVER, THOMAS P., farmer, second son of the aforesaid William and Mary Lafever, was born near Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, September 2, 1812. He was reared a farmer, and has followed farming as his principal vocation through life. In 1840 he married Miss Eliza Beam, daughter of John and Mary Beam. They settled in Clinton on a rented farm; remained on rented land until 1842, when he purchased his father's old home farm in Clinton township, on which he lived until 1878, when he rented the farm to his son Calvin and moved on the property where he is now- living a retired life, near Mt. Vernon. They had five children -Emeline, Merrit, William S., John, and Calvin, all now living.

LAFEVER, WINARD, farmer, fifth son of William and Mary Lafever, was born near Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, April 12, 1815. He was brought up on a farm, and has made farming his principal vocation.

April 22, 1841, he married Miss Emily J. Blake, born in Knox county, Ohio, March 3, 1820, daughter of William and Hannah Blake, deceased. They settled on the farm now owned by William Shineberry, in Clinton township. They lived on three different farms in Clinton township until 1854, when he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living in the same township. Their union resulted in two children: daughters.

LAFEVER, WILLIAM, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in this township in 1830, and was married in 1864 to Mary Lafever, who was born in this township in 1856. They have one son, Frederick Earl, born in 1874. His father, John Lafever, was born in Pennsylvania in 1809, and was married to Deliah Herod, who was born in 1808, Their children were William, Isaac, Molancy, Morgan, and Eli who enlisted in the late war, in the One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was killed at the battle on Kennesaw Mountain. His body was left on southern soil. Mr. John Lafever was one of the early settlers and pioneers of this county.

LAFEVER, M. H., Fredericktown, salesman, was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1847, and was married in 1868 to Eunice Bricker, who was born in Liberty township in 1847. They have one son, John C., born in 1871. Mr. Lafever is engaged as salesman with the firm of Hill & Hagerty, dealers in hardware and furniture. He has always been identified with this company, and has resided in Fredericktown for a period of five years.

LAFEVER, THOMPSON, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Levering, born in Knox county, August 28, 1848, and was married to Helen Wilkins, who was born in 1837, in this county. They had the following family: Ella, Emma L., James F., Olive May, and Oliver (twins, deceased), Anna Bell, and Charlie Gay. Miss Ella Lafever was married to Clinton Ewers, who was born in this county. They have one son, Guy L., born July 3, 1879.

LAHMAN, GEORGE (retired), Morris township, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, in 1810, came to Ohio in 1820, and was married in 1834 to Hannah Weyner, who was born in 1810, in New York, and came to Ohio when a child. They had seven children, viz: Lewis W., William (deceased). Augustus (deceased), Robert, Mary, Sarah, and George. Augustus volunteered in the late war, and was a member of company A, Sixty-fifth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. He was wounded at the battle of Stone River. Forty-one days after he was wounded he died, after a severe and painful suffering.

Mr. Lahman has been a citizen of this county for sixty years. His wife, Hannah, died April 9, 1878.

LAHMON, ABNER, deceased, Monroe township, son of William and Elizabeth Lahmon, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, June 4, 1818. In 1827 he came with his parents to Knox county, who located in Morris township, about two miles south of Fredericktown. They lived in three different townships in this county. In 1839 they moved to Monroe township, where they passed the remainder of their days.

Mr. Lahmon made farming his principal vocation through life. In 1839 he married Miss Elizabeth Lutz, daughter of Jacob and Susannah Lutz, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1818, and came to this county with her parents in 1835, and located on the farm now known as the Lahmon Mill farm, located in Monroe township. Mr. and Mrs. Lahmon. settled on the Lahmon Mill farm, where he died March 4, 1879. His companion is still living on the home farm. They reared a family of four children: Elizabeth. John, Mary A., and William.

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LAHMON, WILLIAM, son of the aforesaid Abner L Lahmon, was born in Monroe township, this county, on the farm where he is now living, August 8, 1850. At the age of fifteen years he commenced working at the milling business in the Lahmon, mills, where he has since been engaged in that business. At present he operates the Lahmon mills.

November 2, 1872, he married Miss Margaret E. Bowman, of Knox county, daughter of Daniel Bowman. They settled on the Mill farm, where they are now living. They have three children, two sons and one daughter.

LAMBERT, D. W., is a native of Ohio; was born October 16, 1838; received an academical education, and shortly after entered the banking house of Russel, Sturges & Co. as a clerk. When the bank was reorganized, in 1862, he was promoted to assistant cashier, in which capacity he still remains.

LAMSON, GEORGE J., Stiller township, carpenter, post office, Brandon, was born in Milford township, October 29, 1830, and is the son of Rhoda and Nathan Lamson, of whom mention is made in the biographies of Milford township.

Mr. Lamson spent his youth on the farm of Milford township, and has followed the trade of carpentering for a number of years, commencing to work at it at an early age, and is a good workman. He has always lived in Knox county, excepting about one year and a half while in Missouri, and some six months at Government work in Nashville, Tennessee. He was married to Miss Emma E. Lockwood, May 20, 1855, who was born in Windham county, Vermont, December, 10, 1828, and came to Ohio about 1833 or 1834, with her parents, Reuben and Catharine Lockwood, who had a family of fifteen children, three of whom are living.

Mr. Lamson remained in Milford township until 1867, he moved to Brandon, where he has since resided. They had two children, one who died in infancy; the other is Lillian E., who married Thomas Thatcher.

LANE, W. C., Morris township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in Berlin township, this county, March 10, 1862. He is now a resident of Morris township, and is engaged in farming.

LANGFORD, DUDLEY, deceased, was born in Rhode Island in 1775. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade, and followed that as his principal vocation. He emigrated to Virginia with a Mr. Avery, for the purpose of building that gentleman a house, intending to return to Rhode Island. By the time he had the house completed he concluded to remain in Virginia and work at his trade. In 1798 he married Miss Rebecca Slotts, born in Virginia in 1782. They settled in Virginia, where they lived ten years, and in 1808, he, with wife and family, migrated to Butler township, Knox county, where he continued working at his trade in the summer, and manufactured chairs, spinning-wheels and reels during the winter. In 1818 he leased and moved on a piece of land in Howard township, agreeing to clear so many acres and have the use of tire land cleared for four years, as a compensation for his labor, but death called him away May 18, 1821, prior to the completion of his contract, leaving his wife with ten children to provide for in their forest home, viz: Isaac, Lydia, Lucinda, Nancy, Polley, Julia, Susan, Rebecca, Rachel, and Dudley C. The widow and children finished the contract, and lived on the land until the expiration of the lease. The mother being possessed of energy, managed to keep her children together until they were all able to take care of themselves. In 1835, when her youngest son, Dudley C., was but fourteen years of age, she was taken sick with inflammatory rheumatism. By this time her children had all married and left her except the two youngest-Rachel and Dudley C.-who took care of and supported her during her ten long years of sickness. She died August 28, 1845, and all of the children are now deceased except Lucinda and Dudley C.

LANGFORD, DUDLEY C., farmer, Union township, the youngest son of Dudley and Rebecca Langford, deceased, was born in this county, May 21, 1821. He married Mary Robinson February 27, 1845, who was born in Union township, Knox county, October 5, 1821. She was a daughter of William and Sarah Robinson. They settled in Howard, Knox county, lived two years, and in 1847 they moved to Coshocton county, remained there fourteen years, and in 1861 he purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living, in Union township, one mile south of Danville. He has made farming and stock raising his vocation, and owns one among the best farms in Union township, containing about six hundred and eleven acres. They reared a family of seven children--four sons and three daughters.

LARASON, THOMAS (deceased), was born in Chester county, New Jersey, August 27, 1814, and emigrated with his father, James Larason, the following year to Licking county, Ohio. He was married to Malinda Craig. They have had eleven children, viz: Emily, Eunice, Lucinda, James, Oliver, Harriet, Abraham E., Luman, Leonard, Melinda Jane, and one that died in infancy.

Oliver Larason was married to Williametta Mercer. They have had three children-Edwin, born July 24, 1873; Laura, November 22, 1874; Sylva, July 11, 1876.

Thomas Larason died December 3, 1879,

LARIMORE, FRANK C., physician, Mt. Vernon, was born in Columbus, Franklin county, Ohio, April 12, 1846. His father was a merchant and canal contractor. He died when Frank was about ten years of age. He came to Knox county to live with his uncle, Thomas Larimore, of Milford township, who was a prominent man in the county. He went to school in the winter and in summer worked on the farm. In 1861 he enlisted in company G, Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry. He was wounded at Pittsburgh Landing, April 7, 1862, by a shell, and in consequence of his wound he was discharged in September, 1862. The following spring he went to school at Utica, Licking county, Ohio, and taught school during the winter of 1863-64, during the summer attending school. In the spring of 1864 he enlisted in company B, One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio National guards, and was appointed third sergeant. March 20, 1865, he commenced the study of medicine in the office of Drs. Thompson.& Smith. He read eighteen months, and then attended the first course of lectures at Ann Arbor for six months, and then returned to Mt. Vernon and read six months with his old preceptors. Drs. Thompson & Smith. On the death of Dr. Thompson he went to read with Dr. Russell. He then attended his second and last course at Bellevue Hospital Medical college, in which he graduated March, 1869. He commenced practicing in Mt. Vernon and practiced three years. In May, 1872, he went to Europe for the purpose of seeing the hospitals. He visited the hospitals of Dublin and Belfast, Ireland; Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland; London, Paris and Berlin. He spent six months in Vienna, Austria, under the instructions of private teachers, in medicine and surgery. After

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leaving Austria he came through Italy, Switzerland, thence to Paris and London, Liverpool, and thence home. He returned to Mt. Vernon after an absence of thirteen months, and opened the office he now occupies. He was tendered and accepted the chair of lecturer of minor surgery in the Columbus Medical college in the fall of 1876. He was promoted to professor of the same subject in 1879, which position he still holds.

Dr. Larimore became a member of the Knox County Medical society in 1869, and a member of the Ohio State Medical society in 1870, and a member of the American Medical association in 1872. During 1877 and 1878 he was president of the Knox County Medical society-two years.

He was married to Miss Fanny Odbert December 30, 1875. They have one child.

LARIMORE, HENRY, Milford township, a leading farmer of Milford, was born in Licking county, Ohio, July 30, 1833, His father, Thomas Larimore, a native of Hampshire county, Virginia, came to Ohio about 1820, and remained for awhile near Zanesville. He then returned to Virginia, where he remained for some time, and again came to Ohio, and was engaged on the Ohio canal. He married Jemima Johnston, nee Huddleston, by whom he had four children: James, Hester, Sarah. and the subject of this notice, who was the oldest child. Of these, James has deceased.

About 1834 he purchased the farm on which Henry now resides, and moved upon it the same year. He was a leading citizen; was infirmary director six years, and filled the office with credit. He died on this farm February, 1867, aged sixty-six years. His wife survived him until January, 1880, when she died at the age of about seventy-three years.

Henry Larimore resided on this farm and continues to reside on it. He enlisted in company G, twentieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was mustered into service September 27, 1861. He served about one year; was at the taking of Fort Donelson, but the company did not participate. He was in the engagement at Middleburgh, Tennessee. He was discharged by the War department to take a commission in the Seventy-sixth, but the regiment being subsequently officered, he did not serve in it. He remained at home on the farm until May, 1864, when he was commissioned captain of company B, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guard, and served during the term. Upon his return home he resumed farming.

In 1879 he was nominated for county treasurer, by the Republican convention of Knox county, but defeated at the election, with most of his ticket. Mr. Larimore is one of the leading men of the township, and is esteemed for his uprightness of character and high moral principles.

He married Miss Ella Colony, of Miller township in 1872. They had two children: Charles, born February 13, 1873; Frank, September 2, 1876.

LARIMORE, ISAAC P., Hilliar township, post office, Centreburgh, is one of the leading farmers of Knox county. He was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, March 10, 1821. His parents were farmers, and he remained on the farm assisting his father until 1844, and then settled in Milford township, Knox county, Ohio. He worked by the month until November 16, 1845, when he was married to Miss Mary Manconya, born May 1, 1829, the daughter of Joseph Manconya, of Milford township. He engaged in farming and remained in Milford township until 1875, when he moved to his present home near Centreburgh, where he has since resided. He has been engaged in raising fine short-horn cattle, and has an enviable reputation in that line.

Mr. Larimore did not have the advantages of a liberal education, but he acquired the ordinary branches, and keeps well informed upon the current events. He is comprehensive and liberal in his views, is a good reasoner, and weighs a subject in . a logical manner. He is a consistent member of the Christian Union denomination and a leading member, and is esteemed for his moral rectitude and for his enthusiasm for any cause which he espouses.

As a result of his marriage they had eleven children, six of whom are living, vii. Joseph; Emma, who married Marion Selby; Ettie, James, William, and Rose.

LEE, JOHN, proprietor of grocery and restaurant, east side of North Main street. Mr. Lee is a native of the county of Galway, Ireland, where he was born in the year 1852, and in the year 1870 he emigrated to America and located in Mt. Vernon, where he made his first business engagement as salesman with George B. Potwin, in the produce business. He remained in this capacity until 1876, when he established himself in the grocery and restaurant business, in which he still continues. He carries a full stock of staple and fancy groceries and confectioneries, also a first-class stock of restaurant goods, consisting of brandies, wines, gins, beer, and ales, of the best American brands, also imported wines and brandies. He carries a stock of about two thousand dollars, and he does a business of about seven hundred to eight hundred dollars per month, and up to the present his business has increased about twenty per cent.

LEEDY, REV. SAMUEL A., German Baptist, post office, Shalers Mills. He was born in Morrison's cove, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, May 19, 1816. He came to Ohio in 1829, and located in Knox county. He was married in 1838, to Elizabeth Bostater, who was born in Washington county, Maryland, in 1815, and came to Ohio with her parents in 1836. They had twelve children; Simon, Susannah, Isaac, Elizabeth, Joshua, Elijah, two infant daughters (twins), Emanuel, Martha, Rufus, and Ezra. Joshua died November 24, 1849; twin daughter, August 14, 1848; Emanuel, February 27, 1854; Martha, March 2, 1854.

Mr. Leedy is a descendant of Abraham Leedy. Mr. Leedy located in Berlin township in the fall of 1838, and since has been a citizen of this township. He joined the German Baptist church or Dunkards, at the age of twenty-three years. Mr. Leedy was elected deacon in the church in about 1825; served in this capacity until 1854; he was then appointed minister in that church. He has since been a faithful and liberal advocate for the principles of the church, but always charitable with and for the opinions of others. His zeal in the work has characterized his labors. He is still laboring to raise the standard of the church as a faithful embassador of the Cross.

His occupation has been farming; in this he has been industrious and active, always keeping up with the progress of the times. He owns the farm formerly known as the Long farm. He has retired from farming, and his sons are now farming the place.

Mr. Leedy has been a man of remarkable constitution, and is still in enjoyment of reasonable good health. Mr. and Mrs. Leedy are now living alone. Their children are all married, and have left the parental roof.

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Simon Leedy was married to Elizabeth Martin, of Richland county. They reside in Cedar county, Missouri, post office, Monta Valla, Vernon county, Missouri.

Isaac Leedy was married to Mary Wole. They reside in Vernon county, Monta Valla post office, Missouri.

Elizabeth Leedy was married to Noah F. Cripe. They reside in Vernon county, Missouri.

Elijah was married to Araminta Tenser. They reside in Missouri.

Rufus was married to Ida Belle Grubb. He resides on the home place.

Ezra L. was married to Ann McLaughlin, of Richland county.

Susannah Leedy married Isaac Shenabargar. They reside in Ankneytown.

LEEDY, DAVID A., Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, November 23, 1821, came to Ohio with his parents when eight years old, and located in Knox county. In 1847 he was married to Susannah Grubb, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1827. They had the following children: Daniel, born December 4, 1849; an infant daughter (deceased); Mary A., born July 22, 1853; Elizabeth, March 26, 1857; Martha, August 24, 1868; and Charles M., April 18, 1873. Daniel Leedy died December 9, 1870. Mr. Leedy owns an improved tarot with good buildings, located near North Liberty. He is a model farmer, and has assisted in improving and raising this county to its present standard, both socially and religiously. He has been a member of the German Baptist church for twenty-two years, being a member of the congregation that worships in the Berlin chapel.

LEMLEY. WILLIAM (deceased, Pike township, born in Richland county in 1848, and was married in 1867, to Mary Ellen Simpkins, who was born in Monroe township in 1851. They have three children: Clara J., born in 1868; James G., torn in 1871; and William A., born in 1872. William Lemley was one of the victims of the sad collision that occurred in Richland county during the State fair at Mansfield in 1872. He was wounded on Thursday and died on Saturday. This was a sad bereavement to the family. After the death of her husband Mrs. Lemley moved to North Liberty, where she still lives.

LEONARD, ZIBA, Clay township, retired. He was born August 28, 1798, in Greene county, Pennsylvania, and removed to Clinton township in 1803, arriving November 14th. He came with the Pennsylvania colony, who settled in what is known as then Ten Mile Settlement. The names of his companions will be. found elsewhere in this work. At his advent into Knox county, Mr. Leonard was but a few months past his fifth birthday. He is one of the few now living who came into the county as early as 1803. His mind is strong and active, and his memory is well stored with reminiscences of the almost forgotten past.

In 1796 William Leonard, grandfather of Ziba, came out from Pennsylvania, and bought a large tract of land south of Mt. Vernon. The farm of Hon. Columbus Delano lies in the northeast comer of the tract. Mr. William Leonard afterwards gave the land to his children. '

Mr. Leonard's father was a frequent sufferer on account of the depredations committed on his flock of sheep by wild animals; sometimes the wolves would come under the house and help themselves to the best of the flock. For about two years all the meat used in the Leonard family was procured in the forest; but as game was so abundant, it was no trouble to obtain a sufficiency for the family larder. One of Mr. Leonard's brothers shot three deer without moving out of his tracks.

The nearest mill was at Zanesville, and until a hand-mill was procured, all the corn necessary for the family use had to be taken there to be ground.

The first wedding in Knox county was that of Mr. Leonard's sisters, in the winter of 1804 - Amariah Watson and Sarah Leonard, and Daniel Dimmock and Rachel Leonard. The parties were united at the same time. A justice of the peace from Lancaster, Fairfield county, performed the ceremony, there being no justice or minister nearer than that place.

The first death of any white person in Knox county occurred the next day after the arrival of the Leonard family, November 15, 1803, being a little daughter of Mr. Ziba Leonard's sister, Nancy Baxter, aged about eighteen months. The second death occurred in the spring of 1805, being that of Mr. William Leonard, grandfather of Ziba, and called the patriarch of the colony.

For several years after the settlement of the Leonard family in Knox county, on each returning winter, a tribe of Delaware Indians camped on Mr. Leonard's farm.

For some months there was no preaching in the neighborhood; but on each Sabbath day and Thursday nights, prayer meetings were held at his father's house.

The first sermon ever delivered in Knox county was preached at the house of his father by the Rev. James Scott, a Presbyterian minister, about the year 1804.

Mr. Ziba Leonard was married in 1819 to Mrs. Jane Beam. Five children were born to them, viz; Eleazer, Amos, Benoni, Malvina, and Martha-all alive except Benoni and Martha.

Mr. Leonard served several years as captain of the militia, and was also justice of the peace, constable, and township clerk of Morgan township several years. He moved into Clay township in 1831. 'Mr. Leonard has been a farmer and carpenter, working some forty years at the latter trade, having built nearly all the dwelling houses and other buildings in the village of Martinsburgh.

Mr. Leonard was originally a Jackson Democrat, afterwards Whig, then Abolitionist, and then a Republican, having acted with the latter party ever since its organization, until the past two years, when he has acted with the Prohibition party. Although Mr. Leonard drank of the first whiskey ever distilled in Knox county, he is an ardent temperance man, and firmly believes that no one that drinks whiskey, or chews tobacco will ever be admitted to heaven.

He has been a member of the Presbyterian church in Martinsburgh over fifty years, and is a firm believer in "the Westminster confession of faith." He has been sexton of the Presbyterian church many years; has attended over five hundred funerals in Martinsburgh, and has been noted for his acts of charity to the sick and afflicted.

Mr. Leonard has often seen the eccentric Johnny Appleseed, and on being shown a picture of him, given in this history, recognized it immediately as being a very accurate likeness.

Mr. Leonard had some very bitter experience in connection with the failure of the celebrated Owl Creek bank, of Mt. Vernon. His father, who died in 1814, had willed him one hundred acres of valuable land lying north of the village of Lexington, Richland county. This land was lost to him by the failure the bank. He has also lost several thousand dollars by doing

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security for persons; yet, notwithstanding his much ill-luck, financially, he still has a competency.

Mr. Leonard remembers the first tree cut on the site of Mt. Vernon, and is well-informed relative to its first settlement. The first court was held in a small log cabin which stood exactly ,on the site of the soldiers' monument. He remembers well the Butlers, Walkers, Pattersons, Clicks, Wallaces, Pyles, Millers, et al., of the first settlers of-the village.

Mr. Leonard taught the first school in Clay township, then called Morgan. The first school taught in Knox county was taught by his cousin, Silas Brown, in Clinton township.

For a few years Mr. Leonard was acquainted with every individual in Knox county.

LEONARD, E. B., Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy; born in Morgan township in 1819. He was married in 1839 to Elizabeth Walker, who was born in Union county in 1820. They have three children, Ziba, born in 1840; Rebecca, in 1843; Elnora, in 1849. Mr. Leonard came to Pike township in 1838. He owns a well improved farm. He is a member of a pioneer family and is now numbered among the pioneers. .

LEONARD, HANNIBAL B., Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown; born in Wayne township July 19, 1827, and was married April 11, 1849, to Catharine A. Boner, who was born in Morris township February 23, 1830. They have the following children: John A., born May 14, 1850; Herman L., April 28, 1855; Mary Belle, February 20, 1860, and William L., October 23, 1864. Mary Belle died April 4, 1865. His father, Byram Leonard, was .born in New York April 12, 1798. He removed from New York to Knox county in 1819, and was married to Abigail Lewis, who was born in New Jersey April 11, 1801. They had the following children: William L., born October 6, 1823; John, August 20, 1825; Hannibal B., June 19, 1827; Mary S., July 23, 1829; Elizabeth, August 26, 1831, and Elleanor, March 21, 1834. Mrs. Abigail Leonard died October 15, 1858. Mr. Byram Leonard died December 27, 1851. Elleanor is also dead. William L. was married to Elizabeth Young, and resides at Winterset, Madison county, Iowa. John married Minerva Best, and lives in the same place. Mary S. was married to Israel W. Moody, who also resides in said place. Elizabeth was married to David B. Thrift and resides in Iowa.

Byram Leonard joined the Baptist church in 1841. He was vice-president of the Ohio Baptist convention five years, and filled the office with credit to himself and with entire satisfaction to his brethren. He was elected a member of the Legislature, and was also warden of the Ohio penitentiary.

LEPLEY, GEORGE, Harrison township, pioneer and farmer, post office Millwood, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, August, 1791, a son of Adam and Barbara Lepley, came with his parents to Knox county in 1807, locating on Brush run, now Butler township, where they set about to clear the land and raise grain, which they continued for many years.

The subject of this sketch was considered a great hunter in his day, having killed two hundred deer that he secured, also seven bears, five wolves, and a large number of turkeys. He asserted that he killed two deems one shot with a single ball while they were running, also at one time three turkeys with one shot, The subject of this sketch was at Mansfield as a soldier to protect the white settlers against the Indians, and assisted in moving the Indians from Greentown, which was situated on the Black fork of the Mohican, about four miles north of Perryville, within the present county of Ashland, to a point in the present county of Miami, which occupied his time about three months. He then resumed his old business of clearing land and farming. Some time after he came home he and his brother Joseph entered one hundred and sixty acres of land in what is now Harrison township.

Mr. Lepley became the owner of over seven hundred acres of land, which he divided among his children. On October 6, 1816, he married Barbara Baughman, a daughter of Christian and Mary Baughman, born November 27, 1792. Eight children were born to them, as follows: David, Daniel, James, Mary M., Louis, Martin, Simon, Colvin. Mary M., Martin, Simon, and Colvin are the only ones now living.

LEPLEY, JACOB, deceased, born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1804, was brought to Ohio by his parents at an early day, locating on Brush run, now Butler township, where they remained a few years; his father then entered a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Harrison township, where he moved with his family, where the subject of this sketch was reared and received his education. Mr. Lepley was considered one among the pioneer farmers.

In October, 1833, at the age of twenty-eight or thirty years, he married Delilah Eley, a daughter of Michael Eley, who was, born to Washington county, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1814. After living for some years on the farm entered by his father, he became the owner of it, and henceforth lived upon it until his death, which occurred May 8, 1864, in his sixty-second year. Mrs. Lepley survives him in her sixty-seventh year. They became the parents of ten children, as follows: Daniel Lepley, born June 4, 1835; Noah, born March 30, 1837, died October 18, 1838; Sarah .A., born July 31, 1839, died December 28, 1862, aged twenty-three years four months and eighteen days; Catharine, born January 6, 1842, died November 31, 1848, aged six years ten months and twenty-five days; Francis M., born May 16, 1844; Mary E., born August 2, 1846; Angeline, September 21, 1848; Martha E., November 21, 1850; Eley C., June 20, 1853, died October 3, 1865, aged twelve years three months and thirteen days; Almeda J. February 21, 1856; six of the foregoing children are still living.

LEPLEY, JOSEPH (deceased), was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, November 26, 1812, and emigrated to Ohio when a young man, locating in Butler township, where he resided until his death, January 10, 1878. He was married three times-to Catharine Korns, November 26, 1832; to Delilah Beal, May 29, 1836; and to Lydia Mossholder, February 28, 1846. He was the father of eleven children, viz; Joseph R., Elizabeth, Michael, Alonzo, Alpheus, Aaron, Hannah, Malona, Lloyd, Rhodinia, and Thaddeus, all of whom are living except Michael, who died at Chattanooga, Tennessee, April 23, 1864.

LETTS, JACKSON (deceased), farmer, was born in Morgan township, August 16, 1828. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and early settlers of Morgan township. There were ten children in the family, three of whom are yet living. The subject of this notice spent his early life on the farm and attending school. After the death of his parents Mr. Letts purchased the interest of the heirs in the homestead, and, by judicious management, was enabled to pay for the farm in a few years. He subsequently purchased adjoining land, and became one of the leading farmers. He improved the homestead by building a substantial dwelling and made many other improvements on the farm. He was a kind and obliging neigh

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box, a faithful friend, and an affectionate father. he was born, reared, and died on the home farm. His death occurred September 16, 1879.

October 26, 1862, he was married to Sarah Larimore, daughter of Thomas Larimore, of Milford township, who was born in July, 1840. They had a family of eight children, viz,: Minnie M., born August 18, 1863; Roger W., May 29, 1865; Mary Ella, January 9, 1866; Frank L., November 14, 1868; Anna, October 25, 1870; Clara B., February 19, 1874; Sadie E., April 8, 1878. Aria died July 14, 1867.

Mrs. Letts occupies the homestead.

LEVERING, NOAH, deceased, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, November 17, 1802, and died at the residence of his daughter, %Its. Andrew Rusk, March 4, 1881. He was the last survivor of the family of Daniel Levering, who came to Knox county from Bedford county, Pennsylvania, on horseback, before the War of 1812, and purchased and entered lands in Middleburv township, near Waterford, In the spring of 1813 Daniel Levering moved his family-six sons and one daughter, to his western home, and during the same summer with a few other settlers built a block-house on his farm to protect their lives from the Indians.

Noah Levering was born the year before the State of Ohio was admitted into the Union, and moved to Knox county when ten years old, and lived in Middlebury township until shortly before his death.

March 27, 1828, he was married to Miss Armanella B., daughter of John and Anna Cook, who settled in Middlebury township in the spring of 1811, from Washington county, Pennsylvania. %its. Levering died June 12, 1879. By this union there were ten children- seven that survive their parents. Noah Levering' sold the lands, and laid out the village of Waterford, and in 1836 was instrumental in establishing a postal route from Mt. Vernon to Tiffin, with the assistance of his brother John, who became sureties to the department that the route would be a paying one; in honor of which the Postmaster General named the office at Waterford, " Leverings." Noah Levering never voted anything but a Democratic ticket, having voted for every Democratic candidate for president from Andrew Jackson to W. S. Hancock. He united with the Presbyterian church at Waterford, in 1852. His remains were interred in the family cemetery on the old farm, to which he came in 1813.

LEVERING, JOHN C, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Levering, born in Middlebury township, 1829, and was married in 1854, to Mary E. Ewers, who died in 1859. They had one son, Wilbert F. Mr. Levering was again married in 1861, to Carrie Richardson, who was born in Hamilton, Canada. Their children are: Frank O., Noah C., Daniel L., John C., and Jennette C.

Mr. John Levering was elected commissioner of Knox county in 1871, and reelected in 1874. To show the appreciation of him, the following from the Mt. Vernon Republican, dated November 29, 1877, is given:

"Superintendent Williams gave a dinner at the infirmary, chiefly in honor of Commissioner Levering, whose tenure of office has about expired. Mr. Levering might be called the founder of the new infirmary, as he has been in office since its conception, and he has had more to do with it than any officer. Quite a number of guests from the city were invited, and the dinner was wholly appropriate, as commissioner Levering goes out of his office with the respect of both parties. As we never lose an opportunity to tell the truth about a Democrat, it is proper to say that any compliment we can pay to the gentlemanly conduct of Mr. Levering while in office, and to his honesty and uprightness as a private citizen, is not out of place."

LEVERING, EDWARD, farmer, Middlebury township, post office, Levering, born in Knox county, July 26, 1845, and was married November 27, 1878, to Satire Lanning, who was born in Chesterville, Morrow county, August 11, 1845. His father, Joseph Levering, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1805. They came from Pennsylvania in 1813, starting on the eighth of April and landing May 1st.

He was married May 21, 1833, to Elizabeth Blair, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, May 7, 1806. They had seven children, one of whom (Edwin) has died.

LEVERING, RILEY, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Lucerne, born in Ohio, March 22, 1848, and was marned March 5, 1873, to Elizabeth Lewis, who was born in Wayne township, Knox county, Ohio, May 22, 1853. They have three sonsFred B., born November 17, 1874; James Hoy, May 28, 1876; and Lewis Benton, January 1, 1879. Mr. Levering came to Wayne township in 1873.

LEWIS, JOHN B., Liberty township (deceased), was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1804. His parents came to Ohio some few years after and settled in what is now Liberty township, where he was reared. November 5, 1835, he was married to Miss Julia Bricker, daughter of George and Catharine Bricker, nee Thomas. She was born June 4, 1809. He was a farmer by occupation and continued farming until his death, which occurred April 4, 1875. They had four children, one only of whom is living, viz.: Deham, born July 25, 1840 and married to Annias Rush, June 29, 1871. They had two children, George F., and A. Belle. Mr. Rush died December 11, 1873, aged forty-five years. Mrs. Lewis is spending her days on the old homestead.

LEWIS, GEORGE, Morris township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Liberty township, March 3, 1809, and was married in 1837 to Mary Gardner, who was born in Maryland. They had two sons. Arson B. was born in 1838; George W. in 1840. Mrs. Mary Lewis died in 1843. Mr. Lewis subsequently married Miss Gassaway, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio. They had children-Amanda Ellen was born in 1851; Mary Eveline, in 1853; Elizabeth Ann, in 1855; Sarah Isabelle, in 1857. Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis died in 1861. He was married in 1863, to Catharine Studer, who was born in Wayne county, and came to this county when an infant. Anson B. married Nancy Hireman. They reside in Clinton township. George married Ellen Green and resides in Union county, Ohio, Elizabeth Ann married Alexander Buckman. They reside in Liberty township. Mary E. married Fenner Robinson. They live in Mt. Liberty.

Mr. George Lewis has always been identified with Knox county. He remembers the howl of the wolf, and has seen the different wild animals that in early times roamed over the forest. He is acquainted with all the early customs, remembers Johnny Appleseed, and also the Indians when they were more numerous than the white people.

LEWIS, REV. JOHN S., Morgan township, was born in the town of Llandilo, Carmarthewshire, South Wales, March 20, 1844. His father was a cabinetmaker, descended from a long line of tradesmen and professions. He is the sixth of ten

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children. His youth was spent attending school. When young, and while on a visit to his brother, who was older, he became connected with the Baptist church. His father was a Calvinistic Methodist, in which church our subject was baptized, and to the teaching of which he was carefully trained. It was no small matter for him to leave this church and become connected with an organization which his father thought was little better than infidelity. However, he determined to educate himself for the ministry, and, as is customary, he preached a trial sermon at about the age of fifteen years. He attended an academy at Swansea about three years, where he made fine progress. He also attended the theological seminary at Haverford west for four years.

He was ordained in 1869 at Mytletwy, and preached there until 1872. He arrived in New York in April, 1872, where he remained for a short time, when he came to Ohio, and preached in Morrow county for some time. His next charge was at Sharpsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in 1879 he came to the Owl creek charge, where he now preaches. He is a preacher of force. He is logical, and rarely fails to enlist close attention.

April 26, 1876, he was married to Miss Laura E. Lash, of Ashland county, Ohio. They have three children, Albert T., Bertha A., and Charles C.

LEWIS, D. C., a native of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, was born near Brownsville, November 22, 1810, where he received a knowledge of the English or common school branches, and surveying, and in 1829 he came to Ohio and located in Mt. Vernon, where he engaged in the office of the clerk of the court under James Smith, and remained during the winter, after which he returned to his home in Pennsylvania, where he remained one year. In July, 1831, he returned to Mt. Vernon, and has resided here ever since. After his return he engaged in the tailoring business, which he continued until 1857, when he concluded to put his knowledge of surveying into practice, and from that time he was engaged on railroad work, in the capacity of a civil engineer, until 1857, and during which, in 1855, he was elected to the office of county surveyor, and served three successive terms, and one year by appointment. After this, until 1870, he was engaged in machine work and general drafting, and served three years as auditor's clerk. Since 1870 to the present he has been engaged in drafting county atlases and maps of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis (Pan Handle railroad, under M. J. Becker, chief engineer), and was city civil engineer from the spring of 1872 until the spring of 1880. In the mean time he has produced the county- atlas of this county for 1860, 1870 and 1880, and an atlas of Ashtabula county in 1871-72. Mr. Lewis is a man of marked abilities, and as a draftsman has few equals.

He was married May 4, 1830, to Miss Mary, daughter of Benjamin F. Murphy, of Mt. Vernon.

LEWIS, JAMES, Pike township, farmer, post office Democracy, born in Virginia in 1826, came to Ohio with his parents in 1830, and was married in 1848 to Rebecca Hardesty, who was born in Pike township in 1824, on the farm where they now reside. They have six children-Mary A, born in 1849; Lydia, in 1850: Eliza J., in 1853; Sarah E., in 1855; Alice Adaline, in 1857; and Frances Isabella, in 1863. Mary and Alice are dead. Lydia was married to William Cain, and resides in Amity. Eliza married Franklin Stinemetz, and live ins Gentry county, Missouri. Sarah married John Arnold; they reside in Newark, Stark county, Ohio.

Mr. Lewis worked at the mason trade-laying brick and stone for some years. In 1877 he engaged in farming and continues at that still.

Mrs. Lewis' father, Hugh Hardesty, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1788. In 1812 he was married to May Finch, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had the following family: Thomas, born in 1813; Ruth and Sally. in 1815; Rachel, in 1817; Hannah, in 1820; Rebecca, in 1824; Ann, in 1828; John, in 1831. The following have deceased; Francis, died in 1818; and Ann, in 1830.. Mrs. May Hardesty died in 1831; Rachel died in 1842; and Thomas, in 1844.

Mr. Hardesty's second marriage was in 1834, to Ann Finch, who died in 1876. Mr. Hugh Hardesty died in 1873.

LEWIS, R. C. M., Hilliar township, physician and surgeon, Centerburgh, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio. He spent his youth at Bakersville, and when old enough he worked on a farm during the summer His father, Samuel Lewis, was a Virginian by birth, and by descent Welsh. He came to Ohio with his mother, who was a widow, and it subsequently devolved upon him to maintain her, which he did for many years. He was married to Nancy, daughter of Robert C. Hagan, a well known stageman of western Pennsylvania. As a result of this union the doctor was born. When a young man the doctor went west, to Indiana, Illinois, and Kansas, where he joined a party of surveyors, and was engaged with them during the summer of that year. He was in Arkansas and Texas for a short time. He retraced his steps and came to St. Louis. Prior to going west he read medicine, and when in St. Louis he prosecuted his studies and attended lectures. He had excellent advantages during vacation, being with the physician in charge of the city hospital, and had access to all critical cases which came to the institution. He graduated while in St. Louis. From his natural mechanical skill he feels and takes a special pride in surgery. He is having a good practice, and as he has " come to stay," he is at all times ready to attend to professional calls. His father was a soldier in the late war, and received a wound at the battle of Winchester, Virginia, from which he died. The doctor is social and genial in his manners, and makes all feel at home who call upon him.

LINDLEY, CHARLES A., blacksmith, was born in Mansfield, Richland county, Ohio, in 1853; was married in 1877 to Annie McNare, who was born in Fredericktown in 1858. They have one daughter, Nate E. He was formerly engaged in the manufacturing of buggies and wagons

LITZENBERG, JOHN, Milford township, farmer; was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. February 1, 1819. His father came to Ohio in 1835 and settled in Milford township where he died in 1840. The subject of this notice spent his youth on a farm, and remained at home until after the death of his father, when he settled on the farm where he now resides. The farm was but little improved. He began life with little aid, but by hard work and economy has been enabled to add to his first purchase until he is now one of the substantial farmers of Milford township, and has made for-himself a competency. He is a leading citizen of the township, honorable in his dealings and esteemed by all who know him. He was twice married. His first wife was Mary Myers, daughter of Frederic and Mary Myers, of whom mention is made in this volume. They had five children, four of whom are living, viz: William, Frederic five Lewis J. and George N. His second wife was Abigail E. Kisor, daughter of Jonh Kisor, a pioneer of Knox

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county, and a soldier of the War of 1812. They have one child, John K. E.

LOCKHART, HENRY. Pike township, professor, post office, North Liberty; born in Ashland county in 1840, and was married October 29, 1869, to Ellen Gilson, who was born in New Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio. They had four children, Sylvia B., Ardella M., Frances M. and Floyd W. Mr. Lockhart received a very liberal education and was a soldier in the late war, being a member of company E, Third Ohio cavalry, and continued in the service one year.

LOCKWOOD. IRA L., Miller township, was born in Windham county, Vermont, December 6, 1818. Some time after his parents went to St. Lawrence county, New York, where they remained about thirteen years, and about 1834 moved to Summit county, Ohio. They had a family of thirteen children, four of whom are living.

The early years of Mr. Lockwood were spent with his parents. His educational advantages were the common schools. His father being a carpenter he learned that trade, and in connection learned painting, but never followed either trade for any considerable time. In 1853 he came to Miller township, where he has been principally engaged in farming. He. enlisted in company C, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guard, in May 1874. He was taken sick while in the service anti has suffered much since, so that he has not been able to follow his usual vocation. He is a good citizen and has the confidence and respect of those who know him. He was married to Miss Adaline Valentine February 9, 1842. They had four children, three of whom are living, viz: Mary Ann, married to Charles Conaway: Ida L., married to Christian C. Baughman; and Katie L., who is living at home. Mr. Lockwood has beets one of the trustees of the township for several terms, and takes an interest in public affairs.

LOGSDON, FRANK J., Brown township, farmer, post office, Democracy, was born in Knox county in 1841, and married Catharine Blubaugh, who was born in this county They have six children, viz: Carlotte A., Arellia A., Rebecca M., Mary F., Stephen F., and Benjamin W. Mr. Logsdon enlisted in the late war. November 20, 1861, under Captain Walker, company K, Forty-third regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in the service four years, and was honorably discharged.

LOOSE, WILLIAM, Pike township, cabinetmaker, post office, :forth Liberty, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1823, came to Ohio in 1835, and was married to Eliza Dehaven, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1823. They had four children: Emanuel, born in 1848; Joseph, in 1850; Sarah M., in 1858, and Mary Catharine, in 1860. Mrs. Eliza Loose died July 7, 1875.

Mr. Loose has been a resident of Pike township since 1835. He is a cabinetmaker by trade, and has been engaged in that business in North Liberty for about thirty-five years. He is a good mechanic and has a very extensive trade, especially in the undertaking department.

His father, Jacob Loose, was born in Maryland in 1796, and was taken by his parents to Pennsylvania when three years old, who located in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. He was married in 1821 to Nancy Broombaugh, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1802. They had five children: Susannah, born in 1821; William, in 1823; Catharine, in 1825; Daniel, in 1829, and Elizabeth, in 1833.

Mrs. Nancy Loose died July 9, 1873, and Elizabeth in 1835. Mr. Loose was engaged in teaching school when a young man. He emigrated to Ohio in 1825, engaged in farming and continued till he became aged and infirm, and has retired from business and is living with his son William in North Liberty. He has been an industrious and enterprising citizen. Mr. and Mrs. Loose have been members of the Dunkard church for about torty years, and have adhered strictly to their faith.

LONG. DAVID, retired, Pike township, post office, North Liberty, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1808, came to Ohio in 1816 with his parents, who located in Berlin township, this county. He was married in 1832, to Margaret Mock, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1813. They had nine children, viz: Uriah, born in 1833; Lydia A., in 1834; William, in 1836; Jacob, in 1838; Allen, in 1840; Andrew, in 1843; Benjamin F., in 1845; Ephraim, in 1848, and Samuel, in 1851. The following have deceased: Lydia A., died in 1855, and Benjamin F., in 1848.

Mr. Long is a member of a pioneer family, and has been an invalid four years. Mr. Long has been a member of the German Baptist church for about twenty-five years, and hears up with Christian fortitude under his severe affliction.

His son, .Allen, was married in 1863, to Susannah Beemiller. who was born in Elkhart, Indiana, in 1845. They have six children, viz : Ezra J., born January 22, 1864; Ellen, October 28, 1866; Jacob, March 7, 1868; Samuel, November 2, 1870: Alpha Dora, April 25, 1875, and Emma, January 10, 1880.

Mr. Long is engaged in farming the home place; and is an active and enterprising citizen.

LONG, GIDEON, farmer. Miller township, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1818. He is a twin of Benjamin Long. His father, Samuel Long, was a native of Pennsylvania. He married Miss Annie Young, by whom he had thirteen children. Mr. Long died in Virginia.

The subject of this notice came to Ohio about 1840, and settled in Knox county, where he remained some time, and then moved to Licking county, where he remained about ten years, when he again returned to Knox county. He enlisted iii com Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, in November, 1861, and participated in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Arkansas Post, Siege of Vicksburgh, thence to Chattanooga, Atlanta, and was also in numerous skirmishes, rids, and always ready to do his duty, and go where duty called. He served his country faithfully over three years. After his return home he resumed his usual occupation of farming, at which he has been since engaged. He is esteemed by his friends and neighbors as an upright man. He married Sarah Conaway, and they have had eight children, viz: John C., who was a member of company H, Seventy-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, died at Rock Island, Illinois, after serving two years; Isabella V., married Dr. James Runyan; James, Elizabeth, married Granville Long; Ellen, married Albert Mitchell; Charles C., and William (twins), and Frank.

Mr. Longs mother, a lady over eighty years, resides with him.

LONG, ROLLINS, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, August, 1820. A few years after his parents came to Ohio and settled in Licking county. Mr. Long spent his youth on the farm with his parents until October 24, 1841, when he married :Miss Elizabeth Ann Conaway, of Coshocton county. They had a family of ten children, eight

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of whom are living. Joseph is a minister of the Methodist church. They are all doing well, thus showing that they have been carefully instructed. Shortly after he was married, he moved to Milford township, where he was engaged in farming for about eighteen years. He then moved to Hilliar township, where he has since resided. He added considerable to his first purchase. He started in life comparatively poor, but has worked hard, and as a natural result he has succeeded. He is social and pleasant in his manners, conscientious in his dealings, and one of the estimable citizens of Hilliar township. His parents, Solomon and Mary Long, wee Posthlewaite, settled on the other fork of the Licking in Bennington township, Licking county, and were among the early settlers of that county. In those days they had to go to Zanesville to mill.

LONG, FRANCIS, Brown township, farmer, was born in Portage county, Ohio, April 4, 1828. He was reared on a farm, and made farming his principal vocation. In 1853 he married Miss Rachel Kesleer, born in Delaware county, Ohio, April 6, 1827, and daughter. of John and Betsey Kesleer. They settled in Paulding county, Ohio, where he was engaged in farming until 1856, when he was engaged in the mercantile business, and continued in it for three years.

In 1859 they moved to Jelloway, this county, where they have since resided. He was engaged in the mercantile business in Jelloway for a short time, and then turned his attention to fanning again, which business he has since been following. They have a family of seven children-three sons and four daughters. He served about nine months in the war of 1861, enlisted in the Eighty-second Ohio volunteer infantry in November, 1861, and was discharged from the service August, 1862, on account of a wound received at the battle of Cross Keys, Virginia, June 8, 1862.

LONEY, WILLIAM, Brown .township, farmer, post office Democracy, son of John and Nancy Loney, was born in Pike township, Knox county, November 2, 1825, and was reared and educated by his parents. When he arrived at the age of fifteen years his father died-March 8, 1841. William then remained with his mother on the farm until, he arrived at the age of twenty-two years. He, in company with his brothers, bought the old homestead, paying their three sisters six hundred dollars each. Here he remained until 1855. In the spring of that year he bought a farm of one hundred and eighty acres in Brown township, and at present is the owner of three hundred and twenty acres.

On the eighth of March, 1855, he married Miss Mary McClurg, daughter of Robert and Nancy McClurg, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, June 20, 1833. He still lives on the farm he bought in 1855.

Mr. Loney has held the offices-of trustee and treasurer for a number of years in the township.

Mr. and Mrs. Loney are the parents of ten children, viz: Elseie, Florence, Salina M., Eugene, Festus, Edwin, Judson, Elmore, and Jennie-seven of whom are living, five sons and two daughters.

LORE, PETER, Liberty township, farmer, is a native of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, was born July 17, 1810. His parents, Henry and Rosannah Lore nee Glessner, came to Ohio about 1826 and settled in Union township, where they lived until about 1834, when they moved to Liberty township and settled on the farm on which the subject of this notice lives, and where they both died. They had twelve children, all of whom grew up, and five of whom are yet living.

Mr. Lore remained at home until he was about eighteen years of age. He then learned chair-making at Wheeling, West Virginia, serving four years, and worked some ten years thereafter at his trade. He worked some time in Mt. Vernon, after which he came to where he now resides, and where he has lived ever since. He is a good citizen and a man of comprehensive ideas, and social in his manners.

He married Miss Jane Newell May 15, 1851, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in September 1818. Her parents, James and Mary Newell nee Fleming, came to Ohio in 1819. They both died in Clinton township.

LORE, HARMAN P., farmer, Wayne township, post office, Fredericktown, was born in this county in 1851, and was married in 1874 to Kate Allen, who ivas born in Monroe county, Ohio, in 1851. They had three children: Maud, deceased; Willie, born in 1876; Olive Bell, in 1879. Mr. Lore is engaged in farming the Searl farm in this township, and is a good citizen.

LOREE, GEORGE C., farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Morris township, and married Anna Chambers, who was born in. Ireland in 1835, and carne to America when a child with her parents. They have one daughter, Eliza D., born July 12, 1866. Mr. Loree received a severe injury by the discharge of his gun, the shot injuring his right hand, crippling him so that he cannot engage in farming.

LOREE, JOHN, retired, Morris township, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1797, and was married in 1821 to Sarah Rush who was born in Morris county, New Jersey, in 1803, They had seven children, viz: Clarissa R., born in 1823; John W., in 1826; Hannah, in 1828; Job in 1836; Sarah E., and George C. (twins), in 1840; and William L., in 1844.

Mr. Loree came from Pennsylvania when about fifteen years old and located in Knox county. After marriage he located on the farm where they now reside, which at that time was all in timber. He cleared up and improved most of this farm. Mrs. Loree has been a member of the Baptist church for twenty-eight years.

LOREE, GEORGE N., farmer, Morris township, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Monroe township in 1851, and married in 1880 Miranda E. Trollinger, who was born in this county in 1861. They have one daughter, Aera Almertie.

LOVE, ALEXANDER, Fredericktown, laborer, was born in Coshocton county in 1817, and married in 1851 to Angelina Carter, who was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, to 1819. They have two children-La Torrie, born in 1854, and Annie B., in 1856.

Mr. Love came to Knox county in 1825; located in Berlin township, where he engaged in fanning till 1848, when he moved to Fredericktown, and engaged in the hardware trade for some time, after which he went into the provision and produce business. He was postmaster in Fredericktown over two years; also coroner of this county four years, and was one of the charter members of the Odd Fellows' society in Fredericktown.

LOVE, THOMAS, Fredericktown, deceased. was born in Ireland, and came to America with his parents in infancy. He settled in Berlin township, Knox county, where he was married in 1839 to Sophia A. Kett, who was born in Knox county in

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1816. They had three sons and two daughters-Mary lane, Andrew A.. Alexander S., Le Grand B., and Elizabeth.

Thomas Love died in December, 1852, in Berlin township, in this county.

Mrs. Love is at present residing in Fredericktown with her family.

LOVE, JOSEPH, Berlin township, farmer, post office, Shaler's s Mills, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1821, and was brought to Knox county in 1824. He was married in 1851 to Ann Jane Thompson, who was born in Ireland in 1827, and came to America in 1831. They have four children: Sheriden. Matthew, Mattie, and John. Georgia Anna is deceased.

Mr. Love has been identified with Berlin township since 182.4. He owns the old homestead, one of the beautiful farms of Knox county, with buildings of the modern style, and one of the best farm residences in the county.

Joseph Love had not the advantages of a good education, but being endowed with more than ordinary ability, he improved every opportunity, and has become one of the leading men of the county. He has filled different positions of public trust. He has always been identified with and is one of the leading Democrats of Knox county.

LOVERIDGE, PHILIP W., Morris township, farmer, post office Mt. Vernon, was born in Morris township in 1820; married in 1856 to Adelaide E. Frost, who was born in Luzeme county, Pennsylvania, in 1835; came with her parents to Ohio in 1840. They have two children: Ida, born in 1837; John, born in 1864.

Mr. Loveridge has always been identified with this county, and is a member of a pioneer family. He is a farmer by occupation, and owns a well improved farm with good buildings. He is a son of Richard and Ann Loveridge, who were born in New Jersey, emigrated to Knox county in 1814, and located on the farm where Philip Loveridge now resides.

LYAL, JOHN, Hilliar township, farmer, post office Centreburgh, one of the successful men of Hilliar township, was born in the parish of Thornbury, county of Devonshire, England, April 15, 1814. His father was a farmer, and it was on a farm that Mr. Lyal spent his youth.

His father was what is termed a "renter," and could not give him the advantages of. an education. He, however, in after years acquired a knowledge of the common branches, so that he could transact his business.

He is tall and well built, and was required to serve in the English army; but rather than spend his best days in the service of the Queen's guard, he concluded to leave England. Accordingly, in March, 1835, he was furnished with thirty dollars to pay his passage to New York. After his arrival in America he proceeded as far west as Buffalo, New York, where his money run out. He worked at Buffalo for some time, and again started for the west, and arrived at Mt. Vernon in the same year, 1835, where he commenced work and remained for some three years, saving his money with a view of purchasing land. In 1839 he moved to Hilliar township, where he had purchased a tract of ninety-two acres of heavily timbered land. He had the usual experience of the early settler-first to build a cabin, and then proceed to clearing the land. He worked hard, and in due course of time he was rewarded for his labors, and was enabled to purchase more land, until he now is one of the largest landowners of the township. From a poor boy he attained a competence, and has the esteem of his neighbors. He has been twice honored by the voters of Knox county. He was elected county commissioner in 1870, and again in 1873, during which time many of the improvements of the county were started. He has always been an advocate of iron bridges, of which this county can justly boast.

Mr. Lyal, in fact, was the first to advocate iron bridges. He also was in the board when the county infirmary was built. He has been president of the Hartford central fair, of Licking county, Ohio, several years, and one of the board of directors of the Mt. Vernon fair, and one of the main men in keeping it up. He has been engaged for a number of years in raising short homed Durham cattle, and much of the best stock of central Ohio came from his herd. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Jackson, November, 1842; she was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1823. They have six children, two sons and four daughters: William B., Theodore J., farmer, in Milford township; Mary Ann, wife of John Gearhart; Louisa H., wife of John B. Campbell, Millwood, Knox county, Ohio; Emma S., wife of Ogden M. Thatcher, of Milford township; Margaret E., wife of George M. Shaffer, of Mt. Liberty, Ohio.

LYBARGER, GEORGE, deceased, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, April 30, 1791, son of Louis Lybarger. At about the age of thirty years he, in company with Andrew Henry and Adam Lybarger, came to Ohio, locating in Knox county.

The subject of this sketch located with his family a short distance south of Mt. Vernon, where he remained but a short time when he purchased a farm in Harrison township, two miles east of Gambier. where he then moved and reared a family of twelve children, and remained until his death, which occurred October 18, 1877, in his eighty-fifth year. Magdalena Lybarger, his companion, was born in Pennsylvania, August 6, 1793; died December 25, 1848. in her fifty-fifth year.

Nine of the family are living, four sons and five daughters.

LYBARGER, HIRAM, farmer, Union township, post office, Danville. He was born in Clinton township, Knox county, February 3, 1818, moved to Danville in 1826, and lived there a few years, and in 1849 moved to Pike county, Ohio, lived there two years, and in 1852 moved back to Danville. He purchased his father's tannery in 1863, made extensive improvements on the old property, and conducted the business on a larger scale, continuing until 1878, when he left this trade and commenced farming.

He was married October 5, 1843, to Miss L. J. Roland, who died in 1851, and left one child, J. R. Lybarger. He was married in 1856 to Mary Williams, who died in 1858. His third marriage was to Lydia M. Wolf. They had one child, who died in infancy. His son, J. R. Lybarger, was married in 1868, to Mary Baker, and settled in Rossville.

Hiram Lybarger always lived an honest and worthy life; has been one of the most liberal supporters of the gospel, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

LYBARGER ASA, farmer, Union township, post office, Millwood, born February 18, 1826, in Howard township, and lived at home until his tenth year, when he went to Brown township and remained three years. He then came to Millwood and worked as a mechanic thirty-two years. He was married to Miss Margaret Conkle in 1848, and settled on a rented farm for a few years, and then bought a farm, which he now owns

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and occupies. He has three children: Clinton, Victoria, and Hattie, all living at home.

LYDICK, WILLIAM, deceased, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1781. He married Miss Catharine Welker in 1807 or 1808, daughter of Paul Welker. Miss Welker was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, December 20, 1787. They emigrated to Union township, Knox county, in 1809, and located on the farm now owned by their son, Reuben Lydick. His first improvement on the land was the erection of a log cabin, which served them as a residence for several years, when he built another log cabin, and in a short time he built an addition to it of hewed logs. The dwelling stood on the ground where the present brick residence is being erected by Mr. Reuben Lydick. They lived in the hewed log and the log cabin until 1835, when he erected a brick residence near their cabin, which served them as an abode the remainder of their days. His wife deceased September 12, 1859. He died May 8, 1861.

They reared a family of three children-Reuben, Druzilla, and Lydia-all of whom are married and have families. Farming was his vocation.

LYDICK, REUBEN, farmer, Union township, son of William Lydick, was born January 27, 1820. He was reared on a farm, and has made farming his vocation. On the fifteenth day of January, 1843, he married Catharine Hardin, born April 17, 1824, daughter of John and Catharine Hardin. They settled on the Lydick homestead, where he is now living. By this union he reared five children, two sons and three daughters. Mrs. Lydick died March 31,1857.

He married Calista Severns October 28, 1858, daughter of Benjamin and Rebecca Severns. By this marriage he had two sons and one daughter.

LYONS, BENJAMIN, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Sussex county, New Jersey, February 4, 1802, came with his parents to Wayne township in 1806, and was married in 1828 to Margaret M. Jackson, who was born in New Jersey. They had two children, viz: Isaac J., born in 1830; Eliza Jane, in 1836.

Mrs. Margaret M. Lyons died about 1867. Mr. B. Lyons' second marriage was to Amy Conger, who was born in Knox county in 1818.

Mr. Lyons was among the earliest settlers of this county. He located on the farm where he now resides, about fifty years ago, when it was all heavily timbered. He cleared up and improved this farm, has erected excellent buildings, and it is now one of the most beautiful farms of Knox county. Mr. Lyon has done much for general improvement, and has always been a quiet and unassuming man, but is one of the reliable men of this county.

Eliza J. Lyon married James Y. Killin, and they live in Waterford. Isaac J. Lyon, now resides in Michigan.

LYON, WILLIAM, farmer, Wayne township, post office, Fredericktown, born August 14, 1811, in Wayne township, and was married in 1838 to Louisa Keyes, who was born March 2, 1814, in Vermont. They had the following children-Asher Newton, born August 30, 1839; Francis Marion, March 29, 1842; Alary Elizabeth, February 6, 1844; Sarah Clotilda, December 4, 1846; Arminta Pernina, July 17, 1850; Mertrice Jane, December 31, 1853; Hattie R., November 28, 1856. Mr. W. Lyons' father, Simeon Lyons, was born in Marsh county, New Jersey, August 22, 1767, and was married to Hannah Serring, who was born in 1772, in New Jersey. They had the following children-Mehitable, born December 29, 1792; Abigail, April 10, 1795; Perninah, January 10, 1797; Benjamin, February 4, 1802; Eliza, June 3, 1804; Jane, March 30, 1807; Asher, July 5, 1806; William, August 14, 1811; Caroline, April 17, 1814; Mary, January 17, 1817; and Phoebe A., September 4, 1820. Simeon Lyon died January 22, 1844; Mrs. Hannah Lyon died June, 1858. They were among the early settlers of this county.

Robert Keyes, father of Mrs. William Lyon, was born in Vermont, September 6, 1783, and was married to Sally Scribner, who was born in New Hampshire, November 26, 1781. Their children were named Harriet, Elvina, Louisa, Betsey, and Robert. Mr. Robert Keyes died in this township, December 22, 1870; Mrs. Sally Keyes died February 28, 1864.

LYON, REV. EPHRAIM, farmer, Wayne township, post office, Fredericktown, born in Wayne township, this county, in 1853. He studied and prepared himself to engage in the ministry, and received a license from the Methodist Episcopal church. He is now engaged as a supply, filling the pulpit at Newville, Ohio. Although Mr. Lyon had not the facilities and privileges to receive a liberal education, he is successful, and his labors are very acceptable, and he is destined to make his mark.

LYON, S. W., Hilliar township, proprietor of Lyon's house, Centreburgh. He is the son of Newton and Hannah Lyon, nee Lonesberry. He was born in 1853. He was reared on a farm. He kept store about a year, and then moved to Centreburgh and kept livery for four years, and then purchased what is known as the Scott property and repaired it, and opened a hotel where he is now located. He keeps a good house, is accommodating, and takes especial pride in making his guests feel at home. He was married to Miss Emma A. Herron in 1872. She is the daughter of Abraham Herron, of Sparta, Morrow county. They had two children, one of whom is living.

LYNCH, REV. SAMUEL, Mt. Vernon, was born near Londonderry. Tyrone county, Ireland, February 2, 1807, where he received his education, after which he studied theology under the direction of the Rev. Lames Lynch. He was licensed to preach in 1831, and in 1832 he emigrated to America, locating in Holmes county, Ohio, where he engaged in teaching and preaching. In March, 1833, he received an appointment from the presiding elder, Rev. William B. Christie, for the Roscoe circuit, Wooster district, Ohio conference, which at that time included the western part of Virginia, Ohio, and Michigan.

He remained in the Roscoe circuit six months, which ended the conference year. He was then recommended to the Ohio conference held at Cincinnati, and was appointed to the Mansfield circuit, where he remained one year, after which he served the following churches, viz: Martinsburgh, one year; Ashland, one year; Millersburgh, one year; Mt. Gilead, two years; Lima, one year; Sidney, two years; Bellefontaine, two years; West Liberty, two years; Olivesburgh, two years; Mt. Vernon, as presiding elder, four years; Delaware, as elder, nine years, and pastor three years; also agent for the Female college of Delaware three years; Huntsville circuit, two years; Bellefontaine station, one year; Toledo, as presiding elder, four years; Mourne station, one year, and Elmore circuit two years,

He came to Mt. Vernon in 1877, where he has since resided, and has devoted his time in aiding in the work as a supply, and as agent for the Superannuated Ministers Aid society of the central Ohio conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, which he has served for the past four years.

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He was married September 3, 1835, to Sarah R., daughter of the late Samuel G. and Mariana Berryhill, of Martinsburgh, Ohio. They have had a family of ten children, seven of whom are living.